Cash @ Aug 16th 2007 5:23PM

Yeah I dunno... I am a huge fan of Sammy gear (My monitor, 42'' lcd and 61'' DLP are all Samsung) but I don't find myself getting all that fired up over this particular model. 8ms response time when the competition is running now higher then 5? And what's with this CLEAR coat... is it like a glossy coat that techs say are so great for contrast but essentially turn screens into big mirrors? If that's the case, I have to say that is a ridiculous move on Samsung's part, as my ex who works for a high end home theater dealership told me last christmas that something like half the Plasma screens they sell are exchanged within a week for LCD's because of the glare problem alone. All of her coworkers are upfront about how the sets will probably look different in the living room then they do there on the showfloor, but people look at the lower price for comparable sizes and figure they can tolerate it. Then they get the things home and find they spent 2-4k just to stare at their own reflections.

The owner of the store also told me that this year he was going to cut back on the amount of plasma's vs LCD's he'd be purchasing as prices on the latter were dropping like bricks and he was tired of having to send his guys out to pick the sets up that had just been dropped off and installed a week before, then having to deal with irrate customers accusing him of selling them junk, then having to slash his profit margins by selling the returned sets at open box prices.

I think the glossy cover may make a difference to photo or video editors working in a dark room, but I don't know anyone in real life that has had anything good to say about them. I really hope this particular design trend doesn't become any more prevalent then it already is.