40" Samsung UN40KU6290 4K $290 at Best Buy (or $265 with $25/$200 Amex offer)

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EDIT: Lower price of $255 shipped from HHGregg

http://www.hhgregg.com/samsung-40-4k-hdr-ultra-hd-smart-tv/item/UN40KU6290

Use code : BLACKFRIDAY

EDIT: PRICE RAISED TO $300. OPEN BOX $268.

Apparently the same panel as the 6300 minus bluetooth. Does chroma 4:4:4 over HDMI. Input lag for gaming is decent.

If you have an Amex card check your offers as there is a $25 off $250 cashback at Best Buy which drops price to $265. (Typo in topic says $200 - can't figure out how to edit topic)

Free Shipping or Free Store Pickup

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung...ltra-hd-tv-dark-titan/5622308.p?skuId=5622308

You might also get lucky and find an open box one for $259.

You have until January 15th to return it.

To enable chroma 4:4:4

Plug your video card into the HDMI-1 port and enable "UHD Color" (in the TV settings menu go to: Picture>Expert Settings>HDMI UHD Color>HDMI1>On).
 
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why 400x400 lol. i got a full refund for my malfunctioning D40u-D1 and i was going to replace it with this but now i don't know how i can mount it to my ergotron arm which i already had to use an adapter to expand it from 100x100 to 200x200. any ideas?
 
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Same price at costco, but you get an extra year warranty and 5% back if you have chase freedom. I got one and its good, but I think mines defective because when I use the menus blue lines start poping up everywhere. Going to exchange mine. If I don't open any menus its great.
 
munkle said:
Same price at costco, but you get an extra year warranty and 5% back if you have chase freedom. I got one and its good, but I think mines defective because when I use the menus blue lines start poping up everywhere. Going to exchange mine. If I don't open any menus its great.
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I picked up one as well and do not have any issues on when using the menus so I would exchange that one ASAP.
 
Lautreamont said:
Apparently the same panel as the 6300 minus bluetooth. Does chroma 4:4:4 over HDMI. Input lag for gaming is decent.

If you have an Amex card check your offers as there is a $25 off $250 cashback at Best Buy which drops price to $265. (Typo in topic says $200 - can't figure out how to edit topic)

Free Shipping or Free Store Pickup

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung...ltra-hd-tv-dark-titan/5622308.p?skuId=5622308

You might also get lucky and find an open box one for $259.

You have until January 15th to return it.

To enable chroma 4:4:4

Plug your video card into the HDMI-1 port and enable "UHD Color" (in the TV settings menu go to: Picture>Expert Settings>HDMI UHD Color>HDMI1>On).
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Will a 7970 or 290x run this at 4K/4:4:4 ?

Is this the best option for a desktop 4k right now?
 
Same TV goes on sale at Newegg for $299. If you're like me and got the Newegg $25 credit on the AMEX and don't pay sales tax at the egg it's probably worth waiting the two days.
 
The open box excellent are in stock right now for $259. I had bought a new one because open box were out of stock but just bought an open box a few minutes ago.

$259 - $25/$250 Amex BB - 3% cashback (click through site) = $227 + tax.
 
DooLocsta said:
I picked up one as well and do not have any issues on when using the menus so I would exchange that one ASAP.
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I just exchanged it, second one does the same thing, but its only in menus. I'm going to keep it because I like it as a monitor, its pretty sporadic on the other menus, the update menu shows it the most. I went to a different costco as well. The first tv had software version 1140, the second 1142 so I don't think they are the same batch of tvs.

Here's a video:



It seems to only be in menus that it will do that.
 
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Worth it to upgrade over my seiki 39inch 4k? (which 4k was pretty much unusable at 30hz, but custom resolution setting at 1080p 120hz made it a pretty good pc monitor)..
But since we got a new house built.. it would give me a reason to swap out and give my seiki to the new house lol
 
Yes its worth it, I use 39" seiki at work, and the 60hz upgrade alone is worth it, also the seiki doesn't support 4:4:4 sub sampling, so red and blue text will look better as well.
 
Lautreamont said:
The open box excellent are in stock right now for $259. I had bought a new one because open box were out of stock but just bought an open box a few minutes ago.

