Yesterdays post about Samsungs LE40M86BDX (Note the 6) available for a bargaintastic price of £800 has prompted this post today. The LE40M87BDX is essentially the same TV as the LE40M86BDX. The M86 model is exclusive to Currys and Dixons and the difference between the two is purely a cosmetic one - the M87 TVs have a silver strip running along the base of the screen, the M86 does not. So now that we’ve cleared that up, whats the LE40M87BDX actually like? Well as with other Samsung ranges, the first bite is taken with the eye and the nicely curved shiny black bezel is nothing but appealing. But picture performance is where it truly excels; the already impressive FULL HD 1080p screen is enhanced by an adjustable backlight and Samsungs proprietary ‘Super Clear Panel’ which boosts the contrast ratio and significantly improves colour rendering. Samsung have also incorporated something they call ‘Movie Plus’ which uses some technical wizardry to reduce ‘Motion Judder’ and produce a much sharper picture. A lot of the time we find that titles such as these are designed to gloss over a products inadequacies, however this is definitely not the case here. Perhaps what is most notable about the M87 is the impressive black levels produced by the screen, the depth of blacks have been favourably compared to a similarly sized plasma, indicating therefore that the ‘Super Clear Panel’ is much more than a marketing tag line.
Standard Definition performance is more than adequate for an LCD TV of this nature (remember a lot of HD LCD TVs suffer here) and fast moving sources such as sports are inevitably prone to minor motion smearing. High definition sources are as about as good as it gets on an LCD screen. All this and 3 HDMI ports too. Safe to say that Samsung have a cracking TV here and at price that is becoming increasingly more affordable.
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