Price Paid:  $250.00 from AMES Department Store

Summary:
I will have had this Samsung 27"inch tv for a year in March, and am very happy with it. Samsung seems to be one of the better bargain TV's out there.

After wanting a 27" inch tv for my home theater (my home theater is in my bedroom, so I can't go big screen, yet...), I picked this one up at AMES. I was very suprised to see how good the picture was. And it has a front A/V input that I wanted as well, as I play alot of video games. Very good on-screen menus, very easy to use.

Controller is compact, but the buttons are easy to use. The only complaint is that it's not a universal remote. I seem to have at least 7 remote controlls for all my componants! aaarrrrggghhh!!!!

And no S-Video input hurts, but I've been able to manage.

All in all, a decent 27" inch TV for less then $250.00. Another Samsung product I'm happy with.

Strengths:
Price, good picture quality. User friendly on-screen menu. Front A/V inputs. (a must for video gamers)

Weaknesses:
No S-Video input. Only one audio output.

Similar Products Used:
RCA

Price Paid:  $350.00

Summary:
Sorry the previous review was of the TGX2740 Samsung 27" TV.

Price Paid:  $350.00

Summary:
Overall a nice TV. I puchased it after seeing a review of 27" TVs in Comsumer Reports. It was rated in the top 3 for picture quality.

For close to 2 years (this spring) I have enjoyed this TV. I thought it had a great picture until a week ago when I purchase a Panasonic DVD-RV30CAK DVD player (fantastic!). After watching 20 DVD's within the first week of owning the DVD player, I noticed that the black bars on the top & bottom in the right side of the screen seemed to be wider than the left side. I then tried my Phantom Menace Widescreen Collector's Edition VHS and noticed the same (not previously noticed while watching the VHS). I thought it was the DVD player, but after trying the DVD Player on a friends WEGA and it all worked out I figured it was the TV.

I purchased the TV as a demo unit from Future Shop in the spring of 1999 and they gave me their extended warranty; therefore, I took the TV to Japan Video in Edmonton. The techinician took a look at my TV right then and there (GREAT SERVICE). Using some sort of device, he took a look at Samsung's set-up for the horizontal lines (like those of the black bars in a widescreen DVD). They were noticeably crooked, but unfortunately for me, he said it was with-in Samsung's specifications and is unchangeable.

WARNING: In general, be careful when purchasing a TV. Test it out with source units that you may want in the future, but cannot aford now so that you are not in the same position I am: looking for a TV that doesn't annoy me every time I play a letterboxed movie.

I am currently looking at either a Panasonic: PanaBlack or Gaoo, Toshiba: Cinema Series or the JVC D-Series all in a 32" TV.

Strengths:
Very Few: relatively flat screen, good resolution, ajustable video controls, remote nicely layed out, yet never used as I have the Touch-screen Remote Commander 2000 from Sony (worth every penny of the $200 cdn it cost me)

Weaknesses:
No S-Video input, low line-level variable output, CROOKED HORIZONTAL LINES, front and rear A/V inputs are actually 1 set in 2 places, therefore you can only connect 1 source to TV via the composite and audio inputs, poor Speakers