Our town recently became the first town in the U.S. to be completely wired for fiberoptics and one advantage of that is that we now have a competitor to MediaCON for directly wired cable access. Our new service is half the price of MediaCON, more channels and all high definition with just the standard package. So we broke down and bought this television to replace our 20 year one.

When I plugged it in, the experience was night and day. It made me feel as if I had been watching black and white my whole life and now I could see in color. It was sharp, it was smooth, it was brilliant. I didn't and haven't adjusted a single setting in regards to picture quality. I am completely amazed with Samsung and have now become a fan.

The only complaint I have is with their menu. Since I have fiberoptic cable, I do need a box to translate the signal for the television and a universal remote for the box that I can program to control the television. The box is connected via the HDMI1 port. However, this port is third on the list of sources so that everytime the channel button is pushed on the universal remote that controls the fiberoptic conversion box, it defaults back to the over the air signal which is first on the list of sources. I then have to switch back over to the other remote to change the source back to the HDMI1 port. This could all be solved by Samsung by just allowing the user to arrange the order of the signal sources as they desire.

Still knowing what I know now, I would still buy this television anyway. Get more detail about Samsung LN37B550 37-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV with Red Touch of Color.