The Q 900 R: A Game-Changing 85-Inch 8K QLED TV

I recently had the opportunity to experience Samsung's latest 85-inch 8K QLED TV, and I must say, it was an unforgettable experience. The TV's pre-production unit was calibrated by Samsung, and they claimed that it achieved 2300 nits with a 10% window, which is more than enough to offer high-impact HDR performance. While we'll need to wait for the retail version to verify this number, from what I've seen, Samsung has indeed made significant improvements in local dimming processing, revealing more shadow detail while controlling blooming and offering extremely deep black levels.

In terms of sheer picture quality, the Q 900 R looks outstanding across the board. The company's learned from feedback on its previous models and has refined its technology to offer a superior viewing experience. However, it's essential to note that the TV's ability to control local dimming is crucial in achieving high-impact HDR performance. Samsung's new quantum dot panel provides unparalleled color accuracy, contrast, and brightness, making this TV a powerhouse for HDR content.

One of the most exciting aspects of the Q 900 R is its native 8K resolution. The higher pixel density offers a razor-sharp picture with little to no noise, smooth gradations, and smooth edges on curved objects. When 8K content becomes more widely available, this TV will be able to reproduce it beautifully, providing an unparalleled viewing experience.

However, the real challenge is scaling down lower-resolution content to 8K without introducing noticeable artifacts or loss of detail. Samsung's new quantum AI upscaling processor addresses this issue, using a complex process that analyzes multiple dimensions of the image to offer a higher level of accurate detail than traditional interpolation-based upscaling methods. In testing, I found that the Q 900 R significantly outperformed other TVs in upscaling lower-resolution content, such as 1080p and 720p, at this massive screen size.

This is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, it shows that Samsung's upscaling quality has finally matched the screen sizes that truly need it – namely, large screens like the Q 900 R. Secondly, it demonstrates the importance of accurate upscaling in enhancing the overall viewing experience. When watching lower-resolution content on a massive screen, the difference can be significant.

While some might argue that 8K is too far ahead of its time and not yet widely available, I'd counter that the display has always led the way in this industry. Samsung's Q 900 R is pushing the boundaries of what we expect from TV technology, and it's essential to acknowledge the innovation and investment required to bring us here.

So, what does it mean for the home entertainment industry? With the Q 900 R, Samsung is opening a door to new possibilities for realism in TV viewing. We're seeing a new level of immersion, expressiveness, and detail that was previously unimaginable on large screens. The future of TV is exciting, and I firmly believe that this is just the beginning.

The TV itself is big, bold, and beautiful, with an immersive viewing experience that's hard to put into words. It's expensive, yes, but considering its capabilities and the innovation behind it, I'd say it's a worthwhile investment for those who want to experience the best of what modern TVs have to offer.

