Installation:
With the advent of HDMI and the fact we won't be using a separate sound system, my setup was quick and easy. Power cables to both devices were installed and a Belkin HDMI cable went from the BD-P1500 to the TV. I also made sure that both devices were set back to their factory default settings after being used from the previous reviewers. This way I could work from ground up to see how things go right out of the box and what can be done to enhance sound and picture using the provided settings.

Testing:
Testing a TV is always a fun thing to do, it's time to whip out the best of the best from my home DVD collection as well as go out and rent some great Bluray titles to enjoy as well. As I mentioned earlier, since home theater isn't an area we commonly review here at this site, my tests will be very subjective based on what I observed while using both the TV and bluray player together.

My initial test before pulling out the bluray titles was simply to upconvert a regular DVD. Since SWAT seems to be my movie of choice when it comes to testing sound systems and TVs, SWAT was the movie I chose. The upconverting looked great to me and the opening shooting scene of the movie really gave the TV's built-in sound a good test run. I was impressed with what I did hear but a little uneasy over what I didn't hear; decent bass. Although the speakers sounded excellent, they seemed to lack bass which took away from the definition in the gunfire sounds. Although built-in TV speakers usually aren't anything to write home about, it did seem like those in the PN50A650 could be improved upon for what they are and for the price of this TV.

Switching over to a few bluray films still continued to impress me when it came to image quality. Not having much to compare to unfortunately, I can say that both units seem to shine, with great overall performance on their own. I have seen some bluray players and cheap TVs in the past through the electronics store I work at and I could clearly pick them out as being poor quality products despite their "1080p high quality" promises the boxes make; you get what you pay for.

Samsung's Anynet+ feature, that most of their home theatre products are using, really makes for the ultimate in control simplicity. I was able to run both TV and Bluray player from one remote without any hassle. I can only imagine how nice that would be in larger setups where one would have to control a sound system plus other peripherals as well.