Official Samsung LNxxA750 Owners Thread - Page 94

I got mine from CC for $2600 including the Extended Warranty now thats what I call a deal. I think CC is the best option right now because of the fact that their stocks are down and they are struggling

hksnlper,

What size?

52 inch A750 here, love it!!

Thanks guys, I ended up making a lot of phone calls to CEVA and Ark-La-Tex and finally got it straightened out. The issue happened when KW sub-contracted CEVA and messed up the paperwork. When Samsung called today CEVA okayed it at their national office, but never called the Dallas office to tell them. When I called they checked in with the LA office and then approved Ark-La-Tex to do the dropoff. The guys then stopped by a little after 6PM to drop off the box.

When they went to pull it off the truck I told them I wasn't sure if I should accept it as the box had been opened...

Interestingly, when they came back to get it, I immediately called my contact at Samsung, and she was mad. I called her back later to tell her I found out where it went wrong and that it should be coming and she apologized for like 5 minutes and made me promise to call back on Monday whether I received it or not.


darrix, did you get any videos to work with Twonky? If you did what setting did you have in the Twonky client configuration screen? Mine comes up as 'Generic DLNA 1.5' and no videos I've tried so far work. I put one of those same videos on a USB drive and the TV played it for a few minutes just fine.

Unfortunately I have no AC3 encoded Divx/MP4 files, so I'm transcoding 'Cars' as we speak, will be done to late to deal with tonight though. I'm doing it H.264/AC3.

The only videos I've gotten to play via DLNA are off my Canon SD600 camera. I have a couple of other h.264 videos that use stereo AAC as the audio (from the camera originally, but edited in iMovie '08 for Youtube upload), and the video plays, but it says unsupported audio and of course the movie's are silent.

For quick and dirty sake I plugged in kjgarrison's settings from his 'Run 5' in the calibration thread. We watched a bit of TV via our DirecTV HR21 and 'Bee Movie' off the Oppo 980, and both looked pretty darn good. Tomorrow night my wife will be out of town to watch the taping of the Miss Louisiana contest, so I might spend some time doing some hand calibration, or at least some cross checking, to see what I come up with. I also plan on playing with zerog6's latest settings also.

But this TV is very nice. The glossy is mostly not an issue at all. I have a lamp directly across the room from the TV and at the right angle when there is a dark spot on the screen it does become a problem, but we will find a solution to that. The other lamps, and earlier the windows, are not an issue when there is actual content on the screen.

Halo effect - I noticed it a little bit when I really looked for it, but in our room, with our setup and lighting it is a complete non-issue. Of course we never watch in complete darkness, but I even tested for that and it didn't bother me. Interestingly I noticed where there was shadow much more than where there was light being halo'd.

AMP seems much better over the xx69 series. I can't necessarily say it is perfect, but I couldn't stand it on movies before, and I left it on Low tonight and was pretty happy. Although I think on TV if you have both Movie Mode and AMP on Low it gets a little 'over smooth' but I'll have to watch more and find out. I came to this decision watching Torchwood as shown on HD Net. Of course I don't know if it is from film, but when watching it before it had a film kind of feel to the image. But it definitely had that 'too smooth' thing going on while BSG and some SD stuff did not.

Oh, and the included stuff like the games and activities. Wow... That's all I'm going to say about that.

So I'm going to go off and sleep now, and hopefully not have dreams of mean trucking people showing up to take my TV away again...

I have a couple of MPEG-4V/AAC that works just fine with Twonky. I didn't change any settings on Twonky to make them work I tried transcoding some videos to H.264 but none of 'em played;(. I have an Xvid/MP3 video that played fine

Can you tell me how one would go about getting the free LinkStick? I have a 52" 750 purchased 6/3/08, and I read about the Samsung promo, but was not able to find it again.

I'm replying to my own post, but for anybody that needs it, here is a link to the form that will give you the free LinkStick from Samsung when you buy a LNxx750
Pete

The link
http://product.samsung.com/savings/

Before you throw away your xx750 box (or xx650) you may want to save the UPC code so you can claim your free LinkStick from Samsung.
http://product.samsung.com/savings/

I got the same price. Started at 2549, dropeed 3 times ending at 2417. Free shipping, no tax, white gloves delivery.

@Shawn Parr: How would you rate the LNT69 vs. the A750, as far as having a matte screen vs. a glossy? Would the PQ really make that much of a difference in your eye? We'd like to know what your impressions are. I don't think that Samsung confirmed a 2008 replacement to the 69, tho, which is sad to know. Would've been nice to see a matte/semi-matte version of the 6/7 series. I mean, the glossiness of the A750 is nice, really is there for a reason to give that crisp picture and such, but that kind of defeats the purpose of owning an LCD on the same token, tho.

Day 1 with the 750 was fantastic. I'll try to get to the promised motion resolution tests today.

