Samsung LTP468W
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CNET Editors' Take
We preview Samsung's 46-inch flat-panel LCD TV.
Upside: With all those pixels, you can sit right up close to the screen and bask in the glory of full-fledged HDTV. No plasma has nearly this high of a native resolution, and LCDs have other advantages over plasmas (check out our ... Expand full review
Upside: With all those pixels, you can sit right up close to the screen and bask in the glory of full-fledged HDTV. No plasma has nearly this high of a native resolution, and LCDs have other advantages over plasmas (check out our comparison). The set also features an HDTV tuner, picture-in-picture, built-in JBL speakers, two component-video connections, and both DVI and the new digital audio/video connector, HDMI. It weighs a little less than 100 pounds.
Downside: You can get a 46-inch plasma for half the price. Although we haven't reviewed this TV yet in person, LCDs haven't performed as well as plasmas in our tests, especially in terms of home-theater picture quality.
Outlook: Consumers with deep pockets who prefer LCDs to plasmas have been waiting for larger screen sets like this one and Sharp's 45-inch Aquos LC-45GX6U. Though still expensive, this Samsung will be a little cheaper than the Sharp initially, but it's unclear from our cursory examination which holds the performance edge. We look forward to testing both in CNET Labs when they're released. Hide Review
Hunkered down in New York City, Executive Editor David Carnoy covers the gamut of gadgets and writes his Fully Equipped column, which carries the tag line "The electronics you lust for." He's also the author of "Knife Music," a novel that's available at Amazon, bn.com, and as a Kindle, iBooks, or Nook e-book.
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Pros Finally a 1080P set has hit the market place for consumers. This set should have a great picture quality in accordance with the specs. However, there are certain things one must consider. Firstly at the Native 1080 resolution there are a lot of pixels
Cons Cons, like many LCD based devices, the black levels are very very finicky on LCD based stuff. The problem comes with transparent colors then backlighting versus a reflective ideal like LCOS or DLP. Colors are hard to adjust to a proper color temperature
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