Saw this TV in BestBuy last January 2010. Fell in love with it and almost bought it. The price was more than I could afford, but promised myself that I would get it as soon as the price was right and before Christmas 2010. Glad I waited as Amazon had it at an unbelievable price during the Thanksgiving "Black Friday" week. This is my first LED TV. Still have the old style TV, but that will probably go to a re-use store.
I can't say enough about this beauty. I loved the screen/picture quality in the store and knowing they usually set the store models at their peak performance level, was ready for a slightly lesser quality. Guess what? No change. Straight out of the box it was great. Beware, though, that you need to run the channel setup before you see the best pictures ever. The channel setup picks up all of the digital channels and regular channels. I do not have a cable box. Just connected the cable to the TV. The "any-net" system recognized my Sony BD so getting on my netflix account is a cinch. Also there is no direct connect to the internet with this 5000 series. Unfortunately, Samsung's ads make you think that, so don't bother buying the Linkstick.