Highlights

• Bolder contrast to see every detail
• Powerful picture quality
• Your new home office

Bolder contrast to see every detail

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Marvel at the lifelike colour expression

Dynamic Crystal Display

Immerse yourself in the picture with a wider range of colour. Dynamic Crystal Display delivers lifelike variations so you can see every subtlety.

The right colour tone for every scene

Dual LED

Dual LED backlighting technology adjusts the colour tone to suit the mood of your content so you can watch it the way it was meant to be seen.

Powerful picture quality

Crystal Processor 4K

Picture quality that moves you, made possible by a single chip that orchestrates colour, optimizes high contrast ratio, and masters HDR.

See the picture, not the TV

3-side Boundless Design

A sleek and elegant design that draws you to the purest picture. Crafted with an effortless minimalistic style from every angle and a boundless design that sets new standards. You will see only our most immersive cinematic experience ever.

Feel the reality of 4K UHD Resolution

4K Resolution

4K UHD TV goes beyond regular FHD with 4x more pixels, offering your eyes the sharp and crisp images they deserve. See it like you’re really in the scene.

See the stunning detail

HDR

High-Dynamic Range levels up bright expression of your TV, so you can enjoy an immense spectrum of colours and visual details, even in dark scenes.

Decorate your space with your favorite photos

Magic Screen

When you project your favorite photos onto the TV screen, the TV itself blends into your décor elegantly. You can lay out multiple photos in a beautiful collage or place them in a slide show for to keep the visual fresh and on point.

* Background feature accuracy may vary based on TV location, dependent on wall designs, patterns, and/or colours.

Clean up the clutter

Clean cable solution

Samsung UHD offers a neat solution for keeping all your TV cables tidy, hiding them away right in the stand. This helps you reduce your clutter so you can fully enjoy your TV’s beautiful design.

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Access various content with one remote

Smart Hub & One Remote Control

It’s all you need to discover tons of different content in one place and get maximum enjoyment. The sleek One Remote Control keeps it simple, allowing you to quickly search all your favorite content from your set-top box to game console, apps, and even live TV.

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*Service may not be launched at the same time as Samsung TV

See multiple contents at the same time

Multi View

Multi View splits your TV screen in two, putting the content you’re watching on one side, and mirroring your mobile screen on the other. This means you don’t have to look away from the TV screen to glance at your phone anymore.

* Feature availability may vary by mobile device.

Your assistant has arrived. Say hi Bixby

You can even talk to Samsung UHD TV. Bixby is the assistant to your needs that goes beyond controlling your TV. Just ask and get more.

* This feature is only available in certain languages.
* The content within the screen are simulated images and are for demonstration purposes only.

Works with AirPlay 2

AirPlay 2

With AirPlay 2 built in, you can stream or share content from Apple devices to the big screen. Effortlessly play videos, music, photos and more from your iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Samsung TV.

* This service may not be available at the time of purchase of this product and the availability may vary by region. * Images simulated for illustration purpose only. * Availability of the feature and Graphic User Interface (GUI) may vary by region. Check before use.

Start your smart home life

SmartThings Dashboard

Samsung UHD TV works with SmartThings to put you in control of your smart home. Samsung UHD TV links with IoT devices and sensors so you can turn on the lights, check what’s inside your fridge, and even run the robot vacuum cleaner right from the comfort of your couch. It’s a whole new world. 

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The Samsung TU8500 (UE50TU8500) is the mid-range LED TV in Samsung’s more affordable Crystal Dynamics range, intended for those after a big screen TV that won’t break the bank.

It doesn’t match the picture quality of Samsung’s entry-level QLEDs – especially in HDR – but it’s competitive price, developed feature set and intuitive UI means it’s a fabulous option for its target market. The obvious downsides are the lack of Dolby Vision support and underpowered speakers.

Design

• Easy to set up
• Discreet design
• Twin remote control options

The Samsung TU8500 will slot discreetly into most living rooms without becoming a focal point. Like most TVs it’s a rectangular design with an attachable V-shape stand and downward-firing speakers .

If you took away the Samsung branding, it could easily be mistaken for any other £600 telly, which is no bad thing. The only thing that’ll attract buyers’ eyes is the TV’s price, with Samsung offering plenty of screen real estate for the money.
Setup is pretty simple thanks to the easy to attach stand which simply tasks you with connecting the stand to a base unit, then attaching it to the rear of the TV using the supplied screws.

There are also twin control options to choose from. One is a bog standard TV remote full of numerical keys and shortcuts, and the other is a more modern choice, with a basic touchpad and stripped down key inputs. We liked the more modern control for its simplicity, but both are suitably intuitive.

Features

• Comprehensive range of smart apps
• Supports SmartThings for added connectivity
• Only three HDMI inputs

What separates the TU8500 from competing TVs at this price is its robust feature set.
Samsung’s Tizen OS features the widest selection of apps on a TV, featuring the likes of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Britbox, NOW TV, Apple TV, BT Sport, as well as platform exclusives in Apple Music. There’s no Freeview Play, but Samsung does have all the UK catch-up apps installed, and there’s Samsung’s TV Plus for watching a selection of TV channels.

Samsung’s SmartThings platform is available and has a variety of benefits. It offers the ability to stream your phone or tablet’s screen to the TV in a similar fashion to Google Chromecast. This functionality means you can stream smaller streaming services, such as CrunchyRoll and Shudder, which don’t have native apps on the platform.

There’s also the cool Multiview function. This lets you project your smartphone screen as a window on the TV. It sounds gimmicky, but has quite a few uses. One is gaming, where you can run a tutorial or Discord video chat window, saving the need to glance between screens. Another is for remote movie nights. Like Discord while gaming, you can power up a little window with the video chat, letting you chat away with participants without having to switch between screens.

The Ambient mode is another nice touch, which lets you turn the TV into a virtual picture frame when it’s not in use.
Though I find LG’s WebOS more intuitive, the TU8500’s UI works well for users to navigate. All services and apps are housed in a convenient launch bar with tiles for each service or menu screen.

All of its connections are placed on the rear panel: 3x HDMI, 2x USB, analogue video and stereo inputs, plus optical audio and an Ethernet socket. This may be a minor annoyance for those planning to add or swap out systems and sources, with more expensive TVs offering side-facing connections. For those that want to forgo wires, there’s built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

Performance

• Good showcase for 4K content
• Limited brightness with HDR content
• Adequate sound quality

A £600 TV is never going to mix it with QLED or OLED, but Samsung’s Crystal UHD is pretty impressive for the money.
Crystal UHD is a clever bit of tech that aims to improve picture quality using a custom twin LED backlighting system. Unlike traditional LED TVs, which generally use a single backlight, Crystal UHD pairs two panels running at different kelvin counts (5000k and 2000k).
According to Samsung, this gives the TV improved contrast and punchier images. And with real world use, once you get the TV setup properly, I found the tech does offer better picture quality than most affordable/mid-range LED sets.