Samsung has launched a new LED, it a brilliant evolution of LCD screens that will transform your viewing experience. Samsung’s LED TV’s combine LCD screens with LED edge-lights. It is the culmination of technological leadership spanning decades, higher standard of efficiency, innovation and design. This LED Technology looks astonishingly thin and light. It has soft curves and simple, the elegant finish of new Crystal design makes gives a special look. It appears to look like a painting rather than a LED TV.

Picture quality is brilliant on all fronts. Movies look sharper and brighter than usual, and color reproduction is simply superb. Everyone who chanced upon the UA55B8000 in our test lab – mostly picky art directors and meticulous magazine-production experts – noticed the richness of the screen. It had the truest blacks we’ve ever seen on a TV.

Image quality, however, isn’t the only ace up this Series 8′s sleeve. It also positions itself as a luxurious home appliance. It’s marvelously thin at 29.9mm, rivaling most of today’s laptop computers, and the design is elegant from front to back.

The remote is fairly easy to understand, although given the many bells and whistles, it may take some time for technophobes to understand all the functions. Same goes with the menus and sub-menus that go as deep as three levels on average.

Panasonic’s Viera range is now firmly established as a front-running flat-screen brand. The manufacturer’s early missteps, such as the use of low-resolution screens and a lack of digital video connections, have now been consigned to the dustbin marked ‘past mistakes’, as this new model shows. It’s fully prepared for the rapidly approaching high-definition revolution, sporting two HDMI inputs and boasting a 1,024×768-pixel resolution on its 42-inch plasma panel. But Panasonic hasn’t forgotten about the present either — there’s a built-in digital tuner providing access to Freeview.

Panasonic has managed to shave a few centimetres off the frame either side of the screen, and also, in a trick worthy of creepy magic man David Copperfield, made the speakers disappear. Don’t worry, they’re there, it’s just that you can’t see them.

The screen’s frame flows smoothly into the stand, making for a product that certainly looks the part. It might be too much for some, in fact: the stand is huge, and it makes for an imposing spectacle that will dominate most living rooms. The upside of this is there’s plenty of space on its glass shelves for DVD players, satellite receivers and the like — and of course if you don’t like the stand you can always opt for the pedestal version instead. The cabinet stand also has plenty of cable management to help keep the clutter from leads and cables out of sight, which is handy if you’re after that clean, no-mess look.

As is made evident by the Cinderella Man HD-DVD, the quality of high-definition content on the TH-42PX60U is unparalleled. When the conventional Cinderella Man DVD is played in Progressive-Scan 480p, the championship fight scene is still very clear, but obviously not to the extent of the HD-DVD. It is important to note that the TH-42PX60U does not display the visual artifacts easily noticeable on lower-tier plasma displays with a conventional input source.

The ATSC tuner pulls in digital broadcasts from all around town. When we watched the Evening News in high-definition, the image was very clear, and the news anchors’ faces had accurate flesh tones. When they cut to reporters out in the field, the detail of their surroundings was excellent. When we changed the channel to view the same program in regular definition, the picture was somewhat fuzzy. The image degradation is probably caused by the lower bandwidth emitted by local stations for their analog channels.