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Samsung LE40M87BDX/XEU - 40" Widescreen 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview

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Technical Details

  • 3HDMI
  • 8000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
  • MoviePlus
  • Wide Colour Enhancer
  • Game Mode
  • iDTV
  • 16:9 Aspect Ratio
  • 1920x1080 Resolution
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 68.7 x 97.1 x 30 cm ; 21 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 25 Kg
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  • Item model number: LE40M87BDX/XEU
  • ASIN: B000O12E6S
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 5 Mar 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 20,434 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
    #71 in  Electronics > Home Cinema & Video > Televisions > LCD Televisions > 37" - 40"

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Manufacturer's Description

HD Ready
HDTV allows you to experience television like never before with the widest range of colours and the clearest images. High Definition contains four or five times as many pixels making the image much clearer than standard definition.

Wide Colour Enhancer
This exclusive technology delivers more brilliant colours, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system presents a wider colour gamut and four times as many colour gradations, showing you true colours; the fresh green of spring foliage, and the intense blue of the summer sky.

Movie Plus
Conventional LCD TVs are plagued by motion judder when showing fast moving action in movies and sporting events. The moving person or object looks shaky or blurred, like a series of still images, instead of a smooth moving picture. Samsung's exclusive Movie Plus completely eliminates this judder, presenting smooth action, no matter how fast it is going.

3 HDMI
Three High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connections make your TV a multimedia centrepiece. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, satellite dish boxes into the 2 rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on a HDTV. (23", 26" Models have 2 HDMI).

Game Mode
Samsung LCD TVs offer unparalleled picture quality that can be optimised for gaming at the touch of a button. It allows for H-sharpness and a faster response time in the games. In addition, its powerful surround sound effects produce a magical environ-ment of wonder that is filled with excitement and joy.

Fast Response Time
Exceptionally quick and sharp, with speed of up to 6ms (millisecond), users will be able to see the remarkable difference in the response time of Samsung LCD TVs. The LCD TV ensures that each image is just as good as the real thing.

Swivel Stand
The LCD TV's ingenious swivel stand affords consumers the ultimate flexibility in positioning the TV in their house. It allows for mobility and ergonomic comfort in your house.

Box Contents

  • Remote Control
  • Batteries
  • Instruction Manual
  • Panel and Screen Cleaning Cloth
  • Power Cable
  • Pedestal Stand

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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars STONKING FOR THE MONEY, 20 Oct 2007
By Squizzle (Dorset) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung LE40M87BDX/XEU - 40" Widescreen 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview (Electronics)
See HDTVtest.co.uk for full reviews, but from a more average customer rather than a videophile the following may be helpful.

Out of the box the picture really is a bit rubbish. You have to get into the controls and set brightness, contrast & colour among a few others. There are loads of things you can tweak which might put some off.

ALSO, there are three picture modes - dynamic, standard and movie. Make sure you know which you are setting if you want to make use of all the modes, or set to standard and adjust that and don't use the others. They explain that really you should set dynamic for a brightly lit room, standard for normal light and movie for a darkened room. You don't need to set dynamic for games etc because you can set the games input independently. This is both a blessing and a curse - see below.

AND then, you find that these settings only apply for the source you were using at the time. SO if you have DVD, Video, game, and the TV itself, that's four times minimum you need to do this, or 12 if you want to set dynamic, standard and movie. If you have more inputs, more settings. Great flexibility, but if your kids play with it and re-set to factory settings - well I won't use the words here! There is a parental lock - I have not checked if this locks these settings.

BUT, once you have spent 2 evenings tweaking you have a most fabulous TV, hence 5*. If you can't be bothered with this, it will be your loss (quality and/or cash) but look elsewhere at something that's reviewed better out of the box.

I am not sure, but I also think it needed "running in" for a few hours - picture seems to improve.

Other than the picture, great things are:-

Looks as small as any TV of this size can in your room.
Swivels on its base to improve view angle - really very useful. It all honesty, the viewing angle is good enough - by the time you've got poor picture you would not want to be viewing at that angle anyway.

Actually looks better with some ambient light in the room. In the total dark, the blacks don't quite cut the mustard (mind you if I played with the myriad of settings a bit more, maybe I could fix this). Oh and its got beter blacks than my 3 year old Panasonic CRT, so it's all relative. With the lights on the blacks look like pitch.

It will show up any poor Freeview source, but actually renders VHS video quite well.

Well worth having even if you don't have an HD source in my view. Looks brilliant with the philips upscale player 5980 and is very much better than a standard TV with a GOOD freeview source (BBC1 etc, but not some of the cheaper channels)

Be wary of:-

Sound is a bit weak, very little bass - if you don't have additional amp or cimema system, then maybe consider something else.

Glossy screen which gives such a great picture could be a problem if it faces a bright light source (ours does not).

It will reveal poor sources, but that's true of any large high definition TV, and quite tolerable for me - not really a reason not to buy, just a warning not to expect miracles.

The other reviewer incorrectly says this is not 1080p - it is, just the amazon spec is wrong.

In summary, don't spend loads on something more "future proof". In 5 years all the current new TV's will be obsolete to some degree (HD freeview should have arrived, and the current Sony HD freeview costs £2K won't necessarilyt be compatible), but this will give great pleasure in the mean time.

Exceeded my expectations.

And then I had a small fault - and it still gets 5*. Why? I shall explain - the optical audio out drops out sometimes. I mailed Samsung - got a reply 4 hours later telling me its a known fault and a firmware update will be broadcast automatically to fix it next month. As I can use the RCA connection for now, I can live with that. Excellent response rate. I was worrying I'd hear nothing or have to send it back.
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85 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Samsung LE40M87 Review, 4 May 2007
By N. R. Postlethwaite (Rugby, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung LE40M87BDX/XEU - 40" Widescreen 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview (Electronics)
Absolutely fantastic TV, SD quality was better than I expected via SCART and on a par with my redundant Sony WEGA Triniton CRT. HD is glorious from SkyHD and PS3 with vivid images and the blackest blacks you will see this side of plasma.

TV *does* require some setting up to get the best picture, but this is not too hard and there are settings threads on avforums.com for this. The shiny panel is a bit of a dust magnet, but when the screen is on is not a problem unless you have a light directly shining at the screen - which would look crap on anything !! Freeview EPG is better than everage aswell.

At the £1Kish price point, this is the *BEST* 1080p panel you can get - don't waste your money elsewhere. The TV looks drop-dead gorgeous aswell.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's fine, 20 May 2007
By Gord (Bournville, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samsung LE40M87BDX/XEU - 40" Widescreen 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview (Electronics)
A beautiful TV! I've mounted mine on the wall along with a piece of trunking for the various cables and it looks a real treat! The picture is rather good - I've not seen anything better. I'm using phono leads into my Hi-Fi and the sound is glorious! Even the inbuilt freeview pics are much better than expected and the on-screen menus are very easy and user friendly. Nothing better (at the moment) for around the grand mark. You can wait for ever to get that big flat TV and there's always something better coming along, but this one is fine for everything today's technology has to offer with no flaws or missing facilities so take the plunge - I'm glad I did :)
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