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Samsung - 40" Class (40" Diag.) - LED - 1080p - 120Hz - 3D - HDTV
Samsung - 40" Class (40" Diag.) - LED - 1080p - 120Hz - 3D - HDTV
Samsung UN40FH6030FXZA LED HDTV: Bring your entertainment to life with eye-catching 3D movies, shows and games displayed in full 1080p HD. Smooth action scenes, a full-spectrum color range, and lifelike detail make this Samsung TV a brilliant choice for any room in your home.<
 
Factory settings look terrible. Good with adjstmt
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4.0
Posted by: BlackDog33
from Nevada City, CA
on August 23, 2013
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4.0
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3.0 out of 5
3.0
Features
4.0 out of 5
4.0
What's great about it: 3D, price.
What's not so great: LED TVs don't seem to have the color depth and luminence fidelity of the best CRTs or plasma.
We use this TV for 3 different content sources:
1. SD A/V from a Comcast cable box.
2. HD QAM-in-the-clear for local channels
3. PS3 via HDMI for games, Netflix, DVD and Blu Ray
I was really worried when we first fired this set up. The SD A/V looked terrible, and the HD local channels didn't look a whole lot better. People's faces were washed out, flat and blurry.
I discovered I need to TURN OFF DYNAMIC CONTRAST, and crank the contrast DOWN. In general, turn OFF all the settings that pretend to be smart in how they trade off one thing for another. Things with 'Filtering', 'Auto', or 'Reduction' in the name are all enabled from the factory, but you probably don't need all of them, or you may be able to adjust most of them to a lower level.
An adjustment procedure that worked well for us:
1. Do this in the evening or in a dimly lit room.
2. Set backlight to a mid to low value like 9.
3. Set contrast to 50.
4. Set sharpness to a low value like 40.
5. Adjust brightness so that absolute black in the picture is really black, with no hint of gray. You may need to switch channels to find a movie with dark scenes, or put up a news channel that has black in the crawl, like Bloomberg. You can switch the picture size to bring up black bars to compare with. Set it just to the point where the hint of gray is gone.
6. Now adjust the backlight to get the picture brightness right for your lighting conditions. From here on, leave 'brightness' alone, and use backlight to adjust for different room lighting.
I believe 50 is 'unity' for contrast, i.e. a transfer function slope of 1. Adjust according to your tastes, but be aware that 100 is the extreme high setting, not 'normal' or unity. Don't expect 'sharpness' to do much, unless you're watching 20th century soap operas or and old episode of 'fawlty towers'. Also, the MPEG filtering looks better on 'low' for us.
For the A/V input, you may find that 'game mode' gives you a better picture, simply because it bypasses some of the 'smart' processing that doesn't work so well for SD (480i). Game mode is selected elsewhere in the menus, under System Settings.
Fortunately there is a separate memory store of all these settings for each input.
My recommendation is to go through all the inputs you'll be using, start with all the extra features turned off, then add in just enough of the feature that's most important to you and go from there.
Most people don't like the 'Soap Opera Effect' that Auto Motion Plus gives you on fictional content like movies and dramas. Since it removes the 'judder' and 'motion blur' that you ordinarily get with 24fps material, it tends to make the content look less like a movie and more like a soap opera shot at 30p or 60i. In HD it actually makes things look more real, so it makes a movie look like a bunch of people walking around a movie set. Takes away quite a bit of the drama or fiction 'feel' of the 24fps we're used to, and reveals details that the director didn't necessarily intend.
No problems with 3D from the PS3. Clear, accurate and lifelike. Two thumbs up on that.
Bought mine on sale here.
This product has... Great value and features for the price, Right number of connections, Easy to use remote control, 3d.
About me... Technically savvy viewer
I would recommend this to a friend!
Internet Connectable?No
Connected to the Internet:No
Verified Purchaser:Yes
Internet content most enjoyed: Netflix
My Best Buy number: 2717800584
My Best Buy number: 2717800584
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Samsung - 40&quot; Class (40&quot; Diag.) - LED - 1080p - 120Hz - 3D - HDTV
Samsung - 40" Class (40" Diag.) - LED - 1080p - 120Hz - 3D - HDTV
Samsung UN40FH6030FXZA LED HDTV: Bring your entertainment to life with eye-catching 3D movies, shows and games displayed in full 1080p HD. Smooth action scenes, a full-spectrum color range, and lifelike detail make this Samsung TV a brilliant choice for any room in your home.<
 

Is this good for gaming?

With all the new games coming out (GTA V, Battlefield 4, and Watchdogs) I want a good gaming tv with 120 hrz refresh rate that will give me good picture with no choppiness or a lot of motion blur.
Yes. My son is a big Battlefield 3 PS3 player, and he has no complaints about this TV. He's done 3D games on it, and it works fine for him.
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