Do Not Kill Your Television Yet!!!
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Television is not dead!

"True Detective" is the latest evidence of that.

Without a doubt, this show will be held in high regard for years for its superb execution, photography and performances, but above all, for its superb writing.

From the first verse of the theme song at the start of the first episode, to the last line in the closing scene of the finale, no word in "True Detective" can fairly be considered fluff or filler. These eight episodes weren't just written, they were crafted by a master storyteller (Nic Pizzolatto) and assembled by an equally talented team of artists. The words. The visuals. The music. The costumes. The locations. The makeup. All the elements required to make great television were carefully combined here to produce a show that deserves a place beside such masterpieces as "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood."

"True Detective" is nothing like NCIS, or Law And Order, or any of the other schlock that passes for entertainment on FOX or any of the three big Cs (ABC ... NBC ... CBS). None of the clichs of TV's true-crime genre have a home in the scripts of "True Detective." Rather, the words, storyline and characters are all fresh and vivid and plausible.

Every scene moves the story forward without skimping on the development of character. Not a moment of screen time is wasted. Indeed, I found the script to be so rich that I'm eager to watch it again as I'm sure to pick up on details I missed the first time through.

Get it ... See it.
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Super Bright!  Not all TV's are created equal!  Does NOT turn off with TV!  I don't use it!
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I just received this television yesterday.  I was a little concerned about the sound quality as I have seen it being bashed by reviewers. However, bottom line, the t.v. sounds just fine.  You may need a minute to get used to the sound coming from behind or behind/side of the t.v., but I think that has more to do with the reviews warning about the sound, then the sound quality itself.  I must warn you that this is my experience with the t.v., just sitting on a stand AND NOT MOUNTED TO A WALL.  I would reccomend this t.v. to anyone looking for a good deal on a plasma.
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Everytime I turn this tv on, it brings a smile to my face.  The picture quality is the best I have ever seen, especially the THX mode. Blu-ray discs become a must.  The black levels are so good you may find yourself picking out blu-ray movies that feature dark scenes just to see how well they look.  Dark games like Fallout 3 or Arkham Asylum look simply incredible.  3d Works well, I have tested it with the Killzone 3 demo on PS3 and you feel totally immersed.  I did not see any "ghosting" affects.  One complaint is I wish it had a wireless capability. It requires a wired connection or you need to purchase a separate adapter for wireless.  Viera Cast stuff is good.  Netflix is included as well as YouTube, Pandora, Amazon etc.  Youtube for some reason has a pared down interface and I wasn't able to select HD resolution like I can from PC.  But they could fix this in a firmware update and it can be done from PC so no big deal.  I don't think there is any better TV you can buy at any price point, unless you are just getting a bigger size.  The new vt30's will probably best this tv but they will cost a lot more.  Recommend!

Edit: 3/17/2011.  Unfortunately, the TV has burn in issues.  We were very diligent during the first 100 hours, but then we started playing games thinking it was safe.  My wife had been playing Fallout 3 the last month or so and the HUD from the game is now burned into the screen.  Unbelievable that Panasonic isn't warning customers about this possibility.  Instead, the warnings are focused on only the first 100 hours.  We play in THX mode, contrast and brightness set to 70.  I was led to believe that burn in was no longer a problem on these sets after the first 100 hours.  Unfortunately, this is NOT the case.  Lowered my rating of the set to 3 stars.  It is great picture, but susceptible to burn in.  Now our tv is apparently permanently compromised.

Update: 4/8/2011  The burn in is still there after running the tv's own anti-image retention tool and also running third party tools designed to remove it for many days on end.  This TV is severely flawed and I don't recommend that anyone buy it with these kind of problems unless you plan to baby sit your tv all the time.  If you search online for vt25 burn in you will find many cases of what I'm talking about.  Don't watch anything that has a static image on the screen with this tv, and heaven forbid you forget and leave something on the screen for a couple hours -the tv could be permanently damaged if you do.

