Our Verdict
If you do not need a wide viewing angle or fancier features, buy this TV. The Samsung F5500 LED TV has very good picture quality both in dark and bright rooms.
- Very good picture quality for the price, both in terms of contrast and motion handling.
- Good semi-matte finish, which reduces the number of reflections in a bright room.
- No 24p playback, which could be an issue for people watching a lot of Blu-rays.
- Very narrow viewing angle. The picture quality fades when you are not in axis.
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We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests are done with specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
Test Results
The F5500 is really good in a dimly lit room. Its blacks are deep for an LED.
Even with the lights on or in view of windows, the F5500 is pretty good, with very few reflections.
Almost no reflections are visible (except for in direct light, of course) when displaying a brighter scene.
The only downside of the F5500 LED TV is its narrow viewing angle. As soon as you are of axis, discoloration appears. If you need a wide viewing angle, you will be better off with the LG LN5700.
The F5500 has low motion blur for an LED TV of its price. It doesn't support 24p playback or motion interpolation, though.
1 HDMI
1 Ethernet
1 Component In
1 Composite In
1 Digital Audio Out (Optical)
1 Headphone Out