Has anyone noticed this:

When I am scanning through the IPG on my STB, I sometimes notice the 750's standby light flashing. Doesn't have any effect on the TV or display, but I thought this was weird.

It turns out that the videos from my camera that were playing were actually from iMovie documents also, so things get really weird.

I have two videos, both shot on my SD600, edited in iMovie and exported using the Share to Youtube feature. This creates an h.264 video with AAC audio. If you locate the iMovie project file, then right click and view the contents of the file you can find the .m4v file used for export. One of them plays totally fine via DNLA, the other one only shows the video, no audio "Audio Codec not supported."

On a USB drive both work fine if renamed to .mp4 from .m4v, with both video and audio. My Cars transcode will not play over net or USB, with a Video Codec not supported message from USB and file format not supported over DNLA.

I'll be playing with settings today to see if I can get them to work over USB. Once that happens I'll jump back into DNLA. One issue is that I'm not sure how much is Twonky vs how much is the TV. For an example of what I mean double check the issue with the videos from my camera...


The a750 is better all around. As I mentioned I have almost no glossy screen issues, except for one lamp that is 100% directly across the room from the TV. And it was only an issue when a dark part of the screen was in just the right spot for you to see its reflection directly. We'll move that lamp and all will be well.

I should mention that all my windows in the room are to your left while sitting on the couch watching the TV, so the reflection issue would be much less than if they were directly across from the TV. I'm going to be doing stuff with the TV all day today with the windows open, so if I discover that at, say 3PM, the glossy becomes a huge pain, I'll let you know. The color seems a bit better too, both out of the box (which I though the OOB experience with the 4069 was incredible), and after adjustment. Plus the 750 has much greater color control due to the custom color space adjustments rather than just auto and wide.

The glossy does seem to help a bit with the blacks and contrast. How much is hard to say since my xx69 has been out of my hands since April.

You know it is funny, one of the reasons I justified the purchase of the 4069 was the matte screen, even though I had experience with the glossy on my Macbook, which is usually not problematic. And I really did enjoy my 4069 while it worked. Everyone who saw it absolutely loved the image.

All in all though I think the glossy does work out better for the picture quality. One thing I haven't done yet is check out the actual usable viewing angle. My 4069 looked good, without color distortion, as far to the side as I could still see enough image to make a comparison with. I've seen some comments that the 750's angle isn't as good, so I'll have to compare that also.

Well, back to Handbrake to try to crack the h.264 settings puzzle!

They did, its called the 46a580 at best buy

Warning! The following is being posted by a forum nubie, and embarraasing typist, so read at your own peril.
I've had a 52A750 for about a week now. I must say, its a KEEPER! I'm developing TMJ because whenever I look at this TV in HD my jaw drops!
Anyway, here's my overall A750 experience. I am not a videophile, and I think I know just about enough to be dangerous (certainly enough to make the local retail guys dislike me).
Purchased from Amazon: I was apprehensive, but its a great way to go. Free S/H and Amazon White gloves (using CEVA/Eagle) was a good experience for me.
I have seen no halo or other detractors so far. I guess I am not able to discriminate some of the more subtle (and apparently not so subtle) effects others are seeing. The TV does attract dust like crazy, and I've been careful not to scratch it. I have it mounted on a credenza that is about 32" high, and the TV's base sits on that. So I'm pretty much looking head-on to the screen. I am also not bothered by any noticable glare.
I bought HDMI 1.0 cables (try monoprice.com or others...buying these at a bigbox store will cost you dearly.) HDMI hookups are simple and no problems were encountered in my setup.
I also have a (OK, I cheaped out on this one) Samsung TWZ412 Home Theater in a Box (HTIB). I also a Scientific Atlanta DVR from my cable company, connected like this:
Cable on wall --> TV using Coax (I don't use this much, but it sets the TV clock so I need it)
Cable on wall --> DVR using Coax (I used a GHz splitter sending 1 coax to the TV IN and 1 to the DVR IN.)
HTIB --> TV using HDMI2 (my HTIB only has HDMI OUT, wish it had HDMI IN!, but I don't want a gigantic receiver or Samsung A720 which appears to be Samsung's only response to my complaint of no HDMI IN's).
DVR --> TV using HDMI1
I have not hooked up to my PC (yet) and I'm waiting for my FREE LinkStick (link to get one: http://product.samsung.com/savings/).

Only had one problem so far. Since I cannot feed everything into my cheap HTIB, I had no way of getting the 5.1 audio to the HTIB, but buried in the Samsung book was a note on using an optical (Toslimnk) cable between the source (in my case the DVR box) and the HTIB. Problem solved! (but its still a pain in the butt to play with the buttons...no let me rephrase that...its fun for me, but its a pain if my wife wants fo do it because then I have to drop what I am doing and play with the buttons for her)....Again, look online for this cable. Local BB wanted $30 and I'd rather have a third of a tank of gas instead.
But on the other hand, the el-cheapo (well $350 anyway) HTIB does upconvert my old DVDs to 1080p (look closely at the upconverter spec...many upconvert to 1080i only) and that is phenomenal on the A750! In fact, I cannot tell a 1080p upconverted DVD from a Blue Ray DVD. I guess with the 1080p signal and the 120Hz refresh rate, 1080p makes me wonder why people use Blue Ray at all (am I wrong?)

