Samsung M8 Series 52 inch LE52M87BD HD 1080p Freeview Widescreen LCD TV

I purchased this Tv from Play after viewing it in a local store who were selling it for the full rrp - on arrival it was easy to set up and the picture quality is excellent with easy to understand menus etc with plenty of HDMI ports to give you the ultimate picture
An all round good buy

I took delivery of this 52" tv at Christmas '07 and have it hooked up to Sky+ (now thinking about Sky HD), an upscaling 2.1 Home Cinema system, Toshiba HD dvd player, Xbox360 and PS3. On all counts it has an awesome picture, great deep black levels and sound is very reasonable if just thru the tv alone. Menu set up is extremely easy to navigate and connections are second to none. If that isn't enough then this tv looks just fantastic either on it's stand or on the wall as I now have. Wall mounting is also very easy. I read up an awful lot and took my time before buying this tv but eventually narrowed it down and for the picture, style and connections weighed up against the price am over the moon with it and would have no hesitation in recommending. It's brought a whole new dimention and enjoyment to watching tv whatever the viewing. Thoroughly recommended.

.............but it is still worth five stars!
First the negatives:
The factory settings for colour, contrast, brigntess etc etc will need tweaking to your own liking.
The colour saturation is too much from out of the box. I had read that this TV can make skin tones look very orangey, however with some fine tuning I got an image that was much better than how it was from the factory.
The menus are easy to navigate and I was able to get good colour settings without even reading the manual , and the menus are quite extensive with many tweaks to all sorts of settings to adjust the picture quality ( as far as colour and brightness etc go )
Another downside is the sound quality from the TV, I used to own a Sony KV36FS70 and the sound on that was superb ( mainly due to the size of the TV the cabinet acted like a bass box! ). The Samsung is obviously slimmer than my old Sony, so I guess that has something to do with the quality of speakers that are fitted and will affect sound overall.
Its more than adequate when watching a TV programme but with music I have to fire up the Mission speakers to compensate for the lack of depth to the built in speakers on the TV.
Other problems include picture quality when receiving streaming video from VirginMedia ( but I think EVERY large LCD/Plasma will suffer from this ). I have V+ and the music on demand is quite poor in places - especially when videos contain lots of flashing lights ( example: Foo Fighters - I`ll Stick Around ) , there is plenty of `artifacting` and blockiness in the picture.

Good points are - the 1080p image when viewing from a true HD source is stunning. Watching some of the Blue Planet episodes from HD on demand just shows what the TV can do when given a decent input.
The Wii looks great on there too, even though it doesnt support 1080p, XBOX 360 looks brilliant, very sharp image with vivid colours and deep blacks. Just waiting for the PS3 to drop in price a bit and that will become my BluRay player!.
I also have a Pioneer DVD player that does 1080p upscaling, this has bought new life to my DVD collection and these look fantastic , certainly sharper than I remember them.
All in all, a very good TV for the money - I doubt you will get a better 52" 1080p set without spending a good few grand more.