I saw the noise on two different occasions. A friend has the TV and I noticed it while watching a movie at his house. Then I noticed again at Tweeter when doing a side by side comparison with the A2000. Both getting the same feed showing the same thing, but the noise was more noticable on the Samsung. It wasn't awful or constant, but it was enough to bother me. It may be something easily fixed by doing some tweaking. I don't know what tweaks my friend has done, and the ones at the store were probably default config (although I did make sure vivid was turned off).