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Best praise vs top criticism for Samsung QN90D
“I loved my old 55" plasma, except in the summer. That sucker put out a ton of heat. The main board on mine eventually went out after 10 years, but the display was perfection until then. A buddy of mine still has his 55" inch in the man cave behind his wet bar (nearly 20 years old) with an 83" LG OLED (forgot model) as his main TV. We end up sitting at the wet bar watching the old plasma most of the time. I have a Samsung 85" QN90D, which I love and got on a crazy Black Friday deal. I don't see enough of a difference to justify OLED prices and I see far more in the pipeline for Quantum LED in the pipeline than OLED.”
“So not even from a DV conversation here, there's a HUGE, MASSIVE difference between the two TV's. The TCL is a full backlit, LED based TV that gets way brighter, has more contrast, better colors, better processing, ect... TCL has nearly 2,000 local dimming zones, that Samsung has less than 100. TCL can hit over 2,000 nits peak brightness, Samsung can bare do 700. The only thing the Samsung has going for it, is that all 4 HDMI ports are HDMI 2.1, where as the TCL only has 2 of it's 4 ports doing HDMI 2.1 >I might pair it with a nvidia shield pro ( not sure if needed). If you want native playback for anything from Jellyfin that doesn't require transcoding then yes you'll want the Shield. TV's can't natively playback content from Plex or JF without transcoding.”
78 Reddit opinions analyzed • Last updated 4/4/2026