Samsung LN52A750 don't be misled, this is a GREAT TV..

(Model number added) I bought the LN52A750R1F for my wife's birthday--not the red Touch of Color, but the shiny all black one with Black ToC.
The picture is AWESOME. This TV is off the hook. Outrageous...
We have DirecTV in SD transmission because much of what we watch is still in SD transmission. The SD programs from Russian Channel 1 are a bit grainy when examined from 3 inches in front of the screen. From the other side of the room, i.e. 15 feet, the image is fabulous. Other SD transmissions from here in the States have the same effect. It's the SD transmission quality, not the TV.
DVD's are outrageous even in standard DVD quality. For about $80 you can find a major-brand up-grade converter to transform standard DVD's into near-HD quality. Be sure to use a quality HDMI cable available for <$10 on-line.
Now, when you go to TV broadcasts in HD, eg. the local news, Fox Sports, Robin Meade on CNN, then you see what looks like a 3-D image that blows you away. We watched National Geographic's "Inside the Vietnam War", MLB, Nascar, various music performances, and were very impressed. They ran a "Burn Notice Marathon" on USA Network--it's like looking through a window.
There is a reflection issue around the screen, but all you have to do is dim your lights at night. It's so cool to watch the TV in the dark, like at the movies. The easy way to kill the reflections is not to put black tape on the set. RECOMMENDATION: just set the unit further back in your furniture enclosure and the reflections will disappear since the ambiant light will no longer reach the screen from the sides.
The TV looks so stylish, similar in style to my wife's Toshiba laptop. It completely fills the open space in our huge furniture home entertainment center. A killer TV.
BTW, our big room measures 16' by 32' and the kitchen looks out into the room. Now I can wash the dishes and enjoy the show. The sofa is at about 15' from the screen and is just perfect.
As for the speakers: many people complain that they don't like the sound, whine, whine, whine. 1) I did a custom settings myself (for free) and the sound is excellent! 20W speakers sound fantastic, no need to turn it above 25 on the scale 0-100. 2) For a bigger-than-life experience, I connected it to our "old" Sony 200W home entertainment system which has several pre-set sound mixes (large/small concert hall, automatic, 5.1 surround sound, game, jazz, "house music", etc.) which does the job with ease. Rock on Wayne, with AC/DC's tour videos.
Forget the reflections, watch the show.
Also, I did a custom settings myself and the picture is a quantum-leap better viewing than with the standard settings. You can always revert back to the out-of-the-box settings. The remote control menu settings is very intuitive, extremely well thought out.
Party on, Garth....

Samsung LN52A750 Samsung announces $500 price drop for this set

Samsung recently announced that they were dropping the MSRP of the LN52A750 to $2699.99 from $3199.99 (as currently shown on the Amazon website). I don't understand how Amazon recently increased the price of this TV to over $2600 in light of this. They were selling it for about $2318 a little over a week ago! I say wait until Amazon drops the price back to below $2318. As long as folks buy it for the currently inflated price, Amazon will not be inclined to lower it back down. The new LED enhanced versions of this will be out in August which will definitely depress the prices of the current models (see http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1047806).

Samsung LN52A750 There are NO words to properly describe this awesome TV

My wife and I recently spent an unbelievable amount of time and effort, shopping all over for a new High Definition television. We did all the normal things that a person would do, and we checked out all of the well-known sources for new TV's. After all of our research, we finally came to the inevitable conclusion that our new TV was going to be an LCD this time around, and that it would probably be in the 52" range, based on our current living room dimensions and environment. We also eventually narrowed the extensive list of manufacturers down to just 2 (Sony and Samsung). Since we had previously owned a 67" Samsung DLP TV and we had experienced absolutely no problems at all with our other Samsung DLP TV in the 3 years that we owned it, we finally decided that we would purchase another Samsung product. The only decision left was to decide which 52" LCD model would we select from Samsung.

We closely compared the various Samsung models, side-by-side, at Best Buy and also at Costco. Our choices were the LN52A550, LN52A650 and the LN52A750. We did spend some time thinking about the new 8 Series LN52A850, but just felt that in our case, the extra bucks weren't quite worth it, especially when we compared the 750 and 850 models right next to each other at Best Buy. So, our final decision was the Samsung LN52A750.

And what a great decision that was.

Price-wise, there is no way that anyone can come close to Amazon's price, especially when you take into consideration the initial purchase price, and the fact that the shipping costs were FREE, and that there was no sales tax added on either. On October 14th, I went online to Amazon's website and placed our order for our new 52" Samsung LCD TV. We live in the Palm Springs, California area and it arrived here yesterday, October 20th, via CEVA's white glove treatment. We couldn't have been more pleased with their setup procedure and their professionalism.

Within just a few minutes after reading the Quick Setup Guide, we had the new TV up and running along side our also new Samsung Blu-Ray HD-DVD player. Since we didn't own any Blu-Ray DVD's at the time, the first movie I grabbed without even looking was "The Thomas Crown Affair". After the initial credits played, the movie began. OMG!! Yeah, those were the exact first words out of my mouth . . . . Oh My God!! I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I am even blind in my right eye, but right off the bat, the most impressive thing I noticed, besides the incredible clear and perfect picture, was the difference watching a TV with the 120Hz Auto Motion Plus option. At first I thought I was watching a "live" broadcast of something. There are honestly NO words that could ever adequately describe the difference in watching a TV with this option. It's truly100% awesome. You just have to see it for yourself, to truly understand what I'm talking about.

We've now had only 24 hours to watch our new Samsung HD-TV but we couldn't be happier. We know we made a perfect choice. It feels so good knowing that we made the right choice, especially with everything else that goes on in the world today. However, we truly though MUST take a minute to properly THANK everyone else that wrote a review on Amazon about this particular TV. It helped us tremendously in so many ways as we shopped for our new TV.

