Samsung PN50C550 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV (Black)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 47.8 x 31.4 inches ; 62.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 81 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B0036WT3XO
• Item model number: PN50C550
  

Item Description

From the Manufacturer
(March 2010) Samsung's new PN50C550 plasma flat panel HDTV is a refinement of our commitment to style, efficiency, and cost of ownership. It really is 50-inch of 1080p Full HD image performance is the perfect fit for most rooms. The desirable Touch of Color design adds a subtle clear-to-charcoal gray accent to the set's bezel. Appreciate brilliant, film-like images in Complete HD resolution. Samsung's breakthrough mega dynamic contrast ratio presents a way more correct color tonal range, deeper blacks and shadow specifics. The new E3-Panel technologies featuring our innovative Clear Image Panel technology reduces off-angle blur and glare in brighter rooms and delivers a greater picture though employing less energy. Add four advanced HDMI inputs with Samsung's Anynet+ (CEC regular) technology makes method manage of compatible A/V devices like a Blu-ray player or HTIB technique a 1-touch operation. Experience Complete 1080p HD performance on Samsung's new C550 series plasma HDTVs, it is effortless on the wallet and hassle-free on the atmosphere.

Important Attributes

• Screen Size: 50 inches
• 600 Hz subfield motion: Gives crisp, clear Plasma HD action in just about every frame.
• 1080p Full HD Resolution: appreciate the potent image excellent, vivid colors and beautiful clarity of Complete HD 1080p resolution.
• E3-panel single filter design delivers enhanced efficiency in the areas of color saturation, contrast and energy efficiency.
• Mega Dynamic Contrast ratio: An unparalleled Mega Dynamic Contrast ratio brings together the deepest blacks and brightest whites.
• Response time: A quickly .001ms response time optomizes quick motion video content.
• Built-in digital tuner: no external box required.
• Exceeds Power STAR Standards: PDP Power saving, up to 43% much less than our similar 2009 Plasma Television in normal mode.
• Clear Image Panel: Samsung's new single-filter clear panel design eliminates the off-angle reflections that lead to picture blurring of imagesand specifics. Images and text look wonderful straight on or at any angle.
• ConnectShare Movie: Connect a thumb drive or digital camera easily and easily. Userfriendly interface makes it possible for access to videos, a music playlist and photos by way of the remote.
• Game Mode: Enhances dark areas, sharpens the image, speeds up the image processing response and enhances the sounds of your games. Picture and sound top quality optimized for the special desires of gaming systems at the touch of a button.
• ten Watts x 2 audio power stereo broadcast reception: Supports multichannel sound (MTS)and second audio program (SAP) with 181-channel capacity.
• SRS TruSurround HD: Get crisp, clear digital-top quality sound by way of advanced SRS technologies.
• DLNA enabled
• Warranty: 1-year components and 1-year labor warranty (90-days parts and labor for commercial use), with in-house service, backed by Samsungtoll-free of charge help.

Connections

• HDMI: four
• USB: 1
• Pc Input: 1

Dimensions

• Tv without stand: 47.eight x 28.eight x 2.eight inches (WxHxD) 52.9 pounds
• Tv with stand: 47.8 x 33.1 x 10.6 inches (WxHxD) 62.eight pounds
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Accessories

