FEATURED Samsung UN29F4000 29-Inch 720p 60Hz LED HDTV
- 720p HDTV: Good picture quality
- 60Hz Refresh Rate: Good for general viewing
- TV without stand (Width x Height x Depth): 25.4″ x 15.3″ x 1.9″, TV with stand (Width x Height x Depth): 25.4″ x 18″ x 7.5″
Samsung UN29F4000 29-Inch 720p 60Hz Slim LED HDTV
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tired of bats
November 19, 2013
great tv with some excellent features,
I bought this tv for an exercise room and hoped the speaker volume would be enough to overcome the treadmill noise. Not only was it loud enough but the tv has a setting in the sound menu called Clear Voice that emphasizes voice over sounds. This makes it much easier to understand what people are saying while on the treadmill. It also has a setting called Auto Volume that automatically adjusts the volume to the same level on all channels.
I am using the tv with a small roof top antenna and it gets all the stations from a 56 mile distance. I compared this tv’s channel reception to my more expensive Toshiba Regza 46XV645U and they were both the same, so my worries of a cheap tv having an inferior tuner were over.
The base of the tv is not adjustable but was quite sturdy and level. The back has a 75mm by 75mm vesa mount so it could be mounted with something like this mount:
Cheetah Mounts ALAMB Articulating Arm TV Wall Mount Bracket for VESA 100 12-24″ LCD LED Flat Screen Monitors Display/TVs up to 40lbs Includes Free 10′ HDMI Cable and 6″ Bubble Level
I mounted this tv up high and used a feature in the picture menu called Samsung Magic Angle. This has settings to adjust the picture quality to compensate for the tv not being close to level line of sight. This brought the picture back to the same quality as if I were looking at it straight on. This feature could also be used if the tv were mounted real low.
The quality, picture, and sound of this tv were above my expectations for a tv at this price.
I wanted to add this to my review. This tv is actually only 18.5″ diagonal display as stated on the Samsung site. I also measured it as 18.5″. Not a deal breaker but something to know.
Here is the site link:
http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN19F4000AFXZA?
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|swb_mct
November 19, 2013
Great TV – Fits on kitchen counter under the upper cabinets,
There aren’t many major brand Flat Panel TVs that will fit under the upper cabinet in your kitchen. We have 2 other Samsung TV’s in the house and are very happy with them. It was a nice surprise to find this model for our kitchen. Its also nice to have the same remote control design in 3 rooms. The picture is great and the sound is pretty good for the small speakers facing down from the bottom edge.
A year ago we bought a 22″ Visio for the kitchen. It fit because it has no stand to increase its height. The sound on the 22″ Vizio was poor . . often hard to understand speech on some programs with the Vizio.
The TV is very light weight. To allow the TV to turn on the granite counter, I removed the sticky rubber feet and put on felt pads available at hardware stores for chair feet. The felt pads are very slippery so you can spin the TV with a finger tip.
Two Minor shortcomings for our needs:
1. TV has only 1 HDMI input. Our primary program source is HDMI, but with Amazon-Prime and NetFlix subscriptions we also ordered a RoKu3 module to play Amazon/NetFlix programming to this TV. It would be nice not to have to use an external HDMI switch. (We just discovered RoKu – its the competitor to the Apple TV module, but usually considered better than Apple TV unless most of your other gadgets are also Apple)
2. This TV has an external power block like your notebook computer. On our Peninsula kitchen counter, we turn this TV to face the Kitchen or Dinette. It would be nice to not have this power block to hide. Being compulsive about tidy electronics installations, I lengthened the low voltage power wire on the power block and placed it in the unfinished basement below the TV. Now we only have the thin black low-voltage power wire going into a wall plate along with the HDMI feed from the basement. The DishTV and Roku remote controls are both Radio-Frequency so the DishTV HDMI-module and RokU-Module can be in the basement below the TV.
Overall, we are really happy to find this great TV that is only 12.5″ tall with the stand. If you really need 2 HDMI inputs and are OK with the higher price, look at the 19″ Toshiba TV Toshiba 19L4200U 19-Inch 720p 60Hz LED TV (Black)
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