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Great Choice for HDTV!! #1 Best Buy!!
I purchased this TV without even seeing it in person!! Here's why:
1.) I've done oodles of reserch over the years
2.) #1 rating Consumer Reports best buy
3.) Great reviews from owners
4.) Great deal on the Amazon website
5.) Samsung name

I was fortunate to purchase this TV at the end of November when it came with free shipping, free white glove delivery, and 0 off the Samsung BD-P1500 blu-ray player (which at the time was 9).
What a deal!! I have yet to see a better one...but keep looking it may come again.
The TV is just as advertised fabulous BD, DVD, & HD pictures...you can't go wrong with this purchase.

Excellent plasma!
I bought this tv in early November and have been totally floored by it! The color is perfect and the picture can be adjusted from really deep blacks to exceptionally high contrast and brightness. Locally broadcast HD channels look awesome. Even standard dvds look great on this set. Even watching movies you've seen before is like actually watching them for the very first time on this tv. The only thing I've found not to like on this tv is the picture-in picture function. When using the PIP you can only get an analog signal, not a digital one. Which will make the feature pretty much useless after the change over. That being said, it's a pretty small con when compared to the great HD reception, and overall excellent picture quality no matter what medium it's being displayed on. I give it 5 out of 5 stars!

looking for a real good tv please dont pick this one. before the tv shut down the picture isnt real good compared to lcd
I have received a broken Samsung PN50A550 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV . I would like my money back very fast. Thanks for nothing Electronic Expo , I have the hardest time getting in touch with the manager Ara he never calls me back .I called him ten times . The customer service guys told my i have to call a repair man on a new tv. I only had the Tv for ten minutes until i had to call it in broken. The guys that delivered my tv did not even let me open and check the tv's condition . I am going to bring you to court. You should be hearing from the better business bureau soon Electronic Expo

plasma rocks
The Samsung lioves up to everything it promises: Clear, vivid picture and excellent angle viewing. Base swivel is nearly effortless so it's very easy to "point" the TV to your specific seating. I highly recommend it.

great tv for hd
This was a good buy, I was impressed with Amazon's free and fast delivery, their delivery company brought the TV inside my house unwrapped it, set it up and pluged it in and made shure it worked!
The HD channels through the cable box look excellant, but regular channels
do not look that great, they looked better on my old plasma that is 1024 by 768. One more thing I did not like is that this TV has a built in tuner, which I do not need because I have a cable box, but my kids keep hitting the large TV button on the remote and and the TV input goes to TV which is the tuner and cannot find their favorite cable channels.
The blu ray movies look great on this TV. The TV itself looks great too.
In general I think it was a good buy I would highly recomend this TV.

My new LN22A650 after a few days
I bought my new LN22A650 from Amazon on 12/28/08 and it arrived as scheduled 01/02/09. So far, I love it and can't wait for the Dish folks to show up this week with my upgraded HD receivers and different dish. I can't imagine that it could be any better but we'll soon know. I've seen some reviews about the poor sound quality. Out of the box, it wasn't very good but there are several options in the menu to change the sound and it improved it dramatically. In fact, I think it sounds great now. Obviously, it would sound better with an external amp and speakers but for an internal speaker system, it's as good as any. Not sure why they don't just start with it as good as it can be but I guess it gives the button pushing electro-gurus great pleasure in tinkering with the innards.

The "red" Touch of Color is blended in very well with the black bezel and attractive. I just can't find fault with the set in performance or cosmetics.

Anyway, just wanted to say, I'm happy with the set, the service and the prompt shipping. I have a PN50A650 on the way too. Will report on it as soon as it's all set up.....

Great TV for HD
We put this in our kitchen, and viewing angles are excellent. Very high quality HD picture.

Samsung really went wrong with this one.
This was my first Samsung after being a Sony fan for over 20 years and I was not impressed. Auto setup would not recognize digital channels, Samsung said it may have been a bad tuner.

The remote control is by far one of the worst designed and shaped I've ever had. What were the designers thinking?

Otherwise it was a great looking picture.

Quality can't be beat
I'm low tech and wanted a smaller TV, simplicity and quality.

