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I wrote this for Samsung owners who have the recent but previous Samsung KS8000 or KS9000 who may ne disappointed. This model is decent and should exceed the quality of anything pre-KS8000 though. The Q series is just a marketing change up by Samsung. Q stands for Quantum Dot technology. In fact the same dot technology Samsung has implemented in the Samsung KS series the last two years ! To be fair Samsung they did slightly improve color saturation. Black uniformity, Gray Scale are better on the KS8000 ( over the the model the Q7F which replaced the KS8000 ) ..The viewing angle on the ks8000 and Q7F are the same..69 degrees (typical for non OLED) Color saturation is ever so slightly better on the Q7F over the KS8000 as well, but not enough to make up for the Q7F inferior contrast, black uniformity, and grayscale. The Samsung KS800 hits up 1400 nits on "peak HDR windows" depending on the size.. The Q7F peak windows only hit just under 900 nits!.. huge difference on HDR.. On Standard Definition TV (SDR) the KS8000 hits 500 to 700 nits while the Q7F does about 500 nits max..this puts the Q7F is the same brightness range as a high end cell phone.. while the KS8000 would be noticeably brighter next to it. The Q7F looks nice and bright unless is right next to a window on a bright day.. This is where I immediately saw the difference compared to my KS8000 the Q7F didn't appear as bright and rich in my large well lit living room .. The Q7f and Q9F both have cheaper speakers.. not quite as good compared to the KS series... If you want the quality of a KS8000 / KS9000 you have to go buy a Q9F which thankfully does slightly exceed the KS8000/9000 in some areas (but actually does worse in contrast, grayscale, and black uniformity). Furthermore the Q7F & Q97 cost much more then last years counterparts.. despite the Q7F not even exceeding the older set it replaced. The Samsung Q7F is Samsungs "replacement for the KS8000... and it falls short in many categories while costing more then the KS8000.. A 65inch Samsung KS8000 was $1800 versus the Samsung Q7F 65 inch for $4000... Why would samsung do this you ask? IMHO, Many professional reviewers previously recommended purchasing the KS8000 over the top end KS9000 because the KS8000 was so good the price difference wasn't worth it. Samsung saw this undercut the KS9000 flagship sales. This time the top brass at Samsung made sure the top end model ( Q97) could not even be "compared" to their midrange.. by discontinuing the KS series and renaming quantum dot tech as QLED and putting Q designations in the tv name. Unlike the KS8000 ...The Q7F is not even close to the Q97... The Q7F is not close to the KS8000.. bad move Samsung.. I expected it to be slighter better or at least match it.. The consumer loses.. the quality of the new flagship the Q97 barely beats the KS9000 and still the KS9000 beats the Q97 in contrast, black uniformity, speaker quality and a few other areas... The Samsung Q7F is a poor replacement for the KS8000.. the only one areas where the Q7F and Q9F are slightly better then the KS series is color saturation.. but its not eye popping for the huge price difference.. The end result is the new flagship ( Q9F) is ever so slightly better then the KS series while costing much more. The Q7F is also more then the KS8000 while being inferior to it in all areas except color saturation. Which again I noticed but I wasn't like "wow, I gotta have it" ... in fact again as I said above, first thing I noticed was the brightness of the screen wasn't as good on the Q7F.. I returned it and still using the KS8000 I have.. For those holding out for another firmware update: Samsung has done one update back in March which didn't improve much to bring it near the KS8000 quality. Brightness still suffers as does contrast and black uniformity. Keep in mind Samsung wants to maintain the distinguishable difference between the Q7F and the Q9F, not making the mistake that hurt the KS9000 Flagship which was marginally better then the KS8000. They will never make the Q7F close to the brightness of the Q9F. The Q9F is only marginally brighter then the KS series from last year.. the Q7F gets to suffer. There was a firmware update but it didn't increase the nits.