Samsung LN40A650 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color

40" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * Touch of Color high-gloss "rose 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) * Ultra Clear LCD panel (1920 x 1080 pixels) *

Samsung adds a Touch of Color to a blazing-fast 4ms response time and rich connectivity features to redefine the role HDTVs play in the home with its forward-looking Series 6 (A650) and Series 7 (A750) LCD HDTVs. Utilizing the award-winning technologies found in all Samsung HDTVs, Series 6 and 7 HDTVs deliver unparalleled picture quality and enhanced connectivity and networking capabilities that create a true entertainment hub for any home. Series 7 takes networking and multimedia management to a whole new level. Consumers can easily enjoy MPEG and JPEG files stored on external devices by connecting through a side-mounted USB 2.0, turning their LCD into a full-scale home viewing gallery, or connect their MP3 players for a dynamic audio experience. What's New? Series 6 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio: up from 25,000:1 on 2007 models (Learn more) Blazing 4ms response time: down from 8ms on 2007 models thanks to a new high-speed liquid crystal Transparent and Opaque Color (TOC) bezel with infused color creates an ultra-sleek shape and appearance (Learn more) InfoLink: Get free RSS feeds of news, weather and sports right to your HDTV with a built-in Ethernet port (Learn more) 4 HDMI 1.3 ports: Simplay compliant, and up from 3 on 2007 models (Learn more) Sports and Game modes boost on-screen performance and interaction with the latest gaming systems Side-mounted USB 2.0 port: connect USB devices directly to your HDTV to view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily listen to your MP3 player through your HDTV's audio system or your home theater system. Compatible with Samsung's Home Digital Media Adapter (sold separately) for playback and navigation of Internet and stored PC multimedia Series 7 Step-Up Features Internal flash memory (1GB) with pre-loaded interactive content such as cooking recipes, children's entertainment, HD artwork and more Integrated woofer for an enhanced audio experience DLNA-Compatible: for better interopability with electronics, computers and mobile devices from many different manufacturers (Learn more) Features Overview Full 1080p HD (Learn more) Automotion Plus 120Hz image interpolation technology provides smoother motion (Learn more) 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes with Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (Learn more) Better clear panel technology for deeper blacks and more vibrant colors (Learn more) Hidden speakers with SRS TruSurround XT audio (Learn more) Cold Cathode Flourescent Lamp (CCFL) and Wide Color Enhancer technology offer a wider color range (Learn more) Picture-in-Picture (PIP) enables convenient simultaneous viewing of TV programs and video or PC sources V-Chip system1 allows blocking of rated TV and movie programs determined by the parent to contain objectionable content. Trilingual on-screen displays in English, Spanish or French. Variable sleep timer to turn the TV off in varying time intervals. Auto wall mount compatible: 3-dimensional operation via TV’s remote control; no external IR receiver required. Swivel stand included 1 year parts and 1 year labor warranty (90 days parts and labor for commercial use), with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support. Sizes Series 6 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 22-inch, 32-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch models (model numbers LN19A650A, LN22A650A, LN32A650A, LN40A650T, LN46A650T, LN46A650T and LN52A650T). Series 7 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch (model numbers LN40A750T, LN46A750T and LN52A750T) What size TV should you get? Learn More Touch of Color Samsung’s Series 6 marks the first appearance of TOC (Touch of Color) design in the 2008 LCD HDTV line-up. Inspired by designs from the automotive and fashion industries, Samsung’s unique unique Transparent and Opaque Color molding process creates a clean, smooth finish infused with a hint of a translucent color during the manufacturing process for an ultra-sleek appearance. InfoLink Up-to-the-minute access to weather, news, sports and stock information is just a cable and a click away through the HDTV’s Ethernet port and new InfoLink RSS service. An all-new user interface with digital contents management guide provides intuitive navigation and access to both internal and external content. Auto Motion Plus 120Hz This technology doubles the frame rate from 60 to 120 frames per second (120Hz LCD panel) without repeating the same image to make more frames. Instead, the TV intelligently calculates the ‘middle’ image between frame A and frame B and inserts it in between (Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processor), making a fluid transition from one frame to the next. Super Clear Panel Samsung enhances the clarity of select LCD HDTVs by replacing the light-diffusing plastic face of traditional LCD HDTVs with a  natural black panel with a clear anti-glare shield. Reduced reflection of external light creates a new dimension in image clarity, highlighting black and darkened areas, enabling vibrant, more compelling colors and a brighter, clearer picture.  