my last tv was from more than 10 years ago. after much consideration, i went with the qun90c. im glad to report that im super happy with my choice. i wanted a tv that absolutely rocks at gaming on pc and console, and that is quite suitable for movie watching. ive seen a lot of hate thrown at this tv in comments so that got me worried when i picked it up. im just here to balance things up and confirmed that nothing stands out as being absolutely horrid. this TV is a safe, good around pick. id say Its a very good offering, but then again im not a huge tv buyer so what do i know.
I'd say don't worry too much about the comments section peanut gallery. According to the comments section every tv is trash. Way too much brand bias in the tv community to take the comments seriously.
There's a problem from my understanding, that Samsung haven't made a direct replacement. The 90C is now comparable to the 85B. The 90B (last years) is now comparable to the 95C. Due to a rebrand and something to do with the USA market. At least that's how I understand it. So the only way to compare would be in pricing not model numbers. As the 90B was more superior to the 90C as I understand it.
Interesting they seem to have changed their tune on the QN90C pretty recently. They had it as the best bright-room TV for a while and best QLED. Now they have the X93L and the Hisense U8 ranked ahead of it on the website.
I know. I think that viewing angle is severely under-valued for ratings. Just about every living room I've been in has a couch with the comfy corner seats that are outside of the Hisense's viewing angle window. I would live it if Rtings did a deep dive on what the average living room actually looks like. People probably sit off-angle way more than they think.
Thanks for all the reviews for samsung, lg, and sony. I waited for the QN95C review since Sept. and once it arrived decided to save 1k and buy the QN90C after the QN95C wasn't as widely available and seemed plagued with quality issues.
@brownskinb5084 Don't know, never set up the smart features in order to avoid being defaulted into the Samsung tv/ads when I turn it on. My Xbox has all the apps I need installed.
I bought this TV in the 75" a week ago and I am blown away, it is just a fantastic TV, it was the most expensive TV I have ever bought but it is worth every penny, I have a room with massive windows and this is excellent at handling the brightness ...no more squinting for me. The blacks are black and the picture is amazing. Read other reviews online. Wonderful TV!!
I made the mistake of trying to use an OLED for a PC Desktop/Gaming TV. LOTS of burn in and there are many other characteristics of OLEDS I cant stand. This will most likely be my next display. The 55" is $997.99 on Crutchfield right now.
Yeah, but the VA panel viewing angles are terrible. Way too underrated a problem. Even if people usually don't watch TV in groups, livingrooms are still set up to host, which means the comfy spots are often in the corner of the couch outside of the viewing angle.
@@benthompson8683 naw viewing angles arent that bad. There isnt any noticeable degradation from my left and right seats compared to the middle seat of the couch. I havent seen an LED/LCD with what I would consider bad viewing angles in 10 or 15 years. Back in the day, those old rear projection tvs were terrible. You couldnt see a thing (an all grey washed out screen) if you went more than 20 or 30 degrees off angle. That is what I consider a bad viewing angle. Not a 10% drop in direct light output when 45° off axis.
@@benthompson8683 oh and my room is a dedicated room with two rows. A three seater couch for the front row and a two seat theatrical style loveseat for the back row. No one is wildly off axis.
Great review. It seams that LG is way behind in LED TV's with their QNED models for 2023. They try to promote and push them little bit on the market by throwing free examples reviewers all over the world and we can see and hear same generic info about them. No one measure peak brightnes, dimming zones and all other good stuff. That's why i have way more respect for people and channels like RTINGS who bought TV with their own money!!!
Mounted our 55" QN90C to the wall yesterday and it looks absolutely fantastic! I would say it looks better than my Coolermaster GP27Q 1440p monitor with 576 zones at 27" So far i have been very impressed but havent hooked up the PC to try gaming (yet)
There's a few things that no reviewer really talks about. I want to know how many mini LED's each size has and what the differences in number is compared to last year's model. The older 43 inch model from 2022 did not have anti reflecting coating did they resolve that in the 2023 version? And something that the 2022 models had was that you can't fast forward on h.265 videos it can only play the video's but it can't scroll through them. Has this been fixed?
I would love to see Rtings do a deep dive on the average living room dimensions, seating arrangement, and lighting. I don't think I've ever found a living room where viewing angles weren't a problem at the edge of the couch, much less with the ubiquitous "to old people in separate chairs" layout. Who's the target market for these VA panel TV's? Single people with no friends and one chair in a windowless apartment?
I've had VAs in the living room for a long time now. Mounting on an arm mount solves vast majority of seating situations and I have a family of 4. You know 90%+ people aren't discerning enough to notice slight color washout unless you go out of your way to point it out. Most people won't notice it unless they're at an extreme oblique angle.
