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Samsung LN40A750 40-Inch 1080p DLNA LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color

Samsung LN40A750 40-Inch 1080p DLNA LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color


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Brand: Samsung
Category: CE

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 reviews
Sales Rank: 691

Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 40
Shipping Weight (lbs): 35.9
Dimensions (in): 25.1 x 3.4 x 40.9

MPN: LN40A750R1FXZA
Model: LN-40A750
UPC: 036725228450
EAN: 0036725228450
ASIN: B0014175QQ

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:
  • Full 1080p HD Resolution with 120Hz Auto Motion Plus
  • Full Wrap Touch of Color Bezel, ISP Addressable w/ 1GB internal memory
  • 50,000:1 contrast ratio, 4ms response time, Super Clear Panel Technology
  • 4 HDMI Iputs, 2 Component Inputs, 1 PC Input, Wide Color Ehnacer, USB 2.0, HDMI-CEC
  • RSS-Infolink, Wheel Key Remote, SRS Surround Sound

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Product Description--March 24, 2008
Samsung adds a Touch of Color to a blazing-fast 4ms response time and rich connectivity features to redefine the role HDTVs play in the home with its forward-looking Series 7 LCD HDTVs. Utilizing the award-winning technologies found in all Samsung HDTVs, Series 7 HDTVs deliver unparalleled picture quality and enhanced connectivity and networking capabilities that create a true entertainment hub for any home, and take networking and multimedia management to a whole new level. Easily enjoy MPEG and JPEG files stored on external devices by connecting through a side-mounted USB 2.0, turning their LCD into a full-scale home viewing gallery, or connect MP3 players for a dynamic audio experience.

lifestyleKey Features

  • New -- Internal flash memory (1GB) with pre-loaded interactive content such as cooking recipes, children's entertainment, HD artwork and more
  • New -- Integrated woofer for an enhanced audio experience
  • New -- DLNA-Compatible: for better interopability with electronics, computers and mobile devices from many different manufacturers (Learn more)
  • New -- 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio: up from 25,000:1 on 2007 models (Learn more)
  • New -- Blazing 4ms response time: down from 8ms on 2007 models thanks to a new high-speed liquid crystal
  • New -- Transparent and Opaque Color (TOC) bezel with infused color creates an ultra-sleek shape and appearance (Learn more)
  • New -- InfoLink: Get free RSS feeds of news, weather and sports right to your HDTV with a built-in Ethernet port (Learn more)
  • New -- 4 HDMI 1.3 ports: Simplay compliant, and up from 3 on 2007 models (Learn more)
  • Full 1080p HD (Learn more)
  • Automotion Plus 120 Hz image interpolation technology provides smoother motion (Learn more)
  • 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes with Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (Learn more)
  • Ultra Clear Panel technology for deeper blacks and more vibrant colors (Learn more)
  • Side-mounted USB 2.0 port: connect USB devices directly to your HDTV to view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily listen to your MP3 player through your HDTV's audio system or your home theater system.
  • Sports and Game modes boost on-screen performance and interaction with the latest gaming systems
  • Compatible with Samsung's Home Digital Media Adapter (sold separately) for playback and navigation of Internet and stored PC multimedia
  • Hidden, downward-firing speakers with SRS TruSurround XT audio (Learn more)
  • Cold Cathode Flourescent Lamp and Wide Color Enhancer technology offer a wider color range (Learn more)
  • Picture-in-Picture enables convenient simultaneous viewing of TV programs and video or PC sources
  • 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.
  • 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.

Sizes

  • Series 7 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch sizes
What size TV should you get?

Learn More


Touch of Color

Touch of Color Inspired by designs from the automotive and fashion industries, Samsung's unique unique Transparent and Opaque Color molding process creates a clean, smooth finish infused with a hint of a translucent color during the manufacturing process for an ultra-sleek appearance.


InfoLink

Touch of Color Up-to-the-minute access to weather, news, sports and stock information is just a cable and a click away through the HDTV's Ethernet port and new InfoLink RSS service. An all-new user interface with digital contents management guide provides intuitive navigation and access to both internal and external content.


Auto Motion Plus 120Hz

auto motion plus 120Hz This technology doubles the frame rate from 60 to 120 frames per second (120Hz LCD panel) without repeating the same image to make more frames. Instead, the TV intelligently calculates the `middle' image between frame A and frame B and inserts it in between (Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processor), making a fluid transition from one frame to the next.
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Super Clear Panel

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super clear panel
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.



50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/500 nit Brightness

25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio 50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a picture better than you ever thought possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and a nearly infinite subtlety of 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.


Full HD 1080P

full HD 1080P Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. The new Samsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HDTVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable.

