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• 1 Lent

  This is my first flat screen and I love it. I had reviewed consumer reports and though the 19 inches were not reviewed Samsung was highly rated in other categories. I have not been disappointed. The picture is incredible and the sound is superb. This is the perfect small flat screen you’ve been looking for. Remember it is 19 inches. You might want to go to 22 for bedroom or another area. This 19 is perfect for kitches, work rooms, etc. Love this little Samsung!

• 2 Izell

  I am very proud of this purchase. It is the perfect size for my bedroom. The picture is great. The only thing I don’t like is the plastic base. It looks a bit cheap. But, other than that, I have no complaints.

• 3 Slaughter

  The picture quality is very clear and sharp. We have DISH Network. I feel confident to say this is a excellent tv to buy for your first purchase of HDTV for its size.

• 4 Queensberry

  Awesome T.V. great price, use it w/ my gameing system and it looks fantastic, def. worth buying

• 5 Najbauer

  We are very pleased with this product thus far. The picture is good as well as the sound. We have it mounted with a wall bracket in our kitchen.

• 6 Berkovich

  This is my third Samsung LCD. The picture is great, like the others, but the sound is terrible. It’s so bad, sometimes I can’t understand what’s being said. I had to run the sound through my stereo to enjoy watching the t v. I don’t know if I got a bad speaker or what, but the sound sucks.

• 7 Nutting

  The TV arrived on time and in perfect condition. The picture was great out of the box. The sound was good after adjusting the equalizer. This is a 60hz set and I can’t see any problems even when watching sports. I would recommend it as a good buy.

• 8 Sahakian

  This is a less expensive tv than the top of the line Samsung that I bought for my tv room in the basement with the full surround sound etc. However, the picture quality is very similar. The speakers are on the bottom and echo in the simi-enclosed area where I placed the set. The sound is my only complaint. Even then, it is not horrible. I recommend this tv. Great picture quality.

• 9 O'Meara

  I don’t disagree with the other reviews, the HD picture is great. BUT, if you watch any SD content the picture is terrible. Virtually unwatchable because people turn red or purplish as the TV tries to upscale the image. As a result, it is great for watching the football game but if I want to watch something that is only sent via SD, I have to go to a different TV. My bargain 50” 720p plasma does a much better job at balancing out SD while not sacrificing noticably on the HD. So, if the ONLY thing that you are going to watch on this is HD (SatCableBlueRay), then it is great. If you are going to watch ANY SD over the lifetime of this TV, I’d recommend looking at another TV which may give up a bit on the HD but provide a more balanced useful all round TV.

• 10 Coward

  My Consumer Magazine listed this TV as a Best Buy and they were right. It is a great TV for the money.

• 11 Orosco

  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

• 12 Carrillo

  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+

• 13 Rubalcaba

  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.

• 14 Que

  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.

