What do you get when you throw in affordability, presentable design and a trusted image processing engine in to a blender and season it with just the right amounts of features such as Anynet+, Contrast Enhancer and Colour Optimizer? - Well, its the
Samsung LE32B450C 32 LCD TV. The TV is heart-warmingly affordable given the under £300 price tag for a
32 LCD TV. For people waiting at the doors of trustworthy manufacturers day and night, hoping for a low-priced flat-screen dream TV that'll whet their appetite for high-end entertainment, the LE32B450C is THE answer.
The
Samsung LE32B450C did not win a straight ticket to our hearts right away, let me tell you. Our affair with it started on the basis of incertitude. Low-priced? No high-end features? - Tut-tut... - Thus went our first impressions. But the TV drew us in to it slowly but surely until we realised, Hey, now this here is no ordinary TV. The LE32B450C is not designed like Samsung's higher-end versions that are so worth drooling over. But it's not bad, I rush to add. The frame is safely glossy black and the slightly curved bottom edge is dressed with a thin layer of perspex.
Turn the TV back and you will be faced with a good deal of connectivity options 2 HDMI sockets, a D-sub port, a Scart, Component and RF Inputs. There's an extra HDMI port located at the side, where you can find the composite AV ports as well. Having a 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, the LE32B450C does not display 1080 content with flair, but with standard definition, its a whole new story. Easily, the LE32B450C's SD quality is one of the best we've seen so far.
On-screen characters move with grace be it a galloping stallion, a dancing ocean of daffodils or a speeding car, motion blur is something of a rarity. The TV handled even the toughest of our test DVDs with the heart of a lion, the best part of which is the fact that the tougher things got, the better became the TV. The
LCD TV's colour palette is refreshing a National Geographic documentary film stamped this hard in our minds. A scene at dawn especially, is fresh in my memory.
The green that shocks the eye, the blue that induces sleep and the orange that lightens one up were brilliant to behold, not to mention inky blacks that did not suffer from any grey patches in the middle. The
Samsung LE32B450C is not all that effective sonically, though and seems to follow the unending line of LCD TVs that struggled with audio in the past.
Pros:
- Excellent SD rendition
- Eye-catching colours
- Exceptional black levels
- Neat design
- Affordable
Cons:
- Audio and HD performance can do with some improvement
Verdict:
It's cheap, it looks good, it's efficient. Why wouldn't anyone want to own a Samsung LE32B450C at any cost?
