Samsung PNXXc550 Owners Thread *NO PRICE TALK* - Page 52

I recently purchased a 63" c550 as well and can tell you I sure like mine. I was all set to buy a Panny 65" S2 and after spending an hour or so in front of both sets, the Samsung won me over.

Yes, that is my only regret...not talking the wife into a 63" over the 58" !

I bought and returned 3 of these TVs.

The first 2 had dead pixels and the 3rd one started developing red pixels that would stay on too long after a white screen. The red pixel problem was getting worse so I returned the TV again.

I bought these TVs when the TV was heavily discounted. Now the price of the TV has went up 200 dollars. So when I returned the 3rd TV I received the same model number, but more expensive TV.

Anyway this latest (4th) TV picture quality is way better. The IR is a fraction of what it was on the other TV and there are no dead pixels.

Is it possible that Samsung knew there were problems with the TVs and that is why they were so cheap? And now I get the more expensive one and there are no problems?

Or did I just have bad luck on the TVs and it is just a coincidence that the latest TV is way better than the other ones?

-mk

What is the MFG date? I have a C550 that buzzed one night(this past Saturday) but I haven't taken it back...yet. I still have a few days left.

None of the TVs had significant buzzing. All 4 TVs were manufactured October 2010.

PN63C550 was delivered this morning, and I only had about 15 minutes to play with it, but damn, I was massively underwhelmed.

I calibrated it based on some of the settings posted here, but the picture still looked very soft (DirecTV HD source). Not sure if that is due to going from a 50"->63" that you just see less definition.

The bigger problem I have though is dancing/burned-in pixels. If something is on the screen for 2 seconds or so, and then a scene change, you still see remnants of the previous picture on the screen. And I don't mean the normal burn-in that show shadows, I mean wrong colored pixels.

So, if there was a red box on the screen, and then it switches to a blue sky, there are remnants of the red box still on screen with red pixels.

Are these issues going to go away with break-in, or does it need to go back?

Big Blue Line in the middle of the screen, Im so mad both my panny plasma 4 yrs never had any issues and know this just 40 days old! Geting it replaced with a new one Tomorrow but samsung has some issues and glad i have a 4 year warranty!

That sounds even worse than the problems I have had.

I will tell you this: the latest TV I received has a fraction of the IR from the other TV. I know this because I hooked up a laptop to it to run a program that checks for dead pixels and I would still see all of my icons after the program started running. On this newest TV I was shocked when I didn't see the icons from my desktop retaining their image when the program started running.

-mk

My 63c550 started out with a "soft" picture also...compared to my 50b450. But a week later it was clear and sharp. So break in helped that. However, I didn't have any pixel problems. So I don't know if break in will fix that or not.

Thanks. I was so unproductive at work that I asked my wife to put a DVD on for a bit, and drove home to fiddle with it.

Not sure what happened, but the dancing off-color pixels are gone. Thankfully my wife saw it too when I first turned it on, so she knew I wasn't crazy, and knew what to look for.

Also did the calibration again (which got blown away when I changed which HDMI port it was plugged into), and then started watching content.

I am much happier now. BD content coming from my PS3 looks great (The Patriot looked grainy, but I think that is the transfer, Toy Story 3 looked "wow").

DirecTV content from NBC and ABC looked better but not exceptional. I think a lot of that might be from the bigger sized panel exposing more of the compression issues coming from the source material. It is going to take me a bit to get use to such a bigger screen.

I was expecting somewhat of a break-in period, but this morning I was not sure I could last that long. Now after lunch I feel much better.

Bigger problem I have now is that the height of the new TV now covers 3/4 of my center speaker that is wall-mounted. Whoops, didn't think of that!

Well due to the periodic buzzing I took my 50C550 back to BB last night and swapped for another. Last one had a build date of 9/30/2010. This on has a build date of 3/25/2010. Hope this doesn't mean I'll get a full time buzzer. Hooked it up last night and so far so good. FYI, yesterday was my 30th day so buzz or not, it's mine.

Got my 63c550 yesterday and mounted it to a Bell'o FP-2125 Stand. This replaced my 2001 65" Diamond HD Mitsubishi Rear Projection tv. All I can say is wow!!! I spent 6k on the Mitsu and at 1/3 the price, this set is incredible. I set it up with settings on cnet and my family and I are in awe!

It is amazing what you get for the money these days, I think that the C550 series are an incredible bargain!

I just talked to Samsung this afternoon about my PN58B550, which developed "the hum" and got louder with time. They are giving me an exchange through BB. Four questions for those of you who have already been down this road:

1. Will I be required to exchange for a Samsung only, or will I have the option to go with a different brand?

2. Do the PN58C550G1F's hum? I don't want to do this again. Love the picture, hate the "bonus noise", especially when watching movies.

3. Any suggestions regarding potential replacements if the C550 models have the same issue?

4. With Black Friday being next week, I'm assuming it's a good idea to wait a week before exchanging. Does anyone have any "insider info" regarding potential sales @ BB next week?

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Heard reports that HHG and perhaps other big box retailers will have a good price on the 50 in C550 come Black Friday. Not sure about the 58 in version. Check the Blk Fri sites and ads and see if BB will price match. Can't discuss specifics here; do recommended research.

My C model buzzes. So did my B. I'm amazed you were able to convince Samsung to give a replacement. Or was this through best buys warranty.?

Yes, they are crazy cheap again right now.

PN50c550 is pretty much everywhere this week < 800
Read the Sunday ads.

No, it's Samsung who is arranging the exchange through BB. I never talked to BB once through this entire process

So far so good with my new one. Then again, my other only started buzzing after a couple of weeks. PQ on the 550 is great. At least to me it is

Lucky!

I just got the samsung C550... Seems like I have an awesome pic then I have one issue with the screen automatically changing sizes and then doing what you can see in the 1st 2 pics I have attached. I cant figure out why it is doing this. I have been through the manual and it doesnt say anything as to why its doing this. Does anyone have any idea why? any suggestions?? The only way I can get it to correct is to turn off the TV and then turn it back on. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!

MGD

ps- the 3rd pic is if I go back to the HD channel I started on. So basically I go from an awemore Monday night football pic to switching channels which messed up the pic and then I go back to what you see in pic #3. Its annoying

^^ .. how's your cable box/satellite receiver set-up; is the Samsung in Native image setting? are you using HDMI connection?

I have another plasma set up downstairs and its set up the exact same way as this one: I have only 720p and 1080i picked, normal picture size and 16:9. I am using HDMI connection.
What is the Native Image setting for the samsung itself? I cant answer that yet until I can understand what that actually is.mean.. lol

What model of cable box do you have? Others have experienced a problem like this. I can't remember what fixed it, but it was related to a specific box.

.. Native relates to Format; should be in your Menu list. As previous poster mentioned, may be box; sorry, but unsure.

add: just downloaded the C550 OM; Format should be on 16:9.

Scientific Atlanta 8300HDC

I checked everywhere in my menu list... found nothing that related to native format... unless I am just blind... I sure hope it isnt the cablebox.. that would suck... I am hoping someone has a solution...

That's the one. It's the box. Sorry I can't remember the fix, but scan this thread it's in here somewhere.

I just bought the 50C550 tonight, as I rechecked the spec of this TV on BB site; I do not see the pixel orbiter listed on this model to help prevent screen burn. Does this model have some kind of feature to help prevent the screen burn?