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Samsung LNA52A950

Posted by Brian A (A) on September 5, 2008 at 14:10:44

Saw one at the local Best Buy. It was playing some sort of trailer off a Blue Ray player. Just looked for a couple minutes with only that source.

During the brief pauses between scenes the screen went totally black, nice. The colors were amazing, I'd say the perfect picture we all have been waiting for, BUT . . .

There was some of that annoying 120Hz correction stuff showing up on ocassion. Every once in a while the movement and appearance of something or another just wouldn't look right. I'm not sure if it was this TV or another LCD 120Hz that showed a football player running close up. As you could imagine, his jersey was moving around, the folds on it dancing across as he moved his arms and twisted his torso. Well, the jersey looked like a real mess, the movement was really blurred and looked way unreal. Then the bizarre jumble suddenly took on some sort of pattern and it looked like an alien was popping from his chest for a split second. It actually startled me.

Another short coming is the reflection of the screen. You could clearly make out the light's reflection in the TV.

For myself, I have been feverisly researching TV's. The biggest one I can fit in my hutch is a 50 inch screen, it just matches the opening in width. I am starting to be turned off by the LCD's due to their motion artifacts. I may be forced to go plasma, despite the increased heat and reflections, but not all of them are real reflective.

At present I have a top-of-the-line Sony XBR cerca 1999. A flat tube 36 incher at standard resolution, 480i. Great TV, but it is time. Being 4:3 it's image height is 21.6 inches. Should I get a 46 inch HDTV, its image would only be 22.55 inches, not even an inch higher image. Not much for watching regular TV. A 50 incher would be 24.51 inches high, nearly three inches taller, that could be worthwhile. Of course the 50 incher would be 43.58 inches wide compared to the 36 inch TV's 28.8 inches of width, nearly 15 inches wider.

We'll have to agree to disagree about human caused global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along.

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