Well I am sold with this TV for the following reasons:
1. Easy to set up.
2. Great sound.
3. Picture quality is superb.

If you're looking at a 22 inch this is a nice one.
Good luck with your purchase.

Samsung ln22a650
Arrived in a timely manner. In excellent condition and has a beautiful clear and great picture. I only wish it had more than one HDMI connection .

GREAT TV FOR ITS LOW PRICE
I did alot of research before I bought my first HD LCD TV. This was the perfect one. It was on sale for 9 so I had to jump on it. It has got better then all the rest picture quality. The sound is ok need a little bit more bass, but I have powered sub-woofer that rocks the wall so Im ok with it. But it sounds pretty damn good with out it. This TV picked up channels I didnt even know existed. I was shocked. I have Standard Cable and I already knew what channels I have. This TV picked around 10-15 more channels with out a cable box. WOW, good tuner. You wont go wrong with buying this TV. Stop your research now and buy it. I would have paid more for this TV now that I know what its capable of.

Love my TV
I am so happy with the purchase of this TV. First of all, I saved well over 2oo bucks compared to the prices at the local chains on sale! Second..I was wary of purchasing a big electronic item online for fear that I wouldn't have a local store to run to if I had problems. My fears were unfounded, and I purchased the TV on Monday and received it from halfway across the country by Thursday in fine order. The set itself is handsome and elegant. Set up is a breeze, even for someone electronically challenged as myself. The picture and brightness are great at any angle at any time of the day. The colors, tints and hues are spectacular and natural at the same time. My only frustration is that I don't believe I can select closed captioning only when I mute the TV (like during a phone call). If I set up closed captioning, I have to have it on all of the time. But that is no big deal and I can't recommend this Panasonic product highly enough! This was a totally satisfying purchase on all levels.

Panasonic 32
Purchased a Panasonic 32" for a spare bedroom. It took a little while to get due to out of stock. Dealer explained that. It turned out to be a beautiful tv right out of the box. Mother in law will be happy lady..
Thanks to all.

What a Picture!
I don't have hdtv, but don't worry the standard definition picture on this Panasonic is fantastic with my Direct TV, s-video cable, and after calibrating the picture with numbers I found on the internet. Skin tones are great, the sound is fine, and I won't be in any rush to upgrade to hdtv, although it probably would be unbelievable.

I spent a lot of time researching tvs, and it looks like it payed off. I got a great price, too. I would have had to pay a 0 more for anything comparable.

Great TV
This is my first LCD TV and I love it. I know they say that 32 inches isn't that big for a flat panel TV, but I thought my 28 inch crt TV was big. This one is monstrous. Picture is great, sound is great. I don't doubt that there are better TV's out there but if this is your first venture into the world of HDTV's you won't be disappointed. I haven't gotten the full HD experience yet since I don't have digital cable or a blue ray player. But even regular TV is more crisp and clear. The only thing it doesn't have that I would like is a hookup for a computer monitor. But it does have s-video, so you can still do that if you want. Just have to use a different connection.

Purchase Toshiba DLP TVs at your own risk
I initially bought a 56hm168. Within one year, both the lamp exploded (glass all over) AND the light engine died. Toshiba replaced the TV with a 57hm167. A year and a half later - the light engine dies - and this time it is out of warranty. This is a totally different TV, with different production runs, and both have had light engine failures. Cost to repair (if you do it yourself) is 2 for the part. If you have a tech come out and do it, well over 00. Even getting Toshiba to fix the orginal TV while it was under warranty was as painful as pulling teeth. It took almsot 4 months for them to get it done. While the image may be nice on these TVs, and the price attractive, the quality of the product is abysmal. DO NOT BUY THESE!!!

Excellent HDTV
I purchased the TV from Tiger Direct through Amazon about a year and a half ago for 00. I couldn't be more happy with it. I spent a lot of time walking through department stores (Best Buy and Circuit City) to find what kind of TV I wanted to buy, this TV always stuck out. For the screen size and price, you couldn't find a better buy. I was looking at Mitsubishi's 57" DLP first, but researched this TV with it and found that they're basically the same TV, but the Toshiba was 0 less.

