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

I won't repeat all of the pros given by other reviewers, but I will say that the picture quality of this TV is beautiful. The blacks are black, the colors are vibrant, and the detail is crisp.

I will mention a few cons (although I do give this TV five solid stars!): Power-up time. Clocking in at just under a ten second wait, my wife looked at me funny when she first pressed the power button and nothing happened. I told her that the red light blinks when its turning on. She asked why it takes so long. I honestly don't know, but I suppose all those 2 million pixels need a few seconds to warm up. This might be a ridiculous complaint, but for me ten seconds borders on unacceptable.

Tuning time is my second gripe. Tuning analog channels takes only about 1 second. This is a bit long for a guy like me who is a professional channel surfer (I can scan through a dozen channels in a matter of seconds if the TV hardware will allow it--this set doesn't!). I can deal with ~1second tuning times for analog channels--no big deal. However, the tuning time for digital channels is at least two seconds. Bringing channel surfing to a frustrating crawl.

Third, the remote control and/or TV's interface is slightly unresponsive/slow. With this remote/TV I need to slowly and deliberately press each button and wait for the TV to visually respond to my input before I press the next button.

One positive that I can't leave out is how awesome these 1080p TVs are for Computer outputs! I hooked my wife's laptop up via HDMI and wished I had a wireless keyboard and mouse so I could sit on the sofa and surf the web on my new TV. the text was crisp like I never thought possible for a TV! I will definitely be building an HTPC to go with this TV!Get more detail about Samsung LN40A650 40-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color.