Samsung Neo QLED 4K QN90B Series Smart TV (2022) (Refurbished)
$929.99
Screen Size: 65"
Condition: Refurbished
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Great TV but if you have any defect you're going to need two on hand to prove it to Samsung
By No idea on Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2022
Great TV but if you have any defect you're going to need two units on hand to prove to Samsung that the device is indeed defective. I have a panel with a defective backlight and if I didn't have two models of the QN90B I wouldn't be able to prove to the technician that my backlight doesn't function properly. A lot of you will be looking at reviews from youtubers hoping that will be the picture quality that you receive but I can tell you my backlight is totally broken and technicians/ Samsung tech support were telling me that the unit is fine. It's only because I have a fully working Q90B with proper functioning backlight and took a bunch of video evidence between the two that I was able to demonstrate my defective unit. Either Samsung knows very little about how their TV's are supposed to function or they are actively trying to force defective units on customers. The Samsung QN90B has less black crush than the Samsung QN90A which means it doesn't use its brightness to destroy shadows and dark areas of a scene with high brightness levels causing things to look washed out. on the other hand the Samsung QN90A was better at controlling its bloom. It's kind of the tradeoff you make when selecting between these two TV's but I think the more controlled black crush on the Samsung QN90B is better for practical use since it's going to control the contrast and color better. My use case for the Samsung QN90B has ben primarily for a PC monitor and for streaming movies. I connected this TV to both a GTX 1080 and a RTX 3080. the samsung connects and recognizes VRR g-sync 4K 120FPS instantly with no failed handshakes in the month that i've used it. it's not G sync approved but it is very compatible with it VRR. Local dimming is not disabled when VRR is active this needed to be mentioned because a lot of other TV's I looked at do this. I did need to play around with the settings quite a bit too get a picture that was acceptable and had limited blooming for PC usage however so be prepared to calibrate for a while if PC monitor is going to be one of your intended use cases. this TV's brightness is primarily controlled through the combination of contrast and gamma and the backlight setting. Which might be a little weird to get used to if you're coming from a TV previously that just had a simple brightness setting This TV supports automatically entering and leaving game mode on the fly when connected to a console. The picture algorithm completely different depending on what source you're connected to even telling the TV that it was connected to a PC versus a console had an effect on the algorithm that it uses so make sure you correctly label the input. input lag is around 5.9m on 120 fps and 10m at 60 fps. Streaming and watching movies was much simpler to set up and it's accurate to say that you can get set up with the TV looking relatively good in about 5 minutes. I originally got this TV to have something that was relatively close to an OLED imitation and side by side with gaming mode turned off without heavily scrutinizing the display for blooming it would be difficult to tell the difference. One of the main advantages to owning a Samsung QN90B is just how bright the TV can get it can overpower the sunlight from even the brightest living rooms which is the main downside that a lot of OLED's have they will look dull and drab unless you are viewing them in a very dark room. Overall it's a pretty good TV depending on what you're upgrading from. Try to remember when purchasing TV's it's all about compromises and tradeoffs and just pick a few aspects that are important to your use case because every TV Q-LED or O-LED will fail in some areas be it brightness or detailed black levels. The engineers when making a TV need to juggle all sorts of variables things can go wrong that you wouldn't necessarily expect. I purchased a 2018 P series Vizio that had an absolutely phenomenal picture however it would fail handshakes and reboot two or three times a day in a 12 hour period. Simple TV functionality is not a guarantee in the current market. My Samsung QN90B can be instantly powered up and powered down and never fails handshakes even with all the additional technology in it :)
Top critical review
34 people found this helpful
Decent 4K picture, but lots of improvements needed
By Blind Faith 99 on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
This is my 3rd 4k tv. The 4k picture on the others (Sony) was way too dark. Why I bought a second Sony, I have no idea. Did my research on brightness and nits and got to this Samsung. The brightness for 4k is more than adequate, although sometimes the whites seem too bright. In order to get a good picture, you have to turn off their ambient light control. That's absolutely the first thing you should do. If you don't, you're not going to be impressed with the picture. Several negatives: The remote is horrible. It's tiny. No backlighting. Have to turn on the lights and look carefully for what you want to hit. Not a lot of buttons either. Trying to do anything on the remote is an ordeal. The interface needs much improvement. Most of what I watch on tv is with my satellite service. Once you hit the Home button on the remote, you may never get back to your regular TV programming. They seem to be discouraging me from watching my satellite programming, as though they want me to use their Samsung Plus service or whatever it’s called. There’s no easy way to get back to my regular tv programming. There should be a button for that on the remote. A couple of times, I’ve just turned off the TV and started over again. Very difficult (if not impossible) trying to connect devices to this. They have their app called "Easy Connection,” which you install on your PC. Easy Connection has been anything but easy. It's a huge headache. I kinda knew it was going to be a problem when they required an unusually complicated password as though world peace were hanging in the balance. Who would waste time trying to hack into a tv? And even if they did, what are they going to get when they don't have any passwords for finances or things that matter? I knew for sure the "Easy Connection" experience was going to be bad when they couldn’t even express in plain English what their password requirements are. By trial and error, I eventually figured out what they were trying to say. But that only got the app up and running. That all took about an hour. I still haven’t been able to get the tv to recognize the PC. There is NO displayport connection on the back. Four HDMI ports. The video card in my PC is an Nvidia 3070 with only one HDMI port. The other three are, of course, DisplayPort, which is what you would normally want if you're trying to do good 4K. This 4K tv doesn't even have one Displayport connection. So I need to order a Displayport/HDMI adapter. Hope I get an adapter that works. Because I've spent three hours today trying to connect my PC to this tv with their “Easy Connection” app,” it gets1 star.
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