Samsung LN32B650 32-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 31.6 x 21.5 inches ; 31.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 40 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001U3Y8NG
• Item model number: LN32B650
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,225 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

(April 20, 2009)
With the Samsung 32-inch LN32B650 HDTV, you're investing in a high-quality LCD TV that offers top-of-the-line picture quality with 1080p high definition resolution. Enjoy the sharpest details and vivid color with a 100,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for more realistic images and Samsung's Wide Color Enhancer 3 technology for a more natural rendering of colors. It also incorporates a number of innovative features to reduce the motion blur and image judder, which traditionally plague LCD HDTVs when displaying fast movement. This B650 series HDTV combines an ultra-fast 4ms (millisecond) response time with Samsung's Auto Motion Plus frame interpolation technology, which utilizes a 120Hz refresh rate helps ensure crisp, easy viewing of sports, video games and movies.

The stylish Samsung LN32B650 1080p HDTV with innovative Touch of Color design.

You get superb connectivity and networking with 2 USB ports--for playing MP3 audio and displaying JPEG/MPEG files--and four HDMI 1.3 ports, and it also includes access to Samsung's InfoLink RSS service, which can instantly display updated news, sports, weather and stocks information with a touch of the remote. This HDTV is accented by Samsung's TOC (Touch of Color) bezel design, which offers a hint of red translucent color around the edges of the unit for a uniquely fashionable look. Plus, it's Energy Star compliant, which helps you be green while saving on your electric bill.

In addition to this 32-inch model, the Samsung B650 series also includes the 1080p 37-inch LN37B650, 40-inch LN40B650, 46-inch LN46B650, and 55-inch LN55B650 as well as the 720p 19-inch LN19B650 and 22-inch LN22B650. (Learn more about what size TV should you get.)

Key Features

• Screen Size: 32 inches
• Full 1080p HD (Learn more)
• Blazing fast 4ms response time minimizes blurring of fast motion in sports programs. (Learn more)
• HD-Grade 1920 (H) x 1080 (V) pixel resolution: High-resolution pixel density is combined with a built-in image scaler to handle inputs from a variety of digital and analog audio/video sources.
• Built-in digital tuner: No external box needed
• Auto Motion Plus 120Hz: Advanced processing that reduces blur and enhances image detail when viewing fast motion video sequences. (Learn more)
• Ultra Clear Panel: Advanced LCD technology lets you enjoy crisp image details, natural skin tones, excellent shadow detail, and vibrant colors.
• Picture-in-Picture (PIP) enables convenient, simultaneous viewing of TV programs and video or PC content sources.
• Game Mode enhances dark areas, sharpens the picture, speeds up the image processing response and enhances the sounds of your games. Picture and sound quality optimized for the special needs of gaming systems at the touch of a button.
• Side-mounted USB 2.0 port: Connect USB devices directly to your HDTV to view JPEG photos or MPEG movies or easily listen to your MP3 player through your HDTV's audio system or your home theater system.
• Touch of Color (ToC): Samsung's unique manufacturing process accents the surrounding bezel with a stylish red tone. (Learn more)
• Wide Color Enhancer 3 optimizes a given color's hue, resulting in more natural rendering of colors. (Learn more)
• Audio: Two 10-watt stereo speakers (for 20 watts of total power)
• SRS TruSurround HD creates an immersive, feature-rich surround sound experience from two speakers, complete with rich bass, high frequency detail and clear dialog.
• InfoLink: Get free RSS feeds of news, weather and sports right to your HDTV with a built-in Ethernet port (Learn more)
• Variable sleep timer can be programmed to turn the TV off at different time intervals.
• Trilingual on-screen displays in English, Spanish or French.
• Energy Star Compliant: Reduces energy consumption by up to 25 percent compared with standard TVs.
• Swivel stand included.
• Warranty: 1 year parts and labor, backed by Samsung toll-free support

Connections
A wide variety of multimedia devices can be connected to the set through any one of the four HDMI 1.3 inputs (including one on the side). Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles, and satellite dish components into the two rear connections and use the side-mounted input for cameras, camcorders, and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV.

• HDMI (version 1.3): 4
• Component: 2 rear
• Composite A/V: 1 rear/1 side (shared with component)
• USB 2.0: 2
• PC input (15-pin, D-Sub): 1
• Ethernet: 1
• RS232C: 1
• Digital audio output: 1 optical

Dimensions

• TV without stand: 31.6 x 21.5 x 3 inches (WxHxD); 23.8 pounds
• TV with stand: 31.6 x 23.7 x 9.4 inches (WxHxD); 31.1 pounds
• What size TV should you get?

Accessories

• 2010 LinkStick: Connect wirelessly to a world of digital content from Samsung. The LinkStick wireless LAN adaptor eliminates the hassle and cluttered look of wires. Learn more about the Samsung WIS09ABGN LinkStick Wireless LAN Adapter.

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Full HD 1080P

Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. The new Samsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HDTVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable. Samsung's 1080p panel uses a new high-speed liquid crystal to cut response time to 6ms (milliseconds).

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Auto Motion Plus 120Hz

This technology doubles the frame rate from 60 to 120 frames per second (120Hz LCD panel) without repeating the same image to make more frames. Instead, the TV intelligently calculates the ‘middle' image between frame A and frame B and inserts it in between (Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processor), making a fluid transition from one frame to the next.

