Samsung LE46C580 46-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p Allshare LCD TV with Freeview HD
Features
- 46" Diagonal Screen Size (inch)
- Analogue & Freeview HD
- Smartext with EPG
- Nicam
- Wide Colour Enhancer
Samsung LE46C580 46-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p Allshare LCD TV with Freeview HD
From Samsung
Nice bit of kit
First of all I'll get the negatives out the way. It doesn't have proper buttons on the front, instead it has soft-touch ones which I'm never sure if they're picking up my presses, and the remote is a little hard to work out from the images on the front.
Now that's out the way the positives. The TV is very thin, not LED thin, but it's still pretty good. The stand is nice and lets you swivel smoothly to the angle you want it. The picture quality is good, HD tuner works well. Having used Sky HD before I wasn't blown away by seeing HD images, but it's still pretty. It hooks up seamlessly with my computer through an HDMI to DVI cable and it's a case of pushing a single button to switch to it. It connects to the network easily though doesn't pick up any of my files straight away. The manual talks about downloading a program from their website, but since my computer is already connected to the back I haven't spent any time worrying about that.
Sound is loud and I typically run it at 8% and 12% for quiet programs. The quality is good enough for day-to-day, but if you are watching movies you will probably have a surround sound system to back it up which can be connected using the optical out.
I haven't tested connecting anything to either USB port etc but they're there if the TV isn't connected up to your computer.
So to summarise, this TV has a lot of features that I'll probably never use, but they come at seemingly no extra cost and don't over complicate the menus. The value for money of this TV is great, it has a large high quality screen bucket loads of features, comes from a big brand, Freeview HD and is one of the cheaper TVs in this size range but it really doesn't show through.
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