This TV has a beautiful, clear, responsive picture with great contrast ratio which is noticeable even in normal lighting. It also has a variety of many ways to connect devices. I connected my PC using a DVI-to-HDMI cable and it works perfectly, which is great for Hulu fans. It's so thin and light that mounting it to a wall is no problem, although I would still recommend finding a stud to mount to. The Yahoo Widgets are neat, but really not that usable (explained later). The features that I have not tried, but am looking forward to trying are the ability of the TV to decode and playback many formats of (non-DRM) music, and videos from a flash drive. You can also connect the TV wirelessly to a PC to play video/audio files as well (You'll need to buy the wireless USB attachment). Oh yeah - it also does slideshows of photos.
There are really only a few, nit-picky things that kept me from giving it a 5-star rating. These are "nit picky" because they don't really detract much from my enjoyment of the TV when using it for its primary purpose: watching video.
1. There is a slight back-lighting bleed-through around the edges of the screen in places. It's hardly ever noticeable unless the edges of the screen are black and the room is dark. It really doesn't bother me much, but I would like to see them correct this in future models.
2. The remote is is nifty, but not always very responsive. That may have more to do with the receiving process in the TV than the actual remote because it's mostly noticeable when I'm doing things that require the menu, and especially when using Yahoo Widgets.
3. The Yahoo Widgets are a cool idea, but there are a few problems with them on this TV. First they are slow. I have an 802.11n connection, so it's not a bandwidth issue. Plus, it's not just the load time that's slow, but the response time within the applications. Sometimes when scrolling the cursor around from place to place the app will freeze for a second and then suddenly "play" all of your buffered movements. This is especially an issue when using the "keyboard" to type in a search. I use quotes because it's not a really keyboard, but one displayed on the screen and you have to push the cursor around the screen from letter to letter. Which brings up another point: typing anything in using the remote is painful and annoying. To me this makes the Widgets fairly useless since, for instance, I rarely want to watch the "recommended" Youtube videos. If I bring up the Youtube widget it because I want to watch one in particular, but it takes way too long to "type" in a search. It's faster just to connect my laptop. If Samsung allowed the connection of some wireless TV keyboard and mousing device combo this would be much more useful. Maybe this is already a feature, but I missed it?
4. Lastly and least important, The sound quality from the built-in speakers is not great, but I never expected it to be. I wish they would have offered a model with no speakers and more screen real-estate, but that's probably not cost-effective.
I bought this TV new from Amazon when they were offering a $300 discount, which brought the total bepice below $2000. This combined with no sales tax saved me $600+ over buying from a local brick-and-mortar retailer. Even without the discount I would highly recommend this TV. Get more detail about Samsung UN46B8000 46-Inch 1080p 240Hz LED HDTV.
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