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• 1 Chalmers

  First one we received had a strange defect - It’d randomly start scanning for channels. Samsung support couldn’t solve it on the phone, so a service call was arranged. We’d just received the TV, so I emailed amazon that night and was contacted by morning. No questions asked, they were sending a new TV. Talk about prompt service.br /br /Ceva had delivered the first one and a few days later they were back with its replacement. Painless.br /br /After just over a month of ownership, we’re really smitten with this TV. Beautiful picture quaility, easy to navigate controls. If I were doing this all over again, I’d buy the same TV.br /br /Thanks for the exemplary service, amazon.

• 2 Bench

  I helped my dad set up this set last weekend. I had urged him to buy a Pioneer Kuro 60″ because I have a Pioneer 60″ and he loves the picture it has when he comes to visit. I was concerned when he decided to get the Samsung pn63a650, because of image retention issues I’d read about previous models of Samsung plasmas. I am very happy to report that none of the previous problems exist on this set. The black levels are very nice on this tv. The picture quality is excellent. The cable management and swivel base are well designed. I love everything about it. I was worried about Pioneer quitting the plasma business, but now that I have seen this set I’m not worried about that anymore. I played with it for 2 days during our visit, and I was impressed with the adjustment controls it has available. After much tweaking it has a picture every bit as nice as my Pioneer. The bad thing is, those 3 extra inches on the pn63a650 have made my Pio 60″ look small… I’m ready to go visit mom and dad again. lol.

• 3 Fleetwood

  That’s what my wife said after a couple of weeks of owning this TV. A lot of forums like AVS talk about the “wife acceptance factor” or WAF. This TV has the highest WAF of any electronic item I have ever owned. I really like the TV a lot too. It just wows anyone who sees it.br /br /I use it in a home theater set up with a separate sound system so I can’t comment much on the sound. Other features such as the network connectivity are OK, but I don’t use it much other than to see that it works while checking out the features and settings. br /br /Movies are a great experience with this TV. Sports and regular TV are nothing short of spectacular when available in high quality high definition. The standard definition programming is as good as I have seen on any other TV.br /br /I was very satisfied with Amazon’s price and free white glove delivery. It arrived a few days before they originally promised. The guys delivering this monster set it up on my waiting stand and offered to remove the box. I did not test it until later due to a 2 hour ride in the truck when the temperature was about 8 degrees. When I did everything was perfect.br /br /We have had this TV for about 3 months now with no issues. Just big smiles.

• 4 Jacobson

  Best price we could find on the Samsumg 63-Inch 1080p Plasma we wanted. Amazon informed us of the tracking of the shipment from the minute we ordered it. Best of all was the “white glove” delivery service and set up. An overall excellent purchasing experience. Thanks, Amazon–you did it again!

• 5 Corson

  I received my Samsung 63 inch Plasma from Amazon.com last week. The delivery was on time. They placed the TV in my basement (where it was supposed to be connected)br /The picture quality is great! It did not look as big on the wall as I had originally thought.br /I am very satisfied with the purchase.

• 6 Crow

  This TV is amazing for the price. The picture is crystal clear, especially on HD. I bought it at Sears also for $799. The other comment about it not having an optical audio input is true, but I just ran my optical digital cable from my DVR cable box straight to my sound system and it works great. The picture is wonderful when playing DVDs as well, although I do not have a BluRay player.br /The 720 isn’t a big deal on this model. My parents have a 1080 Phillips and on HD, the picture is just as good on this Samsung. The 1080 is slightly better on SD channels, but they paid $1100 more. I did lots of research before buying, and you can not beat the picture quality and clarity for this price. The colors are amazing, the blacks are very black. We had to adjust the brightness and color a little, and the TV has many different settings such as sports and cinema which you can switch for better color on different types of shows.br /I would highly recommend this model.

• 7 Pendlebury

  I bought mine at Sears for $799.00, and love it. If you are looking for a large plasma TV, and want to spend less than $1000.00-this is for you. I recently connected it to the HDTV box from the cable company, and the picture is great, especially sports. We have also played the wii and playstation on the TV without any difficulties. You can set the TV to move 2 to 4 pixels vertically and 2 to 4 pixels horizontally every 2 minutes so there will never be a burn on the screen, because the pixels are continuously moving. The remote control is very easy to use as well.

• 8 Islas

  I bought this TV as a gift to our family. Sears priced it at $899 (although it was $799 there on Black Friday.)br /Pick-up was a bit of a problem since I was told by the Sears salesperson that the TV must not be transported flat (horizontal) and the shipping carton is 36.9 inches tall. My Jeep Liberty and an a neighbor’s Ford Expedition didn’t have sufficient clearance to haul it upright so I used my 16′ trailer to pick it up. A bit of overkill, but it got the job done.br /The picture is terrific as noted in other reviews, and I would rate the set as Five Stars except for the lack of easy-access inputs. I understand that other Samsung plasmas have side inputs but this model doesn’t.br /However, it’s a great TV for the price.

