Samsung LN-T4681F 46" 1080p LCD HDTV with LED backlight | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
List Price: $3,799.99
Buy New: $1,499.12
You Save: $2300.87 (61%)
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3447
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Display Size: 46
Shipping Weight (lbs): 76.9
Dimensions (in): 4.4 x 48.3 x 27
MPN: LNT4681FX
Model: LNT4681FX
UPC: 036725246850
EAN: 0036725246850
ASIN: B000V9GCP2
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Contrast Ratio(Dynamic): 500,000:1 | | • | Resolution : 1920X1080 | | • | Viewing Angle: 178 | | • | Response Time: 8ms | | • | Inputs: HDMI: 3 Component: 2 Composite AV: 2 S-Video: 2 PC Input(D-sub): 1 Headphone: 1 |
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Product Description
If you are ready for the clearest, brightest LCD picture on the market today, look no further. The LN-T4681F offers full 1080p resolution and reduced motion blur due to its LED Motion Plus feature. Samsung's SmartLighting technology allows for an amazing 500,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and ultra-sharp blacks. The LED backlight also provides more natural color representation. Your home viewing experience has just risen to a new level.
From the Manufacturer
If you are ready for the clearest, brightest LCD picture on the market today, look no further. The LN-T4681F offers full 1080p resolution and reduced motion blur due to its LED Motion Plus™ feature. Samsung's SmartLighting™ technology allows for an amazing 500,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and ultra-sharp blacks. The LED backlight also provides more natural color representation. Your home viewing experience has just risen to a new level. | LED SmartLighting
 | | With innovative LED Local Dimming, Samsung introduces an unprecedented viewing experience. Multiple LED backlights within a single screen turn on and off automatically to adjust the picture quality depending on the scene. Experience the superior contrast with stronger blacks & whites and greater subtlety of every gradation in between. The auto-controlling LED Local Dimming produces a picture quality beyond anything you can imagine. | | LED Motion Plus
 | | LED Motion Plus Technology progressively scans the array of LED backlights from top to bottom at very high frequencies. It auto-controls the picture, adjusting fast moving images and eliminating the blurs that are common on conventional or typical LCD TV. | | super clear panel
 | | Samsung's super clear panel is a new dimension in image clarity, highlighting black and darkened areas, enabling vibrant, more compelling colors and a brighter, clearer picture. The higher contrast ratio produces seamless, breathtakingly beautiful moving images and enables our super clear panel design to provide you with a picture that you have to see to believe. | | Full 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 Sasmsung LCD TV with resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HD TVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable. | | | 500,000:1 Contrast Ratio
 | | Like nothing you've seen before, the unparalleled 500,000:1 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. | | USB 2.0
 | | With the WISELINK USB connection, you can listen to mp3s or display photo/image files from your digital camera, USB memory stick. In addition, USB 2.0 supports high speeds of up to 480 Mbps which is 40 times faster than the speed of USB 1.1. | | Game Mode/b>
 | | For the serious gamer, or even a casual one, Game mode offers a thrilling gaming experience! Enhance the excitement of a game with exhilarating graphics and mind-blowing sound that really put you inside the game. | | 3 HDMI-high definition inputs
 | | Three High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connections make your TV a multimedia centerpiece. Connect HD digital devices like disc players, game consoles and satellite dish components into the 2 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 1.3
 | | There are 2 benefits when you use HDMI 1.3. 1 : being that when playing 3D games, like on PS3, you experience faster flow and action and overall play the game at a higher speed. 2 : how the Deep Color function adjusts for a subtle screen and an especially soft picture. | | Connections
- HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface version 1.3): 3 (2 rear/1 side)
- Component video: 2 (Y, Pb, Pr)
- S-Video input: 1 side/1 rear
- A/V inputs: 1 side/1 rear
- PC input (D-sub) 1 rear
- Headphone jack 1 side
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Stunning Picture for the new Samsung LN-T4681F September 24, 2007
Jaime C. Lent (Altoona, PA)
55 out of 65 found this review helpful
This TV has a great picture right out of the box. Pretty easy setup. Quality I have come to expect from Samsung and the reason I bought this set. Plenty of inputs. Sound is also nice, but I use a Home Theater so I don't really rely on the TV's speakers. Very well-designed and looks gtreat on the wall. The stand which comes with the TV is also nice and could rotate a little more, but is nice and stable. The glare issue is not a big deal and I for one am glad Samsung is keeping this panel in the new generation LED sets. This has much less glare than a standard glass tube TV screen. In some settings you might be concerned about the glare, but the screen is wonderful and necessary for the overall picture quality. I used to watch TV with my glasses off because the fine grain stood out too much. Now I have my glasses back on because the picture is so sharp. The blacks are black, you can't get blacker than this. The detail amazing and I have not even watched a HD movie yet. I was eyeing the LN-T4665F for a long time, and decided to wait for this one to come out. Very glad I did. Very highly recommended.
