Samsung LN-R3228W 32-Inch HDTV-ready LCD Monitor

Samsung LN-R3228W 32-Inch HDTV-ready LCD Monitor

Amazon.com Product Description

Combining big-screen viewing, sleek looks, and high performance, Samsung's 32-inch LN-R3228W LCD television offers rich clear images. Its suite of state-of-the-art connections accommodate a wealth of associated equipment, such as a DTV set-top box, a progressive-scan DVD player, and even your PC. The TV comes with a built-in NTSC tuner for capturing traditional broadcast signals, but would require a separate tuner, digital cable box, or HD tuner from a satellite TV company to pull in high definition broadcasts. For a model with a built-in ATSC HD-tuner, see Samsung's LN-R328W. Samsung's Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA) screen provides high brightness and amazingly rich contrast for lifelike images and realistic colors. A mere 3.9 inches thick without its detachable stand, the TV produces exciting, perfectly flat, images while occupying minimal space in your office, living room, bedroom, or kitchen.

Samsung's DNIe™
Samsung's revolutionary DNle™ (click for demo) technology offers digital perfection in naturally presented, crystal-clear images that uncover even the most minute detail.

Motion Optimizer
Fast-moving images are optimized to produce more natural-looking motion, thus reducing video noise or blurring.

Contrast Enhancer
Brightness and contrast levels are enhanced for deeper, richer blacks with greater detail and more natural whites.

Color Optimizer
Colors are reproduced with a more lifelike realism, whites are more accurate, and skin tones are given a more natural hue.

Detail Enhancer
DNIe analyzes video signal elements to produce sharper detail, clearer image separation, and more natural edge transition.

The set boasts a 1,366 x 768 pixel resolution. Its widescreen, 16:9 aspect ratio matches the dimension of most movies and HDTV broadcasts, while its wide, 170-degree viewing angles (horizontal x vertical) ensures everyone in the room will enjoy a great view, even when you've mounted the unit on a wall. A built-in brightness sensor automatically adjusts the TV's luminance for the ambient brightness of a given room.

Onboard 10-bit processing produces 3.2 billion lifelike colors and aids in video signal processing for your analog sources. And with its lightning-quick 12 ms response time, astronomical 3,000:1 contrast ratio, impressive 500 cd/m2 brightness rating, and onboard 3D Y/C digital comb filter (which separates the color signals to minimize dot crawl and blurred edges), you'll see sharp, focused images regardless of their source.

LCD screens offer a number of benefits over CRT monitors and televisions, including general ease of use, freedom from eye strain (no screen flickering or radiation emissions), quiet operation (no high-pitch "flyback" noise, an issue with CRT TVs), accurate image geometry (no curvature distortion or susceptibility to magnetic interference from, say, speakers), long screen life, space savings, and light weight/easy positioning. They also tend to be more affordable than their flat-panel plasma counterparts, which often (though not always) offer faster response times and higher contrast ratios.

The LN-R3228W's DNIe (Samsung Digital Natural Image engine) offers a vision of digital perfection in natural, crystal-clear images that reveal even the most minute detail. The process involves 4 key enhancements: contrast and brightness (for deep, rich blacks and natural whites), motion (which optimizes fast-moving images to produce natural-looking motion, reducing video noise or blurring), color (for lifelike realism, accurate whites, and skin tones with natural hues), and detail (DNIe analyzes video signals to ensure sharp detail, clear image separation, and natural edge transitions).

Samsung's patented My Color Control technology lets you control specific colors without affecting the whole screen. Samsung provides 6-color control selections: white, red, pink, yellow, green, and blue. It's your picture--you decide how it looks. Samsung's PVA screen permits brighter whites than standard TFT LCDs, as well as deeper blacks and every shade in between.

The LN-R328W makes flexibility a top priority, giving you several preset picture and sound modes (and custom settings for each). The TV also permits color temperature adjustment for warm, cool, or neutral tones, along with 4 onscreen languages to choose from (English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese). Choose one of several preset sound modes (standard, music, movie, speech, and custom) for broadcast through the set's built-in speakers (10-watts-per-channel x 2).

Connections include 2 component-video inputs (480i/480p/720p/1080i), a direct-digital HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), a PC input (15-pin D-Sub with minijack analog audio), 2 composite-video inputs, 1 S-video input, 1 RF input, 5 attendant sets of stereo (left/right) RCA audio inputs, and 1 stereo RCA audio output. The set's Anynet (RS-232C) control option simplifies use with other Samsung audio/video components.

Other features include V-Chip parental control, closed captioning, and an auto volume leveler to minimize jarring differences in loudness between, say, TV programs and their commercials.

What's in the Box
TV, detachable stand (with screws), a remote control, remote batteries, an RF video cable, a user's manual, an Anynet AV manual, an AC power cord, a cover bottom, an Anynet cable, a cleaning cloth, and warranty information.

Product Description

Slim, light and beautiful, Samsung's LCD Flat Panel TVs combine sleek looks and high performance. The LN-R3228W HDTV-ready set lets you enjoy regular TV and display HDTV images from any High-Definition source. This model also incorporates HDMI and 2 component video inputs for a digital set-top box and DVD player. Dual purpose use allows for the easy connection of a PC so you can view PC and TV images simultaneously.

