(NEW) Samsung HW-Q800D 5.1.2ch Soundsystem w/Dolby Atmos Audio

Samsung makes some truly stellar equipment but their soundbars have always been a bit iffy. First, there’s the terrible software app that automatically trues to up date your firmware and fails 98% of the time. Leaving you a bricked system or a potentially glitchy one. Then there’s the connectivity. It’ll easily connect to anything mainstream you have. Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, AppleTV, etc. Great, it should. Anything unconventional however, that’s a different story. HDMI switch? Sure … most of the time. A PC however ... while modern PCs are capable of out performing this soundbars Video capabilities and matching its audio, every now and then the sound will cut, input will change and you’ll have no idea why. No clue what causes it. No clue if it’s a crappy CEC protocol, eARC or what, but it is infuriatingly annoying. So I may have a defective bar (same thing happened to another soundbar in my household) and I’ll likely need to send it into Samsung for maintenance. Yay. The remote is basic AF, but that’s been the case with these systems since their inception. Snd this new button scheme on top of the bar itself is absolutely garbage. Seriously, I’m massively intuitive when is comes to electronics and I actually needed the manual to figure that nonsense out. But when the bar works, it’s fantastic. Truly beautiful audio with clear surround capabilities. But be aware, the bar itself big. Nearly as wide as my 65”, but thankfully not too tall so the height of my television matches this thing perfectly. Overall it been about what I expected, iffy. I got this one on sale so I was about to save a bit of money but I would say the value for that money still doesn’t quite match. For the price these things are asking it should work perfectly. No firmware needed. No confusion of how to work the dang thing. No needvto resync the Bluetooth surround speakers (I had to for all of mine). Simple, but it’s not and while this may be one of the best options out that it’s certainly not the best experience. Now if I could only convince them to get ride of eARC, CEC and HDMI controls. They never work correctly and make everything worse the moment they activate. Absolute garbage idea to include those.