Samsung LNT4681F 1080p LCD 46″ LED TV
| Brand: | Samsung | ||
| Average Rating |
|
For those who are ready for the clearest, brightest LCD picture on the market today, Samsung presents the LN-T4681F. Full HD, or 1080p, contains 1.5 times more scanning lines than conventional HD TVs. More scanning lines mean more pixels, more details and a better picture. This Sasmsung LCD LED TV has resolution that is approximately 2 times greater than conventional HD TVs, creating the most perfect picture imaginable. Samsung’s incredible LED Motion Plus™ technology reduces motion blur for crisp, precise action, progressively scanning the array of LED backlights from top to bottom at very high frequencies. It auto-controls the picture, adjusting fast moving images and eliminating the blurs that are common on conventional or typical LCD TV. Samsung’s SmartLighting™ technology allows for an amazing 500,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and ultra-sharp blacks. The LED backlight also provides more natural color representation. With innovative LED Local Dimming, Samsung introduces an unprecedented viewing experience. Multiple LED backlights within a single screen turn on and off automatically to adjust the picture quality depending on the scene. Experience the superior contrast with stronger blacks & whites and greater subtlety of every gradation in between. The auto-controlling LED Local Dimming produces a picture quality beyond anything you can imagine. A fast 8ms response time ensures smooth, lifelike motion.SRS TruSurround XT™ sound from hidden side speakers is enhanced by the premium audio sound of 2.2 channel dome speakers. Enjoy connectivity with all your other digital devices, with 3 HDMI version 1.3 ports and a full complement of inputs. And the handy HDMI-CEC feature lets you control all your CEC enabled peripherals using just one remote. more info
Features
- Contrast Ratio(Dynamic): 500,000:1
- Resolution : 1920X1080
- Viewing Angle: 178°
- Response Time: 8ms
- Inputs: HDMI: 3 Component: 2 Composite AV: 2 S-Video: 2 PC Input(D-sub): 1 Headphone: 1
Technical Specifications
- Brand Name: Samsung
- Model: LNT4681FX
- Display Technology: TFT active matrix
- Display Size: 46 inches
- Image Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- HDTV Compatible: Y
- Speakers Included: 2 speakers
- Height: 29.6 inches
- Width: 48.4 inches
- Depth: 12.6 inches
- Weight: 76.9 pounds
Love my new HDTV
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I kind of kept my head out of the HDTV market for awhile. I figure the longer you wait, the better technology that you’ll get for a lower price.
I unsuspectedly walked into a store and was looking at a few sets. After talking to the salesmen a bit. I compared this set to a few others including a Sony.
The picture quality is stunning. The black levels are drastically improved over the models I’ve viewed just a year or two ago. High speed motion doesn’t seem to show artifacts. The initial release of this set in January, was pretty expensive, but the prices for this set has dropped. The only other strange thing I can note is it doesn’t seem to be currently available at Amazon, and Crutchfield had a very good price on this set, but now don’t seem to carry it any longer.
Great Picture Quality. True Blacks
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have had my Samsung LNT4681F for over 2 weeks now and I could not be any happier. The colors that are produced on the screen are amazing, when my wife saw it she said “WOW!” I had a rear projection TV before and my wife and I love to watch movies. Whenever we rented some DVD’s I would always steer clear of the ones in widescreen. I could stand the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. Very noticable, and if I did happen to watch a widescreen DVD I would change the screen ratio to stretch the picture and remove the black bars. With the Samsung LNT4681F there is no need to do any of this because it produces TRUE Blacks. I can quite easily watch a DVD in wide screen now and not for a minute do I even notice the black bars. I would highly recommend this TV to anyone.
Excellent TV!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Had this TV for over a year. Still like new. Picture and sound is crystal clear. Color is amazing. I watch sports, play 360 and PS3 games, everything looks so good. I don’t have one complaint. Buy it now!
So far, so good. Finally took the plunge for an HD set.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I finally took the plunge for an HD set. At the time that I last set up my home theater – HD had _just_ come on market. Some early CRT-based HD sets were available, but the specification wasn’t quite there, and certainly content availability was very low. The sets were _very_ expensive as well. So I simply opted for a high-end Standard Def. set from Sony.
Things were fine for a long time.
Then the LCD sets came on the market. Vendors wanted more money for what was, to my eyes, an inferior picture. CRT based sets were quickly discontinued – not necessarily because LCD technology was superior (it certainly wasn’t) – but because such sets take much less floor space on a show room floor. The poor color representation, and pixelization, and motion blur of LCD sets turned me off, and Plasma wasn’t much better. I just couldn’t see spending more money for a worse picture, even if the set had physical advantages in terms of space, and power savings.