Update: 4/16/2011 We played Bioshock for about 2 hours, then watched a movie.  Afterwards it took a full night to remove the image retention from Bioshock HUD using slides and the tv's own anti image retention scrolling bar feature.  The next day we played 2 hours again followed by other content.  It has taken over 2 days to remove the retained image.  Unless we have a lemon, this tv is completely unfit for gamers.  If I could I would return it and I will probably never again buy a Panasonic or any other plasma tv unless they stop excluding IR issues from their warranties.

Update: 06/20/2011  The burn in is still there and does not appear to be diminishing.  We no longer play any games on the tv, only on my 23" work monitor.  Also, standard definition content creates black sections on the sides.  We run the scrolling bar and full color slides every time after watching standard definition content.
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just wanted to save others from making the same mistake i made..dell will keep moving up delivery dates..if they told you it would take a month to receive your tv, you wouldnt order from them..i found THOUSANDS of people this has happened too...
  as for the tv...amazing..i watched it at a friends house for a couple of hours..they don't have wifi yet, so i cant comment on that function,but the picture is outstanding..i couldn't see any blooming,didnt notice any motion artifacts..one thing i did notice was...i keep saying "this thing is awesome"
  i will update when my tv arrives in a coupe of days from AMAZON..

update..got tv..its up and running..very simple to set up..the initial tv "set up" is very good, then i used cnet setting and its even better..i originally thought the picture was great, then put on my glasses and was WOWED all over again! honestly i cant find fault in anything..the aps are fast..picture is awesome..and the packaging is top notch..its a rare thing to find a product that is competitively
priced and isn't compromised ..A+ to vizio!!

just wanted to comment on this tv after a couple of days of use and some nfl football....generally the "wow" factor wears off in a couple of days...not so with this bad boy!!the only downside of this tv is, i watch too much tv now..i have dish network that has a ton of HD channels..this isn't my first hdtv i have a 50"samsung plasma in my rec room and this tv blows it away!!!!! interesting side note: i wear glasses and on the "vivid"mode w/a couple tweeks i don't need my glasses..however the cnet setting are more accurate and the best set up for people that are not visually challenged

still going.. and after a couple of months still extremely happy! one thing i want to say..this tv has exceptional picture BUT it doesnt produce that "carton effect" as some others due..personally that effect catches your eye at the mall but gets old for everyday viewing..just my .02
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I got this TV on June 12, the day all my local channels cut off analog, using rabbit ears the TV works fine, sound is great and picture is good plus fast shipping from JR, Havent tried to hook up computer or dvd yet. Hope this lasts!!!!!!!!
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I was able to view this TV this afternoon and I got to tell you; Wait! Don't buy this TV until you have viewed it in a darkroom. It doesn't have to be totally dark, but dark none the less.

Make sure you look to the corners of the TV set. There you will notice light pumping whether it is a dark or light picture it is always present.

I am truly surprised that this is the same company that produced the LN55A950 would sacrifice picture quality for a super thin format.

A salesman came over and started the sales pitch with a $500 price drop. I pointed to the over driving of the LEDs and he said that it was a good catch but it was just that TV and he had one hanging up in the showroom and to look at that one for review.

Well the salesman and I did and there it was; Each of the four corners light pumping with each changing scene on the display model as well. I told the salesmans if I were to get home and find my model doing that it would be coming back.

You might get this TV and love it, but check it first in the showroom I wouldn't spend over $3000 for a TV that performs like this not matter how thin and I can't imagine anyone else would either.

Update: Just to clarify the edge lit technology is not as much in question as to how well it was implemented. The corners appear to suffer from an over driving of the LED and in the process it is causing a bleed over in the form of a bright circular pattern that radiates outward to the center of the TV screen from all four corners.
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I saved my DLP TV destined to the donation center. I will just have to wait for a few years before buying a LED TV.
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Works great! No signal loss or delay. Both TV's output the same picture and sound at the same time. Puts out a little heat, so don't put it on anything temperature sensitive. It's no reason to dock a star, but you should definitely be aware of it.
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12-21-2010 Update......  TV has been great for 11 months... now it has begun to turn off ramdomly...  sometimes just resets and turns back on, sometimes I have to unplug power cord and plug back in.  After some research, I have found that there is a systemic power problem with many Samsung products and they have not or unwilling to extend warranties even though they know of the proplem.....  Be warned....  I am still not sure how to deal with my particular problem.....

