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Summary: Same problem
Review: After 13 months the bottom 1/3 of the screen began to dim everytime the TV is on for 40 minutes. Amazing since the warranty is 12 months. Haven't tried to fix it yet. just will deal with it, I don't feel like dishing out more money. Besides that the picture is great.
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Summary: Fabulous picture
Review: After spending a great deal of time looking for a flat screen LCD TV to replace our 24" Sony, I decided on the Samsung LTM225W.My main criteria was resolution since a lot of LCD TVs look the same size but when you check ther resolution you get 640 x 480 and this translates to a fuzzy or pixilated picture. The LTM222W has great resolution and it shows up when you play a high quality DVD movie. I've had it for about a month and have had no problems to date. The price is fairly high but the quality is there. I noticed at Circuit City the difference easily since they had a dozen LCD TVs right next to each other with high quality DVD signal to them all. I predict that the old tube TV technology will be gone in 2 years. The prices should keep dropping. Also the 16x9 widescreen format actually gives us a larger picture than our old 4x3 format 24" TV. I've noticed that most DVDs are in widescreen. Marc
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Summary: Fabulous picture
Review: After spending a great deal of time looking for a flat screen LCD TV to replace our 24" Sony, I decided on the Samsung LTM225W. My main criteria was resolution since a lot of LCD TVs look the same size but when you check ther resolution you get 640 x 480 and this translates to a fuzzy or pixilated picture. The LTM222W has great resolution and it shows up when you play a high quality DVD movie. I've had it for about a month and have had no problems to date. The price is fairly high but the quality is there. I noticed at Circuit City the difference easily since they had a dozen LCD TVs right next to each other with high quality DVD signal to them all. I predict that the old tube TV technology will be gone in 2 years. The prices should keep dropping. Also the 16x9 widescreen format actually gives us a larger picture than our old 4x3 format 24" TV. I've noticed that most DVDs are in widescreen. Marc
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Summary: An update
Review: Hi again. I thought I would write an update to my review. Since then I built a new computer and I have a graphics card that supports 1280x720. It looks really good in both windows and linux. I haven't had as many problems with part of the screen dimming lately, but it still happens sometimes. I just read that review the guy wrote about his breaking down after 15 months.. I've had mine for 11 and I'm thankful it still works. It's not the worst experience I've had with equipment, but it's close. I paid like $1800 for this tv, which is less reliable than one of those tvs you can get at k-mart for $100. That is what really makes me mad about this product. The tv is pretty good as long as it works, but I never plan on buying another samsung product, especially if this one ends up dying on me after 15 months. Just don't even buy this tv. If you're going to buy a tv like this... do it from some place where you can get a warranty. I don't think Samsung even wanted you to know there was a warranty at all. It's on some boring looking sheet of paper that is easy to lose or throw away. It's not mentioned in the manual. I can only imagine what the support is like for this tv. Good luck to anyone who has one of these expensive bricks.
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Summary: 4 Stars when it works - Mine only last 15 months
Review: I had a Samsung LTM225W for 15 months and then it just went bad. (I replaced the power convertor to no avail). I'm now dealing with Samsung's extremely poor 12 month warranty offering. I've had TV last 20 years on me and now the most expensive TV I've ever bought didn't last 2 years! I'm very frustrated. If you buy Samsung products, consider getting an extended warranty plan since Samsung doesn't stand very firmly behind their products.
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Summary: Stunning Visual Quality
Review: I saved up for a few months to buy one of those elegant Flat-Panel TVs for my apartment. I figured about 20-25" is enough for me, I'd rather get a smaller screened player with amazing quality than a big screen with mediocre quality. One might wonder why I chose LCD, not plasma. I think generally LCDs look better than Plasmas, and there's less burn-in risk with less ghosting in the image. I also needed to mount this on the wall. After a lot of research, it came down to either this Samsung 22" Flat-Panel or one of the Sharp Aquos LCDs. New in box, both are about the same price, but I had to go and see these units first before making the decision. When I went to (...) to see both units, I immediately noticed the superior picture quality in the Samsung unit. The Sharp Aquos seems a bit softer and more pixellated. Samsung's unit has a much higher pixel resolution and looks much sharper. This of course was judged by the DVD demo playing on both, so don't take this review as a criticism of the Aquos instead of a love-fest for the Samsung. Anyway, I immediately bought the Samsung and took it home. TV was very easy to hook up, HDTV receiver, DVD player, inputs, etc.. and after a bit of effort, mounting it on the wall and setting it up, I tested it. I mainly bought this for DVD, but HDTV always comes in handy. Regular TV on it looked like it would on any TV: regular, good enough. A bit grainy, but I'm sure it could be adjusted. HDTV though is another world. It's just absolutely stunning on this unit. In a sense, it's more like a window into the HDTV world than a television screen. I always thought HDTV was a bit underrated, but that feeling was dispelled immediately. Soon I tested a DVD. The only DVD player I have actually is the Panasonic Portable DVD-LX9 Player (I haven't reviewed it yet, but look out for my review). I hooked up the composite output to the TV, as well as the AV cords, and I was in film heaven. I put on Gladiator, and it was just like I remembered in theaters. It wasn't grainy at all, colors weren't soft, it was all sharp, and the progressive image really did wonders. I've never had experience with such an image. If this is how DVD looks on this, imagine how HD-DVD will look in a few years! The next day I had a Lord of the Rings marathon and put in both of Jackson's epics with the same results, absolutely stunning. No complaints here. I then tried out some scenes from older films, and generally they were great too. The problems with the PQ on older films are really the fault of the DVDs and old masters. I tried the worst DVD transfer I own, Annie Hall, and even that looked better than I had ever seen it. New movies, old movies, black and white, anamorphic, non-anamorphic, all look stunning on this TV like I never imagined. This is exactly what I wanted for my apartment. Did I mention the ladies love this thing too? Imagine the looks of jealousy my friends gave when they saw this thing in action. I sit about 5-6 feet away from it and everything about it is beautiful and brilliant. The sound from the built in speakers is adequate, although I know I need to set-up 5.1 DTS speakers. The TV is also very easy to use, to set up and adjust. And another thing, it's just an extremely classy TV. It looks really cool and modern in my abstract apartment. I don't know how the Sharp Aquos TVs perform, but this TV made me lose all curiosities. If you have the money to spare, go for it. If you don't want to trust my word, go to your local (...) and see for yourself! Absolutely stunning. I'm running out of adjectives here!
