A Look at the Samsung UE55B7020

By Melinda Proctor

The Samsung UE55B7020 LCD TV bills itself as the thinnest, clearest and most elegant looking of tv sets. It's for certain that a TV that makes use of LEDs -- light emitting diodes -- as a backlight will be extremely thin, and this Samsung delivers on that front. It is so good at what it does that there is no picture blur along the edges, which is a hallmark of LED TVs.

The UE55B7020 comes in at an extra large 55 inches and presents a picture resolution of 1920x1080. It uses Samsung's LED engine to present its WCE -- wide colour enhancer -- to put it all together, taking advantage of the 100 Hz Motion Plus video capability. Less expensive television sets in this segment tend to make use of cheaper fluorescent tubes to help present all of this, not LEDs.

Using LEDs allows TVs of this size to be much more efficient, energy-wise, than LCD TVs that use fluorescent tubes as backlight. Because the UE55B7020 tv has LEDs television set up along the edges of the screen, the TV itself can be much thinner than standard LCD TVs that make use of more traditional methods of backlighting. Generally, this means classic fluorescent tubes.

There is a wide range of sophisticated multimedia and network features contained within this particular Samsung UE55B7020, by the way. Most experts say that the network functionality of this TV is what really sets it apart. This model can be connected to a network of PCs through use of a standard Ethernet cable. It can also be connected via a wireless adapter for wireless PC networks.

Wireless capability is handled through one of several USB ports that come standard with the UE55B7020 TV. In order to take advantage of the capabilities, the personal computer that is being used must have DLNA software on it, but Samsung has thoughtfully included certain software with the set to make this possible. Also, the TV plays video, music and multimedia files through a handy USB port.

To create the vivid pictures that the UE55B7020 set displays, Samsung has gone out and created the same sort of picture panel that started being featured back in 2006 on most flat-panel LCD computer monitors. This allows the tv set to present extremely clear and crisp images. The Samsung name for the panel is, of course, the "Ultra-Clear Panel." Colours and richness are first rate all round.

The UE55B7020 tv comes standard with a high quality surround sound system that includes Dolby Digital Plus and what Samsung refers to as a Trusurround SRS HD. There is also an RMS unit that comes with a nice woofer and 15 watts of sound power. Along with all that, but Samsung has other nice features such as a smart content manager and auto volume leveller contained within it.

Taking a Look at The Samsung UE55B7020 LCD TV shows one what is really possible in light emitting diode or LED supplemented liquid crystal display tv sets. This includes the fact that these particular TVs are pretty much the thinnest available, and the price -- though not cheap -- still is well within the prices demanded for tvs of this quality. - 30542

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