Advantages: Beautiful colours, very dark black colours, works well with standard SKY+ and HD Upscalers Disadvantages: Sometimes blurry on fast-paced action movies or older films. MoviePlus isn't all that great.
...The Samsung LE-40F86BD is a fantastic TV. I use it with a Standard SKY+ box (i.e. not a SKY+HD model) and the picture is fantastic. As with all TVs using such a box, make suer you can sit at least 2 feet away from it. Sit too close and the picture will look extremely blocky. Due to the quality of the different channels, channels such as SKY ONE or National Geographic will look better (even in SD) than lesser funded channels.
Use a regular DVD player and the picture is beautiful but use an upscaling one such as the Samsung HD870 and the picture is stunning. If only I had an HD DVD PLAYER! I've watched Cars with and without the HD Upscaler and I assure you, the upscaling does make a difference.
Older movies or ones with a lot of fast moving action tend to look a bit blurred at times but in general it's awesome. Movie Plus isn...
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What a joy it was to have saved up for a tv i wanted and then brought. I had been saving for months and when this came out i knew that i wanted it, so i went and brought it for £1200. Not cheap by any standards but the price is well worth it.
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Lets start with the techno babble specification of this LCD T.V Price around £1,000
40 inch LCD TV with 178 degree viewing angle
1920 x 1080 resolution
100hz refresh rate
1080hp signal support
CONECTIVITY
3 x HDMI - great for xbox 360 and hd dvd... more