2024 Samsung QN900D Neo QLED 8K First Impressions 

I pressed the button and got on 900D with a student account It's a 💣🫶

Imagine 8K QD OLED 👀

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@@tazboy1934 That's great!

Not sure if serious...? I'm looking at TV, my first screen purchase in 25 years or so, apart from phones and laptops. The idea of doing some productivity and the like, perhaps with a guest, appeals a lot to me. I guess it will require a serious PC but I'll be getting that for gaming anyway, or a powerful travel laptop, perhaps even a gaming laptop if all I need from it is graphics. Do you have experience using a large TV to get work done from the couch or floor?

I am 100% in the same boat. Qleds have gotten just about as good at contrast as Oled and a lot better in some areas like brightness. I enjoy watching my QLed just as much as my OLed

Especially when you watch in a bright room,the difference in almost non existent unless you sit at a tight angle.

Have you viewed star fields on your G3 vs Q90R? I realize this is a very narrow question, but I’m a bit worried this 900D will come up short when it comes to displaying something with single-pixels on a black background. My partner is deep into astrophotography, and our OLED excels at this. I recognize this won’t be a problem for most folks, but it’s pivotal for us.

OLED HDR is decent in that they can do uniform pixel lighting down to the hairline pixel side by side with other color levels and down to "infinite blacks" which creates side by side pixel by pixel contrast and maintains detail. That side by side isn't just object and areas based in scenes either, it's down to the detail and texture within objects. OLED HDR is good in highlights, isolated light sources, and details rather than large bright mids (and highs) scene areas. The real scene brightness in mids and highs in 25% and 50% of the screen is very low on oleds (for HDR) still. Like 250 - 330nit typically where a bright FALD would get 600 - 800 nit in those scenes. The overall 100% screen average picture level in bright scenes is also low, OLED suffer from ABL being triggered on brighter scenes and especially sustained brightness. FALD are still swiss cheese of lighting zones, a tetris brickwork of backlights where the contrast drops in darker colors and dark areas around the bright backlights (and sometimes "radiates" the other way dimming a brighter object and making it less detail, paled). They are non-uniform, making localized brightness gradients of zones if not outright blooming at times. It works really well for what they are able to do with the tech, but it's a tradeoff either way, among several other tradeoffs overall between the two techs. I may end up with a 8k 900D fald sometime months later, before I think about getting a 5000 series gpu in 2025, so I'm not bashing FALDs or writing them off really, both techs are using hacks to ameliorate their faults as best they can but neither is perfect by a long shot.

Thank you for your reply I appreciate the detail of the explanation which is very informative thank you

That's dedication . I'd just use Topaz AI for DVDs that didn't make it to bluray

@@nimblegoat the difference between upscaling 480p to 4k and 480p to 8k Is very minimal. Not worth the size and time it takes. 1080p to 4k and 1080p to 8k is noticeable, but 4K to 8K shows the most difference. Since it takes a long time to upscale, I would rather upscale material that shows the most difference which is 4k material

Exactly. This is the question that needs to be answered. The obvious one. But these reviewers don't think about or choose to to comment on lol. Has he even tested a qn900d!? The upscaling and ai on that set may actually be very similar or the same? You've got to take these reviewers with a pinch of salt, as they always seem to miss the point

​@@allanblyth6150Do some research yourself before unjustly criticizing KG. It can do 8K@120Hz and 4K@240Hz. KG wouldn't mention it if it was just "interpolated" 240Hz.

@@Gurka9999 do you have a brain that works properly? 😆

@@allanblyth6150In all honesty it should be said that this isn't really a review but it is something that should be addressed in an actual review

Get the 900D bro! It's a real 💣 Had 800B before. New one is top notch

@leo7onfire I'll wait till end of year discounts. 5k is too much money for a TV.

Hey I remember when a 42 or 50 in pioneer or Fujitsu plasma would cost $11000+ I have a couple. $5k really isn’t that bad for an 85in giant top of the line tv

Hopefully the 75 Inch version price drops low enough by the time we hit black friday , I know the 65 Inch version will but some people say 65 Inch Is too small for 8K to see any real difference. I'm Impressed by everything I heard about this tv In the video. I'm kind of over OLED hype this year , I think A95L has perfected that enough for at least another year till 2025 , this Is MiniLED's year.

I jumped off the Oled hype train a couple years ago. Only Oled I would even consider is a QD oled

@leo7onfire ironically, I already own a 65 inch 800a, but it's having problems and I have a 3 yr warranty at best buy. I'll have a $2200 credit towards something else when I take it in. So thanks for the offer, but I'm going this route at the moment.

Yeah I tried Switch on it and it looked really good I was surprised I thought it would be reduced in game mode and it might be but the upscaling looks good in game mode.

