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Samsung LN40A650 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV With RED Touch Of Color
 
List Price: $1,899.99  Product Description: 40" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * Touch of Color high-gloss "rose black" finish * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners for over-the-air TV broadcasts (antenna required) * built-in QAM cable TV tuner receives unscrambled programs without a set-top box (cable service required) * Ultra Clear LCD panel (1920 x 1080 pixels) * Amazon.com Product Description--March 24, 2008: Samsung adds a Touch of Color to a blazing-fast 4ms response time and rich connectivity features to redefine the role HDTVs play in the home with its forward-looking Series 6 (A650) and Series 7 (A750) LCD HDTVs. Utilizing the award-winning technologies found in all Samsung HDTVs, Series 6 and 7 HDTVs deliver unparalleled picture quality and enhanced connectivity and networking capabilities that create a true entertainment hub for any home. Series 7 takes networking and multimedia management to a whole new level. Consumers can easily enjoy MPEG and JPEG files stored on external devices by connecting through a side-mounted USB 2.0, turning their LCD into a full-scale home viewing gallery, or connect their MP3 players for a dynamic audio experience.
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What's New? | Samsung’s Series 6 marks the first appearance of TOC (Touch of Color) design in the 2008 LCD HDTV line-up. Inspired by designs from the automotive and fashion industries, Samsung’s unique unique Transparent and Opaque Color molding process creates a clean, smooth finish infused with a hint of a translucent color during the manufacturing process for an ultra-sleek appearance. |  |
InfoLink
 | Up-to-the-minute access to weather, news, sports and stock information is just a cable and a click away through the HDTV’s Ethernet port and new InfoLink RSS service. An all-new user interface with digital contents management guide provides intuitive navigation and access to both internal and external content. |
Auto Motion Plus 120Hz
 | This technology doubles the frame rate from 60 to 120 frames per second (120Hz LCD panel) without repeating the same image to make more frames. Instead, the TV intelligently calculates the ‘middle’ image between frame A and frame B and inserts it in between (Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processor), making a fluid transition from one frame to the next. |  |
Super Clear Panel
 | Samsung enhances the clarity of select LCD HDTVs by replacing the light-diffusing plastic face of traditional LCD HDTVs with a natural black panel with a clear anti-glare shield. Reduced reflection of external light creates a new dimension in image clarity, highlighting black and darkened areas, enabling vibrant, more compelling colors and a brighter, clearer picture. Black will never again appear grayish. Black details will show in vivid black even in dark scenes. The latest version of Samsung’s breakthrough super clear panel technology makes colors appear more vibrant and blacks even deeper than ever. Enhanced films reduce glare and optimize off-angle viewing. |  |
50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/500 nit Brightness
 | 50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a picture better than you ever thought possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung’s new LCD TV’s give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever. |
Full HD 1080P
 | Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. The new Samsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HDTVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable. Samsung’s 1080p panel uses a new high-speed liquid crystal to cut response time to 4ms. The fast response time, coupled with Samsung’s Auto Motion Plus 120Hz motion blur reduction technology dramatically reduces motion blur and judder. |  |
Digital Natural Image Engine
 | DNIe™ The Samsung Digital Natural Image engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces. |  |
Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Flourescent Lamp
| The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72% of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlights to give you 92% coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors. Samsung’s exclusive Wide Color Enhancer technology delivers more brilliant colors, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system displays wider color reproduction, showing you truer colors – the fresh green of spring foliage, the intense blue of the summer sky. | |||
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Connectivity
 | To make the Series 6 a true entertainment hub for any home, Samsung has incorporated advanced HD connectivity and networking capabilities that expand the HDTV’s functionality. A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the four Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one on the side), and the handy HDMICEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the 2 rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV. Once connected, users can easily access device menus and manage and display content through the newly redesigned Wheel Key Remote control and the HDTV’s sophisticated content management interface. All Connections
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Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
  | You already know something about digital living. There’s the TV and digital video recorder in your family room. (And another set in your bedroom.) You have a PC and digital printer in your office, along with a network attached storage device. And you’ve copied all your music onto your portable music player and haven’t had to open a CD case for years. But getting them to talk to each other can be pretty tough. Why is it still so difficult to send digital content from one device to another? Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a collaboration of the world’s leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile companies that has created design guidelines for a new generation of products that can work together — no matter the brand. Think for a moment about all of the photos "locked away" on your home PC that you wish you could access while entertaining your friends and family. Now, thanks to DLNA enabled devices, a DLNA-enabled PC can be accessed from the comfort of your living room or family room via a DLNA-enabled HDTV, where you can enjoy your memories with friends and family, without having to deal with the hassle and non-intuitive "PCexperience". Or, say you recently downloaded your daughter’s birthday party video from your digital camcorder to your PC. Now you want to share it with your parents who are visiting. Without DLNA, you probably have to burn a DVD of the video or hook up the camcorder to the TV. With DLNA, you can just use your TV’s remote to call up the video on your TV. That’s it. |
Super Patterned Vertical Alignment
 | Samsung’s Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes |
Audio Features
TruSurround is a patented SRS technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content over two speakers. TruSurround delivers a compelling, virtual surround sound experience through any two-speaker playback system, including internal television speakers and headphones. It is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. High-quality virtual surround sound can be experienced with just the two hidden, downward-firing side-mounted 2.2-channel dome speakers built into the TV.SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass.
TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.
- Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper.
- TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself.
- The SRS WOW feature widens the soundstage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system.
Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?
 | With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience.
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- Series 6 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 22-inch, 32-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch models (model numbers LN19A650A, LN22A650A, LN32A650A, LN40A650T, LN46A650T, LN46A650T and LN52A650T).
- Series 7 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch (model numbers LN40A750T, LN46A750T and LN52A750T)
Customer Reviews:
Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-08
Picture is great; Audio Solutions, not so much.
Let me start of by saying I also did a lot of research and though this may not be the best "bang for your buck tv" it certainly gets you into that 95% stratosphere (that extra 5% being the loss of the bang for buck). The picture is wonderful. Blacks are extremely improved over my HDTV of 2 gens ago. There are tons of options (and I haven't even been into the super technical menu you have to boot into) to adjust the picture to your liking. It shipped quickly and Amazon had the best price around and did the 30 day price match (dropped $65 in those 30 days) without complaint.
The only small annoyance I have found is that the TV will not pass 5.1 sound from HDMI inputs out of its optical output. It will give you 5.1 from the antenna/cable, but will not pass 5.1 (reverts to stereo) from anything else plugged in via HDMI. This seems to largely defeat the purpose of HDMI carrying both video and audio. So the only option you are left with is to: A. buy a HDMI receiver, which negates the benefit of having 4 HDMI ports on your TV, or B. Buy a whole bunch of ridcoulus wires and splitters and whatnot to send the video via HDMI to your TV and the Audio via optical or another HDMI to your current receiver. I am slightly buggered on that point, but I have read that it has something to do with the movie industry lobbying to have it that way for some odd reason, and it is not, technically, Samsungs fault. Still, it detracts from the experience for those of us who have older/simpler receivers without HDMI inputs, and for those of use that do, makes the four HDMI ports somewhat of a "Why am I paying for these?" quandary.
Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-07
Best HDTV I've Seen - AWESOME PQ
As others have commented, this is the TV to beat. After researching all the major 1080p 120hz TVs currently on the market for comparison, I came to the conclusion that this model is the best, IMHO. But things got better when I got this baby delivered via CEVA and hooked it up to an upconverting BDP-1500 player: my Blu-ray discs look perfect, my new DVDs look amazing, but the killer is that my old DVDs (5 or more years old), look incredible (Day of the Jackal, for example, looks better than I ever thought it could). I am 100% satisfied with this TV.
Rating:
Date: 2008-07-07
Beaufiful picture, easy to use
The picture quality is just breathtaking! The menu structure is very user friendly and customizable. I have a satellite dish and it is easy to switch between inputs. I like the 120hz feature because there is no blurring in action scenes. I checked C-net for reviews and that is why I was willing to pay a premium for this TV.
Rating:
Date: 2008-07-07
Excellent TV
After shopping around for months and trying several different TVs, I finally settled on this one. It produces the best picture on the market, IMO. 120hz is only useful if you have Blu-Ray. If you do not have Blu-Ray, then you'd be better off buying a standard 1080p TV. For those who have Blu-Ray, the 4ms response time and 50,000:1 contrast ratio are unrivaled. The only other TV that comes close is the LG Scarlet, which I find bulky and odd-looking, but which does offer more input/output options. The sound is really quite remarkable for standard TV sound. I don't use the TV sound, though, as I run everything through home theater. All the other reviews about picture quality are dead-on. The clarity, sharpness, color depth, and resolution are unbelievable. The only fault I find with this TV is the glossy finish. The high gloss screen coating can catch a pretty good glare. The auto shut-off problem has been fixed now and should no longer be a concern. For those who have Blu-Ray or who will soon be upgrading to Blu-Ray, this TV is a no-brainer, especially for the price.
Rating:
Date: 2008-07-03
An excellent television.
Pros: Picture quality is superb. The plethora of inputs is most welcome.
Cons: The Touch of Color "feature" is slightly distracting. Black, silver, pick one please.
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