SAMSUNG QN82Q6 Flat 82" QLED 4K UHD 6 Series Smart TV 2018

When I told my daughter I was buying the Samsung 82" QLED, she texted back that I would "burn out my retinas". She wasn't far off. This is a magnificent electronic tour de force. For full disclosure, I've had my issues with Samsung TVs in the past. This TV replaced a 75" Samsung HD set that I had for about 8 years and, for the most part, was great. But twice I had that dreaded failure where the TV would randomly shut off and restart repeatedly. After months of troubleshooting and anguish, I replaced a cable and all worked well, but it raised serious concern about Samsung and their QA. Nevertheless, when it came to buy a new one, I ended up going back to Samsung basically for two reasons. First, the quality of the picture is only second to the LG OLED. But LG does not make an 80"+ OLED TV that doesn't require a second mortgage. So the second reason I bought the Samsung is because the cost is reasonable by comparison (although still high). I also rationalized that over the years, Samsung has hopefully addressed their QA issues and I won't suffer though more troubleshooting issues in the future. (File this one under "Denial".) But enough of that. The TV itself is stunning. We purchased the wall-mounting as part of our package and Angel, the Amazon installer, was terrific. In and out in about 45 minutes, and that included the assembly of the mount. Once turned on, the set-up wizard walks you through everything you need to get you up and running, including the recognition of the attached DVR, Apple TV, Roku, and game console. No need to remember which HDMI port each is plugged into. The TV labels all the ports in an easy-to-access menu that you display via the sleek remote. The remote is minimalistic but very functional. Others have complained about it, but honestly, other than using my DirecTV remote to change channels, I use the Samsung remote for all other functions. The Home button displays a menu that allows you to access all your other devices, and those are integrated with access to the apps for quick access to Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, or, in my case, the MLBTV app. No more of this nonsense of reaching for the TV remote, pressing "Source", trying to remember which HDMI port is the Apple TV, selecting the port, then reaching for the Apple TV remote. The magic all happens with one single remote. But the beauty of this TV (and the reason you shell out all that money) doesn't really come home to roost until you see the vibrancy of the colors. It's hard to convey. It's like Dorothy living her life in Kansas in black and white for the first 45 minutes of "The Wizard of OZ", and then opening the door of her tornado-transported house only to see the REAL colors of the Emerald City. The first time I saw the red and greens in the graphics of some of the networks, it was like seeing what real color is supposed to look like. It jumps off the page (if your TV was paper). On the other hand, maybe my retinas were sufficiently burned. Either way, several days later, I'm still in awe when I turn the TV on and the colors become living, all-encompassing waves of vibrancy. It's spectacular. It's probably a good idea to plan to fool with some of the motion settings. Accepting the defaults made for some interesting effects while watching football on the NFL Network, especially in close-ups of fast-moving interior linemen, or a camera tracking a pass upfield. But after an afternoon of twiddling with the settings, I have the best television picture I've seen in my life. Now if we can just get the networks to start broadcasting in 4K, that would be great. It's a lot of money to pay for a TV, and I'm sure if you wait, the price of these will drop significantly as the technology improves. But if you're looking for what amounts to cutting edge picture quality now and the price doesn't scare you, you can't go wrong with the Samsung QLED. They're making retinas a thing of the past. :-)

