55” Samsung CU8000 REVIEW | Crystal UHD 4K Television - HDR
55” Samsung CU8000 REVIEW | Crystal UHD 4K Television - HDR
Samsung CU8000 REVIEW | Crystal UHD 4K Television - HDR
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0.07 -> here's a fun fact for you guys not everyone
wants to spend a ton of money on television
4.57 -> because it's really not that important in
their lives but they want to make sure they're
8.46 -> making up a good buying decision so today
we're going to take a look at a budget television
12.79 -> from Samsung this is the 55-inch cu-8000 now
it's new for 2023 and on this video we're
19.96 -> going to talk about a few things that I think
is important for you guys in making the best
24.18 -> decision for you and your family on this video
we're going to talk about the display the
28.57 -> connections on the back we're going to do
some testing as well as gaming I'm gonna let
32.72 -> you guys hear the audio system we'll also
take a look at the remote control and some
37.09 -> features that it has to offer so let's get
right into it the first thing you notice when
41.82 -> you buy this TV is you hear the word crystal
UHD and I got to debunk that because what
47.5 -> it is is a marketing strategy to give you
a new term that you think is something new
52.26 -> but in fact it's just budget price LEDs to
give you a really good picture but they have
58.2 -> a lot of technology to make the team be look
good with that being said this TV is available
62.82 -> in five different sizes there's a 43 inch
a 50 inch and today we're going to be using
67.64 -> a 55 inch however if you have a larger room
I would probably opt in for the 65 or 75 inch
74.08 -> now one thing about all these TVs that they
use a vertical alignment panel or VA panel
79.07 -> and what that means is that it's going to
have better contrast than IPS but the takeaways
84.46 -> is that you can lose some of the viewing angles
whenever you're using a TV like this so if
89.01 -> you put it up on a fireplace you want to put
it at an angle or something like that so you
92.831 -> get the best experience so now we'll take
a look at the upscale end in SDR mode using
97.54 -> YouTube TV this is a 1080p picture and I have
it in standard mode but let's go ahead and
103.299 -> switch over to eco mode we can go to movie
mode makes it a little bit darker we have
108.09 -> filmmakers mode which to me looks more natural
and then you have Dynamic mode that actually
113.22 -> boosts up the brightness but in order to get
the best experience you want to watch something
117.13 -> like Disney Plus application and with Avatar
you can see that it looks more natural smoother
123.159 -> and it's running at 4K resolution with this
TV was designed for now I want to show you
127.259 -> guys a demonstration of HDR next to SDR and
you can see that the HDR is not as bright
133.94 -> as you would expect now keep in mind when
it comes to hdrs TVs are based off of Niche
138.84 -> rating and I'll assume this one's around 400
where most content is actually recorded at
143.87 -> a thousand so on bright scenes you're definitely
going to get a great experience and because
148.5 -> of the technology you're not going to get
those Inky black levels like you will find
152.239 -> in some of the Samsung OLED models or even
the QD oleds now when it comes to the back
157.51 -> of it this TV has plenty of inputs you have
two USBS and you can use these for keyboards
162.42 -> Mouse hard drives thumb drives we also have
a lan connection connecting it directly to
166.879 -> your router there's two hdmis on this side
and there are HDMI 2.0 and you have an e-arc
173.67 -> here so you can run this over to a sound bar
and it will support up to Adobe utmost outputs
179.18 -> we have a atsc tuner and then there's a third
HDMI and a fiber optic output from Renault
184.84 -> to your audio system when using the Spears
in muscle 4K disc I was able to get some decent
190.13 -> grade levels and then I went through the different
picture modes on the TV it still had some
194.4 -> really good black levels up to the white levels
but the thing that I noticed is that no matter
199.37 -> how much I change the different settings I
wasn't able to make the TV brighter or darker
204.379 -> what it did was just basically change it from
a cool temperature to a warm temperature I
208.77 -> also want to check out the uniformity and
what you should expect is that in the corners
212.97 -> you're going to get some vanetting but overall
the TV had a pretty white picture but keep
218.67 -> in mind this is in movie mode so you're going
to get a warm look for this demonstration
222.45 -> and then I pulled up a DOT test and as you
can see there is some glow coming in through
226.92 -> the edges and this because this TV is an edge
lit display and it doesn't have the technology
232.55 -> like OLED next I ran a disc showing the different
motion and as I went through the different
237.379 -> selections one thing that really stood out
to me is that you're going to get the best
241.819 -> experience by taking manual control over it
