Colors, image, price

Heavy mutha, large

I too just got this baby. It is great and DVD''s are AWESOME on this samsung. I just wish I could get better cable/satellite service in my area. I have regular cable and the picture is very grainy on regular cable. I hope to get DirectTV or something like that ... it has 3 HDTV channels (HBO-HDTV, SHOWtimeHD, and pay-per-view). Anyone else have a good satellite provider or digital cable that really rocks for this HDTV monitor?

Amazing picture, Easy to use, has hidden features, Price

Exteremly heavy, only has one component video input

I did a lot of comparison shopping before I bought my HDTV and unless the ONLY thing you do is watch DVD's then you should think twice about buying a widescreen. A 40" widescreen when you are watching a non-anamorphic presentation will either stretch the image way out of normal proportions or you will be forced to watch the presentation on a tiny little square on the TV.

I ended up buying this the Samsung. Another thing most people at the store won't tell you is that the local stations offer practically NOTHING in HD format unless you live in a really big city. for example, I live in a city of pop.150,000 and we have ONE HDTV station. So think twice before you buy a tv with the HDTV converter built-in. The HDTV-ready tv's are a good $400 or $500 cheaper.

Also if you use Directv and watch it on an HDTV you will be a little suprised by all the artifacting in the picture. This is b/c DTV cannot provide enough bandwidth for an HDTV to fill in all the detail on the screen. For example, A blue sky will look much like a badly compressed JPEG.

Enough bad stuff. I LOVE my Samsung.
And don't believe the rumors about their poor warranty service. I was so excited when I got home. I started connecting my new system immediately(I had also purchased a new stereo, and progressive scan dvd platyer at the same time) At about 2AM i was finally done. I spent the next learning all the functions of my tv, dvd, and stereo. At about 3:30AM, I decided to relax and watch some directv before heading to bed. OH MY GOD, it looked horrible!!!
The next day I called the SAmsung warranty center. They were very helpful and within one day put me in touch with a local rep who would come out to examine the set. I phoned him and he proceeded to explain to me that it was my dish not the TV. Whew! Long-story-long, I was stunned at how quickly Samsung reacted.

The tube is very bright and I have to turn the brightness pretty far down. In my mind this is a great advantage.
My Sony PS2 looks phenomenal on it and DVD's blow away the theater. I have no idea how good digital cable looks on it, but I hear its better than DTV, which is what I use. My DTV picture quality on the HDTV is comparable to a normal cable signal.

The onscreen displays are easy to learn and offer the normal picture options. You can also setup presets for picture options like a theater option and a tv, option and a video game option for example, but I found that turning the brightness lower was the only thing I had to adjust.

NOTE: I bought a Samsung TSK-3293F 32-Inch 4:3 Tantus DynaFlat (a bestbuy exclusive? that is EXACTLY like the next step up minus the high quality built-in surround, which I don't need b/c of my surround system) This TV has as good if not better picture than the WEGA that costs I think $800 more. It has only one flaw I have been able to find. It has only ONE composite video input, but my stereo has 2 so I solved that one easily.

Oh yeah, hidden features...I don't remember how to do it but there is a diagnostic mode that lets you adjust many options that should NEVER be toyed with unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing. But some tweakers love this kind of thing. I got into the menus once, had no idea what all the options were and immediately got out.

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None, but in store comparison showed it superior to the Panasonic 32" direct-view HDTV and the comparable SONY WEGA