Samsung LE40A656 Review

[jack]

I am confused by this product in that there appears with some retailers to be a 686 rather than 656.
 The 686 does not appear on the Samsung website, so are these 2 different models, if so how do they differ ? If not is it purely a means of confusing the price comparison !

[umaru]

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Getting into the settings and switching the picture mode from "typical" to "movie" slightly reduces the effects of the DNIe feature, but not completely.

As you can see, this TV may be good for making sports events look bright and shiny, but if you want to have cinematic pictures that are accurate in color and not artificially "enchanced" and also spend most of the time watching movies than sports events, this is a very bad TV.

And why on earth someone would want to spend a truckload of money for a TV that's good only for sports events and awful in movies?

Why didn't this review mentioned any of these?

Probably because the TV still looks great watching films and TV?? Watched Iron Man on HD (Virgin MOD) and i was gobsmacked at the colours and pure quality of the picture - that also includes the sound, which was just piped through the sets speakers). Watching Hancock from the Blu-Ray player was equally as good.

Really, if this is "awful" to use to watch films, then other TV's for the same price range must be seriously good - that, or you have some of the best eyes god ever created.

[LE40A656_owner]

Hi... I've just bought this set and am very impressed with the picture quality of the SD DTV broadcasts (once I applied the calibrated settings). However I'm less impressed playing back DVDs from my 6 yr old 5.1 DVD player through SCART. The vertical resolution/definition is rather poor. Three quick questions to which I'd be very grateful for some advice...

1) Does the LE40A656 do any sophisticated upscaling (of what I presume is a 480 output from the DVD player) or does it simply repeat each row two-and-a-bit times if you see what I mean.
2) Is the SCART the source of the problem... and would the set upscale better through the "composite" output from the DVD player.
3) Do I need to go out and buy a decent Blue-Ray player that can play/upscale old DVDs? Expensive or do cheap ones do just as good a job?

Many thanks... and Merry Christmas.

[leugeboy007]

Hi Vincent,

Might be a silly question but someone informed me that your settings have an error. The Customer Colour Space for Green should be

0/38/0 instead of 33/38/0?

I am not sure this should be the case as you would of corrected it if it was a typing error but could you possibly confirm that all is correct.

Many thanks, great site and one I know many people use before buying any TV.

Martin.

[reiver]

Just bought a 37A656 and tried the 'calibration settings'; Guy's its horrible; it's like my old JVC LCD TV; the screen displays a picture like you see everything through a haze / mist.

Go back to standard settings and do not change anything; picture is sharp, clear and looks fresh.

(37 series is having a different screen-foil)

Quality of picture is fantastic; media center connected through HDMI and settings 1080 * 32 bits color delivers amazing picture.

Why the 37 " ->simple, the foil of the bigger series are reflecting light. This picture in the 37" gives you the depth you're looking for; try a animation movie like shark tale and see yourselves.

[WaRaf]

Hi all,

I've some questions.

- The first, someone have the update settings after the firmwere 1023?
- Is there a method to reduce the clouding?

Tnx all

[DarrylKensley]

Hi Vincent,

Might be a silly question but someone informed me that your settings have an error. The Customer Colour Space for Green should be

0/38/0 instead of 33/38/0?

I am not sure this should be the case as you would of corrected it if it was a typing error but could you possibly confirm that all is correct.

Many thanks, great site and one I know many people use before buying any TV.

Martin.

Nope you have this right, its a typo that has never been fixed. Also WaRaf, the only way is to update the firmware.

[om47864535]

 
Wonderful review!thank you~
Samsung's product looks very good