2-2010...I purchased this TV a week ago, deliverd in 3 days.  Shipper delivered ontime, unboxed and set on stand for me.  Could not be happier with quality of picture and BluRay looks amazing.  I do agree with many that the sound quality is not terrific, but doesn't matter to me as I also purchased a home theater system. (Onkyo, also amazing!)

Highly recommend this TV for the Price!!
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I purchased this television from Costco and absolutely love it. So much so that I'm buying a second one to replace another TV that I bought. But I wanted to share a tip from a man standing behind me in the line who apparently worked in electronics.

Here's the Tip: if your TV was transported lying flat at any stage, then sit the TV upright when you get it home and do not hook it up for 3 or 4 hours. He said if you don't do that, you will be returning the TV.

When I bought the TV, I placed it in the cart standing upright and, since I have a big truck, I transported it home that way. So I had no issues. But I'm posting this review to potentially help others prevent set up and screen issues.
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I wanted to add to the above review.  I just purchased this tv and have 3 other friends with either this one or the 50".  All have had this problem of the TV cycling on/off.  The problem turned out to be power filtering.  Make sure you use a power strip with power filtering.  The $80 Monster Cable strip has a filter on it.  There are cheaper ones.  This has cured the problem for all three of my buddies.

So far I am very happy with the TV.  Excellent brightness and very true color.  I have noticed an occasional mismatch of the sound to the picture.  The mouth keeps moving after the words have been said.  I turned off the DNR and DNLe but made no difference then I turned off LNA (Low Noise Amplifier) and haven't noticed it since.  Anyone seen this?
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2 Weeks after purchase

Well my TV did the on/off cycle thing once so far.  Note that I am not using the $80 power strip but the $30 strip.  So I would suggest adding $80 to the price and get the power filter for sure.  I am getting buged by the auido/picture sync.  I am finding a couple of other's seeing the same problem.  It comes and goes and is normally associated with a "live" broadcast.  For example in the bid debate tonight it was very evident on all broadcasts in HD or not.  It does not matter what combo of settings you try or if you use an analog or digital cable.
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*****Product Update*****  September 15,2013  Sunday.

I've had this tv for a while now and as i was trying to put in my favorite channels,until?
I ran into a problem of using the Favorite List no matter what i did on the remote i couldn't get my favorite channels on this list that is until?
I started going through the reviews and questions trying to find an answer with out much luck i'm afraid.
Even brought up the online owners manual,no help there so i put the owners manual soft ware disc that came with this tv into my pc drive,bingo i found the answer i was looking for.
On the disc a whole hell of a lot more shown and more complete than anything else.
I think that you will find everything you want to know about this tv on this disc.

The secret to using the Favorite List is:
Q.MENU button on right side of remote,2nd button down from Channel Page.
Go down to Del/Add/Fav,use the right arrow to get to Favorite,hit OK on the remote now that channel is in your Favorite List,go up to the FAV button to confirm.

So this is extremely easy to program your channels,i manually put in my favorite channels,so i'm happy now.
Love this awesome tv with it's Channel List and Favorite List also the Flashback button,very handy.

On with the review.

