Order Samsung UN46B6000 46-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LED HDTV Sunday, December 13, 2009

I bought this TV 3 weeks back and used it very extensively for this time. I work in display and LED illumination industry for last 5 years now and know a lot about display physics and image/color science. Picture and performance of this TV is phenomenal. I havnt seen any display that can reproduce so many colors, darkest black level, millions to 1 in contrast ratio and shades of grey. I loved this TV the first week. I watches 10s of movies in Blu Ray HD resolution and enjoyed it. Normal Cable TV in normal resolution looked worse than my old CRT TV. So this TV needs all HD broadcast for the picture to look good.

After a week or so this TV started showing edge light bleeding on all black/dark scenes and bleeding kept on getting worse from the edge as the week went by. Eventually I started observing white light streaks from the corners of the TV going towards the center of the screen. Full color scenes were great but once the black screen comes I see severe light bleeding from edges and corners that was very non uniform. I talked to Samsung Customer Service and they said that it is common and is there in all TVs and that is how the design is. I talked to sales people at Fry's retail store and they also told me that it is very common and they have observed it too and we will have to live with it.

After 3 weeks of unsuccessful calibration and color tuning efforts...Sadly I had to return the TV back to Fry's retailer. I really loved this TV. The picture quality and overall performance was phenomenal but I can not accept severe light bleeding and corner light streaks so I returned it. I will get standard LCD or LED backlit (not edge lit) TV soon if I can find one that fits my budget....
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