Why you shouldn't buy The Samsung U7xxxH, U8000H, M1EH, M2EH, M70H, M80H, M90H, or QN70H [2026-2027]
Updated October 2026 | Written by: /u/Bill_Money | Edited & Maintained by /u/htmod
A Special thank you to Rtings, FlatPanelsHD, and to both Mike Wheatley & Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest for providing information.
The General Reasons Why We Recommend Avoiding Samsung
Global/Local Dimming locked behind Service Menu
Samsung locks Global Dimming (Local Dimming) settings into the Service Menu so you cannot adjust them without voiding your warranty or potentially bricking your TV> You also need a special Service Remote too!
ex /r/Samsung |Samsung Community | Samsung Community
Overly Blue inaccurate color tone
Watch any Samsung TV you will notice it dips to the cooler/blue tone side.
But Why would they do this?
Pumping Extra Blue in artificially increases How White & Bright the TV looks. This is not realistic of how a TV should ever look or the film maker's intent.
Horrible Tizen OS
Samsung's' Operating System is named Tizen and its TERRIBLE!
Here's a post from /r/Tizen | A post from Audio Science Review | A Post from Tundras | A post from ResetERA
This one you can use an Apple TV to fix but that is an additional $129-$149 purchase.
Poor Motion Handling, Upscaling, & Processing.
I'd point to Rtings here but I can't since their testing is broken.
/r/Samsung hates the motion handling | So does the Samsung Community | as does 4KTV
Rtings test while broken shows that a Sony Bravia 3 with a processor that is from somewhere between 2015 to 2019 or around there actually scores the same as a S85F, S90F, & S95F (8.0). This is laughably Bad.
Massive Reduction in QA/QC for Samsung Year over Year
See the 77 S90D power supply failure fiasco Ex
Check /r/TVRepair, Samsung is by far the biggest culprit of posts in that subreddit.
Switching Inputs
Samsung's HDMI Detection is annoying and cannot be disabled. It is also slow to switch inputs
Heavy use of Edge Lit Panels
Edge lit Panels break more often! - Rtings
"The results of this investigation are unequivocal: edge-lit TVs are inherently prone to significant durability issues, including warped reflector sheets, cracked light guide plates, and burnt-out LEDs due to concentrated heat. These problems manifest after prolonged use at maximum brightness, posing a significant risk to their long-term reliability." - Rtings
Marketing use of miniLED
Samsung throwing miniLED around has pissed TCL off so much they are actually suing Samsung -> https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1788422454
Crystal Series (UxxxxH)
U7000H (aka U7005H, U7099H, U7079H)
- 60 Hz
- No Local Dimming - Likely Edge lit but no confirmation
- Only 3 HDMI Ports (HDMI 2.0B)
- Extremely Poor Choice of Location of 2 HDMI Ports prevent Flush Mounting
- No Toslink Port for those who require one
- Not true 10 Bit Panel
- POOR PICTURE QUALITY
- Samsung's U series has been one of the worst offenders of /r/TVRepair & /r/SamsungTV year over year starting back with the NU Series
U7900H
- 60 Hz
- No Local Dimming - Likely Edge lit but no confirmation
- Only 3 HDMI Ports (HDMI 2.0B)
- Extremely Poor Choice of Location of 2 HDMI Ports prevent Flush Mounting
- No Toslink Port for those who require one
- Not true 10 Bit Panel
- POOR PICTURE QUALITY
- Samsung's U series has been one of the worst offenders of /r/TVRepair & /r/SamsungTV year over year starting back with the NU Series
U8000H (aka U8005H, U8090H, U8099H, U8079H)
- 60 Hz
- No Local Dimming - Likely Edge lit but no confirmation
- Only 3 HDMI Ports (HDMI 2.0B)
- Extremely Poor Choice of Location of 2 HDMI Ports prevent Flush Mounting
- No Toslink Port for those who require one
- Not true 10 Bit Panel
- POOR PICTURE QUALITY
- Samsung's U series has been one of the worst offenders of /r/TVRepair & /r/SamsungTV year over year starting back with the NU Series
U9000H (aka U9072H, U9079H)
- Very likely No Local Dimming - Likely Edge lit but no confirmation
- Only 3 HDMI Ports (HDMI 2.1)
- Not true 10 Bit Panel
- POOR PICTURE QUALITY
- Samsung's U series has been one of the worst offenders of /r/TVRepair & /r/SamsungTV year over year starting back with the NU Series
The New M Series (M70H, M80H, M90H)
"Samsung Electronics has a host of more affordable TVs that are hitting American stores this week, including its lower-end Neo QLED 4K TVs and also some new, low-cost Mini-LED TVs. If you’re confused, most likely that’s because you’re aware that Samsung brands its Mini-LED TVs as Neo QLED models. You may be wondering why it’s offering Mini-LED models that aren’t marketed as Neo QLED. The answer is simple – although they are Mini-LED TVs, they don’t have QLED displays." - Mike Wheatley (HDTVTest)
"Samsung hasn’t said, but the M90H, M80H and M70H TVs probably use some kind of edge-lit Mini-LED panel, similar to the one found in last year’s QN70F Neo QLED TV and The Frame Pro. To be honest, it’s certainly a stretch to call this technology Mini-LED, because edge-lit TVs aren’t capable of providing many local dimming zones – which is a key aspect of Mini-LED technology." - Mike Wheatley (HDTVTest)
FlatPanelsHD confirmed Mike Wheatley's fears that the M70H & M80H are both edge lit TV's!