I was anxious about ordering this TV based on several of the reviews complaining about apps you couldn't get rid of and that were slow, cumbersome, and in the way. I never intended to use the TV's apps because I have a 5.1 surround home theater that's the heart of the system, but apps getting in the way on the TV, and pushing me to buy content from Samsung, might be a problem. I'm happy to say they're not. Once the TV is set up you can disable the menu bar showing up at all, unless you ask for it with the remote, and it is quietly and peacefully just a big, beautiful display for whatever the amp sends it via the HDMI cable. You'd have the same results if you used a Roku, cable box, or DVR for your input to it, and didn't need to use the TV's own "smart" apps. I also didn't use the TV's internal speakers, but disabled them, since my audio is going to my surround sound speakers. So I can't speak to how well those work. But when it comes to the picture, it's amazing. Well, out of the box, it's terrible, but only in the same way nearly every high-def TV is -- they set them to Vivid or Dynamic, some settings designed to catch the eye in a visually noisy Best Buy under bright fluorescent lights, but look awful at home, with an odd jerky motion and harsh colors. Change to Movie mode, and it's ten times better. Then disable all the "smart" signal processing and automatic image changing settings, and it's even better. 20 minutes with the Spears & Munsil calibration disc led to a few small tweaks to color, balance, tint, etc. and it's even better yet. All the benefits of OLED (strong colors with sharp contrast and fine variations in shading, for instance) without the disadvantages (high cost, burn-in issues, and poor blacks). 4k video is breathtaking, and even older video upscales amazingly well (we were stunned at how good old ST:TOS looked), though of course, no force in heaven or earth can make 70s BBC footage look like anything but 70s BBC footage. Also, bafflingly, the TV comes on streaming some YouTube-like source that has some of the worst image quality imaginable. Way to go, guys. It ought to come up showing some breathtaking 4k footage, not blocky, poorly edited video taken with an old phone. I can well imagine the apps are not great. The remote is pretty bad, the menus are a bit clunky to navigate, Samsung's online presence (probably pretty smooth if you already have a Samsung phone and thus accounts) is oddly broken (I had to create one account to get the TV set up, but couldn't link it to Samsung's cloud, so needed a second one to be able to show images), and I can see how the apps seem determined to push you to buy content from Samsung. But all it takes is a Roku (price: drop in the bucket compared to the cost of this TV) to avoid all that. Just consider it part of the price of the system, just like you would HDMI cables or a mount.

OK, I just got it yesterday, but everything from the delivery to the unpacking, to the setup has been awesome! The trucking company arrived early. Luckily my wife was home. They said they would help with setup, but she had to go to work. When I got home I unboxed it with my son's help. There are plastic locks on the box that allow the box to be taken off without cutting or ripping tape. Ingenious! I needed to make a trip to the hardware store to get the right size screws to attach it to my wall mount. Between my wife and I, we were able to lift it easily and get it mounted with no fuss. Setup of the TV was easy, and my Samsung Galaxy S8+ popped up a message and detected the TV and set up an app all automatically. The picture is AWESOME!!! I felt like I was right there in the car with the characters in the movie that was on when we turned it on. The TV automatically detected the game systems I had plugged into it. It must have transferred my wifi info from my phone, because it connected to my home network without my having to type in the password. I have only a few complaints- The remote is tiny. I mean about 6 inches long by an inch and a half. Not many buttons, any numerical input is done by scrolling on the screen. But aside from accessing the menu and turning the TV on and off, we use our set top box remote. The major gripe I have, is that all the inputs are on a side facing panel on the back of the TV, which is not accessible once it's wall mounted. I plugged an HDMI cable into each port and have them ready for when I need them, but I would like to have been able to access the USB plugs for digital content. That may be moot if the network access works well. I haven't had the time to mess with that yet. Aside from taping a broom stick to the remote so it doesn't disappear forever, I see no other issues so far. I'm very happy with it so far!

Great TV with a great picture when there are no problems. After 50 days this TV started showing a edge to edge line halfway up the screen. This the second of three large Samsung LED TVs that has failed soon after purchase. The good news is it looks like Samsung will fix or replace this set. What a pain. That makes a 66% failure rate. The Samsung repair team showed up today. Within 1 hour they changed the screen on my 82 inch qled TV that had a bad pixel. Professional and polite is how I would describe them. Life is good again.

