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I am a bit of a techno-file and this TV was an upgrade from a 6 year old 46″ Samsung LCD. Anytime you purchase a TV these days you roll the dice a bit as far as quality of your particular set. I’m happy to say in my case I have no issue. I don’t even have issues I expected I would.

I have…No stuck or dead pixels No flashlighting at all. No clouding, a dark screen is perfectly even. Colors are accurate and vibrant. I disabled the eco-sensor right away since it dimmed the screen far too much.

The menu system is very full featured with just about every setting or feature you can think of easily modified.

Blacks are not perfect but they are far better than most LCD’s. I am fairly critical and the black level is perfectly acceptable.
I did notice a very minor case of the Dirty Screen Effect. However 99% of the time it can’t be seen at all.

The SMART features are very well implemented. Youtube streams perfectly and apps open up and navigate with reasonable speed. I was able to plug a USB into the TV and watch the HD videos taken with my Sony camcorder as well as other video files with no issue. This is a big convenience.

I must confess I do love 3D,and this sets 3D is amazing! The 3D experience varies by source type. A good 3D Blu-ray is every bit as good as the theater. The first 3D Blu-ray movie I played was Prometheus and it was spectacular! The detail is so razor sharp and yet with good depth and pop. In viewing store demo’s I really thought I preferred the passive 3D more than the active but I wouldn’t want to lose any of that beautiful detail this set can deliver. Active it is then! The glasses are very light weight and fit over my prescription glasses very comfortably. It’s not a feature that I will use very often but when a movie I want to see comes out in 3D, that’s what I’m going to watch, It really is as good as the theater.