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Consumer Reviews

I had tried to decide to buy the earlier "B" model at close-out prices, but I missed the boat. Thought I could be outta luck until the "C" version started showing up a day or so afterward and it turned out to be fundamentally the same Tv, just about 25lbs lighter - only 2 individuals necessary to wall mount - I was down with that and $[...] bucks nonetheless didn't appear too poor. I had currently researched for some time and Plasma was it for me. The Panny G-ten had a similarly good image too, and despite the fact that it gives much to give consideration to, I liked the Sammy's image just a bit a lot more, but you may perhaps want to check it out as nicely. I received the set with zero challenges or difficulties: no dead pixels or any buzzing, whines or something amiss at all. Outta the box the image was very excellent, and showed me great resolution efficiency even with SD cable with no video noise difficulties (although initially I did obtain it vital to use the 3 supplied ferrite, choke magnets that snap onto the power cord. These not only eliminated the a few horizontal noise bands in the image, but cleaned up the resolution on the general image with no downside - an uncomplicated repair that entirely nixed the trouble for me).
But, tweaking the picture a bit is exactly where this set shines the most. When researching, I came across a webpage that offered a list of image manage settings for the "B" version. Due to the fact this is seriously the very same panel, I factored it into my acquiring choice accordingly. Specifically given that the settings were stated to be obtained with a Sencore color analyzer (about a $10,000 pro device for calibrating video displays and is the sort of factor applied by the Imaging Science Foundation - ISF. They at least did pioneer and continue to legitimize the video calibration practice, but even more to the point, it WASN'T carried out by any of the alot more lame imitators that have because cropped up (like Geek Squad, Spyder and other individuals) whom, I feel, exist to separate you from your capital (at about $300 a calibration) while hardly giving you a improved image adjustment than you can get on your own with a $25 calibration DVD).
What this signifies to us is that the results of, what I am taking to be the equivalent of a $300 (legit) image calibration, for this certain set anyway, have currently been posted on the web for no cost - not an inconsequential consideration, for any individual interested. I'm posting those numbers right here, for those who are:
White Balance Settings:
Red-Offset: 22
Green-Offset: 25
Blue-Offset: 12
Red-Acquire: 33
Green-Gain: 25
Blue-Obtain: 33
Picture Settings:
Picture Mode: Movie
Color Temp: Warm 2
Brightness: 56
Contrast: 90
Cell Light eight
Color: 53
Tint: G35/R65
Sharpness: 10
Black Tone: Off
Dynamic Contrast: Off
Gamma:
Colorspace: Auto
Flesh Tone: Off
Edge Enhancement: Off
Digital NR: Auto
HDMI Black Level: Low
Film Mode: Auto
When I tried these settings I noticed a very organic, all-natural-looking image, one particular that provided me a few surprizes. This set takes place to be inherently capable of showing a a great deal more-than-generous quantity of color saturation with out dilemma. I personally favor a image that's just slightly undersaturated, if something (but, I expect this set will accomodate anyone's taste on that score, if yours are numerous than mine). With all this, what I located was that even when slightly undersaturated and I felt the image was indeed realistic-seeking, whenever an unusually colorful object was displayed (like a especially vivid piece of clothing, or a brightly flourescent color - like some NASCAR colors, for instance), this Tv displayed Both the less intense colors of the alot more mundane objects, and the most decidedly vivid ones, equally nicely in the exact same scene AT THE Same TIME - by no means subduing the most vivid colors even when the general color level looked 'properly' undersaturated to me on the additional everyday objects. Nor was it unnaturally emphasizing them, for that matter. The outcome was a Television that, on any beneficial, HiDef, cable feed, on a regular basis showed me a surprisingly wide (but all-natural-searching) "dynamic range" of color intensity in the pictures. I could just about really feel as if the Tv itself were getting out of the way and showing me clearly (and alot more truthfully than I've noticed in my household ahead of) just what the camera saw. Extremely nice and, as I say, surprizingly convincing (and this with merely 1080i and 720p cable feeds - a Blu-ray player is absolutely subsequent!). This set, immediately after my preferred adjustments, did not make all the colors appear too subdued, like some plasmas I've observed have ended up undertaking, nor all the colors also vivid, like some LCD's. I felt like it walked the line beautifully - not merely a beneficial compromise, but it seemed definitely the perfect of both in this regard. Black levels had been great and with exceptional detail - no complaints.
In the finish, I did opt to deviate from the settings above, but only with respect to general contrast/brightness and color level settings, everything else was the similar. This gave me an appreciable gain in contrast that suits me and my family's tastes in our well lighted, daytime living area. Plasma is normally not as vivid in the contrast department as most LCD's or LED's, but in the mid-value range ($1,000-$1,500 retail) it really is a modest price for me to pay for a image that I feel (with adjustment) is otherwise decidedly sharper, clearer, way more life-like and dimensional than something else for the cash. I haven't felt that any comparative lack of overall contrast has resulted in any buyer's remorse for me at all, as no such notion has however remotely entered my head anytime I've watched it.
I'll add that in my expertise with LCD's vs. Plasmas, Plasmas kill LCD's and LED's when it comes to motion - at least in the sets in this price tag range. Up more than about $two,000 and differences amongst the panel varieties get started to get rather a bit smaller to me. But, just prior to I settled on this Sammy, I went to Wally Planet and dragged residence a Vierra LCD, primarily to see if 'taming down' an LCD image to suit my tastes could possibly be superior than trying to 'pump up' a Plasma. In this case, a large waste of time! What I saw was a 120-Hz LCD on sale at just below a 1,000 bucks that just couldn't do motion really properly at ALL. I popped in a SD DVD of Lawrence of Arabia and it looked like it was shot "reside-to-video", perfectly goofy. I also found out just how bad a 5-ms response time can appear on a 47" set. The 120Hz function DID perform as advertised and made quickly motion Considerably far better than without having, but any slow-speed pan or motion brought on a almost instantaneous defocusing of the location of motion, until the motion stopped and the blurred location was able to snap back into focus. When watching a head shot of someone speaking, for example, their face would perceptably blur in the regions of facial motion even though the face of one other person in the scene next to them (not talking) remained in sharp focus - also disconcerting. And too considerably of a disconnect to the knowledge to NOT want to appear at a individual while they had been talking(!). Plasma (600Hz or no) inherently has no such motion troubles that require the consumer to spend funds on to overcome. If that wasn't adequate (and, believe me, for me it was) the somewhat artificial vividness to the image proved, at least on this LCD, to be some thing I could never ever quite tame, no matter what the settings.
For me, to pass muster, a flat panel should make no significant blunders in the 4 most very important efficiency regions of color, contrast, resolution and motion. To me this Sammy does all of that and at a especially good value - I don't know how I can do significantly superior than that, in particular with out yet another 100 % free video calibration. In reality, the only Plasma that I'm confident could beat it hands down is the discontinued-but-nonetheless-out there Pioneer Kuro 50" plasma. But then, it should certainly, it retailed for a mere $4,500 when new. But, a few months ago it could be had on the web for only 1,600 bucks. It really is just that at the time, I did not have the scratch. Now, the remaining ones, if you can locate 'em, were, the last time I looked, hovering around $3,000. Oh nicely, I'll tell you a single issue, though this machine at this price, has absolutely eased my pain...) I know this is not 3D, or way more colors than RGB or something, but I'm a lot more than content material now to wait all that out. Til the next round, this will do me just fine!

