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Samsung Un55B7000 55 1080P Led Hdtv
Wow! Do you want the best picture available today. Look at the Samsung 7000 series LED TV.
I have had this for a week now and am very, very pleased with the set. I have the 7100 series from Best Buy. This is a special model only sold through Best Buy. It is the same as the Samsung UN55B7000 55 1080p LED HDTV except for some cute little add ons. One being the ability to scroll through a series of museum paintings. This allows you to use the set as a picture viewer/screen saver and when used with your Audio System makes a nice back drop for a party or something of that sort. You can not add pictures. It also allows you to go to the internet and use Yahoo widgets and about five other widgets. There are also a couple of games built in. Will most people use these features? Probably not!
The other feature is the Touch Of Color which I really do not care for anyway. The Samsung UN55B7000 55 1080p LED HDTV is generally $300 cheaper than the 7100 so you chose.
The 7100 series is on sale the week of Apr 28, 2009 for $3,100. This is a $600 price drop. This is the same thing that happened to the Sony 240 hz set. In January 2009 it was $3,900 and is down to $2,800. If you want to wait, it will drop more but that is technology.
My wife usually does not say anything about the TVs we have except if she can not get the remote to turn everything on. She and my son were watching James Bond - Quantum of Solace on bluray. She told me that it was like sitting in the director's chair on the set. The quality of the bluray screen is so clear that it takes on a 3D appearance. The colors are true, the whites are white and the blacks are black. There is no bleeding or blurring of motion. The dark scenes are just as life like as the light scenes.
If I spend this much on a TV, then I will also have a good Sound System so the built-in speakers are not a problem. The TV remotes are not that useful. The small round remote is useless. Again, I have the set connected to an amp, a cable box, a bluray player and an old VHS player. I use a programable remote so I do not use the Samsung remote.
The thinness of the set makes the set shrink from the viewer. I mean my old 56' cabinet was two feet deep. This set is 1 and 1/4 inches deep. It hugs the wall so well that it does not dominate the room even though it is 55". The most important part is that there is little to no heat generated by this set. It uses 40% less power than an LCD of the same size. This should help the set last longer and save power on AC and set top use as well.
When using this set to compare pictures make sure that you look at about a dozen different High Definition stations. The high definition stations are not all the same! HDNet1, HDNet2, The Science Channel, and ABC in my area are tremendous with the quality in the order shown above. The worst are CBS, PBS, and TBS. There is a big difference in video and audio quality of these stations. Again, look at several stations your area may be totally different.
I had planned to purchase the Sony 240hz TV. I am so glad that I did not. The matte finish on the Sony does little to cut down glare but really, really mutes the picture. The colors and picture on the Sony are also muted by the matte finish.
The picture on the Samsung LED is like looking through a really, really clean window. In other words - awesome!
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Will Sony repair damaged PS2's free of charge?
I was looking on the internet and found this post in a forum board. How valid is it?
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Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Michigan The way I understand it is that there was a class action lawsuit and Sony will fix them for free, even if they have been opened. You can call Sony at 1-800-345-SONY and tell them your problem. They will most likely have you run through a few steps (diagnosis). If it is something they will repair then they will let you know. You will ship it to an authorized Sony repair shop and should get it back within a week.
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It might have been valid in 1999, but it's 7 years later and a new system has been released. I very much doubt any warranty is still valid.
SONY APR-5000 APR-5003 reel to reel Tape Recorder
