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Samsung LN32A330 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
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11 new or used available from $423.95
Average customer review:
Product Description
This LCD HDTV will add style and entertainment to any room in your home. Enjoy your favorite movies and TV shows with vivid color and wonderfully detailed images. You can also use your LCD TV as a PC monitor and display photos and videos or even listen to your digital music collection - with your friends and family in the comfort of your living room. It's easy and affordable to add high-definition entertainment to your home with the Samsung LN32A330 HDTV.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #26630 in Consumer Electronics
- Color: Black
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: LN32A330
- Dimensions: 20.90" h x 3.20" w x 34.40" l, 27.60 pounds
- Display size: 32
Features
- 720p HD Resolution
- 8,000:1 Contrast Ratio
- 2 HDMI Inputs
- 6 ms response time
- PC Input for computers
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description, May 5, 2008
Manufacturer's Description, May 5, 2008 For anyone looking for a great value on a 720p HDTV, Samsung's entry-level Series 3 LCD HDTVs are an excellent choice. Crisp, clear 720p resolution offers outstanding HD image quality; the 8,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio ensures vivid colors and deep, dark blacks. Two HDMI inputs provide hassle-free connection to your DVD player, Blu-ray player, or other devices. Call up a variety of on-screen menu options and preferences via a smart user interface. Samsung combines HD fun and functionality in an attractive design.
What's New?
- 8,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio: up from 7,000:1 on 2007 models (Learn more)
- 6ms response time: down from 8ms on 2007 models thanks to a new high-speed liquid crystal
- 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes with Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (up from 170 degrees on 2007 models) (Learn more)
Features Overview
- 2 HDMI 1.3 ports: Simplay compliant (Learn more about Connectivity)
- Hidden speakers with SRS TruSurround XT audio (Learn more)
- Wide Color Enhancer technology and Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) offer a wider color range (Learn more)
- V-Chip system allows blocking of rated TV and movie programs determined by the parent to contain objectionable content.
- Trilingual on-screen displays in English, Spanish or French.
- Variable sleep timer to turn the TV off in varying time intervals.
- Auto wall mount compatible: 3-dimensional operation via TV’s remote control; no external IR receiver required.
- PC Input Port
- Swivel stand included
- 1 year parts and 1 year labor warranty (90 days parts and labor for commercial use), with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support
- What size TV should you get?
Learn More
8,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
 | 8,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a superb picture, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and subtle gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung’s new LCD TV’s give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever. Note: models 26 inches or less have lower contrast ratios
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Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
| The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72% of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp back lights to give you 92% coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors. Samsung’s exclusive Wide Color Enhancer technology delivers more brilliant colors, even in bright areas of the picture where blues and greens are washed out on conventional screens. The system displays wider color reproduction, showing you truer colors – the fresh green of spring foliage, the intense blue of the summer sky. | |||
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Connectivity
 | A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through two rear Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs, and the handy HDMI-CEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components 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 an HDTV. Once connected, users can easily access device menus and manage and display content through the newly redesigned Wheel Key Remote control and the HDTV’s sophisticated content management interface. All Connections
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Super Patterned Vertical Alignment
 | Samsung’s Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes |
Audio Features
TruSurround is a patented SRS technology that solves the problem of playing 5.1 multichannel content over two speakers. TruSurround delivers a compelling, virtual surround sound experience through any two-speaker playback system, including internal television speakers and headphones. It is fully compatible with all multichannel formats up to 5.1 channels. High-quality virtual surround sound can be experienced with just the two hidden, downward-firing side-mounted 2.2-channel dome speakers built into the TV.SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass.
TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.
- Dialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper.
- TruBass creates incredible deep rich bass allowing a person to perceive significantly deeper, richer low bass tones that are far beyond the physical low frequency capabilities of the speaker itself.
- The SRS WOW feature widens the sound stage by processing standard two-channel stereo material as well as multi-channel encoded material for a dramatic improvement in the playback of any stereo audio over a two-speaker system.
Which Size HDTV is Right for You?
 | With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience.
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Which Samsung LCD HDTV is Right For You?
Series 3Look at Series 3 LCD HDTVs | 19- and 22-inch Models
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26-inch Model Adds
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32-, 37- and 40-inch Models Add
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Series 4 AddsLook at Series 4 LCD HDTVs |
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Series 5 AddsLook at Series 5 LCD HDTVs |
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Series 6 AddsLook at Series 6 LCD HDTVs | 19- and 22-inch Models
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40-, 46-, and 52-inch Models Add
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Series 7 AddsLook at Series 7 LCD HDTVs |
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Series 8 AddsLook at Series 8 LCD HDTVs | super-slim 1.9-inch deep profile |
Series 9 AddsLook at Series 8 LCD HDTVs | Coming Late 2009 |
Customer Reviews
Great tv, great price
I researched LCD TV models and prices for over a year, checking them out in a local store. When I saw this Samsung, I jumped at it:
* Price was right, under $700
* Great picture with super low refresh rate(to minimize the blurring you see on older sets).
* The one in the store ran much cooler than older models. This was important as I wanted to put the set inside my entertainment cabinet.
* Great tuner: My old analog TV could only pick up 2 channels via the antenna. (I mostly watch DVDs.) The Samsung picked up over 20 digital channels flawlessly, just using a $20 RadioShack inside antenna! I don't need cable!
* The picture is simply stunning when you are viewing a hi-definition broadcast (1080i). I gasped when I first saw it.
Only downside: You can't use a VCR with this set because it doesn't have the outdated composite video input that VCRs require, only the newer component and HDMI inputs.
I've had this set for a couple of months and I love it!
Known sound distortion problems with this TV
I bought the TV November 08. I am having a sound distortion problem with the television on HD channels. This is exactly the same sort of sound distortion described in another review.
Samsung is still currently researching this issue and does not have a fix for it yet. The temporary fix is to do a factory reset by holding down the exit button for greater than 10 seconds. Every time the TV loses power (unplugged or brown out) you will have to do a factory reset of the TV to correct the sound distortion problem.
I WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST people check out this issue on the CNET forums http://forums.cnet.com/ and type in "LN32A330 sound distortion" before purchasing the television.
This is not an isolated problem and apparently many many Samsung LCD televisions are having this issue.
I just wanted to add this review so that you can educate yourself on a possible problem when you decide which TV you are going to purchase.
Awesome TV for best price around
I've had this for about a month now. Everything is simple to use and looks very sharp compared to the other 32" LCDs I looked at best buy and Circuit City.
Make sure you by a component cable and have HD cable to get high res imaging or everything will look blurry.
