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TV Advice needed

I have a Samsung smart TV at have been very pleased with it, but like others have said the 'smart' features are clever but are rarely used. I have it hooked up to the internet so I can watch BBC iPlayer on the TV without having to hook up my laptop and play through that, and it works very well (aside from my painfully slow internet which causes buffering some times) but to be honest in the 18 months I've had the TV I think I've used iPlayer perhaps 4-5 times at most and the games and apps that are built in lose their novelty value within days. That said, the picture quality is excellent so I don't think you can go too far wrong with Samsung in my opinion.
 
Got this bad boy at Xmas http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/tv-audio-video/television/led-tv/UE46ES8000UXXU but as referenced above, the out of the box 'Torch' mode settings are designed by manufacturer to make the LED panels stand out, and the Plasma's look dull in comparison when in brightly lit shop environments. Add in that there is huge markup on LED, and next to nothing on similar priced Plasma sets, and you can see why Plasma is dropping out of manufacturers roadmaps.
Be wary of light bleed on LED panels as well - it is a pain and you never quite know what you're going to get.

I ****ed around with my settings for weeks and it still looked utter gash (Movie pre-sets etc, still very hard to find the right setting, without the right tools). Best piece of advice I can give you if you're serious, is to have it professionally calibrated. I had a THX qualified engineer out for the day. £200, but the picture looks spectacular now and I would never have got there going by eye.
 
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