Official Samsung UNxxES8000 Owner's Thread - Page 3

Originally Posted by balla01

Free of charge??

Originally Posted by maygit

Just got the 55ES8000 in and i'm setting it up right now. I think the stand is pretty cool looking. It's different, but i like it. Sucks it doesnt swivel though. Nice looking TV, but I thought the frame and base especially felt a little cheap for a $3400 TV. Altough, that doesn't really matter much since once you get it where you want it, no one will be touching the frame anyway.

Originally Posted by HaRd2BeAr

Thank you for taking the time to post the pictures. Looks a very nice set.

Hope all is well when set up etc.

Aaron

Originally Posted by anis_ber


yes, afterall their MSRP is the same right?

Originally Posted by balla01

So you basically paid the difference? Am I following that right?

Originally Posted by anis_ber


what difference? they are same series 8, same MSRP
did not pay a dime

Originally Posted by GeraldRommel

A list of reviews I've seen so far (the European version, which as we've seen is the same.)

http://www.pluggedin.co.uk/review/sa...-expert-review

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/aud...1069068/review

On blacks:
"after these simple adjustments, you get a picture that goes from having rather washed out dark scenes with obvious backlight inconsistencies to one with arguably the deepest and most uniform black levels delivered to date from Edge LED technology."

On 3d:
"Then there's crosstalk. As 2011 rolled on and more and more 3D TVs emerged, it became increasingly clear that Samsung's 2011 LCD TVs weren't the best when it came to handling the 3D ghosting phenomenon.

But the improvement for the Samsung UE55ES8000 is substantial, to the extent that with one or two rare exceptions, you tend to only see crosstalk around objects in the extreme distance."

"The only serious flaw with 3D images is that as the screen ramps up its light output for 3D viewing, it causes fairly obvious jets of backlight bleed to appear over dark scenes in each of the image's corners.

You can reduce this problem by taking some of the backlight brightness out of the picture, but this inevitably takes some of the punch out of 3D images, too."

And then I realized that the other 6 I had opened were all just copies of the techradar review with words changed here and there.

Originally Posted by joseph10704

at least so far there saying there no uniformity problem's and that's a good thing so the tv come out of the box with not so good picture u have to calbrated the tv in something's to get it the best picture as u can ,i am fine with that BUT i am still going to wait for CNET to review there tv's as of now no word yet on there tv review's but u have to understand these reviews are UK review's so americans can have a whole new different tv over in america .then again u never know ,Thank u for the little review u gave us .

The only serious flaw with 3D images is that as the screen ramps up its light output for 3D viewing, it causes fairly obvious jets of backlight bleed to appear over dark scenes in each of the image's corners.

Originally Posted by HaRd2BeAr

Not to be negative, but.

Originally Posted by GeraldRommel

Which they say only happens in 3d mode and is fixed by turning down the backlight brightness. I still fail to see the real problem here.

Originally Posted by HaRd2BeAr

Not to be negative, but.

Originally Posted by GeraldRommel

Which they say only happens in 3d mode and is fixed by turning down the backlight brightness. I still fail to see the real problem here.

On blacks:
"after these simple adjustments, you get a picture that goes from having rather washed out dark scenes with obvious backlight inconsistencies to one with arguably the deepest and most uniform black levels delivered to date from Edge LED technology."

Just as well, then, that it doesn't take much work to transform the Samsung UE55ES8000's pictures from garish eyeball bashers with backlight inconsistency and OTT colours into genuine video excellence.

Originally Posted by joseph10704

the crazy thing is tho look at last year's D8000 cnet review no joke when it came to 3D the best 3D tv on the market last year was D8000 so for this to happen this year ,its kinda a let down ,but like the review did say u can lower it down and trueley i think a fireware update will be able to fix that ,but u never know ,let see what cnet has to say this year tho i am sure there will be different anwer's buddy .Thank u for commenting back bro

Originally Posted by HaRd2BeAr

No worries,

I am not trying to hijack the thread and turn it negative as there is allot to like about Samsung tvs. Just making observations.

Originally Posted by HaRd2BeAr

Not to be negative, but.

Originally Posted by joseph10704

bro u are a cool person i can see it in your word's .

Originally Posted by Bambooben

Not to be positive, but I couldn't give less than a rats-ass about any bleed during 3d. I have tried it out in store a few times and a few times at different people's houses when they wanted to show off, and while it is interesting for a couple of secs., it isn't something I would actually use.

And from talk on other forums most buying seems to think the say way.

As long as the uniformity and flashlighting is good in 2d, that has me sold.

I just wish Samsung would get a clue and stop including 3d glasses and just knock a couple hundred off the price. Go back to selling the glasses extra, and instead throw in the wireless keyboard. I mean come on, the "Smart" TV is a much bigger selling feature and will get used way more often than 3d, especially if a keyboard came included in the box. Why can't Samsung figure that out.

