Samsung F8500 - new industry standard? [please use links to newer thread] - Page 27  

Originally Posted by Speakerphile 

Magnolia Home Theater locations will have the 51F8500 in one of the speaker rooms labeled as "Studio 1". This room has the ability to get almost completely dark and should have a BD player as a source, though due to an old switcher will be component video in some stores. Either the 60" or 64" will be on display in the main MHT room on the video wall. These may hit some stores earlier, but should be set up the week of 3/31 at the latest. This is all different for the Magnolia Design Center locations.

Originally Posted by sheshechic 

Are you sure? Is Samsung is only offering 3 plasma models this year? That would mean that they cut their lineup by more than 50%. Is that true?

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Originally Posted by Speakerphile 

Magnolia Home Theater locations will have the 51F8500 in one of the speaker rooms labeled as "Studio 1". This room has the ability to get almost completely dark and should have a BD player as a source, though due to an old switcher will be component video in some stores. Either the 60" or 64" will be on display in the main MHT room on the video wall. These may hit some stores earlier, but should be set up the week of 3/31 at the latest. This is all different for the Magnolia Design Center locations.

Originally Posted by rrollens 


I counted four models on the Product Guide..F8500....F5500...F5300...F4500

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Originally Posted by sheshechic 

Oops, missed one. That's still a pretty drastic reduction-eh?

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Has a blue tooth remote that has to be paired with the TV, so I was getting aggravated because I did not read the manual and was trying to use the remote as normal. I hate reading manuals, now the unit is breaking in ( not because I believe in break in, but because if we do not we will get questioned to death because some will not believe or results because there was no break in, so we will avoid that, and break in the set )

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Has a blue tooth remote that has to be paired with the TV, so I was getting aggravated because I did not read the manual and was trying to use the remote as normal. I hate reading manuals, now the unit is breaking in ( not because I believe in break in, but because if we do not we will get questioned to death because some will not believe or results because there was no break in, so we will avoid that, and break in the set )

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Has a blue tooth remote that has to be paired with the TV, so I was getting aggravated because I did not read the manual and was trying to use the remote as normal. I hate reading manuals, now the unit is breaking in ( not because I believe in break in, but because if we do not we will get questioned to death because some will not believe or results because there was no break in, so we will avoid that, and break in the set )

Originally Posted by slimoli 

No IR on the remote ? Too bad, we can't use universal remotes then.

Originally Posted by jh901 

A real shame that Magnolia departments don't have two proper theaters with their best AVP/power amp (or AVR), speakers, audiophile speaker positioning and main listening position plus acoustic treatement. The video side should be easy: black room, blu ray, pro calibration. Exposing the masses to home theater the right way could be a good thing for them over the long term.

Originally Posted by g12eyfox 

Some initial impressions is up by Robert Zohn of VE. Impressions fromthe break in process while viewing content. Better blacks than VT50 and F8000. Brighter than VT50, but not F8000. Better Color saturation and accuracy than both VT50 and F8000. Appears to be sharper than both VT50 and F8000.

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Originally Posted by g12eyfox 

It is from another Forum where he posted his impressions. Not sure if I can link to other forums from here, sorry.

Originally Posted by g12eyfox 

It is from another Forum where he posted his impressions. Not sure if I can link to other forums from here, sorry.

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

^^^^ Boy I guess we must be part of the large direct dealers...........lol.............not.

Originally Posted by Cleveland Plasma 

Has a blue tooth remote that has to be paired with the TV, so I was getting aggravated because I did not read the manual and was trying to use the remote as normal. I hate reading manuals, now the unit is breaking in ( not because I believe in break in, but because if we do not we will get questioned to death because some will not believe or results because there was no break in, so we will avoid that, and break in the set ) [/quot

Does this unit come with a second, IR remote?
Is there a RS232 for a MSC-400 control?
Must have IR control, if not, moving onto 65ZT60.
Any chance you could post the manual please.
THX

Originally Posted by Ken Ross 

Makes not a bit of difference to me Mark. I buy a display for myself, not for the "Army".

Originally Posted by Pinger 

Well the 51F8500 has made its way to the dealers, I was also surprised to find review on the 51F8500 although it's pretty vanilla to say the least

The earlier post about having a F8500 calibrated before delivery by VE or CP is very interesting, I imagine they would have to run the 100 hour burn in period before calibrating,,, yes??

Originally Posted by airgas1998 

from Robert with V.E.

Okay, I let a little snip-it out. We received the 51" and 60" F8500s last Friday and we've been running break-in slides ever since. In between we'll all been viewing video content and doing comparisons as we have the 51" F8500 butt next to the 55" F8000 and VT50 and here's a few comments on what we are seeing.

The F8500 is the best of the lot.

The F8500 is clearly blacker (without crushing)
Brighter than the VT50, but not the F8000
The F8500 has better color accuracy and color saturation than the VT50 and F8000.
The F8000 is still the brightest of the group. One attribute that I can't understand why, but the F8500 appears to deliver a sharper image. I would imagine that is due to the more saturated colors, but we'll know more on this once Kevin Miller does his evaluation and calibration.

Kevin will be evaluating and calibrating the 51" and 60" so we can determine if there are any variances between screen sizes of the F8500. The 64" F8500 has only been released to Amazon and a handful of large direct dealers. My 64" F8500 allocation is due next week.

Enjoy!