Samsung HL61A750

Well I finally made the jump to a HDTV. I do not pretend to be an authority on TV's, a high roller who can buy $20,000 sets, or a person who has owned 10 HDTV's in the past and can compare and contrast my past sets. I did do quite a bit of research beforehand and the best balance of cost to size and function was this set, and I am more than pleased.

This is a 61" Projection set, but the image engine is not a lamp and spinning color wheel like almost all DLP sets, but rather LED based. This is huge because the lamps burn out and are expensive to replace, and the color wheel makes noise. These are eliminated on the series 7 sets. I got this delivered this morning and have been playing with the TV all day. No fewer than 100 times did I switch between ESPN and ESPN-HD and say "look at that!" during the final four games. The clarity for a 61" screen viewed at 10 feet is amazing. I am certain there is better out there, but I can't imagine how much better it can really get to justify another several thousand dollars. You will not be displeased with this image at all. Then I fired up some PS3 games, namely Madden 08 and Motostorm. Super impressive images. I am using the Psyclone HDMI cable for the video input and it delivers a whole dimension to the games I never saw before on my old CRT set. Even my friends who have an Aquos system say it looks better on this Samsung set. The color is sharp, the menus are very user friendly to make adjustments, and it functions great. Also, the TV requires virtually no warm-up time which I have read can happen with some high end sets. From "power on" to image is like a couple seconds.

The remote is attractive and easy to use; the whole TV set doesn't have much weight (easily picked up by two people with hardly any effort), is in a very sharp looking cabinet and has ample input slots on the back. It even has a PC input which is nice, and a USB slot that you can plug a thumb drive into and play MP3's or project JPEG images.
This set is full 1080p, not just a 1080p screen like some sets. It is also 3-D ready for the games out there who know about this. This set is very future proof by all standards that I have researched so you can buy in confidence that you won't regret this in 3 months. Even my wife, who said I was crazy to spend a couple thousand on a TV, loves the image and in one day has agreed it was a good buy. Samsung is sinking a lot of money into their DLP even if Sony is bailing on the platform. You simply cannot get a full 1080p image this good, at this size from plasma or pure LCD set without paying a massive amount of money. I think any sports fan out there who likes to watch movies from time to time and play the occasional game on the Xbox or Wii like me will love this set.



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* 1080p HD Resolution
* LED Light Source, No Lamp Required
* 3D Gaming Ready
* 1 Tuner PIP
* 3 HDMI Inputs, HDMI-CEC
* Height: 37.8 inches
* Width: 54.7 inches
* Depth: 14.4 inches
* Weight: 70.1 pounds
* Color: Black