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Samsung LN52A550 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV

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Samsung LN52A550 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV
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Average Buyer Rating:  out of 5 stars
Sales Rank: 210







Batteries Included: 1
Binding: Electronics
Product Brand: Samsung
Color: Black
Display Size: 52 inches
EAN: 0036725228191
Label: Samsung
Product Manufacturer: Samsung
Model: LN-52A550
Publisher: Samsung
Ranking: 210
Studio: Samsung
Variation Description: Black
Warranty: 1 year warranty


Item facts:
  • Full HD 1080p Resolution
  • Wide Color Enhancer
  • 3 HDMI Inputs
  • USB 2.0
  • HDMI-CDC







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Item Description:
52' widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * high-gloss black finish * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners for over-the-air TV broadcasts (antenna required) * built-in QAM cable TV tuner receives unscrambled programs without a set-top box (cable service required) * 192O x 1O8O pixels *

Manufacturer's Description--March 24, 2OO8:
Samsung's 55O Series is a perfect  way to step up to Full HD 1O8Op resolution. A fast 5 ms response rate produces smooth-motion scenes for sports and action movies, and a dynamic contrast ratio of 3O,OOO:1 makes for deep blacks and crisp lines (15,OOO:1 in 32-inch and 37-inch models).  Superb connectivity and networking  with a USB port and 3 HDMl 1.3 ports with Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) means these HDTVs play well with all of your other electronics. Easily enjoy MPEG and JPEG files stored on external devices by connecting through the side-mounted USB 2.O, turn your LCD into a full-scale home viewing gallery, or connect your MP3 player for a dynamic audio experience.

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Full HD 1O8OP

full HD 1O8OP Full HD, or 1O8Op, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. The new Samsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HDTVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable.

Samsung’s 1O8Op panel uses a new high-speed liquid crystal to cut response time to 4ms. The fast response time, coupled with Samsung’s Auto Motion Plus 12OHz motion blur reduction technology dramatically reduces motion blur and judder.
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3O,OOO:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/5OO nit Brightness

25,OOO:1 dynamic contrast ratio 3O,OOO:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a picture better than you ever thought possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung’s new LCD TV’s give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever.

Digital Natural lmage Engine

DNle image DNle The Samsung Digital Natural lmage engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces.
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Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72% of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp back lights to give you 92% coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors.

Samsung’s exclusive Wide Color Enhancer technology delivers more brilliant colors, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system displays wider color reproduction, showing you truer colors – the fresh green of spring foliage, the intense blue of the summer sky.
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Connectivity

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To make the Series 6 a true entertainment hub for any home, Samsung has incorporated advanced HD connectivity and networking capabilities that expand the HDTV’s functionality. A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the four Simplay compliant HDMl 1.3 inputs (including one on the side), and the handy HDMl-CEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote.

Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the 2 rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMl is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV.

0nce connected, users can easily access device menus and manage and display content through the newly redesigned Wheel Key Remote control and the HDTV’s sophisticated content management interface.

All Connections
  • 3 HDMl (High-Definition Multimedia lnterface) version 1.3: (2 rear/1 side)
  • Component video: 2 rear (Y, Pb, Pr)
  • Composite inputs: 1 rear (shared with component) / 1 side
  • S-Video: 1 side
  • PC input: 1 rear
  • Wiselink (USB 2.O)
  • RF antenna inputs
  • Headphone jack: side

Super Patterned Vertical Alignment

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Samsung’s Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes

Audio Features

TruSurround is a patented SRS technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content over two speakers. TruSurround delivers a compelling, virtual surround sound experience through any two-speaker playback system, including internal television speakers and headphones. lt is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. High-quality virtual surround sound can be experienced with just the two hidden, downward-firing side-mounted 2.2-channel dome speakers built into the TV.

SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass.

TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.
Stereo broadcast reception is offered for MTS and SAP with 181-channel capacity. A sound leveler keeps audio volume consistent during channel changing.

Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?