LED backlighting is the future November 17, 2007
HMMWV (santa clara, CA USA)
54 out of 66 found this review helpful
When you see numbers like 5000:1 contrast, etc, it's hard to put a meaning to it, but when you compare this set against a CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) you discover why LED backlights are the wave of the future.
First we had NTSC with it's inability to produce deep reds due to the severe limitations on its color gamut, now we have ATSC with a digital RGB signal that is a hundred times better than NTSC when it comes to color. The final piece of the puzzle is viewing it on a system with red, green, and blue produced by LEDs instead of phosphor chemicals in a lamp tube. The bold, rich color of HDTV comes alive with this LCD TV making the others seem washed out in comparison.
Sure, the contrast ratio is great, but it also will outlast 2.5 CCFL based LCD TVs because of the reliability of LED backlighting. If you are in a commercial institution such as a restaurant where the set will run 12 hours a day or more, that can add up to some substantial savings.
The LCD display with LED backlight makes for a clearer, sharper, and more defined picture than ever before with no spillover light around the edges. Combined with the picture quality and life extention, this is a true bargain for someone looking at a modern 46" 1080x1920 Progressive display.
Simply put, this set is pure eye candy.
Simply stunning July 24, 2008
Mr C. A. Higgins (Portland, OR USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have owned this set for about six weeks now, and I love it. The picture is exquisite, and far outpaces the three-year-old Sony VEGA set it replaced (the old set only did 720p, for one thing...).
Good stuff:
This TV is a real conversation starter. It's enormous, and very glossy (both on the screen and the bezel). The gloss makes fingerprints very obvious, and seems to attract dust...so you'll want to do some routine cleaning if you want to keep it looking nice. People sit down in my living room and just stare at the set, even if it's turned off. Some have compared it to the monolith in "2001: A Space Odyssey." That's...good, right?
The picture is stunning. The reviews here are right: the LED backlighting really makes things look great, and makes rich black really pop.
I recommend turning off the power-on LED (the little blue bar under the display) using the onscreen menus. When it's on, you can actually see the reflection of the power light on the bezel around the screen, and I found that distracting. Fortunately it's an easy thing to turn off -- and when it's off, the set has ZERO lights aside from the picture when turned on. This is a great feature, as I don't want any little points of light distracting me from the picture! On my old set, there was a little "power on" light that always bugged me.
Tuning between inputs is fast, and makes switching from one input to another no big deal. (On my old set, it took several seconds for each switch, so going through the list felt laborious....)
Be sure to go through the onscreen menus and enable the optional features, particularly the dynamic LED backlighting (some of these features require you to change the picture mode to MOVIE, which I've done on every input...). The default VIVID setting is garish, but it's very easy to switch (and of course the setting is saved, on a per input basis, so it's a one time setup).
Bad stuff:
The three HDMI ports are adequate for me (HD TiVo, AppleTV, and Samsung Blu-ray player), though I wish there were more, and I wish they were all on the back rather than one on the side. As it is I'm using the side port for a Blu-ray player, and having the cable sticking out the side isn't exactly ideal. I still haven't found a decent right-angle adapter.
The speakers aren't great. I guess they're fine for a TV set, but they're nothing to write home about.
The remote is adequate but not great. I wish the backlight extended to more of the buttons. The remote is also rather long. Note that if you have a Samsung Blu-ray player, you can use the Blu-ray remote instead to control most/all of the TV functions...but the Blu-ray remote (at least the one with the BD-1500 series player) isn't backlit. Oh well.
The glossy screen definitely shows light sources in the room: windows, lamps, etc. In many cases you'll want to move stuff around (or simply turn off/block out any light sources) if you're watching anything serious. But I guess that's true of any movie viewing experience.
Anyway, overall I'm extremely satisfied with this purchase. My other candidate was a Sony XBR4 set, but I'm glad I went with the Samsung...it's cheaper, has a better picture, and uses less energy due to the LED backlight. The Sony's design is arguably a little better, and it doesn't have the extreme gloss factor. But for my money, this is the set to get.
Great Picture Quality. True Blacks March 22, 2008
Kelly (Orlando, FL)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have had my Samsung LNT4681F for over 2 weeks now and I could not be any happier. The colors that are produced on the screen are amazing, when my wife saw it she said "WOW!" I had a rear projection TV before and my wife and I love to watch movies. Whenever we rented some DVD's I would always steer clear of the ones in widescreen. I could stand the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. Very noticable, and if I did happen to watch a widescreen DVD I would change the screen ratio to stretch the picture and remove the black bars. With the Samsung LNT4681F there is no need to do any of this because it produces TRUE Blacks. I can quite easily watch a DVD in wide screen now and not for a minute do I even notice the black bars. I would highly recommend this TV to anyone.
The best picture on ANY flat screen HDTV. Period. March 14, 2008
Scott (Northern Virginia)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am in love with this TV. It has the best picture than ANY HDTV I have ever seen; LCD, Plasma, or otherwise. It's like you are looking through a window at the action in an adjacent room. Just unbelievable. I have absolutely no complaints. And the sleek glossy black styling looks great in your room also.
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