Samsung UN60D6400

• 3D Glasses not included in box, must be purchased as optional accessory.
• 3D HDTV. Auto Motion Plus 120Hz with Clear Motion Rate
• Full HD 1080p resolution
• Samsung Smart TV
• Auto Motion Plus 120Hz with Clear Motion Rate
• Brand Name: Samsung
• Model: UN60D6400
• Display Technology: LED-lit
• Display Size: 60 inches
• Image Aspect Ratio: 16:09
• Customize your own entertainment, with the power of Smart TV.The 60-inch Samsung UN60D6400 LED TV lets you go further into a world of entertainment -by customizing your own. Samsung Smart TV delivers a web-enabled portal to the best of the entire internet, along with Samsung apps and the ability to search content both online and on your TV. The journey continues with advanced3D technology, for an immersive experience with your favorite 3D movie titles and TV programming.Ironically, you'll make these deeper connections on a TV that's impressively thin: the ultra slim bezel lets your eyes disappear into the dazzling LED images onscreen. After several months of using this TV, here are my impressions. Note that I'm using Antenna HD, PS3 Bluray, and DVD.
  
  Design:
  
  The thin bezel design and glass(stem) stand is gorgeous, it feels like the picture is floating on the stand. The thin bezel really enhances the picture by minimizing reflections. It's really refreshing to not have a thick glossy bezel shining at you when watching TV; although the bezel itself seems to get mighty hot after several hours of use. The screen is glass and it does have reflections in daylight. It will probably annoy those of you that have a lot of glare coming from windows.
  
  Picture Quality:
  
  HD picture quality is outstanding while SD ranges from good to OK. The SD quality really depends on your broadcasting source; higher quality SD means good SD picture. Blacks are good, but I believe the processing engine goes a bit overboard and saturates the blacks to a point where details are lost. I haven't found out how to tone down the blacks, even after shutting off all the processing. Colors seem to really pop out, if it's too much one can adjust RGB in the menus. Initially, this TV did not exhibit any noticeable clouding for several months but now I can clearly see clouding on a completely dark transition screen. I'm a bit disappointed it has developed clouding over time, but it's not bad enough that you'll notice it during tv viewing. This is an edge-lit LCD and there are inherit weaknesses. Motion picture quality is very smooth and artifacts are kept to a minimum; in fact, this is the smoothest picture I've ever seen on any HDTV.
  
  Adjustment Controls:
  
  This TV has quite a few options for tuning the picture. There's standard, dynamic, natural, and movie modes. Each mode has it's own saved settings. For my normal viewing, I started with the movie settings while in Standard mode and made a few adjustments to brighten up the screen. Movie mode has a "warm2" color tone that I changed to "standard" since I don't like warm colors for normal viewing. For movies, I use the movie mode where the colors and brightness are toned down, with relatively few adjustments made. The natural and dynamic modes are horrendous, don't even go there. There's some fine adjustments in each mode with backlight, contrast, sharpness, hue, brightness, color, etc.
  
  Connections:
  
  Has HDMI 1.4 connections, which allow 1 Audio Return and single Ethernet connections (with specific high speed compatible HDMI cables and other HDMI 1.4 devices). Has 1 composite connection and 1 component (both use supplied extension plugs). Switching between sources is a tad slow to me, wish it was bit faster. Note that the optical out connection will transfer Dolby Digital sound from the antenna input, but it will only transfer stereo sound if you are connecting a device from HDMI and outputting the sound using optical out.
  
  Sound:
  
  Sound comes from the back panel and these kinds of tvs always sound odd. It's definitely loud enough, but not as good as a tv with good front speakers. You can use simulated surround sound and it's not bad at all. The one annoying thing is your sound settings are kept the same as you change your input sources; even after you've configured one input source as having movie sound settings. You can use the equalizer to adjust the sound to your liking. I might buy a sound bar to accompany this tv.
  