Black will never again appear grayish. Black details will show in vivid black even in dark scenes. The latest version of Samsung’s breakthrough super clear panel technology makes colors appear more vibrant and blacks even deeper than ever. Enhanced films reduce glare and optimize off-angle viewing. 50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/500 nit Brightness 50,000:1 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. Full HD 1080P Full HD, or 1080p, 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 1080p 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 120Hz motion blur reduction technology dramatically reduces motion blur and judder. Digital Natural Image Engine DNIe™ The Samsung Digital Natural Image engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces. Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Flourescent 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 backlights 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. Connectivity 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 HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one on the side), and the handy HDMICEC 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. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV. Once 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 HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface version 1.3): 4 (3 rear/1 side) Ethernet port Component video: 2 (Y, Pb, Pr) S-Video input: 1 side/1 rear A/V inputs: 1 side/1 rear PC Inpuy (D-Sub): 1 RF antenna inputs: 2 HDMI-CEC Premium audio: Improved sound quality with dedicated low-range speaker system Headphone jack Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) You already know something about digital living. There’s the TV and digital video recorder in your family room. (And another set in your bedroom.) You have a PC and digital printer in your office, along with a network attached storage device. And you’ve copied all your music onto your portable music player and haven’t had to open a CD case for years. But getting them to talk to each other can be pretty tough. Why is it still so difficult to send digital content from one device to another? Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a collaboration of the world’s leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile companies that has created design guidelines for a new generation of products that can work together — no matter the brand. Think for a moment about all of the photos "locked away" on your home PC that you wish you could access while entertaining your friends and family. Now, thanks to DLNA enabled devices, a DLNA-enabled PC can be accessed from the comfort of your living room or family room via a DLNA-enabled HDTV, where you can enjoy your memories with friends and family, without having to deal with the hassle and non-intuitive "PCexperience". Or, say you recently downloaded your daughter’s birthday party video from your digital camcorder to your PC. Now you want to share it with your parents who are visiting. Without DLNA, you probably have to burn a DVD of the video or hook up the camcorder to the TV. With DLNA, you can just use your TV’s remote to call up the video on your TV. That’s it. Super Patterned Vertical Alignment 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. It 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. Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper. TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself. The SRS WOW feature widens the soundstage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system. 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? 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. If 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 Series 6 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 22-inch, 32-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch models (model numbers LN19A650A, LN22A650A, LN32A650A, LN40A650T, LN46A650T, LN46A650T and LN52A650T). Series 7 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch (model numbers LN40A750T, LN46A750T and LN52A750T)

