Samsung 43" QN90B Neo QLED 4K Smart TV $1410 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas) @ Appliance Central

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BargainMelbourne on 02/01/2023 - 13:57 appliancecentral.com.au (356 clicks)
Last edited 04/01/2023 - 10:06 by 1 other user

Been looking for a new 43" monitor as my Asus PG42UQ went faulty within a few weeks of usage.
For $900 less I feel this is a no brainer. Yes you loose the dimming zones that OLED provides, as well as absolute blacks. But with much higher SDR brightness this will do much better for work.

I think this is part of the boxing day sales and ends tonight.

There has been some notes about G-Sync and 144Hz working weirdly, but potentially will be fixed with future firmware updates (a recent update fixed Freesync with AMD GPU's)

Brief rundown on specs:
4k
144Hz
VRR
Mini LED, 360 dimming zones
Quantum HDR 24x (whatever that means?)
4x HDMI 2.1

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  Fursty on 02/01/2023 - 13:58

  +1

  Should add the model number QN90b in title

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  Lewdannie on 02/01/2023 - 14:13

  I got one of these from Video Pro for $1350 on Black Friday

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    BargainMelbourne on 02/01/2023 - 14:14

    How do you find it?

    I'm hoping productivity will be much better than the OLED I'm replacing

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      bdodo on 02/01/2023 - 14:19

      Apart from your Asus PG42UQ going bad in a few weeks, can you explain your issues with productivity on it?
      I'm in the market myself just looking for other people's experiences.

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        BargainMelbourne on 02/01/2023 - 14:21

        +1

        I found it a little dim, better than the 48C1 I used to use.
        But the WRGB pixel layout just made text horrible. Had to have 150% scaling to try mitigate it

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  virtuallife on 02/01/2023 - 14:23

  What’s difference between TVs and Monitors? Genuine question - shouldn’t there be product differences as they are meant to be used at different viewing-distances?

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    BargainMelbourne on 02/01/2023 - 14:27

    Honestly the lines are becoming quite blurred now. This still is a TV but has good specs as a monitor (high refresh rate, high resolution, low input lag in gaming mode).
    But will lack some monitor specific functions such as wake from sleep.

    But this video from Jayz made me consider it.(different TV but same principal)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5cWHyiOHg

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    Ryxxi on 02/01/2023 - 14:29

    Tv's have a image processor. This will increase latency.

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    Whisper Quiet on 02/01/2023 - 15:44

    Most of the top tvs have around 10ms lag. Which is amazing, while still giving a better picture than any monitor can. The other main one is TVs dont have Displayport. HDMI have a contract with all TV manufacturers for only their ports to to be used. Monitors also have priority for clear text, where many TVs dont and also can have a lesser pixel arrangement like BRG, WRGB, Triangle layout etc. making it harder to read

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    dcep on 02/01/2023 - 16:19

    Something … something about 4:4:4 chroma subsampling , have a google on that.

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  Ryxxi on 02/01/2023 - 14:28

  -4

  Why get this crappy tv instead of lg c2 when its cheaper..

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    BargainMelbourne on 02/01/2023 - 14:32

    +2

    C2 has lower SDR Brightness, lower HDR brightness, and risk of burn in?
    Not risking an OLED with only 1 years worth of warranty

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      dcep on 02/01/2023 - 16:32

      +2

      Is OLED still subject to burn-in these days ?

      I mean, they made OLED gaming monitors and even OLED laptops , whilst expecting burn-in still?

      LG Ultragear / Gigabyte FO48U

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  OGKauie on 02/01/2023 - 14:44

  +2

  Ive had one of these as a monitor for a couple of months now. Lots of positives but two big negatives are making me consider selling this off for a 42" C2.

  The viewing angles are terrible. At any reasonable distance a table would would put you away from the screen, you can see the saturation drop off as you move towards the edges of the screen.

  Software experience. Samsung put out a very buggy firmware late last year that made VRR unusable for a couple of months. It's fixed now but it is still buggy and since the fix, HGiG content is quite dim - reducing one of the few benefits this TV has over an OLED

  One more thing to note is that text clarity is very poor at 4k 144hz - not an issue for me as I'm happy with 120hz for productivity and can switch to 144hz when I start a video game.

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  xenoic on 02/01/2023 - 15:13

  -3

  Was considering this until I saw in YouTube reviews regarding on these issues:

  • terrible blooming
  • BGR subpixel layout not great for text
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  Jacobakaclarence on 02/01/2023 - 15:25

  Are there better value MINI-LEDs? 55 inch TCL c835 a bit too big for monitor I guess 😂

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  OGKauie on 02/01/2023 - 16:56

  +1

  OP - the TV has 360 LD Zones not 36