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Wide Color Enhancer 2/Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp

The NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) has established the color standards all TVs in America try to meet. And typical LCD TVs only meet about 72 percent of this standard. Samsung LCD HDTVs use Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp backlights to give you 92 percent coverage of the NTSC standard, ensuring truer, more breathlessly vivid colors. Samsung's Wide Color Enhancer 3 technology delivers more brilliant colors by expanding the gamut of color expression into a third axis, creating a 3D diagram of luminance. This creates a dynamic display of on-screen color and allows traditionally weak colors, such as green and blue, to look vivid and deep. In addition, red colors are enhanced to provide strong colors across the spectrum and the perfect balance of RGB.

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100,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio

100,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio will give you a picture better than you ever thought possible, with whiter whites, blacker blacks and a nearly infinite subtlety of gradations in between. As two of the most important determining factors in overall picture quality, contrast and brightness levels achieve new heights in this latest generation LCD panel. Samsung's new LCD TVs give the most stunning realistic picture quality ever.

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Touch of Color

In 2008, Samsung created its unique Touch of Color (ToC) design, which uses dual-injection molding to coat a translucent, colored surface to achieve an attractive crystalline appearance. The latest evolution of Samsung's ToC design begins with a deep piano black bezel that fades into distinct chrome that finishes as light ruby highlights. The intensity of the color subtly changes depending upon the viewing angle, and further accentuates the TV's slim bezel.

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InfoLink

Up-to-the-minute access to weather, news, sports and stock information is just a cable and a click away through the HDTV's Ethernet port and new InfoLink RSS service. An all-new user interface with digital contents management guide provides intuitive navigation and access to both internal and external content.

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Which Size HDTV is Right for My Room?

With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience. If you know the size of the room you have already, where you want to sit, and where your new HDTV should go once you get it, you can figure out the size HDTV you should get. Minimum size = Viewing distance/3 Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5

Product Description

Look to the LN32B650's Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processing for smooth, natural video reproduction, especially during fast-action sports and movie sequences. While a fast 4ms response time further reduces blurring, a 100,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio combines with Wide Color Enhancer 2 technology to deliver lifelike detail and color. A wide range of inputs, including HDMI, PC, USB, and ethernet, offers diverse multimedia connectivity.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great set, but BYO hardware., July 19, 2009

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Zachary I. Fleischmann (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung LN32B650 32-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color (Electronics)

This is a great set, for all the reasons already covered in other reviews. The downsides are Samsung's incompetent quality control that allowed this product to ship unassembleable, and their atrocious customer service that won't fix the problem.

This set includes a base with pre-drilled holes that are too small for the included screws. I called customer service and they said they would send new screws, but they never did (it's been almost three weeks), and I'm not going to follow up with them because I've already solved the problem on my own.

I'm posting this review so that people won't have to let those downsides keep them from buying and enjoying this fine television. If you buy this set, and plan attach the included base rather than mount it on a wall, you will need to purchase 4 #6-32 x 3/4" machine screws to attach the guide stand to the stand. The included screws will attach the set to the guide stand.

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Be Aware of Mail-In Service under the Warranty, September 20, 2009

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Web Shopper (Washington State, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung LN32B650 32-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color (Electronics)

Amazon hasn't updated its page for the LN32B650. Samsung has changed what qualifies for in-home warranty service, and guess what - the 32 inch model no longer qualifies. I called Samsung and they confirmed that if you want warranty service, you have to mail your television to the warranty service provider AT YOUR EXPENSE. Yes, no return shipping label, nothing but a vague statement from customer service that Samsung will reimburse for shipping costs "in certain circumstances."

Imagine, $150 to send your $900 television to New Jersey for "warranty service." Now, imagine your blood pressure exceeding normal limits.

43 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than 32" XBR9, April 12, 2009

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Isi Jr. - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Samsung LN32B650 32-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color (Electronics)

I got this TV a few days ago and i can honestly say that the picture looks like a million bucks. My brother has the Sony 32" XBR9 TV and this Samsung TV completely blows it away. For a better picture the TV has to be calibrated (by a pro or yourself using online manuals) and your blu-ray system as well.

I have this TV hooked up to my PS3 and my 360 and the picture looks amazing. The ability to have this TV connect to the net is a huge plus. You can check the Weather, News, and Stock Market info all with the push of a button.

Movies look great running at 1080p/24! If you want a TV with a superior picture then this is the TV for you!

Specs:
Video

Screen Size: Diagonal length of TV scree 31.5"
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen

Resolution: 1920 (H) x1080 (V)(480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p)


Dynamic Contrast Ratio: 100,000:1

Response Time: 4ms
LCD 120Hz
Native Resolution: 1080p

Sound Effect System:
The sound effect system produces 5.1ch stereophonic sound with the left and right speakers: SRS TruSurround HD

Sound Output(RMS): Volume level of sound from TV speakers 10Wx2

Input & Output(Wireless) 802.11(with adapter)

HDMI: 4 (1 side 3 back)

Composite (AV): 1 (side)

Component: 2 (rear)

USB: 2 (side)

Ethernet: 1 (rear)

PC input: 1 (rear)

Features Picture-in-Picture: Yes
Game Mode: Yes
HDMI-CEC: Yes
Price $1,299.99
USB 2.0 (Movie): Yes
Media Stream: InfoLink
USB 2.0 (Movie,JPEG)
System Tuners: Built-in