SAMSUNG 43-Inch Class Neo QLED 4K QN90B Series Mini LED Quantum HDR 24x Dolby Atmos Anti-Glare Ultra Viewing Angle Smart TV 2022-43QN90B - International Version

WATCH THE PRICES, they change from time to time on Amazon. That said, at the highest, they probably beat other sellers by a few dollars. At the best price, they still do better. I did a lot of research and this seems to be the best 43-Inch QLED available. OLED is a different story. Because our TV is sometimes on 24/7, OLED is less of an option because of burn-in. QLED doesn't seem to have burn-in concerns or necessary maintenance to avoid it. The QN90-A may have been just a little better, but that older model is essentially impossible to get. I ordered one from a 3rd party Amazon seller and got the QN90B anyway. The picture is pretty good out of the box and can be improved significantly through adjustments. I use a separate receiver for sound. The settings seem easy to learn. I am not a fan of the remote. The volume rocker constantly and accidently turns on accessibility features and/or mutes the volume unless you move the rocker 'perfectly'. Otherwise, it just does the job. There are some other remote options you can research. I think it is a great replacement for my previous 12 years old Sony Bravia 43 inch. In general, some people will miss 'Dolby Vision', not available with this TV. There are some picture quality problems I won't go into (I think it's quality control issues TV to TV), but, I've not found anything I can't adjust to improve. And like I said, the remote needs improvements. But overall, this TV is worth the look if not wanting OLED.

About me and Samsung: So I am a huge Samsung fan boy. I have several of Samsungs "premium" products like the Galaxy Tab S8+, the Galaxy Watch 5 pro, the pro 2 earbuds and The Galaxy S21+ phone (time for upgrade). I have had many generations of their products as well as some bad experience with a few of their budget lines. So my point is, I'm familiar with Samsung and their quality. My experience: So during prime day I started looking for a gaming TV for my PC. I actually wanted the LG C2 TV but they sold out before I got on. Then I stumbled on a good deal for the Samsung QN90B. I started doing some research and while it's not OLED which I really had my heart set on, it was supposed to be close. I figured I would give it a shot because it's a gaming TV and it fits into my Samsung echo system. Now I have very mixed feelings. About the TV: The display is pretty great with a few drawbacks but the user interface is really bad. The good: It works well with my other Samsung devices. I can just tap the side of the display with my phone and it begins mirroring the phone. Did not see that feature listed, so bonus. The blacks are the blackest I have ever seen on LED by far! In a pitch black room the blacks are invisible just like an oled. The colors are truly beautiful once you get it calibrated they way you like. With the exception of the blacks this display is bright, and I mean really bright. You could watch this thing outside on a bright sunny day! It has a lot of gaming options if you can figure out how to navigate the system and the Gaming sync options work well. The Bad: I want to love this TV but... I only got the 43" model and didn't realize until after I got it that the 43" and 50" are missing a couple of the main selling features. These smaller models do not have the anti glare layer at all and the "wide viewing angle is actually the worst viewing angle I have ever seen. I see the colorful image only when sitting at a perfect 90 degrees frime the display. 10% in ether direction and it begins washing out. Even though the blacks are true black the backlight is so bright (even turned all the way down) that you get blooming around the whites. The UI is so bad that if I end up keeping this TV I am going to get Nvidia shield or something like that to run. I have had a couple instances when adjusting settings where the screen split vertical and one side looked dull while the other was vibrant. I had to turn the TV off and on again to fix. Not sure if it's defective or if it's trying to show me an example of the change and I just can't figure out how to exit. I have also had the TV shift out of game mode while playing games a couple times. Again I'm not sure if it's defective or if I had it set up wrong or it could even be the $10 Chinese HDMI 2.1 cord I'm using. Concussion: I love this display and I love how well it integrates into my Samsung echo system. The viewing angle is not a deal breaker for me because I sit in front anyway. I've seen far worse blooming so I can live with that. However I'm putting it through its paces while within the return window. If some of the issues I'm having with the UI turn out to be defects it's going back! Would I recommend it, yes but I would stay with the larger models because I feel like some shortcuts were made on the small ones. You may also want to invest in a Nvidia shield or even a high end Roku to avoid the headache of the UI, but the display has a quite amazing picture quality for LED.

