Samsung LE-40M87 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Samsung's M87 series of LCD TV's is distinguished from the M86 series by a small silver strip at the base of the screen. This adds a nice touch to what is already an outstandingly beautiful piece of kit. With its perfectly smooth round edges, the ...

Review summary: With a 1980 x 1050 resolution, the M87 is a wonder to look at

Pros: Excellent specification, Great price

Cons: Standard-def pictures not perfect

Verdict: Even so, the M86 has impressive image upscaling ability, and handles the task with more aplomb than most. This is a truly great TV, and, if anything, £900 just seems too cheap

Review summary: Here's a preface: we liked this TV so much, we bought one. A journalist spending £900 is not something that happens often, but there's a good reason in this case. Firstly, an utterly unbelievable spec, starting with a 15000:1 contrast ratio

Pros: Excellent specification, Great price

Cons: Standard-def pictures not perfect

Verdict: A fantastic LCD that takes the format to new levels of quality

Review summary: It's nearing the end of its life cycle, with Samsung having recently announced its new LED backlit range for USA, which will no doubt be coming out here shortly as well, but Samsung were kind enough to send us a review sample for their current ...

Pros: By far the best black level I have seen for an LCD ; Extremely high calibrated contrast of nearly 1700:1 ; Superb detail with high definition ; Plenty of menu options for calibration ; 3x HDMI 1.3 ports, supporting xvYCC ; Per-input settings ; ...

Cons: Skewed gamma makes shadow details hard to make out, particularly with analogue inputs ; The Super Clear panel is extremely reflective; you will be looking at yourself in dark scenes ; Very poor handling of RGB ; Scaling causes ringing around objects ; ...

Verdict: The Samsung LE52M87BDX is hard to recommend. It does do some things very well - it produces a nice vivid image with high definition and videogames, has plenty of calibration options, and the best blacks I have seen for LCD so far. However, it is ...

Review summary: - We all like big don't we, big cars, big houses, so why not big TVs? Well that's what Samsung is hoping with its whopping 52-inch LCD television as apart of its Bordeaux range. But does it impress? We get watching to find out.

Pros: Size, screen, 3 HDMI slots

Cons: Poor broadcast picture quality really shows up, dust attracts to it like a fly to you know what

Verdict: The M87 is a very good television let down by non HD quality signals