Samsung LN40A450 40-Inch 720p LCD HDTV | 
| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
List Price: $1,099.99
Buy New: $889.00
You Save: $210.99 (19%)
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 3565
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 40
Shipping Weight (lbs): 34
Dimensions (in): 39 x 3.8 x 25.2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: LN-40A450
Model: LN-40A450
UPC: 036725228146
EAN: 0036725228146
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 720p HD Resolution | | • | Wide Color Enhancer | | • | 3 HDMI Inputs | | • | 6ms response time |
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Product Description
Official HDTV of the NFL / 10,000:1 Dynamic-contrast / Widescreen aspect ratio / 6ms response time / Hidden bottom speakers / SRS TruSurround XT Audio
Amazon.com Product Description--March 24, 2008
A sleek design with hidden speakers keep Samsung's Series 4 large flat panel HDTVs one of the best 720p HD options around. Upgrades over last year's models include a response rate a 6ms response rate that's faster than many more expensive 1080p models, for smooth motion even with fast-moving sports and action movies, and a a higher dynamic contrast ratio of up to 10,000:1 (up from 8,000:1 last year), and for deep blacks and crisp lines. Please note that this description applies to Series 4 models 32 inches or larger. Models 26 inches and smaller have slightly different specifications.br h2span style="font-weight: bold;"img style="width: 430px; height: 344px;" alt="lifestyle" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2008-lifestyle.jpg" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10"What's New?/span/h2 h3 /h3 ul lispan style="font-weight: bold;"10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio/span: up from 8,000:1 on 2007 models (Learn morespan/span)br /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"6ms response time:/span down from 8ms on 2007 models thanks to a new high-speed liquid crystalspan style="font-weight: bold;"/spanbr /li /ul h2span style="font-weight: bold;"Features Overviewbr /span/h2 ul lispan style="font-weight: bold;"178-degree viewing angle/span from all four axes with Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (Learn more)br /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"3 HDMI 1.3 ports/span: Simplay compliant (Learn more about Connectivity)/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"DNIe Digital Natural Image Engine/span improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, and white balance (Learn more)br span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Clear panel /spantechnology for deeper blacks and more vibrant colors (Learn more)/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Hidden speakers with SRS TruSurround XT audio/span (Learn more)/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Wide Color Enhancer/span technology and Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) offer a wider color range (Learn more)/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Picture-in-Picture (PIP)/span enables convenient simultaneous viewing of TV programs and video or PC sources/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Entertainment Modes: /spanfor sports, games, and moviesbr /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"V-Chip/span system allows blocking of rated TV and movie programs determined by the parent to contain objectionable content./li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Trilingual /spanon-screen displays in English, Spanish or French. br /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Variable sleep timer/span to turn the TV off in varying time intervals./li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Auto wall mount compatible:/span 3-dimensional operation via TV's remote control; no external IR receiver required./li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Swivel stand/span included/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"1 year parts and 1 year labor warranty /span(90 days parts and labor for commercial use), with in-home service, backed by Samsung toll-free support/li /ul h2 /h2 h3span style="font-weight: bold;"Series 5 Step Up Features/span/h3 ul li span style="font-weight: bold;"Full 1080p HD/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"up to 30,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio/spanbr style="font-weight: bold;" /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"5 ms response time/spanbr span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"USB 2.0 port: /spanconnect devices directly to your HDTV--view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily listen to your MP3 player through your HDTV's audio system or your home theater system/li /ul h3span style="font-weight: bold;"Series 6 Step Up Featuresbr /span/h3 span style="font-weight: bold;"/span ul lispan style="font-weight: bold;"50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio/spanbr /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"AutoMotion Plus 120Hz /spanimage interpolation for smoother motionbr /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"4ms response time/spanbr /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Transparent and Opaque Color (TOC) bezel/spanbr /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Ethernet port with Infolink free RSS feeds/spanbr /li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"4 HDMI 1.3 ports/spanbr /li liCompatible with Samsung's Home Digital Media Adapter for playback and navigation of Internet and stored PC multimedia/li /ul p /p h3span style="font-weight: bold;"Series 7 Step-Up Features/span/h3 span style="font-weight: bold;"/span ul lispan style="font-weight: bold;" Internal flash memory (1GB) with pre-loaded interactive content /spansuch as cooking recipes, children's entertainment, HD artwork and more/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Integrated woofer/span for an enhanced audio experience/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"DLNA-Compatible:/span for better interoperability with electronics, computers and mobile devices from many different manufacturers (Learn more)br /li /ul h2span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"/span/h2 h2 /h2 h2Sizes/h2 ul lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 4/span 720p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 19-inch white, 22-inch, 22-inch white, 26-inch, 32-inch, 37-inch and 40-inch modelsbr span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 5 /span1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 32-inch, 37-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch modelsbr span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 6/span 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 22-inch, 32-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch models/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 7 /span1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch/li /ul What size TV should you get? h2Learn More/h2 h3a name="Super_Clear_Panel"ba name="clearpanel"Super Clear Panel/b/h3 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 403px; height: 167px;" alt="clear panel chart" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-clear-b.jpg"br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"Samsung enhances the clarity of select LCD HDTVs by replacing the light-diffusing plastic face of traditional LCD HDTVs with a natural black panel with a clear anti-glare shield. Reduced reflection of external light creates a new dimension in image clarity, highlighting black and darkened areas, enabling vibrant, more compelling colors and a brighter, clearer picture. Black will never again appear grayish. Black details will show in vivid black even in dark scenes.br br The latest version of Samsung's breakthrough super clear panel technology makes colors appear more vibrant and blacks even deeper than ever. Enhanced films reduce glare and optimize off-angle viewing.br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 403px; height: 169px;" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-clear-a.jpg" alt="super clear panel" /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h3a name="30000:1_Brightness_"b10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio/500 nit Brightnessbr /b/h3 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;" img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/brands/samsung/71/feat_25000_1.jpg" alt="25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio"/td td style="vertical-align: top;"10,000:1 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.br br span style="font-weight: bold;"Note:/span models 26 inches or less have lower contrast ratiosbr ul li32-inch, 37-inch, and 40-inch models = 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio/li li26-inch model = 5,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio/li li19-inch and 22-inch models = 3,000:1 dynamic contrast ratiobr /li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h3ba name="DNIE"Digital Natural Image Enginebr /b/h3 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 233px; height: 161px;" src="http://image-development-101.