Samsung – 55” Class Q80C QLED 4K Smart Tizen TV

Have a cheapo TCL 55R655 that runs a bit warm for my 400 sq ft bedroom. So I bought a LG C2 OLED and it ran around 92 degrees front and back but the blacks were way too black to watch for my eyes so I returned it.
Saw this Samsung Q80C and figured i’ll give it a try since the price was $300 less and picture quality looked great.
Got it home, found the baby sized remote control, set it up (18 minutes) and started watching Live PD (On Patrol Live for newbies). I keep my room at 76 degrees and don’t wall my TVs.
The TCL raises room temp to 78 after 4 hours of watching in Vivid mode.
LG C2 raised to 77 after same time on Vivid mode.
My 5 year old LG 65SK8000PUA 65″ on max settings doesn’t get hotter than the room, probably because it has metal rear panel for heat dissipation.
This Samsung raise my room temp to 81 degrees.
I began to sweat sitting my on my sofa and had to open my door to vent the heat out. I took my IR thermometer and shot few readings; Rear panel has terrible heat dissipation through that plastic, no vents. Front panel was at 100 degrees after 12 minutes of watching. If you don’t mid the heat, then the TV is much easier to use than LG or Sony.
The remote is tiny so get a proper sized universal remote if you’re a grown adult with adult fingers, the UI is tricky at first but it’s easy after few minutes of running through it. Setting up local channel list took this TV 12 minutes to finish, software update failed 3 times to finish, SmartThings is DumbThings, is never connected to this TV no matter what I did.
Picture quality is very good and watching SD through 4K HDR is great but I’ve noticed that the TV will override my settings sometimes because I can tell when the gamma, smoothness and color temp changes compared to other TVs i ran same videos through.
I would have kept it if it only ran cooler, I even adapted to that toddler remote control after 2 hours
This part of the review is for those that will moan about the ‘settings’ on this TV; Yes, I run all my TVs on max settings to get the MAX EFFECT OF WHAT I PAID FOR!
Why pay $1000 for a TV and use just 60% of it? Buy a $300 TV instead!
I understand TVs these days run hotter than older TVs due to their panels needing more power for the brightness and quality, but with more power, comes more heat and you don’t install a V8 engine in a 4 cylinder Honda car without upgrading the cooling system, right?

Very impressive picture quality. Not a lot of to the audio are available, so I ended up buying a sound bar. But the picture quality is amazing. Unbelievably bright.