hey man. i got a buddy at work who bought a led lcd tv i think he paid $3300. for the 55 inch (samsung)
He got the 6000 model.
ugh, there is a known problem with these called the "flashlight effect". You seriously need to look it up before throwing down $3k. check out avsforums.com i think there are some 90 pages threads with pictures, talking all about it.
Basically, if you are watching a movie or tv show with the lights off. If the scene you are watching is dark. Like that batman scene with batman and joker( in the police interrogation room) . You see what looks like someone is shinning a flashlight on to the screen from different corners of the tv. Its just the backlight bleeding through. But it looks awful....
Also, there is another feature called auto motion plus (i think), where the tv actually inserts frames into the picture, which makes action scenes seems fake and the motion just moves weird. And sometimes, especially moves with lots of CGI, like transformers, when black objects appear on the screen, lots of distortion appears. We saw this on blu rays and dvd's old and new movies. And sometimes the frames will speed up, when they aren't supposed to, beause of the auto motion plus feature. The good news is you can turn that feature off, and it makes the tv look a lot better. The bad news is the flashlight effect is a real problem.
Good luck man. My buddy literally spent 15-20 hours researching this problem. He spent that amount of time after he bought the tv, and discovered the problem. Then got a replacement, meanwhile he found the forums with people saying the same thing. The replacement tv was worst than the first as far as the flashlight effect.
He ended up taking it back and getting a 63 inch Samsung plasma. We think the technology for the led lcd's just aren't there yet.
good luck man!
