Samsung LN32A450C 32-inch 720p LCD HDTV
Samsung LN32A450I was really impressed with the picture of this TV in the store, and after buying from amazon, I was glad to see it looked great in my bedroom. The detail is very good, there is no quality loss with any signal format. I was also impressed with the settings for the picture. You can fine tune pretty much everything about the picture.
The TV itself looks great. It has a nice piano-black finish with a good stand. The speakers are hidden so the frame is not unnecessarily large. The look of the TV wasn’t one of the things I was looking for when I got it, but if you are, this is perfect.
I had my doubts about the speakers since they are hidden, but the sound is more than decent. I use external speakers from the audio-out but the internal speakers are fine.
The internal tuner is pretty good with lots of settings to change around, including the ability to name the analog channels and set up favorite channels which are accessed through the “favch” button on the remote. It also changes channels quickly.
The remote is good. It follows the piano black theme, and has pretty much all the buttons you would expect.
I did have two small complaints with the TV. When you press the power button on the remote, you have no confirmation from the TV that you have actually pressed the button until a few seconds later when the red led on the front of the TV starts to blink. The overall turn-on time is around 6 seconds. My second complaint is with the tuner. It gave my digital channels all strange names. Instead of just numbering them from 1-1000 like on every other TV, it gave them weird numbers like “80-2″ and “83-3″. It also doesn’t let you rename digital channels. It is kind of annoying to try to punch in a number like that, but I just added the ones I usually watch to the favorite channel list.
Reviewed By : Scott K. Warren : Sep 28, 2008
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