Samsung UE40D5520

"You don't own a tv? What's all your furniture pointed at?" - Joey Tribiani. If you don't know who Joey is, perhaps it's because you don't own a television yourself, or perhaps you've never watched the TV series Friends. Either way, our furniture is now all pointed towards a large new television made by Samsung. With a screen size of 40 inches our furniture finally has something decent to be pointed towards. ~ I've finally got the smarts ~ While my old standard definition (if anyone ever called it that) CRT television may be considered old tech, it was still watchable. The only trouble was it ... more

This television gives access to some of the features which you can only get with much higher priced televisions. I upgraded my old fashioned box tv to this smooth sleek television and I am very happy with this decision. It's very thin, probably helped along by the LED Illumination and can support BBCI player and Smart TV. It comes with free view which includes an HD tuner and the picture is definitely better on HD programmers this television will be even better in the future when most channels are HD, this is definitely important for looking at when buying a television you don't want to pay ... more

The TV is a 40" good quality TV. It has all the facilities you would expect from an LED. It comes with HDMI, USB and PC input ports, and the usual menu options of colour enhancement, etc. It is good value for the price ranges (middle of the road or even towards the bottom end of TVs of the kind), however, the image is not the crispest you could ever get and the colours can look artificial compared to other TVs of the same spec. The main advantage is the value, though, and a bit of shopping around would make it come really cheap indeed. It's all relative, of course, and it really depends on ... more