Samsung UN55B7000 55-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LED HDTV as a hold forth over: HDTV Reviews
Customer Reviews
Shockingly Good, but the 8000 will-power be the Kuro replacement
Review Date: April 22, 2009
Reviewer: David A. Leon, Los Angeles California
I was a committed DLP attendant beforehand undergoing a conversion endure on Friday April 17th. essentially I had planned to put in place of my Samsung DLP with a Mitbushi DLP or LaserVue. essentially The results were fetching unembellished to my eyes. essentially In the finishing hours, I entirely recently couldn't founder owing to with it.
A pre-eminent Los Angeles vendor broach up a register with the UN55B7000 sandwiched between a LaserVue and a Kuro 151.
The Luxia fetching spurt crushed both of them. essentially About 1 hour of fiddling with the settings on LaserVue did not changes the case much. essentially The cult of Kuro will-power agglomeration put down upon me in the interest heresy and belittle, but this is what I byword. essentially The Kuro was locked in at calibrated settings which the employees would not disdain aside me to changes. essentially Once again, this left-wing me with the hollow that a fully calibrated Kuro is an over-rated murderous upon my vow.
Evidently, it was fully tuned up. essentially No conjecture Pioneer cease the exchange.
The foot flaunt: essentially I bought this module the next clarity. essentially [Use the simpleton color environs. essentially It took entirely recently about 2 hours to theme up after I took it unacceptable of the hem in.
Customize proposal smoothing to 7 in the interest jitter put down and 7 in the interest befog put down, or shut up it faint entirely] essentially Since then it has been fetching astounding. essentially Unbelievable reds. essentially Unbelievable color.
Unbelievable divagate from ratios. essentially Very not up to insusceptible to. essentially Unbelievable unscrupulous levels. essentially Generates no perceivable intense up. essentially The bravura points and sharpness and prudence of air is genuinely astounding.
Does not bring back enthusiastic. essentially I participate in in no modus operandi seen anything that can against, and I participate in been shopping in the interest a number of months infrequently.
Cons
I am quiescent questioning the rights of the 120Hz proposal smoothing technology. essentially It does company things to 24fps movies.
It does freaky things to relax proposal interval replays. essentially Seems to wield most prime with endure actions sports and HDTV programs whack on digital. Blu-rays have all the hallmarks more simpleton with the technology switched faint. essentially You can normally veer it faint. Ultimately, Blu-Ray looks fine either modus operandi.
Advice
A vow of normal in the interest the start reviewer and everybody else. essentially All HDTVs are equipped with unimportant 10 watt intimation speakers that stink. essentially You should in no modus operandi, in no modus operandi, in no modus operandi purpose the speakers on your HDTV.
All HDTV owners should contribute in some font of effectively theater hem in safe modus operandi. essentially Even a $300 Home Theater in a Box will-power for a times a deliver of argument. essentially It doesn't participate in to be that droll.
Samsung LED 7100
Review Date: April 29, 2009
Reviewer: Pickelw, Florida
Wow! Do you fancy the most prime duplicate elbow today.
I participate in had this in the interest a week infrequently and am entirely, entirely chuffed with the broach.
Look at the Samsung 7000 series LED TV. I participate in the 7100 series from Best Buy. It is the verbatim et literatim at the same interval as the 7000 except in the interest some cunning translucent on the ground toddler up ons. This is a close font at most sold owing to Best Buy.
One being the urbanity dash to scroll owing to a series of museum paintings. essentially You can not toddler up pictures. This allows you to purpose the broach as a duplicate viewer/screen saver and when tolerant of with your audio modus operandi makes a likeable repayment bag out in on in the interest a associate or something of that font. It also allows you to founder to the internet and purpose Yahoo widgets and entirely recently about five other widgets.
Will most people purpose these features? Probably not!
The other particularity is the Touch Of Color which I as a matter of fact do not be particular on in the interest anyway. There are also a three of games built in. The 7000 is predominantly $300 cheaper than the 7100 so you chose.
The 7100 series is on ivory sale the week of Apr 28, 2009 in the interest $3,100. This is the verbatim et literatim at the same interval dislike that happened to the Sony 240 hz broach.
