Samsung UE40ES6800

Samsung UE40ES6800 review

Samsung's ES7000 and ES8000 TVs are gorgeous to look at, innovative with their features and their interfaces, and capable of some outstanding picture quality. But they're also likely beyond the financial means of a large chunk of the TV buying population right now. With this in mind, we suspect many prospective television buyers will be forced to turn their attentions to a slightly lower level of Samsung's 2012 TV range, such as the 40-inch Samsung UE40ES6800, which packs a full recommended retail price of 1,079.99 (around $1,690), but can be found for as little as 800 (around $1,250).You can tell as soon as you look at it that the Samsung UE40ES6800 isn't as swanky as its costlier siblings, since its design, while certainly not in the least bit ugly, doesn't feature the insanely thin bezel of the ES7000s and ES8000s. Buying GuideBest TV 2012It also doesn't offer the startling array of alternative control systems sported by Samsung's top-end TVs. As in, you don't get a second remote with a touchpad, and there's no support for either voice or gesture controls.The Samsung UE40ES6800 doesn't carry the same level of picture processing used by the ES7000 and ES8000 models, either.