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Samsung LN37A450 37-Inch 720p LCD HDTV

Samsung LN37A450 37-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
Brand: Samsung
Category: CE

Buy New: $899.99



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1504

Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 37
Shipping Weight (lbs): 33
Dimensions (in): 36.7 x 3.8 x 23.7
Warranty: 1 year warranty

MPN: LN-37A450
Model: LN-37A450
UPC: 036725228139
EAN: 0036725228139
ASIN: B0014176N8

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:
  • 720p HD Resolution
  • Wide Color Enhancer
  • 3 HDMI Inputs
  • 6ms response time

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
37" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * high-gloss black finish * built-in digital (ATSC) and analog (NTSC) tuners for over-the-air TV broadcasts (antenna required) * built-in QAM cable TV tuner receives unscrambled programs without a set-top box (cable service required) * 1366 x 768 pixels *

Amazon.com Product Description--March 24, 2008
A sleek design with hidden speakers keep Samsung's Series 4 large flat panel HDTVs one of the best 720p HD options around. Upgrades over last year's models include a response rate a 6ms response rate that's faster than many more expensive 1080p models, for smooth motion even with fast-moving sports and action movies, and a a higher dynamic contrast ratio of up to 10,000:1 (up from 8,000:1 last year), and for deep blacks and crisp lines. Please note that this description applies to Series 4 models 32 inches or larger. Models 26 inches and smaller have slightly different specifications.


lifestyleWhat's New?

  • 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio: up from 8,000:1 on 2007 models (Learn more)
  • 6ms response time: down from 8ms on 2007 models thanks to a new high-speed liquid crystal

Features Overview

  • 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes with Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (Learn more)
  • 3 HDMI 1.3 ports: Simplay compliant (Learn more about Connectivity)
  • DNIe Digital Natural Image Engine improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, and white balance (Learn more)
  • Clear panel technology for deeper blacks and more vibrant colors (Learn more)
  • Hidden speakers with SRS TruSurround XT audio (Learn more)
  • Wide Color Enhancer technology and Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) offer a wider color range (Learn more)
  • Picture-in-Picture (PIP) enables convenient simultaneous viewing of TV programs and video or PC sources
  • Entertainment Modes: for sports, games, and movies
  • V-Chip system allows blocking of rated TV and movie programs determined by the parent to contain objectionable content.
  • Trilingual on-screen displays in English, Spanish or French.
  • Variable sleep timer to turn the TV off in varying time intervals.
  • Auto wall mount compatible: 3-dimensional operation via TV’s remote control; no external IR receiver required.
  • Swivel stand included
  • 1 year parts and 1 year labor warranty (90 days parts and labor for commercial use), with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support

Step Up Features


  • Series 5: Full 1080p HD; up to 30,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio; 5 ms response time; USB 2.0 port: connect devices directly to your HDTV--view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily listen to your MP3 player through your HDTV's audio system or your home theater system

  • Series 6: 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio; AutoMotion Plus 120Hz image interpolation for smoother motion; 4ms response time; Transparent and Opaque Color (TOC) bezel; Ethernet port with Infolink free RSS feeds; 4 HDMI 1.3 ports; Compatible with Samsung's Home Digital Media Adapter for playback and navigation of Internet and stored PC multimedia

  • Series 7: Internal flash memory (1GB) with pre-loaded interactive content such as cooking recipes, children's entertainment, HD artwork and more; Integrated woofer for an enhanced audio experience; DLNA-Compatible: for better interoperability with electronics, computers and mobile devices from many different manufacturers (Learn more)

  • Series 8: super-slim 1.9-inch thick profile

What size TV should you get?

Learn More

Super Clear Panel

clear panel chart
Samsung enhances the clarity of select LCD HDTVs by replacing the light-diffusing plastic face of traditional LCD HDTVs with a natural black panel with a clear anti-glare shield. Reduced reflection of external light creates a new dimension in image clarity, highlighting black and darkened areas, enabling vibrant, more compelling colors and a brighter, clearer picture. Black will never again appear grayish. Black details will show in vivid black even in dark scenes.

The latest version of Samsung’s breakthrough super clear panel technology makes colors appear more vibrant and blacks even deeper than ever. Enhanced films reduce glare and optimize off-angle viewing.
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10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/500 nit Brightness

25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio 10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a superb picture, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and subtle gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung’s new LCD TV’s give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever.

Note: models 26 inches or less have lower contrast ratios
  • 32-inch, 37-inch, and 40-inch models = 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio
  • 26-inch model = 5,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio
  • 19-inch and 22-inch models = 3,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio

Digital Natural Image Engine

DNIe image DNIe The Samsung Digital Natural Image engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces.
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Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72% of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp back lights to give you 92% coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors.

