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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2021
I have now used this TV for less than a week and love it so far. It needs calibration for obtaining optimum colors, contrast and overall picture quality which is excellent. Calibration instructions are available on various websites, just Google this for the Samsung 75Q80A.
The 500+ channels and internet from Samsung was a total surprise to me. You are really getting free cable connection.
One gripe that I have is the audio to the AVR (Denon DRA-800H in my case) are not included in the instructions. Samsung needs to provide precise instructions on how to obtain audio for their 500 channels and over the air TV channels if an AVR is used. Hint: Connect HDMI to eARC on both the TV and the AVR. Set AnyNet to ON; Set Audio mode to PCM; Finally, inside the receiver settings run the connection mode for TV Audio. This was a pain in the neck to figure out and seems like Samsung wants people to use the TV speakers audio only, which in this case is not bad. However, you will need to reset to TV Speakers every time that you are not using the AppleTV or Roku and want to see world news on live TV. Follow the instructions above and you should be able to obtain TV Audio directly from the AVR as soon as you turn the TV on via HDMI eARC. Hopefully these will help. I found similar issues and instructions on Sound & Vision magazine's review of the Samsung 75Q90.
Overall, the TV's interface and the Samsung provided channels are an incredible deal for the price. You also get free Bloomberg TV as well as dozen's of free channels.
The 500+ channels and internet from Samsung was a total surprise to me. You are really getting free cable connection.
One gripe that I have is the audio to the AVR (Denon DRA-800H in my case) are not included in the instructions. Samsung needs to provide precise instructions on how to obtain audio for their 500 channels and over the air TV channels if an AVR is used. Hint: Connect HDMI to eARC on both the TV and the AVR. Set AnyNet to ON; Set Audio mode to PCM; Finally, inside the receiver settings run the connection mode for TV Audio. This was a pain in the neck to figure out and seems like Samsung wants people to use the TV speakers audio only, which in this case is not bad. However, you will need to reset to TV Speakers every time that you are not using the AppleTV or Roku and want to see world news on live TV. Follow the instructions above and you should be able to obtain TV Audio directly from the AVR as soon as you turn the TV on via HDMI eARC. Hopefully these will help. I found similar issues and instructions on Sound & Vision magazine's review of the Samsung 75Q90.
Overall, the TV's interface and the Samsung provided channels are an incredible deal for the price. You also get free Bloomberg TV as well as dozen's of free channels.