M1EH & M2EH
Indian variant of I believe the M70H & M80H Repsectively, either way avoid!
M70H
- EDGE LIT!
- 60 Hz
- Only 3 HDMI Ports (HDMI 2.0B)
- Extremely Poor Choice of Location of 2 HDMI Ports prevent Flush Mounting
- No Toslink Port for those who require one
- Unknown if "Mini LED Processor 4K" is a good processor or not, Samsung history point to no its going to be trash
- POOR PICTURE QUALITY!
- Not even Quantum Dot LED (QLED)
M80H
Picking Apart Rtings
Full Rtings Review
Overview: "The Samsung M80H is an entry-level TV released in 2026, sitting above the
Samsung M70H. The M Series TVs are a new entry in Samsung's TV lineup"
"despite Samsung's marketing around it, there's no local dimming."
Bottom Line: "The Samsung M80H is a mediocre TV overall. It doesn't really excel at any specific usage, as its low contrast makes it unsuitable for a dark room, but it's not bright enough to handle glare in a bright room, either. It's feature-packed, though, with a fully-loaded smart interface that makes it easy to watch your favorite shows and movies in a moderately-lit room just fine. It has a slow response time, though, so despite its wide selection of gaming features its not well-suited for gamers, as motion is incredibly blurry."
CONS
- "Can't reduce the intensity of direct, mirror-like reflections."
- "Sub-par screen uniformity."
- "Not bright enough to overcome glare in a bright room."
- "Can't smooth out macro blocking or pixelization in low quality content."
- "Too dim to deliver an impactful HDR experience."
- "Dark scenes look washed out."
- "Very blurry motion."
- "Inconsistent motion interpolation feature."
Brightness
"The Samsung M80H has poor peak brightness in HDR. It's not bright enough to deliver an impactful HDR experience in bright scenes. It's significantly dimmer than competing models like the Vizio Mini LED Quantum 4K. Combined with its low contrast ratio, small highlight details don't stand out at all, so most HDR content looks dull and flat."
"The peak brightness in SDR is disappointing. It's bright enough to handle moderate amounts of glare during the day, but it's not a good choice for an overly bright room. Near black scenes are dimmed considerably by the TV's global dimming feature, which is known as CE Dimming on Samsung TVs."
Black Level
"Unfortunately, this TV has poor contrast. The native contrast of the panel is quite good, but it lacks local dimming, so blacks look gray."
"The Samsung M80H doesn't have a local dimming feature, so there's no haloing around bright objects or subtitles during dark scenes, but the entire screen is washed out."
"It lacks local dimming, so blacks are always raised and look gray"
Color
"The Samsung M80H has decent color volume. It has good coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, but it struggles to display the full range of greens and reds. It also struggles with lighter scenes, especially in the BT.2020 color space where colors are noticeably washed out in light scenes."
"The color volume in HDR is mediocre. It can't display dim colors well due to its low contrast ratio. Bright colors are slightly washed out, but it's mainly limited by its incomplete color gamut and low peak brightness."
