50% off RRP on Samsung 85" QN85D Neo QLED 4K Smart TV if you have access to Samsung EPP.
This product cannot be delivered to a number of postcodes in NSW, QLD, VIC and WA (as well as all of TAS and NT).
Review for anyone that wants specs/details: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/qn85d-qn85dd-qled
This one not IPS like the last model.
Do you mean ADS Pro?
This if from rtings
"Unlike past models in the QN85 series, the Samsung QN85D uses a VA panel instead of ADS/IPS. This gives it better contrast at the cost of a worse viewing angle. Furthermore, the QN85D has a Blue-Green-Red (BGR) subpixel layout. For multimedia usage, this doesn't cause any issues, but it causes text clarity issues when you use this TV as a PC monitor.
The TV has good separation between colors, which helps with its color purity and its ability to display a wide range of colors"
It's also inferior despite having a VA panel: https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/compare/samsung-qn85c-vs-sam…
My understanding when researching in the past years is that the 85 inch panel was always VA and was not produced in IPS variant
I’m in the market for a 75” mini LED or 65” OLED. How do these stack up against the TLC 855 if I wanna push for 85”?
In what way? 160 zones vs 2300 zones on the TCL
@Maths Debater: Where can I find the dimming zone count for the qn85d for different sizes? All I've ever seen published is 160. Just curious about my 75 inch, which I think performs really well for 160 zones, if that's all it has.
@picket23: 160 zones applies to the 65" variant. Strangely, I cannot find any information about the 75". I will look into this and get back to you.
@Maths Debater: Yeah googled quite a lot before I bought and couldn't find anything, so don't waste your time unless you have amazing google fu, cheers though.
What was the source for that 1210 zones of the 85 inch, or was that an error?
I unpublished my comment as I was a bit too quick.
I wouldn't say its 160 zones. My previous research re qn85A showed that it had over 1000 dimming zones.
Can't give you a set figure
TCL gets a great wrap and has dominated the market for Mini LED panels but always remember, if you can afford a better brand, you buy the better brand. Samsung > TCL.
Maybe at the same level, but the QN85D is an objectively worse TV than the C855.
Perhaps, but it doesn't stand a chance against the QN90D or Bravia 9 for that matter.
Not really true. Nobody can touch TCL for brightness in their C855. And if you’re going above 85” the Samsung isn’t even close for 2x the cost*
*usual prices.
These are all just numbers. There's a lot more to a TV than peak brightness and dimmable zones.
@Maths Debater: Absolutely, I just can't understand the obsession with specs such as dimming zone count or peak brightness. There was good and bad image quality before local dimming existed.
The same things that mattered before local dimming are still what determine if the image quality will please you or disgust you. Things like motion handling, upscaling, etc can all ruin a TV completely if they are rubbish, regardless of dimming zone count or how bright it gets.
Not taking a shot at TCL, I reckon the one I have in the bedroom is great. But ranking TVs by such specs is not the way to go. I understand it's tempting because reading a couple of numbers on a spec sheet is easy…
Might as well rank the value of houses on how many bathrooms they have or the size of the pool. Forget how they are constructed or what suburb they're in…
@picket23: Exactly right. Take the Sony X9300E for example in 2017. Vincent from HDTVTest said it had one of the best local dimming algorithms he has ever seen. Do you know what kind of backlight it had? Edge-lit. Spec sheets mean nothing.
@Maths Debater: You know that you need to click the affiliated button if you are.. affiliated with Samsung, right?
Vincent has huge praise for the TCL top end units (C855) and seems to think only the top of the line Sony MiniLED, or OLED TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can beat their picture quality - especially for the price.
I had the option of the 98” Samsung or 98” C855 and the Samsung was rubbish in comparison, despite being $8999 (RRP$12999) vs the C855s $4500 ($9999 RRP).
The panel quality on the C855 is incredible. Your comment of “if you can afford a better brand, you buy the better brand. Samsung > TCL.” is so objectively wrong that it’s a ridiculous thing to say.
@Broos: Nah, not really. I used to work for Hisense and know first hand what kind of garbage is manufactured by China. But yes, continue justifying your "bang for buck" purchase. Whatever makes you sleep at night. I find it VERY hard to believe that the C855 looked better than the QN90D. I'm not affiliated with anyone, I just don't buy cheap brands plagued with power supply issues, t-con board issues, main board issues, panel issues, need I go on? Their failure rate is nowhere near as low as Samsung, Sony or LG.
Need to factor-in an android box, to replace their gimped OS & overall experience.
Agreed Samsung has Neo Qled which is supposed to offer the benefits of both Qled for the colour and mini LED:
TCL versus Hisense: TCL is brighter, but Hisense has better reflection handling.
Popular Mechanics article on the TCL vs Hisense:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a63604861/tcl-vs…
This may be a good introduction from Appliances online:
https://www.appliancesonline.com.au/blog/oled-qled-qned-4k-t…
I don't think there are any mini-led TVs on the market that aren't also QLED these days. Samsung just use the neo QLED marketing term to differentiate their standard QLED vs mini-led with QLED sets. So neo QLED is no different in terms of technology compared to other brands mini-led sets.
Mini-led and QLED are refer to completely different components of a TV and are not competing technologies. QLED is a led tv that uses a QD layer on top of the panel to improve colours, mini-led refer to the type of backlighting behind the panel.
Id rather the sony 85" bravia xr70 for 2720 vis sony ebay, much better tv but seems sold out, i amanaged to snag one.
How did you get the Bravia xr 70 for under 3k? I've been looking at this tv and the 75 inch is over 3k
It was carton damaged but normally these are brand new unused items with no issues
Impressive discount for a good all round TV.