The picture quality on the DLP rivals LCDs and Plasmas, hands down. I have a long living room so having a LCD or Plasma, I wouldn't really benefit from the really wide viewing angles. With DLPs, I don't ever have to worry about picture burn-in that the Plasma might experience. With LCDs, the closer you get to the picture, you can actually see the individual LCD "rectangles". You won't get that from DLP. The closer you get, all the round images actually stay round.

I have Toshiba's HD-A30 HD DVD player and the picture is immaculate. I have plans to buy a Blu-ray player also, but I'm waiting until black friday for the good deals. This TV has a built-in HD tuner so with a HD antenna, I get all the local TV channels in hi-def for free.

Lemon
Got it in Aug. 2007, wish I would have looked here first. I didn't use it much, mostly for games and movies, not much television-watching. Tried to turn it on last night, and the screen wouldn't turn on. Eventually got a pattern of led's on the front panel that indicated lamp not working (a yellow led with red flashing). There was also a voice that came from the television that said "Lamp not working" heh. I called Toshiba, and the guy had me hang up and take the lamp out, then call him back. He asked me if I could see any damage (I couldn't see any, but didn't know what I was looking for). He said that it was probably not the bulb, but the housing, and that I should take it to the nearest service dealer (40 miles away, ugh). Felt like I was getting the runaround. I'll just give my money to some other company in the future, and be sure to check here before I do :) . Lesson learned. It's a shame, because I liked the television when it worked.

Bang for buck... top notch
I can't write a glowing enough review for this tv. Yes, I have a few minor quibbles... Silk Screen Effect being the only one of significance (not that significant,really) but all in all, this is a fantastic set. Accepts a 1080p/24 input (reframes to 60, but does an impeccable job) means you can watch the new Hi-Def movie formats as they were meant to be seen. Standard definition tv when moved to the 4:3 format is tolerable.

I have mine hooked up to the HD-a35 toshiba HD-DVD player and I cannot tell you how many peoples jaws have dropped.

This tv, in all honesty, was a steal!

Good TV
This tv has great picture quality, though not quite as good as some of the other top tier tvs in the same segment, the price more then makes up for that being a few hundred dollars cheaper. I have all three consoles hooked up and all look great. Blu-Ray on the PS3 looks great specially if you use HDMI. Also, until recievers have more HDMI hook ups, this tv has enough to hold you over with three. Unfortunately, non HD sources don't look quite a good. My Wii which is hooked up through component just looks blurry. This is obviously a problem due to this sets large size, all tvs of this size share this problem with blurred images of non HD sources. I have Direct TV HD and it looks great, however, be wary since lots of the "HD" channels aren't true HD yet, just less compression then before.

I did have a problem with the bulb going out after a few weeks, however, since I'm still within the first year of warranty, they replaced it within a week at no charge. Unfortunately, you do have to send back the broken bulb which is a nuissance, but it's a small price to pay.

Not 1080p, but a nice TV nonetheless
First off, no, it's not really a 1080p TV, Toshiba claim that it converts the image to that. If that's important to you, look elsewhere.

However, if you're ok with a good quality 1080i screen, this is a good buy. The various inputs work, and you can get more than the VGA 1026x768 VGA res if you have a DVI video card on your PC and a DVI-HDMI cable, only the D-sub connector is limited. We have ours connected to Cable, Xbox 360, Apple TV, and Wii no problem. The picture quality is good, and the TV is nice to watch.

The network connectivity is a bit limited. The TV can display images, and can play Mp3 files, but only seems to read the top level folder, and there are limitations on the number of files it can cope with. There are dozens of better ways to get those features though and I'm not sure who would be swayed by this as a feature anyway. I suspect the programmers got bored just making menus and decided to stick that in!

It's a nice TV overall, and well worth it the asking price, just don't be surprised when it won't take 1080p inputs.

Not advertised correctly
I bought this TV last Spring and am very pleased with it.HD and regular DVDs look great running on a Toshiba A-2. I was kind of upset because I thought I was getting 1080p but not the case.That kinna pissed me off cause I saved up to get the VERY best I could afford and then find out 1080i is the limit on this baby. Still a killer picture tho.

