I had Samsung Liquid crystal display that gone bad after about Eighteen months. After months associated with research, finally purchased this TV. If you’re confused between Guided and Plasma, hands down plasma is better, picture quality is just lot better. I was lucky to view this TV as well as Samsung UN51D8000 side by side and also picture quality in this Television is so superior. Fresh high end LEDs look nice and obviously extremely thin and light. Sensible features are identical in both. However new plasmas are realistically thinner PN51D8000 and brighter. In fact this TV is thinner than my previous 2 year old LCD TV. I bought this kind of TV about a full week ago from Amazon online, sourced from Consumer electronics Expo. This is a very nice Tv set, couldnt be more content. I almost acquired Samsung LED yet thanks to visit to community BB store and thanks to salesman bought this. I am guilty that I didnt buy from BB but used their store to compare and contrast. BB was selling for almost $600 more than Amazon, it’s impossible they could price match up Amazon price
Seem: Fair. It has about 1.5 inch rim on the side and 2 inch at the bottom. Stand is nice.
Inputs: I think Several HDMI, 1 optical audio out, a single AV and one system port. If you use Wii then you use up AV port. If you have some other component output device then you will have problems
Picture: Colors tend to be near perfect using rich natural colours. Blacks are great. Didn’t notice virtually any screen imperfections. Glare is a lot lower than LED, big advantage if you have ambient light. I don’t have 3D glasses so absolutely no comments
Sound: Standard to Average. I’ve receiver with outside speaker
Setup: Selection layout is nice, just like my old Check out the. Very easy. I am but to do any tweaking. Out of the box modes are generally decent.
Smart Tv set: Nice. Since this technologies is still in its start, its not perfect. Wireless connects to home system in 10 seconds. Software is decent. Efficiency is little slow however works. Apps like You Tube are substandard, I don’t like all of them, search feature with this App is worthless, needs more function. Did not try Netflix. Hulu is OK. Web browser, functions but useless, unclear why would you desire to use browser on TV. Cleaning it once a some websites like PBSkids and Bravo and so they didnt work well. Universal search is nice. DLNA is good, no issues. May play view and also photo from Laptop or computer without any issues. I’m testing Play-On media host and it is working Alright.
TV remote is great, qwerty keyboard is helpful
For the price ~1500, this is very good buy