Samsung makes some fantastic LCDs and is giving Sony a good run for the money. I've a 52" 7 Series and its got great blacks and dynamic range. It's also got a reflective screen which means distracting reflections if you have peripheral lighting on the wall facing the TV (just switch 'em off). Not sure that 240 Hz is really worth it though, seems more like a marketing gimmick (faster is better) when all its really doing is interpolating more frequently. It's better to run BRs at 24 fps in any case. LED backlighting seems to be the rallying call for this years LCDs vs the new advances in plasma (which is far from dying...).
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Jim @ Dec 29th 2008 1:05PM
Samsung makes some fantastic LCDs and is giving Sony a good run for the money. I've a 52" 7 Series and its got great blacks and dynamic range. It's also got a reflective screen which means distracting reflections if you have peripheral lighting on the wall facing the TV (just switch 'em off). Not sure that 240 Hz is really worth it though, seems more like a marketing gimmick (faster is better) when all its really doing is interpolating more frequently. It's better to run BRs at 24 fps in any case. LED backlighting seems to be the rallying call for this years LCDs vs the new advances in plasma (which is far from dying...).