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***** Startling clarity, detail, and color, May 31, 2009

By

Mike (Orange County Ca)

Had my Samsung UN55B8000 TV a couple of weeks now. It has more than lived up to the hype. Hooked it up and put on a blu-ray disk. Even the delivery guy's jaw dropped, and he's delivered/set up hundreds of TVs.

TV is only inch and half thick and only weighs 60 pounds or so.

In fact, it is sometimes almost too good. When viewing people on HD you can see every little mole, scar, wrinkle, stray hair, makeup, five o'clock shadow, makeup line, etc. I'm sitting here watching the news and I can clearly see tiny pieces of lint on the guy's black suit. I'm guessing the talking heads of tomorrow are all going to have to have much better complexions.

If you like to tweak your TV this one provides a lot of different controls. There are already some websites that will give you what they consider good tweaks to maximize the pic. You can also look for the B7000 tweaks. Looks pretty darn fantastic right out of the box so if you aren't a techie, don't worry about it.

Sounds..not particularly good or bad, but I don't want TV speakers taking up space anyway. If you are going to spend this kind of money for a TV you should be using your stereo system.

Some reviewers were complaining about the number of inputs. Again, how many is enough. I run my PS3, XBOX360, IPOD, and the Dish box through my Denon and so I only use one HDMI.

You can plug it into the internet. No set-up, just plug it in. First thing it did was download 12 updates to itself. Have no idea what they did but ...didn't cause any problems. It automatically loads up some of Yahoo's widgets. Fun to try but...not something I have really gone back and used much. Also has some built in content...recipes, artwork, etc. that I haven't bothered to look at.

You can plug in USB drives and view content directly off the drive.

I long ago got rid of my roof antenna. I bought a little Turk indoor antenna and plugged that in so I can pop over into over-the-air signals and watch TV. It will automatically search and find the on-air channels. It even downloads some kind of TV guide from the internet for the channels it finds.

I also wanted to see if there was any signal degradation from Dish. I haven't noticed the HD degradation with Dish that I had with Comcast. The way Comcast packed the HD signals you could see a real difference between OTA and the packed pics.

Samsung also provides software which allows you to use your PC as a server. Then you can display your pics, music, etc on the TV. Took a little playing around but was easy compared to some of the others I've tried to use.

I've played games with both my PS3 and the XBOX360. No problems. No pixelating. Did not bother to change TV over to game mode. I haven't fooled around with the 240Hz function. I just leave it on standard.

I'm sure there are other features I haven't tried. With the ability to update itself over the internet I have no doubt they will teach it even more amazing tricks.

I've set up my Harmony 880 Pro to control all my devices including the IPOD. IPOD menu/info will display (through my Denon) on the TV.

All of the above features are great but the main thing is... the picture is just absolutely mind-blowing wonderful.

So, fantastic TV. I am VERY happy with it. Obviously I highly recommend it.

((Now I'm watching Wall-E in HD and it is pretty amazing.))
   



***** You have to have this TV!,
By John Schmid(Windham, ME)
 Enough has been said about the picture of this TV...its all true. Buy the TV! Amazon shipping is first class. Drivers brought the TV into the house and hooked it up. No chance of a DOA unit! Shipping was also fast and traceable. I am using the TV with an antenna and a Sony home theater with a up-convert DVD. I put in the Disney movie Cars and you can see the metallic fleck in Lightning's paint!!!

I purchased a ScreenProtector online because I have kids. It looks like it will work, but the anti-glare surface does lose a little resolution. I think the TV Armor protector would have been better (Read the reviews)! For the money, I like the idea of having something between this TV and the kids.

I also purchased the Samsung Linkstick for wireless Internet access through my connection. I wouldn't recommend it. The Yahoo widgets are s-l-o-w to respond and each widget operates a little bit different. I still haven't gotten some to work (like CBS). You get bored waiting for the content to arrive and give up. I think a better bet would be to use the new Boxee Box once available, or use your PC to stream content through your PC to the TV using Boxee software. There are other boxes that do the same thing. These things are *designed* to stream this content, the Yahoo widgets that the TV runs were not.

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