While color, geometry, contrast, and user flexibility excel on this set there are but 2 areas that it does not. Rainbows are still there to people who see them. Generally, people who wear eyeglasses. Wearing bifocals is worse. I fall into the latter catagory but they don't bug me. Secondly, this set falls short of producing inky blacks in scenes which have a lot of dark in them. The blacks don't "crush" per se but have a haze over them. In high contrast scenes the blacks look perfect. Would I buy it again? In a heartbeat. And I watch a lot of dark sci-fi. I don't think that DLP technology can be beat for the best skin tones, reproducing movement [remember, the speed here is in microseconds,not milliseconds like Lcd], ease of moving the tv, and the LED engine is icing on the cake. Bright, quiet, fast turn-on times, and cheap on power. No tv is perfect, but I love mine.

For those of you looking forward to using the audio optical output to connect to your receiver, beware that the 87 series will only output HDMI audio to the standard audio jacks. You would need to look at the 89 series to optical out with HDMI.

This DLP HDTV has better picture and more user options than any on the market. After the initial setup screen and channel search it displayed the first HD channel and it's a good thing that I was sitting down, I could not take my eyes off of it. Crystal clear display! There were three of us in the room and we all said, WOW! The big pluses of this TV are:
1. Never have to replace any bulbs ($300.00/bulb) it's all LED.
2. No color wheel to cause any rainbow effect.
3. The latest HDMI 1.3 interface, supports the highest resolution.
4. Bluetooth enabled to support various devices.

Where do I start? I bought this TV in late July, and immediately had problems when it arrived early August. When watching 1080p movies on my HD-DVD player and PS3, certain scenes would have screen defects. A white strobing would superimpose over the image, almost as if a flashbulb went off every second or so. This is not the common "snow flake" shimmering that you will see often, with hi-def sources. I also have a new Sharp LCD HDTV, that doesn't have the problem.

Samsung responded by sending out a tech to fix the problem, 4 times over a 3 month period. After the third visit, the TV no longer turned on at all. In other words, the tech made it worse. I requested a refund or exchange, and they denied it repeatedly, until finally agreeing to exchange it after their 4th failed attempt to fix it, in late October! Mind you, I had a non-functional TV for 3 months now! With 3 young children and my wife at home, no TV in the family room has been extremely frustrating. It took them 2 weeks to get the paperwork processed to approve the exchange, only to tell me it was on back order, and I would have to wait until December to get my TV! Remember that my old TV broke in mid-July, and I ordered this TV in late July, 5 months before I would get an exchange TV. Enough!!! Only after initiating a dispute with Mastercard, Amazon, and threatening legal action did Samsung finally agree to a refund. But, I won't receive the refund for approximately 4 weeks!!!!! Fine, I just bought a Toshiba from Crutchfield (30 day return policy, no questions asked). Amazon's partner retailers typically only offer a 30 day EXCHANGE on TVs, but only after the MANUFACTURER agrees. Well, Samsung wouldn't agree to an exchange, so I won't ever buy a TV from that partner retailer or Samsung again. I can't wait for Samsung to pick up this pile of junk.

And by the way, if you think that I just got a defective TV, let me tell you that all TVs of this model have this strobing defect. I took my HD-DVD player to a local TV store, and they let me test it on 5 TVs. Guess what? Both the Samsung LCD and HLT6189S in their showroom had the strobing defect. I finally played with all of the adjustments that the Samsung tech supposedly did, and found that the flickering only goes away in "movie" picture mode. It is Samsung's image processing algorithms that cause the strobing - very dissappointing that they would release a product clearly not ready for the market. All Samsung TVs are suspect.

So, save yourself the risk of insanity, run away! Do not buy this TV!!!

Samsung HLT6187S 61" Slim LED Engine 1080p DLP HDTV
everyone from the pizza delivery person to the mailman and now my new best friend my neighbor who never said one word to me in 6 months .walks in house see's the samsung dlp picture and there knees go weak!they are drawn like a moth to a bright light.they lose there hearing and have only tunnel vision as they murmer wow is that one of them new tv's?as a little drool comes out the side of there mouth.but really i did so much research on this and other 1080p tv's it could have been my theasis.the picture a 10...the sound a 10 value for the dollar a 15! thank you samsung for making it possible to get a quality product and not have spend 5k.you will end up spending 5k when you see this tv in your home .because now the sound system isn't good enough and the dvd has to be replaced with a blu-ray player.but thats ok because now i can honestly say i own a home theatre thanks to samsung!