Samsung - 40" Class - LED - MU6290 Series - 2160p - Smart - 4K Ultra HD TV with HDR

An Excellent TV. BUT there's a few things you need to know. 1. Paper Manual is useless as far as features and settings explanations go. You are better off googling the settings, questions or talking to someone that is familiar. 2. The TV is going to need calibration out of the box. First, Eco Mode- Turn it off under general settings for each source, cable box, DVD and if you stream through TV. It dims the picture so much it's not even usable to me. Your refrigerator probably uses more energy even with this off. Probably shut off the Noise reduction too. Here's where it gets interesting. The Auto Motion setting. If you keep it on auto you'll give your movies a live soap opera look or like you are watching a play and not a 'movie' look. It's very weird watching a movie that looks like you are there in the studio watching it rather then watching a film. If you shut it off you'll get the normal film look as movies and shows are filmed. IF it's on and you have horses running it's going to look like you are on a horse trying to record it..off it's better here ! Personally I prefer it Custom and a setting of 5 (so far) but that's me. I was watching a 1938 version of Robin Hood in HD and on Auto it looked fantastic, like a play..but really cool. So you'll have to play with it for your own taste.. The brightness function which goes from -5 to 5 in Standard picture I think, is more like a shadows effect in how dark or light you want 'darks' in background. I prefer -3 or -4. I have my Color at 40 in the Standard picture mode too. I don't like Movie mode personally but others prefer it and a with a warm look. I prefer standard so far and then adjust. Let your eye decide with the rest of the settings. In any event this takes some calibration by you out of the box so be sure you adjust all the main settings before you freak-out and return it. I left the Gamma and RGB settings alone so far. I have 2 4K movies and they look very good but the regular Blu rays look great too. I'm playing them on a Samsung 7500 4K player. It depends on the movie transfer but some Blu rays you may notice noise or graininess and some have, virtually none. The 2 4K's I have I can't notice any grain at all. Just remember the quality of source material is key here and Cable TV channels are not in 4K..mainly 720p and 1080i.. For 4K you'll need a 4K disc and player or a streaming source if you can stream it. So bottom line- A great 4K TV but you are going to have to adjust it to your liking !

I bought this Samsung 40" during the 2017 Black Friday sale. Perhaps that was my first mistake as I have heard that manufacturers make cheaper versions of products for this sale. In any case, I bought it, and was happy with it until mid August when it died. No power, no standby light, nothing. Now, I do have to say that the unit was under warranty and I called Samsung and they gave me an authorization number. Then I had to call the repair center which is about 45 minutes from my house. I assumed someone would come out and repair, but I was wrong because it was only 40". I was supposed to drop it off, wait some number of days and pick it up. Sounds easy... except that spending 3 hours of my time minimum for travel plus wait time for a $350 tv really isn't worth it. So - I decided to ebay the parts and fix it myself. I read online that the most common cause of no power and no status red light was the power board. $35 later, I was installing the new power board. Nothing. I kept researching and now concluded it was the main board. Ebay $45 later and bingo. Works perfectly. BTW - anyone who has ever added memory or swapped a hard drive in a pc or laptop can do this. Very easy. I'm about $80 in to get it working again which is still better than driving back and forth to the repair center. However, I have always bought Samsung, and thought they were very high quality. Never a failure until this unit. I am attributing this to cheap units designed for Black Friday or Cyber Monday. I also read one story of a bad batch during that time. Either way - use caution. I'm giving it 1 star because it should never have failed from normal use in just 9 months. The picture is the working replacement power board on the right (power board was not the problem), and the failed main board on the left which when replaced, immediately fixed the TV.