Well, fast forward to today. After looking over several Samsung models – I ended up purchasing this set. It’s by no means the current “best available” at this point – but considering the price and quality it’s quite good. The black levels on this set are amazing (none of that dark gray = black). The color representation is excellent. And, so far, judder and motion blur seem acceptably low.
Hi-definition sportscasts look amazing. NHL and NBA (currently in-season) look fantastic – the gleam of the ice or the court, or the reflections off the glass barriers is really something to see.
The X-Box 360 looks fantastic in 1080p – and video games don’t seem to have any real lag between the control and updates of on-screen action.
The 3:2 pulldown, movie mode (24 fps) looks quite alright so far. Several DVDs (don’t have the Blu-Ray yet) look almost Hi-Def when up-sampled (several guests have been amazed that it wasn’t actually a Hi-Def source).
All in all, pleasantly happy with this set, and looking forward to several years of viewing pleasure.
Black is Black “Superrrb” Customer service is quite LAX
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I traded up from my LN-T4671 to the 81 last week due to a service issue and Samsung was unable to provide me with a new set due to a long backorder line. Samsung was nice enough to allow me to pay the extra money and trade up to the 81. I am so pleased with it. The Black’s are unreal.
I must really tell you that Samsung Executive Customer Relations in New Jersey for the most part was very uncaring. Most of the staff I spoke with sounded like they were stressed and burned out and could care less. I think Samsung has gotten too big for their brithces.
Samsung makes a great product. BEWARE OF THEIR EXTENDED WARRANTY the price is OUTRAGIOUS. Twice that of Sony.
Aside from that I am quite pleased with the set, not so when it comes to the company itself. Samsung’s web site is at best mediocre to poor. When I phoned them to complain about some non functioning links to service and lack of info re: extended warranty’s the customer service people told me they were well aware of the problems and that the higher ups disgregarded their reports and concerns.
It’s no wonder we outsource much of our jobs because many American workers are in dreamland. How sad is that??
I am sure a webmaster in India could do better than the knuckleheads at Samsung Web dept.
Good Luck.
Samsung TV
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Great TV at a great price. Incredibly easy to install, no problems with delivery. Great picture.
EVARYTHING THAT I EXPECTED!!!!!!!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
THIS TV IS ESPECTACULAR. I’M FROM MÉXICO CITY AND HERE, YOU FOUND IT IN $6,200 DOLLARS. SO MY REVIEW INCLUDES THE PRICE. MY ONLY COMPLAIN IS THE REMOTE. I THINK THAT FOR THE PRICE YOU PAID, THE REMOTE MUST BE A LOT BETTER. THE TV IS SIMPLY PERFECT AND THE BEST AVAILABLE, PERIOD (I RESERACH A LOT). BEST OPTION IN DVD, BLU RAY, XBOX 360, PS3 AND EVEN TV SIGNAL. THANKS TO SAMSUNG. I WAITED TO BUY A HDTV FOR A LONG TIME, AND NOW MY PITTSBURGH STEELER’S CRIB IS COMPLETE.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
If you look at the new Sony XBR8 you will find all the features of the Samsung LN-T4681F imitated for three times the current price of the Samsung. Sony has not only copied the LED back lighting but they also elected to copy the bezel design of the Samsung LN-T4681F.
If you really want the true blacks that an LED back lit set provide the LN-T4681F is an incredible bargain at the current clearance price. While I have only had mine for a month everyone that has seen it has been stunned by the image quality. The ISF certified technician that did the final color calibration after burn-in commented that the 81F was the first LCD set to approach the image quality and black levels of the Pioneer Kuro plasma sets.
The icing on the cake is that the LED back lighting uses considerably less electricity than cold cathode LCD sets and much less than a Pioneer Kuro plasma and the LED’s should outlast the TV itself as well.
Very pleased
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Very pleased with this purchase. The TV is excellent and was quite easy to set up. I would recommend it.
Insanely great televeision
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Samsung has created a thing of beauty with it’s LED-LCD TV line. The blacks on phenomenal and when used in conjunction with a Samsung Blu-Ray player, it works flawlessly as 1 product. When you turn off the TV, the Blu-Ray goes into sleep mode, when the TV is off and you insert a movie, the TV comes on while the Blu-Ray begins to load…an amazing product. I would advise caution regarding the sellers and shippers though.
