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Getting a new TV this week. Samsung UE40H6200, A Series 6 LED/3D TV.

 

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/tv-audio-video/televisions/flat-tvs/UE40H6200AKXXU

 

Getting it via my insurance after I broke the old one, funny thing is that the old was bought around 4 years ago and is only a series 4... But because of the price I paid for it... and the New for Old policy I have. They gave me a choice of replacement.  At first she was suggesting a 40" panasonic, but I pointed out that I have Samsung bluray and other samsung TV's in the house and it's got the anynet feature. So could it be another Samsung.  She read out the model number and as soon as she said it I knew it was a series 6... Looked it up, checked the specs and said yes please.

 

It's a hundred times better than the old one which wasn't even LED, and had this massive 2 inch thick bezel all around it. The new one has a bezel measured in mm from the look of it.

 

I downloaded the manual from their site and according to that it's got features I hadn't even realised... But I'm aware that some manuals cover multiple TV's... so do any of you have one of these?

 

Here's a quick rundown on some of the things it thrashes the old one by.

 

720p, 1080p instead of 720p, 1080i (yes it was that old)

Backlight LED LCD rather than edgelit LCD

4 HDMI rather than 3 HDMI

3 USB instead of 1 USB

Freeview HD instead of Freeview SD

LAN port instead of nothing

WiFi instead of nothing

Smarthub instead of nothing

3D instead of nothing

 

Here's a few things that are in the manual, that I'm unsure about.

 

built in camera with face recognition

voice control

gesture control

Not sure if the remote has a touch pad/screen or not as it's mentioned in the manual.

 

 

As far as I am aware, it doesn't come with any glasses for the 3D side... For those of you who do have 3D, how does it handle it when you hook a media centre to it via HDMI... it's just playing the file through windows media player.  I don't actually have any 3D movies to try out, so I downloaed some 3D mp4 files for testing. Won't be here for a couple of days yet. Want to be certain it can handle them before splashing out for some glasses.

 

TBH, I'm not fussed about 3D at all... I still think it's a gimmick and I'm proud to say that I've not been to see or paid extra for a 3d screening at the cinema... I'd rather not see a movie than pay for 3D and in fact missed seeing a couple of movies this year because they failed to offer it in 2D.

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shaefurr

Wow thats nice man, with my Bravia I only had a 1 year limited warranty, so now that it has a crap ton of stuck pixels I'm just stuck buying a new TV. Looks awesome though, love the new LEDs with their nonexistent bezels. Mine has that big 2 incher as well being an older LCD.

 

Look at this monster, so annoying during movies lol http://imgbox.com/ZM9FwuLH

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Mine was covered under my home insurance, it's cover against accidental damage which is pretty standard here in the UK. It's also new for old, so even though the tv was about 4yrs old, because it can't be repaired (not economical) they tend to just replace lower cost items.  I just pay the insurance excess charge which is £50.

 

I was expecting to get the same kind of TV, so getting something so much better is just awesome... For now it's going in my bedroom until the rest of the house is sorted out. Until the back bedroom is replastered, rewired, new flooring, new radiator and all decorated,.. everything from there is in the lounge.

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shaefurr

Thats a good deal, I don't own a house so have no idea how the housing insurance is here in the US, but I have something similar for my phone, but it costs me $100 for a replacement. Though it covers everything including me just smashing my phone for the hell of it.

 

Funny, I always thought this 46" was huge especially since the one before it was a 30" tube that weighed 200 pounds. But man it seems small now, I really want something bigger like a 70" :o

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I've had a 70" for my main viewing for four years now.  It looked massive when I first got it and now it just looks mediocre.

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Heckler

It depends on the size of the room... I personally hate it when a TV dwarfs the room it's placed in, much how I hate the way a small TV looks silly in a larger room.

 

I've been used to 32" TV's, so a 40" will seem quite large to me... and I'm perfectly happy with that size.

 

Besides, when I move it back down into the lounge, there's a size limit to how big a TV will fit on the chimney breast... I think 40" is about right, a 48" would be approaching the edges but still ok I think... any larger than that and it wouldn't fit in the room at all. Neither corner each side of the fireplace would fit a massive TV.

 

It's not a big house, 3 bedrooms and built in the 50's... so still larger than your average 3 bed modern house.

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Well they finally called about delivery today... It's being delivered on Saturday, and they'll email me a delivery time after 4pm on Friday. Said it will be in a delivery window of 1hr during the day.

 

I am hoping that it's here in the morning so I can set it up in time for the F1 qualifying, otherwise I'll at elast have it for the race itself.  :)

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I've had a 70" for my main viewing for four years now.  It looked massive when I first got it and now it just looks mediocre.

I hear ya, my 65" doesn't impress me nearly as much as it does my guests haha. Projector is next I think...

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politby

My projector screen is only 90" - largest I can fit in the family room. Was over at a friend's place last night to watch a couple of movies. His screen is 4 meters wide, I'm too jealous to calculate the diagonal. Makes my little screen look like a tube TV from the seventies :(

 

 

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Pfft... you lot and your penis screen size comparisons.   :)

 

 

All I can say is that the new TV is fantastic, the image quality is so clear and realistic that I'm watching old films again and picking out so much more detail than you could on the previous TV... A huge step up in the quality of the panel being used I am sure. It's my first smart TV, and it blows away all of the ones I've seen at friends so far... My folks have a 40" Samsung too, but an older series 4 or 5 from around 2010 are now jealous of mine and are thinking of getting one themselves when they found out how cheap they are now.

 

As for projectors... I can't say I'm a fan of home ones, of the few friends who have them, I've been disappointed in the quality of the image, a lack of brightness and very easily washed out with the slightest hint of light in the room.  That said, when I win the lottery I shall be building my own house complete with a cinema room in the basement... Maybe I just need a high end projector to convince me.

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