I bought the 43" QN90B (QN43QN90B) TV hoping to use it as a PC desktop monitor as I have done with many TVs in the past. The combination of a large seamless desktop with a high refresh rate is very appealing to me. - Why it isn't good as a desktop PC monitor: -- Unfortunately, it appears that Samsung used the same VA panel from AUO that was previously used in 43" gaming monitors from Asus, Acer, and Gigabyte since late 2019. I say this because it has a very specific flaw where the brightness of each pixel influences the brightness of the pixels in the next row below. This affects all high-contrast details, but is especially noticeable with small text. This effect causes nearly all small black text to appear bolder than it was intended, as if it has a drop shadow extending down one pixel. I call it "pixel bleeding" for lack of a better term. Besides making dark text look bold, it also makes light text (on a dark background) look faded and difficult to read. I have included macro photos with this review demonstrating the problem. A signature aspect of this panel is that the strength of the pixel bleeding flaw is much lessened at the bottom of the TV, and it gets worse as you go up the panel. This is one of the ways you can tell it is a physical problem with the panel, and not just user error (not a misconfiguration). To be clear, most people have trouble noticing the pixel bleeding, but to those with a keen eye for detail it can stand out like a sore thumb, especially when using 100% DPI scaling (higher DPI scaling values help to hide the issue). On the subject of pixel-precise rendering problems, I should also mention this TV has a "BGR" subpixel layout. Most LCD TVs do. This has an additional negative effect on text clarity if your operating system (e.g. Windows) is configured for RGB subpixel antialiasing, as is the default. This can be corrected via the ClearType tuner, so it is mostly a non-issue. My advice is, if you notice it, fix it, otherwise don't worry about it. I am an insufferable pixel-peeping perfectionist, and I don't even notice when it is wrong much of the time. Actually, if you've ever seen a PC monitor rotated 90 degrees and used in portrait mode, then you've already seen worse color fringing and probably did not even notice. - A note about HDR performance: -- This was my first HDR display with mini-LED local dimming, and I was impressed by its performance. I watched an HDR test video meant to show off OLED's perfect blacks, which should have been a challenge for an LCD TV like this. But I think it did a great job. Large expanses of black extending to the edge of the frame looked as black as they do on the LG G1 OLED we have downstairs, and I couldn't see any blooming around bright objects against the stark black background. But it isn't perfect. Smaller sections of black did get brightened up to an obvious gray. - Response time / motion blur: -- There is definitely some motion blur in fast-paced games, certainly more than from a fast TN, IPS, or OLED panel. But it is better than other VA panels I have seen. Even other 43" 120hz VA panels. This amount of motion blur I would consider acceptable for anyone but the most demanding gamer.

An Amazon Prime Day purchase. So excited as this is technologically years ahead of our last Samsung TV. BUT this didn't come with any instructions -- WTH?? When we were finally able to reach a real person we asked for instructions to be sent. She said it would take ~20 days. Six weeks later we still got zip. Now we cannot get hold of anyone. Everyone dead there? The onscreen e-manual is very poorly organized and poorly written. The subjects that are covered are vague and not detailed enough to provide any real help. And they are confusing to a non-tech laypersons. Like us. Guess the next tech purchase will have to be from a brick and mortar business where we might stand the chance of some collaring a live person for customer service. With the number of years that Samsung has been in business and with its wide American distribution, I expected better. Waaaay better. The e-manual was written by some tech guy in an airless cubicle who thinks -- in his own head only -- that the instructions are clear ...only if you work with this stuff everyday. We Do Not. Samsung should've had a layperson go over them for clarity. They sure as H did not outline flow chart of areas to be addressed before putting pen to paper. Manual Writing 101. Duh. Thanks a lot for this slipshod F-you attitude, Samsung.

Our first one was defective (an are of the screen flashed on and off like a connector was bad) and the return process with Amazon was abysmal, taking five weeks to get a refund! But I can't blame Samsung for Amazon's problems and ultimately that was resolved. This would have been 5 stars except for the first one being problematic. This TV has a lot of great features and was super easy to set up. I do have a lot of Samsung devices, with Smart Things already installed and ready to go. I'm sure this made it easier. And we no longer have to use our Amazon Fire box. The remote controls our cable box and even adds some voice control that the cable box does not have. And the choice of other apps, like MAX is really nice.