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Samsung EDU/EPP: 85" Samsung QN90A Neo QLED 4K Smart TV (2021) + Galaxy Buds Live Expired

$2,962
$5,169.98
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Samsung.com offers Eligible Samsung Education/Employee Discount Customers: 85" Samsung QN90A Neo QLED 4K Smart TV (2021 Model, QN85QN90AAFXZA) + Samsung Galaxy Buds Live (Various Colors) on sale for $2,961.88 when you follow the deal instructions below. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member Thanatos92 for finding this deal.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Visit the Samsung Discount Program page and select the program for which you qualify.
  2. Sign in to or create your Samsung account
  3. Go to 85" Samsung Neo QLED 4K Smart TV (2021 Model, QN85QN90AAFXZA)
  4. Add to cart
  5. Sign in or create a new Samsung account if prompted
  6. May also be prompted to verify eligibility
  7. Go to Samsung Galaxy Buds Live (Various Colors)
  8. Select a color of your choice and add to cart
    • Note: Optionally, you can receive an extra $12.60 off the final total of your order by choosing to trade in any wired or wireless headset (any brand). Follow the prompts on the product page.
  9. Proceed to checkout
  10. Final price will be $2,961.88 + Free Shipping.
  11. Complete your order.


Specs:
  • Resolution: 3840x2160
  • Refresh Rate: 120Hz
  • HDR: HDR10, HDR10+, Hybrid Log Gamma
  • Smart TV with Bixby Voice, Apps and Full Web Browser
  • Ports:
    • 4x HDMI
    • 2x USB
    • 1x Ethernet
    • 1x RF Input
    • 1x Digital Audio Out (Optical)
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Edited September 24, 2021 at 09:22 AM by
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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Last Edited by oceanlake | Staff September 24, 2021 at 09:15 AM
Direct link to 85" Class QN90A Samsung Neo QLED 4K Smart TV [samsung.com] (2021)

Direct link to Galaxy Buds Live [samsung.com]

Add both to cart when signed in to your eligible account.

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At the risk of being supercilious, one thing I'd remind peeps is that if you ordered a TV and it has shipped, it's not very nice to cancel the order because you changed your mind and decided you wanted something else. I see some people say they'll just wait until it arrives and then refuse delivery. Hey jokers, these are not smartphones - shipping a TV across country costs $100's of dollars. If you can't see the problem from a pure decency point of view, at least understand that generating costs like this on Samsung will mean they'll have to increase prices to cover the dick-wads who f' them around, and that hits all of us.

Goodnight.
And I'm in school, therefore unable to jump on this. Life is cruel sometimes, haha.
A student spending 3k on a TV..... hmmmm someone didn't think this one out in marketing

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brian504
09-26-2021 at 10:58 AM.
09-26-2021 at 10:58 AM.
Quote from aj569 :
Looks like the QN85A + Galaxy Buds Live is $2,602 PLUS a $350 Samsung.com future credit. If you value/will use the credit, that's $2,252 for the QN85 bundle vs the $2,962 for the QN90 bundle. The QN85 is an IPS-like panel that has wider viewing angles and might be better for PC use, but the QN90 is just better overall. However, might be worth considering to save a few bucks and get a TV in the same size and 1" thin form factor, without sacrificing much:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/c...shold=0.10

Thanks for this. Got the 85 QN85. Will use the $350GC for soundbar
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09-26-2021 at 11:48 AM.
09-26-2021 at 11:48 AM.
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4k doesn't look that great on a tv this big. I'll wait till 8k is the norm to get a tv big. 55 inches is the sweet spot for me. (No homo)
Keep waiting and missing out then. My best friend was like you. Then he got a 60" 4k and realized how much he was denying himself while watching tv.
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09-26-2021 at 12:59 PM.
09-26-2021 at 12:59 PM.
Quote from sipora :
I'm so torn between buying this one or going for the LG OLED GX 77". Any suggestions?
I got the Sony A80j for $2949 with shipping and tax included on Verde toe...I was considering the gx too but the Sony seems like a better tv with a slightly worse form factor
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09-26-2021 at 02:10 PM.
09-26-2021 at 02:10 PM.
I cannot get the discount to work using the military ID.me route, I've tried everything.
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09-26-2021 at 02:18 PM.
09-26-2021 at 02:18 PM.
Quote from sipora :
I'm so torn between buying this one or going for the LG OLED GX 77". Any suggestions?

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
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09-26-2021 at 04:18 PM.
09-26-2021 at 04:18 PM.
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Sorry, gotta disagree slightly on the size reward vs OLED argument. I do consider OLED to be the king of picture quality but some of these LED tv's can put out a picture that is way closer to OLED than many here give the technology credit for. I have a 65" C8 and a 85" 900H Sony and while the picture on OLED is king we prefer to watch the Sony for the sheer factor of size and the image is damn good.. Yes I know many here are considering 77" in OLED, but that compared to a 85" top of the line reference tv is HUGE!! I most definitely advise looking at both in person. 77" OLED is just too small when you get use to watching an 85" set. If we're talking 85" OLEd( think Sony has em), then end of conversation and buy the OLED!!!!

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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09-26-2021 at 05:04 PM.
09-26-2021 at 05:04 PM.
Quote from flik55 :
I cannot get the discount to work using the military ID.me route, I've tried everything.

Using same email for idme and Samsung site? Somebody else flagged that issue for me.
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lKoRTy
09-26-2021 at 05:07 PM.
09-26-2021 at 05:07 PM.
Quote from NSXMK3 :
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.

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.
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09-26-2021 at 05:18 PM.
09-26-2021 at 05:18 PM.
Quote from lKoRTy :
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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09-26-2021 at 05:30 PM.
09-26-2021 at 05:30 PM.
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At the risk of being supercilious, one thing I'd remind peeps is that if you ordered a TV and it has shipped, it's not very nice to cancel the order because you changed your mind and decided you wanted something else. I see some people say they'll just wait until it arrives and then refuse delivery. Hey jokers, these are not smartphones - shipping a TV across country costs $100's of dollars. If you can't see the problem from a pure decency point of view, at least understand that generating costs like this on Samsung will mean they'll have to increase prices to cover the dick-wads who f' them around, and that hits all of us.

Goodnight. [mike drop]
It would be enough for these dick-wads to realize that their own time and effort is worth something. SD mathematicians and economists will have you believe it's worth waiting weeks and jumping through a bunch of hoops to save $2.
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09-26-2021 at 05:43 PM.
09-26-2021 at 05:43 PM.
Isn't the 8k version for 3199 with edu pricing?

edit: nvm I can't read
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It would be enough for these dick-wads to realize that their own time and effort is worth something. SD mathematicians and economists will have you believe it's worth waiting weeks and jumping through a bunch of hoops to save $2.
So true. But it's not just the penny pinchers chasing those last two bucks. It's also Dimwit Dave who ordered a TV before understanding which TV was best for him. Dave then reads a forum where people are extoling the virtues of a different TV and Dave's tiny mind is completely blown. Now he thinks he needs the other TV so he starts fretting and asking people "Do you think I should cancel my original TV?". The big mystery is, of course, how Dave ever got enough money to buy a TV in the first place. I assume he "borrowed" his mom's credit card.
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09-26-2021 at 07:39 PM.
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How come its $3199? How do I make it work. I'm a student and a nurse.
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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.

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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09-26-2021 at 11:40 PM.
09-26-2021 at 11:40 PM.
Quote from mm60 :
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.

Well explained.
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