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This TV works well when playing a game on a PlayStation 3, So if you have this console, why not get this TV, it was like they were made for each other. The pictures are so clear and crisp that you could see hairs on female's faces that you would otherwise not see on a regular tube based TV and that the actress would not want you to see. It is almost like looking through a window. The 120Hz displays movies at a very smooth motion. This TV is nice, and has great bang for your buck. It offers 120Hz support and displays picture that is ever so clear on Blu-Ray movies. You can see male's pours on their face and every cracks on a dog's nose.
Now comes the bad part. It only took 2 or 3 clicks which added about 4 seconds to start up time, so I didn't pay it much attention. That means I am looking at a couple of hundred dollars just to diagnose the problem. The picture quality is top notch. So I would not recommend buying any Samsung product since it is likely to fail after the warranty and Samsung will pretend it is an isolated problem. This is the first Samsung TV I have owned and it will be the last.
To sum up, while it was working, the picture was really good. None of the many Sony TV's I have owned ever needed repair before the age of 10 years. It sounds muddy and drowned out by other sounds. I then went online to see if I could find others with the same problem. Take the time to play with the adjustments, or pay someone to do the set up for you, and you will get a great picture. Even then, the repairs were minor. Many folks have had this failure shortly after the warranty runs out. I then got in touch with them again asking about extending the warranty since there are so many instances of this failure mode.
This is a large TV so it is not easily taken to a repair shop, that means paying a repair man to come to my house. Samsung does not wish to take responsibility for the known problem. Sound on this TV is ok, at best. This TV has lots of inputs, but I would really like one or two more HDMI inputs. At month 13 or so I noticed that the TV started to click more than once. Then over a 4 week period the number of clicks started to increase.
That was all the good stuff I have to say about the set. It turns out Samsung has been having this problem for some time now. I often have trouble clearly hearing dialogue. For the first 12 months when I turned on the set it would click once and about two seconds late the picture would come on. I use cable and the HD channels look great. Just after the 1 year warranty ran out I started to have problems with the set turning on.
I'm going back to Sony where I have had good luck. Shortly after the warranty ended the TV started having problems that are common to many Samsung TVs. They refused. Their power supplies are the cause of the problem. I can't comment on the internal tuner as I live in an area where I can't get a strong enough signal to pick up any HD channels. I got in touch with Samsung and they told me that at 14 months the TV was two months out of warranty and I would have to pay for all repairs. Sound quality is mediocre. When I first got it I was thrilled.
Once on the TV works fine. If you feed it a good signal with good material the picture is awesome.
My older Sony XBR800 LCD rear projection TV had much better sound. Right now it takes countless clicks and about 7 minutes for my TV to turn on.
So you should not expect this TV to work for much past the warranty period. I tried adjusting the sound settings but none of it helped.
I've owned this tv for 1.5 years. I guess with a set this thin it is hard to get good sound out of it.
Samsung is aware of the problem and does nothing about it.
I will be unlikely to buy another Samsung even if their technology is superior, but is any other manufacturer more reliable. I am very disappointed because this TV was great while it worked. Repairman said he's seen about 30 of these models with the same issue. I should have bought the extended warranty 2 years ago when I bought this for Christmas, I guess. Just had the repairman here to deal with the exact problem described by TV Watcher Doc below (wish I had seen Doc's comment earlier.might have saved me the $110 visit fee). $1000 to fix this set so I decided that it was not worth it. Actually had a second problem with a circuit board that would have cost an additional $300 to repair.at least we had already discovered a functional--but annoying--workaround for that one.
[[ASIN:I purchased This Samsung LNT5271F LCD TV less than 2 years ago.I used it for general TV watching and BluRAy movies,never for gaming so it was very well taken care of and not abused.Within the last month The LCD panel started taking fits, where the right side of the screen shows double and triple images and their are three horizontal lines going across the picture.It started doing this about 5 to 15 seconds after turning on the set.But now it does it at any time and stays on there for minutes at a time.I contacted a Samsung authorized service center and they said that Samsung told them that the LCD panel itself was going bad,but since it is out of warranty they can't do anything about it.This TV cost $2,600 and Samsung don't care that if their LCD's are failing at 2 years.The estimate for fixing this TV is $2,100. If enough people complain to them (if you have a similar problem)they will address the problem and repair them for free.From reading other reviews online they said that Samsung used 3rd party LCD panels in some of these TV's and they are going bad.PS I have TV's that are 20 years old and still going strong B000U9XMCE Samsung LNT5271F 52-Inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV]]
exactly after one year that I had this TV, ther is a 1/4 inch black Vertical line at center of picture.there is no cure for this problem and I have to buy other TV. I know this but never a Samsung again
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