Samsung LN-R408D 40-Inch Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 38.9 x 13.1 x 30 inches ; 60 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 67 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0009E3T14
• Item model number: LNR408DX/XAA
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,700 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

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Combining big-screen viewing, sleek looks, and high performance, Samsung's 40-inch LN-R408D LCD television lets you enjoy not only regular TV, but full HD images from any high- or enhanced-definition source. This TV comes with a built-in ATSC Tuner for recieveing over the air HDTV broadcasts, and also includes a digital-cable-ready tuner with slot for a CableCard. Its suite of state-of-the-art connections accommodate a wealth of associated equipment, such as a DTV set-top box, a progressive-scan DVD player, and even your PC. Samsung's Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA) screen provides high brightness and amazingly rich contrast for lifelike images and realistic colors. A mere 3.9 inches thick without its detachable stand, the TV produces exciting, perfectly flat, images while occupying minimal space in your office, living room, bedroom, or kitchen.

Samsung's DNIe™ Samsung's revolutionary DNle™ (click for demo) technology offers digital perfection in naturally presented, crystal-clear images that uncover even the most minute detail.

Motion Optimizer Fast-moving images are optimized to produce more natural-looking motion, thus reducing video noise or blurring.

Contrast Enhancer Brightness and contrast levels are enhanced for deeper, richer blacks with greater detail and more natural whites.

Color Optimizer Colors are reproduced with a more lifelike realism, whites are more accurate, and skin tones are given a more natural hue.

Detail Enhancer DNIe analyzes video signal elements to produce sharper detail, clearer image separation, and more natural edge transition.

The set boasts a 1,366 x 768 pixel resolution. Its widescreen, 16:9 aspect ratio matches the dimension of most movies and HDTV broadcasts, while its wide, 170-degree viewing angles (horizontal x vertical) ensures everyone in the room will enjoy a great view, even when you've mounted the unit on a wall. A built-in brightness sensor automatically adjusts the TV's luminance for the ambient brightness of a given room.

Onboard 10-bit processing produces 3.2 billion lifelike colors and aids in video signal processing for your analog sources. And with its lightning-quick 12 ms response time, astronomical 3,000:1 contrast ratio, impressive 500 cd/m2 brightness rating, and onboard 3D Y/C digital comb filter (which separates the color signals to minimize dot crawl and blurred edges), you'll see sharp, focused images regardless of their source.

LCD screens offer a number of benefits over CRT monitors and televisions, including general ease of use, freedom from eye strain (no screen flickering or radiation emissions), quiet operation (no high-pitch "flyback" noise, an issue with CRT TVs), accurate image geometry (no curvature distortion or susceptibility to magnetic interference from, say, speakers), long screen life, space savings, and light weight/easy positioning. They also tend to be more affordable than their flat-panel plasma counterparts, which often (though not always) offer faster response times and higher contrast ratios.

The LN-R408D’s DNIe (Samsung Digital Natural Image engine) offers a vision of digital perfection in natural, crystal-clear images that reveal even the most minute detail. The process involves 4 key enhancements: contrast and brightness (for deep, rich blacks and natural whites), motion (which optimizes fast-moving images to produce natural-looking motion, reducing video noise or blurring), color (for lifelike realism, accurate whites, and skin tones with natural hues), and detail (DNIe analyzes video signals to ensure sharp detail, clear image separation, and natural edge transitions).

Samsung's patented My Color Control technology lets you control specific colors without affecting the whole screen. Samsung provides 6-color control selections: white, red, pink, yellow, green, and blue. It's your picture--you decide how it looks. Samsung's PVA screen permits brighter whites than standard TFT LCDs, as well as deeper blacks and every shade in between.

The LN-R408D makes flexibility a top priority, giving you several preset picture and sound modes (and custom settings for each). The TV also permits color temperature adjustment for warm, cool, or neutral tones, along with 4 onscreen languages to choose from (English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese). Choose one of several preset sound modes (standard, music, movie, speech, and custom) for broadcast through the set's built-in speakers (10-watts-per-channel x 2).

Connections include 2 component-video inputs (480i/480p/720p/1080i), a direct-digital HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), a PC input (15-pin D-Sub with minijack analog audio), 2 composite-video inputs, 1 S-video input, 1 RF input, 5 attendant sets of stereo (left/right) RCA audio inputs, and 1 stereo RCA audio output. The set's Anynet (RS-232C) control option simplifies use with other Samsung audio/video components.

Other features include single-tuner picture-in-picture (view 1 TV channel and 1 input source simultaneously), a sleep timer, V-Chip parental control, closed captioning, and an auto volume leveler to minimize jarring differences in loudness between, say, TV programs and their commercials.

What's in the Box
TV, detachable stand (with screws), a remote control, remote batteries, an RF video cable, a user's manual, an Anynet AV manual, an AC power cord, a cover bottom, an Anynet cable, a cleaning cloth, and warranty information.

Product Description

Slim, light and beautiful, Samsung's LCD Flat Panel TVs combine sleek looks and high performance. These HDTV-ready and HDTV sets let you enjoy regular TV and display HDTV images from any High-Definition source. Samsung's Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA) screens provide high contrast and brightness for lifelike images with realistic colors.

