Just saw my first Samsung 6000 series LED

[Sherm]

I just saw my first Samsung 6000 series 55" LCD with LED lighting.

WOW !! I am not a techy guy, but I do know what looks good and this TV knocks my 550 series out of the park. 1.2 " thick and I swear it handles blacks like an upscale plasma. It's 3600.00 but it looks are worth every penny.

I wish I could get my money back on my 550 and upgrade to one of these !!

But that's what TV technology is about, buying what's nice at the time and wanting something better 10 month's later.

[EazyWeazy3]

Saw this at Frys'.

Looks amazing. I just wish they would show more live-action films rather than the animated ones.

The animated ones look good on any/most tvs imo. It's the live-action ones that I would like to see with the skin tone and the face definition and the water, etc, etc.

Still, a very, very, beautiful TV.

[maygit]

honestly it has the exact same PQ as the B650. I'm at work and we have the 46" b650 next to the 46" 6000 LED and there is zero difference. We'll have to see what happens in reviews when the sets are calibrated but from factory defaults it is the same picture and you lose teh media 2.0 with the LED. It is crazy thin though which really is only for bragging rights and is 40% more energy efficient and does not contain mercury.

EDIT: Remember, it's EDGE-Lit LED, not true local dimming LED like the xbr8 and a950.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by maygit

honestly it has the exact same PQ as the B650. I'm at work and we have the 46" b650 next to the 46" 6000 LED and there is zero difference. We'll have to see what happens in reviews when the sets are calibrated but from factory defaults it is the same picture and you lose teh media 2.0 with the LED. It is crazy thin though which really is only for bragging rights and is 40% more energy efficient and does not contain mercury.

EDIT: Remember, it's EDGE-Lit LED, not true local dimming LED like the xbr8 and a950.

Those edge lit LED's are no where as impressive as the local dimming LED's. You can see what Sammy is trying to do though, by starting with the edge lit LED's (which have flash lighting problems big time) & saving the real good tech for their top of the line displays. But by introducing LED's in most of their set's, hopefully by the next year or two they will have a full range of local dimming LED LCD's for good prices. People are going to see "LED LCD" & think it's a local dimming model. Let the confusion begin....

[Fors*]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Those edge lit LED's are no where as impressive as the local dimming LED's. You can see what Sammy is trying to do though, by starting with the edge lit LED's (which have flash lighting problems big time) & saving the real good tech for their top of the line displays. But by introducing LED's in most of their set's, hopefully by the next year or two they will have a full range of local dimming LED LCD's for good prices. People are going to see "LED LCD" & think it's a local dimming model. Let the confusion begin....

I'll have to make a mental note of this. Thanks for the info....good to know!

[allstar780]

The 6000 series sets suffer from horrible black crush. They may do a nice deep black but you lose a ton of shadow detail. I would like to take the time to properly set one up to see if the black crush is a result of default settings though or if it is just a symptom of the TV itself.

At first I thought the black crush was maybe the Chris Botti concert blu we had playing but I put Wall-E on and it had it too... these TVs are still a loooong ways off from a decent plasma.

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by Sherm

I just saw my first Samsung 6000 series 55" LCD with LED lighting.

WOW !! I am not a techy guy, but I do know what looks good and this TV knocks my 550 series out of the park. 1.2 " thick and I swear it handles blacks like an upscale plasma. It's 3600.00 but it looks are worth every penny.

I wish I could get my money back on my 550 and upgrade to one of these !!

But that's what TV technology is about, buying what's nice at the time and wanting something better 10 month's later.

I've been curious about these as well. I'm debating between one of these and one of the new 54" Panasonic V-series plasmas. The plasma will almost certainly be less expensive. But I just wonder if the picture will have the same "pop" as these new LED's.