Comment on Samsung UN48H8000 Curved 48-Inch 1080p 240Hz 3D Smart LED TV by Julie.
Beautiful! Our new favorite thing!,
The TV speaker sound quality is really good, especially considering there is so little space for speakers in this extremely thin TV, but for the best sound you really need to have a surround sound system. If you don’t have one, you don’t know what you’re missing – it adds so much to the whole experience.
It was very easy to set up and has a lot of features – most of which we will probably never use. The “Smart TV” options are not something important to us, but it seems like all the “high-end” TVs include some sort of smart features. If you want a quality TV, you get all those extras along with it.
We do really like the 3D features, however, we were disappointed with the lack of 3D movies available to buy. This is something I’ve never been interested in…until I watched Gravity in 3D on this TV. It’s pretty awesome and looks great. The 3D glasses it comes with are quite comfortable and the quality is fantastic.
The voice-activated features are cool, but somewhat of a novelty. I doubt we will use them a lot. One of the voice commands I was excited about using is “what movies are on right now.” It displays a list of all movies, but unfortunately, it includes channels we don’t subscribe to. We edited the guide in the TV to remove those channels, but it still shows us channels we don’t have. If this feature worked, I would use it regularly, but as it is, it’s not worth much. It’s possible there may be a delay and after the guide updates it could work correctly.
We like the IR remote for quickly accessing menu items (it also comes with a standard remote), but we actually prefer our Sony universal remote to both of these.
I recommend getting the Disney WOW DVD for help with setting up the picture options. The out-of-the box settings are way off (IMHO) and this DVD makes it easy.
We’ve only had the TV for a couple of weeks, so we are still experimenting with the different settings and so far we love it.
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