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Key Features
 | 50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a picture better than you ever thought possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung's new LCD TV's give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever. |
Full HD 1080P
 | Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. The new Samsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HDTVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable. Samsung's 1080p panel uses a new high-speed liquid crystal to cut response time to 4ms. The fast response time, coupled with Samsung's Auto Motion Plus 120Hz motion blur reduction technology dramatically reduces motion blur and judder. |  |
Digital Natural Image Engine
 | DNIe™ The Samsung Digital Natural Image engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces. |  |
Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Flourescent Lamp
| The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72% of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlights to give you 92% coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors. Samsung's exclusive Wide Color Enhancer technology delivers more brilliant colors, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system displays wider color reproduction, showing you truer colors - the fresh green of spring foliage, the intense blue of the summer sky. | |||
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Connectivity
 | To make the Series 6 a true entertainment hub for any home, Samsung has incorporated advanced HD connectivity and networking capabilities that expand the HDTV's functionality. A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the four Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one on the side), and the handy HDMICEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the 2 rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV. Once connected, users can easily access device menus and manage and display content through the newly redesigned Wheel Key Remote control and the HDTV's sophisticated content management interface. All Connections
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Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
  | You already know something about digital living. There's the TV and digital video recorder in your family room. (And another set in your bedroom.) You have a PC and digital printer in your office, along with a network attached storage device. And you've copied all your music onto your portable music player and haven't had to open a CD case for years. But getting them to talk to each other can be pretty tough. Why is it still so difficult to send digital content from one device to another? Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a collaboration of the world's leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile companies that has created design guidelines for a new generation of products that can work together — no matter the brand. Think for a moment about all of the photos "locked away" on your home PC that you wish you could access while entertaining your friends and family. Now, thanks to DLNA enabled devices, a DLNA-enabled PC can be accessed from the comfort of your living room or family room via a DLNA-enabled HDTV, where you can enjoy your memories with friends and family, without having to deal with the hassle and non-intuitive "PCexperience". Or, say you recently downloaded your daughter's birthday party video from your digital camcorder to your PC. Now you want to share it with your parents who are visiting. Without DLNA, you probably have to burn a DVD of the video or hook up the camcorder to the TV. With DLNA, you can just use your TV's remote to call up the video on your TV. That's it. |
Super Patterned Vertical Alignment
 | Samsung's Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes |
Audio Features
TruSurround is a patented SRS technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content over two speakers. TruSurround delivers a compelling, virtual surround sound experience through any two-speaker playback system, including internal television speakers and headphones. It is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. High-quality virtual surround sound can be experienced with just the two hidden, downward-firing side-mounted 2.2-channel dome speakers built into the TV.SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass.
TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.
- Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper.
- TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself.
- The SRS WOW feature widens the soundstage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system.
Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?
 | With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience.
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A perfect purchase May 31, 200832 out of 35 found this review helpful
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Amazon tracking indicated it would take 2 weeks to arrive. CEVA tracking listed it at two days earlier. I received the call for delivery in less than a week - and this included the holiday period!
CEVA showed up with it yesterday. The heavy cardboard box had an 18" gash/tear in it and my heart sank. They removed the box and I noticed the screen was supported about 8" from the cardboard and there were no signs that whatever caused the gash had touched anything. We quickly plugged it into the wall and ran it thru some of the built-in menus. Relief - everything worked fine. With the 30-day return guarantee there was nothing more to worry about.
The previous day Amzon had delivered a new Onkyo receiver to replace my older Yamaha. I had already disconnected the Yamaha and wired all the components and speakers to this new receiver (to take advantage of its HDMI capabilities). It now only took a couple hours to make the final connections with the receiver, cable sysem, over-the-air antenna, HTPC and network.
Every single system worked perfectly, even though it sometimes took a few minutes to discover the correct input settings on each device to get everything communicating. The biggest surprise was the quality of the picture. After reading everything I could find on various forums I expected to have some tweaking to do before obtaining the best images. While critically inspecting the imagery for each type of input I could not see a need to adjust anything! Just for experimentation I did make a few selections of alternate settings, but always wound up returning to the original. I'll likely use an Avia program to verify adjustments later, but can't imagine any improvement.
The "halo effect" on the upper and lower bezel was obvious to see, but it was not distracting. In fact, if there were a switch available to turn it on and off, I'd still leave it on - it's neat! The red bezel highlighting (the TOC) is so subtle that it is nearly invisible. If I didn't know it was there I'd likely not have even noticed it. Perhaps it would be more visible in a room with bright daylighting?
Another neat feature is the touch sensitive controls on the lower right bezel. They are invisible until you touch the area, causing them to temporarily sequentially illuminate. I haven't fully explored this feature yet.
Another nice feature was discovering that I could hook up the computer to HDMI connection #2 and play computer games without any special adjustments. There was no lag or any problem except that I'll need to upgrade the computer's video card in order to take the display all the way up to its full resolution. Nevertheless, the Samsung must have been upscaling the image since it was extremely sharp. (Same thing with the 480i DVDs we played on it - very sharp). When not in use we intend to leave the computer hooked up so the Samsung will continuously display it's screensaver which cross-fades family photos like a huge digital picture frame.
