The thin design and crystal like stlying is super cool. I was hesitant about the red Touch of Color that Samsung uses but once I set up the TV, it was barely noticeable. It’s a ruby colored accent on the outter edge of the bezel.

Buy this TV! You will not be disappointed.

A couple of drawbacks, the power light that appears in the clear neck of the base is very annoying in particular when watching a movie in letterbox, it almost draws your eye away from the picture. I finally covered it with a slim strip tape and that did the trick so they could definately fix that in the future. The other thing that COULD BE a point of contention the glossy screen. I don’t have a situation where it is a problem but if your room has a lot of windows or light goming in there is likely to be some glare problems.

DVD’s look amazing… almost life like. The TV by itself is not heavy… its the packaging that adds most weight… I compromised on TV size to get an LED instead of LCD TV!

USD connectivity is easy to use. MP3s play fine, images are rendered with clarity… however the slideshow does not is restricted to a single folder.

There is an obvious lack of wireless connectivity and requires an additional 80$ dongle.

120hz is a marketing scam – it only looks good on the store demos. I don’t know anyone who uses it. Fortunately you can turn it off. It’s hard to describe, but it makes the picture look very unnatural.

The thinner the TV’s get, the worse the speakers get. If you turn the volume up even halfway, they vibrate the cabinet. A 1″ deep TV cabinet will not house good speakers. My father has an older 40″ Samsung LCD TV and it sounds better (bigger & fuller) than my new one. No problem – just connect the audio out cable to powered computer speakers or a home theater system. But wait!!! You cannot adjust the audio-out volume or mute with the remote!!! Give us bad speakers and force us to use a second remote to adjust our external speakers. Older Samsung TV’s have a headphone jack that is controllable with the remote, but not this one.

One last thing, I know flat panel TVs speakers are not good, but these speakers were horrible. Even regular TV was bad. You definately need a sound bar at the least with this TV. Steer clear in my opinion.

The only problem I have with the TV and the reason I only gave it 4 stars is the automatically adjusting backlight feature. When the picture is bright, the contrast is amazing, but when the image is dark, the TV dims the backlight so the blacks are blacker. The only problem with this approach is everything gets darker and the contrast goes to hell. This usually isn’t a problem and mostly noticeable on credits which isn’t a huge deal. I would think you would be able to turn this feature off, but Samsung doesn’t allow for that. If anyone knows how to turn it off, I would be very interested in knowing.

Everything else is amazing. Contrast ratio (when the picture is bright) is outstanding, blacks are pitch and the whites seem bright enough to burn your eyes. For easy setup, I recommend the Dynamic setting for the best contrast. Colors seem brilliant and sharp. This setting turns the backlight to 10 which is normally set at 5 on the default settings. Not sure why 5 is the default, it causes the picture to look kind of washed out. I would think that Samsung would want you to be impressed the moment you turned the TV on without any adjustment.

I use Windows Media Center as my primary interface so I have a computer connected to the TV via HDMI. For proper clarity on computer text, you will need to turn the sharpness setting down. The edge enhancement defaults cause super small details like computer text to become washed out. The sharpness feature works very well for HD movies though.

The 120hz Automotion Plus is a quirky feature at best. I have found uses for the different settings depending on the media type. By default the Automotion plus is set to Normal which effectively doubles your framerate by interpolating middle frames(it’s magic). A 24 fps signal will show 48 fps and a 60 fps signal will show 120 fps. While this sounds good in theory, the final output is not necessarily all that pleasing. One of the qualities of films, something that give movies a distinctive look from video is the lower frame rate. Movies are filmed at 24 fps and doubling that framerate makes it feel more like video than film IMHO. The interpolation process also isn’t perfect. Fast moving scenes can create some unusual anomalies in the picture. People running against a moving backdrop can sometimes seem to have a distortion surrounding them. Not sure if this distortion is coming from the interpolation or artifacts in the Blu-ray video compression, but it’s distracting and only noticable with the Automotion turned on. It’s not a total loss though, some settings can be useful depending on the source material. I found with Blu-ray and computer animation the Normal setting provides a great effect, giving the impression of a real time rendered output. Wall-E with Automotion Plus is amazing. For standard filmed movies, I recommend the Clear setting, which maintains the 24 fps, but uses the extra frame interpolation to sharpen the blur of fast moving objects. I recommend turning it off for Video games and television. Any anomalies in the picture, such as vertical refresh image tearing in games or mpeg image compression artifacts by cable or satellite are only exasperated by Automotion plus.

I haven’t used any of the Media playing abilities of the TV as I have a computer connected to it. Windows 7 handles all of my media playback needs. I highly recommend taking this approach to media playback and purchasing the 6000 model which is quite a bit cheaper, but lacks some of the more advanced network media playback features. While the 7000 and 8000 have some nice online features, it can’t beat a computer. Windows 7/Vista also allows you to scale up the user interface dpi while maintain the 1080p resolution for easy viewing with a super sharp picture.

All in all, my recommendation is to buy this TV. Better contrast than plasma with the clarity of LCD. Can’t beat that. I am sure that Samsung plans to release a 240hz version of the television with a more expensive price tag, but I don’t recommend it. Automotion plus is kind of neat, but its gimmicky more than anything else.

A couple drawbacks are the sound system is definitely weak, but you’ll read that in almost any review. Another is that while this is a LED tv (low power consumption, low heat output), the thing seems to draw tons of power (well, current technically speaking). In our mobile home, with a 200amp main breaker (it is a large mobile home) the main breaker will trip with the television, AC, dryer and essentially any other appliance running. This has never occurred once prior to owning this tv.

Overall, I’m pleased with the purchase, but (at least) a sound bar will be purchased in the future, perhaps an electrical upgrade is in order as well.