From the Manufacturer (April 20, 2009)
With the Samsung 52-inch LN52B550 HDTV, you're purchasing a high-quality LCD TV which offers top-of-the-line image quality with 1080p hd resolution. Watch the sharpest details and vivid color with 70,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for any more realistic images having a 6ms (millisecond) response time--virtually eliminating any blurring and providing smooth motion while watching fast-paced sports and action movies. Superb connectivity and networking with a USB port and four HDMI 1.3 ports with Consumer Electronics 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 for the edges within the unit for your uniquely fashionable look. Plus, it's Energy Star compliant, which will you be green while saving on top of your power company bill.

In addition to that 52-inch model, the Samsung B550 series also includes the 32-inch LN32B550, 37-inch LN37B550, 40-inch LN40B550, and 46-inch LN46B550. (Read more about what size TV should you 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 used in combination with a built-in image scaler to touch inputs with a many types of digital and analog audio/video sources.
• Built-in digital tuner: No external box needed
• Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC) allows the TV's remote to run along the push of just one button, peripheral AV devices possibly a DVD player featuring HDMI-CEC.
• Game Mode enhances dark areas, sharpens the picture, boosts the whole picture processing response and enhances the sounds in the games. Picture and sound quality optimized for your special needs of gaming systems along the touch of a display button.
• Side-mounted USB 2.0 port: Connect USB devices with the your HDTV to enjoy JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily be conscious of your Ipod through your HDTV's sound system or your home theater system.
• Touch of Color (ToC): Samsung's unique manufacturing process accents the surrounding bezel by using a stylish red tone. (Learn more)
• Wide Color Enhancer 2 optimizes a given color's hue, contributing 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 multichannel experience from two speakers, that includes rich bass, high frequency detail and clear dialog.
• Energy Star Compliant: Reduces energy consumption by up to 25 percent balanced with standard TVs.
• Swivel stand included.
• Warranty: One year parts and labor with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support

Connections
A wide variety of multimedia devices will be connected to the set through any one of the four HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one quietly), and then the handy Anynet+ feature (HDMI-CEC) means that you can control your complete CEC-enabled peripherals--such as being DVD or Blu-ray player--using just one single remote. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components throughout the two rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI is the foremost performing interface for displaying an HD source by using 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 if you happen to get?

Accessories

• 2010 LinkStick: Connect wirelessly to a new an entire world of digital content from Samsung. The LinkStick wireless LAN adaptor eliminates the problem and cluttered look of wires. Know more about the Samsung WIS09ABGN LinkStick Wireless LAN Adapter.

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Full HD 1080P

Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details as well as a better picture. New Samsung Lcd television with resolution that may be approximately Twice much more than conventional HDTVs, creating the optimal picture imaginable. Samsung's 1080p panel works with a new high-speed liquid crystal to make response time for them to 6ms (milliseconds).

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Wide Color Enhancer 2/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established made from standards all TVs for many seek to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72 percent in this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlights planning to register 92 percent coverage with 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 to a third axis, using a 3D diagram of luminance. This creates a dynamic display of on-screen color and allows traditionally weak colors, like green and blue, to be vivid and deep. What's more, red colors are enhanced for the provision of strong colors all over the spectrum and therefore the perfect balance of RGB.

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70,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio

70,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give a photo as good as you believed possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks including a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations concerning. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in our 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 attain a good crystalline appearance. The most up-to-date evolution of Samsung's ToC design starts with a deep piano black bezel that fades into distinct chrome that finishes as light ruby highlights. The intensity of along with subtly changes could 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 that viewers would feel safe watching a group from the distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is extremely healthier that you will sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule is often you can actually sit from about 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for experience. If you are aware of the size of the area you've got already, in the places you are going to sit, and where your newly purchased HDTV should go when you purchase it, yourrrre able to learn about the size and style HDTV you need to get. Minimum size = Viewing distance/3 Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5