The Samsung QN85D is a great TV overall. Its contrast is fantastic, especially with local dimming set to 'High,' so movies look amazing in a dark room. It has good reflection handling for bright rooms, and the TV gets bright in both SDR and HDR, so TV shows and sports look great even when there are a ton of lights around. Its low-quality content smoothing does an alright job when cleaning out compression artifacts from low-bitrate TV shows and movies, but there's still noticeable macro-blocking in dark scenes. Unfortunately, the TV's viewing angle is sub-par; it's not a good choice for large viewing parties as anyone sitting to the side sees a degraded image. Aside from that, the TV has plenty of strengths: exceptionally low input lag for very responsive inputs when gaming or using a PC mouse, a ton of gaming features, and a great response time for clear motion whenever fast-moving objects are on screen.
Samuel Breton, Pierre-Olivier Jourdenais, and John Peroramas
May 14, 2024
The Samsung QN85D is a great TV overall. Its contrast is fantastic, especially with local dimming set to 'High,' so movies look amazing in a dark room. It has good reflection handling for bright rooms, and the TV gets bright in both SDR and HDR, so TV shows and sports look great even when there are a ton of lights around. Its low-quality content smoothing does an alright job when cleaning out compression artifacts from low-bitrate TV shows and movies, but there's still noticeable macro-blocking in dark scenes. Unfortunately, the TV's viewing angle is sub-par; it's not a good choice for large viewing parties as anyone sitting to the side sees a degraded image. Aside from that, the TV has plenty of strengths: exceptionally low input lag for very responsive inputs when gaming or using a PC mouse, a ton of gaming features, and a great response time for clear motion whenever fast-moving objects are on screen.
Samuel Breton, Pierre-Olivier Jourdenais, and John Peroramas
RTINGS.com
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