Samsung KS8000
$1497 (55 inches)
- Peak HDR Brightness:Â 1000 nits
- Panel Type: VA
- HDR Support: UHD Premium
- Input Lag: 21ms
- Size Options: 55, 65
Samsung’s commitment to low input lag has long made it a go-to choice for gaming TVs, and the KS8000 is its crowning achievement to date. Despite its relative affordability, the KS8000 offers native 4K resolution and boasts UHD certified HDR thanks to a hugely impressive 1000 nits of brightness. It also benefits from Samsung’s Quantum Dot technology to help produce an extended color palette, combining with local dimming technology to improve its contrast performance and produce terrific HDR results.
The picture quality on the KS8000 is generally superb, though not quite as sharp as money-no-object premium options. In particular, it suffers from a slightly narrow viewing angle and features an edge LED lighting system rather than a direct one, which can cause some occasional vague vertical bars of light to appear around very bright HDR objects if they appear against dark backgrounds. What it does do even better than the most expensive TVs, however, is combine accomplished fidelity with a stunningly low input lag of 21ms.
The KS8000 is a reasonably affordable, near premium TV that should be fairly future-proof for many years to come. Samsung certainly has more expensive options, but the KS8000’s low input lag, screen quality, and price make it their best overall TV for gaming.
