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| Samsung LN46A550 46-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV | 
| List Price: $1,599.99
Buy New: $1,177.97
You Save: $422.02 (26%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 246 reviews)
Sales Rank: 150
Category: CE
Publisher: Samsung
Studio: Samsung
Brand: Samsung
Label: Samsung
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: 1
Display Size: 46
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Shipping Weight (lbs): 60.8
Dimensions (in): 44.4 x 11 x 30.2
MPN: LN-46A550
Model: LN-46A550
UPC: 036725228184
EAN: 0036725228184
ASIN: B0014175E8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Full HD 1080p Resolution | | • | Wide Color Enhancer | | • | 3 HDMI Inputs | | • | USB 2.0 | | • | HDMI-CDC |
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Product Description
46" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * high-gloss black finish * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners for over-the-air TV broadcasts (antenna required) * built-in QAM cable TV tuner receives unscrambled programs without a set-top box (cable service required) * 1920 x 1080 pixels *
Manufacturer's Description--March 24, 2008
Samsung's 550 Series is a perfect way to step up to Full HD 1080p resolution. A fast 5 ms response rate produces smooth-motion scenes for sports and action movies, and a dynamic contrast ratio of 30,000:1 makes for deep blacks and crisp lines (15,000:1 in 32-inch and 37-inch models). Superb connectivity and networking with a USB port and 3 HDMI 1.3 ports with Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) means these HDTVs play well with all of your other electronics. Easily enjoy MPEG and JPEG files stored on external devices by connecting through the side-mounted USB 2.0, turn your LCD into a full-scale home viewing gallery, or connect your MP3 player for a dynamic audio experience.
Key Features
- New -- 30,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio: up from 15,000:1 on 2007 models (15,000 on 32-inch and 37-inch models) (Learn more)
- New -- Fast 5ms response time: down from 8ms on 2007 models thanks to a new high-speed liquid crystal
- Full 1080p HD (Learn more)
- 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes with Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (Learn more)
- 3 HDMI 1.3 ports: Simplay compliant (Learn more)
- USB 2.0 port: connect devices directly to your HDTV--view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily listen to your MP3 player through your HDTV's audio system or your home theater system
- DNIe Digital Natural Image Engine improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, and white balance (Learn more)
- Hidden speakers with SRS TruSurround XT audio (Learn more)
- Wide Color Enhancer technology and Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) offer a wider color range (Learn more)
- Picture-in-Picture (PIP) enables convenient simultaneous viewing of TV programs and video or PC sources
- V-Chip system allows blocking of rated TV and movie programs determined by the parent to contain objectionable content.
- Trilingual on-screen displays in English, Spanish or French.
- Variable sleep timer to turn the TV off in varying time intervals.
- Auto wall mount compatible: 3-dimensional operation via TV?s remote control; no external IR receiver required.
- Swivel stand included
- 1 year parts and 1 year labor warranty (90 days parts and labor for commercial use), with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support
Step Up Features
- Series 6: 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, AutoMotion Plus 120Hz image interpolation for smoother motion, 4ms response time, Transparent and Opaque Color (TOC) bezel, Clear Panel, Ethernet port with Infolink free RSS feeds, 4 HDMI 1.3 ports, Sports and Game modes, Compatible with Samsung's Home Digital Media Adapter for playback and navigation of Internet and stored PC multimedia
- Series 7: Internal flash memory (1GB) with pre-loaded interactive content such as cooking recipes, children's entertainment, HD artwork and more, Integrated woofer for an enhanced audio experience, DLNA-Compatible: for better interoperability with electronics, computers and mobile devices from many different manufacturers
- Series 8: super-slim 1.9-inch thick profile
What size TV should you get?
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Full HD 1080P  | Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. The new Samsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HDTVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable.
Samsung?s 1080p panel uses a new high-speed liquid crystal to cut response time to 4ms. The fast response time, coupled with Samsung?s Auto Motion Plus 120Hz motion blur reduction technology dramatically reduces motion blur and judder.
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30,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/500 nit Brightness
 | 30,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a picture better than you ever thought possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung?s new LCD TV?s give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever.
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 | DNIe The Samsung Digital Natural Image engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces.
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The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72% of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp back lights to give you 92% coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors.
Samsung?s exclusive Wide Color Enhancer technology delivers more brilliant colors, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system displays wider color reproduction, showing you truer colors ? the fresh green of spring foliage, the intense blue of the summer sky. |  |  |  |  |
| To make the Series 6 a true entertainment hub for any home, Samsung has incorporated advanced HD connectivity and networking capabilities that expand the HDTV?s functionality. A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the four Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one on the side), and the handy HDMI-CEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote.
Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the 2 rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV.
Once connected, users can easily access device menus and manage and display content through the newly redesigned Wheel Key Remote control and the HDTV?s sophisticated content management interface.
