| I have to echo Bearcat's rating as he is very | | | | upgrading from a 55" CRT-based TV, and |
| thorough and accurate, but I want to throw my 2 | | | | watching this TV, for me, is like watching TV for |
| cents in. When coupled with Samsung's own | | | | the first time. The major selling point on this TV |
| super-slim wall mount, which is just a glorified | | | | over Samsung's similar 55" offerings is the |
| cable hanging on two sturdy disks, the TV sits | | | | local-dimming feature. Many HDTV's I've seen |
| amazingly close to the wall. Another neat feature | | | | over the years simply adjust the entire backlight |
| that I found hard to believe--When watching | | | | to achieve deeper blacks and brighter whites, but |
| movies from an external hard drive, the TV can | | | | they simply can't do both at the same time. |
| read a large variety of video CODECs. | | | | It is very distracting for me to watch the |
| It can read MP4, AVI, WMV, and MPG files. I'm | | | | backlight on those TV's ratchet up and down |
| not sure about the Audio support, but I haven't | | | | while watching a scene with a varying brightness. |
| had any luck finding a movie file that I have that | | | | This is where the local dimming feature comes in. |
| won't play right off an external USB hard drive. | | | | This TV can do both bright and darks, at the |
| The TV also has about 1GB of internal storage to | | | | same time! I have waited for many years to find |
| keep files on. | | | | an TV that isn't distracting to watch. |
| All the Widgets are slow, but they are sill usable | | | | My wait was over with the release of the Sony |
| with the exception of the Video-based widgets, | | | | XBR8, but it wasn't as affordable as I'd like. Once |
| which I find way too slow to load to be of any | | | | I saw the crisp visual quality of the Samsung |
| use. I'd rather power up my computer if I'm going | | | | 8000 series, and read of the local dimming |
| to be doing any internet-based activities. | | | | feature of the SAMSUNG UN55B8000 LED, I was |
| Of course, I'd be remiss not to mention how | | | | sold on this TV and I ordered it without even |
| amazed I am with the picture quality. I'm | | | | sampling the picture. I could not be happier. |