Customer Reviews for Samsung - 55" Class (54-5/8" Diag.) - LED - 1080p - 120Hz - Smart - HDTV
Customer Rating
1
Truly disappointed
on March 28, 2011
Posted by: MyBad
from chicago
Expertise:Intermediate
Recently purchased two 55" LCD/LED TV,s. One a Samsung UN55C6300SF, the other, a popular brand commonly found at warehouse clubs. In a side by side comparison, the "other" brand blows the Samsung away. Not only is the price difference substanial but the ease of use out of the box is worlds apart. If your a "techie" perhaps you can achieve the same picture quality with the Samsung as the "other" brand, but how many people have the time or ability to perform the required Samsung tweaks.
Pros: Lightweight
Cons: Did not meet expectations, poorly written manual
After doing tons of homework and weighing functionality against affordability, we finally decided upon this TV. It is absolutely spectacular in what it is designed to do. Obviously you get what you pay for. In this economy our family does not go out as much (to movies, etc) so we justified buying this huge TV. It was not a bad decision by any means, we really enjoy watching it. In fact, I can't believe we were ever content to watch anything else. Once you've seen a movie on this thing in 120 hz auto motion and all the other jargon, there is NO going back. That said, there are a couple of things that are somewhat annoying (as I said before, you get what you pay for), this TV, being LED edge lit, has problems with keeping up with fast action, especially in dark areas. There is ghosting that is almost distracting. Also, because the TV is not full array (a term I completely understand now) you get untrue and uneven blacks resulting in ghosting. Interestingly, when you watch an actors eyes in a dark scene in "smooth" mode, their eyes seems to move independant from the rest of their head. Difficult to explain, you have to see it - bottom line is it is distracting. Fortunately you can fine tune the auto motion and that problem goes away. Another annoying factor is that the ethernet connection would have you believe that it is all ready to hook up to the internet - or at very least be able to stream from a video server via ethernet. No, it does not. Apparently the only reason for the ethernet connection's existence is merely to download upgrades via internet. Who cares about that?! That's not a feature! That's like a car cigarette lighter with gold filament. Fortunately you can purchase media players that do this kind of thing and use the TV for what it is designed for - awesome movie viewing for the entire family. Overall, I am very pleased with the purchase.
Ok, this TV absolutely ROCKS in picture quality. The first day we had it, we popped "Alice in Wonderland" in the Blu-Ray player, and were completely blown away! It's like you're in the movie itself! Motion & colors are crisp and clear! This put our old LCD to shame!
The ONLY complaint I have is the sound. I know you can't put big speakers in an LED display, but on most TV shows, I have to crank the volume past 50 to hear it well. I've messed with the different sound settings, and nothing seems to help. So, I'm going to route the sound out via optical to our surround sound system to take care of the problem.
Overall I could not be happier with this system! I paid less for it than I did for our 46" LCD purchased 4 years ago. Samsung definitely has a winner here!