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This is a big TV!
I had a beautiful Sony WEGA 40 inch picture tube TV. But I wanted to go bigger. This 63 inch Samsung Plasma TV seemed to fit the bill. Amazon was offering free up-scaling DVD player with the purchase of a new Samsung TV. No sales tax, free delivery, what could go wrong? Everything. I didn’t read the fine print that I had to purchase the TV from Amazon not through Amazon. I used an Amazon reseller OneCall. I cancelled the DVD player and emailed Amazon to ask why it wasn’t free. I was very impressed to get an answer back in 10 minutes explaining that because I picked a reseller (cheaper price) that I wasn’t qualified for the Amazon offer. I have to admit that I love Amazon.com. I am a long time faithful fan. OneCall was also great. They gave me a 30 minute window for delivery. I work 15 minutes from home and they agreed to call me at work 30 minutes before the truck arrived. This is a 200 pound TV so I had to find a stand/table to hold it. That was not easy so keep that in mind. Had to line up help to get TV carried upstairs and carry old 350 pound Sony TV downstairs. Hooked up my cable and turned it on and was very disappointed with the picture. And I mean very disappointed since the Sony TV always had a beautiful picture. I don’t have digital Cable. I have only the basic plan. And what I did not realize until then, is that if you try and stretch a 480i analog signal to fit a large (in my case 63″) screen it will not look good. For 30 minutes I changed channels and got more and more depressed. I then hooked up this little 3 foot antenna wire to the TV antenna input and was surprise to see almost 40 channels show up. Including about a dozen digital ones. Some in 1080i. And that is when I fell in love with this TV. All the digital channels looked great and the 1080i ones were unbelievable. Now I have an antenna on the roof. My wife and I were watching CSI in 1080i the other night and had to turn our heads when they were doing an autopsy and cutting open a body. The picture details were so vivid it was unreal. Even the 480i digital channels look very good. We are very happy with this TV. It has picture in picture which is a feature we wanted and not all plasmas we looked at seem to have. In February 2009 all over-the-air broadcasts will be digital so all 40 stations will come in clear. One advantage of digital broadcasts is it either comes in perfect or it doesn’t come in. No snow, or lines, or weak reception. I recommend this Samsung TV but only if you get some sort of digital service to go with it. We are shopping for a Blue-Ray player, and will eventually sign up for one of the digital satellite services with a DVR.
Great TV - Great Price
Fantastic TV and fantastic service from Amazon. Best price to boot! Delivery was quick and well ahead of the estimated scheduled time. The only negative issue I have about the delivery was that only one delivery person showed up and I had to help carry the TV upstairs to the media room on the second floor.
Which brings me to the only negative issue with the TV - it’s heavy at 195 pounds! Otherwise the TV is great. Hookup to my home theater was a breeze and the picture out of the box is perfect. I may forgo calibrating it - it’s that good.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:10 am
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