Samsung HL-T6187S 61" DLP Review

The Samsung HLT6187S is from Samsung’s latest series of slim rear projection DLP HDTV’s. The new slim LED light engine has this set down to 14.4″ thick and the bezel around the TV is only 0.6″ to really cut down on size so this TV will take up a lot less room than older rear projection TV’s. For such a huge HDTV (it measures 54.8″ x 37.8″ x 14.4″ or 4.57’ x 3.15’ x 1.2’) it is relatively light at only 74.7 pounds. It offers a full 1080p HD picture on the large 61″ screen with hidden speakers on each side offering SRS TruSurround XT sound. The new LED light engine has the best color and energy efficiency of any rear projection HDTV and doesn’t include any arc lamps or color wheels. This means this TV will last much longer than any other HDTV’s on the market.

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I’m no genius when it comes to technology. All I know is I love everything about this Samsung HL T6187S massive HDTV. I almost bought a 52” LCD screen that cost close to $1500 more than this DLP. What a stupid mistake that would have been. I honestly thought Amazon.com screwed up on their price they posted, it’s much lower than I found other places and compared to LCD and plasma HDTV’s it is way more affordable. I was talked into buying this TV by a friend. I thought it was too good to be true, DLP must be too new of a technology or something to be selling such a big tv so cheap. Boy was I wrong, Ted if you read this, thanks for help picking it out for me. I couldn’t be happier. All my friends are blown away by the picture on this thing, it really is something else. LCD and plasma don’t compare. Watching a movie on my Toshiba HD DVD player I could actually see the pores on people’s faces.

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I must admit a few years back if you would have asked me what I thought of Samsung I probably would have laughed and made some smart ass remark about how they were on the edge of bankruptcy. I was all about Sony all of my life up until about a year ago when I got a great deal on a 32” LCD HDTV from Samsung and now after owning one of their TV’s for a year I couldn’t be happier with my switch. I’ve bought myself a new Samsung HL-T6187S 61 inch HDTV this year. Not because there was anything wrong with the old one, I’m just a technology nut who always needs the latest and greatest and I must say this new LED DLP technology is truly the latest and greatest. This 61” monster is amazing. Its very high definition gives the clearest image I have ever seen on such a big screen. I still have a Sony HD DVD player but with the 3 HDMI ports on this TV I’m thinking about getting a Samsung one just for the hell of it. This Samsung HLT6187S is proof that Samsung is running the game and bringing you the very latest technology on the market.

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My favorite part of the Samsung HL-T6187S 61″ DLP is there is no $200-$300 bulb that needs replacing every year or two! This DLP has a special LED that will not burn out on you leaving you with no TV until you can get your money together and get that thing replaced. I’ve never had a TV with a bulb that burnt out but I’m certain it wouldn’t be an enjoyable experience. You’d either be waiting for some repair guy to show up for it or you’d have to take your huge ass TV in to get it replaced. Not only is it using this fancy new DLP technology but it has a “slim” LED engine which makes the depth of the TV smaller compared to the quite bulkier LED engines that came out with the first DLP HDTV’s. For a 61” TV this thing is pretty small, the surrounding frame looks quite sleek and stylish with less than an inch of a border around the screen. There aren’t really any downsides to the DLP that I can see when you compare it to a LCD or plasma screen. It doesn’t have that screen door effect or the image trailing blurs like you get with the LCD or the images burnt into the screen or the huge electricity usage of a plasma.

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This new DLP technology in the Samsung HLT6187S is great. I really like the new LED engine they have made that doesn’t use lamp bulbs like most other HDTV’s that cost around $300 and need replacing every few years. This LED engine is rated to last about twenty years which is an incredibly long time. It also doesn’t have one of those spinning color wheels that can be a bit loud in some TV’s. Because of the LED engine it doesn’t take more than 5 seconds to get a picture, others can take more than 30 seconds. The colors are much brighter and the blacks much deeper than other projection TV’s. I’ve seen some projection TV’s that can take a few seconds to get the picture when you change the channel or something, not with the Samsung HLT6187S. I really love my new Samsung and I believe that this DLP technology with the LED’s is the way of the future.

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What can you say about a 61” HDTV for less than two grand? This is a great price on this Samsung HLT6187S 1080p DLP HDTV from Amazon.com, I couldn’t resist grabbing one. I used to have a Sony A2000 and a friend with a A2020. I find they have lots of motion blur. All the reviews I read on Mitsubishi’s say they are good, but not as good as Samsung. I found they all said that the Samsung has much better color accuracy among other things. I love playing Xbox 360 and this TV is great for it. It does 1080p over component video on it. The picture and inputs are rock solid with everything I’ve tested like my HD-DVD. It was a hard decision between this and the 6189S because the 6189S has HDMI 1.3 but I was reading up on it and it sounds like there isn’t anything being produced for it at least in the next few years.