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Customer Reviews
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Nice picture, lots of settings.
Good product, and delivery service. Picture is good on HD channels and best when using the HDMI connection. Suggest you purchase a good quality HDMI connection cable. I am connected to a cable service and the box provides the HDMI as an option for connecting to the TV. There are many settings that can be utilized and I am at a loss as to which settings work best. I simply find a setting I like for a particular type of program. The documentation that comes with the TV doesn't give much help with settings other than to define what they are.
Overall I am very satisfied with my purchase and the service from Amazon. Watching HD is great, now I hope more programing will be HD in the future. Looking forward to football season!
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What do owners mean by "great" color ????
When you see a digital tv in a typical showroom, you're watching a set configured for juiced-up color, pushed reds, artificial edge enhancement, and the kind of comic book/screensaver imaging preferred by today's consumers with an uneducated eye for accuracy. But Samsung advertises the benefits of over 20 picture and color controls that allow you to customize and calibrate this set to NTSC color specs (NOTE: "ATSC" is a transmission spec that has nothing to do with image color. All SD and HDTV images are still broadcast and manufactured by NTSC and D65 color specs. The NTSC spec for SD color is Rec.601, for HD and BluRay it's Rec.709. This set's RGB offset and gain supposedly support both standards). But once this set was shipped and set up, it was immediately apparent that factory settings would put green streaks in Marilyn Monroe's platinum blonde hair, and dark actors like Morgan Freeman had cheery-red skin that looked as if Morgan hadn't washed off all the green and blue war paint he wore in a previous movie somewhere. Shadows were purple, green, or red, never black or gray. I used a pro-grade colorimeter and calibration software to tweak this set's picture controls (the user-provided RGB setups are the same as those in the set's Service Menu). Test patches revealed severe color errors in the PN42A450's decoder and some really screwy manipulations by the Chroma processor, especially at low IRE's. These appear to be the same decoder and chroma chip Samsung has used for years, and they have the same color problems I used to see on older Samsung CRT's. I paid $$$ to a certifed ISF tech to look over this unit; his conclusion was that none of the A450 plasma or LCD tv's could be calibrated to D65 spec at any point, due to encoder and chroma chip problems (he was honest enough not to charge the fee for a full calibration). The settings he came up with, we both agreed, were no better than those I could have achieved on my own. It's now too late to return this product. On top of that I noted the display taking on pink streaks and smudges that won't go away; they are especially annoying in b&w movies like "Dr. Strangelove". The streaks and smudges actually come from Samsung's menu screens. The obvious and inconvenient cure: never use the onscreen menus in this tv. You can even see the smudges in color broadcasts. I suppose that people who've been watching cheap uncalibrated GoldStar CRT's for the last 25 years would consider this kind of color performance to be "great". Gosh, they say, you can count the pores and warts on faces and see the hairs in their noses. If watching pores, warts, and nose hair is your idea of home entertainment, you're welcome to it. The tv does have a very sharp image, even with SD material. But the color is ludicrous and the menu burn-in problem has largely been eliminated in competing products of this type. If you want inaccurate, exaggerrated, comic-book color and weird shadow color casts (which seem to be very popular with gamers and PC freaks), this is the product for you. But if you're used to enjoying accurate color and image depth, and don't like low-gamma clay-face effects or crimson blotches on women's chests, I suggest that you should avoid this product. I've seen cheap Walmart CRT's that don't have color problems as severe as these. Almost every digital display made today has similar problems. As for the absurd 10,000:1 contrast ratios tv makers like to advertise: the actual contrast ratio here is somewhere around 450:1, which is typical for HDTV's. For those of us who spent years enjoying the accurate images on well-made, well-calibrated CRT's, it's a sad day.
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Surprisingly Sweet Deal+++ I AM HAPPY
I actually, accidently bought this plasma Sumsung last week. I was drunk and thought I was buying a 42 inch LCD. It came and I realized it was a plasma when I was astonished by the amazing diffence. I found true that plasmas produce more descriptive and deep pictures and Samsung is the top of the line in my eyes (literally)... I've tested them all, at Circuit City, Fry's, Best Buy, Video Only and what have you not, and unless ya gettin stereoscopic then this Samsung is niceeee... My brother has an LCD and mine is better....ha ha ha... and since I bought it on here I spent dramatically less than him.....
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TV and price are great; a word of caution about free delivery
Like a few others I have read here, I am new to HDTV. I did a bit of research and narrowed my choices to this model and the Panasonic TH-42PZ85U.
I was looking at the Panasonic because initially I thought I wanted 1080p resolution, but after reading a few articles I decide I did not need it. HD cable is 720p right now and apparently will not be 1080p for some time due to bandwidth issues (although someone more knowledgeable on this topic is free to correct me on this point). And this TV is several hundred dollars cheaper than the Panasonic 1080p model. I looked at the Panasonic 720p 42 inch but that model (TH-42PX80U) does not have a PC input, which I wanted.
Anyway I went to my local Best Buy and they happened to have the Samsung PN42A450 and the Panasonic TH-42PZ85U right next to each other, and they both had a great picture. I liked the colors better on the Samsung though--they appeared richer to me.
So I went with the PN42a450 from Amazon. Best Buy's list price beat Amazon's, but when you factor in free shipping and no sales tax, Amazon had the better deal by about $70. I've had the TV for about 6 weeks now, and I love it. Baseball games and movies look great on this TV.
A few words of caution about my experience with the free shipping: you do get what you pay for. In my area at least, the company that Amazon contracted to do the delivery did not seem to have a particular specialization in electronics or TVs. The guy who delivered my tv was courteous and helpful, but did not have a high degree of knowledge about plasma TVs. First of all, it was only this one fellow win an unmarked white panel van full of boxes. He was pulling the TV out and was going to bring it into my house by himself and he was kind of awkwardly carrying it (it really is a two man job to keep it level) so I helped him carry it in. Also this TV comes in a special box that lifts off of the TV so that you don't have to lift the TV out of if. The delivery guy didn't understand this (and neither did I initially). First he was going to lay the box on its side to slide the TV out which from what I understand is not the best thing to do with a plasma TV (laying it on its side can possibly damage the huge piece of glass that makes up the screen). I didn't know much about plasmas but knew enough to stop him from doing that. Finally we cut the box apart to get to the TV, after which point I found out that the box can lift apart by itself. So I ruined the box which I could have saved to safely transport the TV if I ever need to move. Not a huge deal, but it would have been nice to keep the box.
So in summary I am happy with this purchase. The only caution is that I would advise you to be home when the TV comes in order to make sure it is taken into your house and unpacked correctly.
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Great Value!
Have had this tv for a week now. Did a lot of research and chose the plasma over LCD based on the "black" performance and faster refresh rate. We mostly watch sports and movies. 720 seemed the way to go because cable and DVD's do not support a higher resolution input. I was told you have to purchase blu-ray movies if you want 1080 feed to your tv. In the store I was not really able to detect any difference between 720 and 1080 in the 42" size screen. We are most impressed with the excellent picture quality and the price was great ($870 at circuit city). Highly recommend!
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