Q9fn 75"
I've had a few days to get used to the 75" Q9FN now. Would I recommend this set to someone looking for a high-end display? If you want a display that can do everything extremely well, and you don't mind paying for it, yes.
Picture:
Coming from a plasma the picture on the Q9FN is breathtaking and a clear upgrade. The contrast and local dimming work together to display a picture that at once has brighter brights than I've ever seen before while showing true blacks that are indiscernible, to my eye, from my plasma. Blacks that my plasma crushes have depth on the QLED.
The brightness took some getting used to, and it made capturing a picture difficult. I included some pictures of my living room to give you an idea of how tough the brightness makes it - the lighting stayed the same, but when the camera tries to adjust to a bright scene on the display if makes everything else look dim. I will say that the pictures don't do the actual television justice - any wash, crush, blur, loss of detail et cetera are from the camera and not the Q9.
The colors are similarly spectacular. After watching a few shows and movies my wife commented that she will never be able to go back to a movie theater because the Q9 makes movies seem dull, dim, flat and dingy by comparison.
Black bars are black in everything we've watched. We can't see blooming, and we've watched a variety of sci-fi. We are not videophiles, however, and your mileage may vary. One thing we've noticed is something that Joey from modernwize mentioned a few weeks ago - the bright highlights are like looking into a headlight on a dark night - if there is any blooming my eyes can't tell because there is enough contrast that it overwhelms what might be a technically observable issue to someone with the right equipment looking for "torture test" issues.
Zones - I counted 480 zones. I'm not a professional reviewer so that might not be the final count, but that's what I got. Given that the set looks worlds better than my plasma, I don't have a problem with what some people think is a low zone count. Will the 65" be better? No idea, but I have no complaints with the 75" and it's, well, huge.
Angle viewing:
We don't notice any issues from viewing anywhere in the living room, dining room, or kitchen. Standing sideways to the set - at greater than 60 degrees angle - the picture change is perceptible to the eye, but I don't know who would watch sports or a movie at that angle. It is a non-issue at any normal viewing angle even in a large room.
Wall mount:
I have the zero gap wall mount and my television has zero gap and sits perfectly flush to the wall. Works as advertised. The ability to adjust the angle came in handy because I didn't get the bracket mounted level, but can move the display around very easily.
Upscaling:
It's good, but this is a big set and non-4k content does not look like 4k content. I'm not sure how else to describe it other than non-4k movies look like they have a slight film grain. It looks good, especially for the size of the screen, but it's noticeable enough that I upgraded my Netflix account on Day 2 because I'd rather pay $3/month more than look at upscaled images.
Motion:
Again, coming from a plasma, the motion took the most work to dial in. We've found two settings that work for us. Once we found the right settings for us we stopped noticing motion at all - side by side with our plasma we don't notice any difference. This is particularly impressive given that the jump from the 51" plasma to 75" QLED is a huge step up in size.
Gaming:
This is the best gaming display I have ever experienced. Games on the XBox One X and PS4 look and play like they were built for this set. Not much else to say - if you game this is the set to get.
Computer monitor:
See gaming. Huge. Bright. I can't see pixels even when sitting close.
Like Joey from modernwize I don't think my settings are going to be for everyone (or anyone else, who knows). My wife and I both disliked the Rtings settings recommendations - we found their settings to be too dark and dim, too flat, and too orange.
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I have a graduate degree and like to look at a lot of hard data before making a purchase - in this case, on paper, contrast ratio and ability to handle motion were key determinants for me. All of that is well and good, but as you've pointed out, at the end of the day what the human eye sees isn't always the same as the data that a machine gives.
The Q9FN is the first time I've watched a show and it looked like real life. The sun looks like the sun. Water looks like water. On my plasma and with movies there has always been a bit of suspension of disbelief - with the Q9 it just looks like I'm living in the scene.
Not to beat up on Rtings too much, but they seem to have missed the point of this set with the settings that they based their ratings off of. Taking a 3300 nit-capable set and hamstringing it down to 100 nits with aggressively dim settings doesn't give a realistic measure of the set's capabilities. We tried their settings first, and we would've returned the set based on their dirty orange look - but once we started using the set's full capabilities it really started to shine.
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