  Internet apps:
  
  I took a little while to play around with the apps, they're ok but respond pretty slow. Just your standard apps, nothing impressive. It does have an app store where you can purchase more apps but I didn't try that. I found youtube to be a bit odd. I started up youtube and it showed me the annoying orange video on startup; really strange it just loaded up with that video.
  
  Other apps:
  
  The photo viewer is pretty decent, seems a bit slow in rendering the pictures from a USB stick. I've also played some AVI and MKV files on the TV and it looks good to me. MKV files do not seem to have subtitle options.
  
  3D:
  
  I bought the Samsung SSG-3100GB bluetooth glasses for 2011 3D TVs. The glasses are great and much better than the old versions I tried out on a 2010 TV. It syncs up really well and I don't notice ghosting. There is a 3D button on the remote where you can convert 2D programming to 3D; this is done on the fly using the TV's processor. The 2D-3D is applied minimally so it isn't great; you will barely notice the 3D effects on the conversion. However, watching true 3D movies is great but 46" is really small for 3D. What others say about having a 50" plus TV is true if you want to experience the depth of 3D. What truly blows me away is playing 3D games through the Playstation 3. I started Wipeout HD up and I was giggling like a silly schoolgirl for a while. It really blew my mind how the 3D enhances the fun of games.
  
  Remote:
  
  Remote is pretty decent. It has a your standard TV buttons as well as a way to control playback on other sources with fast forward, rewind, stop, play. Remote has a backlight you can activate.Very good TV with an inherit weakness in edge-lit LED technology in that you will find some uneven lighting and clouding. This might be as good as edge-lit LED is going to get. I gave it a 4 star here but it's really more 4.5 out of 5. I won't give it a 5 because true local-dimmed LED TVs have better contrast and color consistency, but you'll be paying a lot more (unless you buy the ugly Vizio LED TVs).
  
  Update 1/13/2012:
  
  I upgraded to the newest firmware and noticed after rebooting it reset all my settings. I don't see anything different except I noticed how crappy the picture was. It's important you do not leave the it on the default settings as the picture quality is pretty horrendous. Use my settings as a baseline, especially keep sharpening low, turn off motion plus, and you will see the potential of this tv.
  
  More notes:
  
  I recently noticed that my tv was tilted down to the left a little as it sits on the supplied stand. I took out a tape measure and noticed the left end was nearly 1/4" lower than the right side. This really bugged me so i took apart the stand and slipped a piece of paper folded several times in the gap where you screw in the stand. This helped balance it perfectly. have only had the television for 3 days now, but here are my initial impressions:
  
  The picture is absolutely stunning. I upgraded from a 50' Samsung DLP that I'd had for about 7 years. I truly didn't realize what I was missing with the technology advancements of 1080P LCDs and LEDs over the last few years. My wife and I will be watching HDTV in either 1080i or 720p and look at each other and say this doesn't look like "normal" TV. We finally figured it out last night. The picture is so clear that television shows truly appear to us as if we're looking through a window into somebody's home or perhaps watching a live performance/sporting event. We can even start to decipher how "fake" some of the sets are that the producers are using on many of the sitcoms.
  
  Watching a Blu-ray is almost like watching a video game. The frame rate and clarity are so much improved over previous generation sets that it really gives you a whole new movie-watching experience. Blu-rays might take some getting used to for me because they are so life-like that I tend to just stare in awe rather than paying attention to the movie.
  
  The 3D function of the television also blew me away. I really wasn't sure what to expect here, but took a leap of faith because the price was so incredible. Not only does the 3D create depth when you are watching 3D blu-rays. The picture actually comes at you as if you were in the theater. So far the only experiences I've had with 3D are with a couple of the IMAX 3D blu-rays that I purchased on Amazon. The 2D to 3D function is a bit gimmicky. I've used it to watch baseball games and the NHL playoffs and it does add a little depth to the picture, but probably not enough difference for me to have to wear the glasses all the time.
  
  The one knock against LED televisions has been black levels. While I do notice that the blacks are not quite as deep as other TVs, it really is overshadowed by the beauty and clarity of the rest of the picture.
  
