Samsung LE52F96

Samsungs latest offering features an innvoative LED backlight system to replace the standard cathode ray backlight used to date. The thinking behind this is that the TV can intellegently make black areas of the screen even blacker, resulting in an incredible claimed contrast ratio of up to 500,000:1. In addition the screen is Full HD as you’d expect these days and comes with 3 HDMI 1.3 sockets as well as built in speakers, and a freeview receiver. Typically the set will retail at £2,600 if bought from the high street but a bit of digging around online and it can be had for as little £2,300 at time of writing.

Cnet reviews the Samsung LE52F96 and writes:

For high definition material we found the 52F96 to be a solid performer. Motion was smooth and the picture quality was excellent. Upscaled DVDs looked great, too, which is encouraging for people with large movie collections. Freeview picture quality was distinctly lacking. We accept that standard definition doesn’t scale well to 52-inch screens, but we’ve seen decent performance from Samsung’s own 50-inch plasma.

If Freeview is important, you may need to look at the Samsung PS50 or one of Panasonic’s excellent plasma TVs as a strong alternative.

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