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-dnie-a.jpg" alt="DNIe image" /td td style="vertical-align: top;"DNIe The Samsung Digital Natural Image engine. This exclusive Samsung technology dramatically improves the picture by enhancing the contrast, detail, white balance and reduces.br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 285px; height: 161px;" alt="dnie chart" src="http://image-development-101.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-dnie-b.jpg"br /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h3span style="font-weight: bold;"a name="CCFL"Wide Color Enhancer/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp/span/h3 h3span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/h3 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td colspan="4" rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: top;"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. br br 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./td /tr tr td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"img style="width: 279px; height: 245px;" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-widecolor.gif" alt="wide color enhancer" /td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"img style="width: 265px; height: 201px;" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-widecolora.jpg" alt="wide color enhancer"/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"img style="width: 272px; height: 242px;" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-widecolor92.gif" alt="wide color enhancer"/td td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" img style="width: 262px; height: 201px;" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-widecolorb._V10154880_.jpg" alt="wide color enhancer"/td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h3a name="Connectivity"span style="font-weight: bold;"a name="connectivity"Connectivity/span/h3 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 542px; height: 269px;" alt="wiselink" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-wiselink.jpg"br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through three Simplay compliant HDMI 1.3 inputs (2 rear, 1 side), and the handy HDMI-CEC feature lets you control all your CEC-enabled peripherals using just one remote. br br 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.br br 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. br br span style="font-weight: bold;"All Connections/spanbr style="font-weight: bold;" ul li3 HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) 2 rear/1 side/li liComponent video: 2 rear (Y, Pb, Pr) A/V inputs: 1 rear/ 1 side/li liS-Video: 1 side/li liPC D-sub: 1 rear/li liOptical sound out: rear/li liRS232: rear/li liRF antenna inputs: rear/li liHeadphone jack: side/li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h3a name="Super_Patterned_Vertical_Alignment_"span style="font-weight: bold;"a name="spva"Super Patterned Vertical Alignmentbr /span/h3 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;"img style="width: 430px; height: 215px;" alt="wide angle" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/cat-500/Samsung/detail-pages/samsung-lcd-2007-wideangle.gif"br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"Samsung's Super Patterned Vertical Alignment (SPVA) panel provides a 178-degree viewing angle from all four axes /td /tr /tbody /table hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h3a name="Audio_Features_"span style="font-weight: bold;"a name="audio"Audio Features /span/h3 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. br br SRS TruSurround XT technology delivers an amazing, simulated 3D effect with clear dialog and powerful bass. br br TruSurround XT audio also adds three audio enhancement technologies to produce an amazingly immersive sound experience.br ul liDialog Clarity brings movie dialog into Focus during the playback of any surround-encoded material to make speech much clearer and crisper./li liTruBass 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./li liThe 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./li /ul Stereo broadcast reception is offered for MTS and SAP with 181-channel capacity. A sound leveler keeps audio volume consistent during channel changing.br hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="true" size="1" h2a name="size"Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?/h2 table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" tbody tr td style="vertical-align: top;" img style="width: 437px; height: 168px;" alt="HDTV Size chart" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/buyinguides/screen-size.jpg"br /td td style="vertical-align: top;"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. ul /ul If you know the size of the room you have already, where you want to sit, and where your new HDTV should go once you get it, you can figure out the size HDTV you should get. ul li Minimum size = Viewing distance/3/li liMaximum size=Viewing distance/1.5/li /ul /td /tr /tbody /table ul liSeries 4 720p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 19-inch white, 22-inch, 22-inch white, 26-inch, 32-inch, 37-inch and 40-inch modelsbr span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 5/span 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 32-inch, 37-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch modelsbr span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 6/span 1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 19-inch, 22-inch, 32-inch, 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch models/li lispan style="font-weight: bold;"Series 7 /span1080p LCD HDTVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch, and 52-inch /li /ul
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 Picture Perfect! November 19, 2008
michael315 (Atlanta, GA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We've been waiting to get a bigger tv for our family room apartment and decided to go to Brandsmart to do some searching. We first looked at a 23" Zenith that had a good price, but then the worker showed us this 40" LCD HDTV priced at around $800 but he reduced the price by $100 and we took it home. Here are the things we like and don't like about it: br / br /Pros: It picked up some of the digital channels when using the auto search feature and not the ones that don't have the signal. Set up was sort of easy but fun to do! The picture was amazing, but it wasn't actually 720p. It was 1080p or 1080i. Lol! Whenever there's no input device connected like a dvd player, it'll remain in tv mode when you press the input button on the remote. And it has 2 hdmi inputs. br / br /Cons: The only problem is that the picture wasn't that great as a monitor comparing to the 19 inch version but it is okay for when we are watching a dvd through our pc. But other that, great tv with the perfect picture! You won't be disappointed once you see it for yourself! :)
love love love! November 7, 2008
Carly Waters
We are very happy with this tv. It looks really good. It is very big. The HD looks fantastic. We did have 1 problem, the hd component plate in the tv busted, we called Samsung, they came, they fixed, its perfect. Highly recommended!!!!