In conclusion, Samsung's 85-inch 8K QLED TV is an exceptional product that sets a new standard for large-screen viewing experiences. While we've only scratched the surface of what this technology has to offer, I'm excited about the potential and the innovations that will continue to emerge from the industry as a whole.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Caleb Dennison here I'm locked inside a room at Samsung's QA labs in New Jersey finally getting some deep hands-on and eyes on time with the beautiful 85 inch 8k Q LED television now we first saw this TV at Aoife and when we broke the news we heard a lot of the same kind of a question y8k can you really see the difference over 4k we just got 4k why are the manufacturers doing this to us well we're gonna address some of those concerns but more than that we want to dive into the TV and find out in earnest how good is this television and we're gonna talk a lot about AI based upscaling because frankly there's no 8k content right now which might not be the big deal that you think it is so with that in mind let's dig in as Samsung's flagship TV the Q 900 has almost all the features you get from its top tier 4k TV the Q 9fn that includes the one connect box you see here which is a bit larger than you'll see with other Samsung Hewlett's it includes four HDMI ports and HDMI one is version 2.1 which means the TV will support one 8k source and up to 30 FPS 4k support goes up to 60fps but right now this TV does not support variable refresh rate at 4k you do get vrr at 2k though the one connect box links to the TV with this one invisible fiber-optic cable it even carries power to the TV so when you install it this is all you have to hide and you don't even really have to hide it it kind of just disappears around the back of the TV you'll notice this M shaped pattern this is to support Samsung's no gap wall mount and because the TV is so big and heavy it needs to anchor to two studs and on two places on the TV cable management if you do not wall mount involve several channels on the back of the TV so you never see the wire just run it off to either side and down the channel found in one of the TV's feet speaking of the feet they are separated to the far sides of the TV so if you're gonna put this on an entertainment stand or credenza that furniture is going to need to be seriously wide just shy of 66 inches by our measurement the TV's depth is just shy of 1.5 inches putting it on the thick side of the spectrum but that's what you need for such a serious direct LED backlight system I'm told by Samsung by the way that the Q 900 R here offers the same number of local dimming zones as the Q 9fn so about 500 Samsung also told me that in their testing of this calibrated pre-production unit they were able to achieve 2300 nits with a 10% window which is more than enough to offer high impact HDR performance once we get a retail sample we'll be able to verify that but from observation we're pretty confident Samsung's number is accurate what's more important than sheer luminance power though is the TV's ability to control local dimming and from what I've seen during a day of testing is that Samsung's local dimming processing has never been better the company learned from feedback on its q9 FN and is revealing more shadow detail while controlling blooming and offering extremely deep black levels in fact in terms of sheer picture quality the Q 900 R looks outstanding across the board but then again we kind of expected it to the real reason we're here though is to talk 8k upscaling and native 8k resolution how effective is it do we really need this well let's first address native aka versus native 4k side-by-side the difference is clear at this picture size 8k offers a sense of realism that the 4k image doesn't and that's because of the higher pixel per inch count you get a razor sharp picture with little to no noise smooth gradations and smooth edges on curved objects when 8k content starts coming available and it will this TV is going to reproduce it beautifully and I think people are going to be very excited but we're a ways out from native 8k being anywhere close to commonly available we're just getting there now with 4k and it's taken about seven years so upscaling is crucial and Samsung knows it that's why it's employing an entirely new kind of upscaling processor one that uses an extremely complex process to analyze multiple dimensions of a pick image and is said to offer a higher level of accurate detail than today's standard interpolation based upscaling so does it work yeah it does 4k content upscaled to 8k on this 85 inch 8k TV looks better than 4k content displayed natively on a comparable 82 inch 4k TV and a side-by-side comparison the detail was enhanced and less noisy Samsung was pointing this out to me but I looked beyond what they were highlighting and showed them areas that I picked out with my naked eye that even they hadn't seen yet but I'm not saying this to toot my own horn I'm coming around to the point that I had to study the image carefully to see the differences they're pretty minut but they are there the devil is in the details and if you focus you see it but my main concern was getting the sense of that clarity in aggregate like from the whole image and after watching this TV for several hours I have to say yeah it affects the viewing experience as a whole but only just more important I thought would be how the TV did at upscaling 1080p and even lossy or 720p content like what you get from ESPN through your cable provider it's funny we're talking about 8k content support and ESPN through cable isn't even Full HD well I'm pleased to report that the Q 900 R does a noticeably superior job of upscaling lower resolution content at this big screen size than samsung's Q LED TVs not equipped with the new quantum AI upscaling chip and that is super important what it says is that samsung's upscaling quality is finally matching up with the screen sizes that really need it at 85 inches this 8k upscaling looks significantly better than 4k upscaling its sharper smoother richer it's what you expect when watching such a big screen but it's always been so hard to get until now so when we talk about 8k and you feel that urge to poopoo the tech is too far ahead of its time remember that the display has always led the way in this industry we're just seeing that happen again everything's gonna be okay alright so there you have it folks to Samsung 85 inch 8kq LED TV is big bold beautiful its immersive very expressive and yes also very expensive that reminds me of when 4k first came out it was very expensive then and there was no 4k content than either I think we're looking at the next iteration of that kind of innovation Samsung is basically opening a door right now and others will catch up eventually but I do think it's important to think about how at 85 inches 8k can pursue realism that we've not had from TV in the past so we're looking at the beginning of a rather long