The Samsung has a TOSLINK out connection which I connected to the receiver. This vastly simplifies audio connections since all audio sent to the TV can be amplified from a single connection compatible with the 7.1 sound system. If you can connect everything via HDMI there will be significantly fewer wires and a much more simplified operation.
The only thing I would have preferred is if the base would swivel. I understand the 650 models swivel, can't imagine why Samsung wouldn't include that feature here.
We're very happy with this purchase.
EDIT- 6-18-08
After nearly 3 weeks of use we are even more impressed with this TV.
I have upgraded the video card on the attached computer so that it can now attain full 1080p resolution, only to find the text too small to be readable at a normal viewing distance of about 12 feet with my 60-yr-old eyes. Backing off the resolution makes the text large enough to read while retaining its razor-sharpness.
The attached computer is connected with a wireless hub to my home network, allowing it to stream pictures, music, or movies from any of the computers. The TV must be upconverting the movies to 1080p because they are displayed more clearly than when sent to a regular computer monitor.
The hub also provides a patch cable to the TVs' network port, which allows it to run all the InfoLink connection functions (weather, news, stocks) without the need to even configure that connection.
We added a PS3 a week ago to view blu-ray movies. What an incredible picture! Even though we are using inexpensive $3 HDMI cables, there was no flickering or other problem as reported on another Amazon review. My son tested out his new Metal Gear PS3 game and was impressed with the image and game play. We used the default settings and did not even switch to "game" mode.
We've now had time to run THX and TVBlink video calibration tests and were not surprised to find that all the default settings were already set to the optimum values.
The set is now mounted on one of those entertainment center "stalks" which allows it to be easily rotated (for easier access to the rear connections). This mounting has taken care of the only complaint we had about this set - its' lack of a swivel base.
Please Forgive Me, Sony May 30, 200831 out of 36 found this review helpful
In 1986, I was fortunate to have Sony's first HDTV cameras, recorders and projection system in the studio where I worked. Yes, that was 22 years ago and the technology was analog. But it looked great and we projected it on a screen 6 or 7 feet tall. Still, I wondered, why would anyone buy this new technology for "just twice" as sharp a picture?
Jump to 2008. During the last 6 months, I watched as specialists installed my new all HD studio where I work now. This time, of course, it is digital. It's also Sony all the way and the recording media is Blu-ray, so I'm getting pretty familiar with the new generation of Sony HD, but was still watching the "old 525 line NTSC" stuff at home because I hadn't seen anything on display at any stores that was that magic combination of "high end; low price".
Then, a couple months ago, we bought a 50" Sony Bravia for our conference room at work and I hooked up a brand new Sony PS3 to it. The picture was beautiful and I decided to see if it was time to buy one for home use.
Online reviews were very good for the Sony and I had already decided that an LCD would be better for home than a plasma after seeing how both held up at work. So, a little over a week ago, I checked everything they had at the local Best Buy. The salesman there agreed with me that the Sony was about as good as it gets. Then, surprising me, he said he'd buy the Samsung 7 series over the Sony. I asked him about price; $3,050 he quoted. The there would be a 9.25% sales tax, too.
I went home and read the specs on the Sony and the Samsung only to discover that the Series 7 seemed better than the Bravia. And a side-by-side in-store comparison made the Samsung look very impressive. I checked more online sources and found that the new Samsungs, like the Sonys, were highly regarded.
Research done, I checked Amazon's price. At $2,724, I would save almost $600, so I ordered one. I've spent the last 3 days installing it and all the associated audio stuff, PS3 and DVD burner in a custom cabinet. It looks great turned off, but when you turn it on and fire up the Blu-Ray ("Planet Earth-The Complete Series") which got here the same day, I was just blown away!
I have learned several things: the Hi Def stuff is great, but the SD stuff from Dish and local analog broadcasts isn't as satifying on the new Samsung as on the old CRT. You can sit a lot closer to a 52" screen than I thought - about 12' is our viewing distance. New TVs, and this one in particular, do a lot more than just display video - and do it well. Like a computer, this TV can crash. It's happened just once and it had to be "rebooted" by disconnecting the power.
Also, I am really pleased with how Amazon handled the whole purchase. Everything, including delivery went smoothly. But here's the most surprising thing: A couple days after ordering the unit, Amazon dropped the price (temporarily, it seems). So, I emailed customer service and requested that they credit my account with the difference. That was on a Sunday nite. The next morning I had two emails from them. The first said they would review the situation and the second said they had already credited my account with $190. Service doesn't get any better!!!
Update 6-21-08
We have subscribed to Comcast cable since my initial review. We also got the HD-DVR and the HD channels. Cable, to my surprise, renders SD pictures slightly better than the Dish, however, I am now connected through HDMI instead of Y/C. That means a digital input instead of an analog hookup. I am still disappointed with 4:3 analog stuff compared to our older CRTs. Even digital 4:3 (480i) content looks unacceptable. However, all true HD stuff (including 720i)is good to fabulous.
