Samsung has often given me a lot of strange times with televisions–while they’re often beautiful in their construction, their application is sometimes less than optimal. But the Samsung UN46C7000 will do at least a fair job of putting out a good quality value, even if it doesn’t always stack up against some.

The Samsung UN46C7000 is a forty six inch 1080p LED television operating at 240 hertz for reduced blurring of high speed images. It’s 3D ready when you get the necessary components to go along with it, and also includes Smart TV for access to the web and its huge variety of content, plus a game mode to further improve picture quality, wide color enhancer systems, Energy Star 4.0, two ten watt speakers, Skype on Samsung (lets you use your television like a video phone), a pair of rechargeable 3D glasses, Anynet Plus, four HDMI inputs, two USB ports, one PC input, one component input, one optical sound output and one Ethernet jack.

First off, the picture is really nice here, which should be expected from a 1080p LED. The sound is fair, if not particularly outstanding (ten watts with no augmentation only goes so far), and I’m a little disappointed by the amount of non-HTML connection you get here, but I’ll live. But considering that the Samsung UN46C7000 is actually priced comparably with yesterday’s coverage of the LG 55LX6500–Samsung’s model weighs in at seventeen hundred bucks out at Amazon–I’m profoundly disappointed.

The Samsung UN46C7000 isn’t really a bad television, it just doesn’t compare well to other models. If you got one for Christmas you likely wouldn’t throw it out, but if you’re shopping for one, you can do better.