You can't possibly go wrong with Amazon's low prices. You can't go wrong with Samsung's products. And you certainly can't go wrong in choosing this particular model of HD-TV from Samsung. I just hope that we can help someone else out there to make the same decision that we were facing just a few days ago. And I'll go on record to say that I would guarantee you that you will enjoy this TV, just as much as we do, even after only 24 hours of use.

THANKS again so very, very much, especially to everyone at Amazon, Samsung, CEVA and also to all those critics who wrote a previous review of this product. THANK YOU!!

Samsung LN52A750 Most impressed

We've been really impressed with all aspects of this system. Picture quality is fabulous, controls are easy and intuitive and overall aesthetics are very pleasing.

We've mated it with a Pioneer VSX-1017TXV-K 7.1 surround sound receiver and a Panasonic DMR-EZ27 DVD recorder which has a built in digital tuner and "up-converts" from 720 x 480p standard DVD signals to 1920 x 1080p. Built in sound is good, but of course the surround sound THX system takes it to a whole new level. Feel like I could sell movie tickets to the neighbors!

Picture quality is outstanding. Dynamic, standard and movie modes cope with everything from a bright room with Sun streaming in aggressively to night time with the lights down low. We don't do cable or satellite (just don't watch that much regular TV) and the broadcast digital reception is excellent. The quality with DVD's is fabulous with the "up-conversion" of the Panasonic device without splashing out for Blue-Ray players or discs. Even VHS tapes do reasonably. Very impressed with the ability to play HD movies or view digital photos copied from a PC (or MAC) onto a USB memory stick (or SD card with a USB reader). Haven't played with internet connections yet.

HDMI and optical cable setup was straight forward. Use HDMI v1.3 cables[...]!

So, overall would totally recommend this device without hesitation.

Amazon's order processing, communication and delivery was first class and very fast.

Enjoy!

Samsung LN52A750 Great TV

I bought this TV around Oct this year. Everything looks great! Had to upgrade my old Dell 32" LCD. Shopped around for a while. Did the whole LCD versus plasma thing. I chose the Samsung LCD because the of the price, otherwise I was looking at the Pioneer Kuro.

The "Halo" doesn't bother me one bit. I do have it, but only noticed it after I read a few reviews. I'm too busy watching the screen to notice. Watching Blu-ray / HD-DVD (yes I do have one) or my DVD looks awesome on this. Make sure you have the 120Hz Auto thing turned on while you use your up-converting player.

My ONLY qualm with this unit is the bezel. I bought the 750 because I liked how the bezel added a "touch of class." The only problem with it is that because it's "piano black," when the unit is off I can see that the panel is not flat. There are little "dimples" or imperfections in the glass. I'm used to looking at the body lines of cars so I see those flaws in almost everything I look at. Doesn't affect the picture quality to me, so "oh well."

Samsung LN52A750 Fantastic LCD TV - Best picture

I was skeptical buying this TV, I was debating between 650 and 750, finally I decided to bet on 750. No regrets. My family has 2 of these TVs and these are best value for your money. The picture is awesome. The other comments about reflection and glare are all BS. The simple thing is that the TV is big it has reflective surfaces and if you open up your windows, some thing will get reflected, it will happen with any TV of this size. But night viewing is perfect. All the features are great. I use USB for playing HD movies, works cool. I had to do some research to get the software to get the right format for converting my HD movies. So if you are going to use USB get Xilisoft HD converter. Use the following setting:
MPEG-4 video profile optimized for PS3.(1080p), then change the profile setting on rt hand side to bitrate - 8000, MaxBitrate - 8000, leave rest of the setting as is. Since, in USB mode this TV plays max 2GB files, use the split feature to split files in 1.4GB sizes.
Have fun!!!

Samsung LN52A750 Excellent!

Truely a great TV. Everything as advertised, easy and intuitive to use. Picture looks great. You can set it to "Sports, Movies, Games " etc. , or tweek all the seetings yourself. Lots of user settings, and menues; which I found easy to use. If you don't have a flash drive, get one. You can download updated software and drivers from Samsungs website, and with a Flash drive and the TV's UBS port; Bam! your TV's software is updated. I see this TV lasting a long time with this feature.

The shipment was great. After purchasing at Amazon, delivery was estimated at 1 week. The frieght company called the next day to schedule a delivery. I ordered on a Friday; overnight it was shipped from PA to NY ( Westchester, just above NYC). I could have had it in my appartment Monday! But schueduled the delivery for the following Friday. I was not expecting it so quick, and wanted to give my boss a little notice I would be taking a day off to recive my great new TV.

When it arrived from Pilot Frieght, the two delivery guys uncreated it, and put it on my stand, pluged it in, and made sure it worked. This is Amazon policy. Nice! BTW making sure it works, means they get to the "blue screen"; they don't wan't you to set the cable up. Which I totaly undestand. Otherwise they will be trying to solve cable problems.

The pedestal is premounted on the TV. You have to take it off for a wall mount. That was great for me, I did not wall mount it; and that made the set up really quick.(Appartments pictures and mirrors are ok to hang. But larger holes you have to patch when you leave.)

I took the advice of another review and downloaded the Owner's Manual the night before. I knew what menue options would come up the frist time the TV was turned on. Which expidited the process a little. I had the other components pluged in and ready. Pluged the three HDMI cables into the back, and I was GTG! I was up and running in literaly 5 min.

Easily the best TV buying experience I have ever had. Amazon's price beat Best Buy and every other place I checked. Delivery was quick and profesional.