The Samsung C7000 sequence LED 3D 240hz TVs are brimming with World wide web applications and “Wi-Fi ready” (add a LinkStick adapter and you’re good to go). They also boast first rate picture quality, an attractive, superslim design and style, plus a remote that resembles an previous Razr telephone.
The C7000 series incorporates a skinny, shiny, black rounded bezel and perches on the silver X-shaped swivel stand. A skinny silver line frames the top and sides of the bezel, culminating in a very thicker line with the bottom. The mirrored silver stand is exclusive but just a little also distinguished for my taste. Luckily, this really is the perfect tv for wall-mounting. It really is fairly thin, and all of its ports are arrayed within the sides–parallel, not perpendicular, to your display. The television is so skinny, in fact, that many of the ports call for an adapter.
Luckily, Samsung provides adapter cables for ethernet, cable/antenna, Pc, digital audio-In, part (audio), part (movie), and A/V-In. The set includes four HDMI ports and two USB ports, as well.
The remote is skinny, silver, and brushed, like the keyboard on a Motorola Razr telephone. In reality, doing work the remote can be a lot like texting on the Razr–it’s hard to get employed to, and it provides small bodily feedback. As the keys are flush with each other and separated only by thin, raised-plastic lines, it’s tough to use the system for navigation with out taking a look at it.
The remote gives several devoted buttons, such as kinds for Yahoo Widgets, 3D Tv, and InternetTV. Samsung’s InternetTV service will come preloaded with different cost-free applications (amongst them, Blockbuster on Need, Facebook, Google Maps, Netflix, and Vudu), and it links to an app keep in which it is possible to down load extra free or paid out purposes. The Yahoo Widgets button delivers up a small bar together the bottom from the display screen, that contains a customizable widgets for each member with the household.
Samsung’s first-time setup guidebook, named Plug & Play, scans for channels and invites you to define variables such as language, mode (home or keep demo), antenna/cable, and date and time.
The C7000 series’ on-screen menus are very attractive, with icons for different types of media (picture, video clip, and so on), and it is possible to give the Media Play menu any of four backgrounds for viewing photos. Pressing the Content button within the remote brings up a rotating list of content types (Channels, InternetTV, Media Play, and the like) without obscuring the picture.
The tv has only four preset picture modes (dynamic, standard, natural, and movie), but there are fairly a few customization settings. Adjustable settings range from standard (backlight, contrast, brightness, and sharpness, for example), to advanced (such as dynamic contrast, RGB only mode, and ten-point white balance), with both an advanced options menu along with a picture options menu.
Picture quality on this HDTV looks pretty great at 1st, but closer inspection reveals some glaring weaknesses. The C7000 collection aced our horizontal and diagonal panning tests, reproducing a still city scene with no sign of judder or blur.
Unfortunately, that smoothness didn’t translate into moving pictures. In one of our scenes from The Dark Knight, windows on a building appeared to be jumping up and down, and the pattern on Morgan Freeman’s tie moved all over the place. Using the Auto Motion Plus feature to adjust the refresh rate did nothing to help the party going on in Morgan Freeman’s tie–in fact, it only served to make the previously super-smooth panning shudder a bit.
The C7000 series shows great contrast, with very black blacks. But the picture was generally oversaturated–especially in our DVD up-conversion tests. Within a scene from The Phantom from the Opera, colors were so oversaturated that the whole picture acquired a greenish cast. One judge remarked that the oversaturation, combined with the way colors seemed to bleed into one another, produced the effect of colors viewed on a 16-bit computer monitor.
Watching content on this set from angles other than “dead-on” causes problems, also. If you move a couple of feet to either side, colors fade, the contrast goes dull, and the image fades to a shadow of its dead-on picture. The set also sufffered from some LED backlight bleeding: When we turned off the lights during a clip from The Dark Knight, we noted some pretty obvious discoloration in the upper corners.
The preset audio modes include standard, music, movie, clear voice, and amplify (for hard-of-hearing viewers). An equalizer lets you further calibrate your audio settings. The surround sound isn’t fantastic, but it has enough depth to be believable.
The C7000 sequence comes with very good documentation–a fairly in-depth quick-start sheet and a clear, illustrated 66-page manual. The manual is also available online.
If you might be in the market for a set that looks excellent when it’s turned on, but even better when it can be turned off, the Samsung C7000 series might be a better choice for you than rivals. And if 3D Television is in your future or you have a particular fondness for Razr phones, this HDTV won’t disappoint you either.
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