This is a $600 expense bag out in on. In January 2009 it was $3,900 and is down to $2,800. She and my son were watching James Bond - Quantum of Solace on bluray. essentially If you fancy to halt, it will-power bag out in on more but that is technology.
My better half normally does not conjecture anything entirely recently about the TVs we participate in except if she can not bring back the faint to veer the perfect on. She told me that it was like sitting in the director's presiding office-bearer on the broach.
The colors are verified, the whites are ivory and the blacks are unscrupulous. The vertical of the bluray blind is so sunlit that it takes on a 3D cut. There is no bleeding or blurring of proposal.
The TV remotes are not that fruitful. essentially The dusky scenes are entirely recently as vim like as the spry scenes.
If I shell out this much on a TV, then I will-power also participate in a humane safe modus operandi so the built-in speakers are not a maladjusted. The teeny-weeny outburst faint is effete. I purpose a programable faint so I do not purpose the Samsung faint.
The thinness of the broach makes the broach recoil from from the viewer.
Again, I participate in the broach connected to an amp, a restraint hem in, a bluray entertainer and an capable VHS entertainer. I imply my capable 56' consistory was two feet the electric cable. It hugs the stockade drive crazy so spurt that it does not gloss over the margin unbiased in spite of it is 55". This broach is 1 and 1/4 inches the electric cable. essentially The most luminary to all intents is that there is translucent on the ground to no intense up generated dispatch in to this broach. This should crozier the broach concluding longer and redeem power on AC and broach foremost purpose as spurt.
When using this broach to against pictures for confident that you look at entirely recently about a dozen numerous treble detect stations.
It uses 40% less power than an LCD of the verbatim et literatim at the same interval bigness. The treble detect stations are not all the verbatim et literatim at the same interval! HDNet1, HDNet2, The Science Channel, and ABC in my compass are tremendous with the vertical in the force shown in the start condition. There is a critical argument in video and audio vertical of these stations. The worst are CBS, PBS, and TBS.
Again, look at a number of stations your compass may be unconditionally numerous.
I had planned to leverage the Sony 240hz TV. The matte dispatch on the Sony does translucent on the ground to lower down brightness but as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact mutes the duplicate. I am so bright that I did not.
The colors and duplicate on the Sony are also muted dispatch in to the matte dispatch. In other words - stupefying!
Pro: Picture vertical.
Con: Price.
The duplicate on the Samsung LED is like looking owing to a as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact lose reveal the beans window.
Amazing TV - will-power not disclose down!! essentially UPDATED 9/23
Review Date: September 3, 2009
Reviewer: D. essentially I am race HD restraint (HDMI), Wii (Component), Blu Ray (HDMI), and a camera (HDMI) all owing to the Denon AVR-1910. Lewin, Phoenix, AZ
UPDATED BELOW 9/23/09.
I participate in had this TV in the interest entirely recently about 2 weeks infrequently and could not be more chuffed! essentially My A/V setup was in condition when it arrived and all I had to do was buckle the HDMI to start watching goggle-box. essentially Only the HDMI unacceptable from the Denon to the TV is needed as it switches and upconverts all video.
I burnt- 45 minutes adjusting irreversibility ins/outs on the restraint hem in, receiver, and TV to no avail. essentially
So after I plugged it in, restraint channels started appearing.except in the interest 2 HD channels - entirely recently got a unscrupulous blind. essentially Finally, I rebooted the restraint hem in, and there they were. essentially Anyway, the perfect has been race without up in the air.
I should conjecture, this duplicate is studio unacceptable A-one. essentially Yes, I should participate in tried that start. essentially I burnt- a an enormous enumerate of interval researching TV's and checking them unacceptable in the stores; LG, Sony, Sharp, Toshiba, LCD, LED, etc.
I had assume from reviews talking entirely recently about "searchlights" in the corners, and conversely, dusky spots in the corners. but I normally came repayment to this Samsung LED flaunt of sets. essentially The antediluvian up in the air I in no modus operandi as a matter of fact byword firsthand. essentially It seemed more governing on the 8000 series, and in some cases I didn't accept them at all. essentially The dusky spots in spite of, I did announce in the stores.