Anyway, thanks to all the previous posters for sharing thier experience. I learned a lot, and thought I'd add my 2 cents now.
Any suggestion on optimizing my setup would be appreciated.
Pete

Or A540 at Costco.

Last night I was watching some of my old Vale Tudo championships which are in Portugese and transfered from VHS tapes. These MMA tapes have the original fights Wanderley Silva was in and also Pele and Babalou Sobral. Anyways, I used my upconverting DVD player with noise reduction on auto and I couldn't believe how good these old dark fights look, time to relive these fights in big screen glory.

Lovin every minute of it!

Mosh~~

Edit: Spelling

Huge MMA fan. How would a man go about getting a copy of these fights of which you speak?

I bought mine off of ebay, you can also download them via torrents. I use pirate bay and extreme wrestling torrents to get some of my stuff. The early Vale Tudo fights are great because they are in brazil and they allow everything except eye gouging and fish hooking the mouth. Groin shots, headbutts, everything else is ok and some of these early tapes are bare knuckle. Also sometimes the fans are so into it they charge the ring and go after the corner guys, it's friggin nuts, lol.

I would go the ebay route myself since they have the covers and everything.

This was a quick search on ebay.

http://search.*********/search/searc...udo&category0=

Search for international vale tudo. Also world vale tudo is very good and Japan has started a new company called Dream to take over where pride left off. There is also going to be a new event here in the USA called affliction and they have the best looking card ever put together IMP, it's coming in July the same day of the next UFC event.

Mosh~~

Edit: Link doesn't work, oh well. Just do a search for vale tudo and world vale tudo. I think there are like 14 international vale tudos and 8 world vale tudos. Mo

I'm well aware of the affliction show. No Sylvia fan but it will be nice that Fedor will finally have a real test, which he hasn't had in a long time. I'm tired of hearing about him being the best and he hasn't fought much at all lately, at least not quality opponents. UFC is planning to put something together on the 19th to go against affliction but I think it will be free and on Spike. I've watched all the Dream shows on HDNet. Great channel for us MMA fans.

Got my 46A750 this morning, and I'm totally blown away. I had been running a Toshiba 52HMX85 DLP (720p) for 2.5 years now, and got to exchange it for the 750 using the Future Shop PSP exchange. As good as my DLP looked, 1080p24 BD's displayed on this are rocking my world. Just need to wait for my ISF calibration on Friday and I'll be set.

I am missing the extra 6" (downgrading from 52" to 46") just a little, but I'll get used to it, especially with the huge improvement in quality.

The only issue this morning was that the delivery guys almost got into a fist fight with my neighbour! Yikes!

Any of you guys have Verizon FiOS TV? Hows the quality? is HD any better than cable (I got cablevision currently and it's not that great)

Interesting. Thanks guys!

Got my first issue on my 750....for some reason when i plug in HDMI 2 cable, I cannot get any sound if the HDMI2 RCA audio inputs are also plugged in.

Has anyone gotten this configuration to work?

Suprised you say that...what source were you watching the 750 with? They should be comparable pictures, with the 750 better since it is 4ms rated..

The source was an OTA antenna. With AMP set to OFF, FW 1004, there was still a blurring effect around objects when in motion.

Bob,

I know there has been a lot of discussion about the glossy screens, and it is 100% a matter of personal opinion. Just wanted to throw this comment into the mix:

My 750 replaces a Sony Wega tube TV. Reflections are less noticeable than they were with the tube.

Well, I was really intending that for Shawn Parr, since he was comparing the A750 with the LNT69 series from last year. Which I related the fact that I don't think that Samsung confirmed a direct replacement for that model with a matte screen 120Hz LCD. I guess the only way you can get a matte-screened 120Hz is to go with a higher-end Sony model. Otherwise, I don't mind the gloss, and I believe that the A750 may be the better choice at the end of the day.

Feel free to argue against my post below as I have not seen an A750 on Fios and a Vizio on DirecTV and Comcast HD.

I saw HD Fios on my Uncle's Vizio. Fios is much clearer IMO compared to Comcast's basic HD cable (Digital TV directly to the TV instead of using the Digital Cable box) and DirecTV's HD.

You'll get artifacts, especially on sports at 1080i, on Comcast's basic HD cable. DirecTV has a little less of the artifacting, but the video quality is a little worse than Comcast's (not by much though).

Even on my uncle's Vizio, the picture was crystal clear on Fios. There is no artifacting at all, even on extremely fast scenes, thanks to fiber optic goodness. If you have Verizon Fios in your area, I think you should definitely consider it.