I recently bought an LG Bluray player that includes streaming, since my TV doesn’t include that feature, and I wanted to try it. Based on my good experience with that device, I recommended this TV to a couple I know who wanted a 32″ TV and were also interested in streaming. I expected the streaming features to be much the same as on the Bluray player.
Nice LCD TV for the price $329.00 My only complaint is the manual is on disc. I much rather have a hard copy and I don’t want to be the one to print it. The setup would be easier with a manual by your side. Other than that the TV is a nice value
Este televisor es excelente… tiene una resolución de imagen increíble. se ven nítidas las fotos, las películas, el menú, todo y ademas puedes reproducir películas en formato .WMV, por el puerto USB. El tamaño es grande, las 42″ son de Pantalla y los bordes de la TV suman un total de 46″. El precio, fue mejor todavía, aproveche una oferta especial y me ahorre un dineral. puedes conectar de forma simultanea TV cable, DVD, PC (usándolo como monitor es excelente),Blu Ray. puedes conectar todos los equipos que quieras al mismo tiempo… y sin tener que desconectar alguno para conectar otro… de verdad a sido la mejor inversión que he realizado.
I picked up this TV from local Sony store. I had chance to play with it just for a day. No dead pixels. No clouding as far as I can tell. Panel is stylish. I am able to stream my MPEG4 720p movies from my UNRAID Twonky media server. You can also pause, fast forward these movies. I was not able to do this on my Samsung PN50B650 (only play will work and if you stop movie I would need to start over). ACR works great with my new Sony STR-DN1020 receiver.I have not tried any 3D movies yet but I have tried upconverted 2D Blu-Ray movie (from my Sony BDP-S780) and it looked not bad. You can adjust depth of your 3D content.
Picture is great. Daylight reflection from my living room windows is not as bad as it was with my old Samsung plasma TV.
The only issue I am noticing right now is some kind of crease along left edge of the TV. It is not that noticeable but if you are picky like myself you will notice it. It is about 1/4 inch wide. I am not sure if this panel was not handled properly during shipping to the store. I am going back to Sony store to check if display model have this issue. I will post my findings latter..
The price really sealed the deal. At most places I looked the price was $750 higher than what I paid. I was worried about buying a TV online but the delivery was uneventful.
This thing also synthesizes 3D from 2D images. You can watch regular TV or DVD’s/Blu-Ray, or any of the streaming functions in 3D if you want. It actually does a pretty good job and for the life of me I couldn’t tell you how they pull it off. It’s basically magic. For true 3D input it is absolutely amazing. You also have the ability to adjust the apparent depth to the 3D effect.
Outstanding TV. The only problem I found is in attaching a DVD-VCR to it where the picture is black and white when connected to “component IN” in the back. When attached to the side connection the color returns.
PS – the TV adapter (if you want internet through your tv as opposed to through the blue ray) is $80 which is much less then the $300 extra to have it on the TV. Although, get an adapter with good signal reception.
~ DO NOT expect a great picture on regular cable channels.. Get HD (a receiver from your cable company) – they are normally an extra $5ish per month.
Bought the Samsung 5500 to use as a monitor so that is the slant of this review. It’s an impressive upgrade coming from a Hanns-G 28″ that had horrific backlight bleed problems of a couple inches in on each side. Laugh. The design is quite attractive as others have said, nice and thin edge lit LED and the I don’t mind the glossy surfaces compared to the matte of the Hanns-G. I love the super whites and dark blacks that it produces at its default brightness levels. I play a lot of arcade emulation and the black pillarboxes on the sides of the 4:3 and 3:4 images look sufficiently dark with barely a hint of corner blooming in a completely dark room.
I researched to the point of driving myself nuts for a new hd tv. It was between this one and an LG comparative. So I went to best buy for some visual comparison and ended up buying this one one through Amazon and couldn’t be happier.