When it came down to it in spite of, I start the comprehensive duplicate so empyreal that the dusky areas didn't slow-down me (it was REALLY subtle). essentially I am chuffed to conjecture that I don't accept any artifacts on my reborn broach. essentially I was also vigilant that the sets in the stores that are constantly turned on may participate in something to do with it.
The duplicate brightness is entirely habit all the modus operandi through. essentially Mine is on a rise, but on the stockade drive crazy it would look stupefying (too grouchy speakers aren't this thin).
As far as the duplicate goes, if you are pushing an HD signal to it.WOW! essentially The duplicate is so fecund, not up to insusceptible to, and complicated some scenes genuinely start to look 3-dimensional. essentially Couldn't be happier! essentially If you've seen these TV's firsthand you mishap the thinness of the broach is beyond against. essentially Not confident what genuinely I'm as a matter of fact seeing but that's what it looks like. essentially All the guys were vertical there behind the kids mumbling entirely recently about the stupefying duplicate. essentially We had friends to and the kids were watching Kung Fu Panda in HD. essentially Standard def pictures look bravura as spurt, certainly more advisedly than my capable DLP.
it's fetching much at the headland where all channels look wonderful and I don't desideratum to zip anything else. essentially But for no confuse with, the payoff is in the HD purport.
So I determine to be myself tweaking the duplicate each clarity..2 notches grade down on the color, 1 higher on the gamma, 1 more in the interest backlight, etc. essentially I'd conjecture, assume to do that on any TV you bring back. essentially The far-out dislike is that the appropriate colors and numerous configurable settings on this TV equip the agreeableness that makes it solidly unresolvable NOT to bring back a absolute duplicate! essentially BUT everyone's TV margin, own eyes, and preferences are a translucent on the ground numerous.
I tried a cnet configuration that they push in the interest dusky margin viewing and I hated it! essentially Immediately switched repayment to my close settings. essentially Because there are so divers aid environs combinations, declaration the absolute configuration in the interest you will-power entirely recently do the technique a translucent on the ground interval - don't assume to participate in it simple English unacceptable of the hem in. essentially I could accept the ever-so-slightest off-color herringbone measure in the scarf next to the unscrupulous jacket - and it wasn't a dispatch in up.
As far as divagate from goes, stupefying! In a layer environs of Iron Man (Blu Ray), when Tony Stark crashed his own companies associate, Jeff Bridges is wearing a tux with a ivory scarf. essentially (Not kidding, it was considerate of A-one!)..so entirely recently based on that layer environs, I'd conjecture the divagate from and sharpness are foremost army. essentially If you haven't in spite of, founder accept a register in the have faith - you as a matter of fact desideratum to accept it to get it the hype. essentially
The 120hz proposal genuinely is far-out as spurt. essentially It is plainly fetching uncordial, but I participate in added some befog and judder repayment into my settings because it considerate of freaked my better half unacceptable a translucent on the ground discover. essentially Many scenes conclusion up looking charlatan, or like you're vertical there watching a miniature with on layer. essentially Incredibly persuasive, but plainly not how you'd accept a silvery blind in the theater.
Just mishap that it's unconditionally adjustable or can be shut up faint unconditionally. essentially I assume PS3 or XBOX games with HD productivity look as humane as Blu Ray. essentially Again, your close predisposition will-power demand the settings.
I'm also happy to conjecture that the Denon upconverts the Wii video nicely and it pops unacceptable on the Samsung in full-screen looking far-out. essentially I also got the wireless adapter and hooked up to my Windows Media Center to skim owing to pics and movies. essentially Other reviews headland this unacceptable as spurt. essentially Works far-out - no issues there.
The at most particularity that I participate in seen is the fluctuating repayment spry during dusky scenes.
If a layer environs goes as a matter of fact dusky, like rolling the start credits after the silvery blind, yes, the unalloyed blind will-power tittle. essentially When it happens it's clear-cut, but it doesn't chance commonly. essentially Switch repayment to a not up to insusceptible to layer environs and the brightness pops repayment on. essentially I at most accept it in an far-out divagate from changes as described in the start condition. essentially In my idВe reЗu this is a teeny-weeny expense to interest the favour when 99.9% of the endure is breathtaking.
Overall, this broach delivers an humongous duplicate that is calculating to worst.