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Kudos to AMAZON - as usual AMAZON ROCKS - received unit 3-days before the estimated date - with FREE shipping. When a rapid scene is displayed, the smooth, flawless picture is transformed into these large square blocks of distorted pixilation - regardless of an HD or SD signal. Needless to say, the plasma won. While watching fast motion, the pixilation is rather disappointing. Also, just an FYI - I was having issues with random bursts of brightness which a firmware upgrade totally addresses. Those random bursts of brightness no longer exist. This is a really nice TV. The down side about this unit is its refresh rate, at least I'm pretty sure that this is what's responsible for this 1, and only negative.
Although this is a minor inconvenience, in every other way the set is amazing. On one last note, I have yet to see anything displayed in 1080p so I do not know what the picture is like but I can only conclude that it would be AMAZING. Well, I struggled long and hard between a plasma and an LCD. The colors are rich and vibrant, blacks are deep and true and the menu system works really well. The menu system allows you to tweak the displays in ways that I have not seen other sets do.
I have been reading online that there is a number of these that have a similar problem. I came home to no power, no standby and barely a hope. I'm still waiting on the repair and will update on the status of how or what was wrong with it. While I do love this plasma, and it does everything I want with tonnes of inputs, clear picture etc. I must say that after owning this TV for 1 year it died. Thankfully samsung is one of the last 2 year warranty companies.
Next time, I think we'll skip the electronics store. The Samsung has the contrast to bring it out while we are squinting to see things with the Sharp.If this is fully a LCD vs Plasma issue, then our vote is entirely for the plasma.Also, the Samsung doesn't seem to pump out much heat while the Sharp pumps it out like a heater from the front of the screen.Finally, we were sold on this product at Best Buy. sound++, contrast++, color++.The most noticeable difference are dark shots. Amazon got it to us in 4 days and it only took 5 minutes to order. We bought this and the Sharp Aquos LC46D64U at the same time.The Samsung is amazing. Movies are a whole different experience from the Sharp. However, after they strung us out for 1 hour at the store (just 5 miles from our house) we were told that deliver of the item which they had in stock was going to take 3 weeks.
You wont be disappointed. PS3 and Xbox360 is breathtaking. HDTV is superb. As everyone says the only thing that its lacking is a loud-booming sound but that shouldn't stop anyone from getting it, since that's an easy fix. Bottom line is this TV is amazing in almost every way. Blue-Ray is fantastic. Haven't encountered any ghosting or burn in yet.
Anybody wanting to join to take further actions please join at: [.]. a noise comes from it and a line starts appearing from the left top corner across the screen. after 5 weeks of TV watching it cracked internally and Samsung says they won't cover it because it's physical damage even though the TV is like new, no scratches, nothing, we were just watching and puff. BEWARE.I have discovered that I'm not alone, I found more than 20 people with the same issues (only the ones that have posted comment, I'm sure there are more reading), so I'm confident it's a product defect since I did not do anything to the TV. So I bought the 50' Samsung Plasma TV after being rated #1 by Consumer Reports. guess what. so I go online and I realize that I'm not alone, many people had the same issue.
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