Samsung Q65 4k Uhd Qled Lcd Tv Review
(Pocket-lint) - No one always accused Samsung of lacking ambition, nor of having besides brief a TV range. For example, its 2020 QLED line-up consists of eight different ranges of 4K models, plus a couple more than 8K series too. At some indicate 'spoiled for choice' becomes 'baffled by choice' - and there'southward a possibility Samsung might take crossed that line quite decisively.
Merely, of course, the bigger the model range the more likely there's an obvious sweet-spot for both your wants and wallet. And while the whistles-and-bells Q95T model is a no-holds-barred uncompromised delight, the pound-for-pound sugariness-spot in this jumbo QLED line-upward might simply be the Q65T.
The Q65T has got quite a lot of the features that make the Q95T so compelling, but at a price that won't make you double-take. And with the range starting at a titchy 43-inches - there are 50-, 65- and 75-inch variants available too, every bit well equally this 55-inch version on review - in that location should be something here to fill that QLED-shaped pigsty in your life.
Our quick take
As an object, the Q65T is pretty humdrum - and it makes a humdrum sound, likewise. But where picture quality is concerned, information technology punches well to a higher place its weight.
The Q65T's 4K images expect a treat, and unless you're loading up some existent poverty-spec content it'due south a very capable upscaler besides. No, you'd never mistake it for a summit-end Q95T - but it'south closer than the difference in price might initially lead you to believe.
Samsung Q65T 4K QLED Goggle box
4.5 stars - Pocket-lint recommended
For
- Great 4K picture quality - with contrasts and colour range particularly impressive
- Outstanding interface/operating system
- Good upscaling from most sources
- Super-low lag time
Against
- Sounds pretty tragic
- No Dolby Vision HDR
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Design
- Connections: 3x HDMI, 2x USB, Ethernet, composite video, 2x tuner, digital optical, CI slot
- Dimensions (65-inch): 706 x 1230 x 57.4mm
- Bluetooth 4.two, Wi-Fi for wireless
Outset things first: though Samsung has always touted its QLED engineering science as an alternative to the more prevalent OLED, in terms of showroom appeal it'south not all that much of a competition. There'southward none of the crowd-pleasing OLED slimness of profile nigh a QLED Tv set - and as the QE55Q65T is an border-lit Tv set, its wholly unremarkable 57.4mm depth makes it expect a bit of a throwback when put alongside similarly priced OLED competitors.
Get across this relative girth, though, and the pattern of the Q65T has a lot to recommend it. After all, what do you really want from your new TV except plenty of screen? The Samsung's bezels are super-slim - or, at least, those at the top, left and right are - and its unproblematic button-and-click boomerang feet are discreet.
There's plenty of space between those feet for a soundbar, too, if you make up one's mind against wall-mounting the boob tube. The whole fix is put together with Samsung's usual efficiency, with barely a squeak from the chassis even though some of those plastics - the dorsum panel in particular - aren't the heftiest.
The dorsum panel is where the Q65T keeps its input and output connections. Dissimilar some 4K QLED tellies college up the Samsung range, the Q65T isn't toting any time to come-proofing in terms of connectivity - its three HDMI inputs are of the 2.0 diverseness, and then in that location's no back up for the fancier features of the next-generation of games consoles. One of the HDMI sockets in eARC-enabled, though, which is helpful when information technology comes to selecting a half-decent soundbar.
Features
- High Dynamic Range: HLG, HDR10, HDR10+
- Processing engine: Quantum Processor Lite
- 20 watts of sound ability
In that location are ane or 2 features of more expensive Samsung QLED TVs that the Q65T goes without. Nosotros can bear on on those in a moment. First, the slightly longer list: the things the Q65T does have.
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Obviously this is a 4K screen, equipped to handle HLG, HDR10 and HDR10+ high dynamic range standards - Samsung's ongoing disdain for Dolby Vision shows no sign of abating. The panel is in a QLED arrangement, with a metallic quantum dot filter responsible for enhancing colour and contrast.
For the number geeks: the Q65T's colour gamut coverage is supposedly around 92 per cent - which compares to 94 per cent on the range-topping QLED models and roughly 80 per cent for Samsung'due south non-QLED LCD tellies.
The Q65T is governed by Samsung's Quantum Processor Calorie-free motion-picture show engine, a slightly detuned version of the film processor running the company's more expensive QLED screens. The Q65T is also giving abroad the anti-reflection screen technology the likes of the Q95T feature, but it doesn't accept the aforementioned wide viewing-angle smarts as its more expensive siblings.
The Q65T'south audio specification is a fair bit more prosaic than the multiple-driver, multiple-position, object-tracking audio of more expensive Samsung QLED TVs. Its sound is delivered past a pair of full-range drivers, powered by a full of 20W of amplification - which is completely in line with the sort of audio array featured by most TVs at this sort of toll bespeak.
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It's also worth noting the Samsung'southward admittedly lightning-fast response time when used equally a gaming monitor. Sub-10ms lag is rapid, and information technology may be enough to sell the Q65T to some customers by itself.
