For the past 3 years, I have hemed and hawed over getting a large flat screen TV. Each time I was about to go for one, a new model came out which I thought was so much better that I should just wait a bit more and get that new model once the price came down a little.
At a certain point the quality got so good that the next model could not offer anything that to me would be worth waiting any longer for. In store demos showed just how amazing this TV is and it in fact blew the competition out of the water. The image was just so clear and detailed, its almost unbelievable!
Amazon shipped this to us using Pilot. Never used them before but they did a wonderful job. Even came in the house, unloaded it out of the box, and took the trash away. This was important to me since I got the free shipping, I wanted to make darn sure my investment was no damaged or roughed up.
With a TV this size, normal TV viewing looks not so good to be honest. When i first hooked it up I had expected cable to look better or at least as good as it did before. We decided to add HDTV to our cable and now those channels look great.
DVD's look good too. Each is different but most we have played so far on our HDMI DVD player look wonderful.
Blu-Ray... mouth dropping amazing on this TV. Some movies look 3D they are so good. The detail just blows me away each time. I was never a big believer in blu ray to be honest but now that I have this TV and have seen the difference... I AM A BELIEVER!
PS3/Games are great on here too. We got it connected with an HDMI cable and oh man is it fun. Killzone 2 in particular is a blast on this large TV.
I do have a few cons. The TV is not wireless so you have to either run a cable for the internet or get a part for it to connect to a wireless router. Not a huge deal but is an issue for me.
Outside of running basic cable into your TV from the wall, closed captioning and picture in picture do not work. They work on the normal TV channel but if you go to HDTV both do not work. The CC does work if you have a normal box, just not an HD box. Even when watching a DVD if I want to turn on the CC from the DVD, the TV shows it in freaking huge print and cuts half of it off. We tried adjusting the screen size to no avail. I have a hearing loss so closed captioning is very important to me. I am hopefull for a software update to fix this but wont hold my breath.
The picture in picture is odd as well. It seems they only made it for the base TV with having no 'cable box' at all. So if you have cable, the picture in picture will never work for you since you.
Everything else we love about this TV. Just flat out amazing but those few items keep us from giving the full 5 stars.
Update: 9/15/2009
About a month ago the HDMI ports started to go out. Only HDMI 3 worked and the rest were dead. Samsung was quick to send a part and get a local tech to install it. It worked for about 2 weeks. Same issue all over again now. It has been 2 weeks since I contacted Samsung and I have heard nothing back from them since. I will be following up with them today and update this review again once we have a resolution.Get more detail about Samsung LN52B750 52-Inch 1080p 240 Hz LCD HDTV with Charcoal Grey Touch of Color.
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