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Samsung has their top-of-the-line 4K TV on sale for the "Discover Samsung" event (along with most other TV's). If you open the attached link, it should take you to the "buy more save more" page which has a variety of products that, when purchased with another eligible device, gives you 10% off.
The cheapest eligible product I found is the Galaxy Buds Live. Add them to the cart along with the Q90A and the total with the Education discount is $2,961.88 (plus Tax, if applicable).
Samsung also offers their TV Upgrade program for this TV, and for those eligible, Samsung Financing offers up to 48 month, no interest financing that brings the monthly payments to around $62.
Here is the Rtings review:
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews...qn90a-qled
The Samsung page:
https://www.samsung.com/us/smartp...=769&tab=1
Link to 85" Samsung QN90A:
https://www.samsung.com/us/televi...n90aafxza/
Link to Galaxy Buds:
https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile...180nznaxar
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https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/c...shold=0.10
Thanks for this. Got the 85 QN85. Will use the $350GC for soundbar
I just got the 65" qn85 neo qled and it's so F ING amazzzzzzing. Goes with Samsung this is best TV I've ever owned I feel soooo spoiled.... Oled has burn in possibly and with neo qled there's no burn in
Size makes a huge difference on these, but at the same time.. so do the black levels. If you're watching in anything besides a totally dark room, I'd say go with the QLED for the larger size and probably brighter picture. If you play a lot of games (hundreds of hours of COD) or watch network TV, I'd also go for the QLED to minimize any chance of burn in.
I've got an OLED and only watch it in a totally dark room, and would never go back to anything else, even a larger size.
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I've got an OLED and only watch it in a totally dark room, and would never go back to anything else, even a larger size.
I still don't understand the totally dark argument. I was at best buy today looking at a80j and in a fully lit store the quality was still better than other LED TV's. So what am I missing.
OLED TVs display black as totally black (as if the tv screen were turned off), so something like a scene in space with a black sky and 20 stars would look like a totally black screen with 20 lit up stars on an OLED.
On other TVs, the "black" areas will still glow. So you'll see a dark grey sky with stars in it.
Watching in a totally black/darkened room, having a tv that blends in completely makes a huge difference if you've got a nice home theater setup.
Will it make a difference during normal tv viewing? Probably not.
In daytime or with a lit room, you won't really notice the pure black as much so a normal QLED or led will look fine.
If someone wasn't planning to use it in a dark room, that big benefit goes away and the benefits a QLED has (like a larger size or brighter picture) become much more useful
In a tv store, you can't really see the dark black benefits of the OLED since all tvs will look similar due to the lit up room.
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Think of it this way. A 4k TV has 3840 × 2160 pixels i.e close to 4 million pixels. An OLED is capable of turning each individual pixel off or on. So you can have adjacent pixels with one off and one on. LED back lit TV's do not have this fine control. They light up in zones which is why star fields with stars streaming usually lose stars. The drawback of OLED is that the pixels are organic and the lifetime goes down as they are more brightly lit
This forces OLED manufacturers to dim the image if it is too bright which means dimmer pictures than LED TV's in general. In a brightly lit room, LED TV's may have an advantage as the blacks get washed out by ambient light anyway. In dark rooms, OLEDs look almost 3D due to the ability to display sharp contrasts between lit and dark objects or shadows. This generation of OLEDs are superior to last year's, but will never match the Q90a in brightness. In a dark room though, they will look much better than the Q90a.
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This forces OLED manufacturers to dim the image if it is too bright which means dimmer pictures than LED TV's in general. In a brightly lit room, LED TV's may have an advantage as the blacks get washed out by ambient light anyway. In dark rooms, OLEDs look almost 3D due to the ability to display sharp contrasts between lit and dark objects or shadows. This generation of OLEDs are superior to last year's, but will never match the Q90a in brightness. In a dark room though, they will look much better than the Q90a.
Well explained.