Review of the Samsung UE55B7020
Build Quality: The most unusual feature of the UE55B7020 is that it could be described as the supermodel of TVs, being especially thin. In fact it is in the order of 29mm in depth.The black sheer finish to the edge of the television looks wonderful, as does the thin see-through connection between the screen and the base. A different plus point is that Samsung has included all of the key parts within the set – a few manufacturers have required viewers to find a site for a detached box for such things as the Freeview tuner.
Audio Quality: This leads to a weak point frequent in up to date TVs – the sound quality is only middling. There is so little depth to permit reasonable speakers. So, if you’re planning on investing a lot of money in a TV like the UE55B7020 you really need to think about connecting it to separate speakers.
Picture Quality: The unique promotion point of the UE55B7020 is the fact that it uses LED technology to replace the usual fluorescent tube backlighting system found in other TVs. Even though the backlighting technology is atypical, the UE55B7020 remains a LCD TV. LED backlighting is held to have the following benefits:
* Conventional backlighting is rather irregular. LEDs use a lattice system to backlight the whole picture
* LEDs can make a great black – which has not been feasible with LCD TVs until currently.
* The display responds more rapidly.
* The colour choice that can be shown is better.
Connections: The UE55B7020 has four HDMI ports, two USB, and a LAN (Local Area Network) one – future proof at present. The LAN one allows the UE55B7020 to retrieve files on your PC set-up that you might wish to draw on. And the USB connections permit many file formats to be played when a USB stick is put in. As well as facilitating a wireless link to your home network – a separate dongle is wanted for this.
There are in point of fact two remotes. The principle one curves over at one end (planned to lie on an armchair arm?). A tad curious to hold at first, but you get used to it. The second, smaller remote simply allows volume power and channel changes.
Energy efficiency: LEDs draw on a lot less power (between 100W and 130W) than the traditional fluorescent backlighting so the TV will be less expensive to own than its competitors.
Summary: Although the sound performance of the UE55B7020 is not up to the impressive standard of its screen, it outperforms its competitors, with vivid colours and black blacks. The finest image quality in its class.
This model known as the UE55B7000 and UE55B70ooW as well as the UE 55B7020 is fairly new but has already had great reviews almost everywhere you look. Here is the UE55B7020 review regarded as most helpful by Amazon consumers courtesy of Amazon UKĀ (All Amazon reviews are here):
From O:
Bought this tv a month ago and am still being amazed at it’s picture quality and feature set!
There’s not much this tv can’t do!
There are built in media files which cover things like screen saver type things where you can either use the default pictures of animals, landscapes or piece of art, or you can load up your own pictures, awesome!
For a full feature list go to the Samsung website as it would take up too much space here.
I’m running my XBox360 through the VGA input, my Wii through the Composite and my Blu-Ray & VirginV+ box through the HDMI.
There are so many options for connection it should suit everyone.
The sound on the tv it pretty good but to be honest I have everything running through an AV amp so I don’t actually use the TVs own sound.
Is it worth the money?
Hard to say, if you want an eco friendly TV with awesome picture quality and enough options to please everyone, then yes.
If you’re looking for the biggest picture size for the least money then there are other set on the market that will be a better match, the new LG for one.
I love it, but that’s just my opinion.
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