Samsung PN43E450: Full Review – Part 3

That said, the somewhat more expensive U50 was the superior TV here, with amazing shadow detail and almost pure blacks. The Samsung is good at producing deep blacks, but it just so happens that the Panasonic is great. Compared with the others, the E550 was largely similar (although the E450 did get slightly deeper in some scenes), while both LGs and the X5 lacked the E450’s depth.

This year’s Samsung TVs have been generally excellent in terms of both color vibrancy and accuracy. While the E450 can’t aspire to the lofty performance of its high-buck brothers, it does a very good job of creating saturated images with deep, effervescent color. When waved in the direction of Terence Malick’s difficult “The Tree of Life,” with its mix of abstract color and natural greens, the TV was able to hold its head above the two TVs from LG and the entry-level Panasonic X5. Skin tones were the only troubling thing, with a little too much rosiness in the cheeks, but I’d take this over the X5’s gaunt, “little green men” approach to skin color any time.

In light of excellent performance elsewhere it’s disppointing to see this TV fall down in terms of picture processing. But what does this mean in the real world? If you watch a lot of Blu-ray movies the TVs inability to provide 1080p/24 cadence means that film buffs might notice judder, especially on pans, but on most material, there won’t be much of an effect. Meanwhile, failing the 1080i deinterlacing test means that details featuring parallel lines (grilles, buildings, etc.) may become lost in moire effects or jaggies. Neither issue is liable to trip up casual viewers.

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