• 9 Ussher

  I bought this tv for $800 and couldn’t be happier. Sure it’s 720p and not 1080p, but for this cheap I couldn’t be happier with 50 inches of HD television. You really don’t give up that much resolution at 50 inches anyway.br /br /Picture looks great, I have HD cable, Xbox 360, and Bluray player hooked up to it, and I love it. I have not seen any signs of the screen door effect.br /br /What is bad about this tv? Well they skimped on the inputs. There are no front, or side panel inputs. On the back there are two HDMI inputs and two progressive inputs….ZERO RCA inputs. If you have RCA (like an old VCR or Tivo) then you use up one of the progressive inputs. Also there are ZERO optical audio inputs. There is an optical audio output so you can pass the HDMI sound to your surround sound receiver.br /br /This tv has some feature to make the blacks darker, I think it does it by turning off the pixels all together. The only time you notice it is if the show you are watching fades to black, then it looks like the tv is completely turned off. At this point the tv would “freak out” and switch between the tv’s black and off really dark black. I was able to get the tv to stop doing this when I calibrated my contrast and brightness settings. Would have been nice if Samsung offered a setting for the tv not to do this.br /br /I have noticed some very slight image burn in after playing games, but it goes away quickly. After some research I found this is normal for Plasma’s during the first 150-200 hours of use. I left my tv on for 24 hours on a cable channel, and already I’ve found that it’s happening less frequently. I am a big gamer, and put in a few hours on the Xbox every night, the tv is brand new, and there are ZERO permanent burn ins, but I still wanted to mention it. Just don’t leave a still image on for hours and hours during the first few months of use.br /br /Overall I’m really happy with this tv. 50 inches is huge in my living room, and the color, contrast, and resolution is really nice. Doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, doesn’t have the 120hz, or contrast and picture you could get for another $1,000-$2,000 but at this price it’s a great tv.br /br /UPDATE: I’ve found a bad issue with this tv, that seems to be a problem with many tv’s. If you send your signal to the tv through HDMI, and then out of the tv using the optical digital audio out, it will not pass 5.1 surround sound onto your receiver. From what I can gather it’s a DRM issue. This is really lame, because the receiver I had did not have any HDMI inputs, to use as a pass through to the tv.br /br /What you have to do then is have HDMI go to the tv, as well as optical audio from your Xbox/Bluray Player/Tivo HD go to your surround sound receiver. The other option if your receiver does have HDMI inputs is to run the HDMI from your Xbox/Bluray/Tivo to the receiver, then another HDMI from the receiver to the tv.br /br /Again, the tv will not pass 5.1 surround sound to your receiver from HDMI inputs. It turns it into 2 channel stereo. It will pass 5.1 surround sound if you get your HD signal directly from over the air or cable.

• 10 Osburn

  This television is perfect. We absolutely love it. The best part is we did not have to fight the crowds at Wal-mart on the day after Thanksgiving to get it. We paid the same price for it and it was delivered right to our door.