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Summary: HDTV fan
Review: I'm not surprised at everyone's common experience who has ownned this lcd tv. Mine also had dimmed after 13 months of used before it stopped working 3 months later. I bought my samsung lcd in February 2003. Currently, I have called Samsung customer service located in New Jersey to obtain service. Surprisingly, they didn't have a copy of my one-year extended warranty, which I've sent 10 days after buying this product. I have to dictate the representative all my warranty information. Fortunately, I have kept a copy in my file. They have asked me to fax that information. I will follow up later and let you know how Samsung respond to this matter.
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Summary: Minor Problems
Review: I've enjoyed this item until a week ago and now I'm unable to get it to power up. I've checked web sites for salutions and I'm unable to get my unit to operate. can someone please help me with this problem. the manuel has not been to kind.
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Summary: Bleh.
Review: In all honesty.. I was expecting more from this tv. I read about it some and heard about all the great features, great resolution and all that. I thought it'd be nice to have a HDTV monitor for my computer and video games. The biggest thing I didn't realize was the computer resolution. I thought "wow 1280x720 that's great" .. however.. it wasn't until I got the tv that I realized what a strange resolution 1280x720 is. I have a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP gfx card in my computer and I didn't really think that it might not support 1280x720, and well.. surely enough it doesn't. My old 15" LCD monitor could do 1024x768, which is a pretty nice resolution. I didn't really think about the big tv not being able to do that resolution, but surely enough it doesn't. My gfx card does support 960x720 though.. which looks terrible.. the fonts in windows weren't made for it at all. In all simplicity, I'm stuck in an 800x600 world. On top of that I really thought the PIP looked nice with that split screen thing (most tvs don't have large enough PIP for it to be useful). It isn't very apparent until you get the tv that the PIP is very limited. There is one size PIP for the PC mode and you can only do your Antenna or Video (maybe s-video too) in it.. and you can only have the smallest size window. If you're buying this tv because you want it for a computer monitor, or even half way because of that, think twice. I will admit I have my xbox hooked up to the HDTV and it is absolutely FABULOUS. This doesn't really have to do with the tv but if you're looking into this tv for HDTV on your PS2, think twice. I bought hdtv cables for it and many games DID NOT WORK. The cables don't work at all with psx and with ps2 only some games worked, and most that did looked like crap. That's not a problem with the tv, but if that's your main use for the tv the tv won't be very valuable (though games still look good with s-video or normla RCA cables..) Oh and another big beef I had against this tv is there is NO AUDIO OUT. I read through the manual and it talks about hooking up to a stereo system, but it's saying to hook them up to the audio in places.. and there is no audio out.. so don't be looking to have surround sound and tv sound at the same time. Also, I've had my tv for about 5 or 6 months now, and sometimes the bottom 1/3 of my screen dims out some. I've taken VERY good care of my monitor and while it has had some accidental touches (grr @ stupid people), I don't feel that was enough to have the tv doing this. Whether they all break down like this or it's just mine I'm not sure, but that other guy seemed like he had some problems too. I wish now I had spent $1800 on a really nice computer monitor instead of this semi-worthless tv. I can't imagine any of ya'll buying it for that $2000+ price.. yeesh.
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Summary: Finally, it works!
Review: Samsung provided free shipment of this model for repair. It took only a week to get it back. That was almost 6 months ago. I was able to watch the summer Olympic Games in full HDTV glory! I just hooked up an Xbox for kids to play. The video game graphics of this thing is awesome! Samsung customer service was very helpful. I'm glad I've kept a copy of the free two-year warranty offer when I bought this lcd tv. The repair was nothing major. The power source had just needed to be replaced. If you ever had problems similar to mine, check to see if you could just replace the power source of your tv or call Samsung if yours is still covered by the warranty.
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