Processing/Motion
"The PQ EOTF tracking on this TV is decent. Near black shadow details are raised by the TV's low contrast ratio, but most midtones are displayed well. Content mastered at 600 or 1,000 nits, which is most HDR content, cuts off rapidly at the TV's peak brightness. This lets the TV get as bright as it can, but there's less gradation in bright parts of the scene, so highlights can seem to blend together. Content mastered at 4,000 nits rolls off more gradually, which limits how bright small highlights can get but preserves some gradation."
"Unfortunately, this TV has disappointing low-quality content smoothing. The TV's processing does very little to reduce macro blocking and pixelization from low-quality streams, but there's very little loss of fine details."
"There's just a bit of stutter on this TV when watching content. It's mainly noticeable in very slow, panning shots, but it's not as bad as most other TVs on the market."
"The motion interpolation feature does a mediocre job improving stutter at low levels. While it reduces the average frame hold time a bit, the feature is very inconsistent, leading to an uneven frame time."
"The Samsung M80H has a bad response time when watching content. Motion is very blurry overall."
"The TV uses a combination of pulse-width modulation (PWM) and direct dimming to adjust the backlight intensity. The flicker pattern changes depending on the picture settings used. It flickers at 960Hz in FILMMAKER and Game Mode, but all other picture modes flicker at 120Hz instead. It's flicker-free at max brightness in all modes. Turning on the Picture Clarity settings, even with everything else turned off, changes the flicker frequency to 120Hz."
"This TV has an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion. Unfortunately, the pulse timing is very bad, causing a very noticeable double image."
Gaming
"Unfortunately, this TV has extremely high CAD on average at the maximum 4k refresh rate of 144Hz. There's almost not overshoot, which is great, but most transitions are very slow to complete, resulting in blurry motion. It looks a bit better in midtones and bright shades, but it struggles to change from dark to bright shades or vice-versa."
"Dropping down to 120Hz actually improves the CAD a bit, but motion is still blurry and it's disappointing overall. There's no overshoot, but most transitions are noticeably slow."
Reflections
"The glossy screen finish on this TV does very little to reduce the intensity of direct, mirror-like reflections."
"The total amount of reflected light from this TV is sub-par. There are noticeable diffraction artifacts around bright lights, and light from windows and indirect light sources is spread across the screen."
Panel
"This TV has a mediocre viewing angle. Colors fade and wash out as you move to the sides, and reds and blues shift noticeably, causing a noticeable color shift. This makes it a poor choice for a wide seating arrangement."
"The Samsung M80H has sub-par uniformity. The sides of the screen are considerably darker than the center, which is very distracting when watching anything with uniform colors, especially sports. It looks a lot better in dark scenes, though."
Design/Build Quality
"The Samsung M80H has an okay design, but it's not as premium as higher-end Samsung TVs like the Samsung QN80H. The bezels are relatively thin on all four sides, but there's a bit of a dead space between the panel and the sides of the screen."
"The two blade style feet support the TV well enough, but they can't be adjusted to accomodate different cabinet sizes."
"The inputs are housed in an electronics box near the center of the screen. Two of the inputs face straight out the back of the TV, so you'll need angled adapters if you plan on wall-mounting the TV. Unfortunately, those inputs are rotated 90°, so simple HDMI angle brackets won't work."
"The Samsung M80H has mediocre build quality. It's mostly made of cheap plastic, and there's a lot of flex all over the back of the TV. While there are no obvious issues with the unit we bought and tested, it's a cheap build overall."
Versus
"The TCL QM6K is a significantly better TV than the Samsung M80H. The TCL delivers much better picture quality, with high peak brightness, much better contrast, and much better accuracy in HDR. The TCL also delivers a better gaming experience, as there's significantly less blur around fast-moving objects."
- EDGE LIT!
- Only 3 HDMI Ports
- Extremely Poor Choice of Location of 2 HDMI Ports prevent Flush Mounting
- No Toslink Port for those who require one
- POOR PICTURE QUALITY!
- Not even Quantum Dot LED (QLED)
TCL QM5K or QM6K absolutely rocks this piece of shit!