Update: 19 November 2018 Unit was repaired - I believe they said they changed the main board. It's been working fine since. Everything has been fine since - if I don't have any further issues in the near future, I will upgrade the review to 4 stars. I still think it is unthinkable to have an item like this be launched with a typo in its menus. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: I may update this review if/when my TV is adequately repaired. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As is usual, the purchase from Amazon went smoothly. Delivery was scheduled and the local delivery was actually able to come a couple days early. Part of the reason I jumped on this purchase was because I wanted it for a big upcoming football game this weekend with a lot of friends. I was a little concerned Saturday when the delivery people showed up with only one person and a just a small dolly. If I wasn't someone who was able to assist, I would have been in trouble - this thing is massive. Also, the place I needed it was just inside my front door, so we were able to just slide it in and that was it. Turned it on, went through initial setup, and and all seemed well. It detected the inputs, and it looked fantastic. I watched a couple college football games, stepped away for a bit, and when I returned, it was off. I figured it was some sort of power save feature and it had simply shut off. Boy was I wrong. Nothing I did brought it back on. Unplug. Take it out of the power strip. Plug it in the wall. Remove all inputs. Hold down the power button. Nothing. The weird thing is, the Samsung QLED splash screen would still come on when I hit the power button, so it was actually turning on. Then, sometimes, it would say "Searching for Devices" and I could actually pair my remote. But never could I watch anything. No menus, no nothing. A couple hours later I went through a bunch of the same stuff again and actually got it to turn on. Friends came over for a basketball game it it was just fine. Until Sunday. Sunday I got up, tried to turn it on, and the same thing. Unfortunately, this time I was unable to recreate my miracle of the day before and get it to turn on. Same black screen. Same intermittent display of wanting to connect to devices. Anytime I hit a button on the remote, the screen would say "Not availiable". No, I didn't type that wrong. A $3,000 TV has a typo on its screen when sending a feedback message (see picture). I suppose that's not surprising with this type of QA. I have a service appointment on Wednesday. All I know is it better be fixed before the big game this weekend. I know my experience is probably not in the majority, but I feel the need to forewarn potential buyers. I probably will not be able to ever get this rating above 4 stars based on this initial experience, but if it is corrected in a timely and satisfactory manner, I will revise accordingly.

Arrived right on schedule (took approximately 1 week), and trust me when I say that I was waiting breathlessly for it! Shipped using a private carrier service, the delivery company was fantastic about keeping in touch and scheduling a specific delivery day & time. They not only arrived on schedule, they actually arrived 10 minutes early....Whoo Hoo!! Contractors were very friendly, helpful, and placed the (very large & heavy) box inside the house for me. Now that its mounted, I'm just like the people in the commercials.....don't want to take my eyes off of the TV or leave the room. LOL. Picture quality is fantastic, set up is super easy, and sound quality is great. There are different modes you can choose from for the sound/volume, so play with it to find what fits best for your needs......the factory default setting is the lowest quality mode, so don't be immediately disappointed. I can't wait to really "play" with my smart TV to discover all of the options I truly have....I'm sure that I will not be disappointed in the least. If you have the money to spend, I would highly recommend making this purchase.

So far, I'm loving this TV. It was a difficult decision and the negative reviews and complaints about Samsung's responsiveness to warranty issues definitely gave me pause and worried me. But I looked at competing brands and they had similar complaints. I couldn't care less about the smart features. That's why I have a Ruku. All I want is a monitor with a good picture and this TV delivers. The picture is just beautiful and hits the mid-range quality mark nicely. If I have warranty and repair issues like other's have had I may change my tune, but it's just great so far. I'll say this: I would not spend this much money on a TV only to plug it directly into the wall. You are taking a serious risk if you do that. Spend the extra money for a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ILH7KJI/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1">power conditioner. </a>

I did a lot of research online and other reviews for other 80"+ screen TV's, and this one seemed to be the overall best, from brightness, to blacker blacks. I can control my surround sound with the tv remote because it uses the optical audio output port. The cable track thing in the rear doesn't seem to hold the cables well, but it could be I didn't try hard enough, but I mounted mine on the wall so didn't really matter, you can't see cables anyway I ran 100% of the cables through the wall. (not included wall mounts and adapters). The room doesn't heat up like I was expecting like the old TV did. It does take two people to get it mounted to the wall, but at this size and this price you don't want to risk that anyways. The voice command feature seems like it needs some work. But I don't like using that feature for the same reason I don't like these AI devices in my house. (Illuminati). Overall good tv, and glad I picked it, no regrets. (will update if that changes)

Our screen has only been in our gaming and entertainment room for a few weeks. It was very well packaged and protected for shipping, easy to setup, and operate. Qled, 82 inches? What can I say. It is amazing. We love it.

100% satisfied