Buying late model Samsung DLP rear projection TV?

Mjcmt,

When someone refers to a LED, they mean a DLP or LCD display with an LED light source instead of a lamp. They provide long life and from what I understand a great picture.

Bill

Bought a new 60" Samsung slim DLP w/LED light source (2yrs?) ago from BB (interest free for 3 yrs). Really, really, really like it. Coming from a Sony SBR Videoscope 56" that was still going after 10 yrs. The Samsung is a great value in my opinion. I wanted as big as I could get. My wife wanted slim. The DLP slim (14 - 16" depth at most) was a good compromise. Further, in our great room with sometimes strong daylit conditions while trying to watch early morning F1, the DLP works. We watch a LOT of TV...it's been flawless to date. If you are right about the $150 for the LED (doh! I didn't ask the price for replacing the LED!!), sounds like a good deal.

I bought a "display" model Samsung from BB for my HT. What a great deal and it's still going strong after 3yrs, although it doesn't get daily use, more like once a week. However, that started the "Samsung" buying spree. We bought another for our family room and love it. My father-in-law loved them so much, he asked me to go buy him two for his house. I bought him the Samsung LED version for his HT.

No complaints, everybody is happy. I will say that my family room Samsung has one dead pixel. Other than that, Samsung is making some excellent DLP's & LCD's.

IME, the picture quality is very good, but maintenance issues are real. You will go through lamps and (I was told after replacing mine) the color wheels have a pretty high failure rate, as well. Make sure that there's decent ventilation around the set.

Good Luck

Marty

I've always found the off axis picture quality of DLP's and other rear projection TV's to be the biggest drawback.