Presuming the device drivers know what is being played, the system could try to detect that and mask it out if it comes back through the speakers. Or just disable speech recognition whenever audio is playing. An easy mute control for the browser would be nice as well. And, maybe security privileges even to play music? I'm sick of random websites that have to play ridiculous music when you visit them.
Let me correct you on this front, as I have a set and am an avid reader of AVS Forum.
HL-S5679W is wobulated, and no, this isn't really a bad thing. The fact is that these wobulated sets virtually eliminate the SDE (Screen door effect) which is worth a tiny loss of sharpness to most viewers, and is what makes it "cinema smooth" or whatever buzzwords are used. Eventually they probably won't be wobulated, but I think this is more due to market pressures than due to an advantage of non-wobulated sets. BTW, the same is true of all the 1080p HL-S sets, though I'm not certain they all use the exact same DMD chips.
Yes, it starts up really quick. And it doesn't warm up (no big lamp, fewer moving parts).
20,000 hours is the official number, though a lot of people believe these sets will last more like 60,000 hours between having to replace the "bulbs". So, it's somewhere from 3-10 times the lifetime of standard bulbs. We still don't have numbers on the actual cost of these "bulbs" though, so a cost comparison is currently impossible.
This TV got delayed from April to May, to June or July, and then to September, though some dealers let some sets go back in August. The original MSRP of about $4200 is correct though prices have already dropped and you can find it for just over $3000 now, as I understand. Make sure to buy from an authorized retailer!
BTW, I think this is a great set, but it's worth getting a Samsung professionally calibrated (which can run you around $500) to achieve the best picture. At a minimum you should follow some recommendations and perform a user-level calibration, or you're really not doing these sets justice.
If you want to learn more then I recommend this thread on AVS Forum.
I love drinking milk, but the ability to "digest" it may be next to useless with the kind of milk available to most of us.
Have a look here for information about how pasteurization and homogenization destroy the useful enzymes in milk, and make more of the fat absorb into the body than when consuming pure cream.
Another link here, and for the damages done by so-called "ultra-pasteurized" milk, look here.
It makes me want to either stop drinking milk, or befriend a dairy farmer.
The Yamaha YSP-1 looks like a much better idea for home theater, assuming you've got the walls for it. Hell, you could build or renovate a room and put the YSP-1 in for less than you could get 14 good speakers.
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Presuming the device drivers know what is being played, the system could try to detect that and mask it out if it comes back through the speakers. Or just disable speech recognition whenever audio is playing. An easy mute control for the browser would be nice as well. And, maybe security privileges even to play music? I'm sick of random websites that have to play ridiculous music when you visit them.
HL-S5679W is wobulated, and no, this isn't really a bad thing. The fact is that these wobulated sets virtually eliminate the SDE (Screen door effect) which is worth a tiny loss of sharpness to most viewers, and is what makes it "cinema smooth" or whatever buzzwords are used. Eventually they probably won't be wobulated, but I think this is more due to market pressures than due to an advantage of non-wobulated sets. BTW, the same is true of all the 1080p HL-S sets, though I'm not certain they all use the exact same DMD chips.
Yes, it starts up really quick. And it doesn't warm up (no big lamp, fewer moving parts).
20,000 hours is the official number, though a lot of people believe these sets will last more like 60,000 hours between having to replace the "bulbs". So, it's somewhere from 3-10 times the lifetime of standard bulbs. We still don't have numbers on the actual cost of these "bulbs" though, so a cost comparison is currently impossible.
This TV got delayed from April to May, to June or July, and then to September, though some dealers let some sets go back in August. The original MSRP of about $4200 is correct though prices have already dropped and you can find it for just over $3000 now, as I understand. Make sure to buy from an authorized retailer!
BTW, I think this is a great set, but it's worth getting a Samsung professionally calibrated (which can run you around $500) to achieve the best picture. At a minimum you should follow some recommendations and perform a user-level calibration, or you're really not doing these sets justice.
If you want to learn more then I recommend this thread on AVS Forum.
I love drinking milk, but the ability to "digest" it may be next to useless with the kind of milk available to most of us. Have a look here for information about how pasteurization and homogenization destroy the useful enzymes in milk, and make more of the fat absorb into the body than when consuming pure cream. Another link here, and for the damages done by so-called "ultra-pasteurized" milk, look here. It makes me want to either stop drinking milk, or befriend a dairy farmer.
The Yamaha YSP-1 looks like a much better idea for home theater, assuming you've got the walls for it. Hell, you could build or renovate a room and put the YSP-1 in for less than you could get 14 good speakers.