Samsung’s exclusive Wide Color Enhancer technology delivers more brilliant colors, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system displays wider color reproduction, showing you truer colors – the fresh green of spring foliage, the intense blue of the summer sky.
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Connectivity

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A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through three Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs (2 rear, 1 side), and the handy HDMI-CEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote.

Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the 2 rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV.

Once connected, users can easily access device menus and manage and display content through the newly redesigned Wheel Key Remote control and the HDTV’s sophisticated content management interface.

All Connections
  • 3 HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) 2 rear/1 side
  • Component video: 2 rear (Y, Pb, Pr) A/V inputs: 1 rear/ 1 side
  • S-Video: 1 side
  • PC D-sub: 1 rear
  • Optical sound out: rear
  • RS232: rear
  • RF antenna inputs: rear
  • Headphone jack: side

Super Patterned Vertical Alignment

wide angle
Samsung’s Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes

Audio Features

TruSurround is a patented SRS technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content over two speakers. TruSurround delivers a compelling, virtual surround sound experience through any two-speaker playback system, including internal television speakers and headphones. It is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. High-quality virtual surround sound can be experienced with just the two hidden, downward-firing side-mounted 2.2-channel dome speakers built into the TV.

SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass.

TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.
  • Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper.
  • TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself.
  • The SRS WOW feature widens the sound stage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system.
Stereo broadcast reception is offered for MTS and SAP with 181-channel capacity. A sound leveler keeps audio volume consistent during channel changing.

Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?

HDTV Size chart
With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience.
If you know the size of the room you have already, where you want to sit, and where your new HDTV should go once you get it, you can figure out the size HDTV you should get.
  • Minimum size = Viewing distance/3
  • Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5



Customer Reviews:   Read 8 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars Samsung LN37A450 and Customer Service   September 29, 2008
Roger Westfall
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

I've had this TV for less then 2 months and I'm already having issues. When you turn it on the picture will show up then a few seconds later will go away. I've tried new HDMI cables and when they are unplugged it says no signal so thats not the problem. Sometimes when you turn the power on it doesn't have a picture at all. Once you've unplugged the power or wiggled the cables the red light will show back up and you can turn the TV on and maybe get a picture. The problem is not constant but it is very annoying. I've already had to contact Samsung and I'm waiting on a repair person to show up.

What a joke. I was given a service center to work with and they refuse to do any work for Samsung because they have an issue with parts or getting paid.

I called Samsung again this time they gave me another service center. this service center only repairs TV's purchased from them.

I called again and was told they would call me in 2 to 3 days and try to find me a service center.

10/10/08 : Well I still have no TV. Samsung has never called back. I called them and was told to call back Monday morning and they would start working on a exchange for a new TV. When I called back and was put on hold for almost 30 minuts with Executive Customer Relations I was told an exchange is not an option. They have to fix the TV but they don't have a service center where I live that will work on it.

I will never in my life purchase anything Samsung again. I had heard such wonderful things about this company and they have failed me badly.



4 out of 5 stars Healthy Set....   September 2, 2008
Scott Hotaling (Washington, DC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

....happy with the set, good value, good picture with plenty of control. Sound is good not great, can be customized pretty well, best with externals of course....not a gamer, no blu-ray content, so 720p is fine. Refresh rate is good at 8 ft. viewing distance. Was delivered DHL, no problems, fast......excellent for the money. Wil probably upgrade in 3 to 5 years.....


5 out of 5 stars It's just GREAT   August 26, 2008
janagram (merrick, ny)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I'm not the biggest TV fan, but this Samsung, as well as its little brother, the 32" version, just mesmerizes me. I can't speak to the technical specs of this TV. All I can say is that the colors just explode on the screen and I can watch it without glasses!


5 out of 5 stars Great Picture, Great Looking, Great TV!   August 15, 2008
Ro Stacks (Philadelphia, PA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

After researching extensively and looking at models in the stores, I decided to go with this Samsung and I am very happy. I don't have blu-ray so I didn't need 1080P. I personally use this TV with a Comcast Scientific Atlanta HD Box, using component video (didn't use HDMI), and the resolution set to up-convert to 1080i. The picture is flawless, and the TV itself looks sleek.


5 out of 5 stars No issues   August 10, 2008
E. Farrow (Tennessee)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am not super tech savvy, but I haven't had any issues with the tv. It was pretty easy toset up and the onscreen information is relatively clear. The only complaint is i couldn't find anywhere in the instruction as to the best way to clean toddler fingerprints off the screen!