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Samsung UN46B8500 46-Inch 1080p 240 Hz LED HDTV Review

Set up was easy. Screw in the base or wall mount, plug it in, look at the video and audio settings (you must use a surround system), test it against movies, Blu Ray and the best HD channels you have, and adjust to your liking. Its really easy to do. Color is off the charts. Blacks are truly black and blues are incredibly blue. In essence, colors are lifelike, not saturated or overblown and the detail will make you do a double take once your favorite HD show is streaming through. Widgets are OK. I didn’t buy the TV for them. They are slow, but do work (I have a fiber optic 30 Meg down, 5 Meg up connection).

Read CNET talk about the Pioneer Kuro and how this TV compares to the “best” TV of all time. Or read the reviews here and be sold. This is the best LCD TV ever made. End of story. The picture is breathtaking and easily adjustable. Don’t spend unnecessary money on calibration. Use your own eyes. Just be warned to adjust the judder and other settings so that the picture doesn’t look too real! Amazing, amazing pic.

I have watched the price of this set for over five months now (trust me, I had a 60 day price match guarantee). Its gone up and gone down. It is going up now because you can barely buy it anymore due to legal issues between Sharp and Samsung over technical battles. Some retailers hold this model in our great nation and if you can pull the trigger, do so. Samsung won’t be able to replicate a picture like this for quite some time and don’t buy into the 3D hype. It will take some time to produce high quality HD video and those sets still use the inadequate edge lit structures (some across the top and bottom). Samsung hit the sweet spot with this set and after five months of Blu Ray, HD, Sports, Discovery, kids movies, even standard definition (gasp), I am sold.

With any TV, I recommend buying warranty especially since this set is in legal mumbo jumbo. If you don’t and you get a lemon, you will be at the mercy of Samsung customer service. Which is to say the least, somewhere between Darth Vader and Simon Cowell.

Long live the 8500. A stunning set visually and the uber thin chassis is equally impressive.

Samsung UN46B8500 46-Inch 1080p 240 Hz LED HDTV Feature

• 7,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
• Auto Motion Plus 240Hz
• Medi@2.0 Internet@TV – Content Service; DLNA Wireless; Content Library (2GB Flash Memory); USB 2.0 Movie
• Fast 2ms response time
• 4 HDMI — Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC) (side)

Samsung UN46B8500 46-Inch 1080p 240 Hz LED HDTV Overview

Picture performance, advanced connectivity, and an eco-friendly and stunning design come together to form Samsung LED TV 8500. For the image connoisseur, our highest 240Hz motion blur reduction technology, our highest 7,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio that displays incredibly deep blacks and pristine whites, and enriched color processing deliver outstanding video. Samsung Internet@TV has web TV widgets from Yahoo, Flicker, Ebay and others to entertain, inform and connect you to specially designed web content right on your LED TV. This Ultra Slim 1.6” depth set is the ideal complement for your room and your life.innovative digital technology. Powerful LED technology offers the most impressive contrast and color you have ever seen on a 55-inch screen; innovative 240Hz technology renders four times the frames per second compared to standard HDTVs, for motion that’s truly lifelike and smooth. A pre-loaded Content Library puts countless hours of information and entertainment at your fingertips. The Medi@2.0 feature brings online content – such as video, stocks, photo sharing and more – straight to your HDTV, with downloadable, customizable widgets that are easily controlled via the remote. The Ultra Slim Design is only 1.2 inches deep, and that’s including the tuner! Another visual highlight is the striking Touch of Color accented bezel. And with the photo frame wall mount, you can bring the elegant brilliance of this inches from the wall – in virtually any room. And with the same passion we have for delivering groundbreaking HD excitement and style, Samsung is dedicated to preserving the environment with LED TVs, through reduced power consumption (up to 40% savings versus 2008 Samsung conventional LCD TVs) and eco-friendly manufacturing techniques.

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Customer Reviews

Samsung 46B8500 – Allan Bowdery – NY
The picture quality of this television is the simply the best available. Substantial improvement over even the 2007 LED model which was damaged in a move and this is its replacement. Blacks are really black, colors are accurate, fast movement is tracked due to the 240hz refresh. Sound–well what do you expect from a 1 1/2 half inch thick TV? Hook up to a surround sound system.

You won’t be disapointed – Richard Schmidt – Oakland, CA USA
I purchased this set after reading many of the reviews on Amazon and the Sound and Vision review. This HDTV is one amazing device. It replaced a 7 year old Samsung 50″ DLP that finally went toes up.
The first positive experience started with the delivery by Pilot. They delivered the set three days early and they arrived right on time. I did not have them unpack the TV as I had some equipment rearranging to do before unpacking. I had no problem getting the TV out of the box and setting it on the base by myself.
I gave the TV a quick check and no problems were found. Once I got everything connected I finally got a chance to see just what this set could deliver. I was truly amazed at the incredible picture quality. When viewing 4:3 content I could not see where the black vertical bars ended and the black bezel began. When watching The Good Wife on CBS they fade to black before switching to commercials. A fade to black looks like the set is off.
The sound from the built-in speakers is good for voice only. It would be nice if Samsung provided terminals to connect external speakers.
I originally purchased the Samsung Wireless adapter but decided to return it and use Netgear’s Powerline AV Ethernet kit instead. The kit comes with a 4 port switch that I used to connect the TV, Blu-ray player and Series 3 TiVo. The setup of the Netgear kit was a piece of cake.
I have a Harmony remote and when I originally set up the remote with the DLP TV it was a major pain to get it working correctly. Making the change to use the Harmony with the new TV was really easy. I just went on-line, made all of the changes, updated the remote and everything worked perfectly the first time.
So far I am very impressed with this TV. Get one if you can – you won’t be disappointed.

Tone down Auto-motion – S. Gilhooly – Greater Boston, MA United States
I really only use this TV for the display so far (I have external speakers and I haven’t yet connected it to the Internet), so I can really only comment on the setup and picture quality.

As for the picture performance the display is absolutely stunning. When I calibrated it, I really didn’t have to change many settings at all. The preset modes are very reasonable (a problem with many TV’s that have default settings that do great at catching your eye in the store but look awful in your living room). I did find the Auto Motion Plus feature kind of disturbing. Watching movies with this feature at its default settings is pretty eerie. It makes things look like a home movie. I’d recommend using the “custom” setting and really turning it down (or simply off). But with that distraction out of the way the picture is again, top-notch.

I do notice a little bit of “blooming” on some white-on-black images (like credits), but it is very minor and doesn’t detract from the picture on normal scenes at all. I also notice a bit of a viewing angle issue… the absolute best picture is when you are at 0° dead center straight on. Veer much at all and you’ll see a little drop in contrast. But that remains steady until you are way off to the side. If you never saw the image at the dead-center angle you wouldn’t mind the quality at the angles but when you see the difference you’ll be reminded again. Again, neither of these is severe enough to make a difference in the overall experience.

Lastly, the setup is pretty easy. Some things are a bit too hidden in the menus. For example, when I was experimenting with different auto-motion settings I had to push a lot of buttons between attempts. But I guess they can’t make all the features available at the top level. Best of all, the ability to rename the input sources is a nice touch (so the babysitter doesn’t have to remember that ‘Video-4′ is the Wii).

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