$259 - $25/$250 Amex BB - 3% cashback (click through site) = $227 + tax.
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Buy a new one, open it, return it, call back 1 hour later to see if they have an open box one :)

LOL You KNOW someone tried it :)
 
This set has 20ms latency. Which is excellent for gaming.

40" 4k is crazy good.
 
munkle said:
I just exchanged it, second one does the same thing, but its only in menus. I'm going to keep it because I like it as a monitor, its pretty sporadic on the other menus, the update menu shows it the most. I went to a different costco as well. The first tv had software version 1140, the second 1142 so I don't think they are the same batch of tvs.

Here's a video:



It seems to only be in menus that it will do that.
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You might want to try to update the firmware - mine is the current 1145 version.
 
munkle said:
I just exchanged it, second one does the same thing, but its only in menus. I'm going to keep it because I like it as a monitor, its pretty sporadic on the other menus, the update menu shows it the most. I went to a different costco as well. The first tv had software version 1140, the second 1142 so I don't think they are the same batch of tvs.

Here's a video:



It seems to only be in menus that it will do that.
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Does this happen in the menu if you are on a different input?
 
munkle said:
newest is 1150 which it is on.


Yes.
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If you open up the Netflix app on the tv do the lines show up. It is strange you got 2 that do this from 2 different locations running different firmwares. It really ins't bad looking especially if it is only on the menus.
 
munkle said:
Same price at costco, but you get an extra year warranty and 5% back if you have chase freedom. I got one and its good, but I think mines defective because when I use the menus blue lines start poping up everywhere. Going to exchange mine. If I don't open any menus its great.
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I bought 2 of these yesterday. Both of them exhibited the strange flashing lines and I was ready to take them back as well. I decided to do some searching first when I started to see lots of threads about Samsung hdtvs doing that until they've warmed up. I decided to leave both of them on for a while and see what happened.

After about 25-30 minutes both TV's had stopped flashing the lines. I haven't seen them do it since. I'll be keeping an eye on them but they have a 1 year warranty so I'm not too worried.
 
BestBuy is going to have a doorbuster $199 50" 4K. Any ideas how this will stack up to that deal?
 
mope54 said:
BestBuy is going to have a doorbuster $199 50" 4K. Any ideas how this will stack up to that deal?
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Well considering you have a chance to buy one of these without camping outside for hours if not days, I'd say it's a pretty even deal.
 
Got one for 318 out the door from best buy. Coming from a 27" 1440p this thing is borderline too big. Its running 4k 60Hz with 4:4:4 and looks gorgeous though.
 
just got one.. and im getting those blue flickering lines that were mentioned above.. doing a firmware update right now, hope that helps
 
i just grabbed one of these tv's today at cosco. Putting it in my spare bedroom.
 
I've seen the flashing lines on my set. Thought it was an HDMI cable issue, swapped cables a few times and now I've only seen the issue once in a week. It does seem to go away shortly after it appears, then it is fine for hours.
 
I, too, have seen the flashing blue lines. Thought it was stemming from too high of a memory overlock on my 480s. Reduced the frequency and it went away. Hmm..
 
For those of you experiencing artifacting or image noise when using 4K 4:4:4 don't rule out your HDMI cable. There's tons of documented problems with older/cheaper HDMI cables, even 2.0 cables rated to do 10.2Gbps that have problems passing 4K 4:4:4 without any issues. Look for any decently rated HDMI 2.0 that handles 18Gbps and you should be OK, the Monoprice cables for $8 or so work great for most after using older 10.2Gbps cables and experienced issues:

http://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=1024021&p_id=15428&seq=1&format=2
 
Bought one of these today at Costco as an upgrade for my wife's office/work PC and I'm very impressed. You can barely buy quality Dell 24-25" IPS monitors for this much, never has there been more of a reason to go HDTV for 4K instead of the tiny PC monitor versions. Looks great, and works with 4K/60 4:4:4 no problem on both a GTX 1060 (X51 HTPC) and wife's GTX 970. No blue lines in menu or anything, but using good quality 18Gbps HDMI cable.
 
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