Customer Reviews

Samsung LN37C530 37-Inch 1080p 60 Hz LCD HDTV (Black)

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I have had my Samsung TV for about a month now and I absolutely love it! I ordered it from amazon.com and when it arrived, the delivery men set it up for me! I did a lot of homework prior to choosing a TV to buy, and Samsung always had the best ratings and reviews, but they were consistently higher priced. This Samsung is not only affordable, ($50 more than the Vizio I was looking at buying,) it has so many more features (as well as much better specs,) than the other TV's in it's price range. It is, in my opinion, the best LCD flat panel TV buy in this price range. The sound and color are amazing. It looks attractive and is very user-friendly. The features are endless on this TV as well! You can adjust any of the features to suit your tastes and needs. This is my first flat-panel TV and I have had no problems or complaints so far. I would definitely recommend this TV over all others in this price range.

I got this TV a few weeks ago. Very pleased with the number of ports (we used to have an old CRT with just ONE component input, so we got used to switching cables all the time). We don't have HD cable yet, but man this TV upscales very nicely, I was very afraid that standard def TV would look like crap. But yea, when using my PS3 it looks absolutely amazing. I was also worried about 60Hz, I almost wanted to move up the 120Hz but as a casual user, I don't think I'd even notice the difference.

The USB port on the side is very handy, and supports a surprising number of file formats! Not quite VLC, but way more than I'd expect to be built into a TV. We keep an external HDD hooked up to the side and keep all our media on it, it's like a built in media center!

For the price, it's definitely the best TV out there.

Very satisfied with my purchase. Easy to set up. Great picture. TV shipping was free and delivered as promised--even carried upstairs and removed from packing.

I needed an HDTV to put inside a cabinet with 35.5" width. Of the 37" HDTVs, only a few will fit, and this is one of them. I started with the VIZIO E371VA but it had some serious shortcomings (spontaneous power cycles, poor audio/video synchronization, and slow channel tuning) which could not be resolved so I had to return it. It did have a beautiful picture. Then I got the Samsung LN37C530 which I think is a great overall HTDV. Having the two has given me an opportunity to compare the sets on a pretty detailed basis.
The Vizio always seemed to have an excellent picture, it never once occurred to me to change the settings. When I got the Samsung, I felt I immediately had to change the settings, in particular reducing the contrast. Picture quality can be highly subjective (and in my case even psychological) and I don't claim to be an expert. I still feel like the Vizio was markedly better, but I have become used to the Samsung and it's fine. The refresh on the Vizio was 120Hz vs. 60 Hz for the Samsung. I don't watch sports, but the stock ticker going by does seem less sharp. Again, this could be subjective; I wasn't able to hook them up side-by-side. I haven't hooked up a blu-ray yet which would be the important issue.
The Vizio took a long time to tune stations and had no program guide. The Samsung tunes very quickly and has a program guide (my one gripe is that it doesn't display the next show by default and requires button pushes to do so). For me, this usability issue trumps everything else! From the same antenna hookup, the Vizio did a markedly better job of tuning in stations and displayed them with fewer errors. I did not expect this.
I would say the Samsung remote is poorly designed. It is hard to navigate in the dark. For example the up/down/right/left/OK cluster has no tactile differentiation and is difficult to identify without looking. Many will say "who cares?" but if you use it in a dark room it's an issue.
Some have complained that there aren't individual input buttons on the remote. There is, however, an "HDMI" button that allows me to cycle between cable (HDMI) and tuner with one push.
Overall, I'm very happy with the Samsung LN37C530.

I purchased the Samsung LN37C530 Hi-def LCD television to replace a Sharp Aquos that was damaged by nearby lightening. The picture on the samsung is almost as good as the Sharp which is saying a lot as the Sharp was the best I have owned. The Samsung sound and speaker voulme is far superior to the Sharp and the time changeing stations and navigating the Directv menus is about twice as fast. The only thing I don't like about the Samsung is the lcd screen cover extends past the frame on the bottom and will be more fragile.
One other tip is to buy a surge protector with two input and output ports for the coax cables from the dish if you have a dvr.

I recently purchased this Samsung TV and I absolutely love it. I did a TON of research beforehand and finally decided that this was the best deal for the price. After watching the TV for several days, I couldn't be happier with my choice. The picture quality is outstanding and the sound is great too (I use the TV speakers not a home theater system).

The only thing I was worried about was the fact that it was only 60hz but so far it hasn't been an issue at all. I've watched some of the NBA Finals games and FIFA World Cup games in HD and the picture quality is unbelievable. I also hooked up my Xbox 360 with an HDMI cable and the games look great in 1080p.

Also, the size of the TV is ideal. I use this TV in my room and I debated on going for the smaller 32 inch but I'm happy I stuck with this one. Anything smaller would have seemed too small and anything larger would have been too big.

Overall, this is an excellent LCD TV. The picture looks amazing and it's reasonably priced.

I bought this on Amazon weeks ago. First of all delivery was very good, and I appreciate that they did a basic set up and test. Also, we have a small space for our TV and 37in was perfect. I've notice that there's not that many 37in HDTV's to choose from so was very happy that we could get a Samsung in this size.

The Price on Amazon: It's even lower than when I bought, something tells me Amazon is getting ready to close out on this model,so I wouldn't wait long if you're ready to buy. I compared price with stores in my area and they couldn't compete.

