75" Samsung QN75Q80TA QLED 4K UHD HDR Smart TV + 4-Yr Accidental Warranty Expired

$1799 at microcenter [microcenter.com] and had best buy price match them today. No it doesnt have dolby vision but my eyes cant tell the difference. No it's not a 4 year warranty but chances are it will be a hassle to get them to honor it. YMMV depending on best buy price match if they are in a market you reside in.

Is Dolby Vision important? Yes and No.
Yes, it without a doubt is the best implementation of HDR available as it's technically superior to the other formats. It's hardware based and makes numerous adjustments to the TV that many manufacturers don't let you change. The scene by scene or frame by frame metadata on the disc are interpreted by the chip, and are made to try to compensate for the shortcomings of TVs to give the best picture possible to get the closest possible picture to the creators intent.

After reading that I'm sure you're now scratching your head wondering why I would also say it's not important. A few reasons. While it's currently more prevalent than HDR10+, most home releases are also not in Dolby Vision. Speaking of HDR10+, it also offers the dynamic metadata that Dolby Vision provides. It is not hardware based, so it will work the best in Samsung devices but is rolling out on more and more devices. While DV can be mastered to 12bit color, no TV can display it, so they're both limited to 10bit color depth. Dolby Vision also becomes slightly less relevant when considering that most high end TVs have their own tone mapping algorithm to try to provide adjust.ments to standard HDR10 content to further enhance the image quality. Finally, it can only do so much to enhance image quality. If you do a "blind test" of say a Vizio M Series Quantum next to a Samsung Q90R I'd put money down that the majority would prefer the image quality of the Samsung over the Vizio. There's a reason Rtings recommends Samsung over pretty much every other LED despite the lack of DV support.

Is Dolby Vision important? Yes and No.
Yes, it without a doubt is the best implementation of HDR available as it's technically superior to the other formats. It's hardware based and makes numerous adjustments to the TV that many manufacturers don't let you change. The scene by scene or frame by frame metadata on the disc are interpreted by the chip, and are made to try to compensate for the shortcomings of TVs to give the best picture possible to get the closest possible picture to the creators intent.

After reading that I'm sure you're now scratching your head wondering why I would also say it's not important. A few reasons. While it's currently more prevalent than HDR10+, most home releases are also not in Dolby Vision. Speaking of HDR10+, it also offers the dynamic metadata that Dolby Vision provides. It is not hardware based, so it will work the best in Samsung devices but is rolling out on more and more devices. While DV can be mastered to 12bit color, no TV can display it, so they're both limited to 10bit color depth. Dolby Vision also becomes slightly less relevant when considering that most high end TVs have their own tone mapping algorithm to try to provide adjust.ments to standard HDR10 content to further enhance the image quality. Finally, it can only do so much to enhance image quality. If you do a "blind test" of say a Vizio M Series Quantum next to a Samsung Q90R I'd put money down that the majority would prefer the image quality of the Samsung over the Vizio. There's a reason Rtings recommends Samsung over pretty much every other LED despite the lack of DV support.

HDR10+ is not available for Xbox, just DV.
Most people that can't tell the difference don't have a tv that can push DV to it's potential. It is most def better than HDR10+ by a good amount and far better than regular HDR10. Not saying everyone would care, but if you think HDR is important at all, then you would likely see a big HDR improvement between the two. And even if you are among those that can't, like I said, can't get HDR10+ on Xbox anyway. Def not all marketing plays.

Did you go directly to Best Buy or called them?

I feel like trying to find someone on the floor is a major pain.

Did you go directly to Best Buy or called them?

I feel like trying to find someone on the floor is a major pain.

This argument was solid 2 years ago, however at this point it is clear that Samsung and their HDR10+ implementation have lost the format war, and lost it badly. Almost no devices carry that format besides Samsung, and more importantly most media does not either. Dolby Vision on the other hand has been adopted en masse, especially on the streaming front, which if we are being honest is the future, even if it is technically inferior to hardware/discs.

So c'mon, Samsung should just include it. No excuses.

Yes, it would be nice, but if you compare the picture quality on the Samsung TV vs another TV with DV that's at the same price point is anyone going to look at them and think the Samsung TV looks noticeably worse? Or does Samsung make up for it in other ways? It also seems like a lot of people cant even tell when DV is active.

I have a LG CX, Sony 950H, and a couple TCL 6 series sets. All include DV. I can see a major difference with it on/off. I have had a Q7 and a Q8. Both went back because I couldn't justify the price to performance ratio. Samsung can't even compete with the TCL until you look at their Q8 series or above, which cost 2x as much. I am not saying Samsung does not have good PQ, because some do, but if they had DV they would be that much better.

Again, if I am buying a premium tier TV, I expect premium features, not some knock off house brand version. The gap between DV and HDR10+ is only going to keep getting wider as far as media content is concerned. They are only being stubborn at this point.

Stop trying to make "fetch" happen. It isn't going to happen...

Having owned 2 Samsung TV's, 3 Samsung W/D combos, a Samsung fridge, and SmartThings… do not buy Samsung. It will break. And it'll break at the 15th month mark forcing you to use an extended warranty. These warranties are just like insurance companies in that they will find any reason to not pay out. I only offer this as personal experience; others will disagree. I believe Samsung stuff is manufactured to help sell high margin extended warranties.

The debate with Dolby Vision seems moot. LG 77" is $3k vs $1.8k on this deal. Yes LG OLED looks more vibrant but not enough to warrant a >$1,200 price difference. If we were comparing both models are regular prices, then DV is worth considering but not for this deal.

"Worth" is up to the person paying the premium. To you? Maybe not. To others? Obviously so.

Voting feedback shows only 14% is thinking this is a bad deal. Seems like only a subset of that 12% is thinking DV is worth the extra $1,200 premium.