Best Samsung Flat Panel TVs - 40 to 56 inch Screen Size, 1080i (HDTV) Broadcast Format Supported, 720p (HDTV) Broadcast Format Displayed, 1920 x 1080 pixels Display Resolution

'Extremely expensive.'

'below average performance'

'dreaded backlight'

'lacks a built-in HD tuner.'

'Somewhat nonlinear grayscale.'

'The FP-T5084 has a pair of 15-watt speakers built into the simple black bezel, which has a stark design that is a bit too lifeless for our tastes'

'shiny screen causes distracting reflections in normal room lighting.'

'As I worked with the TV for the UAV review, I came to realize that, in my haste to finish the work for Playback , I had set the brightness incorrectly, which impacted the shadow detail.'

'despite Samsung's "true black" advertising (which pertains to the 65F and not the 61F), after calibration it was often difficult to tell which one displayed a deeper color of black.'

'For what it's worth, Samsung sent us a firmware update that worked with both sets to fix the deinterlacing of video-based, but not film-based, 1080i content and to show every line of a 1080-resolution test pattern.'