Shop For Samsung LN40A650 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color

When I first considered adding an LCD to my stable of displays, I was a little hesitant at first since LCDs tend to look like, well, LCDs. I am very spoiled by my current Samsung FPT5084X 50" plasma with its richness and overall ability to display a picture as it was meant to be shown. I could get into why plasma has a leg up on LCDs in showing a truer picture as intended by the director but that would be a lecture that may cause severe pain to those looking for reviews on the topic of their choice.

All that being said, the White Glove delivery showed up on time, upboxed, and hook it up in record time. (I made sure that the connections of choice were in place to insure first time proper setup) I will say on first viewing it was brilliant! And I do mean brilliant to the point of flattening the picture and looking like a, well, LCD. But not to fear, a quick seat of the pants adjustment of the contrast, Brightness, and Back Light level brought the offending picture under control. The colors and the black levels are pretty impressive but the true ability of the display will be found once my calibration equipment comes back from its annual re-calibration and then I can find how well it actually can display the grey scale and color temperature after performing an ISF calibration on it.

Ah, the remote is interesting since the buttons look to be the size of those found on phones designed for seasoned citizens with eye sight beginning to dim with age. Very large buttons with large numbers, symbols, and a really neat click/rotate navigation wheel. This wheel allows you to do directional navigation that so many other remotes do, but the wheel also rotates so if you have a scrolling menu it will do so with a spin of the wheel. This along with a switch to turn on/off the back light with button presses should help with navigation while watching a movie with a reduce ambient light so as not to interfere with your properly calibrated display.

On fast action scenes, I have not been able to discern artifacting with fast movement and must say that even a Standard Definition picture is displayed very well. The HD picture is first rate and must say it almost gets my attention as well as the Sammy Plasma in the living room. For the money I must say that I am not disappointed, but after calibration I am expecting to be blown away by the quality of the picture. As for the Touch of Color, it has the effect of reducing the impact of having a solid shiny black frame to one that feels blended.

Did I buy this unit for ToC, no, but rather for the ability and capability that this unit has for the money, Auto Setup which locates all inputs, scans for all channels, identifies what type of input such at Sat, Cable, etc, and on and on it goes. Not to mention the ability to perform proper calibrations for a qualified Calibrator to adjust the grey-scale and color temperature, which for me is Nirvana since that is what I do for a living.

By the way, did I mention that the price that this unit is available for from Amazon is actually a killer price? The price is right, the quality is phenomenal, and it does not disappoint. Get more detail about Samsung LN40A650 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color.