The brand’s Tizen smart platform is bolstered by clever niceties like Ambient mode (wherein you can have the set double as an image gallery when in standby) and smart home SmartThings support device support. support for gaming, displays a wide color gamut, and gets much brighter in HDR to deliver a better HDR experience. While this is largely in line with other HDR-supporting low-cost screens, it’s not particularly jazzy. Apart from Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness and Colour, there aren’t many settings to worry about on this TV, however a couple of them are particularly significant.

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If our Samsung TU8000 TV review has you considering other options, here are three more TVs for you to check out. Closer in on the action, there’s still plenty of intensity to the colors, if not quite the same subtlety as we saw at 4K. With the Contrast Enhancer set to high, highlight details are presented much more brightly alongside those deep blacks, and with very little blooming. The Samsung has a much better contrast ratio, it gets a bit brighter in HDR, it has much better black uniformity, and it has improved color accuracy.

It’s more cutting-edge than you might first think (Samsung can’t help itself), and smart connectivity is excellent.

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Likewise, the LG has a better total response time, but it stutters more than the Samsung in low frame rate content. On the other hand, the TU8000 has a somewhat improved contrast ratio and much better black uniformity.

This remote can also be set up as a universal control for your other devices, which you’ll be prompted about during the initial setup. Scroll down from this main row of apps and you’ll come to Samsung’s content hub, with rows of TV and film recommendations, albeit from a limited number of providers. They’re set to maximum out of the box, which is too strong but understandable given that there’s not a huge amount of peak brightness to this panel. The Samsung Q60/Q60T QLED and the Samsung TU8000 perform quite similarly overall, although the Q60T has a slight edge.

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On the other hand, the LG has wider viewing angles,better reflection handling, andbetter gradient handling. Samsung’s 2010 LCD TVs continued the company’s tradition for excellent contrast performance, but did have some video processing issues which made us recommend them only with reservations. Note: The specific model we tested was the Samsung UE55D8000YUXXU, which is the 3-pin-plug UK version. The Samsung Q80/Q80T is higher up in the Samsung lineup than the Samsung TU8000, and so has better overall performance. This is usually a matter of taste but we’re pleased to see that, while not the best on the block for motion, the UA55TU8000 removes much of the judder as we watch Interstellar on 4K Blu-ray.This is usually a matter of taste but we’re pleased to see that, while not the best on the block for motion, the UN55TU8000 removes much of the judder as we watch Interstellar on 4K Blu-ray. There's a TU8500 model that sits between it and the company's QLEDs, and perhaps that will be even better, but it's rather hard to imagine it - or any other TV for that matter - proving to be a bigger bargain this year than the excellent, affordable TU8000. We tested the 55 inch model (UN55TU8000FXZA), but these results are alsovalid for the 43 inch, 50 inch, 65 inch, 75 inch, and 85 inch models. Sadly, it doesn't support any DTS formats, which is disappointing, as many UHD Blu-rays use DTS for their lossless audio tracks.