Samsung LCD HD – A One-Horse Race

Samsung LCD HDTV

There is always a debate on LCD vs. LED HDTV. The battle has raged behind the scenes since someone figured out how to make a digital wrist watch into a big, honkin’ TV. The new Samsung LCD flat panel series ignored this debate and incorporated both sides into its new line up and thumbs its nose at the rest of the industry.

The Series 7 uses a “polarizer” that reflects room light to produce darker black tones. This in turn makes colors look more vibrant. In other words, your colors are huge and pop on the screen while your darks are as black as a banker’s heart, and in the same frame. The new Samsung LCD HD series has come very close to flat panel Holy Grail: absolute black. In addition to all of this, the polarizing technology allows the new Samsung LCD flat panel to adjust the color and darkness ratio to accommodate light changes in the room-as they happen. This is definitely not your Dad’s rear projection TV.

As far as performance goes though, the most impressive thing the Samsung LCD HD has been able to do is increase motion speed. It is annoying in an action movie when the characters move in slow motion or the screen will “shift” like a John Woo movie. It’s even more annoying because John Woo didn’t direct it. Samsung has nearly eliminated motion blur by upping the processing time to 4ms-that’s milliseconds. So let’s skip the math and just say it’s four times faster than most of the competition. That’s important on any day ending in “Y.”

Samsung LCD HD TVs upped the ante on performance and that’s to be expected in a competitive market, what else they did wasn’t unexpected-but like your favorite team winning the Super Bowl, it is still exciting.

Some Samsung LCD flat panels come equipped with the new Samsung Internet enabled networking suite of features. They can be used for both wired and wireless connectivity to the internet or your home PC. Samsung has incorporated USB ports to play music, movies, and more from portable devices. You can also connect to Samsung’s own RSS for streaming live news, scores, and other things you want to keep track of. However, it won’t tell you where your 16-year old is.

As if that all wasn’t enough, Samsung LCD flat panels went to the beauty parlor as well. Samsung expanded on its already visually pleasing Touch of Color design and added a new color this year: ruby. The reviews on the new color design of the “frame” have been described as “stylish, elegant” and “cutting edge.” So now you can almost judge that book by its cover.