All Connections
- 3 HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) version 1.3: (2 rear/1 side)
- Component video: 2 rear (Y, Pb, Pr)
- Composite inputs: 1 rear (shared with component) / 1 side
- S-Video: 1 side
- PC input: 1 rear
- Wiselink (USB 2.0)
- RF antenna inputs
- Headphone jack: side
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| Samsung?s Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes |
TruSurround is a patented SRS technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content over two speakers. TruSurround delivers a compelling, virtual surround sound experience through any two-speaker playback system, including internal television speakers and headphones. It is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. High-quality virtual surround sound can be experienced with just the two hidden, downward-firing side-mounted 2.2-channel dome speakers built into the TV.
SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass.
TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.
- Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper.
- TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself.
- The SRS WOW feature widens the sound stage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system.
Stereo broadcast reception is offered for MTS and SAP with 181-channel capacity. A sound leveler keeps audio volume consistent during channel changing.
| With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience. If you know the size of the room you have already, where you want to sit, and where your new HDTV should go once you get it, you can figure out the size HDTV you should get. - Minimum size = Viewing distance/3
- Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5
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| Customer Reviews: Read 241 more reviews...
 Very Nice November 22, 2008
We previewed the Samsung several times before we bought it. We have not been disappointed with our purchase.
great lcd! November 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great LCD! Best I have ever owned. I have no complaints. Item was shipped quickly and in perfect condition. Thanks!
 New Big Screen Lover November 19, 2008
I have to agree with all the positive reviews of the design of the set and the picture quality and unfortunately I have to agree with the negative review of the sound quality - something I hope will be fixed with the addition of speakers as recommended by another reviewer. The only truly negative thing I have to say about the set is that stupid box in the left hand corner that pops up when I change channels and says "no time information 1920x720@60hz" (a number that changes depending on what station is being broadcast). I called Samsung to ask how to get rid of the box as the information makes no sense to me and certainly doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose other than to annoy me - but they tell me I can't get rid of it. This is completely unacceptable and I'm really considering returning the set! Any suggestions?
Very pleased thus far November 17, 2008
We purchased the Samsung LN46A550 after doing a lot of research, and we bought it from Amazon because (1) they had the best price and (2) we had heard good things about CEVA delivery. Unfortunately, the first unit was DOA, so the CEVA guys boxed it back up while I was on the phone with Amazon. Due to the size and high value of the product, it took a couple extra days longer to get the replacement than would normally be the case (or so I assume), but everything went smoothly and the second unit works perfectly. CEVA was great to work with all the way around.
The TV is an excellent size for our bedroom ... this unit replaced a 36" tube, so the new TV provides a similar image height ... our heads are about 10-11 feet from the TV, which sits high atop a 64" tall armoire ... as expected, I am very pleased with the image quality: brightness, color, black levels, contrast, etc. ... we are feeding a signal from our DirecTV HD DVR via HDMI, and the most annoying thing that has cropped up is the TV's slow recognition and/or adjustment to the signal as we change channels on the DVR ... it only takes a few seconds as it switches, but it seems strange that the TV has to work that hard at it (our Samsung 56" 1080p RPTV in the living room is fed by the same model of DVR and has no such problems) ...
Like many others, I am underwhelmed by the downward-firing speakers, which have a hollow sound devoid of highs and lows ... however, perhaps because we have the TV elevated, I'm not having as much of an issue with the speakers as other reviewers, but I've played quite a bit with the settings to get them to sound reasonable. I'm considering getting one of those 3.1 sound bar setups, but with the holidays coming I will probably hold off to see what gift cards I get ;-)
Overall, we are very pleased and we're looking forward to many years of enjoyable HD viewing!
Excellent choice! November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like you I spent a great deal of time researching the big TV I was going to buy... spoke to a bunch of family/friends, read forums and review sites, poured over technical specs, spoke to more people and then I decided to get this LCD HDTV. Thinking back, an excellent choice I made and I stand by it after a month of enjoying it.
A brief about by buying decision and then the TV itself - at the outset I narrowed down the type of HDTV to a LCD and ruled out both Plasma (primarily because I didn't think the picture quality was great) and DLP (primarily because of viewing angle). And among LCD HDTVs I was looking at Samsung and Sony only. I found that Samsung's pricing and features are perfectly interleaved with Sony models and hence a Samsung seemed to give me the best bang for the buck within my budgetary threshold. Specifically, I was pitching this TV against the Sony Bravia V and W series.
Apart from all the great features of this TV that you already know about, there is one feature I would like to point out... its the fact that this TV has a great response rate of 5ms. More expensive TVs have a 4ms response rate. Also I did ponder over the 60Hz refresh rate on this TV but I don't think its a big deal and in my view it didn't justify the extra bucks you need to put down for a 120Hz. Also I've never experienced motion blur yet, at least for the kind of viewing I do.
Amazon did great with my order and the delivery service was smooth and fast.
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