Picture Quality: I looked at 120hz Samsung's plus other 120hz brands of HDTV's. I wanted to compare motion blur and picture quality. I couldn't see any difference, and decided it wasn't worth the extra cost. I've been watching a lot of sports on this TV and the picture quality is outstanding. It's as if I'm there in person. This is my first HDTV,however,I've been looking at them for years at stores and finally decided it was time to get one. I checked this model for motion blur for football, Nascar, basketball, didn't notice any. Also, I soon realized that I needed a blu ray player,so I bought a Blu Ray Panasonic dmp bd 85- good reviews on amazon, and it's great with this TV. Blu ray DVD's and non blu ray dvd's look fantastic.

Sound Quality: You can put this TV in surround sound mode. It won't be as good an actual surround sound system, but if you're not into having speakers put up in your room and sound isn't a big deal for you, then you'll be pleasantly surprised at the quality of the speakers on this TV. I use our surround sound speakers for movies, and combine with the surround sound mode on this TV, about 50% volume and to me it's as if I have a couple more speakers, the effect is a better surround sound experience. Of course, this is subjective, some may not agree that this is proper use of TV speakers with a surround sound speaker system, I have 5.1- however it works for me. Also for sporting events I find I don't really care about turning on my surround sound speakers, the TV puts out a surround sound experience that's just fine as far as I'm concerned.

In closing I have to say, I can't remember the last time I bought a product that I've been so happy with. TV viewing is now an absolute pleasure.

First off, let me say that I don't know a whole lot about TVs, nor have I owned enough of them to judge how well this TV compares to other LCDs. My previous TV was a 27" Sony tube set which I had my xbox360 hooked up to. I basically casually watched TV, played games and streamed video from my xbox to it. Moving from an SD tube TV to an HD TV is like night and day in terms of my xbox gaming and video streaming. It looks amazing, but as I said, this is in comparison to my old TV so I really cannot say for sure if this is much better than other comparable LCDs but nothing stands out negatively to me at least. When playing a game, make sure to set the source to game mode to avoid latency problems. I did not do this initially and found when playing online I suddenly seemed much worse at FPS games than on my old TV, I couldn't hit a darn thing! But this problem was rectified by setting the source to game mode.

Other people have complained about the fact that the remote does not have a dedicated source button that cycles through all the components that you have plugged into the TV but instead has a menu you must scroll through to select the source. All I have is my 360 connected via HDMI (I do not have surround sound either). The remote does have an "HDMI" button and thus in one press of the button, I am ready to game (the "game mode setting" or any other viewing setting appears to be saved by the TV so whenever I which to HDMI1, which I selected to be named "Game," game mode is automatically enabled to so I do not have to navigate through the settings to enable it every time I want to play a game.

The sound on this set is pretty good, obviously it's not going to be as good as a surround sound system but I've had it turned up pretty loud with no issues, sound is nice and clear to me and of course is much better than my old Sony tube.

I was a little worried that this set was 60hz while the more popular ones were 120hz...I did some research into this and found that apparently for many people, viewing TV shows or movies is perfectly fine in 60hz. I don't have any issues playing games either...but again I have no experience with 120hz sets... All I know is that at the very least, if you have not owned a 120hz LCD TV, then you'll be very pleased with this TV.

I didn't think I wanted to shell out the extra $$$ for HD cable service (all I really wanted was to enjoy my 360 and movies in HD and I don't watch too many TV shows) so that factored into me getting a TV this size as I figured anything much larger might not view SD content so well. After messing with a few settings such as turning off the edge enhancer and switching to 4:3 instead of 16:9 (SD content seemed too stretched out to me and I just couldn't get used to it) standard def stuff looks fine, as long as you don't mind the picture being more the size of what a 32" tube TV would be. All-in-all, I'm so far very satisfied with this purchase.

The tv came as planned and we unpacked it and set it up. The second day it was hooked up we started to hear a buzzing noise. Called Samsung and they sent out a tech to look at it. Now we are waiting for a whole new panel to be put in. Not sure how long that will take, but hopefully we will have this problem taken care of soon. Samsung was very easy to deal with and the tech was great. Not happy with the buzzing but have to deal with it until the parts come in.

I've had this TV for 2 months now and I am very satisfied with all aspects of it.

One of my concerns when shopping for an LCD TV was the sound quality. I didn't want to use any external audio, I wanted to use the speakers in the TV unit. So I was concerned that the sound on these TVs would not be good. I had previously purchased a smaller screen LCD and was very disappointed with the tinny sound. I selected this Samsung based on the reviews for this one and others and I'm not disappointed. The sound quality is very good.

I'm also very satisfied with the picture quality and the ease of operation with the remote. You can select your picture or sound modes using dedicated buttons on the remote without having to go to on-screen menus.

I'm also very satisfied with the Amazon delivery. I put my order in on Monday afternoon and received a phone call on Thursday morning to schedule delivery. They asked me when I wanted it delivered, I asked when can you come. They said we can come today. It arrived that afternoon as scheduled. I'm in metropolitan NYC so maybe delivery options are a little better then in some more rural/remote areas.

In the past I had never considered ordering an item like this from Amazon, but I would do it again without hesitation.

Oh yea, and the price was great. It was comparable to sale price in the local stores, but cheaper for me because no state sales tax on Amazon. Also free shipping.