Samsung UN75F6300 Review (UN75F6300AF)

Weaknesses

Neutral

Picture Quality Rating: 8.6/10

The UN75F6300 has full 10-point white balance adjustment option which makes it easy to calibrate out of the gate. As a result colors are accurate and D6500K is easily achieved. The 75F6300 is loaded with tons of extra picture adjustment options, but we left them off in the end as they can cause more harm than benefit to the picture quality. Black performance on the F6300 is strong for an LED TV as long as you keep the backlight control located in the picture settings at a reasonable level. Side viewing angle quality is pretty bad on this one with degrading contrast and fading colors from extreme side angles. While this is inherently a problem with LED backlighting. It is especially prevalent on the F6300. Keeping the backlight at a reasonable level helps a bit. The black bars appearing when watching 16:9 content appear rich and inky from front and center, but appear more dark purple from the sides.

The F6300 gives a good sense of depth in this shot, even without 3D like the F6400 has. The contrast in this shot leads to some elements being washed out in the background

Auto Motion Plus

We recommend no matter what picture mode you watch, that you go into this setting in the Advanced Picture menu, tune the feature to Custom then turn the Blur Reduction to 10, and the Judder Reduction to 0. Or you can just set it to off. The judder reduction part of this feature does too much to distort the picture including eliminating too much natural background blur, actually accentuating judder/jerky motion effects when the camera pans slowly, and creating motion artifacts. One of the only situations where we found this feature remotely helpful on the F6300 was watching upscaled DVDs. Turn it on and adjust until it looks just right.

This shot is a good example for color rendition on the F6300. Colors are bright without being over saturated. Also a fair amount of detail comes through in light and dark areas, although we have seen better performance out of LCD/LED TVs

Gaming - Game Mode Gets Rid of Input Lag

Getting to the Game Mode
Go to the Systems menu near the bottom of the main menu. Scroll down to the General settings and open that menu. Game Mode is located here. It seems like a pain to dig into the menus like this to turn it on or off.

Okami HD really brought out the colors of the 75F6300. Game mode is perfect for an action game like this one

Turning on the Game Mode is the best way to go for gaming on the 75F6300. The picture mode in Game Mode has its own settings, and initially look pretty bad. Don't let this throw you off. Since Standard is the only available picture mode while Game Mode is on you'll have to take the time to turn the sharpness down to 10 or less, the Color Space to Auto, Dynamic Contrast to Off, Color Tone to Warm1, and the Screen Size to Screen Fit. Adjust the Backlight and Brightness to your personal preference and appropriate level for the room light. This will provide a decent picture quality as well as a cut down on input lag. This made Okami HD and Crysis for the PS3 look fantastic and the input lag was negligible at a decent 30ms.

This input lag test shows how important the game mode is for reducing input lag on this LED TV. First person shooters are going to see some of the best results of this low input lag

Features Rating: 8.6/10

Smart TV - Lots of Options

Samsung still has the best Internet Apps selection around. The categories are: Videos, Most Popular, Games, Sports, Lifestyle, Information, Education. There is much better free content than the other brands out there and the paid Apps are better and more reasonably priced as well. The Premium Apps such as the movie services, sports and music are also top notch and include the usual Netflix, You Tube (though we like the normal You Tube through the Browser better), Facebook (same here), Twitter, Vudu, Amazon, Hulu Plus. Thanks to the new HVEC Codec mentioned below streaming video looks much better. And it all runs on a dual core processor to keep things speedy.

This is the apps page of the redesigned Smart Hub. This page lists all of your downloaded apps and even recommends a few. It's an easy layout to navigate and there is plenty of room to fill it up with your favorite apps

See our full article about Samsung's Smart TV 2013 here.

Remote and Menu System – Very Nice

Here is a shot of the menu. It's easy to read and navigate between the menus. The right-hand side shows everything that is in the sub-menu or gives an explanation of the menu item

Samsung's 2013 menu system is organized very well and easy to use. It's also colorful and attractive and the tutorial beside various settings are included and good information to explain some of the more complicated picture settings that you probably do not want to use, but may be curious about. Dedicated keys on the backlit remote take you to Smart TV options on the F6300.

Inputs

4 HDMI inputs and 3 USB inputs head up a very complete load of inputs for connectivity.

Wifi and Web Browser Included

The Wifi setup seemed initially easy to set up but then caught a glitch and it took some time to get the TV connected. The web browser is at least a real Internet browser – allowing search through Bing as the primary outlet.

Audio Quality - Not Too Sound

The 75F6300 has some issues with sound quality. There is plenty of volume during music and background noice, but a clear lack of voice volume and clarity – even when using the Clear Voice option in the menu. We tried everything, all the settings, the equalizer and could not find an option that we felt improved the audio quality. Sound quality gets a 6 out of 10 for me on the F6300.

Appearance and Design

The UN75F6300 is not going to win best-looking but it's attractive nonetheless with a bit more understated design than the top end almost frame less LED TVs. The thin charcoal black half inch framing bezel has an acrylic clear edge and the panel is around 2 inches in depth. The 75 inch version of this model doesn't get the 4-legged stand like the other in the series. It gets a standard square black stand to ensure its stability with the large screen. It also loses the 15 to 20 degree swivel.

Value – Bang for the Buck Rating: 8.5/10

The UN75F6300 can be had for around $3000. This provides excellent picture quality on a huge screen with the excellent Smart Hub. The heaviest competition comes from value models like Sharp and Vizio that really push the larger LED TVs. Sharp's LC-80LE650U comes at nearly the same price with an extra 5 inches of screen space while the Vizio E701i is almost half the price. The Sony KDL-70R550A is also a contender but loses 5 inches of viewing space.

Overall Rating: 8.5