Apparently my TV was also part of the bad batch of Black Friday 2017 sales for Samsung TVs. The motherboard blew after only 3 months. And when a technician came out to look at it we also found an internal crack, which Samsung will not repair. Sidenote: the tech was nice and knowledgeable but he was being rather rough with my tv and putting it screen-down onto bad surfaces which concerned me, I had to suggest putting it down on microplush blankets (that I used to setup it up etc.) so it wouldn't scratch. I don't believe that the crack happened then but I really disliked how that went down. Dealing with their repair center is a nightmare, whoever answers the phone is so rude (drops calls after saying what he wants to, deciding your repair without asking if thats a good timeframe for you and had to be reminded that I didn't need a fridge repaired). Plus they had the info for my TV wrong, the tech was even concerned about that. So the TV is junk now. Customer service is subpar and their network seems to be disorganized, I registered my product with them when I got but their records were all wrong, warranty was "unavailable" etc. The TV itself was good for the time it lasted besides knocking itself off the wifi constantly and having to reload apps multiple times to get it to work, checked with similar devices this was squarely the TVs problem. Interface is mostly good besides those bugs. Picture quality was pretty good but the screen had a natural haze to it that made darker scenes look off even after optimizing the settings. I've since replaced this TV with an LG of the same model category and have gotten a much crisper picture, even with 4k blu-rays run on the same 4k blu-ray player. So beware discounted Samsung products cause you maybe sol

This TV is supposed stream TV and movies from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and the like. I had intended to use TV in my bedroom just for streaming, but it couldn't pick up a wireless signal, even though it was well within the proscribed distance to my wireless source. So I moved it to my living room and moved the other TV (that uses Roku) to the bedroom, and it works fine. But the Samsung, even in the living room, 12 feet from the wireless box, tells me it's not connected to the internet. I read the directions and changed the dns number to 8.8.8.8, but it still didn't work. In order to for it to get a wireless signal I had to unplug the TV each time I chose to stream something. And then when I finally have it streaming, the controls on the remote make it impossible to move around within the app. With Amazon (which has changed their software for Ultra HD compatibility so that it's difficult to turn closed captioning on and off,) it's impossible to get CC with the Samsung remote. So after about 6 weeks of frustration, I broke down and spent $100 for the latest Roku device. Now the picture is better, the signal is always there (Roku picks up the signal 30 ft from the source, maybe more) and I can now turn Amazon's CC on and off (it requires 5 clicks and 2 different remote buttons). After spending all this time and energy trying to get the basic stuff to work, I finally got around to trying to hook up my VCR, and find that takes a special adapter, which was supposed to have been included in the box. But it wasn't. I called Samsung support and they refused to send me one since I was past the first 30 days of purchase. Not good customer service policy if you ask me. Oh, and also, my Sony wireless headset cannot be connected to this TV. There's no port on the back of the TV to accommodate it.

The TV itself is nice, great picture, fine sound for what you would expect out of a TV rather than an external sound system. My main problem with it, is at least once a week the Wi-Fi stops working. You need to go in to settings and reset the wireless adapter and set it up from scratch again. I am an IT professional with wi-fi enabled devices throughout my home and all of them work fine. It is definitely the TV that is the problem and not the network. There are many complaints about this on Samsungs website, they seemingly refuse to admit that this is a bug and the product should probably be recalled. Customer support just follows scripts essentially and is of no use since it's a deeper problem that Samsung's engineers needs to fix either with a firmware update or with a new hardware wireless interface built in to the TV. You had might as well just save your money and buy a "dumb" TV and buy a a Roku, Apple TV or Amazon Fire stick since the smart features are frustrating to use at best. For someone who is not technically savvy enought to know how to reset the networking and set it up again would be completely useless. When the wireless networking actually works it's good but who really wants to set up their TV again on a weekly basis? Especially if you have young kids who are smart enough to work a smart TV but will nag you to fix it every time it breaks. Personally I bought this exclusively for the built in smart-TV features and in am extremely disappointed. I will be returning this and buying a different brand since this issue seems to plague various Samsung Smart TV models based on the complaints on Samsung's website.

I got this pretty last minute as our old TV suddenly developed major issues, and this one was on a great sale. I did what research I could beforehand, and it was accurate that this is a great TV. The picture and color are incredible and accurate, and there are "expert settings" to tweak pretty much everything. One thing to tweak, for anyone moving up to this type of TV, is the Motion Smoothing to get rid of the "Soap Opera Effect." It's apparently really great for sports, but I rarely ever watch sports, so I shut it off. Another useful tip I found online, if when you put the stand together and install it the TV is totally leaning, just take it all apart and try again. I don't have a lot of room, so I laid the TV's box down and set the TV on there to have a good flat surface to make sure the pieces were put together just right. And speaking of, this TV is SO light!! I think it lists as 17 pounds. I had forgotten how heavy our last 37" was until I tried to move it into the other room after moving this new one around so easily. It's not a perfect TV, but most of my issues are just getting used to the UI, which I'm sure will become more natural over time. One annoyance, however, is that it sticks a stupid "sponsored ad" between your sources and the apps you have… I can see on the cheap Amazon devices, sure, I pay less and know I'm getting advertising on the screen. But I paid for this TV, that needs to be removable… (this is apparently a complaint that has been around with Samsung TVs for a couple years at least)

