The Bottom Line:
This display will do good in anyone's living room or Home Theatre room, great picture quality and crisp computer displays. I would highly recommend this to anyone!
Overall Rating:
Author's Review
I have installed a few of these displays in some classrooms for Laptop and DVD/VHS machines. The image is crisp and clean and showing a PowerPoint slide show through the VGA input wonderful. With HDMI, DVI, VGA, Component, S-Video, and VGA loop through, you have tons of inputs for just about any need you might have. I would rate the color at a near perfect for this price point, the crispness is one of the best I have seen in a Plasma. They include a very detailed menu system with a ton of anti-burn screen options, adjustments to color for the videophiles out there and even a way to rename the inputs on the display.
Although no LCD or Plasma comes with a wall mount or pipe mount, Samsung has included a set of nice feet that would allow this Plasma to sit nicely in your living room. We have one mounted on the wall and one on a pipe and both were very easily installed with their mounts. As with any plasma or large TV, these displays way quite a bit so two people are required to lift it into place or into it's mount.
As with any large display, the quality of the display has a lot to do with the content you are playing back on it. If possible stay away from S-Video and composite video, and stick to the DVI or HDMI connections as these are higher quality video signals. This display could do very good with a HDMI Home Theater system or an up-converting DVD player.
Since those were all very good things, here are my only "wishes":
I wish that they would allow you to remove the inputs from the "Source" list so that you don't have to click through all of the unused inputs that you have and I also wish that they would have had a high quality output that switched with your inputs for those that use the display with different audio inputs.