@@TechWithKG Great 😊 thanks for the response and you are my number 1 TV channel because you always try the Switch games out and update us on the upscaling on the different TVs thanks for your work God bless you

Most of the different panel manufacturers have different names for a way to fake higher Hz, so a lot of people are thinking that is what the "240" figure is, a "motion rate" and not actual 4k refresh rates native to the panel. It would be nice to have this confirmed either way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . These fake refresh rates are advertised under different names by different brands and are usually marketed in a manner that will make the average buyer think that they're looking at a hardware-supported refresh rate figure. The motion rate is pretty much always a multiple of the actual refresh rate of the display, often 2x, 4x, or even 8x. Here are the common brand names for the same: Hisense - Motion Rate, 2x or 4x the actual refresh rate LG - TruMotion, 2x the actual refresh rate Samsung - Motion Rate/Clear Motion Rate, 2x the actual refresh rate Sony - Motionflow XR/X-Motion Clarity, 4x or 8x the actual refresh rate TCL - Clear Motion Index (CMI)/Natural Motion, 4x the actual refresh rate Vizio - Clear Action/Dynamic Motion Rate, 2x the actual refresh rate

No it’s not motion rate or anything related to that you are getting real 4k 240hz gaming from this TV.

Thanks for the reply! That's great news, and huge. I wonder if it can run ultrawide resolution at 240hz Las if it was a 760x2160 g95nc, or a 5120x2160 narrower, etc. 240hz 4k is a big deal already though.

Yeah you just get the same look just in HDR Dolby Vision is just a different format but the look is nearly identical most of the time I cannot tell them apart even when side by side no dolby vision is a non issue for me personally just choose the TV with the best things you like don't factor in DV.

Wow, thank you for the support! 🙏🏻

@@TechWithKG Happy to KG 👍 Thanks for sending some love to 8K fans 💜

$8,000

G4 83” seems to be the way

I'd pick this tv.. 8K resolution.. great upscaling now.. brighter.. and best of all If you're a gamer 240FPS.

Yeah content is behind unfortunately this is one reason why Samsung keeps innovating ways to upscale to 8k resolution better.

It can’t do native 8k 120hz gaming it does native 8k 60hz and 4k 240hz for gaming.

The native refresh rate of the panel is 120hz. Gaming is 8k 60hz and 4k 240hz per the spec sheet.

@@TechWithKG Most of the different panel manufacturers have different names for a way to fake higher Hz, so a lot of people are thinking that is what the "240" figure is, a "motion rate" and not actual 4k refresh rates native to the panel. It would be nice to have this confirmed either way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . These fake refresh rates are advertised under different names by different brands and are usually marketed in a manner that will make the average buyer think that they're looking at a hardware-supported refresh rate figure. The motion rate is pretty much always a multiple of the actual refresh rate of the display, often 2x, 4x, or even 8x. Here are the common brand names for the same: Hisense - Motion Rate, 2x or 4x the actual refresh rate LG - TruMotion, 2x the actual refresh rate Samsung - Motion Rate/Clear Motion Rate, 2x the actual refresh rate Sony - Motionflow XR/X-Motion Clarity, 4x or 8x the actual refresh rate TCL - Clear Motion Index (CMI)/Natural Motion, 4x the actual refresh rate Vizio - Clear Action/Dynamic Motion Rate, 2x the actual refresh rate

Probably due to gpu port limitations on 8k 60hz right now. With dsc it would probably be possible otherwise. Nvidia cant do multiple 240hz 4k displays either due to lanes per port or something. Their gpu specs currently say that and 8k 60hz. So maybe 5000 series gpu.(slated for 2025) will be different.

I'm considering this as It seems to have everything , 240 for gaming Is a huge deal and the 5090 coming out will be able to take full advantage of It , and It finally has powerful upscaling good enough to really see a difference and justify 8K. The only problem Is these are super pricey , I hear alot of people say 65 inch Is too small for It to matter and that you need at least the 75 inch or 85 version of this tv to see the Improved fine details. Hopefully prices drop alot between now and black friday.

@@fawkkyutuu8851 I agree with you. It's super expensive, but I'm getting the 65" model to test it out. Make sure it checks all of the boxes especially with the new One Connect Box. I've had two faulty One Connect Boxes in the past, and I'd rather not deal with that headache again. The original One Connect Box with my QN95B was faulty, and my original One Connect Box with my S95C was faulty. My replacement S95C 65" has been perfect away a complete exchange via Samsung. You should look into if you have access to Samsung's EPP Program. They give you discounts based on your employer or you can see if you get discounts by being a AAA member. The 5090 will be insane once it launches, but I won't be upgrading my PC for a long, haha.