Samsung LN-R408D 40-Inch Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV
Below par video quality, lots of dead pixels, read on
The other reviewer is likely a Samsung employee planting a glorious review of this ugly-looking, poor-quality LCD TV.  First of all, you should be aware of the company's industry-lagging dead pixel policy; this is not published in the documentation, but a web search revealed that they would not consider the LCD panel defective even if it had a dozen dead pixels (i.e., pixels that are stuck on one color, usually blue or green, but also white, red or black).  Now, you need to know this because the set I examined had at least 5 dead pixels, one green one that was very prominent in the *center* of the screen.  You call this \\"beautiful\\"?  Not by a million miles.<br /><br />Otherwise, the video tends to be fuzzy on this 40\\" set, esp. when you display regular NTSC (i.e., non-HD) TV.  This includes all the DVDs on the market today.  (Hi-def DVD is coming this spring, hopefully.)  Watching a DVD on this is rather unpleasant, probably because of the high response time which causes streaks across the screen.  I seriously thought the image quality was much worse than a similar-sized Sharp Aquos LCD TV that was costing hundreds less than this.  I even judged it to be worse than the so-so quality on a 37\\" Syntax Olevia set.<br /><br />Accoring to a recent Consumer Reports magazine ranking, Samsung TVs rated very low in both quality and ease of use.  The top brands are Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, and Pioneer.  You can check their website (consumerreports dot org) for detailed rankings.  If you are going to spend a lot of money on a TV, be sure to stick with a high-quality namebrand.