Samsung's 1080p panel uses a new high-speed liquid crystal to cut response time to 4ms. The fast response time, coupled with Samsung's Auto Motion Plus 120Hz motion blur reduction technology dramatically reduces motion blur and judder.
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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 Flourescent 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 backlights 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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To make the Series 6 a true entertainment hub for any home, Samsung has incorporated advanced HD connectivity and networking capabilities that expand the HDTV's functionality. A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the four Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one on the side), and the handy HDMICEC 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
  • HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface version 1.3): 4 (3 rear/1 side)
  • Ethernet port
  • Component video: 2 (Y, Pb, Pr)
  • S-Video input: 1 side/1 rear
  • A/V inputs: 1 side/1 rear
  • PC Inpuy (D-Sub): 1
  • RF antenna inputs: 2
  • HDMI-CEC
  • Premium audio: Improved sound quality with dedicated low-range speaker system
  • Headphone jack


Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)

DLNA logo

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You already know something about digital living. There's the TV and digital video recorder in your family room. (And another set in your bedroom.) You have a PC and digital printer in your office, along with a network attached storage device. And you've copied all your music onto your portable music player and haven't had to open a CD case for years. But getting them to talk to each other can be pretty tough. Why is it still so difficult to send digital content from one device to another?

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a collaboration of the world's leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile companies that has created design guidelines for a new generation of products that can work together — no matter the brand.

Think for a moment about all of the photos "locked away" on your home PC that you wish you could access while entertaining your friends and family. Now, thanks to DLNA enabled devices, a DLNA-enabled PC can be accessed from the comfort of your living room or family room via a DLNA-enabled HDTV, where you can enjoy your memories with friends and family, without having to deal with the hassle and non-intuitive "PCexperience".

Or, say you recently downloaded your daughter's birthday party video from your digital camcorder to your PC. Now you want to share it with your parents who are visiting. Without DLNA, you probably have to burn a DVD of the video or hook up the camcorder to the TV. With DLNA, you can just use your TV's remote to call up the video on your TV. That's it.



Super Patterned Vertical Alignment

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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 soundstage 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



Product Description
40" widescreen HDTV (16:9 aspect ratio) * Touch of Color high-gloss "rose 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) * Ultra Clear LCD panel (1920 x 1080 pixels) *


Customer Reviews:   Read 46 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Great Choice   October 3, 2008
P. P. Nikolic (Ohio)
I'm satisfied with Samsung LN40A750 40" This is my first big screen TV and since i got it every thing looks better


5 out of 5 stars Great Item   October 3, 2008
Anthony Catalano (Boulder, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was concerned about the TV because it was to be mounted opposite a bank of floor-to-ceiling, east-facing windows arranged in a circle within 15 ft of the TV. The glossy screen and the resulting reflections seemed overwhelming. However, I purchased the TV anyway because of the brilliant clarity of the picture, the excellent reputation of Samsung and a complete feature set. The glossy screen has been a non-issue to my surprise. I am using this with a Samsung Blu-ray player (1350) and the interoperability has been great. One remote controls both, they "understand" each other and work seemlessly. They even get along with the Directv remote to a limited degree. Delivery by Amazon was fine, although TV sat in Denver over the Labor Day weekend but could have been delivered if the service wasn't backed up. Also purchased a calibration DVD to set up the Samsung, but it was totally unnecessary. All adjustments appear to be spot-on!!!


4 out of 5 stars Sweet...   September 23, 2008
A. Chambliss (Milwaukee, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This was a replacement for my 1 year old 40" Sony XBR2 (my two year old threw a remote at it's screen). I wanted get a set that was comparable to my Sony. However, the features available on this set are light years ahead of the comparable Sony which costs [...] more.

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of the super shiny Ultra Clear screen. The picture is outstanding! However, I have a major problem with glare when I'm not directly facing the screen during the afternoon sun. I really miss my Sony's matte screen. I was surprised that it's huge remote is not universal. It took my 11 year old 5 minutes to master (we're hiding it from the 2 year old). Why do you need to purchase additional equipment to take advantage of the Infolink RSS feed? This is why I recommended the 650 vs 750 to my bestfriend. Has anybody found a use for the pre-loaded content? Can it be upgraded?

I love my beautiful new tv. The picture quality and [...] price difference between the comparable Sony made this a great choice. Amazon's free delivery and no sales tax helped to ease some of the pain. :-) Check this TV out in the big box stores and order it from Amazon.



4 out of 5 stars Great TV   September 22, 2008
AnonyMouse (Boston, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The delivery was prompt. The men came and delivered the TV and turned it on to check that "it works".
They told me its not their job to connect the TV.
I did the connections myself while they were still there and the picture quality was stunning (Comcast using component cables).

Pros: HD content looks great. Colors pop and seems to have almost a 3D quality.
The Sound quality is quite good.
Connected my PC and it looks great at 1920 x 1080
Dvds and my GameCube and PS2 look great (I do not have component cables)

Cons: Needs a bit of tweaking to go from great to Jaw dropping! Goto Avsforum.
Tons of modes/options. Requires a bit of patience.
The entertainment modes could have been better explained in the Manual.
Need to switch between Just Scan and 16:9 modes to remove single line(related to closed captioning) from top of screen.
The PiP feature is lame. I was not able to get both my PC and Comcast cable working together in PiP ode.