I bought this TV as replacement for an old 32” LCD I used for gaming and am overall happy with it. Picture is generally very good, and input lag in its Game Mode is excellent. Two complaints: 1) there is no headphone jack so I had to purchase an optical digital-to-analog audio converter for use with my old analog speaker setup, and 2) there is no way to completely disable its dynamic contrast; i.e. lighted elements of a picture that is otherwise mostly dark/black are significantly dimmed. For the majority of games and for TV viewing it’s a non-issue, but older retro-style games with large areas of black (think NES Galaga, Gradius, etc., and to a lesser degree even newer games like Polybius) appear dark/dimmed no matter the TV’s settings. The effects of this dynamic dimming can be reduced somewhat by increasing gamma and brightness, by turning on “wallpaper” if the game offers it, and obviously by setting the TV’s “Enhanced Contrast” to Off. If you plan on hooking up an NES Classic Edition and really like space shooters with lots of “space,” know this before you buy. For what it’s worth, the TV’s settings I settled on for my PS4 Pro are: Picture —> Expert Settings: Backlight 15, Brightness 0, Contrast 95, Sharpness 0, Color 46, Tint (G/R) G50/R50, Contrast Enhancer: Off, Gamma BT.1886 +1, Color Space Settings Auto. General —> External Device Manager: Game Mode On, HDMI UHD Color On for HDMI1 (which is irrelevant since I mostly keep my PS4 in 1080p with HDR Off), HDMI Black Level Auto. General —> Eco Solution: everything disabled/off. Your mileage may vary, but these settings seem the best overall compromise for me. I bumped the brightness and gamma up a bit and lowered the color to 43 for my SNES Classic Edition; for the NES Classic Edition’s input, brightness and gamma are maxxed and HDMI Black Level is set to Normal. As for TV viewing, it seems to work well. I don’t have a cable box for this set so I downloaded the Spectrum app, did a little channel surfing and the picture looks decent. I think most people will be happy with this set for TV and movies. Despite the dimming issue and lack of a headphone jack, I’m still giving it 5 stars. At its sale price especially, you can’t beat it for value. For the vast majority of gaming it’s perfectly fine, and TV viewing is good as well.

Got this to replace an old 1080 that was about to give out. I didn't really need a 4k tv, but prices have come down so much on 4k tv's, plus I wanted the smart features, so I picked this one up for just over $300! Amazing! This is my first 4k TV and I am very impressed. The image is clear and the contrast is great. Beats my old Samsung 1080 hands down! Of course, any non-HD content viewed on a 4k tv, will look the same as on any other tv. Also, if you don't have any 4k content, you will not see any quality difference from a 1080 set. This is something a lot of people don't realize and are disappointment when they set up their new 4k tv at home and the picture doesn't look as good as in the store. The only 4k content that I have viewed was some 4k videos on YouTube. Superb clarity and vivid colors. What I really like is the smart features of the tv. I can send a bluetooth signal from my phone to listen to music, and watch YT videos or search the web by accessing my wifi router. You can also stream movies and shows from place like Netflix, Hulu, etc. if you subscribe to their service. The setup was very easy and fast. There is a step by step guide that will walk you through everything. I only gave it 4 stars is because of a couple of reasons. One reason, is because of the tv stand. I have it on a shelf and have a sound bar in front of it. The soundbar is only 3" tall, but partially blocks the sensor that receives the signal from the remote. So, when I am sitting on my couch watching tv, I have to hold the remote at least at chest level for it to work, which is an annoyance. I understand that Samsung made the stand low to make it more stable, but it's something to be aware of it you plan to place a soundbar in front of the tv. And speaking of soundbar, that's my second reason for the 4 stars. The internal speaker are bad...really bad. You will need to get a soundbar. Trust me on this. Overall, I am very satisfied with this purchase.