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Review on πŸ“Ί SAMSUNG QN75Q80TAFXZA Review: 75-inch Class QLED Q80T Series Smart TV with Quantum HDR 12X and Alexa Built-in by Hco Cortes

Revainrating 3 out of 5

How to make a beautiful TV

Samsung has always made beautiful, bright, clear and colorful TVs. But from year to year it is spoiled more and more with all sorts of "smart" features. I almost returned this TV because it was the most disappointing. This gave me the most confusing, ugly, blurry, dark, fuzzy image I've ever seen and I spent a week making it look good. Here's how to make it a great TV: β€’ DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS. You just spent $1500 on a quality TV. The last thing you want is full-screen commercials playing if you leave it alone. Agreeing to the terms unlocks Tizen, their built-in streaming system that gives you Netflix and everything else along with those annoying ads. If you have already agreed to these, you can restore the factory settings in the settings. If you need streaming, get a device like Roku. β€’ TURN OVERLAY OFF. To avoid showing the overlay and the green "I accept the terms" box every time you enable it, you can go to Settings > General > Smart Features and disable them all. β€’ DISABLE INTELLIGENT MODE. I believe this mode is responsible for the faint image. It adjusts the brightness based on the room you're in, thinking you want it to be nice and dark, or sometimes light, then dark, then light from moment to moment. On black screens with lighter elements (such as text) commonly found in titles, transitions, and video games, those elements almost disappear. This is terrible β€’ TURN THE SCREEN OFF. This mode turns TV shows and movies into a "soap opera mode" that robs them of their magic and believability, making every scene look like it was captured on an iPhone in your living room. It is enabled by default. β€’ TURN ON GAME MODE. Gaming mode is the best thing you can do to make your Samsung the great TV it was meant to be. It disables all ways the TV is messing with your picture, allowing Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO, Playstation, Nintendo, or any other connected system to only give you the picture you're supposed to be seeing, and that's it in any case, much better than the chaos that Samsung's smarts bring you when they're allowed to. SAMSUNG HAS A PROBLEM WITH HDR. If you want to stream ad-free Samsung to your TV, get Roku, Chromecast with Google TV, Apple TV, Revain Fire, etc. Important: All of the shows and movies I've tested on these devices have lost clarity and definition. Also, some movies and shows shown in HDR look dark and washed out. A good example is The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. On the Roku Streaming Stick+, under Settings > Display Type, you can only set the TV to "4k 60Hz TV" - the non-HDR option. This fixes all of those issues. Chromecast does not have this option and cannot fix the error. I haven't tested the rest. After a week of fiddling with all the settings trying to match the color and clarity of my 15 year old 1080p LED TV, I finally got the bright, crisp and beautiful 4K TV I was hoping for. Per. I hope you find this useful!

Pros
  • Stylish and modern design
Cons
  • So-so