Originally Posted by joseph10704

new review is on amizion and here is what the guy has to say about the tv
Customer Review

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Samsung UN55ES8000, March 13, 2012
By Gary L. Tankersley
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Samsung UN55ES8000 55-Inch 1080p 240Hz 3D Slim LED HDTV (Silver) (Electronics)
Just received my tv today and not noticed any of the complaints the other reviewer is having. The picture quality in HD and 3D is very good standard definition is just standard it is not much any tv can do for low quality signal. The voice and gesture controls were easy to setup and they work just fine. I have notSamsung UN55ES8000 55-Inch 1080p 240Hz 3D Slim LED HDTV (Silver) had time to get into calibrating the color and other settings. I gave the tv five stars because it was everything I thought it would be. I don't think any tv will be perfect, but is close.

now for thoses who read the other review on amizion ,the bad review that the guy made i spoke to him and all he said was bad thing's he showed me pictures and i got then if anyone want to see the picture let me know or i will try and put them on here there not that good,BUT HERE THE FUNNY THING he was complaining that the PICTURE was bad and he said to me oh i am useing apple tv 720P streaming so i think he got a bad tv or his internet stream SUCKS ,BUT get this theres more the guy told me OHH i got the NEW apple TV 1080P version ,UMM guys the new 1080p aplle tv does not come out till this friday so i got him in his lie and he still has not said anything on his review after i got him on his lie.lol crazy right so this mean's that gus is bsing .PS sorry for the bad spelling .hoep this helped everyone .i have high hope in samsung this year.

Originally Posted by leftyguitar1963

this reviewer appears to be a Harvard grad, NOT!

Originally Posted by Bambooben

Not to be positive, but I couldn't give less than a rats-ass about any bleed during 3d. I have tried it out in store a few times and a few times at different people's houses when they wanted to show off, and while it is interesting for a couple of secs., it isn't something I would actually use.

And from talk on other forums most buying seems to think the say way.

As long as the uniformity and flashlighting is good in 2d, that has me sold.

I just wish Samsung would get a clue and stop including 3d glasses and just knock a couple hundred off the price. Go back to selling the glasses extra, and instead throw in the wireless keyboard. I mean come on, the "Smart" TV is a much bigger selling feature and will get used way more often than 3d, especially if a keyboard came included in the box. Why can't Samsung figure that out.

Originally Posted by bambooben

not to be positive, but i couldn't give less than a rats-ass about any bleed during 3d. I have tried it out in store a few times and a few times at different people's houses when they wanted to show off, and while it is interesting for a couple of secs., it isn't something i would actually use.

And from talk on other forums most buying seems to think the say way.

As long as the uniformity and flashlighting is good in 2d, that has me sold.

I just wish samsung would get a clue and stop including 3d glasses and just knock a couple hundred off the price. Go back to selling the glasses extra, and instead throw in the wireless keyboard. I mean come on, the "smart" tv is a much bigger selling feature and will get used way more often than 3d, especially if a keyboard came included in the box. Why can't samsung figure that out.

Originally Posted by maygit

Sorry, i got caught up in a big sale and didn't get to evaluate the tv how i wouldve liked to. I had a lady considering the es8000 i just put up, but she couldn't justify the price difference vs the D7000 we had on clearance for half that. For 80ish she was very technologically caught up, i was impressed, although she still payed by check .

Anyway, my initial thoughts of this tv is holy crap it's bright. It was a lot brighter than the D7000, and although LEDs dim overtime, i don't recall the D7000 making my eyes hurt when i first displayed it. This tv redefines torch mode. Obviously this is not negative that the tv is ridiculously bright since it can be adjusted. One strange thing i did notice and i'm going to look into it when i get back in thursday is that the screen had uneven tinting. The top was magenta tinted and greenish towards the bottom. Weird.

First thing i watched was 3D Transformers 3 and thought it looked great and not so great at the same time. The 3D depth was really good, but did see a good amount of xtalk that was distracting, although like others have said adjusting the brightness may easily fix this which i agree with, i just never tried it. Another downside is that I'm so used to watching/demoing this movie on the gt/st30 that going to LCD tech, blurring was very noticeable w/ and w/o dejudder/blur options toggled.

I did really like the glasses. I thought they were extremely comfortable on my nose and didn't feel too tight or hurt the tops of my ears where they rest (i don't normally wear glasses) like other models i've worn. 4 included in the box is a nice addition.

The last thing i played with momentarily was the voice control. I used it through the remote since there's so much ambient noise in the store, the on panel mic was having troubles hearing me. If anyone is use to voice controls on the xbox kinect, the controls on this will feel natural. Worked smoothly. The only thing i couldn't figure out is how to word digital channels. For example instead of a solid channel 14, our channel is 14.1 like most digital channels are point something. I worded it dozens of different ways and couldn't get the point to come up. Perhaps i'll have to go through the manual to figure it out.

If no one gets any up, ill post better pictures on here on Thursday when i go back in to work.

Oh, and I'm also going to test the new glasses on other 2012 TVs as we get them. I tried the 2011 samsung glasses on the panasonic UT50 and they did not work as expected. But then i tried the new 2012 samsung glasses on the UT50, which are supposed to work, and experienced the same issues as the 2011 versions (they synced to the tv but looked 2D with heavy xtalk). I'll look into this further on thursday to see what the deal is because that's not suppose to be the case w/ 2012 glasses.

Originally Posted by leftyguitar1963

this reviewer appears to be a Harvard grad, NOT! reading this review is like pulling teeth!

Originally Posted by joseph10704


i will let u now this when u are watching a 3D movie it really does not just matter on the tv and its 3D look's it matter's on HOW the disc was made ,the 3D on transformers 3 LOOKS fantastic for what is was U just need to calibrate your tv ,now i am alittle confuesed.did u get the ES8000 OR D7000 ,the d7000 is really cool 3D but yes there is some xtalk,but that really matters on HOW THE BLURAY WAS MADE .hope this helps good luck.