Interface
- Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby voice control
- Choice of remote controls (two included in the box)
- Tizen-based interface
Happily, Samsung has resisted the urge to cutting costs where the Q65T's user interface is concerned. The visitor'due south Tizen-based smart TV operating system continues to be one of the cleanest, most logical and about responsive around - and given that it's in no way broken, Samsung has sensibly avoided the urge to fix it. An interface so comprehensive and easy to navigate makes the Q65T seem a more expensive proposition than information technology actually is.
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Moving effectually the interface, accessing setup menus and and so on tin exist done using either of the two (count 'em: 2!) remote controls the Samsung is supplied with. The first is the total-part wand that ships with every single 2020 Samsung TV - it feels cheap, has mode too many buttons and the majority of them are also small for anyone who doesn't take cocktail sticks for fingers. The other is an altogether more pleasant and stripped-back culling which does about everything you'll need it to.
There's as well a degree of voice command bachelor. Bixby is available for Samsung fetishists, while the rest of us can use Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to issue instructions. Or at that place's Samsung's make clean-and-tidy SmartThings app - which offers control over a whole host of continued Samsung products, non just TVs.
Picture quality
The QE55Q65T, naturally plenty, has the best chance of performing to its total potential if given some native 4K content, ideally with an HDR element besides. So loading a 4K Blu-ray disc of the HDR10+ remaster of The Shining into a reference disc player is done with a due sense of anticipation.
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In broad terms, the Q65T is a very watchable TV. It does slap-up work with Stanley Kubrick's trademark colour palettes, bringing rut, vibrancy and nuance to tones of all kinds - it's not easy to make colours expect brilliant yet natural at the same time, but the Samsung is incessantly convincing in this respect.
That claimed colour gamut coverage looks entirely plausible when the potent primaries and muted autumnal colours of The Overlook Hotel make full the screen. Admittedly this fidelity can take some achieving, equally fine-tuning the Q65T via the setup menus isn't the most straightforward task - only perseverance brings unarguable rewards.
The Samsung controls contrast well, too. Despite the theoretical limitations of both QLED technology in full general, and border-lit backlighting in particular, when it comes to generating assuredly deep black tones, the Q65T is capable of producing genuinely dark blacks. It does good work differentiating gradations of tone, and offers decent levels of item into even its deepest shades. At the reverse stop the Samsung is every bit skillful with white tones, keeping them clean and detailed even when they're popping brightly.
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Putting bright whites and deep black together on the same screen can cause some crushing and/or bleaching, and there'due south some mild-but-definite backlight clouding in the corners of the screen when a 21:9 aspect ratio pic results in black bars acme and bottom. On the whole the Samsung does a pretty manful job, even in fairly strong/or fairly direct lite. The absenteeism of the anti-reflection technology the Samsung'south more expensive counterparts savor isn't quite as big a miss as might at first be feared.
Across the board, detail levels are loftier. The numerous complicated patterns and textures in The Shining present no detail issues (despite that famous carpet being a fairly stiff test of precision all by itself), and the Q65T does notably impressive piece of work with pare-tones. Edge-definition is by and large proficient, as is motion-treatment - though combine the two and the screen will occasionally betray just how hard it's working.
Up to a point, the Samsung maintains these admirable traits when upscaling lower-quality content. Certainly 1080p and 720p enjoys similarly expansive colours, and comparable contrasts and detail levels. The Q65T'due south mild uncertainty with motion becomes rather less mild, admittedly, and the moving-picture show noise that's suppressed so effectively with native 4K content can become an undeniable office of the viewing experience, but by the standards of (fairly) large and (adequately) affordable TVs the Samsung applies itself to upscaling with existent determination.
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Any less information-rich content than this, though, sees the Q65T surrender the ghost somewhat. Standard-definition broadcasts can ofttimes expect quite marginal on 4K screens, and sure enough the Samsung lets a daytime-Idiot box circulate of Father Brownish look soft, indistinct and fundamentally short of item. Picture show dissonance is apparent more-or-less constantly, and black tones are crushed to uniformity.
Sound quality
While the Q65T uses its technical specification to admittedly maximise its picture operation, it uses its audio spec to underwhelming upshot. No ane's expecting a couple of titchy total-range drivers, driven by a wheezy 20W of ability, to evangelize a sonic functioning to equal the cinematic authorisation of the Telly'south images, just nevertheless the Samsung sounds disappointing.
Even quite inexpensive TVs these days tin gesture towards some low-frequency presence, or turn in a respectably dynamic showing, simply not the Q65T. Information technology sounds hazy most of the time - and when information technology's not sounding hazy information technology sounds difficult. If you're seduced by the Samsung's price, try to upkeep a niggling more than for a soundbar to bring the audio performance vaguely into line.
To recap
Never mind the audio quality, look at those pictures - the QE55Q65T is something of a bargain.
Source: https://www.pocket-lint.com/tv/reviews/samsung/152506-samsung-q65t-tv-review-4k-qled
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