Samsung 43RU7100 43" flat 4k TV

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Samsung's smart features are some of the best in the industry, from the refined home screen and menus to Samsung's robust app selection, and just about everything we like from Samsung's more expensive QLED sets is in the NU7100. It’s not a good look, and it spoils the rest of the experience just a little. Which is a great pity, because no one wants to choose between saving the planet or spoiling their viewing experience. in terms of detail fidelity and motion stability the 7020 looks a fair bit more expensive than it actually is – unless you’ve deployed ‘Eco’ mode. It makes one rather cynical about what the option is doing there in the first place. This is where the 2019 QLED range opens up in terms of sizes, with 49in to 82in models available. Prices come down, too. The sacrifices are the peak brightness, down to around 1000nits, and the number of local dimming zones, which is around half that of the Q80R above.

The 43AU7100 isn’t as accomplished with its audio as it is with its pictures. It still gets the job done, though, without breaking that sense of consistency that makes it so engaging. Please note: Failure to produce the card and relevant ID means we are unable to release goods on collection.

If you’ve been hunting for a fairly affordable 43-inch 4K TV, you know you’re not exactly spoiled for choice – and if you want one from a brand with a bit of recent profile and traction, your selection is narrowed down even further. The Tizen experience is made all the better with the excellent One Remote and Bixby voice control. The One Remote manages to condense all the volume, channel and navigation controls into a dinky and solid feeling format. It also works as a gesture remote for the on-screen cursor. If you press the microphone button in the corner, then you can also speak into it for Bixby to understand, and through Bixby you can search for all kinds of content, switch sources and channels and more. Everything that should be delivered in 4K with HDR is, with the TV supporting HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG. There’s no Dolby Vision, though, which is a shame, but also the norm for Samsung TVs.

The overall palette of 1917 is subdued, and the TU7100 responds accordingly, avoiding boosting certain shades the way that other sets sometimes do. We’ve seen the French fields rendered in a rather lurid green that’s at odds with the film’s overall tone, but that’s not the case here.The only issue you’ll find with the picture quality is that the viewing angles aren’t brilliant. It doesn’t need you to sit far off axis for the colours to fade and the detail with it. There are three sound modes available and each has its own relative merits. Standard is best suited for most content, as it’s the clearest and most focused. Amplify boosts bass and treble and opens up the sound, making it a good option for movie night, and Adaptive Sound, in our room at least, seems to split the difference. Samsung likes to tailor its truly mainstream TV ranges to the specific territory in which they’re sold – and this is the reason there’s currently no like-for-like equivalent to the AU7100 in either Australia or the US. But when those markets get their own bespoke AU7100 variant, you can be sure of a couple of things: first, it will be available in a large number of screen sizes; and second, it will be very competitively priced. Design With much lower prices, though, that might be a worthwhile compromise, particularly as you get more or less everything else that makes the Q90R great. The big differences between the Q85R and the Q90R is the lowering of peak brightness from 2000nits to 1500nits, and a reduction in the number of dimming zones. Samsung hasn't confirmed numbers for the latter, but the reduction is likely to be significant: we believe the Q85R has only around a fifth of the zones of the Q90R, undeniably affects contrast.

The quality of color reproduction is a bit of a surprise, since our testing showed that the RU7100 displays only 96.3% of the Rec. 709 color space, giving it a more limited color palette than we saw in last year's Samsung NU7100 review (98.4%) or the TCL 4 Series Roku TV review (97.2%).Connections run to three HDMIs and one USB port. The only cutting edge gaming graphics feature the HDMIs support, though, is Automatic Low Latency Mode (ALLM), which allows the TV to switch into and out of its Game mode depending on the sort of content an ALLM-capable device is outputting. There’s no 120Hz or Variable Refresh Rate support. The beautiful UE43RU7100KXXU is SmartThings enabled meaning you can control other selected Samsung smart devices from your mobile to your fridge from the comfort of your sofa! A truly groundbreaking TV. While inevitably for its money it’s not without its limitations, the UE43AU7100 delivers an impressively balanced, consistent and immersive picture. The Q950R, available in 55in, 65in, 75in, 82in and 98inversions, is more or less a Q900R with the new, viewing angle-improving technology of the Q90R – according to Samsung anyway.

The most immediately obvious price-defying aspect of the Samsung’s picture quality is detail retrieval. It’s high in every circumstance, whether it’s describing the many and various skin-tones and skin-textures of the ensemble cast, or giving proper expression to the intricate patterns of clothing or furniture. And it’s ably supported in this respect by a colour palette that’s wide-ranging, convincing and capable of delivering very subtle variations of shade.There are rival TVs, too, that can deliver both native 4K and upscaled HD images with more raw sharpness and apparent detail than the UE43AU7100. Again, though, the level of sharpness the UE43AU7100 adopts feels carefully chosen to deliver an organic, immersive image rather than an actual weakness of either the LCD panel or the Crystal Processor.