Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great T.V.
Comment: This television is pretty good and it looks really good in my living room. It has a crisp and clear picture quality. The only thing I didn't like (which has no bearing on the T.V.), was that the guys who delivered the T.V. were a bit rude and arrived at my house about 2 hours after the four hour delivery window that they had arranged.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ultra Slim has design flaws.
Comment: If you are only concerned about the top 80% of the TV it looks good...even great but when the ESPN banner comes across the bottom it looks as if the stats are on a roller coaster. Samsung rep came out and said it was in spec??? Amazon is returning w/o cost....read other comments on eagle delivery there right on. Note: I own a 50" SAMSUNG DLP for 2 1/2 years and it is great....someone just dropped the ball on this model.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing DLP
Comment: Just got my samsung 61" last week from Amazon. I highly recommend this T.V. The picture will just blow you away with it's amazing color, clarity and black contrast. I made sure to take a ride to my local Circuit City in order to get a good comparison with other brands. The Samsung's were in a class of their own. Even compared to the Sony. The main advantage is vivid color clarity. Sports with the 1080 feed is a dream. It's like seeing the game through a luxury box at the stadium. How did we ever live with analog TV???
Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost bought this TV
Comment: I was ready to buy this TV but, based on some of the comments re bowing of the picture, I decided I'd better double check. I had already seen one in a store and was generally impressed but this reviewer mentioned that the problem was particular obvious when there was a ticker on the bottom of the screen and the content playing when I first saw the TV had not included one so it's possible I missed the problem.
This would be a showstopper for me, not merely because any perceptible distortion seems unreasonable for a TV costing over a $1000, but also because one of my main uses will be as a display for my Mac Mini HTPC which has an ever present set of icons at the bottom that would make the distortion obvious on a regular basis.
I found a local store with a set of DLP TV's nicely arrayed by size and which were playing a sports news program that periodically showed tickers at the bottom. With no tickers, they all looked pretty similar and the Samsung's picture was quite good but, much to my chagrin, when the ticker came on, the Samsung did indeed appear to be distorted at the bottom of the screen. However, rather than being bowed, it was actually tilted to the left. Since the talking heads were not tilted, it was clear this was some type of nonlinear distortion predominantly affecting the very bottom part of the screen.
None of the similar sized adjacent DLP TV's, which included Sony and Toshiba as well as the Samsung's 57" cousin, appeared to have this problem. The ticker at the bottom was completely straight on all of them.
To make sure it wasn't my imagination, I actually went and measured it against the screen. The ticker was approximately 1" from the bottom bezel on the left and 1.5" on the right so it was, unfortunately, not my imagination.
This was quite disappointing, not only because in every other respect, this TV appears to be a good value proposition, but also because I was especially looking forward to the slim depth. My entertainment center is only 17" deep and my current projection TV juts out over 5" from the front as would many of the Samsung's current competitors. This one would have fit nicely inside.
All of the similar sized TV's surrounding the Samsung had deep cabinets. However, they did have a 65" Mitsubishi with a slim cabinet. Interestingly, the Mitsubishi (Mitsubishi WD-65733 65" 1080p DLP HDTV) was not initially playing the same sports news program but rather a demo HD loop made especially for them which looked rather washed out and had poor color accuracy leaving me rather unimpressed.
I hadn't been much concerned since I wasn't looking at 65" TVs but once I started considering this as an alternative to the Samsung, I asked the sales person to switch it to show the same sports program. Instantly, the picture looked 100% better and rivaled the best of the other 50+" DLP TV's again showing how important the content is to any evaluation of a TV.
There was also a very slight amount of distortion at the bottom but much less than the Samsung ( I'm beginning to think that the manufacturers have not quite yet worked out the kinks of these huge yet ultra-slim DLPs). However, I could live with this amount in exchange for the slim depth. Of course, this TV cost a few hundred dollars more than I would have paid for the Samsung, but, as compensation, I got a bigger screen.
I would advise anyone interested in buying this TV, with concerns similar to mine, to see it in person and with the type of content that will show this problem, before making a buying decision.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Picture, But Major Flaws Including Terrible Bowing
Comment: I previously owned a 720p Sony TV and decided to upgrade....big mistake. I received this TV and have since returned it after a week. The picture is nice and pretty dang clear. The bad is that it bows. It is as if something was sitting on top of the TV pushing down to create a "bowing" effect. It is terrible when you watch movies with the wide-screen (i.e. black bars). Also, you can notice it greatly on the TV Guide channel and any other channel like ESPN or CNN with the ticker at the bottom of the screen.
Another problem that I had is that even after adjusting the colors for some time, the reds bled a little bit and were just to bright.
The good is that the TV is cheap (price) but also bad b/c it is cheap (cheap construction).
I do not recommend this TV. I have since bought a SONY SXRD 55 inch for about $150 more, and it is great.