road but I am excited at what this is bringing to the home entertainment industry and I think that this is a very good first iteration one of the best TVs I've seen in a long timehey guys Caleb Dennison here I'm locked inside a room at Samsung's QA labs in New Jersey finally getting some deep hands-on and eyes on time with the beautiful 85 inch 8k Q LED television now we first saw this TV at Aoife and when we broke the news we heard a lot of the same kind of a question y8k can you really see the difference over 4k we just got 4k why are the manufacturers doing this to us well we're gonna address some of those concerns but more than that we want to dive into the TV and find out in earnest how good is this television and we're gonna talk a lot about AI based upscaling because frankly there's no 8k content right now which might not be the big deal that you think it is so with that in mind let's dig in as Samsung's flagship TV the Q 900 has almost all the features you get from its top tier 4k TV the Q 9fn that includes the one connect box you see here which is a bit larger than you'll see with other Samsung Hewlett's it includes four HDMI ports and HDMI one is version 2.1 which means the TV will support one 8k source and up to 30 FPS 4k support goes up to 60fps but right now this TV does not support variable refresh rate at 4k you do get vrr at 2k though the one connect box links to the TV with this one invisible fiber-optic cable it even carries power to the TV so when you install it this is all you have to hide and you don't even really have to hide it it kind of just disappears around the back of the TV you'll notice this M shaped pattern this is to support Samsung's no gap wall mount and because the TV is so big and heavy it needs to anchor to two studs and on two places on the TV cable management if you do not wall mount involve several channels on the back of the TV so you never see the wire just run it off to either side and down the channel found in one of the TV's feet speaking of the feet they are separated to the far sides of the TV so if you're gonna put this on an entertainment stand or credenza that furniture is going to need to be seriously wide just shy of 66 inches by our measurement the TV's depth is just shy of 1.5 inches putting it on the thick side of the spectrum but that's what you need for such a serious direct LED backlight system I'm told by Samsung by the way that the Q 900 R here offers the same number of local dimming zones as the Q 9fn so about 500 Samsung also told me that in their testing of this calibrated pre-production unit they were able to achieve 2300 nits with a 10% window which is more than enough to offer high impact HDR performance once we get a retail sample we'll be able to verify that but from observation we're pretty confident Samsung's number is accurate what's more important than sheer luminance power though is the TV's ability to control local dimming and from what I've seen during a day of testing is that Samsung's local dimming processing has never been better the company learned from feedback on its q9 FN and is revealing more shadow detail while controlling blooming and offering extremely deep black levels in fact in terms of sheer picture quality the Q 900 R looks outstanding across the board but then again we kind of expected it to the real reason we're here though is to talk 8k upscaling and native 8k resolution how effective is it do we really need this well let's first address native aka versus native 4k side-by-side the difference is clear at this picture size 8k offers a sense of realism that the 4k image doesn't and that's because of the higher pixel per inch count you get a razor sharp picture with little to no noise smooth gradations and smooth edges on curved objects when 8k content starts coming available and it will this TV is going to reproduce it beautifully and I think people are going to be very excited but we're a ways out from native 8k being anywhere close to commonly available we're just getting there now with 4k and it's taken about seven years so upscaling is crucial and Samsung knows it that's why it's employing an entirely new kind of upscaling processor one that uses an extremely complex process to analyze multiple dimensions of a pick image and is said to offer a higher level of accurate detail than today's standard interpolation based upscaling so does it work yeah it does 4k content upscaled to 8k on this 85 inch 8k TV looks better than 4k content displayed natively on a comparable 82 inch 4k TV and a side-by-side comparison the detail was enhanced and less noisy Samsung was pointing this out to me but I looked beyond what they were highlighting and showed them areas that I picked out with my naked eye that even they hadn't seen yet but I'm not saying this to toot my own horn I'm coming around to the point that I had to study the image carefully to see the differences they're pretty minut but they are there the devil is in the details and if you focus you see it but my main concern was getting the sense of that clarity in aggregate like from the whole image and after watching this TV for several hours I have to say yeah it affects the viewing experience as a whole but only just more important I thought would be how the TV did at upscaling 1080p and even lossy or 720p content like what you get from ESPN through your cable provider it's funny we're talking about 8k content support and ESPN through cable isn't even Full HD well I'm pleased to report that the Q 900 R does a noticeably superior job of upscaling lower resolution content at this big screen size than samsung's Q LED TVs not equipped with the new quantum AI upscaling chip and that is super important what it says is that samsung's upscaling quality is finally matching up with the screen sizes that really need it at 85 inches this 8k upscaling looks significantly better than 4k upscaling its sharper smoother richer it's what you expect when watching such a big screen but it's always been so hard to get until now so when we talk about 8k and you feel that urge to poopoo the tech is too far ahead of its time remember that the display has always led the way in this industry we're just seeing that happen again everything's gonna be okay alright so there you have it folks to Samsung 85 inch 8kq LED TV is big bold beautiful its immersive very expressive and yes also very expensive that reminds me of when 4k first came out it was very expensive then and there was no 4k content than either I think we're looking at the next iteration of that kind of innovation Samsung is basically opening a door right now and others will catch up eventually but I do think it's important to think about how at 85 inches 8k can pursue realism that we've not had from TV in the past so we're looking at the beginning of a rather long road but I am excited at what this is bringing to the home entertainment industry and I think that this is a very good first iteration one of the best TVs I've seen in a long time\n"