The best picture on ANY flat screen HDTV. Period.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I am in love with this TV. It has the best picture than ANY HDTV I have ever seen; LCD, Plasma, or otherwise. It’s like you are looking through a window at the action in an adjacent room. Just unbelievable. I have absolutely no complaints. And the sleek glossy black styling looks great in your room also.
Samsung LN-T4681 LCD TV
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This Samsung LN-T4681 LCD TV has excellent clarity, excellent natural colors and no motion blur.
Simply stunning
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have owned this set for about six weeks now, and I love it. The picture is exquisite, and far outpaces the three-year-old Sony VEGA set it replaced (the old set only did 720p, for one thing…).
Good stuff:
This TV is a real conversation starter. It’s enormous, and very glossy (both on the screen and the bezel). The gloss makes fingerprints very obvious, and seems to attract dust…so you’ll want to do some routine cleaning if you want to keep it looking nice. People sit down in my living room and just stare at the set, even if it’s turned off. Some have compared it to the monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” That’s…good, right?
The picture is stunning. The reviews here are right: the LED backlighting really makes things look great, and makes rich black really pop.
I recommend turning off the power-on LED (the little blue bar under the display) using the onscreen menus. When it’s on, you can actually see the reflection of the power light on the bezel around the screen, and I found that distracting. Fortunately it’s an easy thing to turn off — and when it’s off, the set has ZERO lights aside from the picture when turned on. This is a great feature, as I don’t want any little points of light distracting me from the picture! On my old set, there was a little “power on” light that always bugged me.
Tuning between inputs is fast, and makes switching from one input to another no big deal. (On my old set, it took several seconds for each switch, so going through the list felt laborious….)
Be sure to go through the onscreen menus and enable the optional features, particularly the dynamic LED backlighting (some of these features require you to change the picture mode to MOVIE, which I’ve done on every input…). The default VIVID setting is garish, but it’s very easy to switch (and of course the setting is saved, on a per input basis, so it’s a one time setup).
Bad stuff:
The three HDMI ports are adequate for me (HD TiVo, AppleTV, and Samsung Blu-ray player), though I wish there were more, and I wish they were all on the back rather than one on the side. As it is I’m using the side port for a Blu-ray player, and having the cable sticking out the side isn’t exactly ideal. I still haven’t found a decent right-angle adapter.
The speakers aren’t great. I guess they’re fine for a TV set, but they’re nothing to write home about.
The remote is adequate but not great. I wish the backlight extended to more of the buttons. The remote is also rather long. Note that if you have a Samsung Blu-ray player, you can use the Blu-ray remote instead to control most/all of the TV functions…but the Blu-ray remote (at least the one with the BD-1500 series player) isn’t backlit. Oh well.
The glossy screen definitely shows light sources in the room: windows, lamps, etc. In many cases you’ll want to move stuff around (or simply turn off/block out any light sources) if you’re watching anything serious. But I guess that’s true of any movie viewing experience.
Anyway, overall I’m extremely satisfied with this purchase. My other candidate was a Sony XBR4 set, but I’m glad I went with the Samsung…it’s cheaper, has a better picture, and uses less energy due to the LED backlight. The Sony’s design is arguably a little better, and it doesn’t have the extreme gloss factor. But for my money, this is the set to get.
Outstanding picture reproduction … at ON-ANGLE viewing
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Great TV with LED backlighting technology. Beautifully designed and executed by Samsung. I applaud their efforts. It’s a little surprise to me that off-angle viewing is so inferior to other Samsung LCD series, which used the old fluorescent backlighting. I recently bought two Samsung 7-series sets (52″ and 40″), and they look terrific at most viewing angles. For this 81F set, the picture is stunning at direct straight-on viewing, but contrast quickly degrades as viewing angle increases. If you have a viewing room or intend to set up the TV to have a narrow viewing angle, than shop no further–this TV is for you. But if you have a wide room, consider the other Samsung series. Overall, it’s an excellent TV.
Get it while it lasts
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Best LCD I’ve seen to date, bar none. I did my homework for quite sometime and found the 81F series to be a hidden gem. This being the 2007 LED backlit series, it was $1,000 cheaper than the 2008 Samsung LN46A950 (120Hz). Thankfully, I got mine in time: the 2009 Luxia series Samsungs LNXXB8000 (240Hz), LNXXB7000 and LNXXB6000 do not have local LED dimming! What’s the point of having an LED backlight? Grab your A950 and 81F series while you can.
Only one notable con: sound quality. Certainly not a deal breaker, but you’ll definitely not want to depend on the internal speakers.