Summary: Great T.V.
Comment: This television is pretty good and it looks really good in my living room. It has a crisp and clear picture quality. The only thing I didn't like (which has no bearing on the T.V.), was that the guys who delivered the T.V. were a bit rude and arrived at my house about 2 hours after the four hour delivery window that they had arranged.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ultra Slim has design flaws.
Comment: If you are only concerned about the top 80% of the TV it looks good...even great but when the ESPN banner comes across the bottom it looks as if the stats are on a roller coaster. Samsung rep came out and said it was in spec??? Amazon is returning w/o cost....read other comments on eagle delivery there right on. Note: I own a 50" SAMSUNG DLP for 2 1/2 years and it is great....someone just dropped the ball on this model.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing DLP
Comment: Just got my samsung 61" last week from Amazon. I highly recommend this T.V. The picture will just blow you away with it's amazing color, clarity and black contrast. I made sure to take a ride to my local Circuit City in order to get a good comparison with other brands. The Samsung's were in a class of their own. Even compared to the Sony. The main advantage is vivid color clarity. Sports with the 1080 feed is a dream. It's like seeing the game through a luxury box at the stadium. How did we ever live with analog TV???
Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost bought this TV
Comment: I was ready to buy this TV but, based on some of the comments re bowing of the picture, I decided I'd better double check. I had already seen one in a store and was generally impressed but this reviewer mentioned that the problem was particular obvious when there was a ticker on the bottom of the screen and the content playing when I first saw the TV had not included one so it's possible I missed the problem.
This would be a showstopper for me, not merely because any perceptible distortion seems unreasonable for a TV costing over a $1000, but also because one of my main uses will be as a display for my Mac Mini HTPC which has an ever present set of icons at the bottom that would make the distortion obvious on a regular basis.
I found a local store with a set of DLP TV's nicely arrayed by size and which were playing a sports news program that periodically showed tickers at the bottom. With no tickers, they all looked pretty similar and the Samsung's picture was quite good but, much to my chagrin, when the ticker came on, the Samsung did indeed appear to be distorted at the bottom of the screen. However, rather than being bowed, it was actually tilted to the left. Since the talking heads were not tilted, it was clear this was some type of nonlinear distortion predominantly affecting the very bottom part of the screen.
None of the similar sized adjacent DLP TV's, which included Sony and Toshiba as well as the Samsung's 57" cousin, appeared to have this problem. The ticker at the bottom was completely straight on all of them.
To make sure it wasn't my imagination, I actually went and measured it against the screen. The ticker was approximately 1" from the bottom bezel on the left and 1.5" on the right so it was, unfortunately, not my imagination.
This was quite disappointing, not only because in every other respect, this TV appears to be a good value proposition, but also because I was especially looking forward to the slim depth. My entertainment center is only 17" deep and my current projection TV juts out over 5" from the front as would many of the Samsung's current competitors. This one would have fit nicely inside.
All of the similar sized TV's surrounding the Samsung had deep cabinets. However, they did have a 65" Mitsubishi with a slim cabinet. Interestingly, the Mitsubishi (Mitsubishi WD-65733 65" 1080p DLP HDTV) was not initially playing the same sports news program but rather a demo HD loop made especially for them which looked rather washed out and had poor color accuracy leaving me rather unimpressed.
I hadn't been much concerned since I wasn't looking at 65" TVs but once I started considering this as an alternative to the Samsung, I asked the sales person to switch it to show the same sports program. Instantly, the picture looked 100% better and rivaled the best of the other 50+" DLP TV's again showing how important the content is to any evaluation of a TV.
There was also a very slight amount of distortion at the bottom but much less than the Samsung ( I'm beginning to think that the manufacturers have not quite yet worked out the kinks of these huge yet ultra-slim DLPs). However, I could live with this amount in exchange for the slim depth. Of course, this TV cost a few hundred dollars more than I would have paid for the Samsung, but, as compensation, I got a bigger screen.
I would advise anyone interested in buying this TV, with concerns similar to mine, to see it in person and with the type of content that will show this problem, before making a buying decision.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Picture, But Major Flaws Including Terrible Bowing
Comment: I previously owned a 720p Sony TV and decided to upgrade....big mistake. I received this TV and have since returned it after a week. The picture is nice and pretty dang clear. The bad is that it bows. It is as if something was sitting on top of the TV pushing down to create a "bowing" effect. It is terrible when you watch movies with the wide-screen (i.e. black bars). Also, you can notice it greatly on the TV Guide channel and any other channel like ESPN or CNN with the ticker at the bottom of the screen.
Another problem that I had is that even after adjusting the colors for some time, the reds bled a little bit and were just to bright.
The good is that the TV is cheap (price) but also bad b/c it is cheap (cheap construction).
I do not recommend this TV. I have since bought a SONY SXRD 55 inch for about $150 more, and it is great.
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