Samsung F8000 -- 2013 Flagship Models

Yay!

The new flagship from Samsung, in 65 and 75 (and smaller, but who cares? )

http://reviews.cnet.com/tvs/samsung-un60f8000/4505-6475_7-35566921.html

On the other hand, the 85" 4K set has this heinous frame thing around it. They are calling it "beautiful" at the Samsung presser. I guess that's Korean for "your wife will hate it as will you."

The TV itself, though, looks nice. I expect $20-25K on that one.

The F8000, however, ought to be similar to the ES series pricing.

Bah, Cnet got it wrong?

I should be clear on something. Samsung has, for several years, claimed you can do local dimming with edge lighting. You cannot. You can do some very crude zoning at 2 times the number of LEDs you have maximum.

And when I say, "you cannot", I mean, "you cannot", It's not possible. It's not like they have some technology that changes physics. You get a maximum zone control of rectangular zones that go halfway across the screen and are in no greater number than the number of discrete LEDs you can control.

They can continue to hype this as something more -- they do it every year quite frankly -- but if it's again "edge lit precision microdimming" it's no revolution and I've wasted everyone's time getting excited based on Cnet's report.

LG's OLED is 2K, so anyway.

And let's be clear, Sony is coming out with a 4K full-array LCD this year. I suspect the 55" will be significantly cheaper than $12k and even the 65" ought to be far cheaper as well.