Very happy with the 750. I was considering the 550/650 but in the end got the 750 because it was cheaper than the 650 when I bought it. I really like the styling and even like the way the outer edge of the bezel catches the light like the bevelled edge of a mirror (the halo effect for those who don't like it, I think it looks cool). The hint of red is nice too, gives it a bit of style.
I have it in a very brightly lit room with lots of windows and the glare off the screen is not an issue. The black levels are very deep provided you have it set up properly (HDMI black on, HDMI full range on, Dynamic contrast Off, Backlight 3). You have to play around with the settings a bit, I found that turning on Dynamic Contrast made a normal picture more contrasty but really killed the blacks (made them light grey) on a black screen so I turned it off. During the day none of this is noticeable but at night with the lights off the lack of the LCD's ability to actually go black is very noticeable and can be annoying if the settings aren't right.
The color and clarity of this are amazing. Watching "Mickey's once upon a christmas" blew me away, it was hard to believe it was only a standard definition DVD and the colors were out of this world lush. It is a bit critical of poor quality video from say, DirecTV for example but DVD/PS3 look wonderful on it and Blu-Ray even more so (although I have to admit there's not much difference between a really good DVD and most Blu-Ray movies that I've watched). Overall the set does a very good job of upscaling and handling lower resolution inputs.
I had some problems getting HDMI1 to lock onto my receiver so I just use HDMI2 and that locks on with no problems. The front panel controls are seriously hard to find and disappear completely when idle. You have to look in bright light very closely at the front right edge to see the faint white icons and then touch in the right spot to get them to light up. Cool, and great for keeping little children from touching the controls but had me wondering where they were for a while.
The built in stuff is a bit of a yawn. They show these beautiful lush pictures on the main contents menu, then drop into some dark low contrast mode to play the games - not sure why but not a good advertisement for their picture quality. The food stuff looks nice and the get fit material (which rightly follows the desserts section) is some sort of flash animation that I would rate useful for a quick giggle only but not overly useful.
I loaded up some pictures from my Shutterstock collection (via a PS3) and the image quality was just amazing. The pictures looked nearly as good as my desktop monitor (which cost more than the 52A750) and going through the collection on a 52" screen was quite a treat.
On fast moving video response time was a non-issue with no noticeable lag or blurring. 120Hz motion flow works well with no apparent down side, and I definitely notice the stuttering if I turn it off. The built in sound is really very good, not as good as my multi-thousand dollar home theater system but for a television it's among the best I've heard. For the most part I don't use it though, since the receiver is always on when the television is on.
Overall top marks for an excellent television.
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