Big screen TV comparison? Samsung HLN5065W and Samsung HLP5063W ?

DavidMatthews · Jan 3, 2005

For us sports betting fans, a TV is very important so maybe it's not really that off-topic, but I'm in a bind here.

I found the TV that's perfect for me, the Samsung HLP5063W but I see some places are selling the Samsung HLN5065W. Both are DLP projection TVs. Both are 50" TVs and both are priced about the same.

Does anyone know the differences in these TVs?

I have a limited space in the wall for my TV of 48.5" wide, 51" high and 2 feet deep (although it could stick out I guess).

Any advice on these TVs or any other TV I should get would be great. I'm willing to spend $2k to $3k here. Please share your bigscreen TV knowledge with me.

Thanks.

David

SportSavant · Jan 3, 2005

perhaps if you posted LINKS & prictures of the TV's you might get more responses....

cheers....

sportsbet · Jan 3, 2005

I am a little familiar with both...the 63 is the newer model series and you will get better color and picture from that one (just from what I remember reading about both TV's when I was shopping). Regardless of your HD connection (if you're going HD) you will get 720p output from the 65. You will get a better HD picture with the 63. The 63 also has DVI and 2 HDMI connections (I believe the 65 only has 1) which means you could have HD PIP if you wanted to.

Neither one is really a BAD TV but if you want the latest greatest Samsung the 63 series isn't a bad one (3rd generation).

Good luck shopping...

sb

DavidMatthews · Jan 3, 2005

Link to HLN5065W

http://samsclub.com/eclub/main_shopping.jsp?coe=0&oidPath=0%3a-23542%3a-23589%3a-24298%3a-25204%3a854765&mt=a&n=0&BV_SessionID=_SC_1888183079.1104809016_CS_&BV_EngineID=ccchadddhgmgidjcfkfcfkjdgoodfkf.0

Link to HLP5063W

http://www.plasmadepot.com/samsung_dlp_tv/hlp5063w.html

I can't seem to get the pictures to work. My computer is being funky.

VaultedTreehouse · Jan 3, 2005

Dave my friend works for Samsung here in Jersey. I will ask him tomorrow for you.

DavidMatthews · Jan 3, 2005

Great info Sportsbet. Thanks.

Thanks also Treehouse. I'm sure he could help me out with this.

I'll tell you the crazy reason I'm concerned is that I don't want to sacrifice quality, but the HLN is about an inch shorter, which means I'll be able to raise it off the ground just a little bit higher for a better viewing angle. I would rather have a better TV though even if I can't raise it up as high.

The width is perfect as each of these TVs gives me about a half an inch of space in the room I have to work with.

Maybe some other projection TV would be good. I don't think a plasma is what I need as I don't intend to hang it on the wall or anything.

sportsbet · Jan 3, 2005

I would say stay away from Plasmas if you watch TV a lot. The pixels will go faster on a Plasma than any other type of TV. If you watch a lot of the same channel with static content (like CNN with the CNN logo on there all the time) the image can burn into the display (it will deteriorate a plasma faster than a DLP or LCD set).

The best out there technology wise is DLP. If you can afford to purchase a DLP set that's the way to go. Mrs. Sportsbet works for an Audio-Visual Systems company in the area here so I get most of the info from her. They are dealers for just about everybody. Samsung is a pretty nice lower cost set for the money most of the time.

She's a Steelers fan so you'll have to take the info with a grain of salt DM.

Good luck on your hunting...Tree will probably be able to get you great info on anything that I missed.

sb

WildBill · Jan 3, 2005

The sad thing for us is LCD and to a degree DLP aren't as good for sports. Hard to beat plasma for a fast moving sport like baseball and especially hockey, but the life of plasma is well known to be shorter than the others. Hard to make calls on TVs though for someone else, they buyer just have to go into stores and look at them. A good store will have some HD content, but also some regular content and change the channels for you so you can compare. Best Buy drove me nuts, they have great HD programming for the TVs with good cables like you might have at home, but they don't have any non-HD signals in the store to show you what you will be watching most of the time. I asked the sales guy to do that for me and he was like "who needs a regular signal, with HD you won't want to watch anything else". Sure that might be true, but who wants to pay tons of money just to watch 7 or 8 channels?

sportsbet · Jan 3, 2005

WildBill makes a good point...the best thing you can do is see as many sets as you can before buying one. I will tell you though a lot of the retail stores have no clue as to how to correctly configure a set. You will find brightness/contrast/tint/color off all the time so make sure you get the chance to adjust the set (or have someone do it for you) if you're seriously considering one.

We were at Best Buy the other day and she was going nuts that a few of the sets weren't set properly. I think she just liked complaining though.

sb

jjgold · Jan 4, 2005

All Best Buy pictures are HD, false advertsing

All these big screens are excellent only if your watching HD material, if not picture is lousy and nothing like a tube.

Although more HD programming coming out as we speak abd by years end most sports will be on it so go buy one.

Movies look great and any other slow moving pictures look good.

Baskets can only be watched in HD to get real nice picture otherwise you get fuzzy picture even with digital signal but it is still very watchable.