  Overall, this is a definite 5 star purchase for me. If bought 100s of items on Amazon and this is the first thing that has really compelled me to write a review if that tells you anything? The good:
  Gorgeous appearance. Unusually slim bezel. Very thin. Barely warm when used (very low power consumption). Lots of apps including Vimeo streaming.
  Glossy screen to my surprise appeared reasonably dark and without interfering glare even in bright sun lit room.
  The bad:
  First and major one - absolutely unusable for 3D viewing. Crosstalk is unbearable, totally spoiling 3d immersion. Originally got 3100 glasses. Samsung support told me to get newer, 3300 glasses for this TV. Over hundred bucks later - exactly same issue. I'm convinced that there is no difference, at least for this TV, if 3100 or 3300 glasses are used. For this thing alone this TV does not worth it's price.
  Second - uniformity. Very bad on black (light spots), and even mid gray has some problems - one dark blob. (I did not notice any problem on bright white). On black both lower corners are bright to almost unbearable interference with picture. Samsung support told me to hold my conclusion till after over 600 hours of use, auto conditioning supposed to take care of it by then. Well, I don't think I will have 600 hours on this TV even after one year and I don't have intention to tolerate it. If screen conditioning required - it should be done at factory before shipment to customer. I call ... on it.
  Third - dynamic local dimming. Not advertised but it is obvious to me that this model uses local dimming. It is poorly implemented and I see no option to turn it off in any video mode. As it is dynamic - there is many way it appears and spoils the picture. When used for apps - local dimming is disabled.
  Minor thing - out of the box all picture "enhancement" stuff turned to the max producing unpleasing, pasterized image. Takes some tweaking to get it back to normal. "3D" settings has no explanation what it does (settings -1, 0 and 1) other than it says that it "optimizes 3D". My guess it tweaks glasses sync timing as I can notice very slight crosstalk change, but to me it is absolutely useless.
  
  It is very nice 2D TV (except black uniformity), though overpriced for that. In my opinion it should not be sold as 3D. Samsung's customer support quick and polite but absolutely useless.
  
  I'm trying replacement, will see if the one I got is just unlucky fluke or if there is some systematic problem with this model. So far Amazon appeared supportive.
  
  Will follow up...
  
  Here it is: replacement was pretty much identical in every way to original one. So sad, it's a beautiful set. If you really like it for 2D - get D6000 instead, same guts but without 3D and few hundreds cheaper.
  
  Amazon service absolutely superb. I will continue my shopping for 3D TV set. As of this writing, we've owned the 46-inch version of this set for exactly 5 months and have used it continuously for a few hours almost every day.
  
  Although I've given it a 5-star rating, on an absolute scale, the picture quality is probably a 4 or 4.5, mainly because I've seen a Panasonic plasma GT50 series set with an arguably more accurate picture. However, the latter wasn't available in 46-inches (the largest size we could accommodate) and the presentation was too analytical to enjoy watching. By that I mean, on newscasts, live studio presentations, and the like, you could easily see how the total image was composited from various sources (which I found to be distracting), while the Samsung presented everything as a seamless whole.
  
  In reading over past reviews of the Samsung LED models, you'll notice random criticism of uneven tones, especially during dark or black scenes, as well as "flashlighting" -- the appearance of light shining from the corners during dark or black scenes. We've experienced absolutely none of these. Either the quality control has improved or there have been design upgrades or we've been lucky. Most of those complaints seem to date from 2009, so hopefully the absence of these issues was more than luck.
  
  Regarding color, with a cable set-top box (STB) the set was quite viewable out of the box at the factory defaults. However, it still benefited from following the c|net recommendations reprinted in other reviews. A major caveat, though, is that every input source has to be independently adjusted and then tweaked even further.
  