Customer Reviews:

Well worth the money.......2006-03-30

I bought the Samsung 32" because that's all my TV cabinet would hold, but also because of the excellent reviews this model has received. This is a sleek, light unit. It's been years since I've bought a TV, so this was a nice surprise.

The picture is looonng, instead of squarish, which took some getting used to. But it didn't seem to make things out of proportion or odd. We were very impressed with the clarity of picture, the great color, and the big sound.

We're not much into lots of techy stuff, so this plug & play TV was a real treat.

Great image, great price.......2006-03-15

I purchased this LCD TV about a month ago and so far I'm very satisfied. I got an HDMI cable to connect it to my DVR/HD receiver and the sharpness of the image is truly outstanding, especially with the HD channels. The regular channels look all right, but it all depends on what you're watching. My DVD is connected to this TV with a monster cable (component video), and I'm amazed by the quality of the image, but again, it depends on what movie you're watching. I find the automatic video setting of MOVIE to be the best for DVDs (but I did change it to Cool 2, didn't like the WARM setting). For the HD channels I have it set to Dynamic, and I'm glad the TV remembers what INPUT setting to keep, I'd hate to have to change it back and forth.

I highly recommend this TV set, it's also very easy to set up, and it has multiple connection inputs. I also have an XBox connected to it, and games look really great too. Probably in a year or so, I'll get the larger model, since this one has been so great so far.

Best Ever.......2006-03-11

I purchased a Samsung 32" HDTV based on the experience with a larger Samsung HDTV which I still have. I was amazed as the clarity and ease of operation of this unit. I would highly recommend this TV both for its performance and for its price.It was as easy as opening the package and plugging it in. Samsung is tops in HDTV.

Best product for the price........2006-02-27

Met all my expectations. Best value I was able to find. Only drawback is picture in picture requires an outside tuner. I was not able to get the vcr to serve as tuner.

A great first LCD TV.......2006-01-21

Since this is my first widescreen LCD TV (or HDTV) I'm anxious to give this a 5 star rating since I worried a lot about changing from a regular old CRT (was also a Samsung) with curved glass picture tube to what I considered might be something like my notebook and desktop computer LCD screens. Using the VGA input and a 10' cable connected to the VGA output of my notebook (DELL Inspiron 8200) I was amazed at the clear and colorful image, even though the original screen resolution was being stretched in Wide mode. Makes my notebook LCD look pitiful when both are showing at the same time.

I don't have HD Cable yet, or HD receiver, so Cable (which is STD in menu) is fed through my Samsung DVD-VR325 recorder/VCR combo on either HDMI cable or bypassed (when DVD-R/VCR is off) using just coax cable. This being the case I see the picture typically ghosts a little, but varies in quality going from channel to channel.

Default picture and sound settings needed changes to suit me.

The color was like looking at neon signs and I prefer muted colors, but heck it was already at 50 (0 or 1? to 100) so I chose 39 and its still colorful.

Sound wasn't stereo or surround so I set it to use that. I also turned auto leveling on. Again, like the color, volume is very loud. I keep it down to 5 or 6 and it remains loud and clear. I tried 30 momentarily just to see if it kept a good quality at higher levels-- which it did-- but quickly lowered it. I don't even know how high it will go. I think Samsung got the speaker design right, because I noticed it isn't so loud (at 5 or 6) once I leave the room but is extremely clear and full otherwise. The sound types Music, Movie, Speech might be useful. Not sure what a 3D Mono setting is in the surround sound setting (SRS TSTX), other choices are Off and Stereo (only stereo sounds 'right' to me) but it sure is different. Took me a while to get the PIP sound set to Sub for when I have the PC as Source and want to see and hear TV. A case of not reading the manual.

Something I should point out about the Amazon description is that My Color is said to have 6 possible color changes. Well, apparently generic meant for similar models. It actually mentions the LN-R328W instead. Only 3 colors are changeable in the LN-R3228W, and those are Pink, Green and Blue. The White, Red and Yellow aren't available at all.

Next thing to tell about... Dynamic Contrast. I don't care much for it. Makes darker parts of the picture go black, losing some of the picture. It might help with DVD's, but I'm not seeing anything good from it for standard Cable TV.

Picture modes... Wide works best for me, even if it does squash everything in the vertical direction. Panorama is fun but can be disorienting when looking at the sides. Zoom makes for a nice big picture but I see plenty of checkerboard effects occuring in fast-paced parts. And 4:3 is too ordinary.

Overall, a good TV so I'm happy with the move from CRT to LCD. I definitely believe price is a factor, too, so if I had paid more than the $1498 (shipping included) I might have been a little disappointed about this new TV. The size and weight changes alone is a plus.

Another point... I got this bottom speaker design so it would fit in my fairly new entertainment center, which has an opening only 31 inches. I thought it would have room to stand in front of that opening, being such a thin depth TV. Well, thanks to the delivery/installer guys because they put it in at an angle to slip past the edge moldings where its actually 32" or more inside there. I still kept it nearer the front than back though, due to the heat this TV manages to put out the top.

If anything occurs within the next few months to make me want to wish I had rated this lower I'll edit my review to state any problems. I just felt that it deserved 5 stars not 4.

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