I mean a lot of that will depend on size and viewing distance. Most people don't sit really close to a giant tv so viewing angles generally aren't a problem. Obviously if you have a really tiny living room and want to put a massive tv in it, you will need to plan accordingly. But that is not most people.
The sony that you guys reccomended that is better is $1000 more but it's not $1000 more better I own both lcd and oleds I bought an oled and regretted it as it was in a well lit room now it's in my dark bedroom works just fine lcd is still king in lit rooms
This TV punches SO HARD for gamers I bought the 85 for $1999 on sale at Best Buy. It does have a little blooming in some areas watching movies but you kinda have to look at it to see it ( I am sensitive to blooming i have an LG oled so I like black}. Upscaling on RU-vid could be a touch better. I have the 4k MAX app and it is mind blowing good. Best way to describe is you get what you give with content, feed it good signals and you will get what you paid for. The highlight pop on this tv will have you questioning oled a bit in some scenes, that is something I really want you to take away if you read this. TV is a solid 9 IMO.
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Thanks! Have you ever thought about showing the differences in ... lets call it clarity? by using the simple "adjust clear type text" using a connected pc? My personal 55qn90c panel fails in all regards. It simply can´t show text (white on black + black on white) correctly. My marco pictures show orange and blue beeing lit up as well on the border between black and white. Orange on the left and blue on the right. VLC playing in native resolution has its time counter skewed wth the ":" beeing a brighter blue than black. And whatever i try to clear or smooth out: the text always looks like it needs anti aliasing. Coming from a 50qn94c, which can brilliantly be misused as a pc monitor if the desk has 40 inch depth, this .. "ads"? panel seems to be not fit for work. I´ve read your article and setting suggestions and have tried even the wrong settings (anything but 4.4.4). Could anybody kindly test this as well? And it is not only medicore in its upscaling. BG3 Charactes have less detail than on my 50qn90a: I´ve made a burly blue eyed ork with fairly visible eyelashes that look far too feminine on him. Those are simply gone in any portrait picture. And his cheek tatoo hard can be seen. I´m still testing to see what i could be doing wrong..
I've owned this TV for almost a year in both the 55" and 75" models and they are absolutely fantastic televisions! Videos like this are great for convincing people to buy other models instead and now they're selling super cheap. I bought a second 75" QN90C from Amazon last week for $1477... an amazing deal! Get one now while they're still in stock!
Hi, I've been debating for the longest time between the 75" Samsung QN90C and the 75" Sony x93L. They both looked great in store and I just pulled the trigger on the Samsung at Bestbuy primarily due to price-- the Samsung was $1750 and the Sony was $2500. I hope I made the right decision as the Samsung seems to get a lot of hate which I don't really understand.
@@user-yz5mn2go2d Wait until you turn it on the first time! The haters can hate all they want while you thoroughly enjoy your amazing new TV! I have a 4K Bluray player and it looks absolutely stunning on the QN90CQ75!
Can Samsung's QN90C 55" tv have a Samsung Q990D or Q910D soundbar's center rest the top of the tv's stand while not blocking the tv's frame? How much room is between the top of the tv stand and the bottom of the tv frame? Thanks!
I needed a new TV so went shopping at Costco and ended up with the 75” for $1100 because it was their display and it came with a five year warranty. No scratches or anything on it and couldn’t be happier
...I have a Q70R...is the QN90C worth the "upgrade"? Both are close in the mixed usage rating on your site. I am waiting to pull the trigger on this TV...
Very glad you guys like your TV's! I just ordered my Qn90c 43'' and i can't wait to test it. The main reason i bought it is to enjoy hogwarts legacy alot more. Coming from an 10 years old 37'' 60HZ 1080P LG TV it will make a huge difference!
@@MrGerardoMarquez I have the QN90C and its very good for gaming. The picture quality is almost perfect and with 144hz everything is smooth. Also movies are a whole new experience. I never really watched movies but since i have this TV i began to watch them because the quality is so nice.
The 75 inch was £3,999 when it first came out, it is now £1,999 but can be got cheaper with money back deals, I ending up getting it with 20% cash back so £1600, there are good deals out there and this TV is a bargain at that price, no dolby vision but I can live with that!
A direct comparison on their site would disagree with your statement, especially if you don't game/watch much in the dark. The biggest score gap was in the reflection handling.
No, blooming is barely noticeable on my 85 qn90c. Only regret is not buying it after superbowl cause it got a big price drop. Mini led don't worry about picture image
I have an LG model number 55UM7400 that does HDR quite well apart from live sport (Sky and TNT Ultra HD). The picture is too dark when watching football. If I upgrade to the QN90C, 50 inch, will I see a noticeable difference in the picture quality, or is the HDR on this LG just as good? Cheers.
But can you tell me if the 50" will be fine for me? 50" is all I can fit with still being comfortable in my basement so will I be fine with this tv in the 50" size?