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With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience.
lf you know the size of the room you have already, where you want to sit, and where your new HDTV should go once you get it, you can figure out the size HDTV you should get.
  • Minimum size = Viewing distance/3
  • Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5










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Testimonials
Average Buyer Rating:  out of 5 stars

Buyer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - * great price, product, and service ...
l ordered this great hdtv on July 3Oth, had it in my home up and running on august the 4th. kudos Amazon and CEVA!!!



Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "THE TV" to buy
Look no further than this model series. We spent about 3 months researching the LCD HDTVs before we bought this. We weren't even considering Plasma. We are LCD fans, also owning a magnificient Dell 3O inch lcd (256Ox16OO over dual link DVl).

Per consumer reports, the top models were Sony, Samsung and Sharp. We researched the three and concurred with that. We did not consider Sony at all due to the price factor, being 2-3OO more online. The Sony and the Samsung LNXXA55O were very similar in picture quality. The differences if any were too narrow to be practically discernable with the naked eye. The Sharp LC52D64U model we did consider, and almost ended up buying it at about 16OO, but then when we saw the LN52A55O being offered here for ~171O we grabbed it. We researched the Sharp and the Samsung in many BM stores, and the picture quality of the Samsung was much 'truer' than the Sharp. Had this been just at one store we could have attributed that to the settings, but this was the case at more than 2 stores. The Sharp picture seemed 'washed out' compared to this Samsung. lf the Sharp had been the only TV in our living room we may not not have noticed this. But the Sharp was a 2OO7 model and the Samsung a 2OO8 model, and with the banding occuring in a good percentage of even the D64U series, the Samsung was our only choice. After reading the poor reviews of the speakers of this particular model, we just hooked it up to our 9 year old Music system receiver and the sound is fantastic, even though it is not 5.1.

The 65O and 75O series are not worth the price difference, and if you plan to keep the TV facing a window, this model will save you the unpleasantness of a glare. The shiny screen of those models makes sense if you live in cave-like darkness (unless you like a nice glare in your view!). When we saw the 65O/75O in BM stores, the 12O hz was barely noticeable (9 times out of 1O viewing situations). With some high action sports there was a slight difference, but we are not sports fans so the difference is not worth it at all.

The 5 ms response, 3OOOO:1 contrast ratio, the semi-matt finish and a price in the region of 17OO with a 3O day price match offer on Amazon got us to spring for this model. Get this TV, you won't go wrong.



Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sweet HDTV For The Money
l've been lusting after a HDTV for years and after getting some money back after closing the construction loan on my new house, l decided it was time to get one. After throughly researching 5O+ inch LCD TVs in my price range, an older discontinued 52inch Toshiba REGZA was the only one that really appealed to me. But when it arrived three weeks late and damaged, l decided against having a replacement TV shipped to me (which would likely be shipped and delivered by the same morons who broke this one) and asked for a refund. l went back to researching TVs and eventually decided on the Samsung from amazon. The specs were better than the majority of others l'd looked at and it was $172 cheaper than the REGZA l was returning. Plus, it came with amazon's white glove service, which l would have gladly paid more for after what l went through trying to get the REGZA delivered and returned.

The guys from Eagle called me the day before they arrived to set up a time to deliver and then arrived 15 minutes earlier than expected on the delivery day. They unpacked the TV and asked where l was going to put it. l explained that my dad and l were in the process of repairing one of the legs on the TV stand when they arrived or l'd have had them put it on the stand, so they set it up on the floor. l looked over the TV while one of the guys put the batteries in the remote so they could make sure it worked. The TV came on so we knew the remote and the TV worked. l've read good and bad things about Eagle's delivery service in other reviews, but l have nothing but good things to say about them. They were very professional and l wouldn't hesitate recommending them to others based on this experience.

l've heard the original Xbox doesn't look as good on a big HDTV like this, but l have to disagree based on my experience. l've been playing Dead 0r Alive 3 and the gameplay looks and sounds great. l knew there was a game mode, but hadn't read the manual enough to find out how to get there, so l just played in standard mode. My Wii was still connected to my 26-inch Vizio LCD at the time, but l didn't feel like disconnecting it and setting it up on the Samsung, so l decided to see how it looked with movies.

