Samsung LN19B650 19-Inch 720p LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color provides a 720p high-definition resolution, vivid color details with a 15,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and Samsung’s Wide Color Enhancer 2 technology for a more natural rendering of colors. Additionally, the 8ms (millisecond) response time provides smooth motion while watching fast-paced sports and action movies. Plus, it’s Energy Star compliant, which helps you be green while saving on your electric bill.
The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72 percent of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlights to give you 92 percent coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors.
Samsung’s Wide Color Enhancer 2 technology delivers more brilliant colors by expanding the gamut of color expression into a third axis, creating a 3D diagram of luminance. This creates a dynamic display of on-screen color and allows traditionally weak colors, such as green and blue, to look vivid and deep. In addition, red colors are enhanced to provide strong colors across the spectrum and the perfect balance of RGB.
Helpful consumer’s review:
The stand for this TV holds it in fixed position, and the TV screen is pitched slightly downward from vertical. I contacted Samsung, and they actually told me it should be placed above eye level for pleasant viewing. I need to place it on a standard kitchen counter, and that means you are looking down on a screen that is pitched downward from vertical. This makes it unpleasant to view.
The TV’s audio is fairly weak and tinny, although that seems to be a common complaint about this size TV regardless of manufacturer. If you buy a small TV to save space, you certainly don’t expect to need external speakers to get good audio.
The picture and reception are great. The menu for configuration is great. You can set it to show stations that are 4:3 and 16:9 in their proper proportions, and it remembers which stations are which. I am always amazed when I go into a bar and see a Major League Baseball game being played by short fat players. Don’t the proprietors know you can re-configure the aspect ratio of the TV to show normally proportioned players? Do short fat players make the customers feel better?
I returned the Samsung LN19B650 TV with regrets. If I planned to mount it on a wall, I would probably have kept it, even with the, apparently common, fairly weak and tinny audio.