This is my very first 32" thin and lite tv.
I bought this because of the 5 star rating from a lot of people,usually when i buy something from Amazon this is what i go by.
This comes with a thin cellophane protector that covers the border around the tv also the stand,screen is not covered so you have to be careful,they recommend to not peel this off,not sure why.
This tv lights up a Red Hue under the LG logo,when off.
Very easy to setup and program your tastes in and very well protected and packaged.
For On Screen Inputs : TV-HDMI1-AV-COMPONENT-HDMI2
Came UPS in 2 Days in a very long pre-printed box and taped secure from Plainfield,IN.
It's a shame that LG didn't include a HDMI Cable with this tv,luckily i had a spare to use.
When i first turned on this set i got a black screen after my connections were hooked up and i thought now what?
So i went to the remote and pressed Input,Initial Setting Screen came up,this is where you put in your location info among other things.
Once i set it up then i programmed and fine-tuned the picture and sound.
Speakers on this actually sound good,oh and the owner's manual very easy to read and understand 31 pages all in English.
Everything is all layed out for you in packaging matching up with the manual.
You even get the two AAA batteries that power the remote.
The software disc has the owner's manual on it just in case something happens to the paper one.
If you have this on Auto Picture everything adjusts itself,i didn't care for that and so i set it the way i want to view and listen to it.
I like this tv very much and would wholeheartedly recommend the LG series tv's,especially this one.
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This TV is so amazing for the price you will feel guilty about how little the workers making it must be earning. If you can deal with that (and guess I will have to learn to) then ... WOW, it will be the best purchase you'll make this year. By the way, the sound is fine and everything was in the box. It was delivered so quickly I think it must have come by ambulance.
I rarely have good luck like this so I'm sort of expecting it to soon burn my house down and I'll let you know soon, but I sure hope not!
Enjoy!
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So far so good, no complaints at all everything's working GREAT! It's sad how businesses have no respect for consumers at all, had a company come to my house and tried to convince me that the TV had a burned "power fuse" and it would cost me $400 to get fixed. Did some research and boy am I glad I did.
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I LOVE this TV. I have eye problems so, I needed a bigger TV. The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because you have to replace a bulb on it every so often- Funny, the person doing the sales pitch NEVER mentioned THAT, I ordered it off a TV shopping show, They go on and on for an HOUR telling you all the features, yet somehow it just slips their mind that, "oh, by the way, you'll have to replace the freakin BULB regularly".< better not cost more than a few bucks! But, why do I get the feeling that it will be around a hundred?
It takes a minute to warm up. The first time I pressed the on button I almost fainted cuz there was NO response- I had walked all the way to the end of a 22 foot long room to call tech support when I finally heard it come to life.
This is not good if you are rushing to see something on tv.
When you turn it off it goes off faster than it comes on, BUT it flashes the Mitsubishi logo on screen for awhile.
Mad that I have to buy some kind of wi fi emitter if I want to use the internet/ netflix features. My sony has everything it needs to work right out of the box.
Also have to buy the 3d glasses seperately.
This thing is HEAVY!!! You CANNOT hang it on a wall. I had to dedicate the top of my dresser for it.
It has to stay cool- the cooler it is, the longer the "bulb" lasts.
At least the  "BULB" you can replace yourself.> reminds me that I specifically DIDN't buy a Plasma TV cuz they needed tweaking by a service tech every few years. In this disposable society most people don't have their TVs that long- not me- I had one for 27 years it was a SHARP, the first one made. It would have lasted longer but the sound died, picture still worked great.
All in all I'm happy so far, although I find myself opting NOT to watch it often- to save on how soon I'll need the freakin BULB!
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While I didn't buy it via Amazon (sorry Amazon people), I purchased through a brick-and-mortar strictly because I haven't converted to making big purchases online.  I bought this thing for two reasons:
1.  I hadn't had a TV for over a year, I was overdue.
2.  Picture quality.  I searched high and low and stared at many, many HDTVs, in so many different stores, so much so that my eyes hurt.  This was the best one (within the size I was looking for, 32-37" as this is what space I had/have allocated in my apartment).  Picture clarity is key!  That's the whole point of HD, correct?

So, first thing's first, I received a dud.  Yes, a dud.  It was working no more than a day before the brain of the TV just died on me (don't ask for technical terms, it's the part that makes the screen display a moving picture as opposed to lines moving across the screen).  I don't know if anyone else ran into this problem, but it was a tad annoying.  I do believe, however, based on many other reviews, that I was the unlucky one to receive a defective one.

The part was replaced, and now it's all good :).  Clarity is there, haven't had any problems since (I'm on month three), and did I mention I love it?

Downside:  don't sit too close, your eyes will definitely hurt.  Quality is just that sharp--at least on HD channels.

Oh how I cannot wait until Feb '09 rolls around when the rest of the channels hop on board.  My life will be very close to complete :).