  For example, while the c|net settings were pretty close for the STB, the contrast was way off for a pair of DVD players (a Toshiba and a Denon) and our PVR (a homemade Tivo, based on a PC) also needed it's own settings that differed from the others. Ditto for a vintage Pioneer LaserDisc player. It helped to have a set of Red, Blue, and Green filters from the Video Essentials DVD to optimize the color and contrast. The set's built-in test patterns were also useful. Take nothing for granted -- you really need to experiment to get the right settings. There are literally dozens of menus and sub-menus that give you a an amazing (and confusing) amount of control over the image quality. Get them wrong and you'll wonder what all the fuss is about. Get them right and you'll marvel at the superb quality of this picture.
  
  Speaking of of image quality, DVD and HD cable channels are clearly the best sources. The lower channels (2-128) really suffer, as do non-HD PVR recordings and, surprisingly, LaserDiscs. We don't have a Blu-ray player, but expect the quality will be high with that, as well.
  
  Further thoughts -- It only took 20 minutes to unpack, assemble, and start watching. The first thing I did was to upgrade the firmware via our home network. Every room is hardwired with RJ-45 outlets and the upgrade went smoothly. However, I've been warned that future firmware updates will wipe out all custom settings, so be sure to keep a log of every input adjustment you make.
  
  My only real pet peeve is the inability to put your own remote control labels on each input source. There are a hand full of default names to choose from, but LaserDisc Player (among others), is not one of them. Otherwise, the remote and menu are among the best I've ever used.
  
  Beyond that, as many people have commented, the visual presentation, in which the picture seems to float in mid-air, is a big plus. We've never liked sets that have wide bezels and, considering what a visual element a wide screen TV is in any room, it was worth spending the extra money to get a set with a minimal border and clear supporting pillar.
  
  To sum it up, when properly tweaked, this set really gets out of the way and allows you to enjoy your movie or show without feeling distracted by the equipment.Received the TV on time and in good shape. The picture quality is outstanding straight out of the box. I'll probably tune the contrast settings but will wait for a rainy day when I have nothing else to do. For now, the picture is great. If your couch is 12 feet away from your tv like mine is, you can't go wrong with this 60" led. Is as thin as my Android phone and has a clear frame which allows your wall color to show through - ultra modern design. I did my research and looked at a ton of tvs in this class. Nothing comes close to the picture quality, and the price is low compared to other tvs of this size and quality. Smart TV is a little quirky but it mostly serves its purpose. All in all its a great buy. How can Samsung let something like this go to market?
  Thinking that I got a bad unit and that this can always happen when machines are concerned I went through two exchanges of this so called "Smart TV".
  Ghosting, Flash-lighting, light leaks, uneven screen uniformity; you name it this TV has it all. I would get something else if I had more time to waste, but unfortunately I do not.
  Either a lot of people got really lucky with their units or they don't know any better.
  Mind you, I have loved all my past Samsung TV's but they really messed this one up.
  This is the most expensive piece of garbage I have ever purchased.
  On the plus side it looks very nice on the wall "When it's turned off"... This TV has a beautiful picture, but only after you fix all the factory settings. When I first turned it on, it had a rather muddy looking picture and watching it actually made me dizzy due to the auto motion settings. Several other reviewers recommended settings that were very helpful. I started from those and adjusted to my preferences and now I am very, very happy with this TV. Picture is amazing, sound is pretty darn good and I love the thin bezel. The Clarity on this T.V. with HD T.V. Shows, Blu rays, DVD's and Video games, is great. HOWEVER, There are some ghosting issues with the 120hz on, I find it to be minimal, but for a keen eye, can be annoying. With that being said, you can turn down the 120hz or turn it up depending on what you're watching. It works extremely well. The 3D works fairly well actually with the 2d to 3d on my blu ray player doing the conversion, as well as the T.V. generating it on the spot. Playing Battlefield 3 with the 3D, I could tell that it was 3D, but, not to the same level as you see in the movies made for it. Overall, this is one outstanding T.V. The Remote is nice, the stand is nice, My friends can't believe how great my t.v. looks even compared to their new Sony's and other brands.