Ecco un paio di giudizi lasciati su CNET da due utenti che hanno acquistato il samsung PN50C7000 :
Pros: Mostly gorgeous BluRay images. 3D compatible. Plenty bright. Solid colors with good accuracy. A lot of picture adjustments available. Ability to set picture settings specific to inputs. Easy to navigate menus.
Cons: Dynamic contrast makes dark scenes flicker, Source select function not compatible with macros, 4:3 stretch not automatic, grey levels in darkest scenes difficult to impact via picture settings. Cost a tad high. Menu didn't explain anything.
Summary: Buzz ? This unit does have a buzz but it took me a long time before I noticed. Honestly, my DVR cable box?s hard drive and fan are louder even when in a cabinet. I can not hear the buzz from my normal seating distance of 10? even with all sound mutedUnless you watch a lot of TV with the sound completely off, I?d be surprised you would notice
Front panel button ? These are all but impossible to see in low light and generally don?t work well when you can see them,
Source select ? You?re forced to scroll sequentially through your options or use multiple direction and enter keys to select something. I?d like to set macros on my remotes but this arrangement makes it impossible.
Picture mode - The unit will not automatically switch between 4:3 stretched to full 16:9 pictures. If stretch mode is on, the 4:3 is set correct but 16:9 is also stretched; HD no good. If stretch is off, you get black bars for 4:3 and now 16:9 looks correct; burn in no good. I switch between SD and HD when watching cable (all output via HMDI). Luckily the remote has a picture size key to make changing the setting easier but I really feel this is a day to day nuisance that will never go away. So much for smart electronics.
3D ? This didn?t function did not work until I hit ?Picture Correction? in the 3D menus. For me, the feature is largely a gimmick. The picture size needs to be about 3 times as large to really get the effect I see at IMAX. Maybe that?s an unfair comparison but I can honestly say I have no desire to watch 3D on this 50? set. It feels like you?re looking out of a window on the other side of the room. When I look out of a window, I want to be right in front of it but doing this on the TV would be bad on the eyes. For still images, the effect is very realistic and well received by my eyes. Moving pictures seems to have trouble. I see multiple images all at once and it?s distracting like motion judder on fast panning film material. Bottom line, I wouldn?t pay for this feature unless it were at least on a 100? screen.
Dynamic contrast ? This function seems amazingly flawed when viewed with very low light scenes. I watched 2 movies and noticed in each that with very low light levels, the dynamic contrast would shift the background black levels in unit steps to different levels. Almost like a loose wire in a bad analog connection, the contrast level just jumps and flickers. To see, get a BluRay copy of ?The Hurt Locker? and start watching at 1:43:00 (scene 15). The picture goes almost completely black for 3 seconds during which the screen flickers between different black levels. If you have either BDLive or Standard mode on, no other adjustments will make this go away. They apparently override the dynamic contrast and set it to high. If I set the TV to Movie mode and turn dynamic contrast to lo or off, the affect went away. This makes both of these setting useless which is unfortunate because they were the two that I felt looked the best.
Black levels - Black levels with good source materials (BluRay) and a bright image produce a spectacular picture with plenty of ?pop?. However, I believe most sets excel at this type of material. In the darkest scenes such at the one in ?The Hurt Locker? I could find no way to affect the low level grey I was seeing. This did not seem to impact the ?pop? of normal images and really didn?t detract too much from the viewing experience. If I could verify another TV can handle this a bit better, I will probably return the unit since this is one of the more important features to me. Admittedly I?m a bit picky here. I?m guessing 90% or more of the population would find the image to be exceptional and for all but the darkest scenes, I would have to agree. Even with dark scenes, the image is pretty good. SD material doesn?t look very good on the set but again, I doubt many fixed pixel displays can really excel here due to their very nature and large screen sizes. Magnify anything enough and it will look bad.
Color ? I though color accuracy was no issue and generally looked excellent. There?s a tremendous amount of controls here including 10 point white balance adjustments. However, I have been struggling with the amount of color but it?s likely no fault of the TV. Some cable channels look way too saturated and others much too grey. I think this is a case of garbage in ? garbage out. What I don?t see are the grey color issues stated by the other user; not to say they don?t exist.
Sounds like a lot of negatives but honestly I think most people will find this set very enjoyable and be highly satisfied. I?m disappointed with the dynamic contrast function, source selection method, and inability to affect grey in the darkest scenes. Due to these reasons, I?ve left 3 stars. I may actually return the unit but I don?t have a clear better option to go with other than last year?s Samsungs.
Pros: Finally a 3D Plasma. Looks...good? Price.
Cons: gray, gray, gray. Everything looks gray even after fiddling with the settings for over an hour. Contrast, brightness, color, etc etc etc.
Summary: This is one of the few times I will say a LED looks better than a Plasma. It's a good TV bot price and styling, but for some reason the color has super strong gray overtones. I have messed with the setting for over an hour watching Bolt as a demo for customers (I work at a retail store) and I just can't really get it to look good. We have it next to the PN50B850 and the B850 is leaps and bounds better. So far having see the UN55B8000 & UN55C7000 for the top offerings in the LED department (top of the line LED's we currently have at the time of this review) the B850 is still the best. If you are looking for a 3D TV in the Samsung 7000 series I would recommend the LED C7000. However if the gray overtones don't bother you I don't think the $1K price difference is worth it to get the LED.
