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Samsung 55 Inch BU8500 UHD Crystal 4K Smart TV (2022) - Dynamic Crystal Colour Image With Object Tracking Sound & Alexa Built In, Motion Xceletator Technology & Auto Game Mode With Connected Living

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El apartado de audio es el convencional de Sasmung: 2 altavoces de 10W cada uno con Dolby Digital plus (20W en total en 2.0 canales). Como mejora cuenta con Q-Symphony (que acopla los altavoces del televisor a los de las barras de sonido compatibles) y OTS Lite (que simula los sonidos localizándolos en la pantalla). En nuestra opinión la calidad de imagen 4K está muy por encima del sonido. Si te gusta ver películas y series recomendamos comprar una barra de sonido para equilibrar la balanza, de lo contrario estará falto de graves y calidad. Para un uso mixto del día a día es suficiente. The dynamic contrast shows the ratio between the brightest and the darkest color, which the display can reproduce over time, for example, in the course of playing a video. There are various panel technologies. Each has its own specific features - viewing angles, color reproduction, response time, brightness/contrast, production cost, etc. The image quality depends directly on the type of the display panel used. Desktop monitors and smart TVs experience a latency/lag in visualizing the information. The time in milliseconds that the display needs to visualize the signal input. Taking TV designs to a new level, this curved screen has an elegant metal frame and the Aero curved stand so it will look beautiful in your living room. Whether it's switched on or turned off, your eyes will be drawn to this large screen TV, with a design that almost makes it look like it's floating.

The BU8500’s pictures are also not quite as pin-sharp as the images we’ve come to expect from Samsung’s 4K TVs. Native 4K pictures still look like 4K, to be clear, and the level of sharpness feels quite natural, too. But the TCL 55C735K, again, looks slightly sharper. Max light output HDR (high dynamic range) while displaying small white square taking up 60% of the screen (measured in Nits) Percentage luminance drop at 20 degree vertical angle from the centre of the screen with 100% white output Relatively dark HDR content on the BU8000 also reveals a slightly compressed, unrefined look to low-brightness, densely detailed picture areas, such as the hedges and flower beds outside Georgie’s house in the opening scene of It on 4K Blu-ray. Fortunately, though, the UE55HU8500 carries a huge array of picture adjustments. You can tweak pretty much every aspect of the 55HU8500’s pictures, from its noise reduction, motion, contrast and sharpness processing elements through to its colour, white balance and gamma subtleties.The BU8500 supports HDR10, HLG and HDR10+, but not Dolby Vision. However, the absence of the latter has nothing to do with the TV’s mid-range status because none of Samsung’s models support the format. The HDR10+ performance was good in testing, and while not as prevalent as Dolby Vision, the format is used by Prime Video, some 4K Blu-rays, and now Apple TV+. Let’s deal with the curve, first of all. It doesn’t really have any major negative impact on viewing from reasonable angles and there were times when it did add just a whisker more of a sense of depth. For instance, a scene from the first episode of House of Cards, Season 2, with Doug and Rachel uses a depth of field shot up a corridor and the bend genuinely added something to the scene, albeit fleetingly. There was but one other instance where we thought the curve added anything to any content and that was with one of the 4K documentaries available through Netflix (more on that later) but, otherwise, its existence went generally unnoticed. It can cause a small distraction when looking at something likes a sports pitch with horizontal markings but the brain soon becomes accustomed. In short, we have no actual major objections to the idea, when put into practice, but it’s certainly not something we’d deem either necessary or mind-blowing to watch.

The panel is illuminated from its edges, rather than having lights positioned directly behind it. This no doubt helped Samsung achieve the UE50BU8000’s AirSlim design, but edge lighting can struggle to control where the light goes as well as LED lighting systems that are placed directly behind the screen. Accessibility (Enlarge / High Contrast / Multi-output Audio / Color Inversion / Grayscale / Sign Language Zoom / Slow Button Repeat) Slim chassis, great spec and very agreeable picture performance is all well and good – but when it comes to audio performance, the Samsung BU8500 sounds like an affordable flatscreen TV of the old school. And that’s not necessarily a good thing. The processing power shouldn’t only help picture performance, either. We’d also expect it to play a useful role in keeping Samsung’s extensive, attractively designed and sophisticated smart features zipping along.The percentage of the approximate area, taken by the active part of the screen, to the total front area. The energy efficiency class/label provides general idea about the power consumption. There are different energy efficiency classes and each sets its own requirements regarding the power consumption. Some of the existent energy efficiency classes are A+++, A++, A+, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Of course, most of the above is all a bit pie in the sky and there’s nothing like enough 4K content to satisfy anyone for a sustained period so it’s how the TV handles the bread and butter content that really counts, at this stage. Fortunately – well, by design - the 55HU8500 does a splendid job with all of it. As noted above, the scaling is so good that even a decent quality DVD can look very watchable and material with 1080 lines of resolution can actually give the impression it’s something more. That’s only really the case with Blu-rays, as broadcast HD is probably still best viewed on a quality Full HD TV but there has been progression with 1080i handling since the F9000 last year.

The maximum number of colors, which the display is able to reproduce, depends on the type of the panel in use and color enhancing technologies like FRC. Ergonomics Information about the ergonomic functions - height adjustment, swivel angles, tilt angles, etc. VESA mount This is a 4K LED screen, powered by Samsung’s ‘Crystal 4K’ processor and with support for HLG and HDR10+ standards of HDR (we’re used to Samsung refusing to offer support for Dolby Vision, but it never stops being galling). As you might guess from how thin the TV is, its LCD panel is lit from its edges rather than from directly behind, while the panel appears to be a VA one, as with most (though no longer all) Samsung TVs. The VA panel costs the picture contrast and colour from wide viewing angles but should, experience suggests, produce better contrast than the rival IPS type of screen.

Benchmark Test Results

The BU8000 benefits from Samsung’s Dynamic Crystal Colour technology, which claims to use ‘advanced phosphor technology’ together with Crystal Processor 4K silicon to deliver an "Ultra HD colour palette that’s as rich and wonderful as nature itself". Which is poetic marketing speak for a claimed billion-strong colour tone count. The Samsung BU8500 might be an impressive TV when handling SDR, but its limitations become apparent when moving on to HDR. This is especially true in terms of peak brightness, which only hits 330cd/m² on both a 10% window and full-field pattern in Dynamic mode, and drops to around 285cd/m² on both a 10% and a full-field pattern with the more accurate Filmmaker mode. We did spot some signs of this with the UE55BU8500, too, but the issue is brighter and impacts more of the screen area on the UE50BU8000, at least while watching high dynamic range content. This can be seriously distracting, drawing your attention away from what you’re supposed to be watching as a dark scene unfolds. The clouding can hide shadow details in its extra greyness, too, and it contributes to some small colour uniformity issues as the grey areas slightly adjust the hue of any dark colours that appear behind them.

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