DOES NOT ACCEPT 1080p SIGNAL!
Hi, people.
I've just talked to toshiba center and they told me the TV actually does not accept the 1080p video input. They say it's "1080p" because it always shows 1920x1080 no matter what is the input signal, but it's an interpolation of it... they confirmed that the TV DOES NOT ACCEPT 1080P INPUT SIGNAL.
The TV is fine, but i'm VERY DISAPPOINTED with its description. This "1080p" name is a durty sales strategy. I was looking for a true 1080p television (that can truly accept a 1080p input) and i bought this one and now i would spend at least 400 bucks returning the TV and buying a new one... result: i'll keep this TV, but unsatisfied... i've been made a fool.
If you're gonna buy this product, be aware of this issue.

BEWARE!
Let me make this short. Beware when Toshiba says FULL 1080P, good chance it is not! Bought the tv and hooked up ps3 and no 1080P. Called up Toshiba and got some real bulls__t! Liars, and will never buy from them again!

Good TV; stay away from Toshiba customer service/repair
This is a nice TV for the money, but mine died during the warranty period and it has been almost 2 months and still no repair. Multiple emails and phone calls to Toshiba tech support/customer service and the local authorized service provider has resulted in the major run-around and no fix. I still have no idea when the unit will be returned to me. Back ordered parts were received DOA and had to be sent back, tech people cannot figure out what is wrong with the TV, yet Toshiba refuses to do the right thing and replace the unit. I will never purchase another Toshiba product. And if you do and it needs service, be prepared to be without your product for a long time. Sorry, Toshiba, this just isn't good enough when people spend their hard-earned cash with you!

case clicking noise is terrible
TH-42PZ77U, as of 12/2/08 have owned for 362 days. Now about every 30 seconds hear this loud case popping noise from the rear of the set, seems to have gotten worse in last month. Tech rep coming out next week, will be covered under 1 year warranty. See lots of this complaint on similar Panasonics on the web, some say to get it out of vivid mode and turn down the brightness, others say there is a special kit from Panasonic that has felt pads they install in the case somewhere. Panasonic guy on phone said they all do it but not all the time like I described. It's a thermal problem that is causing the cracking/popping sound of the case. Anyone else have this problem ? Great TV otherwise. Seems to occur more when high motion/graphics are being displayed compared to stationary scenes, probably pulling more current and generating more heat.

Great picture, not so great quality
Like a few of the other reviewers, we enjoyed this television for only a few months before it refused to turn on and displayed the dreaded blinking red light. Panasonic is going to send someone to our house in a few days. I wish that I didn't have to worry about how long this set will last.

blank after a few months
I bought this TV from Sears with extended warranty . I loved it until couple months later, It went blank after I turned the power on . I called Sears and the tech came 5 times to fix and he finally couldn't fix it . The problem has been going on for two months now and the broken TV is still at my house ...
Panasonic used to be a really good branch but not any more . I am very disappointed with the TV, Panasonic 1 year warranty service and specially Sears's 3 three years warranty service.
Will not recommend to any one .

Very satisfied.
My wife and I are very pleased with this t.v. The unit fits beautifully in our family room, the footprint on the same cabinet our old t.v. was on. The sound is probably average judging from what they say about sound on other similar tv's. I decreased the treble to lessen the "sss" effect in some of the speech.

Got it at Sears because they had a horrible price!
First of all let me say that this is a spectacular tv! I first wanted an lcd at first but when I saw the plasmas, they really caught my eye. After a lot of research I wanted the th-42pz700u but then saw it side by side with the th-42pz77u and was sold. The 77u didn't have the glare of the 700u thanks to it's anti-glare and anti-reflective surface. Plus the colors seemed richer in the 77u. So it went on sale at Fry's for 99 and Sears had it for 05. Sears has a price protection guarantee so I got it for 99 that Fry's had if for PLUS off of that for a total of 48. Sears gives you 10% of the difference in the price so the huge price difference worked in my favor! Love it!