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"Fabulous picture but be careful" on by NYCelectronicuser
Pros: Best flesh tones and most accurate color matching theater viewing
Cons: Pink hue on different parts of the plasma screen
Summary: I own a PN63a650 not a PN50A550 but want buyers to be ware. What I am seeing is the same for any size Samsung Plasma and any of the 450, 550 and 650 series.
My set exhibits a pink background in three areas on the screen. I went to my local Circuit City and Sound Advise and looked at ALL their Samsung Plasmas. All the Samsung plasmas exhibited the same problem though on different areas of the screen. There was one Samsung 50A450 that was perfect or the way plasmas are supposed to be.
At Sound Advise their 58A650 had a pink band from left to right about 4 inches wide about 10" from the top of the screen.
If you ask the salesman to put on the WHITE screen, which can be found under the Screen Burn In Protection menu, it is instantly visible. What you see on this screen is in the background of anything you watch.
White snow looks slightly pink and sky scenes look like sunset scenes.
Now for the good.
Picture is the best of any large plasma I have seen or own. I own 4 other plasmas. This was supposed to replace a 5 year old 50" Pioneer. I also own a 65" & 50" Panasonic and a 42" Hitachi.
I used the calibration that Plasma Buyers Guide posted and the only alteration I made was changing the temperature setting from Warm 2 to normal.
The picture is incredible. Flesh tones are real with all the color popping you would expect from a HD set without exaggeration.
Truth be known, I don't know what else to buy since I've seen what an accurate large screen can do. The Panasonic 65" and 60 Pioneer 6020 don’t come close. Yeah blacks are better on the Panasonic and Pioneer but they don't have the movie realism or depth that the Samsung has.
If there was no problem with the "pink cast" I would have rated this set a 10 or higher if possible. I love the set but can't live with the problem.
Minor complaints. No finger or handles to hold while lifting a 140 pounder. No presets for each input nor a way to lock your setting so nobody changes them on you.
- 4 replies to this review
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I have had my Samsung 58590 for a couple weeks and have noticed the pinkish cast...going into the white balance settings, turning down the red drive eliminates this...whites are now white. Lots of manufacturers do a "red push", so I suspect that's what is here. have it ISF calibrated. Mike
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I have the same pink issue on my PN58B650 so they did not fix it this year. Watching something like Chronicles of Narnia or polar bears on national geographic is very painful. Everything else about the TV is great but this is really a downer. I love pure whites more than pure blacks. I am thinking i might should have went with the G10 Panasonic. Oh well, nothing in this life is perfect and it will all go back to dust anyway.
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If you have a PN63A650 why are you posting a negative review of the PN50A550 model? Because it's a widespread problem? It's not a widespread problem. You may have perceived it at all but one model at one store.
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I agree that you must be careful. The problem I have is a slight green cast in the middle third of the screen mostly toward the bottom. There are some other quirks like vertical lines that appear sometimes when text or graphics are on screen. What's odd is that it isn't all of the time. Because of the slight green cast as mentioned, I plan to exchange this unit for another but will ask that the unit is taken out of the box and the 'white screen' displayed so I can judge if the replacement unit is better then the one I have now. I also agree that the picture is at time spectacular and the color is terrific after adjustments. The sad thing is that there is so much crap being broadcast that the TV can't always display what it does best. Lastly, I am satisfied but Samsung needs to do a better job at the factory and improve Quality Control. These units should not leave the factory with blotchy colors on their screens that can not be calibrated out because if you calibrate for that area of the screen the other areas will be off color. The 'white screen' should be 'white and uniform'. This would then ensure uniformity when images are displayed too.
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