Sony D3000 vs. Samsung M87.

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Ενα μελος του AVforum που ειχε την Samsung M86 και την αλλαξε για την D3000 λεει τις εντυπωσεις του:

Received my KDL-40D3000 on Friday, and I have to say I’m absolutely pleased as punch. :grin: As an ex-Samsung LE40M87BDX owner I have a highly rated (but flawed) TV to compare against, and without needing to go into detail at this point, the D3000 blows the M87 clean out of the water.

So far I have not noticed any dead pixels, clouding, buzzing, banding, or any other nasties that plague LCD TV's. You could say that at the moment I'm as happy as a pig in sh*t!

Just as a quick comparison for any people trying to decide between the D3000 and the M87, here is a list of the advantages of both TV’s:

Sony D3000 Advantages

1. Perfect picture on the D3000 via Scart vs the extremely annoying M87 Scart interference problems.
2. Xbox 360 via VGA works first time. My M87 had big problems. This has been resolved in later revisions of the M87 though.
3. No buzzing audible from the Sony vs the extremely annoying constant buzz of the M87.
4. Picture quality on the D3000 is much better with SD content than M87, mostly due to the D3000’s smaller native resolution. I also believe Sony’s in built processing technology is also at play here, making SD content fuzzy when viewing up close (very much like a Plasma picture), rather than the nasty blocky mess of the M87.
5. No sign of hideous Green Blocking on the D3000! I was beginning to think this might be a symptom of LCD panels, but thankfully not – it is definitely yet another bug with the M87.
6. I don’t have a PS3 or Blu-Ray player but I know my new D3000 supports 1080p/24hz correctly unlike the M87, although apparently this is now fixed in later revisions. Incidentally, the people on this thread moaning about 24hz judder – have you been to the cinema lately? I went to see Tranformers in the new VUE in Swansea a few weeks ago and I saw motion judder aplenty on that enormous cinema screen… Such is the nature of low frame rate I guess.
7. Freeview works all the time on the D3000 – it hardly ever worked on the M87 without turning the thing off a few times. And there is no Freeview ‛judder’ either.
8. The D3000 OSD reacts swiftly when the remote is used – the M87 OSD is dog slow and laggy.
9. No nasty bugs relating to menu options you switch off, but switch themselves back on for the hell of it (Movieplus)!
10. No glare from lights/windows in front of the D3000 – the M87 was prone because of it’s glossy screen.
11. Football is excellent with Sony’s motion software. Silky smooth. The M87 wasn’t bad granted, but it’s nowhere near as good as the D3000. I watched Chavski v Brum earlier, and it looked fantastic. Finally an LCD TV that footie fans don’t need to fear.
12. Audio on the D3000 is perfectly in sync between the in built speakers and Line out, unlike the M87 which was way out.
13. Build quality is so much higher on the D3000. It’s in a different league. Solid as a rock, and the connections area on the back of the TV is sturdy as hell – The M87 was distinctly poor quality in the connections area – when you plugged something in the whole connections panel moved inwards. Not good!
14. The D3000 has a far wider viewing angle than the relatively small viewing angle of the M87.
15. Black levels on the D3000 are probably on par with the M87, but the D3000 is noticeably better with regards to black shadow detail. The M87 had a nasty habit of crushing black detail.

Samsung M87 Advantages

1. The glossy screen is more attractive to look at than the matte finish of the D3000.
2. The rotating stand on the M87 is something I liked, but as mentioned above the D3000 has such a wide viewing angle who needs to rotate the screen?
3. The glossy Piano black finish of the M87 looked better when switched off, that is for sure.
4. The M87 is a 1080p panel, which is going to give it an advantage in viewing 1080p HD content. That said, when using my PC the M87’s native resolution of 1920x1080 was unreadable from my seat where the 1366x768 resolution of the D3000 means I can read text on screen.

Overall, any advantages the M87 may have had are well and truly spoiled by the enormous amount of bugs. My verdict is why on earth buy an M87 when the D3000 is so much better?! I’m not going to go and troll the M87 thread with my opinions unlike some ex-owners **cough cough Screamer cough**, but just take it from me, if you are looking at both these TV’s do yourself a favour - the D3000 is the only choice. And for £799 at Digital Direct this is one hell of a bargain.

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