Samsung UN60D8000 60" 3D 1080p Smart LED HDTV Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,925 words · ~9 min read
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okay guys so we're here in the new store there's actually construction going on
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in the background so I apologize if you can't hear me that well but we've got
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another Samsung TV to unbox here this is their Smart TV 8000 Class LED back lit
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LCD TV this is a 60in TV this is going
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to be the centerpiece of this new
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Samsung showcase store so it's actually going to go right there as you walk in
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the door it'll be the first thing you see and that is for a very good reason
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it's got all of the most advanced features that Samsung offers including
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their 960 clear motion rate which is
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sort of a combination between the refresh rate of the panel which is still
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120 HZ and then the way that they process the image and modulate the
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backlight in order to achieve what Samsung is saying is a perceived
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960 imagees per second motion rate it's
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a smart TV with full support for
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3D oops oh this is a much bigger piece of star bone than I thought it was uh
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with full support for 3D as well as all of their Smart TV features including
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AllShare which allows you to easily share content in media from mobile
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devices such as your tablet or your smartphone uh as long as they are part
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of the Samsung ecosystem here we've got the mount adapter which we're going to
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have a look closer look at in a minute when we actually mount the
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TV in terms of the other specs it's got an ultra clear panel it's got Mega
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contrast ratio micro dimming which actually someone bought one of these TVs
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in our Vancouver store the other day and it was because he was looking for the
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micro dimming feature which Samsung says without halo effect allows you to
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achieve deeper blacks and brighter
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whites and see the details without I mean I've
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seen I've seen TVs with localized dimming in fact my TV has localized
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dimming but honestly it's not that great because it takes a very substantial
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chunk of the panel and brightens it or dims it um which because I'm using mine
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as an as an htpc is very disruptive to my entertainment experience because as
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soon as I go to my desktop which is black the whole TV goes and then as soon
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as I open up content it's like it gets way brighter so it's kind of frustrating
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that way but their micro dimming feature says that they can do that in much
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smaller areas which means it'll be less disruptive here here the base which you
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can see is an almost seamless piece of
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metal so there's a little plastic piece here that forms the bottom and then the
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top is one piece on this side which has a little seam here and then one piece on
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the other side which has a little sort of seam right there so we're going to go
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ahead and put this I don't know which way the TV goes on here but I'm going to
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assume the rounded part is in the back I'm going to put this down here and then
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let's see if I can actually even reach the accessories here so in terms of
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accessory we've got the documentation which includes all your warranty and all
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that info on the one side and then on
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the okay we're going to have to pull out the TV first to find the accessories so
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give me a minute here I got to get cameraman to help me with this I don't want to lay the panel down or anything
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like that so give me a sec okay so we extracted the accessories here guys and
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we've got a number of things we've got a power oh wow check that out I don't even
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see a power brick so that means in this slim design TV they actually integrated
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the power uh converter that's
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outstanding actually okay we've also got
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composite input adapter a component
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input adapter so if you're using any Legacy devices that uh require an analog
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signal to go out to your highly Advanced TV then you know you can do that these
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are for the Vasa Mount to provide a little bit of structural rigidity and
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then that looks like a cable management thing with some adhesive on the back and
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here is the far cooler part so we've got the included four AAA batteries that
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you're going to need for this and this is is Samsung's smart TV compatible full
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quiry remote control so check this out so the thickness is actually fairly
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thick okay it's quite substantial but there's a lot of electronics in here so
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I can kind of understand that so on this side you see all your standard volume up
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volume down Smart Hub menu blah blah blah and then the other side oh bam for
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use pairing with TV is needed okay and then there's instructions for pairing
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which a really oh no it's okay it's okay
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because there's a plastic there's a plastic piece here that comes off okay
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so there's a little screen here so you can see what you're typing and then we've got I was really disappointed I
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was like really how could they have made such a major oversight so here is a full
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querty key bad number pad as well as navigation buttons you can change your
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input so you can actually choose which side of the remote you want to use and
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look at that special characters and everything so this is going to be great
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if you want to browse the web on your TV or uh you know search for YouTube videos
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or um type anything on your TV it'll be
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good to have a keypad pretty self-explanatory I think but it's neat
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that they includ it that's not actually the only thing that Samsung includes
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with this 8000 series TV you're ruining the unveiling you're looking at it
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before I can it's okay aha so this is the sort of the
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pitch for this TV check this out Samsung calls this their onesign bezel I have no
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idea what they mean by one um maybe they
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mean 1 cm that looks like about a centimeter but it's possible that's not
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what they mean at all um but basically this is ha I'm going to pull out the old
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iPhone thickness comparison this bezel
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is not much thicker than an iPhone it's
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not as thick as two iPhones it's so thin
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that basically when cameraman and I were pulling it out of the box we couldn't
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even figure out where to grip the TV because normally I would try to put most
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of the pressure on the bezel I couldn't even couldn't even touch it um oh yeah I
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wanted to talk about the other thing they include so Samsung includes uh two
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pairs of their high-end super lightweight 3D Active 3D shutter glasses
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with this TV so let's go ahead and open that up I'll just model this for you
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guys taped together okay so it'll look kind of something like
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this do that not do that not a good look for me whatever we have these on demo in
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the new Vancouver store so you can you can check them out if you so desire what
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the the selling point of these guys is is that they're much lighter weight than
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existing other uh 3D glasses on the
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market they're they're actually really really light and uh there and they don't
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look quite as stupid although they you know they don't look great either 3D
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glasses that's just what we have to live with so guys give me a sec I'm going to
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get this onto the stand so we can see it in all of its glory and
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magnificence well there's no doubt it's a thing of beauty I just checked my
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notes there's a couple things I did miss so I did miss the wide color enhancer
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plus feature that is an on this particular TV and then also the hybrid
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3D engine so this is the processor that's built into this TV that actually
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allows you to dynamically convert on the- fly any 2D content into
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stereoscopic 3D which is great because it actually works if you guys checked
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out my video on Samsung's uh 800 series
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U monitor for your PC I actually did a
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video on my ncic channel where I talked
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about that particular technology is actually outstanding so there's no
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performance hit to whatever it is that you're feeding the signal into the TV
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with so you don't need a more powerful graphics card or anything like that to
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play 3D games on this particular TV because all of the processing is done on
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the Fly by your TV so I think that's pretty much it in terms of General
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features but yeah it's pretty nice
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looking don't forget guys if you do want to check it out in person you can see
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this TV at our Vancouver store on Broadway our new Vancouver store on
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Broadway and then you can also check it out in the new abine store that's going
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to be right next to the old abine store that will still be there uh let's check
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out what it's got in terms of inputs and outputs and we're on totally the wrong side of the TV for that look at this
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from the back it's like a reasonably nice finish you know no plastic or
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anything like that looks good okay let's go over into the other side so we can
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see what we got in terms of inputs and outputs and here you take that angle and
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I'll stand up here so we've got one two
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three USB ports with this one optimized for hard drive uh because remember this
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is a smart TV digital audio out optical
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we've got four hdmis with one for DVI
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and this one's for Arc okay AVN it's right here so that's
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your component uh and then PC so that's
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your VGA down there antenna in there's your composite input with audio out
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xlink and land so smart TVs they do want
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land so you're going to want like a power line adapter or a wireless bridge
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of some sort in order to get a network connection to this TV so you can take
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advant advantage of all those features you know your Skype your Twitter your
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Facebook etc etc and your full
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querty remote control and I think that pretty much
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covers it so thank you for checking out uh this little Showcase of Samsung's
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8000 series 60-in LED backlit LCD TV
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