Tv Specs

laney85

I wonder if any one can help me I am being offered a replacemnt tv as mine went faulty and just want to make sure that the offered tv is as of the same quality.

The broken one was a Samsung LE40A457.

The new one will be Samsung LE40D550. All the Spec stuff doesnt mean much to me so hopefully someone with more knoledge will be able to let me know.

Thanks

InsideInsurance

Based on Samsungs naming convention....

LE says what type of product it is
40 says the size of the screen
D says the year it is
550 is the model number

So based on that alone you can see it is a slightly higher model number and a few years newer.

Looking at the tech specs the new one is full HD (1020p) where as the old was HD Ready (720p), the new ones speakers are a little lower powered.

The only thing that may be different, but I cannot see a full spec for the older model, is that the new one only has a single SCART input which may be a consideration if you're running older equipment.

googler

If you bought the old one without understanding its specification....?

InsideInsurance

I wouldnt be surprised if 99% of people don't buy their TVs having little to no understanding of the specification.

Even if you took the consumer friendly terms of "Full HD" and "HD Ready" and asked the average person on the street what the differences are between the I'd image the vast majority wouldn't know let alone getting into detail.

Ultimately you don't really need to. If you think the picture/ sound/ functions match your requirements at a price you consider reasonable does it matter if you don't know if the HDMI are 1.3 or 1.4 compatible?

laney85

googler wrote: »

If you bought the old one without understanding its specification....?

Yes and until it broke it was a great tv so as long as the replacement is of equal quality then all the numbers and letters mean nothing to me .:o

RobertoMoir

googler wrote: »

If you bought the old one without understanding its specification....?

I'm willing to bet the majority of non technical people buy a TV by looking for something on offer in their budget that looks like it ought to go nicely in their front room and says "HD-something-or-other" on it.

If they're careful, they'll have counted the amount of "funny shaped plugs" that their current TV has shoved into it and made sure that the new one has the right amount of "funny shaped holes". If they're really careful they may have checked that the "funny shaped holes" on the new box are the right "funny shape" for the old "funny shaped plugs".

I'm not denigrating the OP here by the way, I just don't expect non technical people to understand why "HD Ready" is the same as "720p" and how something that's "HD Ready" can't display "Full HD" and why it needs a HDMI connection to display any of them and how come there are different versions of HDMI when the "funny shaped plug" for it hasn't changed, any more than I understand the workings of a modern petrol engine...