On this review, we’re taking the 60-inch Samsung UN60ES8000 for a field-test to determine how brand new features such as voice control, motion control and face recognition work in the real world.
Certainly, the graphic quality is a critical aspect for any TV purchase. Sadly, I dont have an environment where the lighting is controlled neither the tools to determine color precision (spectroradiometer), but again, most of the people dont adjust their own monitors, have a lab in their living room or make use of 5000k white lighting. Instead, Im going to concentrate on real-world stuff like how the television acts in direct sunlight, and to external light sources etc. This is pretty subjective, but at least you know where I come from.
I found the Samsung ES8000 to make a great picture quality with plenty of brightness (even in direct sunlight) and I found the colours reproduction to be great not over saturated or otherwise. It would be nice to determine this with a real benchmark (gotta like science), yet I have seen numerous TVs and worked for 15 years in computer graphics, so I have some knowledge of what precisely graphic quality means.
One thing that is rarely scientifically measured is the amount of image processing which occur in those tvs. Samsung too does employ numerous filters to the picture coming from video resources (cable TV etc), but I need to state that they dont overdo it. Many TV makers utilize too much Sharpening or colour vividness, however the Samsung ES8000 series looks good out of the box and thats significant simply because most of the people dont want to tweak the settings and have no great calibration to do so. You can consequently tune according to your tastes, should you want to.
Remarkably, I found the 60 UN60ES8000F to look slightly more blurry -in relative terms- than my 55 Samsung UN55D8000YFXZA. This is normal as it shows the same 1080p image on a bigger surface. This shows that large-size TVs would eventually require something much better than 1080p resolution (1920◊1080 pixel). In absolute terms, the majority of people would call the image crisp, and unless youve seen many 4K demonstrations like we did, its difficult to complain about 1080p on a 60. But if you come from a 50?, you may want to know this bit of information.
For a much more thorough review on televisions, please head over to my website for more: lcd vs plasma.
Tags: technology, Televisions