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Height: 31.40 inches
Width: 1.20 inches
Length: 52.00 inches
Weight: 66.14 pounds
Model: UN55B8000XFXZA
Manufacturer: Samsung
Color: TOC
Display Size: 55 inches
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Model SKU: B0028YB8MA
Price: $5.90
Price: $7.86
Price: $12.17
KCMO Victor
by Victor Raye
,
2010-03-17
This is all based upon my opinion... Samsung has done an excellent job at producing the 8000 series LED TV. The picture quality is mind blowing. Everyone who has view my LED TV goes away with their mouth still open... I've read all the negative things about the Samsung 8000 Series LED TV. There are times you and I might get some bad products, but it up to the manufacture to make good on their products... Upon receiving my LED TV without any adjustment, the picture quality was AWESOME. I looked at the four corners for lighting and didn't see any... I spoke with a Best Buy Rep. and he showed me what causes the light to shine from the 4 corners. It all because people have gone into the settings and adjusts some features and the light shines out... He did a demo for me and there it was plain as day... So basically I have never seen the light shinning from the corner on my TV... Over all this is the best TV I've ever view and you can't go wrong in buying one... My opinion, go out and buy one, and believe me you would be one Happy Camper that you did... I thank Amazon Customer Service for all their help and the TV was delivered on time... I give Amazon a thumb up on their service... Way To Go Amazon....
Great, but not awesome
by M. Lujan
from Santa Fe, NM,
2010-03-16
Great picture, nice brights, nice look, and nice gaming. Everything about this TV is awesome except for two things. The 240Hz doesnt really seem like 240Hz at all, it just seems like the 120Hz. I dont notice any difference.
Also, when watching a dark movie, the LED lights on the side are visible through the screen like a mist, especially seen around charcoal areas of the screen. But when watching sports, bright tropical movies, day movies, or game shows, it is not noticable at all.
Best TV Ever
by Wild Bill
from Texas,
2010-03-16
I have had the B8000 for a month now and it is better than I ever expected. What a picture. There are no little lights at the edges and high def is beautiful. You can not go wrong with this purchase. Amazon delivered to my front door and there were no hitches what so ever. What are you waiting for, go for it.
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Outstanding Picture
by Richard H. Propp
,
2010-03-14
The colors and clarity are outstanding. I haven't noticed the back light bleedthrough other reviewers have refered to on dark scenes at all. The audio sound was a little weak, but I managed to hook up my old receiver and surround sound through my cable box,while the video was hooked up with the HDMI cable.
Horrible light bleed in corners
by J. Darby
,
2010-03-13
This LED-edge TV has by far the worst, most uneven back-lighting I have ever seen on any TV or monitor. On anything approaching a dark screen it literally appears as if there are bright mini-mag lights shining from every corner in towards the center of the screen. Even those are widely varied in shape pattern and intensity.
They are more than bright enough to interfere with normal viewing and glaringly apparent in any scene which has a black background. Friends who happened to be here when we set it up and turned it on noticed the 'weird corner-lights' immediately.
I did update the firmware to current, no change or improvement at all in the awful back-lighting.
I checked the LG55LH90 today for comparison - a full LED-lit TV, 55" and there is absolutely zero visible back-light bleed, on a black screen the back-lighting is beautifully uniform in all respects. The picture is better, as the uniform LED's can darken in darker images and light more in lighter scenes, somewhat replicating the deep blacks of plasmas.
Beware the Samsung UN55B8000 unless having the thinnest TV is more important than actual picture quality (why?) and in my opinion or now common sense, be wary of edge-LED lit screens overall. You definitely want to see and check it before buying one, not easy to do in most store environments as even significantly uneven back-lighting may not appear in the brighter lights of a store or in the usual TV store demo modes.
The images/screen really are gorgeous on this TV and if it were not for the severity of the back-lighting issue, it would be a winner, hands-down. It handles fast motion very well with no tearing or blurring that we could find and has "oh wow" clarity and definition. Crystal clear. Sound is ok and fine for TV speakers.
As for the Internet features, it's really not worth paying any extra for on this TV - you are given Yahoo widgets to use and navigate with and it's just not impressive to use - clunky and one nag prompt after another to do or agree to this or that when all you want to do is go online.
The remote is enormous but laid out well and the buttons are fairly large so it's very easy to use as is the menu system in the TV.
I expected it to be programmable to use one instead of my Bose audio and DirectTV remote - as far as I can tell it is not.
Sadly my Samsung UN55B8000 is going back to Amazon and I am going with an LED-fully lit LG. My experience with uneven lighting is that it grows significantly worse with use over time.
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