Samsung UE32C6510 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p 100Hz Slim AllShare LED Internet TV with Freeview HD
Posted by Notcot on Sep 16, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
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Had this TV for 3 months now, Freeview HD works perfectly but you need to have a strong HD signal, I added a signal booster. Also just downloaded the BBC iPlayer App and its works great. Have watched a couple of programmes now.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m no expert on the technical aspects but my main reason for selecting this TV was the following:
It’s WHITE!!! Come on… it looks awesome against a white/magnolia wall. It really blends in with the room instead of dominating the room like a black tv would.
It’s a Sumsung, a brand that has rave reviews as well as being aesthetically pleasing and is about 3cm deep. The TV has HD freeview, most TVs just have have regular Freeview which is not capable of picking up the HD signal even though the TV has the capablity to “display” HD. In short without HD freview you will either have to subscribe to SKY etc or buy a new HD freeview box to enjoy HD images.
I was also sold by the technical features…
Full HD as opposed to HD Ready
100hz refresh rate – which reduces motion blur as the tv refreshes the image at the double the rate of older models (I believe the highest rate available is 600hz)
Internet TV w/ ethernet connection – the content is currently very limited but I plan to connect my laptop until things improve.
I’m yet to tinker about with the additional featuress but my first impressions are it’s a great TV and being that it has a great spec I should be happy with it for years to come.
However I do have my eye on the new 3D tv’s so this tv my soon leave the living room and end up in my bedroom.
Also I thought the TV finish was smooth but it has an odd woodgrain-esque gloss finish (zoom in on the image), which I personally don’t like but I can live with it.
Rating: 4 / 5
I received this from Amazon at the weekend and am blown away by what a nice piece of kit it is. I opted for this one over the 40inch in the end as I didn’t want it to overpower my living room (it’s a living room, not a cinema)!
It fits in beautifully and subtly due to the white bezel (why more manufacturers aren’t making lighter coloured TV’s I don’t know?) and is so slim and light that it glides around on the twin-arm wall mount I’ve fitted it to with no effort at all. Oh, and whilst I’m not actually using it, the stand is really nice.
Picture quality is excellent and on the HD channels so sharp that things look almost ‘unreal’ to me at the moment (but I’m assured you get used to that the longer you have HD). Sound quality is really good for such a slim TV as there’s barely any space for speakers in the casing at all, but I’ll probably be hooking it up to a surround sound system before long anyway.
The built-in internet TV is a neat touch, but despite the logo being displayed on all their promotional material there is no sign of the BBC iPlayer anywhere. Either I’ve missed it, or it hasn’t been released yet. If that’s the case then I hope they do so soon, as this will be a very nice facility to have in the living room at the touch of a remote. In the meantime there are apps to check the weather and to watch YouTube videos and stuff like that, but nothing to compare to iPlayer. It’d be nice to have 4OD and the ITVPlayer as well at some point, but I’ll not hold my breath.
I’m lucky in that I have a CAT5 network point behind my TV, but if you don’t you’ll need to factor in buying the Samsung WiFi dongle (or running a long lead to your router) to get the Internet, but I wouldn’t bother until iPlayer is available as whilst the other stuff is nice, I doubt I’ll spend much time using it.
My main PC runs Media Center and whilst the TV did detect that machine it didn’t pick up any of the movies, photos or music files on it (I suspect I need to perform some configuration at one end or t’other) but it’d be nice to have an app that ran as a Media Extender directly in the TV which could take full advantage.
All in all a great TV which I’m very glad I bought. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
It performed exactly as advertised straight out of the box. It only took minutes to unpack and set up and performed faultlessly. Delivery too was excellent.
Rating: 5 / 5
A cracking TV with a stunning HD and SD picture. Delivered on time. Thank You.
Rating: 5 / 5