Samsung ue40d5520 best picture settings
Cue the Samsung UE40D5520, a 40-inch LCD TV illuminated by edge-mounted LEDs and boasting a long feature list that typically seems completely out of kilter with its price tag of just £599. Also typical for a Samsung mid-range set is its supremely elegant design. Its deep grey colour is unusual and attractive, the appearance of a little transparent trim protruding beyond the main bezel is very stylish and the glass-necked stand wouldn’t look out of place on a TV costing twice as much. The Samsung UE40D5520′s aggressive pricing does stop the TV including 3D. But your £599 gets you Samsung’s latest Smart TV system and a Freeview HD tuner, neither of which you’d necessarily expect to find on such an affordable 40-inch TV from an A-list brand. Other TVs in the Samsung D5520 series range this year are the 37-inch UE37D5520 and the 46-inch 46D5520. Don’t confuse the 5520 series with Samsung’s other 5 Series models, though, because the D5000 models don’t have either Smart TV functionality or HD tuners. You have been warned… If you want to add 3D to your Samsung TV feature count, then you will need to step up to the 6 series, as represented by the D6100 and D6510 models. These models are the same, except for cosmetic differences. The D6500 also adds Skype and a web browser to its Smart TV functions, and uses 400Hz processing compared with the D6100′s 200Hz. For those of you not yet convinced by 3D’s charms, though, the Samsung UE40D5520 really does look like a potentially stellar option for the buyer on a budget. Aside from its extremely attractive ‘crystal’ design and eye-catching price, the Samsung UE40D5520′s most immediate attractions are its carriage of both a Freeview HD tuner and Smart TV functionality. So far as the Freeview HD tuner is concerned, things are pretty clear cut. As in, if you can receive HD Freeview broadcasts in your area, you’ll be able to watch them on this Samsung TV. But there are a couple of complications to explore where the Smart TV functionality is concerned. The thing is that while the Samsung UE40D5520′s Smart TV offering does run to Samsung’s App Store, Smart Hub interface (more on this later) and premium video streaming services, it doesn’t provide the Skype support or open web browser found on models higher up Samsung’s LCD TV range. Splitting up its Smart TV features in this way seems a bit of a risky move from Samsung when you’re dealing with such a new technology, but at least if you’re reading this review you now know the score! Don’t let the lack of a web browser and Skype have you thinking that the Samsung UE40D5520′s online services are seriously impoverished, though. In fact, in some ways Samsung’s Smart TV package is the most all-round accomplished and content-heavy system going right now. The video streaming services are unquestionably the most interesting ones on the TV, with highlights being LoveFilm, BBC iPlayer, AceTrax for movie rental/purchase, muzu TV and a BBC News feed. The lesser ‘infotainment’ apps on Samsung’s Smart TV platform are plentiful – up to around 70 on our latest count. But many of them aren’t particularly interesting or useful. Samsung may be better off focusing on a qualitative rather than quantitative approach to its secondary apps. The Samsung UE40D5520′s screen, meanwhile, enjoys a full HD resolution, and as you would expect from the slenderness of the TV’s bodywork, an edge-LED engine illuminates it. The screen also enjoys 100Hz processing for reducing motion blur and judder – a very pleasant surprise at this TV’s price point, so long as the processing engine performs well, of course. Heading into the Samsung UE40D5520′s on-screen menus in a search for more features uncovers a variety of smaller processing ‘tools’, including an edge enhancer, a black level booster, a cluster of noise reduction tools and various ‘colour boosters’. There’s also colour management to the extent that you can manipulate the red, green and blue elements of the TV set’s white balance, although unfortunately the set doesn’t go further down this road. While we doubt buyers of affordable TVs would want to go so far as to have their TV professionally calibrated, there are plenty of AV enthusiasts out there who appreciate having as many tools at their disposal as possible when it comes to optimising pictures to suit their tastes or room environment. Looking at the Samsung UE40D5520′s connections, there’s nothing to complain about. The four HDMIs should be more than enough to satisfy the vast majority of UK living rooms, while a LAN port is on hand to provide wired connection to Samsung’s Smart TV service or, if you prefer, a DLNA-enabled PC. There are two USB inputs, which can be used for playing back a wide variety of photo, music and video files from USB flash drives or for making the TV Wi-Fi ready via an optional USB dongle. In some ways the Samsung UE40D5520′s user interface is ground-breakingly good. Particularly ingenious – and something already being ‘borrowed’ by most other brands – is Samsung’s Smart Hub. This cleverly places pretty much all of your sources, from your normal TV channels to the Smart TV stuff and multimedia files contained on a DLNA PC or USB drive, on a single ‘jumping off’ screen. And by clever use of well-spaced and neatly designed icons, it achieves this feat without the screen looking overly cluttered or complicated. Soon, we suspect, all TV interfaces will look more or less like Samsung’s Smart Hub. Another great touch on the Samsung UE40D5520 is its interactive on-screen instructions manual. Select an option in the TV’s set-up menus and you get a brief but usually effective explanation of what that feature does next to it on the screen. There’s no need to faff about trying to cross-reference what you’re seeing on the screen with a paper manual. There are a few issues with the Samsung UE40D5520′s menu options, though. First, the Game mode you need to activate if you want to enjoy the most lag-free gaming experience is obscurely tucked away in a System menu, rather than just being placed alongside the other picture presets. A few too many of the processing options can actually harm rather than improve pictures, meanwhile, making some parts of the picture menus feel unnecessarily cluttered and over-complicated. While the on-screen instructions mentioned earlier are mostly decent enough, they do get a little too short for comfort in places when talking about the set’s more complex features.
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