Samsung LN40B650
Samsung has outdone themselves once again when they introduced their new Samsung LN40B650. The Internet is brimming with rave reviews for this marvel of workmanship and technology. It is a high quality LCD TV that gives a top of the line picture in 1080p high def resolution. You will enjoy the most naturally rendered colors and sharp details with images that are more realistic. This TV will render motion blur and image distortion during fast action scenes a thing of the past.
Key Features
The Samsung LN40B650 has a glossy finish with a hint of red color around the edges for a look that goes well in any home of office environment. Samsung’s Wide Color Enhancer 3 technology provides colors that are more brilliant. It creates a dynamic display of on-screen color causing red colors to be more enhanced and stronger with a perfect RGB balance and lets weaker colors such as blue and green to look more vivid and deep. It does this by expanding the range of color into a third axis, thereby creating a 3D diagram of luminance.
Actual user review:
“Aesthetically, the TV is clean and elegant. Love the touch of red. Love the crystal base. Love the fact that it swivels. It’s a beautiful piece of equipment, and looks a good bit more modern than the more curvilinear A model. Set up was a snap. Took me about 2 minutes to connect the base. It took longer to remove the stickers. The picture is stunning, right out of the box. Absolutely beautiful. Only adjustment I made was to turn the brightness down slightly, as I have a very dark TV room. The on-screen graphics and menus are both intuitive and elegantly designed.” – M.Drostdy (VA, USA)
Most people have dreamed of having access to everything they need right at their fingertips. With the Samsung LN40B650 this dream becomes a reality with Samsungs new Inernet@TV online content service. The TV comes with a built in Ethernet port and the Media2.0™ feature developed jointly with Yahoo. You will be able look up sports scores of your favorite team, keep track of your stocks, view latest weather as well as RSS news feed to keep you up on current news at the touch of a button. You can even access Yahoo, Flickr, YouTube and more through a wired or wireless Ethernet connection.
This new Internet@TV online service is widget based and has scroll bars on the bottom of your screen for easy browsing. The Samsung LN40B650 even comes with a 2 Gig flash memory and preloaded entertainment features that can be updated over the web from Samsung’s website.
Connectivity
A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the 4 HDMI inputs. And the handy Anynet+ feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals, such as a DVD or Blu-ray player, using just one remote. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the two rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. It also comes with 2 build-in USB ports that can be used for displaying MPEG movies or playing MP3 audio files.
Conclusion
When you invest in the Samsung LN40B650 you are investing in more than just a television. It has useful features like a fabulous content library with great recipes, homework tips as well as various other methods of keeping children busy. You are investing in a high quality LCD TV that offers not only a top of the line picture in perfect color and clarity but also the new Internet@TV online content service and all the perks that come with it. It may cost more than other competing HDTVs of the same size, but it gives everything a new generation HDTV is supposed to along with a few extras that definitely make it worth the buy.
- “This LCD TV is really beautiful – the “Red Touch of Color” is not quite subtle but I’m sure you’ll like it as much as I do (it will match whatever furniture you have). The picture quality of this model (100,000:1 contrast ratio) is quite stunning. This TV offers the newly introduced Internet@TV. This feature is better than the first generation Infolink (RSS feed) that’s offered by the A series. You can actually add all sorts of TV widgets, which in the next couple of months will include some of the big online content providers (NY Times, Netflix, eBay, Twitter, Google, etc). Currenly, only Yahoo widgets are available (news, weather, Flickr, finance). You can connect your TV to the internet via ethernet, or you can plug Samsung’s Wireless USB adaptor in one of the 2 USB ports. Get this TV, you won’t regret it. Your friends will be envious if you tell them about the great features of this TV, which are not yet available in LCD TVs prior to March 2009.” – Layuger (NY, USA)
- “You have to get one of these! We received our unit yesterday afternoon and was watching HD within 5 – 10 minutes. Setup is very easy (CEVA set up TV) and after connecting HDMI cables, you’re good to go. Color, picture, clarity, detail – absolutely amazing! No motion blur, no jerkiness or fuzziness, no broken frame appearance. Glare does not appear to be an issue as we have one end of our room in 70% glass. SO far, on a sunny day, no problem.” – M.Waller (USA)
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