M90H Addendum
- Not even Quantum Dot LED (QLED)
- Only 3 HDMI Ports
QN70H
Picking Apart Rtings
Full Rtings Review
Overview: "The Samsung QN70H is a lower mid-range TV released in 2026, sitting below the Samsung QN80H in the brand's standard Mini LED lineup. It's an edge-lit TV that's powered by Samsung's NQ4 AI Processor. It's light on gaming features, since it doesn't have any HDMI 2.1 ports and lacks support for VRR."
Bottom Line: "The Samsung QN70H is an unremarkable TV that doesn't offer very much for its relatively high price tag. The TV's picture quality leaves a lot to be desired. The TV has poor contrast, and its bad local dimming causes distracting haloing without doing much to deepen blacks, making it inadequate for home theaters and other dark spaces. It's just bright enough to handle some glare in a moderately lit room, but it's too dim for bright rooms, and highlights don't stand out in HDR content. There's also a lot of motion blur, which holds back its performance for watching sports and playing video games. It's also light on gaming features, so it doesn't pair well with modern consoles. You can get significantly better image quality and gaming performance from similarly-priced TVs"
"The Samsung QN70H is mediocre for mixed usage. It has poor contrast that leads to a washed-out image, and it's too dim and not colorful enough for an impactful HDR viewing experience, so it's not a good choice for dark rooms. "
CONS
- "Can't reduce the intensity of direct, mirror-like reflections."
- "Mediocre screen uniformity."
- "Poor contrast leads to a washed-out image."
- "Image degrades when viewed from the sides."
- "Can't smooth out compression artifacts from low-quality streaming sources."
- "Too dim to deliver an impactful HDR experience."
- "Distracting haloing around highlights and subtitles."
- "Not bright enough to overcome glare in well-lit spaces."
- "Blurry motion."
- "No VRR to reduce screen tearing."
Brightness
"The Samsung QN70H has inadequate HDR brightness. Small highlights barely stand out and bright scenes look dull, so it doesn't provide an impactful HDR experience. "
"The Samsung QN70H's SDR brightness is not bad. It's bright enough to handle glare in a moderately lit room, but it can't overcome glare in brighter spaces."
Black Level/Contrast
"The Samsung QN70H has poor contrast. It has a decent native contrast ratio, but its local dimming barely deepens blacks, so blacks are raised and look washed out in most scenes. You can get significantly better contrast from a similarly priced TV like the TCL QM7L Pro."
"This TV has awful lighting zone precision. There's very noticeable haloing around bright lights in otherwise dark scenes and around subtitles."
"The zone transitions on this TV are bad. The edges of bright objects are visibly dim, and there's haloing around them, which can be distracting."
"The Samsung QN70H has mediocre black uniformity. Blacks are patchy, and the screen looks cloudy in entirely dark scenes, and the local dimming feature doesn't do much at all to improve uniformity. "
"Local dimming can't be turned off on this TV"
"Blacks are raised due to the TV's poor contrast, and they're especially raised in content mastered at 4,000 nits."
Color
"The Samsung QN70H has okay SDR color volume. It has decent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, but it does struggle a bit with lighter greens, yellows, and reds. Its coverage of the wider BT.2020 color space is sub-par, and it really struggles with lighter colors."
"The Samsung QN70H has unremarkable HDR color volume. Its limited contrast means it can't fully display dark, well-saturated colors. Furthermore, its limited brightness means it can't display bright, punchy colors."
"The Samsung QN70H has alright SDR color accuracy out of the box. The gamma is fairly close to 2.2, but bright areas of the image are too bright. The RGB balance shows that whites have too much green in them, and light yellows and cyans are also greener than they should be. Finally, the color temperature is warmer than 6,500K, giving the entire image a slight red tint."
Processing/Motion
"Unfortunately, the TV is completely ineffective at smoothing out low-quality content like most streaming services. While it barely loses any fine details, it does almost nothing to reduce macro blocking or other compression artifacts."
"This TV has just okay upscaling. The image looks somewhat soft overall, and fine details like text can be difficult to make out."
"The Samsung QN70H has mediocre gradient handling. There's some banding in all darker shades, with dark grays and greens performing the worst. Lighter gradients fare better, but there's visible banding in lighter greens."
"There's noticeable stutter when watching movies or shows, which is most noticeable in slow panning shots."
