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

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That means a press of the home button will bring up a row of your installed apps, which are now smaller to fit more on screen, and highlighting any one of them will show up a secondary row of suggested content or actions. This content will be customised to your viewing habits if you’re signed in to that particular app, so Netflix will offer to continue what you were last watching, for example. Familiar from other Samsungs, we’re offered two Game mode options. If you opt to select Game Motion Plus, you’ll retain some elements of beneficial picture processing. In this mode, input lag measures around 26.7ms (which is fine for casual gaming). However if you disable Game Motion Plus, and go hardcore Game mode, input lag drops to a mere 11.7ms (measured at 1080p/60fps), which can be considered excellent.

Samsung UN55TU8000 review | What Hi-Fi? Samsung UN55TU8000 review | What Hi-Fi?

It works really well, even automatically adding the wi-fi details it digs out from your device so you don’t have to mess around with on-screen keyboards, which is always welcome. But it’s also pre-baked, so you can’t make adjustments in the Expert settings menu, whereas Standard opens up gamma control and colour space adjustments, for those who like to tinker.The dialogue is fairly murky, too. There’s no problem hearing or understanding what’s said, but it’s like listening with a layer of material between our ears and the characters’ voices. A new feature of this 2020 TV is the implementation of Bixby and compatibility with Google Assistant and Alexa, which greatly simplify the interaction with the TV. The hub features are expanded this year, so you can basically control all of your smart devices through the TV and even get on-screen notifications when the washing machine cycle ends. We give 5/5 points for the Samsung UE55TU8000 review part of the functions. Sound 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. Taking a step down to SDR with The Amazing Spider-man 2 on Blu-ray, there’s a lot more for this set to get its teeth into, color-wise. Watching the Times Square scene, it’s clear this TV upscales well. The shot over the neon-lit New York streets still shows tremendous micro dimming control. The lights of windows and advertising boards don’t spill into the nearby dark and the picture remains clean.

Samsung UA55TU8000 review | What Hi-Fi? Samsung UA55TU8000 review | What Hi-Fi?

In this new artefact-free configuration, we were much, much happier with the pictures the UE55D8000 was putting out, and began to appreciate this HDTV in a new light. Since we lost access to the 10-point correction mode, darker areas of the picture appeared very mildly blue-tinted, but the inaccuracies were still small and easy to ignore. Colour performance was excellent, with an off-hue blue being the only point of contention in this area. Console GamingStretched out onto this 55in panel, it’s obviously far from an AV treat but the picture is solid, the colours are realistic and there’s even some detail and texture to the guests’ woollen jumpers and the charismatic host’s pin-striped suit. 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) 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.