is it me or samsung lcd tv just bad?

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#1  Edited By AnnouncerGXZ

 is it me or samsung lcd tv just bad?
 
ive been hearing alot of people brag about samsung lcd tv saying its high quality and sharp and all that but i also been walking through tv section in local electronic stores and compare others with samsung lcd tv in live! while TVs is on and samsung just look inferior! bad picture, not sharp ect.. and this is not only one time, ive been comparing many times with several other samsung tv and samsung always look inferior to others.
 
now my niece got a new lcd tv and its a samsung and guess what? its dark and not sharp! messing with setting wont change anything. it just like that! 
 
im not picking on samsung..... just bash it as i see. yeah go ahead mention all that technical spec ect... but still in my eyes samsung tv is just bad, my niece even agrees! told her to refund and get sony. 
 
anyway whos with me? who experience the same?
 

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#2  Edited By JJWeatherman

I'm not with you. They are awesome in HD. Maybe you didn't see them in HD but there are much worse options to go with. Sony TVs are like the Bose of TVs, very nice, but also very overpriced.

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#3  Edited By MeierTheRed

Its you, i have two Samsung HDTV's and they work like a charm. What series is yours from?

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#4  Edited By AnnouncerGXZ
@pornstorestiffi said:

" Its you, i have two Samsung HDTV's and they work like a charm. "

have you compare it with other brands?
 
and yes JJ i see it in HD and look inferior to other brands.
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#5  Edited By foggel

I have a samsung 6 series, and it's superior ;) So I disagree with you.

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#6  Edited By MeierTheRed
@AnnouncerGXZ said:

" @pornstorestiffi said:

" Its you, i have two Samsung HDTV's and they work like a charm. "

have you compare it with other brands?  and yes JJ i see it in HD and look inferior to other brands. "
Yeah i have compared to Philips, LG and Pioneer. And my series 8 46" Samsung looks very clear and the colors just pop. Plus the black levels on it are really good and comparing my Series 8 to my older 32" series 5 there is a world of difference in picture quality. 
 
Oh also did you even calibrate your TV?
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#7  Edited By Atlas

Panasonic>Toshiba>everyone else

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#8  Edited By shulinchung

Panasonic makes good Plasma TV. 
As for LCD TV, Sharp>Toshiba>Sony>everyone else 
However, you need to be in Japan to see their full glory(or import them straight from Japan). They don't sell their best models outside Japan.
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#9  Edited By SeriouslyNow

Sorry but it's you.
 
@shulinchung said:

" Panasonic makes good Plasma TV. As for LCD TV, Sharp>Toshiba>Sony>everyone else However, you need to be in Japan to see their full glory(or import them straight from Japan). They don't sell their best models outside Japan. "


Sharp use Loewe image processors.  To all intents and purposes the AQUOS is a Loewe with slightly cheaper Toshiba panel.   It's also priced like the Loewe or pretty close to.  The best TVs in general are Loewe.  Always have and I'd guess always will be.  My 32" CRT Loewe still gives a great picture, regardless of input source.  It can do 480p but that's it.  It also still has one of the smoothest IVTC/3:2 Pulldown image processors around which can make any source look like it's progressive.
 
The best value for money LCD TVs are Samsung and in many cases they beat many more expensive models, especially om the 100hz range because Samsung uses high grade panels and quality image processors with seriously lovely motion smoothing.  Lastly, Samsung are one of the few LCD TV manufacturers whose TVs actually work properly as DVI/HDMI monitors and do not produce overscan or colour banding, which pretty much all other manufacturers aside from Loewe, Sharp and Panasonic, do.
 
 Sony LCD TV's are shit for the price.
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#10  Edited By Diamond
@SeriouslyNow said:
Sorry but it's you.
That's definitely up for debate, it depends on what Samsung he was seeing.  There are better panels.
 
@SeriouslyNow:
I never even heard of Loewe but looking it up on the net I get some sense of what they do.  What kind of LCD panels do they make, are they TN, IPS, PVA?  I see some people praise them, but never any tech discussion.  I'll assume they're not the Bose of TV makers...  Is your 32" Loewe not a HDTV?  CRT HDTVs are the best HDTVs in general, but I assume that some day that will no longer be true.
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#11  Edited By Marz

my 46" samsung probably has the best picture quality i've seen when i went to go browse tvs at the store...  you probably have some auto adjust settings which probably would make it too dark because my tv whites are bright and blacks are black.