"Unfortunately, this TV's motion interpolation feature is ineffective at reducing stutter. It helps somewhat in very simple scenes, but even our test pattern is complex enough that the TV stops interpolating after just a few frames. Enabling the feature also introduces judder, so motion actually looks worse overall."
"Unfortunately, this TV can't remove judder from any 60Hz sources, like a cable TV box or a streaming device that outputs a signal matching the frame rate of the content. Enabling any of the Picture Clarity settings also causes judder with all content, so motion doesn't look smooth. Fortunately, it removes judder from all content watched through the internal apps and from 24Hz and 25Hz sources."
"This TV has a very slow response time when watching content, so motion looks blurry in most scenes."
"There are some unintended intermediate colors around fast-moving people and objects, but it's hard to notice with most real content."
"This TV uses pulse-width modulation (PWM) to dim its backlight, which introduces flicker that can bother people who are sensitive to it. It flickers at a slow 120Hz in most picture modes except for 'Movie', where it flickers at 960Hz at all brightness levels."
"This TV has an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion. Unfortunately, the pulse timing is off, causing a noticeable double image in moving content."
Gaming
"This TV only supports 4k @ 60Hz"
"This TV doesn't support VRR to reduce screen tearing."
"Unfortunately, this TV has a sub-par CAD at its maximum 4k refresh rate of 60Hz. Fast motion looks very blurry due to the TV's very slow transition time, although there's barely any overshoot or inverse ghosting."
Reflections
"The Samsung QN70H has mediocre direct reflection handling. Its glossy screen coating doesn't do much to reduce the intensity of direct light sources that are facing the screen, so mirror-like reflections are distracting, especially in dark scenes."
"The total amount of reflected light off this TV is decent, but reflections are noticeable and they're partially diffused across the screen, which can be distracting."
Panel
"The gray uniformity is mediocre. There's a distracting, dirty screen effect in the center of the screen, although it's not too severe. The sides are significantly darker than the center, and this is noticeable in all types of content, though it's a bit less apparent in dark scenes."
"This TV uses a BGR subpixel layout. It doesn't affect picture quality but can cause issues with text clarity in some applications when using it as a PC monitor."
Design/Build Quality
"The Samsung QN70H has a basic selection of inputs. All of its HDMI ports are limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth, so it can't take full advantage of high-bandwidth devices like recent consoles or gaming PCs. Its tuner is also limited to ATSC 1.0, meaning it can't receive 4k broadcasts over the air."
"This TV supports a wide range of audio formats, including all Dolby Digital options. Unfortunately, it doesn't support any DTS formats, which is disappointing since many Blu-rays use DTS for their lossless audio tracks."
"The TV features a pair of plastic feet that can be adjusted to two different positions."
"The back of the TV is made from plastic. All of the inputs are on the right side of the TV, but they're in a recessed cutout that makes them quite hard to access if you have it wall-mounted."
"The Samsung QN70H has alright build quality overall. It wobbles a bit in the narrow position when you're cleaning the screen, but it settles quickly and doesn't cause any issues. There's some flex on the back panel that becomes more pronounced near the VESA mounting points, but it doesn't prevent you from wall-mounting it."
Versus
"The Samsung QN80H is a lot better than the Samsung QN70H. The QN80H's local dimming is a significant step up, so it displays much deeper blacks with a lot less haloing around highlights, making it look better in dark rooms. The QN80H is also much brighter and has better reflection handling, making it the better choice for bright rooms, too. Colors are more vibrant on the QN80H, and it has a lot more gaming features like 4k @ 144Hz, 1080p @ 240Hz, and VRR. Furthermore, motion is clearer on the QN80H, so it's better for playing video games and watching sports."
"The TCL QM7L is much better than the Samsung QN70H. The TCL has superior contrast that allows it to display significantly deeper blacks, and there's much less haloing around highlights, so it looks much better in dark rooms. The TCL also has better reflection handling and is much brighter, making it the better choice for bright rooms. The TCL supports 4k @ 144Hz, VRR, and 1080p @ 288Hz, making it the better TV for gaming. "
Even the TCL QM6K spanks the QN70H here, very easy choice price wise!
For recommended Models Instead See:
United States & Canada TV Buying Guide [2026-2027]
International TV Buying Guide {Europe, Australia, & Asia} [2026-2027]