I just got my television yesterday. Tv was manufactured in April 2010. Very first day, has especially light buzzing noise, second day, is receiving louder. I feel Samsung has not fix their buzzing noise for confident in this 2010 models. I just think this is really annoying even even though Samsung will not admit as they say it is standard to have the buzzing. I hate to the return and I don't assume Samsung will have a repair either if I report this problem to their repair help. When I complained about this noise, they said it is regular but I could try to contact their ECR (Executive Buyer Relation) Dept to escalate the issue which I am doubtful they will do anything about it. So anybody wanting to purchase a plasma tv, please take into account the buzzing noise as I know some people today do get non-buzzing (hit and miss) but most most likely you will get a buzzing one particular. Picture good quality. overall is fantastic not terrific but just superb especially for the dollars. Heat made is particularly minimal.
Screen is pretty glossy and reflective. So if you have an open space or windows behind your seat, I would not suggest this tv. I have been a large fan of Samsung items from cell telephone, monitor, refrigerator, LCD Tv and my final purchase a plasma tv is especially disappointing. Yet, I hope their tech help will do a thing about it to make the buzzing much less apparent. My very first LCD television bought also do make the buzzing noise but because I bought Greatest Acquire extended warranty, they took care of it by replacing the power provide board or one thing which I was not quite confident but considering that then the buzz was gone.
Samsung has to honestly make their plasma superior in my opinion by minimizing their buzz concern otherwise a lot of men and women will be rather disappointed. Boo....Samsung plasma
I will post an update as soon as I have hear back from their ECR dept. to see what they strategy to do to resolve this issue but my guess most most likely they will say it is standard by doing the 15 feet test listening at typical volume.