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How does it compare to x90L? Would you choose x90l or QN90C? X93L is not available in india and x90L has very less dimming zones but have heard it handles blooming better. So bit confused with x90l vs QN90C or even S90C..they all are priced very similar in India. Need good brightness also.
@@jollama I am aware they have but numbers dont define everything. Seeing both tv's side by side is a different thing all together which cannot be represented by ratings methodology. Rting-just a suggestion how about you start recording and upload video of tvs in their review playing same content in exact same lighting and give an option to view it side by side
Go for X90l! I got a similar comparison between the same three(s90c, qn n x), and took me a week to decide to go with Sony due to its image processing upscale and brightness..though it has some blooming which can be seen
Sounds like OLED is the better option if you aren't afraid of burn in. The point of Min-LED is to have better blooming control but the QN90C can't even get that right even with the better hardware therefore defeats the purpose of getting it. I have an X90L, and an OLED monitor, both are good but at night I prefer my OLED even at the smaller size, and even though the upscaling doesn't look as amazing as on the X90L. Consider what your use case is first before picking between the S90C, and the X90L.
I think lg prolly has the best burn in prevention not sure tho. If I were you I would just get it from best buy and get the burn in warranty. But honestly really shouldn't worry about burn unless you just watch the new all day or something. I got an LG c1 for 2 years now and play videogames for hours on it and got no burn in. Ima get a qdoled next tho
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One more thing this tv looses eye poping the further you get but guess what your living room is probably not 20 feet or longer this is the only down fall from a watching stand point the oled distance stays constant and crisp this is great to enjoy for like close up living room maby like 12 feet away oled goes strong at more angles but oled is kind of boring watched side by side no a big difference however the Best Buy guy blames the wi fi
The QN94C has Ultimate UHD Dimming Pro Micro Dimming, theoretically providing them with slightly better local dimming than the QN90C. But we haven't tested it so we can't confirm for sure
Unfortunately this is expected behaviour. We talk more about it in the review section of our review if you’re curious! www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/qn90c-qn90cd-qled
I have to disagree this tv is amazing the contrast is great almost 7 out of 10 upscale is at about a 6.8 the motion and brightness is were you want you don’t want an oled stale picture great uniformity yes great contrast yes exciting picture yes but it’s more like your watching something out of this world the qled is more like you ate a special candy and your in a movie big difference both great but this tv outranks Sony because Sony still has blooming on the 93l and is about perfect at the x95l but that’s top of the line and pictures get great detail and smoothness yet slightly lack enthusiasm towards the film goals
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My 2020 Samsung q90t is still as good and better than some of the newer tvs. Only Hisense u8k may be almost as good. This is according to comparing tvs on rtings.
The Q90T was part of Samsungs budget line. It was the beginning of the Samsung Slide, where they slid up the features while bluffing to the consumer that a 9 series was still a flagship, an 8 a upper mid tier, etc.
@cronoesify I know it is comparable to a q80r. I know people think it's not as good as the q90r. As you said, I bought it because I thought samsung qleds were going to slide in 2021. The qn 90a came out and was slightly better, and rtings still hold the q90t comparisons high in many specs except brightness and color volume. Mini qleds are cheaper now.
@@charlesmyers8150 the QN90B and QN90A were definitely more comparable to the Q90R. I prefer the Q9FN because it doesn't have that disastrous wide angle filter that they instituted. But when their flagship 9 series is rocking, what, 80 to 120 dimming zones? That's astonishingly bad. Either way, the QN90C is another cacophony of tech trade offs that feel like another Samsung Slide in action. Sony just took it this year.
Stay away from Samsung. It can't detect color space automatically in HDR(bt2020, dci-p3), on PC mode you can't change any setting it locks itself to Native color space (unusable). No Hgig, local dimming algorithm is undefeatable. You can't set your console or pc HDR settings with calibration tools because of that. You need to know your panel's capabilities (which varies between models-sizes and countries wildly) to set it manually. Out of the box calibration, other than top of the top model, is miserable. Famous "radioactive green" ! The "game mode" on Samsung panels are taking the biggest hit in terms of image processing and quality downgrades. Like, local dimming almost doesn't even work. And it is like that for almost a decade. No Dolby Vision support. Just a good peak brightness and reasonable pricing in some markets. That is Samsung.
Samsung has gone downhill, rtings bros. The QN95C was even a disappointment. Sony won the high end wars. From OLED to QLED. RIP Samsung. RIP one connect box. RIP samsung colors and speed. RIP samsung black crush.
I don't care for Sonys panel appearance (not necessarily the picture) appears like there is a plastic film that needs peeled off the panel. Unlike Samsung higher end models and LG G3.
@@TimothyTurtle32 Samsung's focus isn't on QLED as much as it has been in the past. Especially with them looking into WOLED for some of the models now, it's only a matter of time until the QLEDs start getting cut back.