Great TV October 9, 2008
P. Knedler
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been looking for an LCD tv for a while. I decided on Samsung after reading Consumer Reports. I thought the 37 inch 720p would be fine for my bedroom. At best buy it was $999 and $858 on amazon; I was going to wait until Amazon had free shipping again. Last weekend I found this TV (40 inch 720p) on sale for $899 at best buy. I didn't even hesitate and brought it home. Set up was simple, the picture is great. I plan to have an HD DVR put in this weekend and can't wait to try it out. So far the TV is excellent and I'm very happy with the purchase.
 Was a good value before 650's dropped in price October 9, 2008
I. Banks (Berkeley, Ca)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
So I got this tv around April and at the time it was a great value. It is difficult to impossible to tell the difference between 720p and 1080p at 40inch size when sittle more than a couple feet from the tv so why spend that extra cheese when you can't notice a difference in resolution? The colors are accurate and the black level is surprisingly good for an LCD. The anti glare screen is decent but not great, however the screen is plenty bright enough to make up for this weakness. Motion blur can occur like with any LCD, but I must say that unless I am being super critical of what ever fast moving content I am watching I don't notice it. Frankly I think 120hz is retarded when it comes to all the processing it does and I would rather have a slightly less crisp screen in a fast moving scene than some soap opera effect artifact injected 120hz over processed mess. But hey thats me. br / br /Oh yeah I use mine with PS3 and 360 and suffer from no gaming lag what so ever. It is a solid TV all in all and a great size for the bedroom/office. br / br /Hope that helps you guys out there in internet land. br / br /By the way the sound quality is very flat and lacking in the low range. But I have a 2.1 system hooked up so its all good.
Brilliant TV (pun intended) September 30, 2008
Hunter Hadlock (Key West, FL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Picked this up as the cheapest sub $1000 40" TV still in stock for my mom's birthday. Was not disappointed by the Samsung name. Football looks great on it in HD, as did a western movie and various HD channels. This set really has a stunning - literally stunning - picture. The promo videos in the store are interesting but for the first two hours we were simply slack jawed at how great the image on the screen was at home. I was not disappointed with getting the 720p over the 1080p and my mother was unable to tell the difference from the couch. We had no problem seeing the sweat drip off the football helmets on the line or turf being thrown up by cleats at 720p. br / br /Setup was simple, three screws in the swivel base, and then four screws connect the TV to the base (though you can't use a 4-in-1 screwdriver, the holes are too deep and narrow for anything but a regular screwdriver. Base is very solidly built - steel covered in the "piano black" plastic that adorns all Samsung TVs - nothing to break or fracture over the years. Other than that the TV came on and simply pushing the enter button on the remote 5 or six times got the TV setup. This being my first time setting up HDMI I figured it would scan the HDMI cable for all the available cable channels when selecting the "auto scan cable channels" - apparently this feature is only available through the coax/RF connection. Pushing the "HDMI Line 1" button switched to the FiOS HDMI connection and everything worked fine after that. The sound is pretty good for a stand alone but hooked it up to the pre-existing sound system. br / br /Considering how small the price difference is between a 32" and a 40" it's definitely worth the extra dough, especially if you have a larger living room. This set went in a corner of an 18'x18' room and it absolutely dominates that corner. 40" looks tiny next to the 52, 68 and 72" tvs at the store but when you get it home does it finally dawn on you what sort of monstrosity you've let into your home. 40" might be too large for all but the biggest apartment living rooms, but for a medium to large sized house this is a great size. College kids put your money towards your tuition and get a 32", 40" is way too big for your dorm room.
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