Samsung - 49" Class - LED - Q6F Series - 2160p - Smart - 4K UHD TV with HDR

The Samsung Q6FN offers high end design and picture quality at a reasonable cost. DESIGN: The slim brushed metal bezel and crows feet stand are close in design to Samsung’s own Q8FN. The Q6 lacks the Ultra black elite filter found on the Q7,Q8 and Q9. The semi-gloss screen on offer helps minimize reflection and improve perceived contrast. SET UP: Once out of the box set up is a tool free low stress affair. Simply snap the two legs into their positions found on the bottom of display and your done. PICTURE: Samsung employs a VA based panel which offers excellent static contrast of around 6000:1, so black level performance is impressive. Samsung offers local dimming of the edge-lit variety with a limited amount of zones, so you may experience a little blooming/haloing around bright objects against a dark back ground. If you have a litte ambient light in your viewing area this shouldn’t be noticeable. For those that like to turn the lights off a gentle bias light behind the display would help alleviate the issue as well as minimize eye strain. The star of the show as far as picture quality goes is Samsung’s Quantum dot technology. Which uses a thin metal coating over their LED backlight to offer a broader spectrum of colors. Pair this with the peak brightness in HDR of 800+ nits and you get a saturated image with highlights that pop. Whether you’re watching UHD video or gaming on your PS4 Pro/Xbox one X you’ll be impressed with the image on hand. SOUND: Good sound quality isn’t often associated with built in speakers, but I was impressed with the audio quality of the TV. The 40w speaker set up offers two down firing speakers and a woofer for better than average sound. Will this replace a dedicated surround sound system or sound bar... no, but it is a good solution until or if you decide to upgrade. GAMING: Swinging through the sun drenched city of New York as Spider-man or the Jungles of Shadow of the Tomb raider as Lara Croft I was never disappointed. While the 60hz 49” variant lacks the Freesync/Variable refresh rate found on the native 120hz 55” and above sizes, the motion is still very good on this display. I have noticed no smearing/trailing in motion or unnatural motion blur. Input lag is also where Samsung excels offering around 13-15ms response time. This makes for a hitch free gaming experience whether your playing 3rd person adventure games or going head to head online. SMART TV: Samsung's Tizen platform now offers Bixby. Bixby is similar to Google voice assistant which offers faster and smarter navigation. The small simple remote included with the TV has a mic equipped for helping with voice navigation. This is the area that I have spent the least amount of time with since I do little outside of gaming. One of the complaints I have heard about their smart platform is non-defeatable Ads, so if you plan on the Q6 being your all in one streaming machine keep this mind. I am truly impressed by the price to performance offered by the Q6. Is it perfect? No, but you’re not likely to find a perfect display with any brand. The TV just has to be perfect for you. I have been impressed with and at times blown away by performance of the Q6 out of the box and would easily recommend to gamers or videophiles.

Really wanted the Sony X900F but this one was $300 cheaper (this one was on sale for $699) and the BB guy told me it has an anti-glare screen on it which I need as my room is very bright and my current tv suffers from reflections which drives me bonkers. Well, this tv is decent for glare but I still see my window reflections in the screen-ugh! and the auto motion plus is HORRIBLE! I have no idea why these tv manufacturers don't just make a regular 120 hz panel instead of this fake motion/refresh rate stuff. It's absolutely terrible, you feel like you are in a soap opera and it it constantly judders. You have to turn it off so it's a completely pointless feature. Makes sports look horrible. My other issue is this is the 2nd Samsung I bought (returned first-the NU6900 which has a horrible picture) that has a glitch in the hulu app. It must be a Samsung hulu thing as hulu works fine on my apple tv hooked up to the same tv. The samsung hulu app constantly glitches-very annoying. I have ATT fiber and it's hard wired so I know it's not my internet connection. I wanted a nice tv that has all the apps I use so I can move my apple tv to another room. That clearly won't happen if I keep this one. The picture is nice after you play with it a bit but I may have to return it and get the Sony as I don't want to pay $ for a tv where the main app I watch glitches . Also the Sony X900F has a 120 hz refresh rate so I won't have any issues with sports. I really don't want a tv bigger than 49 or 50" and seems like you have to go bigger or pay more to get a decent refresh rate these days.

I do not really write reviews on TVs very often, but this case is interesting to me. I picked this 49" TV when it dropped down to about $800. When I first got the TV, I was absolutely amazed by the vibrant colors, and deep blacks for an edge lit TV. The picture was so great, that I thought I would never be dissatisfied. Further, gaming response was lightning quick - virtually no latency. However, the 49" is only a 60hz panel, so even though it has some interpolation tricks that smooth motion out, it feels more sluggish compared to what I have seen on 120hz panels. Sadly, the problem with having an edge lit TV started to really rear it's ugly head over the course of a few months. The blooming on this panel when watching a dark scene is GLARING, especially considering how well it performs in terms of color and brightness. You could conceivably have a moon that lights up the entire screen when the rest of the picture is supposed to be pitch black. This can affect the black bars when watching movies, and definitely is noticeable with subtitles. It is bad. So bad, that it actually begins to highlight why you should consider going a step up from the Q6 - this TV gives you a taste of what a premium TV experience is all about, but falls woefully short in it's backlighting and local dimming that you really lament not saving up for a Q8. In fact, when you compare the overall picture quality to a Q8 or Q9, you also begin to realize that the Q6, despite its solid color reproduction, just isn't as vivid, colorful or bright. You really begin to notice that, despite the QLED name, this is VERY MUCH a mid range TV. At that point, you would be better served going toward a Vizio or Sony that has full array backlighting with local dimming - sure the colors may not be quite as great, and the latency a little worse, but the overall picture quality would end up being simply better. Better yet, though, you would do yourself a huge favor and save up for the Q8. I never wanted to get a premium TV before until I had this TV - a TV like this shows you what premium can be all about, but unfortunately it will never fully deliver a satisfactory experience due to its crucial limitations.