especially if you don't want to get that soap
246.2 -> opera effect but overall the TV does perform
really well considering that it is a 120 hertz
253.25 -> motion television the next thing I want to
check out is a blooming test and with the
257.829 -> TV and movie mode without changing any of
the factory settings not only that you can
262.04 -> see some blooming around the edges but you
can see the back lights glowing in and keep
266.21 -> in mind when you buy a budget television the
technology doesn't allow for those Inky blacks
271.34 -> but I will tell you that the camera is picking
up more detail than your eye would normally
274.919 -> see and when it comes to gaming we want to
check a few things first of all I'm on the
278.86 -> Xbox and if I hit the PlayStation button let's
see if it switches over and it did switch
284.21 -> to the PlayStation if I hit the Xbox for some
reason it doesn't switch back over so you
290.759 -> have to mainly go into the inputs and select
it now the remote control that comes with
295.37 -> it we'll discuss in a minute but one thing
it doesn't have is the input button so I still
299.639 -> actually use this older remote control because
you have a source button at the top and you
303.979 -> can switch right here and get through all
the settings so that's one thing you might
307.79 -> want to buy when buying this TV and these
are about ten dollars and I'll leave a link
311.71 -> in the description below now we're back into
the Xbox menu let's take a look at what this
316.03 -> TV can perform at so you can see there's an
option for 4K 1080P and 720p and if I go over
322.72 -> to details you can see that it will support
60 hertz hdr10 but it doesn't support Dolby
329.479 -> vision and no Samsung will support Dolby Vision
but you can do all your TV and movies right
334.96 -> from this console and like I said in my unboxing
video it doesn't have variable refresh rate
340.1 -> and it doesn't support Dolby Vision like I
just showed you guys now I know I need to
343.729 -> do an update on this game but when we press
on it you can see that gaming mode is an option
349.069 -> at the top it won't give you that on-screen
menu but at least you'll know that it's in
353.38 -> gaming mode or the game mode turned off now
why does updating let's check out dirt 5 because
358.62 -> I know this is a 120 hertz game and you see
the gaming mode turned back on when I started
364.03 -> the game up overall the gaming feel is pretty
smooth it's running at 60 hertz and I'm used
371.509 -> to this on the PlayStation so as I get used
to it but overall it actually is running pretty
377.639 -> good but what I want to do is override it
and go to the 1080p 120 hertz see if we can
383.46 -> see any difference in performance so one of
the features you can do in the Xbox that you
387.181 -> don't have on the PS5 is that you can go in
override the settings and try to trick out
392.83 -> the TV to get more performance out of it so
now what I can try to do is drop this down
397.43 -> to 1080P and then see if it let me do 120
hertz again this TV will not support 1080p
403.08 -> at 120 hertz next I want to show you guys
the input lag but also want to show you under
407.919 -> connection you can go down here to what they
call gaming mode settings and over here you
412.84 -> can turn gamer mode to automatic and that's
for the auto low latency or we can just turn
417.479 -> it on which I'm going to use to show you guys
this test plus there is a gaming HDR mode
422.61 -> as well in this TV so let's go and check out
the input lag this little tester is going
428.61 -> to read how fast it takes and it looks like
you're going to get about 10.2 milliseconds
433.979 -> which is pretty good for a television because
anything under 30 is really good now if you
438.96 -> don't want to buy a console or it's not in
your budget Samsung does have a gaming mode
443.449 -> and over here you can add a controller like
the Xbox controller and you can pair it to
448.729 -> the TV or any other kind of controller and
then you can use some of the cloud services
453.83 -> and they have surfaces like Luna from Amazon
Xbox and a few other ones now I did make a
459.479 -> video on the Xbox and the thing about this
is that you can stream the Xbox games and
464.96 -> if you go down this list you can see some
of the different games you can get from the
468.43 -> different Services now let's talk about the
audio in this television it is powered by
473.07 -> 10 watts by 2 which is adequate power to get
through all your dialogue if you're watching
477.389 -> movies but personally I really like the sound
bars that you can add to this TV and Samsung
482.789 -> has a full lineup this TV also has some new
features such as OTS light which actually
489.55 -> creates more of a surround sound and gives
you more of a Airy feel when watching movies
494.32 -> or events they also added another feature
called Adobe mainstream decoder ms-12 and
501.05 -> this could be a game changer for people who
are using different type of audio systems
