( 52 reviews )
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Posted: 06-10-2009
So I've had the 6020FD for a few months. First off, the 'top of the line' Samsung LCD that maxes out at 55 inches is the UN55B8000. It currently (today) costs $3600. I purchased my Kuro for 3697 all in and is listed at 3700 today on Amazon. So that's $100 difference. Half the price is a comment made by an idiot. It is half the wieght of the Kuro - certainly not half the price. The differnce in the 5 inches (55 to 60) is 19% larger area for the Kuro screen-wise. For me, I did not want anything smaller than 60 inches. The picture of the Kuro is near perfect out of the box. Put it on Optimum and you are good to go. Digital looks pretty good and HD looks amazing. All visitors comment on the HD picture. 90% of what I watch is HD or blu-ray so it works for me. Right now I am watching a digital channel (Fox Soccer) and it looks very good - not perfect, but very good. I have watched various movies from a PS3 on the Kuro - Iron Man was stunning, Star Trek II (daytime) looked perfect, even upconverted dvds look excellent. Lighted conditions is where I was surprised - this TV works very well in lit conditions, anti-glare screen works very well - I have light bouncing off it now and there is 0 reflection on the screen. It is very heavy - so I have not wall mounted it yet. That is going to be a project and I likely will have to hire a couple of insured installers to do the job. Keep that in mind. Also, my wall mount did not fit - so make sure your wall mount fits the specified holes on the 6020. There are screen splotches when it is off - no big deal - part of the plasma experience I suppose. Do not touch the screen - you are only supposed to clean with the supplied cloth - does not perform miracles. So, try to keep the screen pristine. I have used the movie mode settings found on internet, like from here and CNET - they work very well - so does simply putting it in optimum mode. Optimum is great and is one of the truly awesome aspects of this model. HD is almost 3 dimensional, almost. It is stunning from 1 inch to 12 feet away at any angle. I have not used the included sound bar so can't comment on sound. Laptops look great on monitor - I have used VGA (Windows-based) and HDMI (macbook pro) - both looked very good - even watched a TV show off of netflix via the VGA - it was fine, not blu-ray, but good enough. I cannot get split screen to work the way I would want it to. TV is almost too easy to operate - Once I discovered how to power it on, the picture looked great and continues to. If picture looks bad, make sure you are on HDMI option and not simply the cable feed (if you have a cable feed going to it for some reason like I do [trying to get split screen to work]) I would not use other modes other than optimum and movie, I do not see any reason to, but hey, that's me. P.S. - nobody who has seen the screen thinks it is 'dim' - this screen is quite bright. For those who own it and think it is dim - there are control settings you can manipulate to make it brighter - mine, however, is perfect and not dim at all - the whites in fact are very solid and not 'smokey' in the slightest - something is wrong perhaps with your connection or input if any of your colors, white included, look 'smokey' on this plasma.
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Posted: 05-27-2009
If picture quality is important to you, and you don't want to spend significantly more, this is your display. It doesn't get better than this at this price point. It's got 4 HDMI inputs, you can hook a computer up to it, as well as the usual array of monitor options. Contrary to popular opinion, this TV can be calibrated through it's service menu, using software from ControlCal, so it's not worth the premium for the Elite. Enough has been written concerning the stellar picture quality, but an underappreciated feature of this display is its sound quality, especially using the SRS options. Obviously, you'll want to run this through a dedicated surround system, but in a pinch, the supplied speakers are surprisingly good. I would also recommend running a burn in CD (check out AVS forum, settings for KURO 6020) for 150 hours, then doing the ControlCal service menu calibration (you can use the suggested settings from AVs forum). You will then have an uncompromised-in-any-way killer display that is state of the art!
