Customer Reviews

Samsung LNT1954H 19-Inch LCD HDTV White

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The real issue I had with this TV, which I returned, was the inability to brighten shadow areas. For those of you not familiar with LCD screens, many small ones have a very little dynamic range -- in other words, they tend to push shadow areas into total darkness. You won't notice this in the store, since most of the carefully chosen video is of bright, sunny scenes like hot air balloons and afternoon baseball.

But when you get the set home you'll notice darker scenes, especially in movies, are virtually unwatchable. I spent two days trying to adjust the brightness and contrast, but finally had to admit defeat. Now if you're just buying this for the kids to watch cartoons, you'll probably be ok. It's a beauty in a kitchen. The touch buttons on the side are also very cool. But it just didn't work in our bright kitchen. We went for the 20" Vizio which allows adjustment of the backlight (which will probably shorten its life!), and is much crisper, overall. But the Samsung sure looks cool. White TV's are rare, which makes it even more of a shame the picture was so mediocre.

For a 19 inch LCD HDTV, this was the best picture I saw. I went to Best Buy to compare how all the screens looked. They use Directv digital input on all their televisions, and that is what I have at home. You can not compare the clarity of a 19 inch LCD TV with a 32 inch.

This television resides in my bedroom. I have am using the stand that is attached, and have it sitting on top of a table height book case. The stand allows for tilting the screen up and down, so you can have the crispest picture from where you will be sitting. As with any LCD device, the angle at which you look at it from has a lot to do with clarity. Finding the perfect angle is well worth the few extra minutes while setting it up. The few reviews I have seen complaining about clarity might be remedied by this.

The television was very easy to set up in every way. I had my Directv DVR, dvd recorder, and Wii hooked up in minutes. The on screen menu was a snap to use. It let me name all of the components I had hooked up.

As I mentioned before, it has a beautiful stand that reminds me of an iMac. It folds back for easy wall mounting too!! I have an iBook laptop, and the white glossiness matches my television's beautiful housing. That is nice and aestetically pleasing when I want to use my television as a monitor.

I am a novice to home theater equipment, but going from a plain old school tv to this went smoothly. I am quite pleased with my purchase.

The first movie I watched on this television was Finding Nemo. It happened to be on the Disney Channel. I was absolutely blown away by how amazing the picture looked. So much so, that I called my entire family to look at the clarity and crispness.

This sounds like a small detail to add, but I love that there is a sleep timer on this tv. I like to fall asleep to movies, and the sleep timer allows me to set it up to 180 minutes or as low as 30 minutes.

I wound up purchasing this television at Best Buy. I picked it up for approximately the same price that Amazon is offering it for. I did have to pay sales tax, but I had a discount coupon for it that was 10% off. So it worked out to being about the same price. I also bought the extended warranty, because I live in South Florida, and even with surge protection I have lost a few devices over the years.

If you decided to purchase this television, you will not be disapointed. I have been pleased as punch since I purchased it.

I was leary after reading some of the negative reviews. I purchased one to test HDTV, PS2, XBOX 360 and computer monitor. I was surprised at the quality of the product. The sound is not amazing but you never rely on the TV sound as a source of quality surround. I always put external surround speaker system. I purchased three more, one for the PS2 in the game room, one for XBOX 360 in the game room, one as computer monitor in the office and one for HD viewing in the bedroom. No problems with ghosting or that white stuff around the perimeter of the screen. No problems whatsoever. I always use quality gold connectors and surge protectors and my family and I are very happy with the results. It is a great product and amazon has the best price (I did my research). By the way I searched everywhere to find a white quality monitor to go with the theme of my gameroom and this was all I could find. Luckily it turned out to be an absolutely great product. Hope this helps.

As other reviewers of the black version of this model (LNT1953H) have reported, the TV I purchased (LNT1954H) had the infamous nearly opaque white haze ranging from 1/2" to 1" wide on the top, bottom and left sides of the screen. You can probably imagine how this impacted viewing on an already small screen. Also, the TV could not switch back and forth between sources without losing the HDMI connection; the device connected via HDMI would have to be powered off and on every single time.

My wife wanted a white TV in the kitchen of our recently purchased home. I wasn't too keen on this project since it involved running new coaxial cable through what was originally the exterior brick wall of the house, behind cabinets, and through the tile backsplash. Also, I suggested the largest TV that would fit on the counter and under the cabinets. A 23" would fit, but my wife preferred the 19". Sooooo......we now have the Samsung 19" white TV up and running in our kitchen. It is a great little TV. Turn it on, and it programs itself. All you have to do is change channels. The picture is sharp and clear. I looked carefully for haze or a border, but could not detect any problem. The audio is remarkable for a relatively small TV. Best of all, my wife is very happy with it.

This is a great TV, with great image quality on both HDTV and analog sources... my only complaint is that it takes a while to turn on, and that it doesn't have an audio output besides the digital one. It was still an excellent purchase overall, but i regret not having gotten the 23" one, although this one has higher resolution. One thing to note is that this TV has a 16:10 instead of a 16:9 proportion which makes it great for using it as a computer monitor, the downside is letterboxing has to occur on almost any standard video content (which is either 16:9 or 4:3 proportioned) if you wanna see the whole image and dont want it all stretched

I bought it when I moved into my new apartment and it was always on my mind that I would sell it off in 6 months and buy a bigger T.V. But it has stayed with me. The reason, is for a 19 inch LCD it is really a very good buy. When you are buying a 19 inch you are not luxuriating but want a decent TV that you can keep in your study or bed room. This is no way a living room T.V. The picture is crisp but a bit dark. The sound is a bit disappointing. I had to buy a bose companion for better sound. I have plugged by PS-3 to it and the games play very well. Blu-ray clarity is also good.All in all a good tv in a small package but not definitely the Living Room TV.

We had purchased a 32' Samsung back in 2005 and really like the features. This satisfaction lead us to look for a smaller version for a different room. Picture is great, sound is good too. No issues with quality whatsoever. Performs flawlessly.

I've had amazon ship me two of these TVs (Samsung LNT1954H 19").

Both sets have a major problem with the Power button on the set itself.
The first one wouldn't turn on using that button so I grabbed the manual to see if I was doing something wrong and it just says to push that button to turn the set on and off. After trying 100s of times it maybe worked 10-12 times. Amazon sent me a replacement - the set turn on (first try) giving me false hope. After 5 times it also stopped working and goes through periods of time that it won't work dozens of times in a row, then it might work a few times and then doesn't again. The remote always works, but I don't want to have to rely soely on the remote!

After talking to Samsung (not very helpful) the told me to return them to Amazon and give them my Samsung Transaction Number if Amazon had any questions!

I really like the TV (it's pretty, I am very picky and the white haze everyone talks about is only noticable because I was looking for it!

but, I will not keep tv's that don't work right out of the box!!

L. James SLC, UT

This is a good TV. If you choose [and adjust the TV to] the appropriate angle, then the annoying dark screen thing goes away.

No technical problems so far. I've even dropped the remote a couple of times and it still works. Yay.