What's the Samsung UE55B7020 Model Like?

By Marian Solomon

Initial Views: By far the most imposing aspect of the UE55B7020 is the depth of it. Less than 1.5 inches, in fact.Samsung has done well by ensuring that everything you want is built-in in the package, unlike some of its competitors who occasionally move key components out to a discrete box you have to find space for. It also looks excellent, with a beautiful black edge and a slim clear connection connecting the display and the pedestal.

Sound Quality: Generally contemporary TVs have poor quality audio outputs and the UE55B7020 is no exception. The UE55B7020 is too slender to permit a good enough audio system. Look to linking it to a separate sound system to get reasonable sound to hope to match the image quality.

Screen Quality: This is the key advantage of the UE55B7020 over its competitors, in that it has replaced fluorescent backlighting with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Not everybody realises that the UE55B7020 is still a LCD TV. it is simply the backlighting that's altered. LEDs have the following advantages:

* LEDs provide a more even light - they use a grid system, rather than the conventional fluorescent light source.

* Faultless blacks are realizable - unfeasible with traditional TVs.

* Response times (when watching a quickly shifting picture) are quicker.

* The choice of colours that can be displayed is wider.

Connectivity: With 4 HDMIs, 2 USBs and a LAN port, the UE55B7020 has all the connectivity you're to be expected to call for for the impending future. The LAN one permits the UE55B7020 to retrieve files on your PC network that you might wish to avail yourself of. And the USB ports make available many file formats to be played when a USB stick is put in. As well as permitting a wireless connection to your home network - a separate dongle is required for this.

The UE55B7020 comes with 2 remote controls. Advantageous if one gets misplaced! The larger one looks rather weird. It curves over at one end, a bit akin to a shoe horn. Unusual to use at first, but OK after a while. And a baby remote is also provided - enabling power of and on, together with channel and volume changes.

Expense in use: The UE55B7020 consumes around 115W in service - well below the usual requirement. Less than a watt on stand by.

To Summarise: A great Television in what will unquestionably be one of a novel cohort of LED backlit Televisions. Despite typical sound quality, the image quality of the UE55B7020 is superior. - 29967

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