Samsung HLT6176S Review:

Fill your room with the riveting 1080p Full HD resolution and brilliant sound of the Samsung HL-T6176S. Samsung HLT6176S’s 0.8″-thin piano-black bezel and hidden speaker system let you enjoy more screen and less frame; the slim depth lets the 61″ DLP HDTV fit where others won’t. Enjoy the crisp definition and bright imagery of Samsung’s Cinema Smooth 1080p Light Engine; a phenomenal 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio delivers the full range of vivid colors, bright whites, deep blacks and nuanced tones. SRS TruSurround XT audio fills the room with clear, robust sound. Fast, 16 micro-second switching speed virtually eliminates motion blur; Game Mode optimizes performance so gamers will marvel at the life-like action.

The HLT generation of Samsung DLP HDTVs are capable of displaying future 3D games, movies, and other programming via 3D compatible glasses and hardware.

Cinema Smooth Light Engine
Samsung is the worldwide leader in creating light engines that harness DLP HDTV technology from Texas Instruments. Samsung’s Cinema Smooth light engine brings together the right optics, electronic circuitry and replaceable light source to create a brilliant picture that’s more lifelike and much closer to film. Now in its sixth year of evolution, Samsung’s Cinema Smooth light engine delivers crisp, 1080p High Definition resolution with high contrast and brightness, defined edges and sharp detail.

Next Generation DLP Chips from Texas Instruments
Samsung employs a Texas Instruments DLP chip that is comprised of millions of microscopic mirrors. The DLP chip is faster than any other HDTV technology, with the mirrors switching on & off 15,000 times a second to deliver a razor-sharp picture for fast moving images. When combined with Samsung’s new Cinema Smooth light engine, the result is a crisp, bright picture with deep, rich colors that’s closer to film.

SRS TruSurround Samsung HLT6176S is equipped with the best that technology can offer in sound quality. Even when viewing regular broadcasts, Samsung’s two speaker surround sound makes you feel as if the theater has been brought to your living room.

Samsung HLT6176S User Said:

We spent about 3 months researching and looking at TVs that were at least 58″, 1080p, and that had bright clear image quality and wide viewing angles. None of the LED TVs came close to meeting the size requirement so we nixed them. All the DLP and LED DLP rear projection TVs seemed very dim and could not be viewed at wide angles (although their prices were right). The ony plasma that was 1080P and at least 58″ was way too expensive, although it did have awesome picture quality.

We were about to give up and wait for the price of the plasma TVs to drop, when we stumbled across the Sony XBR2. Samsung HLT6176S was the only rear projection set we could find that had an image that came close to plasma quality. The only negatives was that it had a lot of extra features that drove up the price (like PIP) that we did not care about and took up a huge amount of space (24″ deep and 71″ wide). Since we really liked Samsung HLT6176S, we overlooked the negatives and bought it.

While it did look big in the store, once it was delivered to our living room, it became a gargantuan dinosaur. It dwarfed our living room and we ended up visiting 5 furniture stores trying to find a stand that was big enough. To make a long story short, the size and weight of this beast was too much and we decided to return it and wait for the plasma prices to drop.

While we made the trip back to the store, we stumbled across the Samsung HLT6176S (which had just been released that very day). We were amazed that Samsung HLT6176S 61″ DLP TV had:

1) Outstanding, near plasma picture quality
2) Was not dim like the other LED DLP rear projection TVs
3) Could be viewed at a wide angle (not quite as wide as plasma though)
4) Was 600$ less expensive than the Sony XBR2 (which was the best rear projection set we had found so far)
5) Was almost as compact as a plasma set! This set could be easily mistaked for an LED/Plasma. Samsung did a brilliant job of not wasting any space. You can hardly even see the bezel surrounding the picture!
6) Had plenty of inputs, connections, and features without the useless bells and whistles that drive the price up.

The only real negatives are that the remote was not nearly as intuitive/nice as the remote we got with the Sony XBR2 and the picture is a little less bright than the XBR2 was, but still leaps and bounds brighter than the other DLP units we looked at.

In summary, if you are dissapointed in the picture quality of the current DLP rear projections, small size of LED, high price for plasmas, and the huge size of the top of the line rear projection set (like the Sony XBR2), then Samsung HLT6176S fits the bill. It does the best job of juggling picture size, quality, compactness, and price of any set we have seen (and we have seen them all).

—– By Brandeis Marquette

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