I've had this TV for over a month, the picture is incredible. I've enjoyed tuning the settings for a while and finally have them exactly how I like them. I use both Movie "Calibrated" mode and Dynamic mode depending on what I'm watching. 4K movies are life like, Anime looks incredible, Upscaling SDR is excellent and PS5 (Tekken 8, Horizon Forbidden West & Street Fighter 6) with some adjusting looks crisp and vibrant. This Tv can get Extremely bright. I had the Sony X90J (2022), the picture appeared like looking through a piece of glass (its a Sony thing) & the VA panel made it have very narrow viewing angles so I returned the Sony. Brought my Samsung Q80T out from my bedroom until I purchased a 55" QN90C. Yes there is blooming but I only notice when there is a single icon on the corners of a blank screen, subtitles don't have any blooming. I read that the 65" has more dimming zones so less blooming, I hope this helps.
Big panel issue in the 55inch model. Look out for dark shadows on all 4 corners of the tv. Check with an all white background. Seems like Samsung is sweeping this issue under the carpet. They don’t acknowledge it. My friend changed 3 brand new tvs and they all had the same issue
Sony may have better processing, but my 2yr old Bravia died last year. UNREPAIRABLE! Totally insane to make such an expensive product be disposable! I was a sony fan for the past 30yrs, too.
I just setup my Samsung Q90C. Used the expert calibration. I am very picky with movies and sandy grainy issue on many movies and it depends on what I am watching. Any movies where there is a landscape scene intentional blurriness, like The Flash, there is a sandy grainy quality to the picture. The main subject comes in very clear and fine, especially video games. In one movie there was a panorama and the main subjects are walking in a valley the picture is quite grainy instead of the intended blur that you would get from looking at something from a distance. Absolutely show and plays games better than my 8 year old Samsung curved, but not movies. The old Samsung shows things in the distance with a proper blur not a grainy blur. How weird.
I’ve just setup the Q70C and the issue you are having with movies, I’m having in both movies and gaming. Very sandy grainy + blurriness. Almost like watching a video at 720p despite the screen and quality being set on 2160p
@@j01150126 I had a technician come over and he said it is normal, not a defect. And he said “Honestly, this is normal, just increase your viewing distance up until you can’t see it anymore. I can send it to the shop but so long as there aren’t any dead pixels I promise they’ll send it back as is as fixed without doing any tests” … so anyway I now I have a Q70C listed for sale like new 😂 might switch to LG, Sony, or Panasonic.
@@TimothyTurtle32 yea I understand that but them black bars be dark as night no light bleed a total joy to watch movies and game on it, I just can't go back but i know the OLED technology drawbacks definitely taken preventive measures
Amy I am sorry but I disagree with your review. It Is terrible when it comes to glare!!! We close all of our window shades during the day time. In the evening we can’t use our table lamps because the glare is so bad. My wife and I fight over the best place to sit in order to avoid the glare! The Samsung channel selection system is slow, we are always waiting for the channel to show up. Yes we have great cable WiFi. Our doesn’t have any problematic in bedroom has great. I highly do not recommend this tv! I am about to sell and hope I get half my money back! Oh! I have advertise it the day it is working. It would be great for a gamer in a dark room sitting in front of tv! Great picture when you can see it!
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Until you realise how horribly intense the ghosting is. And how the mid-dark blue colors are way too bright and overlapping, as if there's only 1 tint of blue. I'm about to return mine.
@@HiddenDeadX I don't know about the blue colors. Mine looks pretty close to my a80j OLED. As for the motion. It doesn't bother me. I came from a worse VA panel monitor. This thing is an upgrade all around.
I've had my 43" for PC desktop now for a month. I sit in front of this for 10+ hrs a day, mainly for desktop work (not publishing type work though) and some gaming in the evening. Whilst it is not perfect, for me the advantages of this over the 32" 1440p monitor it replaced, far outweigh the disbenefits. Everyone's mileage will vary and I understand if some wouldn't get on with it. For me I took a punt on this knowing that there was a chance I would end up ditching it. For me though, I'm really glad I took the gamble.
I'm about to buy this to change my Gigabyte M27Q 1440p. Would you say this 43" model on Qn90c is a significant upgrade? I play mostly single player story games and I use both PC with a 4060ti and a PS5. I plan to use it both as a monitor an occasional streaming netflix.
a WOled and Oled, with less brightness vs a high brightness tv like led qled, mini led qled vs upcoming microled TV which are also has self lighting features. Which one is perfect will survive longer?
Oled have more contrast in a room that doesn’t get a lot of sunlight oled will be nicer. Although mini led seems you can get a bigger screen for less money so if a big screen is wanted for a more affordable price mini led is the way to go! You can get the qn90c with 85 inch screen for $2200 a C3 oled is 3300 for 83 inch
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