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

I bought mine from Amazon on July 1st, so I've had it now for almost 3 months. I spent 6 months researching TVs, both plasma & LCD, and the new technology of 120hz & AutoMotion Plus have raised the picture quality of LCDs up to the point where they are a reasonable challenger to plasmas without any of the drawbacks that plasmas have. The picture is simply amazingly sharp & the colors are perfect on this Samsung model. No motion artifacts typical of previous LCDs. Blu-ray will blow your mind on this TV. For those of you who feel you must tinker with settings to get the best picture possible, Samsung has made many of the settings adjustable without having to access the service menu, plus many websites like Cnet have posted settings to improve on the default picture settings. One note of caution on these aftermarket tweaks... Samsung has changed the firmware on this model many times since they hit the market in the spring of 2008, and the tweaks you read about are specific to the firmware version on the TV. In other words, don't try Cnet's settings for version 1002M or 3M firmware if your TV has 1004M firmware. It won't look good. My TV has the 1004M firmware & is perfect as is other than one slight change to the picture brightness. There have been some sporadic problems with picture quality on this model, one of which is mentioned here on Amazon's website above - the resetting issue - which no longer is a problem unless you get a set manufactured in early 2008. Another problem listed on HDTV websites is something called the "purple haze". It's one of those problems where if you didn't know about it, you'd never notice it unless you are an experienced videophile. It's a slight purple tint on the black portions of the screen, especially when viewed from an angle in a completely darkened room. You can see the same effect on your LCD computer monitor when booting up & the screen goes blank or has large portions of black areas. I had it on my new Samsung & easily got rid of it by turning the brightness level down a couple of points (from factory setting of 45 down to 41). Samsung's advertised 50,000/1 dynamic contrast ratio is not quite correct according the independent tests I've read on the net & you can see for yourself easily when viewing the picture off-axis in a darkened room. Believe me, this isn't as big a deal as some make it out to be. The picture quality is simply so stunning that it overshadows these minor drawbacks. If for some reason you find anything wrong with your set that you just can't live with, Amazon is especially accommodating and will get you a replacement that you're happy with, just remember to keep the box it's shipped in & make your decision quickly or you'll have to instead be stuck with a Samsung tech coming to your home. As far as Amazon's service goes, they're great! I got my TV delivered 6 days after I placed the order & it would have been sooner had I been able to take a day off work. The delivery guys unpacked & set up the TV in what has to be record time of about 7 minutes. Yes, I'm a happy customer!Get more detail about Samsung LN40A650 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color.