Customer Reviews

Outstanding Television Doesn’t Disappoint
This television is truly one of the best purchases I have ever made. The picture is simply flawless with no dead pixels, high contrast, and absolutely even color over the entire picture. I can’t find anything bad to say about the picture at all.

The menu system is easy to understand but a few functions take more button presses than they perhaps should. The feature to display pictures from a USB flash drive is simple to use and your pictures will look incredible when blown up on the screen. There were more connections than I needed but that’s a good thing considering possible future needs.

The only caveat is that the sound is a bit disappointing. There is little low end puch to the sound. I use it with an AV receiver so that isn’t an issue for me.

The outer edges are a shiny piano black and it looks great. The screen being matte (unlike the higher end Samsung models) really cuts down the glare and that was a big selling point for us as our viewing area is near our kitchen and our old CRT TV really had a lot of reflections that were annoying. No problem with the Samsung though. I’ve only played regular DVD’s on it so far and they look reasonably good as long as you are a few feet away.

Normal (non-HD) programs look really good. This TV does a good job of conversion to whatever signal you give it. HD programs look incredibly sharp as you would expect.

Overall, I would recommend this TV to anyone and Amazon as the company to provide it. It’s a great value even though there were a couple companies offering a (very slightly) lower price. Amazon did a great job for me with this purchase (I was wary of ordering a TV like this over the Internet). After the order, they emailed me that there may be a delay as they ran out of stock but it actually came on the first day of the original delivery window. The delivery company from Washington DC did a fine job and they even waited for me to open the box to make sure it wasn’t damaged.

Excellent picture, great sound, wonderful bargain.
This TV is wonderful, my first generation HD-ready CRT RPTV finally bit it. I wanted to wait for the full digital switchover to occur before I bought my next tv, but it was not meant to be. After much research I chose this unit as it has a wonderful price/performance ratio among the top tier, 1080P candidates. I was looking for a good 50ish inch tv going into a very bright and sunny room for 70/20/10 TV/xbox/movie duty. $$$ / square inch cost of this unit is excellent, not much of a surcharge over the 46 inch unit which is nice. I did the audio and video tweaks outlined in AVS forum, the tv is just plain awesome.

Great LCD TV!
Great picture quality and very good sound after performing the calibrations from AVS forums (both audio and video calibration).

TIPS FOR GETTING BETTER SOUND
From the AVS Forums. These sound settings will bring your sound to life.

“Official LNXXA550 Calibration/Settings Thread”

A lot of people have used Rye82’s audio settings and reported dramatic improvements:

Mode: Custom
SRS TruSurround XT: On
Auto Volume: On
TV Speaker: On

(# of clicks):
Balance: 0
100Hz: 8 clicks right
300Hz: 8 left
1kHz: 4 left
3kHz: 3 right
10kHz: 5 right

Turn it up and enjoy the ride. . .Great Pic and more than adequate basic sound!

Agree with all the info above! Awesome TV but…
This TV is fantastic as all have stated above… however a few things that are frustrating:
#1 - The TV only has one tuner built in - which means PIP only works when switching from other inputs. My old Sony had 2 tuners which was great for sports games and movies etc… I assumed without reading details this new TV would automatically have it.
#2 - Remote Control has more difficulty upclose but great range from a distance - maybe its my inability to point correctly…

Other than those simple items - this TV is awesome!