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#12  Edited By shulinchung
@SeriouslyNow said:

Sony LCD TV's are shit for the price. "



I've never heard of Loewe, either. I guess they don't sell their products in Asia? 
Samsung LCD TVs cost almost as much as Sony's where I live. Not sure about TV but for LCD monitors, I agree with the statement that Samsung has the best value for money.
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#14  Edited By Psycho_Rich

For me Samsung are the best but like any brand it all depends on which model you get. Samsung certainly have some sub par sets in there range but the top of the line LED back lit LCD's are the best on the market in my opinion.

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#15  Edited By Nitrocore

Iv'e had a 32" Samsung HD LCD tv for about 2 and a half years and not had any problems with it all, I do however use my monitor for playing console / pc games because of the quality.

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#16  Edited By Butchio

my series 5 32 inch samsung 1080p tv is perfect

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#17  Edited By Skye

LG ftw.

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#18  Edited By SeriouslyNow
@Diamond said:
" @SeriouslyNow said:
Sorry but it's you.
That's definitely up for debate, it depends on what Samsung he was seeing.  There are better panels.
 
@SeriouslyNow: I never even heard of Loewe but looking it up on the net I get some sense of what they do.  What kind of LCD panels do they make, are they TN, IPS, PVA?  I see some people praise them, but never any tech discussion.  I'll assume they're not the Bose of TV makers...  Is your 32" Loewe not a HDTV?  CRT HDTVs are the best HDTVs in general, but I assume that some day that will no longer be true. "
I have two TVs - my old one is Loewe Xelos 32" and my recent TV is a Samsung series 5 32"
 
The Loewe brand is an expensive brand based on quality.  The 32" and 42" Xelos CRT models were used in Television production studios the world over as part of vision mixing and editing suites prior to the shift to HD.  Their CRT models gave an even better picture (sharpness, detail, movement smoothness) than any other brand of the day, including Sony whose Trinitron and Aperture Grille technologies made them a pretty good competitor back then. And no Loewe aren't the Bose of TVs that would Blaupunkt.
 
The Samsung uses an S-PVA panel from memory.
 
I can understand why some people haven't heard of Loewe ("lur ve") because my old Xelos cost almost $3400 US!
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#19  Edited By Scooper

I disagree. My Samsung was cheap, looks slick and has great picture quality and 20,000:1 contrast.

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#20  Edited By Evilsbane

I have always bought Samsung because everything they make is awesome, I own two TVs and I plan to own one of their new LED TVs which look sick.

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#21  Edited By Diamond

  @SeriouslyNow said:

I have two TVs - my old one is Loewe Xelos 32" and my recent TV is a Samsung series 5 32"
 
The Loewe brand is an expensive brand based on quality.  The 32" and 42" Xelos CRT models were used in Television production studios the world over as part of vision mixing and editing suites prior to the shift to HD.  Their CRT models gave an even better picture (sharpness, detail, movement smoothness) than any other brand of the day, including Sony whose Trinitron and Aperture Grille technologies made them a pretty good competitor back then. And no Loewe aren't the Bose of TVs that would Blaupunkt.  The Samsung uses an S-PVA panel from memory.  I can understand why some people haven't heard of Loewe ("lur ve") because my old Xelos cost almost $3400 US! "

I don't think they sell 100% Loewe TVs in the US at all right?  It sounds like their CRTs really were top tier (using curved screens?  cool) but I don't really see anything substantial about the quality of their LCDs or plasmas.  So you don't really know what kind of panels they have on the Loewe LCDs?  It sounds like the highest end CRT Sony offerings were comparable depending on what you were looking at.  I just have a mid-level Sony Trinitron HDTV.
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#22  Edited By OutOfBounds9000

 
I have a Samsung LCD TV,and it works freaking awesome!!!!
 
I have 2 tvs =)

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#23  Edited By ADTR_ZERO

It's just you.