• 15 Unland

  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 /

• 16 Falcon

  After owning the LN52A750 for almost 2 weeks, I thought I’d come back to Amazon to post my review. br /br /To begin, my shipping wasn’t as good as some folks, it wasn’t as bad as some others, but overall was okay. Amazon shipped the TV on March 24th and estimated that it would be delivered by April 10th. I was quite excited when I got a call to schedule the delivery on March 27th. At that point the TV was ready for delivery, but since I live in a rural area, Pilot handed the TV off to Cardinal Freight. Cardinal only delivers to my area on Fridays, so I had to wait a full extra week to get the TV. It arrived on April 3rd, so it was still a week earlier then the estimated delivery date. The delivery guys were in and out of the house, and pulling out of the driveway in probably less than 10 minutes. “White glove”? Not sure about that, but at least I got to plug the TV in before they were gone.br /br /As far as the TV goes, I’ll just address various points one at a time:br /br /Firmware - I noticed that a lot of people gave reviews that included issues with repeated power cycling. I made sure to double check my firmware version pretty soon after giving the TV a once over. My TV shipped with version 1013.0 which is newer than the currently available version on the Samsung website, 1012.2. br /br /Gloss Screen - yeah, I would probably prefer a mat screen, but overall the picture quality of the TV outweighs any complaint I may have with screen reflections. I have felt the need once or twice to turn off a light or two on the opposite side of the room while watching TV. Not too big of a deal though. One nitpick… I can see the gray levels creep up a bit when viewing from an off angle of about 45 degrees or so. The picture is still great, but the blacks aren’t quite so black. A mat screen would probably make this issue even a bit more pronounced, so pick your poison.br /br /Halo Effect - very, VERY minor. I can see it, but it’s certainly not a distraction. I really need to consciously look for it. br /br /The Bezel - beautiful. I really like this bezel. It’s one of the reasons I chose this TV over the 650. So far I haven’t seen any issues with the Touch of Color separating. Fingers crossed! We purchased a new entertainment center that has an opening that appears as if it were custom made for this bezel. The edges of the bezel overlap the opening in our entertainment center hutch by about an eighth of an inch all the way around. It looks great!br /br /Info Link - It was a snap to get the TV set up to my home network. I set the network settings manually at first, and everything was fine. I also tried the automatic settings and that works just fine as well. We like the ability to check the weather at the click of a button. News is nice, but we don’t really use it much. This functionality certainly wasn’t a deal breaker in the TV selection, but it’s pretty nice.br /br /DLNA - When I bought this TV I bought it along with a Playstation 3 to use as a Blu-Ray player. The Playstation 3 can also be used in conjunction with various DLNA server programs that are freely available on the web. For this reason, the DLNA functionality of the LN52A750 isn’t really worth much to me. Compared to the Playstation interface, the Samsung interface can’t really compare. I haven’t even bothered to install the Samsung server software on my PC. I’m using TVersity for serving music, photos, and video to the TV through the Playstation. Supposedly some people have had luck getting TVersity to work with the 750, but I haven’t been able to. No matter… as I said, the Samsung interface is pretty poor anyway. Since all photos, music, and video are getting transferred over the home network via the Playstation, I haven’t tested the Wiselink, so I can’t comment that. br /br /Extra Content - Pretty worthless. It would be SO much nicer if the 1Gig of space could be modified to hold personal videos, pictures, etc. I’ll probably never use this functionality.br /br /Sound - Really quite good, and another reason I purchase this TV over the 650. We watch a lot of TV without the surround sound system, so I wanted decent sound from the TV speakers. Out of the box, I was pretty disappointed with the sound and thought I may have wasted my money, but after digging through the sound menu, I realized that there is quite a bit of flexibility. Along with a few preset sound modes, there is also a custom setting in which you can adjust the 5 band equalize to suit your tastes. You can also tweak any of the preset sound modes as well, if you don’t like the defaults. In case you change your mind, going back to the defaults is a click away.br /br /Standard Def TV - We currently have a standard def Directv Tivo so we watch a LOT of SD content. I’d love to change to a newer HD Directv DVR, but I don’t want to give up the Tivo interface, and the Directv DVRs get a lot of poor reviews. As such, I really searched for a new TV that would do a decent job with SDTV. When shopping around, I read a lot of reviews, and almost hands down, the Samsung TVs get the best reviews for playing standard def format. In short, my results were quite good!br /br /At first, I was a bit discouraged, but after tweaking a few settings, I’ve been very pleased. I had to turn OFF the 120Hz function, turn ON Film Mode (for 2:3 pull down), and turned Digital Noise Reduction up to High (fortunately, even on High, the DNR doesn’t make things look that hazy). Then I changed the default color settings considerably. The defaults were great for HD sources like the blu-ray, but not for SDTV. Fortunately, the TV has separate color settings for each input, so no fiddling with color settings each time the input is changedbr /br /Interestingly enough, I think the 52″ Samsung has a better SD picture then my 22″ Visio. Also, my old 32″ Sony Trinitron (which the 750 replaced) always seemed to show a good bit of digital “blockiness” in the directv signal, especially in dark areas of the screen (probably from the video compression of the satellite signal). I don’t see ANY of that anymore. There is a bit of small pixelization, but a certain amount of that is to be expected considering the source. Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly not HDTV or Blu-Ray quality, but overall, I’m quite pleased.br /br /One thing I wish the TV had was a Panoramic View for 4:3 TV. It can only stretch the 4:3 image to fit the 16:9 screen. My 22″ Visio had a Panoramic Mode that stretches the outsides of the screen more than the center of the screen. That way the center (where your eye is typically concentrating) looks less distorted. Oh well, the screen is so large that viewing SDTV in 4:3 is still plenty big. I was just hoping to get rid of the vertical black bars.br /br /Blu-Ray - I can’t comment on HDTV since I’m not currently an HD subscriber, but the Blu-Ray is FANTASTIC! Obviously, this is where this TV really shines. There’s not really much to say here that hasn’t already been said. Although one of the other reasons why I bought this TV over the 650 is the fact that this TV has 16bit color while the 650 only has 12bit color. Wow! Is it great! I did purchase a Digital Video Essentials blue ray disc with the TV. It was a good help in getting the color set right. I didn’t have to change the “out of the box” settings by much, but I did change them enough to make a noticeable improvement (to me). br /br /One note… when using the Video Essentials disc, I noticed that there was a good bit of overscan on all of the patterns the disc was using. I finally realized that by setting the viewing mode of the TV from 16:9 to “Just Scan”, it displays the full image with zero overscan. Pretty nice.br /br /Remote - I thought is was nicer then most people give it credit for. The click wheel is a bit odd, but the rotating functionality can be avoided. It also allows for simple up, down, left, and right clicking which is seems to work quite well. The back light is a nice feature. At this point though the remote is just sitting in a drawer. I’ve recently purchased a Logitec Harmony One remote to combine the TV, Tivo, Playstation, and Receiver. Still learning how to use it, but so far it’s great.br /br /The Perfect Compliment - I mentioned previously I purchased the LN52A750 along with a Playstation 3. The added media functionality of the Playstation really makes the slight price increase over other decent Blu-Ray players very worthwhile. The Playstation really opens this TV up to all sorts of other activities. I’ve never in my life been a gamer, but they are quite fun on the 52″ screen, and the video quality is great. I have yet to notice any lag, and I have yet to use the Game mode on the 750 which is supposed to reduce any lag. Streaming video is great. I’ve got a good portion of my DVD collection ripped to my home PC. The Playstation allows for easy access. TVersity can upconvert to 1080p, but I haven’t tried that yet since I need to first hardwire the PC to the Playstation to accommodate the bandwidth. Pictures are easy to share with visitors, and accessing my rather large mp3 collection has become easier than ever. Supposedly a number of online radio web sites work on the Playstation, but I haven’t tried any of them yet.br /br /If anyone is still reading at this point, I can easily say that this is one outstanding TV. I got it for around 2050 bucks here on Amazon. I know it can be had periodically for about 100 less, but I couldn’t wait. It was still, far and away, less than any local retailer, and it’s been worth every penny so far. br /br /I’m giving the TV 4 out of 5 stars, because of the reflective screen, worthless extra content, missing panoramic view for 4:3 TV, poor DLNA interface, and slight issue with black levels at off angles.br /