510.06 -> [Music]
515.21 -> [Music] thank you there's a remote control
that comes with the cu-8000 on the back of
538.86 -> it has a solar panel so you can charge it
just with sunlight and on the bottom of it
543.769 -> there's a USBC charger just in case there's
no sunlight available on the front of it you
549.209 -> have your power button as well as your settings
button there's a microphone as well as the
553.77 -> microphone button and this TV supports Bixby
and Amazon Alexa down here you have your home
559.98 -> button as well as some other controls and
then you have your volume up and down Channel
564.82 -> up and down and if you press this button it
will mute your TV speakers there's also some
569.7 -> high keys at the bottom to get to your favorite
applications if you set them up in the television
574.92 -> now when it comes to Features I did mention
a lot of these on my unboxing video but if
579.73 -> you have a Samsung phone you can set up for
Samsung health and this will connect through
584.07 -> the cloud service so you can actually see
all your results on the TV plus there's some
588.7 -> workout videos you have an internet browser
so you can hook up a keyboard and mouse and
593.27 -> be able to surf the Internet but keep in mind
but it depends on which websites you go to
597.56 -> now Samsung does have a application so you
can hook up all the TVs called SmartThings
602.88 -> and then over here you have some other different
services like you can plug a camera into it
607.65 -> with a USB connection and then you can stream
applications like Google and a few other ones
613.67 -> another feature you have is workspace and
with workspace this is going to allow you
617.7 -> to connect some of the services like your
Windows PC your Mac or even the Samsung Decks
622.85 -> that you can use through the Galaxy phones
and build to display them on this TV with
626.779 -> no problem and there's a few other services
that you can add it also has a feature called
631.42 -> multi-view and for modern TVs that's really
picture-in-picture so you can have your phone
636.649 -> your computer a webcam all playing and do
a side by side plus you can build your own
641.87 -> and put applications in it as well and this
TV also has AirPlay built in and you can stream
647.16 -> your iPhone your computers or your tablet
right over to the TV and this will allow you
651.97 -> play your content directly from your device
another feature this team he has is called
656.29 -> cable box IP remote and this is going to allow
you to take your cable box and go to an IP
661.269 -> address if it supports it and then the Samsung
remote control can control it which is a cool
666.18 -> feature that's been added to the newer Samsung
televisions now if you're you guys been asking
670.74 -> me how do you just play the TV speakers well
what you do is you go to accessibility and
675.709 -> then you can go to picture off and then you
can just listen to the TV speakers without
680.36 -> having a picture and that's great for listening
to music for anything you want to do through
684.41 -> the TV system there's also learning remote
capabilities learn menu and a few of the settings
690.6 -> down here at the bottom plus you can do multi-audio
outputs and this enables you to run the TV
695.959 -> speakers plus you can add a Bluetooth device
like headphones or some type of audio system
701.231 -> so you probably think it to yourself should
I go out and buy this TV and I will say if
706.149 -> you're the right person and what I mean by
that is that this is where Samsung starts
710.15 -> so all the other high-end models that's in
the Samsung lineup this will have a lot of
715.07 -> features teachers but it's not going to compare
picture-wise and I'll do some comparisons
719.67 -> in the future so we can see how it performs
against some of the other higher end Samsungs
723.7 -> to see if it's actually going to perform as
well as some of those models when it comes
727.779 -> down to it but overall you're going to be
happy with the colors on it the brightness
732.2 -> is good enough but if you do watch a lot of
HDR content you're definitely going to notice
736.413 -> that it's not going to be as bright as some
of the other TVs on the market so I do recommend
741.1 -> that you use SDR content now for me I didn't
see too many cons because I had the right
745.87 -> expectation when I started filming this review
for you guys so as long as you use the footage
750.779 -> that I showed you you should have the right
expectation when buying a TV like this now
755.49 -> before we end this video I want to say at
the time of this video I'm at 157 000 subscribers
762.029 -> my goal is to hit 200 000 subscribers by the
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766.889 -> make sure you go ahead and subscribe to the
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770.72 -> was useful I'm Tech Steve thanks a lot for
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776.43 -> one peace
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