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 Best 1080p HD tv for it's size and price! September 27, 2008
L. Weston (London UK)
We had a long and tedious selection process for a full HD tv, and the Samsung A559P 40" tv came out the winner. The closest rival was the SONY V4000 40"
All the necessary features needed is included in this tv and the USB plug-in made the difference in our choice.
The features are all very good, and like another review the colour and settings needed some adjustment from the out-of-the-box settings to make it prestine ;-)
Choose a job, choose a career, choose this freakin big television. Choose Life
Just bought this September 8, 2008
James W. Weston (London)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just bought this TV last week and was definitely not disappointed! Was on a budget of under 700 and decided to go with the Samsung over others, the inbuilt freeview is good and the TV is very easy to setup - plug and play.
Needed to tweak the picture settings to optimise viewing quality, but after this was done I hooked up the PS3 and enjoyed some excellent HD gaming.
Great TV August 22, 2008
M. Hook (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I;m giving this a 5 star rating as it's easily the best TV I've owned.
My previous TV's have been 32 CRT affairs.
I've always been a fan of CTR as the picture is much sharper/brighter, response times faster, no fear of screen burn in ( which can occur with LCD and Plasma, nut just when gaming - but due to all the static logo's you get on every channel these days)
Plumped for LCD in the end, as a 40 inch CRT is well..not exactly practical due to the depth!
Choose this Samsung over others due to the high contrast ratio, sleek design, reasonable power consumption (166W) and more importantly the picture.
I had a good play in a high street store with the settings and my own DVD! and was very impressed. They even had a standard analogue source available and even with that it was a great picture.
Amazon of course had this product at the best price, and could guarantee when it would be delivered for just 7.95. Naturally it arrived within the window specified.
The sound isn't that bad, the bass is a little lacking which is expected with the built in slim line speakers, yet there is still surprising depth and surround effect.
Only problem I've had so far is none of the Samsung codes seem to work with the sky remote, and also another all in remote I have as well. Tried learning them, but it's not playing ball. so for the time being stuck to using two remotes.
Damn fine tv...
Fantastic August 15, 2008
Wave (Guernsey)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I got this set via Amazon prime with the discounted stand and wall bracket.
I did quite a bit of research before purchase and looked at a number of TVs in shops before making my choice. There is so much choice and so much data to compare the decision was not easy but I have had Samsung before and never had a problem. One shop was selling this exact same model for 300 more than I paid!
For me this TV hits the sweetspot between price/brand/quality. In store I compared it directly against Sonys, Panasonics and others and this set not only looks better stylistically but performs better as well.
As other reviewers have commented, the sound is probably average to good but the screen is awesome. The olympics look great on BBC HD!
The 6/7 series (this is a 5 series) are supposed to be better but I could not see a huge difference and bearing in mind the shelf life of TVs these days and the pace of innovation I see no reason to pay any more than this. It has all the connections you will ever need and Full HD resolution.
Faultless for the money June 18, 2008
H McAllister (Belfast, N.I.)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Purchased this tv a few days ago for 600 delivered after much research.
I am currently using the built in freeview (just moved house and only have an aerial in the loft at present).
I have to agree that the picture out of the box isn't great, but I had no problems finding picture settings on a few forums - 5 minutes to put them in and the picture is perfect, and thats on SD.
I'm waiting on a new HDMI cable and a freesat box coming through so that I can hook up my PS3 and check out the HD.
I haven't really noticed a major problem with the sound, but then I haven't really watched that much on it as yet, but I would imagine that most people would use a 5.1 theatre system anyway.
Overall, I think it is a great looking tv for the money.
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