Customer Reviews

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106 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Flat Panel for Today and the Future, September 23, 2005

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JT was Here (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Samsung LN-R408D 40-Inch Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV (Electronics)

After spending WAY too much time researching all of the various televisions in the market between 37 and 45 inches, I finally decided on this beautiful looking Samsung 40" LCD HDTV. I wanted a set that would work great now but also in the future; because Tivo has yet to produce an HDTV capable DVR (and I'm NOT giving up Tivo), I knew that I would only be using this TV for Digital Cable and DVDs in the meantime, so I was concerned about non-HDTV signals and how they would look. Well, let me just say that I'm pleasantly surprised. Sure, regular cable channels are a bit grainy if you sit too close to the screen, but to be honest they look better than I expected, even when I put it in "panoramic" mode and it's technically stretching a 4:3 picture to fill the screen ... and I know in a year or so many more channels will be in HD and they'll all look spectacular then. And of course DVDs are already amazing.

Some of the reasons I opted for this LCD over some of the popular Plasma flat panels such as the 42" Panasonic or Pioneer, or an LCD rear projection:

- I have an XBOX, and with plasmas the burn-in effect is definitely a concern. This isn't to say that LCD screens aren't susceptable to burn-in, but it's far less likely.

- Plasmas start out as bright as they'll ever be and the screen pixels slowly dim over time, until eventually they die. LCDs have a much, much longer lifespan.

- LCD Rear Projections are nice (Sony offers a new one that looks pretty good), but this flat panel LCD has a much better viewing angle, the picture is a little brighter and more vibrant, and you'll NEVER see any digital pixelation when objects are moving quickly on screen. This TV was over $650 more than the aforementioned Sony, but to me it was worth the difference.

Samsung offers a nice variety of viewing modes, and while the 16:9 setting almost always makes people look "wide" when viewing television (not the case with DVDs, just remember to change your DVD player's settings to 16:9 and not 4:3, otherwise it will stretch), the panoramic and Zoom1 settings are great... especially for people who always want to fill up the whole screen.

To ease some general concerns about LCDS, this Samsung utilizes new technology to offer a 3000:1 contrast, matching most plasmas. What this means is you don't see the same "ghosting" effect that LCD screens are notorious for. There is some slight ghosting when there are bright objects over a dark black background, but I've only seen this during production company intros (such as Miramax) and not during an actual movie, even in darkly-lit scenes. However, if you watch movies in brighter (dynamic) viewing modes and not the richer, warmer "movie" mode, you may see some occasional ghosting in dark scenes, such as people sitting around a fire in a dark forest. This isn't a problem, though, because I feel movies look best in the movie mode anyway.

As for the built-in speakers, they're nothing special, but I wanted a TV where I could at least have sound when just clicking through cable channels and I don't feel like turning on the stereo speakers. Having the speakers at the bottom instead of the sides is also nice because it wastes less space, especially if you have large speakers to the side of the TV anyway.

Overall I'm very pleased with this TV and I highly recommend it. And remember, a 40" screen is a heck of a lot larger in your living room than it is on display at Best Buy.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SAMSUNG 40" LCD, December 10, 2005

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D. Cruickshank "ScreenWatcher" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung LN-R408D 40-Inch Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV (Electronics)

Not sure why the other reviewer was so disgruntled over this TV. We just got it last month and really like it. The display is gorgeous, we have Dish TV, and DVD on S-video and the quality has been fantastic every time we watch.

We love the design- it's quite elegant. Compared to the other prevailing technologies- LCD is a good way to go for the $$ spent. The feature sets are robust- amybe too much and it does add to complexity but we familiarized ourselves with it enough to get what we need.

To be careful we did by a 4 yr extended warranty -a good idea for any electronics where you are forking over more than 400 bucks. If I see a dead pixel- well then it's covered- so far every pixel appears a live and content.

There are many choices out there but 40" seems like a good size -beyond the typical old school 32 and 36 in TVs of old and with flat screen- it is an excellent size for movies. Doesn't feel as excessive as going for the really big screens and yet is very satisfying. We liked the overall dimensions- fits perfect in an entertainment armoire. All of the ports/jacks in the rear are abundant and quickly accessible. We looked at a lot of different models and even test drove 3 in our house for a a few days each and this TV simply had the brightness/clarity and design that the others didn't. We tried Sharp, ProView, Toshiba, Phillips- and looked at a dozen more. In the end we were very happy with our selection.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally bought my den TV, December 12, 2005

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James Cooper (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung LN-R408D 40-Inch Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV (Electronics)

I have been waiting to purchase our main TV for a couple of years--constanly worried that technology would render my purchase "old" or that prices would slash by half within a year.

However, after thorough researching, I decided to take the plunge and went with this Samsung.

This is the best picture I've seen for an LCD. The viewing angle is fairly wide. And the picture is still clear and bright despite our brightly-lit room. The 1366 x 768 native resolution means that every single pixel of HDTV is displayed without any "downconverting." In addition, it uses half the power consumption of a plasma TV.

Cable card from Comcast works (no box is need for HDTV or digital channels). I am a little disappointed that is is only a single-tuner PIP (note: if you use a splitter with your cable and plug one cord into Antenna 1 and the other in Antenna 2, I'm guessing you could overcome this limitation.) However, the PIP picture is extremely clear and displayed in 16:9 ratio.

So far, I am very pleased with the television.

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