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 rlh August 26, 2010
Hunter (OKC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only issue I had was the delivery. The last time I ordered a TV from Amazon the delivery guy unpacked it, set it up, and went through all the features...knew a lot about the set. This time around it was only the guy's 2nd day on the job and he knew nothing; going page by page through the manual just to assemble the base. He also asked my wife, who has had back surgery, to help him carry it in. I finally shooed him out after I confirmed the TV was working (I already knew the menus and features from my other Samsung). This is my second Samsung and I'm sold on picture quality and features.
Great TV! Good price! August 23, 2010
BurnedCustomer
I really like this television. The picture isn't quite as nice as my LED Samsung TV (UN55B7000) but its very close and still looks great. The design is very appealing and its relatively thin for a non-LED backlit television(which I think makes it look nicer when mounted on the wall). Overall I would definitely recommend the television and will continue buying Samsung. Also just thought I would add, this is the second TV I bought from Amazon and I have to say I have no complaints there either. The prices were great and the TV's arrived very quickly.
Great product August 23, 2010
Y. Fan (USA)
Easy to assemble. Modern design. Glossy screen. Can rotate the screen. Great image quality. Easy to use. Plenty of connections (including VGA, HDMI, WiFi adapter etc) and they are all in one area. Hooked up with many apps including Netflix. When you stream video online through Netflix, it's not the easiest to navigate or search.
Excellent TV August 20, 2010
ZS
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not going to focus on picture quality, there are plenty of reviews for the other Samsung TV's in this class (LN**C6/5**)that will give you some idea. The short of it: Excellent picture quality, and superb build quality. Instead I'm going to focus on the extra "Internet@TV" features and it's media playback abilities. After all, that's the only reason to spend an extra hundred or two on this model right?
Some of the Internet@TV apps aren't as gimmicky as you might expect. Sure, there are some really awful games, some of which are trials. I certainly wouldn't expect to buy any games for this TV. Graphically, it isn't a capable machine. They sort of remind me of a set of mediocre 2D-only flash games with really poor framerates. So, game apps are out. That said, a small collection of the apps are actually very useful. Netflix works great, and did so right out of the box. Pandora is excellent, and unlike the online version, has no ads with a free account. The youtube app also works great, although searching for videos can be a pain using the remote since you have to use some sort of phone-like input method for typing. It does have T9 and a decent dictionary to speed things up. There are a couple of other video streaming apps that seem polished including Hulu Plus, Vudu, Blockbuster, and CinemaNow. Hulu Plus is still in beta, but after trying out a few of their samples, it seems well made. Vudu, Blockbuster, and CinemaNow are too expensive for my tastes, renting movies for 25%-30% of the price to own isn't worth it to me. And buying a digital copy from either place without also having a physical copy doesn't cut it. Especially if they are the same price.
There are twitter and facebook apps, but a lot of the use of those apps comes from communication. I haven't yet tried either of them, but I can't imagine trying to type out any sort of response using the remote. There's also a daily motion app, that works well and fits in the youtube category. Google maps is almost useful, but like the rest of the graphically intensive apps, there's a fluidity issue. Scrolling the map is a little choppy, and typing in addresses to get directions is slow using the remote. When you throw in the time it takes to load the app, type the addresses, and get your directions, you might as well have got up from the couch and used the computer. It's at least a cool toy to show friends.
The slideshow apps GettyImages, and Picasa Web Albums sort of fall in the same category. They both get a bunch of pics from the web, fine art, and photos, and display them as a slideshow on the TV. They work well enough, but could use a little polish; it would have been great if there was a smooth transition between pics, but both just lazily switch from one photo to the next.
There is a Napster app, but I don't have a subscription to try it out. I'd imagine it would work fairly well, and have a similar flow to the Pandora app, which is great. The AP news ticker app is pretty well done. Instead of interrupting TV, it puts a small ticker at the bottom of the screen and displays various news bytes. At any time, you can change the category or call up the news article being displayed to read it in it's entirety complete with pictures. All without any interruption.
The last app of sorts is the Yahoo! app, although what it amounts to is a gadget bar that runs across the bottom of the screen. You can call the gadget bar at any time by pressing the Yahoo button on the remote. There's a bunch of gadgets you can get for it, and a few redundancies with the apps. In a lot of ways it is more useful. For example, the Accuweather app is fairly lame and not really worth the time it takes to open it. But, the Accuweather gadget is quite a bit better - faster to open, doesn't interrupt what you are watching, has a five day forcast, radar, weather alarms, and a bunch of small bits of weather info. The news and finance gadgets aren't bad either.
The other reason you might want this TV over the lesser models it it's media playing capabilities. The TV itself doesn't play a whole host of formats. It doesn't seem to directly support a lot of fairly common codecs like h264 or AC3; it's possible that the videos I had in those formats, the TV just didn't like for other reasons like resolution, though. Your best bet are the older mpeg4 codecs like xvid/divx with simple mp3 audio in an avi container. This only matters though for videos that are on a device directly connected to a TV, like a flash drive or external hard drive. If you are using the networking capabilities to stream video from another computer, it can support just about every format and resolution. It has never failed to play a video from my PC. And those videos are in just about every format around. It's played DVD VOB's directly from a folder, mkv and avi containers, h264, xvid/divx, AC3 audio, etc.
Here's the key: You have to install a proper DLNA media streamer on the computer. Only one free one exists that'll to the job. Pay attention now. You have to use Serviio if you have any chance of playing all those formats. Serviio.org has all the details and a great community of Samsung TV users that have had excellent experience using the program. Some gripes with streaming on the TV though is that you can't fast forward or rewind yet. I believe Samsung is working on a technique to do it properly, but it's tricky to do from a DLNA protocol standpoint. Serviio also does a great job of grabbing meta-data (video art, genre, director etc.) from the title of the file. With Serviio, media streaming is a pleasure.
Some other things to note, Samsung does seem to be supporting the platform - every week or so, some apps have updates, the TV itself has had an update or two since I bought it about a month ago. With it connected to the internet all of this is painless and fast.
All in all, it's a great purchase. For the price I paid, the extra features were worth it. But it may not be for some others. If you don't want/need network media streaming capabilities, there isn't any reason to get this TV over it's lower cost brothers. For me, it was great having exactly two cables connected to the TV: Power and Ethernet. That's all I need for all my media.
Samsung LN40C650: great bang for the buck August 8, 2010
AB (IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this TV on 07/21 from Circuit City with bing discount (Sorry Amazon, I'd have bought from you but you had a much higher price). I'm a techie and do a lot of research before purchasing big ticket items and am very happy with my purchase so far. This TV convinced me that LCD technology has caught up with plasma. I'd recommend it if you are looking for a great internet ready TV w/o breaking the bank.
Setup:
Comcast HD via HDMI and Dell XPS via HDMI
Pros:
Great picture quality (especially HD)
Great contrast ratio
Deep black levels (feels like a plasma)
No problem in lighted room
Unbelievable picture quality in dark
Swivel stand
Internet apps
Cons:
Had to buy a $25 dongle (Rosewill RNX-N1), which works great
No free internet movie apps
Buggy netflix app (pause and play doesn't show correct time passed), Amazon on demand and vudu works much better
Internet apps not user friendly
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