LCD-TV Reviews

First I want to mention that I purchased the TV directly from the manufacturer and not from Amazon. Amazon's service has always been superior.
Buying the TV from PHILIPS did guarantee me the best price ($408 total), the TV was shipped late, because it was purchased with my wife's credit card and shipped to me, we bought it for the FIFA world cup final. The final was yesterday, the TV came today, and only to upset me. Fresh on the box the TV was missing the batteries for the remote which were supposed to be included in the package. And there it starts.
1.The TV's sound disappeared after 30sec of operation. That is if any of the connectors (composite or S or coaxial) are used.
2.$ 4 for battery - who cares, not PHILIPS anyway
3.To my surprise while looking into the manual I see a stamp over the page "RENEWED". So I went back to their online store to find the little blue print "RENEWED" there too which for the 30 times of visiting the site I never saw before and it's not mentioned on my invoice. And then as you may guess there are some restriction to the warrantee of products label as " RENEWED"
4.After speaking to the Customer Service Rep he asked me to email him my invoice. I did, now they tell me I have to wait 2 days for them to contact me?!
5.Meanwhile I trying chatting with the online support who started referring me to their website (the same that his link is on) and then to the phone support (who I already talked to).
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT BUY Philips products. There is a very nice Norcent product for the same price with the same resolution of 800 x 600 (if not cheaper).

My wife an I love this t.v. We have it in our bedroom and love it's compact size and great picture. It took only minutes to get it from the box to viewing. It is very easy to navigate through the on-screen menus. The only draw back I have seen is the remote. I had to return the first one I bought because the remote quit working. The replacement developed the same thing after two months. I called philips and they were very helpful and sent out a new one. I also bought a universal remote at best buy for 10 dollars (also by philips) since then not a problem three months..

This tv is not what it seems. I saw it at Costco for a low price, did some research on tv's, came here and saw some reviews so I bought it. Upon hooking it up to my 360 and checking all the connections (everything and anything you can think of I did it)I soon found out the picture was grotesque with bleeding color and ultra sharp angles, jagged actually and sometimes this kind of "ghost" color on some things. So I hooked up my Gamecube, same results but more bleeding. Then my dvd player...it looked like live streamed video via a dial up connection. I figured that it must be something wrong with the tv so I brought it back in exchange for a new one today and I it had the same blurry color bleeding fuzzy jaggedness as the last one.

_Bottom line_
Do NOT buy this tv. Do NOT be fooled by other reviews. You WILL regret it like I have.

_Note_
After reading the other review about not believing in other rave reviews and not believing him, I feel so stupid and angry that I wasted my time. Just wait till slim CRT Tvs are mass developed by Samsung. That is what you will want.

I have been using my Samsung LCD TV for several months now. I am very pleased with the picture, even though I have not yet changed my cable service to HD. I continue to be amazed at how good regular TV images can be. I was watching a show when a commercial came on that depicted either clouds or an explosion at high-speed. I caught it out of the corner of my eye and my reaction was "WOW!" What must HD be like on this set? Eventually, I will find out.

The TV has a nice array of settings to play around with for your viewing pleasure -- but my "but..." from above is the lack of having a way of changing the aspect ratio directly from the remote. As it is, that setting is buried in the menu tree. A real pity, as regular cable has a variety of aspect ratios in use, and I am frequently changing that setting.

All in all, I am still happy with my Samsung. I would definately recommend this manufacturer.

I use this monitor mainly for work, but I do take it on the road for trade shows and show DVD's on it. I also bought an upconverter HDMI fed dvd player, dvd's look very crisp on this screen.

Highly reccomended! It's a TV that happens to be VERY useful as a monitor...I don't do any gaming though so I can't comment there. I can fit two spreadsheets side by side (or any application), but of course i'm always wishing for more space. Maybe the 26" is my next buy? Speakers aren't great, but I didn't but it for the speakers.

Everyone that see's it as my monitor in my office is jelous!