Hi Chickensoup...I got it from Amazon, and would gladly get it from them again. You don’t have to watch in 3D. If you have a 3D movie, you put the movie in the player, put on the glasses, press the power button on the glasses, and they synch to the television (via bluetooth, I think).
They are electronic, not like the ones you see at the movies, and comfortable to wear. I have two different kinds, two of them use a watch battery, they other two plug into a USB port to charge. Either way, not bad.
The unit we got has wireless in it, so you can go on the internet (a bit ungainly, but you can do it) or you can simply use one of their samsung apps to watch netflix. I have an Apple TV unit, so I use that to do Netflix...it is more elegant, I think.
The regular viewing is spectacularly crisp, but I will caution that there is something about the quality of the picture that some people don’t like. I think they call it “the soap opera lighting effect” or something like that.
Check out this link I just found at random that explains it, but there is a way around it, apparently:
http://hdguru.com/a-solution-to-the-dreaded-soap-opera-effect/2119/
Heck, I have had the unit for several months now, and haven’t got around to adjusting it yet, so you can see how much it bothers me. I guess that just comes from not watching television at all, and when I watched movies, was watching on my computer screen.
I would buy this unit in a heartbeat. There is almost no bezel, so it looks like a sheet of black glass, and it is about an inch and a half thick or something ridiculous like that. We will be mounting it above our fireplace (once we get the power and cable routing installed) with a low profile samsung mount that hangs it like a picture frame.
Also, I took the advice from that website, and it eliminated the “soap opera effect”. Granted, there should be an easier way to do than have to bury it within a couple of menus, but you can get around it. That was my only complaint. Otherwise, great television.
I hope you aren't planning on using the fireplace with that TV above it?