Anyone seen the new Samsung LED TV's?

asawadude · #1 05-07-2009, 06:45 PM

I thought my Sony Bravia LCD was more than adequate until I came across the Samsung LED TV stationed conveniently at the entrance of the Fry's store.

I was pretty much blown away by the picture. It's also amazing skinny. The LCD screen uses an LED light source in of the conventional CCFL's and is noticeably brighter. As in big time brighter.

Two early reviews proclaiming the Samsung LED as the best of the LCD sets.

Gizmodo - First Hands-On of Samsung's LED Backlit HDTV LCD (Verdict: LN-T4681F Best Ever) - 1080P

Exclusive-First Revew of the Samsung LN-T4081F LED Driven LCD Flat Panel HDGURU.Com

Price: $3199 for the 55" inch including wireless and wired LAN built in. According to the sales person, it was $3799 when first introduced a month earlier, so the prices are dropping.

Sony is supposed to have an LED driven LCD out there also, but I haven't seen it. Not sure if it's out yet.

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B-Line · #2 05-07-2009, 07:50 PM

sweet looking picture radio...

vinuneuro · #3 05-11-2009, 02:25 PM

The price is pretty reasonable too.. blacks are probably as good or better than rear-projection and plasma?

AzX5 · #4 05-11-2009, 03:34 PM

Amazing HDTV. There are some imperfections noted though:

While the color, black level and overall image was excellent, the LN-T4081’s performance fell short in a number of areas, including its handling of 480i signals. The Silicon Optix HQV DVD produced a score of 0 out of 10 for the “jaggezze” test, with straight diagonal lines producing unwanted artifacts seen as a saw tooth pattern at the top and bottom of the lines. The set also failed the 3:2 pulldown test when fed standard definition 480i signals. Fortunately, with the advent of upconverting external set-top boxes (cable, satellite, surround sound receivers, scalers) and DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray players with good processing, an HDTVs ability to effectively upconvert 480i has become less important, though I would preferred that the 408i passed these tests.

Another shortcoming is the set’s tendency to occasionally cause fast moving objects to “ghost,” producing a second faint image next to the main one. This can be seen in the photos of the cars bellow. This artifact appeared whether or not the Motion Plus circuit was activated, which indicates that the problem may be with either the panel itself, or with another circuit, and not with the set’s motion blur reduction capabilities. With actual program material, the anomaly was present only occasionally and from a viewing position far closer than the maximum optimum distance of about 6 ½ feet for a display of this size.

The final shortcoming was with the set’s viewing angles. As one moves about 20 degrees off center, blacks appear lighter, whites darker and colors become less saturated. This effect is more pronounced than I have seen with Samsung’s S-PVA panels using conventional CCFL backlights. Perhaps the LEDs have lenses with their own optical properties? These “issues” were minor and far outweighed by all of the set’s positive picture attributes.

motordavid · #5 05-11-2009, 03:44 PM

About the time Sam or Sony or...get to 59/60", the bugs will be worked out and, most importantly to me, the price will be down.
Then I can lean on V to toss our 7 1/2 yr old 58" Toshiba rear projection low def TV we have here on the Mtn.

I love technology, as a low tech layman.

Few of you here would remember having to walk up and down the block, knocking on doors, asking if anyone had a television set
that one could take a look at.

Krunk Man · #6 05-11-2009, 04:55 PM

: drool:

Quicksilver · #7 05-11-2009, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by motordavid

Few of you here would remember having to walk up and down the block, knocking on doors, asking if anyone had a television set that one could take a look at.

Few is correct.
Hands up

if you remember this....

asawadude · #8 05-11-2009, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AzX5

Amazing HDTV. There are some imperfections noted though:

While the color, black level and overall image was excellent, the LN-T4081’s performance fell short in a number of areas, including its handling of 480i signals. The Silicon Optix HQV DVD produced a score of 0 out of 10 for the “jaggezze” test, with straight diagonal lines producing unwanted artifacts seen as a saw tooth pattern at the top and bottom of the lines. The set also failed the 3:2 pulldown test when fed standard definition 480i signals. Fortunately, with the advent of upconverting external set-top boxes (cable, satellite, surround sound receivers, scalers) and DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray players with good processing, an HDTVs ability to effectively upconvert 480i has become less important, though I would preferred that the 408i passed these tests.

Another shortcoming is the set’s tendency to occasionally cause fast moving objects to “ghost,” producing a second faint image next to the main one. This can be seen in the photos of the cars bellow. This artifact appeared whether or not the Motion Plus circuit was activated, which indicates that the problem may be with either the panel itself, or with another circuit, and not with the set’s motion blur reduction capabilities. With actual program material, the anomaly was present only occasionally and from a viewing position far closer than the maximum optimum distance of about 6 ½ feet for a display of this size.

The final shortcoming was with the set’s viewing angles. As one moves about 20 degrees off center, blacks appear lighter, whites darker and colors become less saturated. This effect is more pronounced than I have seen with Samsung’s S-PVA panels using conventional CCFL backlights. Perhaps the LEDs have lenses with their own optical properties? These “issues” were minor and far outweighed by all of the set’s positive picture attributes.

Is this a quote from an article or are these your words? If this is from an article, please post a link.

AzX5 · #9 05-11-2009, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asawadude

Is this a quote from an article or are these your words? If this is from an article, please post a link.

It's from your 2nd link...

acedeucy · #10 05-12-2009, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poleposition

I have the 46inch version in my bedroom. It is stunning.

Me too, un46b7000

However,
after viewing it for a while with blu ray, it makes me dizzy. It looks like you are right there in the action but a dizzy feeling comes about. Xbox and PS3 look incredible!

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