From the Manufacturer (April 20, 2009)
With the Samsung 52-inch LN52B550 HDTV, you're purchasing a high-quality LCD TV which provides top-of-the-line display quality with 1080p high-definition resolution. Enjoy the sharpest details and vivid color with 70,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for even more realistic images rrncluding a 6ms (millisecond) response time--virtually eliminating any blurring and providing smooth motion as you're watching fast-paced sports and action movies. Superb connectivity and networking employing a USB port and four HDMI 1.3 ports with Gadgets Control (CEC) means this HDTV plays well wonderful your other electronics.

The stylish Samsung LN52B550 1080p HDTV with innovative Touch of Color design.

This HDTV is accented by Samsung's TOC (Touch of Color) bezel design, which offers an indication of red translucent color about the edges belonging to the unit just for a uniquely fashionable look. Plus, it's Energy Star compliant, which supports you be green while saving on your own utility bill.

In addition to this very 52-inch model, the Samsung B550 series also includes the 32-inch LN32B550, 37-inch LN37B550, 40-inch LN40B550, and 46-inch LN46B550. (Discover what size TV if you happen to get.)

Key Features

• Screen Size: 52 inches
• Full 1080p HD (Learn more)
• Fast 6ms response time minimizes blurring of fast motion in sports programs.
• Mega dynamic contrast ratio (Learn more)
• HD-Grade 1920 (H) x 1080 (V) pixel resolution: High-resolution pixel density is put together with a built-in image scaler to address inputs coming from a number of digital and analog audio/video sources.
• Built-in digital tuner: No external box needed
• Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC) allows the TV's far off to control on the push of merely one button, peripheral AV devices like a DVD player featuring HDMI-CEC.
• Game Mode enhances dark areas, sharpens the picture, speeds up the picture processing response and enhances the sounds of your games. Picture and sound quality optimized for that special needs of gaming systems towards the touch of your mouse button.
• Side-mounted USB 2.0 port: Connect USB devices on to your HDTV to view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily focus on your Iphone through your HDTV's speakers or the house theater system.
• Touch of Color (ToC): Samsung's unique manufacturing process accents the encircling bezel which has a stylish red tone. (Learn more)
• Wide Color Enhancer 2 optimizes the color's hue, resulting to natural rendering of colors. (Learn more)
• Audio: Two 10-watt stereo speakers (for 20 watts of total power)
• SRS TruSurround HD creates an immersive, feature-rich surround sound experience from two speakers, including rich bass, high frequency detail and clear dialog.
• Energy Star Compliant: Reduces energy consumption by to as much as 25 percent balanced with standard TVs.
• Swivel stand included.
• Warranty: 1 year parts and labor with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support

Connections
A wide variety of multimedia devices are often attached to the set through any of the four HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one quietly), and then the handy Anynet+ feature (HDMI-CEC) will let you control any CEC-enabled peripherals--such like a DVD or Blu-ray player--using a particular remote. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components in the two rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI wonders for the skin performing interface for displaying an HD source upon an HDTV.

• HDMI (version 1.3): 4
• Component: 2
• Composite A/V: 1
• USB 2.0: 1
• PC input (15-pin, D-Sub): 1
• Digital audio output: 1 optical
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Dimensions

• TV without stand: 49.5 x 31.4 x 3.1 inches (WxHxD); 54.9 pounds
• TV with stand: 49.5 x 33.6 x 12 inches (WxHxD); 63.3 pounds
• What size TV once you get?

Accessories

• 2010 LinkStick: Connect wirelessly onto a arena of digital content from Samsung. The LinkStick wireless LAN adaptor eliminates the hassle and cluttered look of wires. Study more about the Samsung WIS09ABGN LinkStick Wireless LAN Adapter.

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Full HD 1080P

Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.Half a dozen times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details including a better picture. The latest Samsung Lcd television with resolution that's approximately Twice higher than conventional HDTVs, creating the ideal picture imaginable. Samsung's 1080p panel implements a new high-speed liquid crystal to make response of your time 6ms (milliseconds).

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Wide Color Enhancer 2/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the hue standards all TVs in the endeavor to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72 percent of these standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlights on the internet 92 percent coverage for the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors. Samsung's Wide Color Enhancer 2 technology delivers more brilliant colors by expanding the gamut of color expression in a third axis, building a 3D diagram of luminance. This creates a dynamic display of on-screen color and allows traditionally weak colors, for example green and blue, to seek vivid and deep. Moreover, red colors are enhanced to render strong colors all through spectrum as well as perfect balance of RGB.

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70,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio

70,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will present you with an image compatible with you every considered possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks rrncluding a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations concerning. As two of the most important determining factors in overall image quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in such a latest generation LCD panel. Samsung's new LCD TVs provide most stunning realistic image quality ever.

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Touch of Color

In 2008, Samsung created its unique Touch of Color (ToC) design, which uses dual-injection molding to coat a translucent, colored surface to obtain a reasonable crystalline appearance. The most recent evolution of Samsung's ToC design starts off with a deep piano black bezel that fades into distinct chrome that finishes as light ruby highlights. The concentration of the color subtly changes may well the viewing angle, and further accentuates the TV's slim bezel.

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Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?

With standard-definition TVs, the rule was peviously that viewers would sense at ease watching a set out of a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is indeed more suitable where you can sit closer to a better TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule ordinarily you're able to sit varying from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience. If you know how big the interior one has already, for which you desire to sit, and where your brand new HDTV should go whenever you be victimized, it is possible to decide the type and model HDTV you need to get. Minimum size = Viewing distance/3 Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5