Very good value if you don't require service.
Written: Dec 10 '06
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Pros: Excellent price, very good image quality
Cons: TV doesn't come properly calibrated.
1-800-SAMSUNG is kind of useless.
The Bottom Line: Just make sure, the TV image quality will looks for you, if you don't bother for a concave image in 4:3, this TV is for you.
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| castortiu's Full Review: Samsung HL-S5687W 56 in. HDTV DLP TV |
I bought this TV and the image quality is really good, also the price is very competitive. The way how the TV shows the whites and black are incredible. Nice menus although some of them are difficult to find. I used to have other HDTV (rear projection via 3 CRTs, they are not manufactured anymore because are too big and deep, and the contrast image is not good), and in this one I have a lot of troubles to setup the CC properly. In my old HD TV, I used to setup the CC and that’s it. Here is like they have to be set in my cable box and also in the TV, kind of weird. Also they appears on Capital letter when never was like that on my old TV.
I bought the TV two weeks ago, and it came with 4 problems.
1 – The DMD looks like it has one death pixel. From Texas Instruments (DMD manufacture) 1 or 2 death pixels are inside the standard. (Anyway you don’t notice it at least you have a static clear image).
2 – “Tilt” is no properly set, the image is rotated may be 1 or 2 degrees clockwise, no big deal if you see full screen, but you can notice when you put a 4:3 or 16:9 movie.
3 – Blue channel is out of convergence in the left-bottom portion of the screen, you can notice because white image produce a blue shadow, I use CC to watch TV at night because I have two small kids, and the CC with the blue shadow on the bottom-left makes me feel dizzy after a while.
4 – The image is concave when you see a 4:3 image, this is called
“Pincushion distortion” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincushion_distortion and really you can notice when you set the TV on 4:3.
I called 1-800-SAMNSUNG for a technician to come to calibrate the TV and fix the problems from 2 to 4 and they derived me to a third party company which were supposed to call me inside 72hs and they didn’t, which so far they threat me not good and gave me a schedule appointment for 8 days later. (Will see how it goes)
I was reading a lot about the DLP/DMD and looks like the Pincushion distortion is a serious problem for the DMD chips for DLP TVs when they show the image on 4:3, and most of the cases this problem cannot be eliminated from the TV. I’m waiting for the technician, and confirm if this is a fact, if that is true then DLPs TV will leave a really bad feeling taste in my mouth, and I’ll see what I do with the TV because it is really noticeable.
In 4 or 5 years every broadcast signal will be 16:9 but now I have a cable with more than 400 channels and may be just 10% are 16:9 the rest is 4:3, that’s mean normally I have to see a image that doesn’t looks good, which make you evaluate that I paid a lot of money for a TV, just to watch a image that looks like the TV is broken.
If that is a fact in my personal opinion is that DLP still is not prepared for the public. But so far every technology has a problem.
Plasma: Will burn in 5 years.
LCD: The grid between pixels is really noticeable.
DLP: Pincushion distortion, not native support 1920x1080 (it is emulated via “wobulation”), many mechanical parts, and you have to watch the TV for a couple days before you get used to the “noise” behind you eyes. (This is not a image noise) but is some strange feeling that bother your eyes, after a couple days that feeling is gone, this is probably because of the color wheel spinning and switching back and forth between the 5 colors.
If you can wait to buy a HDTV, then wait one more year, I’m sure every technology will fix the his own big issues…
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 1827
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