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Rating:  -
Bought this TV for our kitchen. Picture quality is great and sound is not bad. The TV is also a good looker. Am pretty happy with my purchase. Get HD channels by air, and the pickup quality is also good.
However, I would make a couple of changes:
- Redesign the remote. It looks as "old-age" and the TV looks "new-age"!!
- TV start/stop time is slow...after you press the button.
Rating:  -
I got this tv to replace one on my kitchen counter. It is connected to a cable and the HD channels are fabulous. The black with the tiny red tint is beautiful, but the picture quality is great. Well pleased.
Rating: -
This is my first digital TV. My existing TV is a 19" RCA XL-100 I bought new in 1976. It has the old two-button remote using ultrasonic, no batteries. Still works great but I thought I'd just get a new TV and have both. Join the 21st century kind of thing. I heard that Samsung was the best brand for quality, and Sony was the same because Sony used Samsung parts. That's what I had heard. I almost bought a 19" Sony Bravia, I mean I was *that* close to buying one, but saw a picture showing the lame way it stands almost vertically (!) on the counter with a shaky center of gravity, ready to topple, and read a review that talked about that, where Sony expects you to tether the TV to the wall with a strap to prevent tipping. Very lame. So, it was a Samsung for me.
The Touch of Color thing was never explained well in the advertising. You pay more money just for a different color of case, it seems to be. Yeah, that's what I did. It is a tiny bit pretty, a good thing, when compared to the funereal black of other digital appliances.
I took it out of the box, the stand was already attached even though the manual read like I needed to attach it. The instructions to attach it looked a bit confusing so I'm glad it was already attached. I placed it on the counter, read a little more, the first thing to do is have your TV scan for stations. Ok, did that. I am not on cable so I knew I had to attach external rabbit ears. My antenna had two U-clips while the TV had a protruding female coax jack with screw threads on the outside. My adaptor to convert the U-clips to a male coax connector was a push-on type and I think I had to damage a few threads on the TV jack, not sure, when I pushed the coax connectors together. But it worked and I get great digital picture.
You know, the thing no one points about about through-the-air digital reception is how perfect it is. We all know that through-the-air analog gives you various amounts of snow/static/fuzz at times, depending on how close you are to the source and how you position the antenna. That is, you will experience degrees of reception. We all grew up knowing that. However, with digital, there are no degrees of reception. No fuzzy. You either get no signal, or a perfect and beautiful HD picture. I bet the cable companies don't want you to know that. After all, they got their start as the answer to snowy analog reception in remote areas. And how many people who currently are paying for cable would ever disconnect their cable to discover what I am saying? Might save a few bucks in this economy. And, at least where I live, there are several extra through-the-air digital channels that are not advertised anywhere! Who knew they even existed? I was pleasantly surprised! I watch them!
Anyway, the remote control looks standard, lots of buttons, the major ones are obvious and user-friendly. Again, my last remote had only two buttons: 1) channel changer clunk-clunk-clunk, and 2) ON, volume high; volume medium, volume low; OFF. So, all these new buttons on this new rmeote are so much fluff to me.
There is one slight bother about the case. On the front right, you can touch the case and change channels, do the volume, and a few other controls that I haven't played with. Ok, but only the on/off button has an LED to guide you. For all other controls, you cannot see them or the labels for them unless room light or sunlight reflects on them just right. I had to shine a flashlight on them to see them. After a few weeks, I can guess their position, but sometimes I turn down the volume when I really wanted to change the channel. It gets slightly annoying. If it's late at night or I am in no mood to fuss with it, I just grab the remote from whereever it is and use that.
Yes, I would get another Samsung, hands down. I am thinking about buying another flat screen TV soon. But, I also think not all Bravias have that bad design flaw of which I spoke, and maybe getting a Bravia might be an equally good idea for my next TV.
Hope this helps.
Rating: -
This is the third Samsung TV I have purchased (own an LN46A860 and an LN32A450 - guess I am a Samsung devotee). I purchased my other TVs from local outlets but after checking prices, picked this smaller 19" up from Amazon. I have to say that I could have gone with other brands for cheaper but am sold on Samsung for quality. My other two TVs are outstanding (especially the LN46A860) so I figured I'd spend up a bit for another Samsung. The LN19A650 has the same great looks and aesthetics of other late model Samsung LCDs but in a smaller package. I needed a TV for the kitchen that would fit under cabinets while on a stand and this one fits the bill. Picture is outstanding, even though on this TV I am using direct cable hookup (no cable box). For the Super Bowl, I hooked up the Comcast HD box I usually use on the 32" and this little 19" provided outstanding HD (via the one HDMI port) for the whole game as we moved back and forth from the living room (and the big screen) to the kitchen. One nice feature on the stand is that it tilts to angles and can even be tilted all the way back to mount the TV on a wall. You can also unattach the stand and use a normal flat panel mount.
Four stars instead of five only because of the sound setup - as mentioned on previous reviews, the speakers point down so if you want loud, you need to crank the sound almost to nearly max volume. Doesn't distort, just a bit annoying that you have to use this much volume control. Actually this isn't a deal killer for me - as I said, I only purchased this for kitchen use which doesn't necessitate that I have the TV that loud but if someone wants to use this in a larger room without adding a speaker system they might be disappointed.
Overall - pleased again with the Samsung quality on LCD TVs. The Touch of Color looks great even on this smaller TV, the included remote works great and by using it I have been able to get a few true HD stations by using the remote to pick up QAM channels when not hooked up to an HD box.
Rating: -
Pros: Nice picture, remote well laid out, easy to set up, looks nice.
Cons: Does not pull in digital channels as well as our sony XBR or Zenith converter box. Channel guide (favorites) could be better. Sound is weak (speakers on bottom) but ok for a kitchen TV.
Why is it that many inexpensive digital converter boxes have sophistcated channel guides but these expensinve tv's do not?
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