{"id":1364,"date":"2009-11-14T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T08:39:00","slug":"new-tv-samsung-ue40b7020w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/new-tv-samsung-ue40b7020w\/","title":{"rendered":"New TV (Samsung UE40B7020W)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/UE40B7020W.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Samsung UE40B7020W\" title=\"Samsung UE40B7020W\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/UE40B7020W.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/UE40B7020W.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/UE40B7020W.jpg?w=1632&amp;ssl=1 1632w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/UE40B7020W.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I get annoyed at the branding of these new &#8220;LED&#8221; TV&#8217;s &#8211; they are not fundamentally new technology, they are simply LCD screens lit up via LEDs.<\/p>\n<p>However it&#8217;s branded, it is brilliant!<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s Good?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is so extremely vibrant and bright that it makes our Panasonic LCD look very dull.\n<li>It only uses <0.1 Watt while on stand-by. So efficient that there's not even a proper \"off\" button.\n\n\n<li>It &#8220;Powers up&#8221; really fast. There is a picture on the screen about 8 seconds after pressing the Power button on the remote.\n<li>It&#8217;s got a good resolution (1080p).\n<li>It&#8217;s thin (but, who cares unless you wall mount it?)\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s bad?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s no HDMI button on the remote &#8211; to select HDMI 1 for example you need to press 5 buttons (Source, Down, Down, Down, Select). This is really annoying because I need to do it every time I turn the telly on.\n<li>Don&#8217;t bother connecting it to the Internet &#8211; it&#8217;s boringly slow and it can&#8217;t download firmware updates.\n<li>It&#8217;s not Wii friendly. It&#8217;s too thin for the Wii sensor bar to sit on top of the TV but it also can&#8217;t sit at the bottom of the TV because the black base is so shiny that it disperses the IR and makes it inaccurate.\n<li>The sound volume doesn&#8217;t have enough different levels towards the quiet level.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our TV came with a free Blu-ray player (<em>Samsung BDP1600XEU<\/em>). I <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> recommend this player. Blu-ray movies often freeze and it takes ages to connect and disconnect with the TV. If you pause the movie and switch to watching TV for even a few seconds, when you come back, you&#8217;ll find the movie stopped and your position lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get annoyed at the branding of these new &#8220;LED&#8221; TV&#8217;s &#8211; they are not fundamentally new technology, they are simply LCD screens lit up via LEDs. However it&#8217;s branded, it is brilliant! What&#8217;s Good? It is so extremely vibrant and bright that it makes our Panasonic LCD look very dull. It only uses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76,34],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy","tag-toy","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}