I notice a light colored bar (2 inches thick) sometimes moving up the screen (from bottom to top) slowly in a cycle. If anyone knows why this is or how to remove it please let me know.

I would recommend this TV without hesitation. The next generation from Samsung looks very promising as well (LED backlights and 200Hz) but I am happy with what I got for what I paid for. Amazon had the best price for this model. Alas in the next generation the smallest size is 46 inches. If you have a smallish apartment or a studio, you do not want to get a TV bigger than 40 to 46 inches.

I hope to buy a PS3 to try Blu-Ray and perhaps get an AV receiver and 5.1 speakers (though I am happy with the sound as it is). I am not sure if Comcast even provides 5.1 sound.



5 out of 5 stars Don't second guess the price tag - it's worth it!   September 21, 2008
Elton V. Pinto (Houston, TX USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This TV is absolutely incredible! I don't have much more to say then what's already been said here, but I'll do my best.

I was trying to decide between this model and the series 6, and ended up with this one because of the built-in subwoofer. I'm glad I did because the sound is definitely excellent! It's not quite surround sound, but the simulated surround sound is still impressive.

One of the grea things about this TV is that it works so well right out of the box! I went to a friend's place and he has a 52" Bravia, but the picture was only 1/2 or 1/3 of the screen most of the time whereas the picture fills my screen like 95% of the time. I went home and watched the same show I was watching at his place at my place and the quality was significantly better on my TV (and we live in the same building, so it's the same cable). On his TV there were lines and it looked like a CRT, whereas mine was a lot cleaner and, while it wasn't very clear because the broadcast itself sucked, it was smoother and looked better overall. I tried messing with some settings but couldn't get it looking as good as my 40" did. (note: I have my picture mode set to 'dynamic', and it truly does dynamically seem to adapt to video games or TV or whatever I'm watching)

This TV is so great that it makes DVDs look better and standard definition video looks great! Sometimes I have to get really close to the TV to convince myself that it really isn't HD. Of course, when you put on something that's true HD (like 1080i or 1080p), it puts everything else to shame. In other words, you can tell the difference between standard def and high def, and yet the former is still better than you may expect. I feel like the main difference from far away between the two is how much more vibrant and real the colors are in HD as opposed to SD, but when you get up close you can tell that the SD content is just grainier and more fuzzy around the edges, and you see more artifacts. From a distance of like 7 feet though, you can't tell the artifacts are there. Of course, this is all somewhat dependent on your cable/satellite provider.

I have a PS3 so I can attest to how incredible games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Rock Band look AND sound! MGS4 will have you thinking that they're real people and the gorgeous environments really shine on these TV. The otherwise mundane backgrounds in Rock Band look really real on this TV. I watched some Seinfeld episodes from DVD on my brother's TV (he has a 46" series 7) and it's like a totally new show! I also have a couple of Blu-ray movies (Kill Bill 1 & 2), which output 1080p with PCM 5.1 sound, and it seriously felt like when I first saw the movies in the theater. Obviously, the screen isn't as big, but the experience with the picture quality and the sound made me forget that I was even watching it in my living room at times. I really flipped for how perfect the colors were, which proves how great Blu-ray is and how well this TV can handle it. (note: I have my PS3 connected via HDMI, which is really the only way to go)

I do have a couple of gripes though. The whole dlna thing does not work for me at all. I have Vista Home Edition and whenever I try playing video on the TV using their crappy software from my computer, it always errors out (it doesn't crash the TV, just that application). The remote is not the best. The button layout doesn't always make the most sense, and the clickwheel is terrible. Fortunately, it is a clickwheel so you don't have to spin it around, which is really painful. The remote feels kind of cheap, but at least it has a backlight.

As you can see though, those are pretty minor things. The Info Link feature is pretty neat and lets me see what the weather is every morning so I can dress appropriately. The TV looks very stylish, and I don't even see the "touch of color" around the edge (though the picture refracts a bit around the edges). It has a TON of options if you really want to tweak it to your liking, but it's not always easy navigating through these menus.

Overall, this TV is ridiculously high quality. It was my first real TV purchase ever and I'm so glad I made it. It was a lot of money for me to give up, but I reasoned that it was better going with quality than a cheaper TV that I'd have to replace a couple of years later. This TV will last me a long time (after all, not everything is in 1080p now, so even if they end up with something better later I don't think it'll be very popular until after this TV has outlived its usefulness). I work hard so it's really nice to come home and relax and know that no matter what I watch on this TV that it's going to look great and I'll be treating myself. I know it's just a TV, but after a hard day it's still a nice perk.