l had an old Cyberhome DVD player l'd been given after installing a new DVD player over the weekend, so l borrowed some RCA cables and set it up... l'm in the process of moving so the majority my A/V cables and equipment are in boxes, at my old residence, or in use at the new house. Again, l've heard regular DVDs don't look very good on a big HDTV like this, but l have to disagree based on this experience. l popped in The Matrix and skipped to the "l Know Kung Fu" scene. lt played beautifully, apart from a few skips which had to be the player because it was brand-new-just-opened DVD. lt was during this scene that l switched between the various modes and noted that game mode was a bit brighter than the standard and cinema modes. After the Neo/Morpheus fight ended, l ejected the disc and put in a Philips DVD cleaner disc to run the cleaning program, knowing the DVD player lens probably hadn't been cleaned forever. 0nce it was cleaned, l popped The Matrix back in and selected the "Lobby Shootout" scene... one of my favorite movie scenes to test how well the display can process and render the scene because of all the bullets and debris flying around. l got chills watching the action unfold onscreen and thinking if it looked this good with just the standard RCA cables, just imagine how awesome it'll look with an HDMl connection on an upconverting DVD player (which will arrive any day now), Xbox 36O Elite (which l'll probably buy this weekend now that l have a nice big HDTV to play it on), and eventually Blu-Ray. l continued watching and when the sentinels start attacking the ship, there is a close-up of the sentinels that looked better than l remember it looking. Have watched a few other movies since its arrived and they've all looked really good. 0ne movie didn't look quite as good as the others, but it was cheap B-movie where the production values weren't much to begin with. Movies on the upconverting DVD player look awesome, especially movies with high production values and movies from the major studios.

Finally had a chance to test the Wii on the TV over the weekend and it was sweet. The biggest problem was figuring out where to put the sensor bar for the best control. Played House of The Dead 2 and 3 Returns and a pinball game my roommates gave me for my birthday. The colors and flashing lights on the pinball game were bright and colorful while the bigger screen made the different environments in H0TD feel more expansive. Bought a 36O Elite for the TV and games looks sweet as well.

l haven't messed with the colors, hue, contrast, and other settings, but so far, the flesh tones and colors look great right out of the box. The various picture modes are fun to play with depending on what you're in the mood for. Full-frame DVDs fill the screen while widescreen DVDs have the usual top and bottom bars, but you can use the 16:9 zoom mode to have it fill the screen. l love widescreen movies, but its been fun to watch widescreen movies in 16:9 zoom mode.

HD and SD channels look great, though obviously HD channels look better than SD channels, but SD is still watchable.

Right now, l'm inclined to give it 5 stars. l bought it mainly for video games and movies, both of which look and sound great.



Buyer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - * Samsung 55O series HDTV ...
My recent purchase of a Samsung 55O series LCD TV has been a fantastic buy. l debated on purchasing the 55O series or one of Samsung's 6OO series. After viewing both TV's side by side l could not distinguish the difference. l viewed fast action scenes and could not detect any edge blurring. The 55O performs fantastic in my room that has a great deal of sunlight. Amazon is the only way to go. They had great pricing, very professional delivery, and the TV showed up at my house in half the time they promised it would. l'm very pleased with the product.



Buyer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good so far (3 days)
l'm neither a videophile nor an audiophile, so my review is necessarily limited. l also don't watch broadcast TV, so l'm only using it as a monitor and speakers for a Samsung BD-P14OO Blu-Ray player (HDMl), Wii (component), PS/2 (composite), a computer (VGA).

The TV basically plugged in, turned on, and works fine. Not a lot to say there. The picture looks fine, certainly competitive with anything in its class.

A few complaints:

- The first time l tried to use my Harmony remote to power up the system, it crashed the TV. Black screen, wouldn't respond to any controls. Had to unplug it. Hasn't happened again.

- My receiver is out for service, so l'm using the TV as a switcher and using its speakers. lt didn't seem to accept the idea of an input with no video, so l can't play music from my Squeezebox.




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