If you've been shopping for 4K, you''ve probably heard of Ultra HD Premium. What is UHD Premium? Developed by the Ultra High Definition Alliance (UHDA) working group of more than 30 key AV industry brands, Ultra HD Premium is designed to provide consumers with an at-a-glance way of knowing which TVs and video content are designed to deliver a really strong HDR and UHD performance. Only products and content that conform to a carefully defined set of specifications will be able to wear the Ultra HD Premium logo, so if a consumer sees the logo attached to a product, they can feel confident that it will be capable of giving them a high level of performance. Does this TV have it? This tv meets all the requirements, but it is look label or advised by Samsung indicating it does. Why? This is the reason: It’s important to stress that the Ultra HD Premium logo is only, in truth, a recommendation system created by the UHDA; it’s not an actual standard that all products in the AV industry need to conform to. In other words, it’s possible that there will be products out there capable of wearing the Ultra HD Premium badge that don't actually do so because they haven’t been submitted to the UHDA for the necessary certification tests. Therefore, Samsung did not submit this TV in for testing to receiving it, but did so with the higher end models to get people to buy them. Q7, Q8, Q9 Requirements: Image resolution: 3840x2160 Color bit depth: At least 10-bit Color gamut reproduction: Must be able to handle the BT.2020 color ‘representation’ (a sort of container for wide color range information), and display more than 90% of the Digital Cinema Initiative’s P3 color standard (the standard widely used in commercial cinemas) High Dynamic Range playback: A device must support the SMPTE ST2084 EOTF (electrical optical transfer function — the way a screen turns digital data into visible light) and achieve either brightness peaks of more than 1000 nits along with black levels of below 0.05 nits, or more than 540 nits peak brightness and less than 0.0005 nits in the blackest picture areas)

Overall it's a good TV. Smart? I don't know about that. You can use Smart View on your Samsung phone to cast the screen to the TV. That's good, because I don't have cable and rely on Hulu for everything, and I only watch it on my phone. There's an app called SmartThings. One of them works with this TV, the other one does not because Samsung no longer supports it. The one that does work can only be used with your phone to TV if you have a separate internet connection. And guess what? I don't. I rely on my phone for internet, using a 10gb hotspot/month to play and download games on Xbox live (successfully, I might add). I cannot use the still supported SmartThings app because of this, therefore I am unable to use many of the smart features so it's basically pointless. It gets 3 stars just because of this. I bought it on sale for $900. Would I recommend it if you have a situation similar to mine? No. Save your money. The sound isn't great so we bought a Samsung 3.1 sound bar to go with it. Much better. The picture is excellent though. Very crisp, clear, colorful. The TV has too many functions, you can get lost easily. The screensaver option is nice, if you're into burning electricity. I cannot use the collage option though because you need to use SmartThings to access this feature. I wish the HDMI and USB ports were located on the left side in back rather than the right. I have my cables all nearly stretched because of this. My other TV had them on the left. I have this wall mounted and have my cables coming out of the wall in only one spot so it's not like I can just move a 1.75" diameter hole. Even if they were located on the bottom like the sound bar has, that would've been nice. And actually more cleaned up, easily accessible. If I want to plug anything else in I'll have to take the TV off the wall.

Fantastic TV at this price. You can be a visual snob and find something wrong with any TV. Technology has made it to the point that TV's can be to bright. (night time watching) I am bios to a 5.1 or 7.2 AV audio source so I personally feel judging a TV based off audio output is useless, but decoding is important to me and I feel this model falls short in that department. There is a sweet spot for optimum color quality. Not the best for angled viewing. With the right signal the picture is great. The ability of TV's has surpassed broadcasting. Processor function, speed and logical structure is a lot better then the 8 series nanocrystal quad core. Controller take getting use to but grows on you. This is a review from a committed Samsung purchaser. Samsung Products Owned Counter top depth fridge, dishwasher, convection oven,cell phones, hw700 receiver, 4 Blu-ray players, sound bar, r7's,3 m5's, two 32" tv's (computer monitors), 8000 55" SUHD TV and 49" Q led , probably forgetting something.....

Prior to set-up have your password for your Samsung account and the WIFI password. Set-up is quick and easy. My first shock was that the remote control actually will operate the TV and the Spectrum cable DVR box. I was amazed. Be sure to read the one page on how to use the remote in the Quick Start manual. Picture quality (PQ) and color accuracy is excellent. The whites were a little to "hot" for me and I dropped the contrast by 5 points and the brightness a few points. Also, when watching a Blu-ray movie, tun off motion control for a more realistic video - eliminates that terrible movie like image. Have had the stet 3 weeks, replaced a 30" model in my office. Love the set. My only slightly negative comment is on movies with a lot of snow, the white is really too bright. Try using Movie mode to reduce the brightness. Highly recommended.

I bought this TV after returning a much cheaper LG and let me tell you, this Samsung Q6F is OUTSTANDING! Back story - I bought the LG before Christmas because it seemed like a good deal. However, the picture at an angle was terrible and the sound was too. So ... I returned it after Christmas and shopped around. The wife and I found this one and we are very pleased. The picture is beautiful. You can view it at all angles without any major degradation in quality. Sound is also very good. There are 3 HDMI ports, which is nice. I am also very happy with the remote and sensors. The only thing I was not impressed with was the setup. It's a little clumsy, but not awful. I'd give this 4.9 out of 5. Definitely spend the money because it is worth it.