• 11 Pei

  I was originally going to buy a Kuro 50 inch plasma after looking at all the online reviews from many different sites. The Samsung 650 was also ranked very high, but there were some small negatives about the tv (some glare issues primarily) that had me holding off for the Kuro. Amazon originally had the Kuro for about 2k, but I didn’t pull the trigger quick enough, and then it went away, and I couldn’t find it anywhere for under $2,500. br /br /I wasn’t sure if I was going to go ahead and buy the 650 when I looked on Amazon one day and saw the new 50 inch 760 on sale for $1,599.00. After reading some professional reviews on this product (there wasn’t a whole lot due to how new it was), I decided that this was an upgrade from the slightly older model, and decided to pull the trigger. Best decision I could have made! Not sure if experts still rank the Kuro higher than this television, but if they do, the Kuro must be out of this world, because this Samsung is UNBELIEVABLE. This is my first plasma tv purchase, and I was used to watching television on a 36″ Panasonic traditional tv, but after seeing the picture on the Samung, I was blown away. Watching sports on tv makes you feel as if you are at the event. The color is amazing, the tv looks nice, and the swivel on the stand allows me to turn the tv to face me when my wife isn’t around. It even makes bad movies good (think Spiderman 3), awful movie, but awesome special effects in high def! I think the sound was decent as well, but it didn’t have enough booming bass for me, so with the money I saved over the Kuro, I purchased a Denon soundbar to go along with the plasma to add better surround sound and booming bass. Now wherever I am seated in the room, I can turn my components to face me and enjoy a pretty good surround sound system. If you don’t want to add a surround sound system, this tv handled sound well, but as I say I was really looking for more booming bass when I watched movies. It would have been great if there was a way to add a subwoofer directly to this television, something the Kuro has, but not the Samsung.br /br /There is a teeny glare on the OUTSIDE edge of the television on the part that is not actually the screen(not sure why Samsung made it almost a mirror like edge), but nothing that is too distracting, and I got used to it pretty quickly. I have this in my living room which gets very little light when the shades are closed, but even with lights on, or during the day, the glare issue on this tv is not noticeable. I was a little leary given past Samsung reviews, but I can tell you that if possible glare is holding you back from buying this tv, don’t think twice about it…not an issue. Also, you can watch this tv from anywhere in the room and see it clearly. The controls on the remote are extremely functionable, and everything is VERY easy to setup and tweak.br /br /The other part of this purchase that is EXTREMELY important, and should be emphasized, is the process of buying DIRECTLY through Amazon.com. As long it is directly through Amazon.com (and not through an affiliate), shipping is included in the price, and the company handling the deliveries is TOP NOTCH. When I initially looked around for purchase possibilities, the thing that bothered me was that most companies had a policy where they would deliver the plasma to your front door only. You had to open the box, make sure that it worked, and then sign for it. If there was any type of problem, some would tell you to refuse delivery, and others would tell you that you had to get it fixed through the warranty process! The last thing I wanted to do was to get a defective set, and then have to get someone here to fix it! When I went with Amazon.com, the company delivering for them brought the plasma into my house, took it out of the box, put it on the open table, hooked it up, put batteries in the remote, setup the initial configuration, and made sure that it was working fine BEFORE I signed for it. This piece of mind often called “white glove service” elsewhere costing anywhere from $100 - $150 additional dollars was ABSOLUTELY free with Amazon.com. I can’t stress enough how important this was. I had read about this service beforehand, and it was a primary reason (along with cost) as to why I was pretty much holding off until I found the right television on Amazon. This service alone made my purchase through Amazon.com worth the price over other services, but the price was also also at the lower range of ANYWHERE else. A friend of mine owns an electronics store, and told me point blank that he doesn’t understand how Amazon.com can price merchandise the way they do it, but he had heard good things about them, and although it would hurt him by recommending Amazon.com, he told me to buy from them if the price was right.br /br /I highly recommend this television as well as purchasing from Amazon.com. The final way you know how happy I am with this purchase is to keep the following in mind….I RARELY spend the time to enter reviews after purchases, but I was so happy with this purchase, that I couldn’t wait to share my experience with everyone on Amazon.com

• 12 Knowles

  The picture is amazing, even with standard definition telivision. Blu-Ray looks breathtaking. Another nice feature is being able to connect to your home network watch picture, movies, listen to music all without a media center extender. Amazon shipped the item very quickly it arrived at the delvery hub by VESA. VESA, on the other hand, held on to the item for about two weeks without calling to set up a date to deliver. I had to call Amazon ask why they were not delivering, needless to say it was delivered the next day. Other than the contractor amazon uses, it was a great experience.

• 13 Sith

  This was a great experience all around. Not only does the 50″ Samsung plasma have a beautiful picture, it also has enough inputs for a number of peripherals, ie, Wii, karaoke, BluRay, DVR, and older DVD/VCR player. I had a hard time locating this particular model but Amazon had one via VANN’s. My only complaint is that none of the TVs I looked at mentioned that you need extra cables to connect the various peripherals. The quick-connect instructions accompanying the TV gives a list of several different cables available, and lists these in “good, better, best” format for picture quality.

• 14 Oeser

  The TV arrived in good condition and we are thoroughly enjoying the picture and programs watched. It was easy to set up and ready to view in a short time.

• 15 VanBibber

  The Samsung PNA760 50″ plasma television is amazing and Amazon White Glove delivery is top notch.br /br /The White Gloves Delivery man and I unpack the television, placed it atop my entertainment center, plug it end, and turned it on. The picture was incredible without any adjustments. We currently have 4 flat screen televisions in our home, two LCDs and two Plasmas. Although the LCDs are excellent televisions, they pale in comparison to the two plasmas. The primary differences are motion blur and black level. br /br /My only negative comment concerning the PNA760 50″ plasma is reflection glare. Probably would not want to place this Television in a brightly lighted room without heavy curtains to block out ambient light sources while viewing. In a dark room this television is perfect in all aspects. I highly recommend Amazon’s white glove delivery too.br /

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