Just went to few shops around Setapak/Wangsa Maju area last night. Seems all shops got stock. Im just curious, and maybe can get answer here.

One of the shop i went was Seng Heng, and the sales person said, better get the LA40c550 model which has crystal design. Spec seem to be the same as LA40c530 except the c550 got 4 HDMI port and the c530 only got 3. And he said, no other shop can sell this model, only Seng Heng..is this true???

All of the shops offer price range between RM3000-RM3100..plus free astro B-yond for a year..

Research through internet also cant get much info about the c550 model.maybe we can discuss it here or maybe someone already bought the unit can share their opinion. Im planning to get one this coming weekend..

Yup...just bought this model..Can only find this model in SenQ/SenHeng. Got it RM3049.

can confirm with u, this model got LAN port to hook up to your network..

One more thing, the 40c550 model can play video from NTFS as well. unlike c530 which can only play from FAT16/32 (pendrive). Correct me if im wrong.

So this 40c550 can play from your normal external hard drive and also can play directly from network drive.Tested by me

The display price is RM3590.. u go any SenQ/SenHeng shop will display that price. u need to ask the SA, then they will give u rm3049 price.i ask 3 SengHeng shop, in Sunway Pyramid, Setapak and Kepong. All give me the same price.

Unfortunately the c550 model doesnt come with the astro B.yond package. That's the only drawback.

But the ability to play all my movie collection from my network storage weight more than having 1 year free B.yond subscription. I can just sign up for it later anyway (when the world cup start )

And yes, the video quality from the media player is super smooth.. even can play my 300mb .mkv (compressed version) file with no problem. I can say, it can play better video quality than my laptop.

Some more, c550 have 90,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio if that means anything to u guys

The bottom line is, if u guys want to have astro B.yond free for one year, get the c530 (that's RM20X12), if u need the ability to connect to your network drives, get c550.

Yup.. c550 have LAN port for network connectivity. With c530, u need to connect your hard drive directly to the lcd's USB port. No LAN port.