Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I was originally going to wait until I've owned the TV for a few months before writing this, but given that nobody else has written an in-depth review on it for Amazon yet, I figure it couldn't hurt to do one after only a couple of weeks, especially given that I already know my way around the TV quite well (and can always edit this review later). Now keep in mind that I bought this TV to be solely used as a monitor for PC games, so not everything I'll be covering here may apply to you. With that out of the way, let's talk about the one thing most people care about: Picture quality. Contrast is great for a non-OLED TV; it's not anything mind-blowing, but if you're upgrading from an older TV or monitor, the blacks will blow you away. This TV also has fairly accurate colors right out of the box, which is good, since it disables most of the picture settings when it's running in PC mode (like 20 Point White Balance, which for some stupid reason cannot be adjusted when the TV detects a PC). I'll post the settings you need to change at the end of the review. Next I'd like to talk about the reason why I chose this TV over the competition: Input Lag. If you don't know what that is, I'll explain it simply: every TV and monitor introduces a small delay because of the time it takes to receive the signal, process it, and then display it for your eyes to feast on. This small delay means that what you're seeing in a game actually arrives at your eyes slightly later than when it actually occurred in-game, making it harder to react if input lag is high. Every TV/monitor has input lag, and the more processing it has to do (and the slower it does it), the higher input lag it'll have. Thankfully this TV has the lowest overall input lag of any TV in existence at the moment, thanks to the fast quad-core processor that powers everything it does. Depending on your settings, it can go as low as 9.3ms (which is roughly the same amount of time it takes for a CRT monitor to draw an image, which if you didn't already know, is RIDICULOUSLY fast), or as high as 27ms with Game Motion Plus turned on (which you won't even notice unless you game competitively; more on that later). Now because the TV is has native 120Hz panel, that means that you can run games at a silky-smooth 120FPS (if your PC can handle it), which if you haven't seen in person before, makes 60 FPS look like 30 FPS. If you play a lot of shooters or any game that requires fast reflexes, you will fall in love with this TV. Unfortunately there's a catch: 120Hz can only work @ 1440p or 1080p. You are limited to 60Hz @ 4K. This is not because of any fault of the TV itself, but rather a limitation of the HDMI 2.0 standard. No TV can accept a 4K120 signal at the moment, not at least until TVs complying with the new HDMI 2.1 standard start popping up within a year or two. It doesn't really matter anyway since there isn't a single PC or console in existence that can handle 4K120 gaming yet, plus there's a workaround to get a 120Hz-like image @ 4K which I'll touch upon next. Not to mention that this TV does an absolute stellar job at upscaling; so much so that you can run games @ 1440p all day and won't even notice that your TV isn't running at its native 4K resolution unless you're sitting two feet away from the screen. So speaking of which, the next thing I want to touch upon is called Game Motion Plus, which is this magical little feature that converts games to 120Hz while introducing such little input lag, that only the most competitive gamers will notice it (27ms as I mentioned earlier). You may already know this as the "Soap Opera Effect", and while most people would probably agree that it makes TV shows and movies look worse, it's an absolute godsend for gaming. I'll tell you why: through some sophisticated processing magic, this TV is able to analyze the image on the screen, and insert its own frames in between whatever your PC/console is able to render, making the game appear to be running at a higher FPS than it actually is. This means that your 30 FPS games will look like they're running at 60, and your 60 FPS games will look like they're running at 120. Most TVs nowadays can do this, but this particular SAMSUNG is the ONLY TV in existence right now that can do so while still keeping input lag low. This also means that 4K games will run @ 120Hz when playing in 4K, even though you can't actually send a 120Hz signal @ 4K through an HDMI cable just yet. For single player games and multiplayer titles that don't require fast reflexes, you'll want to have this feature turned ON. [That's it for now, I will update this review later to touch upon the cons of this TV, as well as discuss things like HDR, the smart features, menu navigation, and the remote.] And as promised, my recommended settings for PC gaming use (any settings I don't mention here, you can safely assume that they can be left on default): DEVICE TYPE: PC PICTURE MODE: Standard or Game (or Movie if your TV isn't hooked up to a PC) BACKLIGHT: your personal preference BRIGHTNESS: 0 CONTRAST: 50 SHARPNESS: 10 (which means no added sharpness nor blurriness to a PC signal) LOCAL DIMMING: High COLOR TONE: Warm2 GAMMA: 0 HDMI UHD COLOR: Enabled for all inputs HDMI BLACK LEVEL: Auto GAME MODE: On FREESYNC: Ultimate (if you have a compatible AMD graphics card or console, otherwise Off) GAME MOTION PLUS: On for Games (except competitive twitch shooters), On for movies/videos/TV (unless you hate the soap opera effect), off when viewing the desktop (unless you want the soap opera effect for streaming sites like YouTube) BLUR REDUCTION: 10 (only applies when Game Motion Plus is On) JUDDER REDUCTION: 10 (ditto) AMBIENT LIGHT DETECTION: Personal preference. Adjusts the backlight depending on how bright your room is. This setting also dims the backlight when dark scenes are being shown on the TV. Some people may like this, others might be irritated by it.