- 40″ 1080 HD 3D Ready LED Screen
- Freeview HD Tuner
- Built-In WiFi
- 400Hz Clear Motion Rate
- USB Playback & PVR
40″ Full 1080 HD 3D Ready LED 3DTV with Freeview HD Tuner, Built-In WiFi, SmartTV, 400Hz CMR, USB Playback/PVR & 2D-3D Conversion.
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Overall an excellent TV,
For the price this TV excels in most areas. I’ll try to summarize the best and the worst aspects (or flaws) of each major part of the TV. It’s a long review so I can give as much info (or opinion) as possible.
Design
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The TV has a narrow black bezel edging around the screen’s perimeter with a glass like edging to the bezel itself, a silver stand/base with a clear glass support stem and a very discrete Samsung logo on the bottom bezel edge. I would say the TV is stylish but classy at the same time. This TV is also incredibly thin, you’ll be amazed. No complaints on the design.
Picture Quality
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The picture clarity in HD is quite frankly incredible – on both the built in HD Freeview tuner (which works well) and from an external source such as Sky HD. My Samsung replaces a 3 year old Toshiba 1080p and I can tell you the improvement in HD picture quality (compared against my old Tosh) is very noticeable. The pictures almost jump out of the screen and have incredible detail. The blacks are much blacker, and not washed out grey like my old Toshiba, but I would say that sometimes dark scenes, in movies for example, can be a little too dark and lack detail which I cannot seem to improve. Not a major complaint more of a minor quibble. Standard definition picture quality is adequate, nothing to write home about, but it’s certainly good enough. I guess going from such incredible HD images to SD images is always going to be a disappointment.
The motion plus feature of the TV is incredible. This feature basically smooths the appearance of the video and makes the detail in moving images clearer and more detailed. Both my wife and I were amazed how everything looks more ‘real’. I’ve got to say Motion Plus takes some getting used to because it really does change the appearance of movies so that they seem different. Takes away from the character of movies perhaps – but probably more a case of motion plus takes some getting used to. Motion Plus can be disabled if preferred.
Other minor complaints about the picture quality. There seems to be minor back light leakage around the edge of the screen and very slight white clouding. It’s only noticeable when the screen is completely dark, otherwise for any lighter images you don’t see this back light leakage at all.
3D
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What can I say. 3D works, and for me I have no complaints. It’s good to be aware of a minor issue though. The active shutter 3D glasses (not included) can create a strobing effect when watching 3D TV in a bright room – whether that light source is from your house lighting or from sunlight from a window. My TV is next to the window so trying to watch 3D TV in the bright early evening sun had to be abandoned. The strobing effect was too much. Once the sun’s glare died down, later in the evening, then it wasn’t so much of a problem.
Sound
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The sound is OK. It’s not bad, it’s not the greatest. The bass is a bit thin. My Toshiba probably sounded better but I expect because the Samsung is so thin, and with the speakers behind the TV screen, then this probably affects the sound quality. There are sound modes to choose from: Movie, Music, Clear Voice, Amplify but none of them truly excel. In standard sound mode though there is the ability to change the base, treble etc but these adjustments appear as frequencies in an on-screen equalizer so it’s a case of adjust to taste if you don’t want to adopt one of the aforementioned default sound modes. There is also SRS surround sound.
Smart TV (including Samsung Apps and Web Browser)
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This is where the TV starts not to impress so much. Smart TV (or the Smart Hub) is basically a user interface from where you can access all of the internet enabled services of your TV alongside the more typical TV features such as the TV guide, favourite channels etc all in the one place. A nice interface in itself but some of the features are a bit ‘hit or miss’. The Samsung Apps such as BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, Facebook, Youtube, BBC News all work great. However that’s it really – there’s little else you’d want to make use of, so the good worthwhile apps are very thin on the ground. Hopefully more apps will be added in the future – it’d be nice to have ITV Player and 4OD but it’s a case of wait and see. There are a couple of movie streaming services in addition to Lovefilm, as well as Skype and Twitter but I haven’t used this apps so won’t comment on these.
The Web Browser is awful. I mean really awful. I’ve got a 10Mbps connection but it’s quite clear to see the web browser struggles – in that it’s slow to draw graphical images, especially web-pages with graphical backgrounds. Not only that but text entry is via the use of an on-screen mobile phone type keypad – so…
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|Excellent TV , value for money,
I got this TV yesterday. Its absolutely amazing ! The picture quality is stunning , specially for HD channels.
The 3D effect also is very clear. I got 3100GB glass’s along with this TV and they are worth.
Samsung app’s also are great. Apps such as FB, twitter, dailymotion work great.
Overall, I feel really happy to buy this TV and its value for money.
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|Stunning picture quality, and cool gadgets,
I brought this TV two weeks ago – and what I can say so far:
Pro’s
1) The picture quality is fantastic on HD
2) The sound through the speakers is good – which surprised me given how small the TV is.
3) Its a pretty nifty piece of kit hooked into your wireless network:
3a) iPlayer is great quality
3b) I hooked it up to my laptop remotely to play music and see pictures through (a bit fiddly – need to set up your laptop as a media streaming server)
3c) I can even use my iPhone as a remote control!
Cons
a) The media streaming is a bit sluggish over the wireless lan in my house (but I only really hooked it up to prove that I can)
b) Its dropped £80 in price and I’m still not glum!
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