Review of the Samsung LE26R88BD
Posted by Chris @ 2:15 pm
Oh. My. God.
As you will have seen, we ordered a new Samsung LCD TV last weekend, well today it arrived. It is spectacular, fantastic, amazing, jaw dropping, sharp, bright, and most of all, shiny (which equals wife friendly ;o))
Seriously, we got it hooked up in no time, switched it on (with its fancy pants touch buttons on the side) and gasped. But enough gushing about how great it is, here is some proper information.
The R8 series of LCD TVs from Samsung is its latest and greatest range, and they're not lying. The contrast, colour, brightness and response times are all top drawer. I can't really fault the picture at all, you can fiddle with it to your hearts content if you want to, but it doesn't need it. Some of the features Samsung talk about on their website, such as DNIe and movie plus really work. Especially the movie plus one, you'll have all seen the judder some LCD TVs suffer from displaying fast moving action, but not this baby, I'm well chuffed.
In terms of it being a digital TV tuner I can't really comment on it, as we use our other piece of essential kit, our Humax 9200T, to handle that side of things. But in terms of displaying a digital TV source it looks good. The best bit is that we now have a widescreen TV, so no more letter box for us (except for those super wide DVDs). Even though it is only 5 inches bigger than our 4:3 21" the picture seems so much bigger because it isn't in a letter box.
And all of this is on a regular TV source, no high definition stuff yet, so it really can only get better! Finally on a styling front I really like this TV, it does look really good, and has a little blue LED light built into the frame near the bottom (which you can switch off), but I've not fully seen that yet as I've not seen it at night.
So after this great review you want to buy one right? Good because it is a bargain! (Don't leave it for 15 months Tony ;o)) In all the high street stores you'll find it around the £600 mark, but shop online and you can get £100 knocked off that price. I got ours from Dixons, and in fact it is even cheaper now, £483.30!! Well, I think my review here is done, the TV is the best of the bunch, at a price that is staggeringly low, what more do you people want!
21 Comments
Saturday, April 21, 2007 6:00:00 pm
looks cool ,glad it's wife friendly.!This comment posted by Anonymous
Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:57:00 pm
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:57:00 pm
shiny I wantThis comment posted by Anthony Main
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:17:00 pm
Looks very nice. All it needs is an additional 16 inches and you are laughing!! :-)This comment posted by Christian Briddon
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:39:00 pm
Great review - thankyou.I have been looking to upgrade to the LCD revolution for some time, and have just ordered the 26" Samsung R88 for the bedroom.
Iv'e been put off upgrading the CRT due to motion blur, I'm hopful this model will be ok.
It looks really good in your room, thanks again for sharing your experiance.
This comment posted by Anonymous
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:35:00 pm
Hi,I just ordered this TV, looks great. I'm hoping the High-Def stuff is lush (namely plugging my xbox 360 in), i also hope it doesnt disappoint when i connect my Mac to it, to use as a bigger monitor. By the way if anybody is thinking of buying this, you can now get it on the Dixons website for £396 - I don't have it yet but I'm sure that that is an absolute bargain!
Love the pictures!
This comment posted by Anonymous
Sunday, July 01, 2007 10:45:00 am
Great TV, I got it for £390 from Dixons, using an egg credit card 5% discount.Great picture quality through my pc via DVI/HDMI. Watching Lost in 720p looks amazing.
I got the samsung panel in it and not the inferior cmo panel which samsung are putting in some of these sets. More on this at www.avforums.com/
I was a bit worried about what standard def sky would look like, but it’s not bad, especially if you leave the picture quality settings on standard. All in all a quality TV which I would highly recommend!
This comment posted by Anonymous
Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:36:00 pm
Bought this last weekend. Mine's on a wall mount. The shiny black does attract the dust... :ZLooking at the 1080i for the main lounge...
This comment posted by Anonymous
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:19:00 pm
I've had this LCD for a month now and im really impressed by it.I mainly use for my xbox 360 via component and picture looks sharp.
Getting the 360 elite on wednesday so can't wait to hook it up thru the the HDMI port.
Only bad thing tho is that standard definition (sky) is a bit blotchy but definatly watchable.
One for the future!
This comment posted by Unknown
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:18:00 pm
I got this primarily to use as a monitor and to hook up to my xbox 360. it rocks - highly highly reccomend.This comment posted by Anonymous
Friday, October 12, 2007 7:03:00 pm
I've just ordered this TV (£383.30 inc. postage!).Brilliant little write-up there, the photos were good to see too. Helped make up my mind as to which TV to go for.
Cheers,
Kevin
This comment posted by Unknown
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:32:00 pm
You can get it for £373!http://ave1.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_83_86&products_id=250
That's what I'm buying for christmas :)
This comment posted by Anonymous
Friday, November 23, 2007 8:05:00 am
very good reviewi see you got it from dixons. i have read reviews on the internet saying that they are rubbish because of delivery etc. did this happen to anyone who has got the R88 TV or should i order it from dixons.
email me with your answer
[email protected] is my email
thanks
Anthony
This comment posted by Anonymous
Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:03:00 pm
Just bought mine for £380 from dixons!Use SAVE5 discount code, you get 5% off!
Winner!
This comment posted by Anonymous
Tuesday, January 01, 2008 2:47:00 am
i cant get the freeview set up...i have it for my 360, etc but cant get the freeview to work despite the terrestrial tv working fine,,help please,
oh and when i go on setup the setup up feature gets skipped when trying to select it
This comment posted by Anonymous
Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:11:00 pm
Sorry kriskris I use a set top box for my freeview so I haven't set it up myself on my TV. I guess re-read the manual, check your arieal can handle freeview? Otherwise contact Samsung, I'm not a customer support expert!This comment posted by Chris
Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:17:00 am
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:17:00 am
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:17:00 am
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013 12:34:00 am
Great PostGlad to hear that everyone is happy with this model seems like there are some good deals around.
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