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hello you're one David Katz meijer here with CNN and I'm standing us to Samsung's at UNF 6300 this is sort of a mid-range TV and Samsung's extensive LED TV lineup for 2013 this is a 55 inch version this TV is available from sizes 32 all the way up to 60 inches so it's a pretty extensive series the 6300 one of the least expensive Samsung TVs to offer its full smart TV sweet we're going to get to that a little bit but it's also one of the least expensive with this relatively sleek edge lit LED styling so Samsung's TV is really thin and you look at it from the side that's what that edge lit design gives you it's also really thin around the edge of the screen so you don't have very much to the cabinet at all except for the picture there's also Samsung's trademark spider stand here it allows a swivel and it's colored quite a bit lighter than this TV itself all told one of the nicer looking TVs in this price range aside from the design the real selling point of the 6300 is its feature set starting with Smart TV this has my favorite smart TV sweet of 2013 among all the manufacturers samsung ranges it's smart TV in a series of five different pages the first one called on TV actually sort of tries to replace your cable box so this TV has a little ir dongle that can shoot commands to your cable box and integrate the program listings subject to your locality so you can type in exactly where you live and you get customized listings depending on your cable or satellite provider it works relatively well in fact it works a little bit better than on some of the higher-end models that's because Samsung 6300 includes a standard remote control that has all the buttons that I like to use for DVR including transport you also get the dedicated button to call up the guide from your cable box as well as the cable boxes menus so pretty good system overall the rest of the smart TV suite is very well designed it's nice and simple this year Samsung has more apps than pretty much anybody else including exclusive on HBO GO of course there's also plenty of standard on-demand sources including netflix amazon and pretty much everything else the 6300 also offers plenty of ways to adjust the picture there's a full DJ Durkin troll so you can dial in just the right amount of smoothness which in my opinion should be zero there's also excellent control of color and pretty much every other picture parameter connectivity is very good with four HDMI ports three USB and an analog input overall the picture quality 6 300 is pretty good although it's not among the best tvs at its price point its main weakness is the inability to display a nice deep shade of black so you know some of the other LED TVs out there it's level of black is a little bit lighter than those other so you get less cut pop and contrast especially in the early dark scenes on the flip side we appreciated most of the other aspects of the samsung's picture including excellent color accuracy the set also has relatively good uniformity so there aren't any bright spots on our review sample video processing is among the best we've seen at any price point this TV holds up well in a brightly lit room overall the Samsung 6300 represents a pretty good value especially if you'd like it's smart TV perks I'm David Katz my receipt