Samsung HL-T6176S 61″ UltraSlim 1080p DLP HDTV

July 30, 2007  ·  Category: Personal, Reviews

Over the past few years, I’ve increasingly found that watching an ordinary CRT television gives me a painful amount of eye strain.

Since Kathy and I love watching movies together in the evening, we decided it’s time for an upgrade.

After doing research at our local BestBuy and online, we settled on the Samsung HL-T6176S 61″ Ultraslim 1080p DLP HDTV, which we’re buying from Amazon.

Samsung HLT6176S 61" HDTV with Table

(Shown here with companion TV stand, which I’ll probably buy from Circuit City.)

Our primary selection criteria were:

  • 61 inches is nice and big (OK, huge)
  • Projection TVs provide much larger size at a lower price point than plasma and LCD (which we don’t need anyway since we don’t plan to mount on the wall)
  • People are saying good stuff lately about Samsung’s DLP projection TVs
  • This is a bulb-based projection TV, which means we’ll be replacing the bulb once every few years. It sounds like LCD-engine projection TVs will be a better bet in the near future, but I’d rather have the last line of an old technology than the first line of a new one. And I know from being a long-time LCD user on my computer that LCDs can have an unnatural hue to them.
  • Buying it online saved us about $600, and the shipping is roughly equivalent to what we’d pay in sales tax if we bought it locally.

Delivery estimate: August 3, 2007 - August 8, 2007

I’ll post my review here after it arrives and we’ve had some time to play around with it. :-)

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4 Responses to “Samsung HL-T6176S 61″ UltraSlim 1080p DLP HDTV”
  • From Bill

    I just had my Samsung HL-T6176S delivered and set up. I have watched several Blueray movies and love the HD. I have no complaints and couldn’t be happier with my purchase

    Aug 9, 2007 at 4:51 pm  ·  Permalink

  • Sweet!

    Sep 11, 2007 at 11:26 am  ·  Permalink
  • From Jay

    Have you had any problems with your TV giving you a bowed picture? (Horizontal lines looking like they are smiling at you) I’ve read and seen multiple reviews of this TV having issues with that. Thanks!

    Mar 9, 2008 at 12:06 pm  ·  Permalink

  • Jay: No, we haven’t had any problems with that. I should probably mention, as well, that our usage is on the light side ... perhaps 2 hours a week, on average. -Joshua

    Mar 9, 2008 at 12:23 pm  ·  Permalink

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