Now im torn between these two television sets,
Sony KDLŽ-V40XBR1 which is a discontinued model but nonetheless a fuckin great tv
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-p158vHy...p?i=158KD40XBR

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and the Samsung LNS-4095d

[IMG]http://www.circuitcity.com/IMAGE/product/enlarged/sam/EC.SAM.LNS4095D.JPG
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http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Samsu...oductDetail.do



I hooked up an OTA antenna and the sony had less pixelation than the samsung, which blowed when i was watchin NFL....the Samsung is a 1080, for which i will be gettin a PS3 for eventually....but damn the picture in 720 looked so bad during the football game vs the Sony, which leads me to lean towards the Sony, i would be using it for movies alot, as well as a big computer monitor, HD tv via cable, and eventually bluray....

If i was getting both of them for the same price, which one would u go with and why?
I'm gonna compare SD picture tommorrow, but i dont usually watch alotta SD...

 

im also beginning to wonder with a 1080p source coming in, on a 40 inch screen it wouldnt be a highly noticable difference am i right?

 

Step up to a XBR2 or XBR3, it's only money.

 

would be about double what i would be getting these for, ill pass i dont wanna clean out the bank just yet

 

SD, are you in the stone ages? jp.

Dude I can't watch SD anymore it drives me nuts.

It's a tough call, both are under 2k now. I'm a sony person myself, but I'm leaning towards a sammy for my bedroom.

 

On a screen that "small" odds are you wouldn't get any benefit from 1080p. Once you're in the 50" and higher range, that's where you really see it...

 

I love my Samsung LCD....I'd reccomend a Samsung LCD to anyone.

 

can you explain to me the logic behind that statement?

i'm not certain i agree.

the only thing size has to do with is DPI, and granted, at 50" plus, you'll have a rather low DPI at 768p, but even at 40" having the much higher DPI of 1080p will make a difference.

it may not be as essential a difference, but there will be a difference.

i've a 46" display and I see a big difference between 720p and 1080p. there isn't a massive DPI disparity between 40" and 46".


anyway, even ignoring the resolution differences... i would no freaking doubt get the 4095d over the XBR1. it's a better TV, no question... AND... it's cheaper! get the Samsung, for sure.

 

Step Dads got the Samsung, and its a beautiful TV. Go For It!

 

My friend told me that Samsung is good and Sony is getting overrated for TVs

 

While Sony is indeed overrated, no more so than Samsung.

So far as LCD's go, Samsungs & Sony's are virtually identical... sharing the same LCD panels in most of their sets. The only real difference is the design of the set and the processors, for which, there also aren't many differences.

In this case though, you're talking about a high end Samsung vs an older lower-end Sony. It's a no brainer.

 

mine is perfect

 

gonna pull the trigger on the Samsung...although i do love the cable card feature as well

 

It's just what I've read along the way while doing research. And I did mis-type there... I should not have said 50"... I should have said 47" and up as that is typically what I was told. I also should have said any benefits are minimized at that size... and the larger you go, the more you get out of the 1080p... b/c yes, you will see a benefit, but you really see it on the larger screens.

I wouldn't know from experience b/c when shopping for a 1080p set, we knew we wanted a large screen, so we didn't look at anything less then 56".... but the 47"+ 1080p thing was just a blanket statement that is widely publicized.

And yes, that Sammy is the way to go here...

 

bought it with the phantom50 stand circuit city carries, i just gotta pick up the tv soon as im over this feverrrrrr

 

circuit city has the tv i bought for 1299.99, i think thats an excellent buy

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Samsu...oductDetail.do

 

we had this http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Samsu...oductDetail.do goin for 1399.99 brand new at cc

we had an open boxed lns-4051d that sold for fuckin 949.99

 

wow

 

I have the 26" version of that in my bedroom....its awesome!

 

so what does the service menu on this set allow you to do?

 

quick question, the optical out on the lns-4095d is just if i got OTA and want sound going to the reciever right?
or does it also mean that i can have my two hdmi inputs and its just drawing the audio out from the hdmi inputs?

 

i spoiled myself this xmas

 

Very nice.

Is it just the picture or is your TV a bit off center?

 

i didn't have the stand actually sitting right in the spott where it belongs, it was angled because i just finished hookin up everything.... stilll have to wire two speakers and mount them on the walls