Yikes-o POPPA!! This is incredible!
Pros:
HDTV Built In, fantastic picture and sound
Cons:
HEAVY! No Picture in Picture.
The Bottom Line:
This is a fantastic unit. Samsung quality has REALLY come a long way recently. I can't imagine how I would change it at all.
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Author's Review
So here I am watching TV on our 27" on Tuesday night.
Suddenly the picture goes out. We still have sound, but no picture. What the...?! I turn the TV off and back on. Nothing. Uh oh.... I unplug it and plug it back in. Nothing. Still have sound, but no picture. I check the downstairs TV (the 53"). It works just fine. Oh no... broken TV.
Rats...
Clearly, this is not an item we can be without. TIME FOR A NEW TV!! I start doing some poking around. I came across a JVC at Best Buy for like $449. That looked pretty good so that's the one I was gonna go with. My wife and I both decided that as long as we're getting a new TV, we should opt for a 32" (since that's what our entertainment
center can hold).
I started doing some research on the JVC when I came across some statement somewhere where the guy said "If you're looking at $500 for a regular TV, you shouldn't buy anything at all. Save up the little bit extra and get an HDTV". I started poking around and found that in the next few years, the FCC is going to require that all new TVs have digital tuners and other such stuff. I don't want to blow $500 on a
TV that'll need to be replaced in a few years... that would stink.
So on to researching HDTV. I did some more poking around and finally settled on a Samsung TX-P3271H. Probably the coolest thing about it is that it has an HDTV tuner built in to it. I picked up an antenna with the TV, hooked it up and BAM! We are getting HDTV on the air. It's amazing!
This TV is really terrific. It is 35.8 inches wide and just *barely* fit. Plus it's 150 pounds. Woof...
Back to the picture quality... the thing has a bunch of digital processing features built into it to refine analog signals and make them as good as they can be. Plus, it has two coax inputs. I use one for my standard cable and the other for an HDTV antenna (by Terk... it rules! Read my review on that too!). It's got a slew of inputs so you can hook up all kinds of stuff.
Setup was a complete breeze. I plugged it in (after hooking up all the connections) and it asked a few questions (like language) and then started scanning for channels. Air first and then cable. After it finished, I had my air channels all set up. The air channels included the digital (HDTV) versions right after the regular ones. So I would go from channel 15-0 (regular) to 15-1 (HDTV) and then 15-2 (HDTV). It's really cool.
The picture processing is so impreessive that I didn't realize that the picture I was looking at was over the air! I flopped over to cable and got all my standard cable channels. WOW! It's really an amazing piece of work.
It's a little expensive but considering that it already has the FCC mandated digital tuner built in, it's well worth it to be "done" buying TVs for a long time to come.
