Samsung HP-R5072

Summary: I've been using this TV for almost 2 weeks now, and I have to say I am very impressed. HDTV picture is great the color reproduction is very good and clarity and detail is just unbelievable. Though, you might want to turn down color saturation out of the box or the picture might look a bit cartoonish. I was deciding between Samsung and Panasonic so I went to BestBuy and looked at HP-R4252 (which is a previous 42 inch model but it uses the same type of panel) and Panasonic side by side and they looked identical in terms of the picture but Samsung won me over due to the number of inputs provided and built in HDTV tuner which allows you can pick up HDTV channels off an antenna without additional investment in a decoder. I am a bit skeptical about 10,000:1 contrast ratio but then I wouldn't know how it would look like anyway. Nonetheless, blacks are deep and very clear and screen is very bright even at 50% brightness and contrast. Also you can adjust almost any color individually through the menu to get a desired picture. I kept most of the colors at default 50% and lowered red and green to 40% to get a picture that I like. The only problem now is that I don’t want to watch regular channels anymore. I did my research and I could not find a better HDTV even for twice its the price. Overall this is a spectacular HDTV and it should be on the top of your HDTV shopping list.