TV looks great on the wall — nice clean and simple design.
Impressive image quality when viewed straight on. The 46″ version seems to have better image quality (I know 3 people with 46″).
Terrible mini scart adapter — the standard size scart lead is always falling out of this. It’s a shame Samsung couldn’t provide a 1m or 2m length mini scart lead.
I was going to purchase a Samsung HDMI/Bluray/Hard Disk player, but reviews were very bad, and I’m not taking the chance. Damn shame, because they look good and would match the impressive aesthetics of the screen.
No problems connecting to HDMI sockets (these are physically secure unlike scart), but had a problem with sound (i.e. lack of) when connecting to (new) PC — resolved with downloaded software drivers for PC.
The ultra slim stand (not included) doesn’t allow as easy access to back as literature suggests — the angle is insufficient. Recommend a USB extension lead to access USB socket.
Unless someone can show me otherwise, there seems to be a lot of built in redundancy with the remote control and on screen interface, for me anyway, as I’m on Virgin Media, and perhaps for anyone else, as analogue TV broadcasts are being phased out. That aside, the on screen interface is great, especially the diagnostics. I was particularly taken by the sounds that play when the unit is turned on and off… the little things matter!
SAMSUNG UN55B8000 55 Inch 1080p 240Hz LED HDTV
I read most of the reviews for this TV, as it’s such an expensive purchase I wanted to make sure it would be worth the money. The only downsides to this TV that I could see were people complaining about the sound being pretty poor and that the corners of the TV when a lot of black was on the screen, showed a slight lightness. I can honestly say that after extensively looking for the corner lightness I could not find this at all.
As for the sound, I find the sound more than adequate for a TV, although anyone who has this money to fork out on this and not have surround sound kit is missing out. As for the TV itself, this is the very best picture you will see on any TV on the market. I have a friend who just purchased a new flat screen 32 inch TV and wanted me to see his blue ray play on on his new hi definition TV. As he was gleaming about how amazing his picture was, all I could think was how my picture was so much better with normal TV never mind a blue ray disc. The picture is really that good.
What I would recommend is, don’t put TV to power saving mode as you lose definition, keep setting on dynamic to get an unbelievable picture that has to be seen to be appreciated and wall mount this TV as due to its sheer size and thinness it feels like it wouldn’t take too much to pull over (within reason).
Lastly, I only bought normal DVD’S as the couple of blue rays I bought for my previous TV didn’t show much difference. When you get around to watching a Blue Ray on this TV, WOW, you wont want to buy a normal DVD ever again.
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