It is so good, in fact, that something you start to notice when watching HD content (especially network news) is just how all the different recording formats display on your new TV relative to one another. Footage shot in the field, for example, often looks really awful when on-screen with the studio cameras (as when the anchor is on one side of the picture - split screen - and a field reporter is on the other). Likewise, all older analog 4:3 stuff which has been upconverted for HD looks pretty grim, as do over-the-air broadcasts whether shot on film or tape originally.
On the other hand, this LCD makes a wonderful (huge) computer screen and I don't see how you could expect more for games and/or Blu-ray movies. You will probably be disappointed with upconverted DVDs, however, (played, in this case, on a PS3).
Most users will probably be confused with the unending list of menu items, and frankly, adjustments like "gamma" will simply confuse most people, especially when you have multiple levels of "dynamic" adjustments, "black", "contrast" and other controls which tend to be interactive and produce similar results. You can, quite literally, drive yourself nuts trying to get everything tweaked. On the other hand, if you're really picky (like, say, you color adjust photo prints for a living), you should be able to dial in nearly what you want on a good 1080 source.
The built in speakers just don't sound very good and are slightly "out-of-sync" with the analog (RCA) outs, so if you have both the TV and an external receiver turned up, you will hear a distinct delay echo. It's my understanding that this is better with the digital outs, but I do not yet have the gear to test it.
The most surprising thing I'm learning by using this latest LCD technology is just how uneven is this transition from analog to digital. It looks like it will be literally years before most of the legacy content is converted to HD digital (and how do you improve the quality of stuff shot on 16mm film in 1944, or TV series shot live in the studio in the sixties so that it will look great in HD?). Well, the answer is, of course; "You don't."
A few folks have commented on the very reflective screen surface and surround. I do, in fact, find the reflections(we have this TV in a room with windows on both walls perpendicular to the screen) slightly objectional when compared to the Sony with a more matte finish. Room lamps can, likewise, be problematic. We find the best solution (in the evening, at least) to be indirect lighting from a not-very-bright source that adds some illumination to the room but no direct reflections on the screen.
Is now the time to buy HD? Frankly, I was holding out for OLEDs, but this current level of technology is just mature enough and affordable enough to jump in now. Prices on LCDs are coming down fast and the next generation of technology won't be cheap for some time to come. If you have been waiting for the right time to ditch your CRT, now is a great time - especially with the switch to all digital transmission in Feb '09.
Too Awesome for words May 8, 200827 out of 28 found this review helpful
I could not wait for delivery company to bring to me. They said a couple of days and I said I can't wait. So I went to freight depot and picked up. Brought home 4 days ago, so still fine tuning all available options. You have never seen anything so beautiful to look at and the picture clairity is 2nd to none. This is my 2nd HD, the first a Vizio 37 inch. I know that they are not close in resolution but the brightness, shiny black finish, glass like screen, touch of red around outer edge, ethernet hookup to computer, DLNA, and all the other connections and options place this tv at the very top for me. My wife and I spent days and weeks searching for the perfect tv. We think that the Samsungs out did everything, maybe not a lot, but on brightness and resolution it really stood out. Then when you throw in price factor it is a no brainer to purchase this tv.
Absolutely thrilled to death.
Dan
Germantown,Ohio
Absolutely STUNNING Styling and Picture Quality May 15, 200820 out of 22 found this review helpful
The styling of the 52A750 is nothing short of stunning!! The larger black glass bezel(as compared with the 650) on all four sides of the set with the TOC Red along with the wrap-up, thin clear strip gives the set a stately appearance that oozes quality. And, by the way but even more importantly, the picture quality in terms of color and sharpness as well as the gorgeous rich blacks is terrific. This set easily rivals the much more expensive LED backlit 81 Series and also compares favorably with my treasured Sony Qualia 007 46" LCD with the pioneering LED RGB backlighting which is also beautifully styled. Would not trade either set!
Two major issues with this television. June 1, 200818 out of 45 found this review helpful
This is my first review on Amazon. First off, this is a beautiful display with a great picture, as well as my second Samsung set. Unfortunately, after approximately 24 hours I have decided to return this TV to Amazon for the following reasons:
1) There is a serious problem with screen flickering when running a 1080p signal from a PS3. This is well documented on AVS forums. It's hard to believe Samsung would release a $3,000 TV that can't hook up to a Playstation. It's equally hard to believe the incompetence of their technical support staff.
2) Do a Google search for "samsung" and "linkstick." This product is critical to one of the key features for the 7 series-- that it can link to your network and play videos from your PC. Samsung has advertised that not only that it's available now, but is actually free if you buy one from May 25 to June 25. Unfortunately, I can't find it anywhere. Not Amazon, not Fry's, not even Samsung's own site.
I understand that I'm going to pay a premium in both price and time for being an "early adopter," but if I'm going to pay this much for a TV, then you better get what's advertised. In this case, Samsung fails.
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