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I love this Samsung UN46D6000 TV. It has a fantastic picture with really bright, vivid colors. Everyone who sees it comments on its classy look and super thin profile. I'm not sure if the LED lighting produces a better or brighter picture than standard LCDs, but I believe it's worth it simply for the thin profile and lower energy use. We used the built-in speakers for awhile until we got a sound system, and they worked plenty well and were loud enough.
Some individuals complain about "flash lighting" or "clouding" with these edge-lit LED TVs. I can say this hasn't been a problem for me. With common day-to-day full color scenes you will not see the lights at all. You also will not see them on a practically all black screen, by way of example movie credits or an app's splash screen, and essentially get an extremely deep, OLED-like black, I'm guessing since the Tv is detecting the dark scene and adjusting the LEDs dynamically. You might only ever see it incredibly faintly in the corners of a widescreen film with letterbox or on other occasional dark backgrounds, but it really is not incredibly noticeable unless you happen to be searching for it. The backlight brightness does not should be as higher as it really is set to out on the box and turning it down a little unquestionably makes a variation. All in all it's absolutely fine to me and I'm glad I did not spend many hundred much more on a unit with neighborhood dimming or perhaps a full LED array.
The other important point is this TV's DLNA capabilities, as this was some thing that was significant to me but was tough to locate information regarding on the net. I wanted to work with this Tv to play videos from my computer to avoiding creating an HTPC or obtaining a dedicated media streamer for the purpose. I can say that the Television does the task admirably and I've had no have to develop or get an additional device
. The UN46D6000 TV supports high-bitrate MKVs with AC3 and DTS audio. The only quirk is that it thinks it doesn't know the MKV container format, even though it really does. The solution to this is simple. You can either just rename MKVs to AVI, no transcoding necessary, or just enable transcoding in your DLNA server software. I use Serviio, and I bet the "transcoding" it does is really just switching the container format silently for me. I can't be certain of that, all I know is that MKVs work and the quality looks untouched on the Samsung UN46D6000 HDTV. If you don't use something that offers transcoding, the simple rename will do the trick. The TV can also handle and output 5.1 audio formats just fine.
As soon as the video is playing, just go to the sound settings menu and switch the SPDIF output from PCM to either DTS or Dolby Digital, then connect the TV's optical port to your receiver, and you are accomplished. Normal quick forward and rewind never operate over DLNA, but it's not an issue - you are able to pause and play, use the left and correct arrows to skip forward or back a specified increment (perhaps 30 seconds or anything), or you can use the "time search" characteristic to skip all around anywhere inside the video. In this respect, the TV's an even much better MKV player than Windows Media Center would be, because it seems all that can do is skip in increments.
General a handsome unit using a excellent picture, fine speakers in the event you use them, and strong DLNA capabilities that must replace the have to have for an HTPC or dedicated media streamer.
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I am trying to record a TV show from my TV to my VCR/DVD combo and I can't figure out how to get the TV signal to my VCR. On the back, it has jacks for HDMI, PC IN, AV IN, S-VIDEO, SPDIF, and COMPONENT, but they all seem to be for signals in. Can any of these work both ways?
The TV is not the signal source, so you will need to connect your cable/satellite cable(s) to your VCR/DVD combo, then that device to the TV. You can find instructions for these connections in the TV or VCR/DVD combo owner's manuals. For the TV, if you need a manual, visit the included link and search for your TV model number, then click on the Support/Downloads tab.
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