Customer Reviews

Samsung HLT6189S 61-Inch Slim LED Engine 1080p DLP HDTV

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At first when I got the TV hooked up I was a tad disappointed, but being a large tv owner in the past I was certain that after I was able to go through the various options and configurations, everything would be alright. And boy was it! This tv delivers a practically perfect HD picture. Marry it with an HD DVD player (I've got the XA2) or even the new Sony Blu-ray BDP-300 and the picture one gets is nothing short of brilliant. It still has some of the drawbacks of DLP, namely the confined viewing angle, but if you're into watching movies and tv programming from a more straight on angle, the Samsung blows LCD and Plasma out of the water. It's obviously not as "flat", but for the price, and the asthetic look, the Samsung LED DLP is impossible to beat... that and fully realized black levels really shred the competition.

This is not my first HD tv set, but this one has been awesome right from the beginning. I have been using it for > 1 month and it's outpaced my expectations.

HD-DVD (toshiba hd-xa2 with deepcolor) and the ps3 blu-ray (also deep color) as well as regular sources all look stunning.

Still haven't used the pc gaming 3d mode yet (and unsure if I ever will) but it's nice that it's available.

Also using the HD-DVD of digital video essentials, it was possible to tune it to pretty close (like 95% of the way), to an ISF level 1 calibration, close enough for now.

I also like the system turning on quicker.

My previous tv was a toshiba 720p dlp rear projector, I was able to see rainbows sometimes (most times not), but I was also able to 'force' myself to see them. With this set, I have tried to force myself to see the rainbows but been unable to see them so far.

All in all, a great product.

This DLP HDTV has better picture and more user options than any on the market. After the initial setup screen and channel search it displayed the first HD channel and it's a good thing that I was sitting down, I could not take my eyes off of it. Crystal clear display! There were three of us in the room and we all said, WOW! The big pluses of this TV are:
1. Never have to replace any bulbs ($300.00/bulb) it's all LED.
2. No color wheel to cause any rainbow effect.
3. The latest HDMI 1.3 interface, supports the highest resolution.
4. Bluetooth enabled to support various devices.

While color, geometry, contrast, and user flexibility excel on this set there are but 2 areas that it does not. Rainbows are still there to people who see them. Generally, people who wear eyeglasses. Wearing bifocals is worse. I fall into the latter catagory but they don't bug me. Secondly, this set falls short of producing inky blacks in scenes which have a lot of dark in them. The blacks don't "crush" per se but have a haze over them. In high contrast scenes the blacks look perfect. Would I buy it again? In a heartbeat. And I watch a lot of dark sci-fi. I don't think that DLP technology can be beat for the best skin tones, reproducing movement [remember, the speed here is in microseconds,not milliseconds like Lcd], ease of moving the tv, and the LED engine is icing on the cake. Bright, quiet, fast turn-on times, and cheap on power. No tv is perfect, but I love mine.

For those of you looking forward to using the audio optical output to connect to your receiver, beware that the 87 series will only output HDMI audio to the standard audio jacks. You would need to look at the 89 series to optical out with HDMI.

Samsung HLT6187S 61" Slim LED Engine 1080p DLP HDTV
everyone from the pizza delivery person to the mailman and now my new best friend my neighbor who never said one word to me in 6 months .walks in house see's the samsung dlp picture and there knees go weak!they are drawn like a moth to a bright light.they lose there hearing and have only tunnel vision as they murmer wow is that one of them new tv's?as a little drool comes out the side of there mouth.but really i did so much research on this and other 1080p tv's it could have been my theasis.the picture a 10...the sound a 10 value for the dollar a 15! thank you samsung for making it possible to get a quality product and not have spend 5k.you will end up spending 5k when you see this tv in your home .because now the sound system isn't good enough and the dvd has to be replaced with a blu-ray player.but thats ok because now i can honestly say i own a home theatre thanks to samsung!

We have had this two years now and it is still awesome. I went with LED to avoid having to replace those $200 bulbs other DLP's use. The price of Plasma,LCD and "Flat screen" TV's is outrageous, so the price of this 61 INCH!!! for a 8 inch deep TV was fine by me!

I purchased this TV from Amazon and got it as promised at a good price as always. Now for the TV itself for all you wondering skeptics...
First of all this is not my first Samsung DLP (I own a HLS5687W RP DLP wheel, bulb etc.). The first thing I noticed is the brightness and clarity of the LED HD display..it seemed out of focus/fuzzy and not very clear compared to my other DLP set. I tried to twich the settings even contacted Samsung Tech?? I was told that's LED? to no avail. It has some fine extra features like PIP which is why I bought in the first place. I even went on and placed both the sets next to each other for comparison testing and I must say the regular WHEEL bulb beat the pants out of the LED in picture quality and especialy clarity & brightness..I am very dissappointed with this Slim LED set, therefore, SORRY but BACK it goes..Perhaps it was rattled during shipping, if not, dont bother with this set..Samsung is giving up or needs to perform more LED quality testing?

Where do I start? I bought this TV in late July, and immediately had problems when it arrived early August. When watching 1080p movies on my HD-DVD player and PS3, certain scenes would have screen defects. A white strobing would superimpose over the image, almost as if a flashbulb went off every second or so. This is not the common "snow flake" shimmering that you will see often, with hi-def sources. I also have a new Sharp LCD HDTV, that doesn't have the problem.

Samsung responded by sending out a tech to fix the problem, 4 times over a 3 month period. After the third visit, the TV no longer turned on at all. In other words, the tech made it worse. I requested a refund or exchange, and they denied it repeatedly, until finally agreeing to exchange it after their 4th failed attempt to fix it, in late October! Mind you, I had a non-functional TV for 3 months now! With 3 young children and my wife at home, no TV in the family room has been extremely frustrating. It took them 2 weeks to get the paperwork processed to approve the exchange, only to tell me it was on back order, and I would have to wait until December to get my TV! Remember that my old TV broke in mid-July, and I ordered this TV in late July, 5 months before I would get an exchange TV. Enough!!! Only after initiating a dispute with Mastercard, Amazon, and threatening legal action did Samsung finally agree to a refund. But, I won't receive the refund for approximately 4 weeks!!!!! Fine, I just bought a Toshiba from Crutchfield (30 day return policy, no questions asked). Amazon's partner retailers typically only offer a 30 day EXCHANGE on TVs, but only after the MANUFACTURER agrees. Well, Samsung wouldn't agree to an exchange, so I won't ever buy a TV from that partner retailer or Samsung again. I can't wait for Samsung to pick up this pile of junk.

And by the way, if you think that I just got a defective TV, let me tell you that all TVs of this model have this strobing defect. I took my HD-DVD player to a local TV store, and they let me test it on 5 TVs. Guess what? Both the Samsung LCD and HLT6189S in their showroom had the strobing defect. I finally played with all of the adjustments that the Samsung tech supposedly did, and found that the flickering only goes away in "movie" picture mode. It is Samsung's image processing algorithms that cause the strobing - very dissappointing that they would release a product clearly not ready for the market. All Samsung TVs are suspect.

So, save yourself the risk of insanity, run away! Do not buy this TV!!!