6 responses so far ↓

• 1 Quincy

  This is the first time i have purchased such a high dollar item via Amazon and the internet. Cudos all around. the TV arrived earlier than expected. The delivering company set it up for me and it works perfectly. A+

• 2 Arroyo

  The picture is simply amazing on the TV. I was delighted with the purchasing experience. The TV arrived on time, the Amazon white glove installers set it up and made sure it was working before they left (taking the boxes with them). I picked the time that I wanted it delivered.br /br /Setup that I am using: samsung LN52A650 PS3 (for games and blue-ray), Tivo HD, older Yamaha rx-v995 receiver. I route all the video inputs directly into the TV (via hdmi), and all the sound directly into the Yamaha (via optical inputs). At some point I should upgrade the receiver.br /br /I sat the TV on my fireplace mantle, I put several of wood screws through the plastic and metal base of the TV to secure it, then put an earthquake strap attaching the back of the TV to the wall just in case. This works really well for viewing from all angles.br /br /Strengths:br /-Picture quality. The most important feature of course. This picture just looks stunning no adjustments required from the time that it was setup. You can tweak it for Games vs. Movies and that is about all that it requires. br /-View from all angles is fantastic.br /-TV is very slim, and relatively light, swivel is very useful.br /-No glare: I have the TV in a bright room with multiple light sources (windows, lights, skylights), there is no reflections off the screen.br /-I would definitely buy this again.br /br /Areas for improvement:br /- If you use the HDMI into the TV, then try to route the sound out via the TVs optical out, it will only output stereo sound and not surround.br /-Flipping between the TV inputs with another remote (Tivo remote) doesn’t work well. I can select between the TV inputs, however I am left with the overlay showing the different input devices on my TV for about 5 minutes…I would prefer if this disappeared in 5-10 seconds. (If you use the samsung remote, you just click select).br /-The Auto-motion 120hz…i have tried enabling this feature with movies or sports or different types of shows. I find that it makes everything appear very unnatural, so I have just turned it off. The video coming from the Tivo and PS3 is great.

• 3 Emmons

  I purchased home prewired for surround with 4 ceiling speakers. I read reviews on tv for about a year. I purchased this set and Yamaha RX-V565 and a cheap subwoofer(polk PSW10. I hooked up tv when delivererd to my comcast cable box, set the display to movie mode and sound to surround and did not feel the need to do anything else. Sound, view etc was just fine. The next day I hooked up the Yamaha and yes the ceiling speakers are nice but if I had not found the Yamaha at such a good deal I may have never bothered getting. Without a blue ray I cannot appreciate what I am missing but am satisfied with cable tv as I never play movies much anyway. I have amp defaulted to medium from factory delivered and have not bothered trying anything else at is seems okay to me. Maybe when I rest up from all the installation I will experiment but for now just enjoying.br /br /

• 4 Poerter

  I kept waiting for the price to drop, but finally decided to go with the $1899 price as I wanted a Blue Ray also and the $200 discount took care of getting the Samsung Blue Ray so it is difficult for me to complain. The Samsung Touch of Red LN52A650 was delivered within four days by Pilot delivery service two guys. They took about ten minutes to unpack, set in on my stand and hook it up. The TV is outstanding quality as is the Samsung Blue Ray. Amazon is definitely the way to go in my opinion.br /br /Thousand Oaks, CA

• 5 Nickoloff

  I bought this TV based upon the excellent Consumer Reports reviews, but am returning it after 27 days because the picture quality with Standard Definition Cable and DVD is so poor as to be unwatchable, even though my Digital Cable box and DVD are both connected to the TV via HDMI.br /br /When viewing true HD content from the Digital Cable box the picture *does* look great on this set - vivid colors, acceptable motion (though not as good as CRT or Plasma). Similarly, Enhanced Definition content from the DVD looks great too. br /br /But, the plain fact of the matter is that most Cable content is 480i and many of my DVDs aren’t Enhanced Definition, and it is completely unacceptable to me that 480i programming on this fancy new HD set performs far worse than it did on my 10-year-old 36″ Sony Wega Trinton, which I stupidly gave away to a friend when buying this set.br /br /The SD picture problems include: edge outlines around objects on screen, a grainy picture, artifacts in more-distant objects on the screen, and motion artifacts.br /br /I tried to resolve the problem with the cable company, and went through 3 cable boxes, 2 HDMI cables, the 3 HDMI ports on the TV, 1 visit from a Tech with the cable company, many tweaks to the cable box settings, 2 calls to Samsung Support, and hours and hours of tweaking the TV picture settings. Nothing gave me a substantially better picture for SD cable content.br /br /So, I decided that I’d had enough, and since my 30-day return period hasn’t expired, I’m ditching this set, and plan on buying the top Consumer Reports rated Plasma in hope of a more-satisfactory viewing experience.

• 6 Ostrander

  This tv is phenomenal. Excellent picture even in a bright room that gets a lot of sunshine. More than enough inputs. I have it next to another tv and the picture quality and colors are just sooo much better on this Samsung. Can’t comment on the sound quality as I run the sound through a separate tuner. Buy it…it’s amazing and extremely cheap for this size and quality.

You must log in to post a comment.