Absolutely amazing TV! I love this product. The picture is better than I even hoped. Have had no problems or complaints with it at all so far. The TV takes a little longer than normal to turn on but that's no big deal. Great TV. Only problem was with Amazon and their shipping. Apparently two people here order the same tv on the same day but only one was sent out. I was the unfortunate loser of the deal and so rather than a 3 day shipment, it took about a month to get my TV. Amazon was very helpful when we discovered the error. Still it would have been nice for some compensation...

Let me first start off by saying that this T.V. is great! You cannot go wrong with this set. Both the picture and the sound are flawless. The price dropped $129.00 within the 30 days after purchase and Amazon refunded the difference (you have to contact them to have this done, it won't be done automatically). White glove service was excellent. The company brought the set into my house, took it out of the box and set it onto the entertainment unit. They hooked up the cables, took out the remote from the plastic bag, put the batteries in and handed the remote to me. They then asked me to turn on the set to see if the picture was ok. They also offered to take the box with them when they left. Now I live in the Phoenix, AZ area and I know that the delivery service may be different depending where you live, but out here it surely was white glove.

Consumer Reports (7/08) rated this TV as outstanding, and it is. After comparing screen size (37", 40", 46") in a local store, I checked pricing online. While some of the bot engines and Amazon MarketPlace sellers were less expensive than Amazon, Amazon's 30-day price protection guarantee and White Glove delivery service won me over. Prices have dropped twice since my purchase; Amazon promptly issued a refund for the difference. Some of the MarketPlace sellers provide curbside delivery only. Amazon's While Glove service set up a Saturday delivery, came within the appointed time window, and most importantly set up the TV to make sure it worked. I'm impressed!

I am very happy with this TV. It looks great off or on. I spent a lot of time reading purchaser reviews of this product on this site and others before I bought it. I also went to a physical store to do a little direct evaluation of my own. Now that I have it set up and working for a couple of weeks I can tell you that I am not disappointed. The picture is beautiful, the User Manual and On-screen Menu are straightforward and easy to follow. In particular, I love the sharpness of the picture and the beautiful color. I did do a little bit of adjusting to get it the way I thought it should be, but that is normal. On the negative side I have only minor issues. The speakers, while not too bad, are really not good enough for my liking. After I get past the shock of the initial cost, I will buy a compatible surround sound unit to bolster the sound. Also, there is a setting in the Sound Menu called TruSurroundXT that is supposed to simulate surround sound with only two speakers. While this does not really simulate surround sound, it does improve the sound by increasing the depth of the sound a bit. Unfortunately, this can only be set to On for the time the TV is on- it resets to Off when you turn off the TV and you have to reset it again when you turn it back on. I have written to Samsung support about this twice but have not heard anything at all from them about a way to keep this on. Is Samsung's support system lacking? Even an acknowledgement of receipt of the support request would be nice. We'll see. The White Glove delivery service was a little confused and confusing at first as the driver and the dispatcher seemed to work independently and in conflict I was called by the dispatcher to schedule an appointment after the driver had already done so. When I called to check before the delivery, the dispatcher knew nothing about it and no delivery was scheduled nor did one arrive. To their credit, the dispatcher scheduled a delivery for me ASAP and all then went very smoothly. Really, a small glitch, but somewhat frustrating at the time. I would definitely recommend this set to anyone. P.S. I received an email reply to my second support query today that advised me to call in to talk to a technician about the TruSurroundXT problem I described above. The first tech tried but had to send me upstairs to a second level tech. I was told here that I am in need of a firmware update to correct this problem. To their credit- they are sending me, free of charge, a thumb drive with the update that I can plug into the TV. The only problems I have remaining about this is that 1) they seem to have ignored my first email, 2) they have no information about this on the web support site, although other firmware updates are listed. Since this has been a known problem for a few weeks, I would have been saved a fair amount of searching, etc. if I had seen this announced and then known what do do. In all, this is not a big problem and they are handling it well enough. I would buy this TV again, no doubt.

This is my third experience with HDTVs and the best thus far. The picture quality of this set is superb. The color is dead on out of the box, almost no need for any further adjustments. The set like all LCDs has a very bright picture but sacrifices little in the contrast ratio. The darks almost stand up to the plasmas. The 120 Hz refresh rate is a must for any high end LCD. This has eliminated the pixilation associated with high speed action moments seen on other digital TVs. The sound coming from the system is crisp but the available volume levels are nothing to write home about. George Lucas would have you buy a high end surround sound system to fully complement the TV. The remote control could have been better. The scroll wheel serves no purpose except to frustrate you every time you miss your selection. The styling of this set is awesome. It looks like a work of art. Unless you really don't like red (which is almost unnoticeable), you will love the look of this TV. I would highly recommend this TV to anyone. Helpful note about Amazon.com: Up to one month after the purchase date, Amazon.com allows for price matching of the current price. The price of this TV dropped over $100 within one month of the purchase. A simple call to Amazon's customer service and I was reimbursed the difference.