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 enlarge | Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Electronics
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 47
Shipping Weight (lbs): 105.8
Dimensions (in): 44.1 x 21.9 x 37
MPN: HC-R4755W
Model: HC-R4755W
UPC: 036725247550
EAN: 0036725247550
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Great TV with only minor flaws... September 13, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a great HDTV and are on a fixed income this is the set for you. The picture quality is great and hi def looks amazing, be sure to take advantage of the DVI connection and hook Hi Def up using this connection for maximum quality, it's a little pricey but worth it. The only real flaw is the self focus feature is useless to get the picture nice and sharp you must manually converge and there still will be slight over lapping that is almost totally unnoticable if even noticable at all. Movies look great hooking the DVD player up through the component connection and the same goes for video games that are capable of 480P or 1080i and 16x9 (X-Box) with a component connection of course. This TV is the one for you if you have the room and do not feel like spending over 2 grand for the same quality picture.
For just over a grand, none better November 15, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like most, I spent many months reading reviews and researching big screens. I only had about $1,500 to spend and was looking to purchase a used or refurbed Samsung DLP in the 50" range. Then I saw this one for $1,000 (including stand) and decided that this was too good an offer to pass up. Thank you, Sam Walton!
After a quick side-trip to Radio Shack for cables to hook-up the HTS and DVD, it was back to the house for the unveiling. It took two people to get it up the stairs to my apartment, but only because of the bulkiness of the box. The TV itself is a featherweight. In fact, the stand weighs almost as much as the TV!
After about 2 hours of assembly and hook up, I stood back to take a look at this thing. My first impression was, "Wow, that's big!" I was initially concerned that it might not be big enough. But on the stand, this TV will dominate a large to medium sized room. My living room is about 300 square feet and this thing is definitely the 800-lb gorilla. The great thing about it is that it's almost all screen. Samsung is well-known for their ability to maximize viewing area. Also, it's not very deep (less than 2 feet), so there is the possiblity that it may one day fit into a standard entertainment cabinet (I can dream, can't I?).
Since I already had a prog scan DVD player and digital cable, I was anxious to see how this hulking beast was going to stand up against my old, standard view CRT. I popped in everyone's favorite TV/DVD/HTS testing movie, Jurassic Park, and flipped ahead to some of the better scenes. It took another 30 minutes of tweeking the color, contrast and brightness, but pretty soon I had an amazingly clear, vibrant image of rampaging dinosaurs on the screen.
The auto-focus feature is a nice feature for your grandmother, but for anyone serious about their movie watching, it's a bit of a joke. Definitely take the time to manually converge the lamps. Although it doesn't say so in the manual, it's best to start in one corner and make your way around the perimeter, spiraling inward as you go. Also, view each crosshair at precicely eye level, and as close to the screen as possible. If you can make the colors line up fairly close when you're a couple inches away, it should be just fine when your sitting 8 feet back.
The Verdict: At just north of $1,100 (which includes the stand and all the additional connecting cables), this HDTV is a tremendous buy. Picture quality on DVD and HDTV is great. The sound output is pretty good (although any decent HTS will put it to shame). Normal television is fair at best, so just know that going in. Picture quality for lo-def channels is somewhat pixelated and small text is blurry. But if you are like me and do not watch much cable or network television, then it really won't matter. Besides, if you're watching HGTV or Oprah, how much definition do you really want!
If you're a die hard must-see-TV person, you may be better off getting a large Sony CRT or spending the extra $2,000 on a higher-end flat panel or DLP. However, if you are a moviephile who occasionally loves to watch Monday Night Football in high-def, you will be very, very pleased. With its 16:9 native viewing ratio and integrated HD tuner, you definitely won't regret this purchase.
 OK TV August 11, 2005
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
After getting this TV home and making all the tweaks possible to get the best performance possible from this TV, I was left very dissapointed. Picture is very grainy while viewing some HD broadcasts even with a maximum reception signal. Left speaker is rattling even with low volume. Auto-convergence and manual convergence have not been able to correct over-lapping blues during adjustments and during graphics while watching TV. I have been very detailed to manually correct this problem but have had no luck. I think that I might have purchased a faulty unit. Overall, I would not recommend this model because the quality of HD does not look any better than a standard analog TV. My 6 year old Sony 27" has better picture quality than this TV.
Great picture at a great price - but you have to work for it. December 14, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As other reviews have indicated, the auto focus does not live up to expectations. You can spend time manually converging the blue and red, but no matter what you do, it will only remain converged while the TV is at its current temperature. If you shut it down, let it cool down, then let it warm up again, most likely the convergence will have shifted. This is why the auto focus runs automatically (unless you disable it) a couple times as the TV warms up. I don't have an HDTV input source, so I can't comment on how that might look. You can get the picture looking really great when playing DVDs once the convergence and colors are set. I recommend using good cables and the component inputs for the DVD player. I have a non-HDTV Dish Network receiver (might to have to see about an upgrade) plugged into the SVHS port, and the picture is quite good (in fact the picture is clear enough that you start to see flaws in the digital compression). I really enjoy watching DVD movies in 16:9 ratio, but when I have to watch anything but widescreen DVDs, all my input sources are 4:3, which on this TV brings me to my biggest gripe. When watching a widescreen TV in 4:3 mode, of course there is dead space to fill to the left and right of the picture. This is expected, but on this TV the dead space is projected in a light grey color. This annoys me. I would give this TV a higher rating if the dead space was black. Once I have the picture adjusted just right, a good DVD action movie with lots of explosions going on and the stereo and subwoofer cranked up, it is quite blissful...
From a Students Point of view January 11, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We all know rear CRT projection is not in anymore...it's about microdisplay, plasma, and LCD. I live with my parents, and all I have to say is "Wow! this widescreen tv fits in my room" it's truly not the best...but I'm real happy with it rather it's in SD or HD even sometimes when it's in EDTV. I had a 20" CRT but it was time for the Samsung 43"... In my room 43" of tv is damn sexy. Samsung in know for it's clarity; I play Call of Duty 2 on Xbox360 all the time and I love it.
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