excellent service excellent product. the price was great the service was great and the delivery was fast. no complaints here. I like Samsung PN58B860 .
Couldn’t be happier. My first review for anything, ever. No need to repeat all the positive comments about the TV itself. I heartily agree with all of them. Not one negative thought, and I am a cantankerous old reprobate.
Most important: There have been negative comments about delivery and set up. My delivery company was “Pilot” and I definately give them five stars. E-Mail said delivery would be Monday, March 2 and after phoning to coordinate my schedule, they delivered on Friday, Feb. 27. Delivery was on time and EVERYTHING “white glove” is supposed to be.
I have some aux. pieces that I also wanted installed and programmed. Based upon the note on the Amazon web site, I contacted ZIP Installation. They left about 45 minutes ago and they get the award for the best part of the whole deal. My guys were a sub contract from ZIP so I suspect they are available country wide. There isn’t enough space to go into detail about all the positve things I could say. Bottom line, next time I need Samsung PN58B860 type service, they are going to get my money. Nuff said.
Amazing TV, great service, couldn’t be happier!. Let me start out by saying that I was really, truly impressed with amazon.com’s handling of this TV. Ordering was a breeze (May 1st), quick and easy, and within 2 days of ordering CEVA contacted me, and set an appointment for Wednesday May 7th (which happens to be today). I received a call last night around 730pm and Samsung PN58B860 was the CEVA driver. He was assigned to deliver my TV, and told me that he lives in Fairborn, OH (where I also live), and that he was coming home from Cincinnati and wanted to drop off the TV on his way home, rather than have me wait until my scheduled appointment which was Wednesday May 7th at 8am. I was BLOWN AWAY by this, and of course agreed. He showed up around 8pm, and by 830, we had unpacked the TV, had Samsung PN58B860 on my TV stand and up and running. He cut off all the serial number tags off the box, and took the box away for me.
I have everything set up through a component HD source selector as I don’t have any need for HDMI yet. [...]. My HD cable box, and upconvert DVD player has HDMI, but through research I found that only Blu-ray benefits from the HDMI cable over component. The 1080i from my cable box, 1080p from my Xbox 360, and 1080p from my upconvert DVD player work just fine over component, and they are all crystal clear.
The HD from my cable box through Time Warner is amazing. After a quick setup on the TV (which is very easy as every setting has a “tooltip” description down at the bottom of the menu), I set the TV to “Just Scan” which auto scans and adjusts the exact resolution being transmitted to the TV, and used the “Movie” setting with a warm2, to give a little color to Bones’ cheeks. The show looked really amazing, true HD. I sit about 8-10ft away from the TV and Samsung PN58B860 is the perfect size and resolution. I also have pretty dark paint in my living room, and double blinds with heavy drapes over my windows, so even during the fading daylight last night, I didn’t notice any sunlight glare at all. I like a dark environment, and rarely watch TV or play games with any lights on.
I have been taking the precautions to avoid burn in, as most of the channels I watch don’t have any static logos or tickers. If there are, I usually won’t watch that channel for more than 1 hour, or 42 min at a time. Also I haven’t really noticed any significant heat coming from the TV. There is some heat, but not as much as this older Samsung I have in the lobby at my office. The one at my office you can feel from about 2 feet away from it. The new 58 inch at home, starts to feel warm at about 6 inches. That I hope will save on some power consumption.
I am also an avid gamer and played Grand Theft Auto IV till about 3 in the morning. (Coming in to work at 7am this morning totally sucked, but was so worth it). After each hour of game play, I would switch to my cable and watch some Discovery HD Theater for about 15 min to avoid burn in. The game looks absolutely incredible over the component cables! I could read all text on the screen without any problem and everything in the environment looked rich and vivid. Discovery HD Theater is amazing; there was some show on last night that was showing world environments. Samsung PN58B860 honestly felt like I was there, looking through a window.
One final thought, just before going to bed I tried out my Phillips upconvert DVD player with the movie 300. Of course it’s not an HD source, but Samsung PN58B860 still looked really amazing. Just slightly clearer than playing 300 on my Xbox 360, and I am sure most people wouldn’t notice the clarity difference, and I may be nitpicking, but regardless both played a regular DVD with really good quality.
This is my first HDTV and I couldn’t be happier. Anyone looking for their first HDTV or an upgrade from an older HDTV, let me tell you, this one gets Samsung PN58B860 done right. I give 5/5 stars and 2 thumbs up. WAY up!
