Samsung LN-T4681F 46-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV with LED Backlight
Aug.29, 2010 in
LCD Televisions
Product Description
For those who are ready for the clearest, brightest LCD picture on the market today, Samsung presents the LN-T4681F. Full 1080p resolution is just the beginning: Samsung’s incredible LED Motion Plus™ technology reduc… More >>
Samsung LN-T4681F 46-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV with LED Backlight
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August 29th, 2010 at 11:56 am
This TV has a great picture right out of the box. Pretty easy setup. Quality I have come to expect from Samsung and the reason I bought this set. Plenty of inputs. Sound is also nice, but I use a Home Theater so I don’t really rely on the TV’s speakers. Very well-designed and looks gtreat on the wall. The stand which comes with the TV is also nice and could rotate a little more, but is nice and stable. The glare issue is not a big deal and I for one am glad Samsung is keeping this panel in the new generation LED sets. This has much less glare than a standard glass tube TV screen. In some settings you might be concerned about the glare, but the screen is wonderful and necessary for the overall picture quality. I used to watch TV with my glasses off because the fine grain stood out too much. Now I have my glasses back on because the picture is so sharp. The blacks are black, you can’t get blacker than this. The detail amazing and I have not even watched a HD movie yet. I was eyeing the LN-T4665F for a long time, and decided to wait for this one to come out. Very glad I did. Very highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
August 29th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Great TV with LED backlighting technology. Beautifully designed and executed by Samsung. I applaud their efforts. It’s a little surprise to me that off-angle viewing is so inferior to other Samsung LCD series, which used the old fluorescent backlighting. I recently bought two Samsung 7-series sets (52″ and 40″), and they look terrific at most viewing angles. For this 81F set, the picture is stunning at direct straight-on viewing, but contrast quickly degrades as viewing angle increases. If you have a viewing room or intend to set up the TV to have a narrow viewing angle, than shop no further–this TV is for you. But if you have a wide room, consider the other Samsung series. Overall, it’s an excellent TV.
Rating: 4 / 5
August 29th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
When you see numbers like 5000:1 contrast, etc, it’s hard to put a meaning to it, but when you compare this set against a CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) you discover why LED backlights are the wave of the future.
First we had NTSC with it’s inability to produce deep reds due to the severe limitations on its color gamut, now we have ATSC with a digital RGB signal that is a hundred times better than NTSC when it comes to color. The final piece of the puzzle is viewing it on a system with red, green, and blue produced by LEDs instead of phosphor chemicals in a lamp tube. The bold, rich color of HDTV comes alive with this LCD TV making the others seem washed out in comparison.
Sure, the contrast ratio is great, but it also will outlast 2.5 CCFL based LCD TVs because of the reliability of LED backlighting. If you are in a commercial institution such as a restaurant where the set will run 12 hours a day or more, that can add up to some substantial savings.
The LCD display with LED backlight makes for a clearer, sharper, and more defined picture than ever before with no spillover light around the edges. Combined with the picture quality and life extention, this is a true bargain for someone looking at a modern 46″ 1080×1920 Progressive display.
Simply put, this set is pure eye candy.
Rating: 5 / 5
August 29th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I have owned this set for about six weeks now, and I love it. The picture is exquisite, and far outpaces the three-year-old Sony VEGA set it replaced (the old set only did 720p, for one thing…).
Good stuff:
This TV is a real conversation starter. It’s enormous, and very glossy (both on the screen and the bezel). The gloss makes fingerprints very obvious, and seems to attract dust…so you’ll want to do some routine cleaning if you want to keep it looking nice. People sit down in my living room and just stare at the set, even if it’s turned off. Some have compared it to the monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” That’s…good, right?
The picture is stunning. The reviews here are right: the LED backlighting really makes things look great, and makes rich black really pop.
I recommend turning off the power-on LED (the little blue bar under the display) using the onscreen menus. When it’s on, you can actually see the reflection of the power light on the bezel around the screen, and I found that distracting. Fortunately it’s an easy thing to turn off — and when it’s off, the set has ZERO lights aside from the picture when turned on. This is a great feature, as I don’t want any little points of light distracting me from the picture! On my old set, there was a little “power on” light that always bugged me.
Tuning between inputs is fast, and makes switching from one input to another no big deal. (On my old set, it took several seconds for each switch, so going through the list felt laborious….)
Be sure to go through the onscreen menus and enable the optional features, particularly the dynamic LED backlighting (some of these features require you to change the picture mode to MOVIE, which I’ve done on every input…). The default VIVID setting is garish, but it’s very easy to switch (and of course the setting is saved, on a per input basis, so it’s a one time setup).
Bad stuff:
The three HDMI ports are adequate for me (HD TiVo, AppleTV, and Samsung Blu-ray player), though I wish there were more, and I wish they were all on the back rather than one on the side. As it is I’m using the side port for a Blu-ray player, and having the cable sticking out the side isn’t exactly ideal. I still haven’t found a decent right-angle adapter.
The speakers aren’t great. I guess they’re fine for a TV set, but they’re nothing to write home about.
The remote is adequate but not great. I wish the backlight extended to more of the buttons. The remote is also rather long. Note that if you have a Samsung Blu-ray player, you can use the Blu-ray remote instead to control most/all of the TV functions…but the Blu-ray remote (at least the one with the BD-1500 series player) isn’t backlit. Oh well.
The glossy screen definitely shows light sources in the room: windows, lamps, etc. In many cases you’ll want to move stuff around (or simply turn off/block out any light sources) if you’re watching anything serious. But I guess that’s true of any movie viewing experience.
Anyway, overall I’m extremely satisfied with this purchase. My other candidate was a Sony XBR4 set, but I’m glad I went with the Samsung…it’s cheaper, has a better picture, and uses less energy due to the LED backlight. The Sony’s design is arguably a little better, and it doesn’t have the extreme gloss factor. But for my money, this is the set to get.
Rating: 5 / 5
August 29th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
I have had my Samsung LNT4681F for over 2 weeks now and I could not be any happier. The colors that are produced on the screen are amazing, when my wife saw it she said “WOW!” I had a rear projection TV before and my wife and I love to watch movies. Whenever we rented some DVD’s I would always steer clear of the ones in widescreen. I could stand the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. Very noticable, and if I did happen to watch a widescreen DVD I would change the screen ratio to stretch the picture and remove the black bars. With the Samsung LNT4681F there is no need to do any of this because it produces TRUE Blacks. I can quite easily watch a DVD in wide screen now and not for a minute do I even notice the black bars. I would highly recommend this TV to anyone.
Rating: 5 / 5