This 40" TV took me a long time to research and locate

Does this HDTV have all the bells and whistles of my Samsung 52 inch? No, but it also does not have the significantly higher price, and that's a trade-off I consciously chose to make. I bought this TV as a replacement for an old-school CRT-type 21 inch TV. I mounted this on the wall (using a VideoSecu Articulating Arm TV Wall Mount for Most 22 Inch-37 Inch VESA 100x100 200x100 200x200 LCD LED TV Monitor Flat Panel Screen display/Full Motion Mount Bracket Loading up to 80 lbs ML525B A31)and have a larger TV with a smaller foot print in our kitchen and eating area -- and for that purpose, it's been great. The 2 HDMI ports will allow me to connect a high-def cable box and either a laptop (my wife wants to be able to easily read online recipes as she works in the kitchen) or possibly a blu-ray player. And for a kitchen/eating area TV, that's plenty of connections. The picture is good, the usual Samsung setup options are complete, and it was very easy to set up the first time I used it. The picture is currently standard def (no cable box yet) and the quality is comparable to any HDTV playing a standard def channel. I have every expectation that the high def picture from the cable box will have the same high quality I see on our larger Samsung HDTV. And the price was better than anything I could find locally or on other internet sites, even after I factored in the sales tax from the seller. So as I said in the title, it's a very good HDTV for a very good price. Samsung has done it again for me.This 40" TV took me a long time to research and locate. I saw two very good 40" HDTVs at Sam's Club, but when I would go back to purchase one, they were always sold out. It is a very good television that fits my 48" wide bookcase very well. It has a narrow bezel, unlike most 40" TVs, so it would fit into the bookcase with room to spare on each side and the top for ventilation. It didn't come out of the box with the best adjustment for my application, but with some care and effort, I got it adjusted to look as good as those at Sam's Club looked. It has an excellent picture with the tweaking that I did, and the menus for doing that are good (not excellent, but good), they are fairly intuitive if you have had experience with such menus. They are far better than the menus on my 32" Vizio that I replaced with this TV (HDMI connectors all knocked out by lightning strikes), and also on my 42" Panasonic plasma 1080i HDTV. The picture on this LED Samsung rivals that of the Panasonic plasma set at a fraction of the cost. The plasma Panasonic has an excellent picture, and this low cost Samsung LED tv is almost as good. I say almost, because the blacks and the crispness of picture aren't quite as good as the Panasonic. But considering what I payed for the Panasonic four years ago, the Samsung is by far the better value. The Panasonic plasmas cost less than half what they used to cost, but still about twice as much as this Samsung.
And, the LED tv is only a fraction of the weight of the Panasonic plasma set, and also puts out only a fraction of the heat that the plasma set does.
My only negative comment thus far, is that the Samsung set has only two HDMI connectors. If you have a TiVo or other DVR and a BluRay player, you have used up all of the HDMI connectors and will have to use the RGB component connector for the next device.
I highly recommend this TV if it continues to be as good as it is now. I've used it only one month, and have had only one lightning strike without damage. The surge protector that I have is supposed to protect the cable connection too, but it doesn't. In fact, I have to disconnect it because it gives poor digital reception (pixilation is common).

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