• 17 Vai

  Yes the shipping did suck, I had to help the poor guy carry it in the house, but it was so worth it!! We’ve had the tv for about 7 months and it was a great investment. Great clear picture no problems with the set up. We even over the past weekend got the first firmware upgrade and very easy to do. If anyone hasn’t checked into the Samsung website yet they do suggest everyone get the up grade even if you are not having any problems with the tv shutting itself off. Have been a Sony buyer for the last ten years and am not sorry I took a chance on the Samsung

• 18 Nyland

  I’m going to make this review quick and to the point the picture quality on this tv is the best I have ever seen, I am overall happy with this tv the sound is ok, it could use some improvement, but it is satisfactory, the only con I would say is the design the glossy glass finish reflects light but if you have a lamp on the ceiling or behind the tv I wouldn’t imagine this being a problem, I would recommend this to a friend.

• 19 Gliniak

  Best pictue ever had. Set is great and the toys are even better. Gaming is excellent. Blu ray out of this world.

• 20 Jakeway

  When I ordered the product from amazon, I was told it would be delivered in 2 days. Turns out, they wanted to deliver it in 12-15 days, which wouldn’t work because of my travel schedule. I immediately contacted amazon who said I would be charged for delivery and return delivery, which is exactly what they did, even though the freight company called me and I told them not to accept delivery because I wouldn’t be accepting delivery from them.br /br /I was still charged for delivery, even though the product had not left the warehouse. To me, that is the same as stealing.br /br /This experience has soured my view of amazon and, as a result, I will no longer consider them as a source for anything.br /

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