Samsung UN46B7000 user reviews

4.5 stars

"Incredibly Thin, Amazing Blacks, High Price!" on March 22, 2009 by drmatt87

Pros: I work in an Sears Electronics store and out of all the TV's we carry, Plasma or LCD This Samsung 7000 is the thinnest, The blacks are the darkest, and even the off angle viewing is on par with a normal non-led LCDs. All and all $3000 well spent

Cons: Its 120hz can almost make you feel dizzy on its highest setting, Speakers are junk like most Samsungs, but costing $3000 you can afford a nice Samsung surround sound ( that's what Samsung thought). Only 4 HDMI's accessible only from the left side.

Summary: I was kind of grasping for Cons at the end there, all things considered this is a Great TV and being LED it should extend the life of the back light. It doesn't have the bad off angle viewing like the Samsung 950. Blacks surpassed my expectations and believe me I've looked at TVs almost everyday for almost 4 years and this is my favorite so far... Lets see if Sony can One up the Korean giant... I haven't seen the 8000 yet but 240hz would probably make me sick, although it would be nice on my Blu-ray and Video games... personally I'm still fine with 60hz but if you want the most cutting edge Samsung, I can totally vouch for this model!... Side note the service tech in our store came and looked at this Samsung and said he never wants to have to work on It, mainly because of its being so thin it would be tedious and almost impossible.... $3000 is a lot too... Just Saying, that's like a certified pre-owned Kia.
For Your Consideration
-Drmatt

5.0 stars

"Amazing!!!" on May 2, 2009 by Darknightkiller

Pros: Amazing picture in default settings and perfect deep blacks and picture quality when you tweak the settings(you don't have to be an expert to tweak it right). If you're thinking whether to buy this tv or not please do so and you won't regret it. A+++

Cons: Little bleeding on the edges but nothing annoying. Sound is horrible but what do you expect from a tv this thin.

Summary: You have to be careful when reading all these reviews. This LED is perfect!!! and don't believe people that gives bad reviews to this product.

3.0 stars

"Beautiful to look at when not in a darkened room" on May 13, 2009 by samsungvssony

Pros: Wonderful design, thinness, power consumption, colour accuracy, motion smoothness and dejuddering. Near perfect TV but with a huge flaw...

Cons: The side lighting LEDs create a horrendous bright white blooming effect on the set's backlighting for any darker scenes in a darkened viewing environment, that are quite distracting and very seriously effect overall picture quality.

Summary: Just purchased the 8000 240hz version of this set in 46". Must say I was incredibly impressed and happy with this TV until I turned out the lights in my room to watch a movie or cable in a darkened environment. I must caution anybody thinking of purchasing these new 6000, 7000, or 8000 units... If you want to watch them with the lights in your room dimmed, you will seriously want to avoid buying these sets, as the side LED lighting creates a horrendous white bright blooming effect that is very apparent in all four corners of the screen in both dark and medium bright scenes, and is very distracting and completely compromises picture quality. I can honestly say that any $1000 LCD will offer a better picture than this $4000 TV once you turn out your room lights. A huge disappointment as everything else on this set is near perfect - My new 8000 is being returned to the store this week. I guess I will try the XBR8, which was my 1st choice anyways until this new 8000 caught my attention. If not, hopefully Samsung releases a locally dimmed rear LED set (9000?) lwith 240hz similar to their 950 soon to correct this catastophic issue.

Updated on May 13, 2009

BTW, so many of the reviewers here have obviously not purchased this set, and are mouthing off based on what they saw in the showroom under very unrealistic viewing/useage conditions. Lay down your $$$ and see/test the product for yourself in your house before spewing misinformation just because you have some fanatic brand loyalty crusade. Seriously folks, these new perimeter side-LEDs (which are NOT backlit nor local dimming) allow the TV a really low profile but they are not yet even as good as flourescent tube lit sets.

2.5 stars

"Enthusiasm just plunged down the drain!!!!" on January 8, 2010 by malakiangtitimo

Pros: At first, I was impressed with the TV. Great picture, thin and the TV's design is pleasing to the eye.

Cons: Bought the TV on October 12, 09. Barely three months old, the TV has to be serviced. Still waiting for the authorized repair service to call me for an appoiintment.

Summary: Three days ago, while watching sat TV, the picture all of a sudden froze, but the sound (surround) was still coming out. The screen rapidly deteriorated to a semi-dark panel with vertical lines of different colors. The remote was unresposive, so I unplugged the power. After a minute, I plugged it again. This time, I played a blu-ray disc thinking it may be the satelite causing the problem. The same thing happened, picture frozen, but the sound was still on past the scene. Remote unresponsive, unpluged TV and re-plugged. This time, I just turned on the TV wiithout any periferals. I pressed the menu button to have somthing showing on the screen. Seconds later, the screen froze and the vertical lines started to form.