TVs and monitors · Samsung
Owners keep the S90D for its picture, especially in a dark room at night, and most who compare it to other OLEDs prefer what they see on it.
Picture quality is the clear praise. Owners who also have Sony, LG and TCL sets say they would rather watch most things on the S90D, and several credit the QD-OLED panel's colour over LG's WOLED.
Owners are divided on brightness. Some say it is the first panel they found genuinely bright enough, even with sun coming through glass doors; others found a bright room with window reflections made it hard to watch and had to rearrange the room.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
What keeps delighting people is the panel itself. Owners who run it beside a Bravia 7, an LG C4 or G4 say the S90D is the one they reach for most of the time, and the colours are the part they single out. One owner who came from an LG C9 notes that HDR content looks excellent once it is properly set up, and that any HDR looking worse than SDR is a settings problem, not the TV.
The adjustment is the room. Night viewing draws no complaints; daytime is where accounts split. One owner moved the furniture to get away from window reflections, another sits in direct sunlight and says it is easily bright enough. Sports and some streaming TV content are the one area where an owner gave the edge to Sony's processing rather than the Samsung.
The picture holds up for the owners who have had it longest, including one who bought open box a year and a half ago and still calls it a favourite. The failure that came up was serious: one owner had a full panel failure at about a year and a half and has moved back to LG. Another had a set replaced through a third-party protection plan, refused the downgrade offered, and ended up with the newer S90F.
Long-term accounts are thin, and the honest reading is that a couple of owners have run into trouble while most have not reported anything. What is consistent is how owners protect themselves: several bought a retailer or third-party warranty specifically because they do not trust Samsung's own support, and one says they would have chosen a different brand without that cover. Samsung customer service itself gets no positive mentions in these accounts.
Parts named in the 4 accounts that describe a failure
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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