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5.0 stars
"This TV is AMAZING!!"
Pros: Very Sexy and Sleek Design
Gorgeous Blacks
Great Color
NO BUZZING!!!
Hardly Any IR at all
Swivel Stand
Fairly Light for a TV This Size
Fairly Good on Energy ConsumptionCons: Sometimes there is a glare
Summary: Well after months of going over reviews on different sites and forums, i decided to go with the Samsung PN50B650. It was said to have better color than the Panasonic and great blacks as well. The bezel i didn't mind much, but i still prefer the classic black bezel. Well when i got the Samsung, i gotta admit, it was sexy. It had very great color right out of the box.
Gets fingerprints pretty easily
The sound is decent at best, but thats a given, for a TV like this, i'd hope you would have surround sound or something else.
But there was 1 HUGE problem. I'm a fairly picky person when i buy something big, almost everything has to be perfect to me for me to be satisfied. The Samsung had a very annoying buzzing sound that i could not stop hearing. Obviously when i was playing a game or watching a movie, i wouldn't hear it, but the second i had the volume off or down, i'd hear the buzzing. This buzzing wasn't from 5inch away either, it was 7-8 ft!! By the way, i live about 100 ft. above sea level so that wasn't the problem. I thought it was defective, so i exchanged it. Same thing, except this time it was only audible from 5 ft. away or during quiet movie scenes. I had enough and made a change.
I spent the extra $400 and got the Panasonic TC-P50V10 from 6ave.com. They had a great price plus i used a coupon code to drop 6% more!!! (that code is "couponcabin"). The TV came and i broke it in. And the picture is GORGEOUS! It is 1 sleek looking TV too. The remote is decent, but i use a Universal Remote that connects everything together.
One other thing i noticed between this TV and the B650 is that the B650 had a tendency to have higher IR (image retention). After breaking the B650 in, i would still get some IR after 2 hours of gaming for atleast 20-30 min. With the Panasonic, i hardly get any IR, and if there is any, it lasts for 1 minute tops.
The only things i have against this TV is that it gets a little glare with little sunlight in the room. I generally have the blinds closed, but every now and then it sneaks through. This isn't a problem with the TV per se, but more of my living situation. One other thing is that it attracts fingerprints very easily. But there is an easily solution to that, a cleaning clothe, so no biggy there.
I'm not trying to bash the B650, because it did have a gorgeous picture, its just i couldn't get past that buzzing. I've heard others having the same issues and others that haven't, so i guess it all depends if you get lucky. I would definitely consider the B650 as well as this TV. But as far as myself, i'm VERY glad i made the extra $400 purchase.
Where to buy
Panasonic TC-P50V10:
$1,985.00 - $2,099.98
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Amazon.com Marketplace
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