Samsung 55" TU8000 HDR Smart 4K TV with Tizen OS Black

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There are some other issues that videophiles should keep in mind though: brightness uniformity is inconsistent across the screen (as is often the case with large-sized LCD TVs), and there is some mild motion judder to contend with when watching 24p film material. Lastly, we had to enable “Game Mode” to avoid the natural film grain of some Blu-ray Disc movies being removed by the UE55D8000?s video processing (which, again, we really do think Samsung should give the user full control over). This is a review of the 50-inch TU8500 (UE50TU8500), but the model is also available in 43-, 55- and 65-inch screen sizes (UE43TU8500, UE55TU8500 and UE65TU8500 respectively). Finding a set to fit your room shouldn’t be an issue. Samsung has long offered one of the most comprehensive smart TV systems through its Tizen platform. It’s had some small design tweaks since last year, but navigation is pretty much identical and is still just as simple as before. Finally, motion settings fall under an option called Picture Clarity. Opt for custom and you can set the judder settings yourself. Something around 3 or 4 seemed to work best for most content we watched, and motion is, for the most part, admirably stable. We uploaded the brightness measurements and uniformity photos after running the TV for two months in our Accelerated Longevity Test.

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We have now started delivering right to your door! Alternatively you can collect free of charge from one of our 7 branches (see steps below) There’s no doubt that the picture comes with some limitations at its price, but overall the TU8000 impresses with its natural colour handling, crisp, detailed picture, solid motion processing and good upscaling. It needs some settings tweaked to perform to the very best of its abilities, though. Last year’s Samsung LED TVs were not as gifted for sound as they were for picture performance and it’s the same balance again. There are three main audio settings to choose from – Standard, Adaptive and Amplified – and they offer increasing levels of weight, but at the expense of clarity. Ultimately, we choose the middle option, but even a budget soundbar will offer a big improvement. Samsung continues to impress with every aspect of their standard-def upscaling performance. The video deinterlacing process concealed jaggedness very effectively, scaling was clean and without excessive ringing, and film mode detection worked brilliantly with both test sequences and real-world footage.A Smart TV is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart TV platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart TV products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs. And if you’re looking to elevate your viewing experience with cable management, then why not take a look at our wall mounts and TV stands. These include Netflix, Prime Video, ITV Hub, Apple TV, Rakuten and YouTube. There’s also Samsung TV Plus, which is the brand’s own internet-delivered channel bouquet.

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In case you’re wondering about [LED Motion Plus], this control does make a subtle, but worthwhile improvement to motion clarity (the motion resolution of 1080 lines was measured with this setting engaged). Although it does cause the image to darken very slightly, the UE55D8000 can produce an incredibly bright image anyway, so this wasn’t an issue. 3D Material Although some options have been moved around, there are no major functional additions to the Picture setup menu when compared to last year’s high-end models. Samsung’s excellent calibration controls (which include a three-axis Colour Management system and 10-point Greyscale/Gamma control) are present, and should allow the images put out by the UE55D8000 to be adjusted to nearly perfect levels. 2D Calibration This UE55TU8000 is capable of a very good picture for its price, but the out-of-the-box settings do need a bit of work to get the most out of it, particularly with HDR content. To have top levels of shading and punch in the same TV is beyond the capability of most mid-range TVs – and it’s the kind of performance you’d pay a lot more for with QLED and OLED technology. The only edge-lit LED we’ve seen of late that comes close to that is the Panasonic TX-58HX800 which, at the time of writing, is almost twice the price (and isn't available in the US or Australia). And in 3D (improved in terms of crosstalk and stability over Samsung’s 2010 offerings) it’s impressively immersive, delivering ample depth of field and proving solid even off-axis.only logistic data imported: we have only basic data imported from a supplier, a data-sheet is not yet created by an editor. We uploaded the brightness measurements and uniformity photos after running the TV for four months in our Accelerated Longevity Test. Normally when reviewing Samsung LCD-based displays, we’ve got into the habit of selecting the “Custom” [Motion Plus] mode, which allows [Blur Reduction] to be set to “10? (or another similarly high setting) and [Judder Reduction] to be set to 0. The point of this is to maximise the TV’s motion clarity, without introducing any frame interpolation into the image (frame interpolation is what causes the “soap opera effect”, where 24fps film material appears with hyper-smooth, video-like motion). As it happens, Samsung has a [Motion Plus] mode called “Clear” which should be selected instead on the D8000. Although you’d think that “Clear” (which also uses values of 10 and 0) and “Custom” (with the same 10 and 0 values set) would give the same performance, we found that the “Custom” mode caused some stuttering during footage which contained a mix of high-motion (video) and low-motion (film) material. The “Clear” mode was free of any such quirks. Smart TV or not, we think the first thing people will notice about the Samsung UE55D8000 is how stunning it looks. Some of us have questioned the practicality of an ultra-thin TV (unless it’s in the middle of a room, will anyone ever notice how thin it is?), but what’s undeniable is the attraction of the nearly non-existent bezel. There is only about 1 centimetre’s worth of silver plastic separating the 55-inch LCD panel from the rest of its surroundings, which makes the screen feel bigger than it really is. Crystal Processor 4K: this upscaling TV adapts to give you an optimised 4K picture and targeted sound.