Cycling between the modes with Horizon: Forbidden West the differences were very subtle, with very slightly more shadow detail in FPS mode than the other modes: I saw bigger differences by far with similar modes on LG TVs. There's also a selection of picture modes keyed to game genres, namely Standard, RPG, RTS, FPS, Sports, as well as a Custom mode that lets you adjust brightness, contrast and the rest manually. It appears along the bottom of the screen and displays current frames per second, HDR status and VRR (which isn't available on the Q60B, so its status indicator will always read "Off). Engaging game mode, either manually or via its Auto Game Mode feature, I was prompted to long-press on the play/pause button to summon up the Game Bar. Gaming: Samsung features its elaborate game display even on less-expensive models like the Q60B. Samsung's Game Bar shows status of frame rate, HDR and more, as well as offering picture settings for different genres (spoiler: they looked pretty much the same to me). The TCL, meanwhile, was superior in pretty much every way to the others, with excellent contrast, deep black levels and powerful brightness that made the Sony, Samsung and Fire TV pale by comparison. Both outperformed the Omni, which showed less high-level detail in snowscapes, but the difference wasn't massive. The story was similar to the challenging Spears and Munsil 4K HDR Benchmark montage on Blu-ray, where the Samsung looked a bit brighter than the Sony. The skin tones of Adam Sandler and the basketball players looked a bit flatter and bluer than the Sony, but overall I still preferred the Samsung's picture by a hair. Color accuracy was a bit worse than the Sony but not terrible. The Samsung was also significantly brighter than the Sony in its most accurate picture mode, which made the film's HDR image pop more in comparison. Watching Hustle on Netflix, the black around the credits and the shadows in the locker room were slightly darker and more than the Sony and the Omni. ![]() It showed better black levels and contrast than the Sony, along with visibly superior brightness. TV and movies: The Samsung delivered the second-best picture in the lineup overall, beating out the Sony and the Omni. ![]() I set up the 55-inch Samsung Q60B next to its direct competitor from Sony, as well as a less-expensive Fire TV and a TCL with superior picture quality specifications. James Martin/CNET Picture quality comparisons The Samsung's light output and anti-reflective screen make it a good performer in bright rooms (or coffee bars). ![]() Next to that are thumbnails for Samsung's free TV service (which I don't care about) and below that a bunch of themed suggested shows and movies (ditto). Below is a tiny string of app tiles for streaming services, and lower still is the now-standard array of thumbnails, headed by a "Recent" input I used (not a recent streaming show or movie, which would have been nice). The upper two-fifths of the screen is devoted to a big ad, matching the first "sponsored" tile, which rotated between Hulu, Prime Video and the Samsung Game Hub "coming soon" on my review sample. Samsung's is almost as bad as LG's in my book, wasting screen space with ads and clutter I don't care about. For the last few years Samsung's smart TV home page consisted of a banner along the bottom of the screen that popped over what you're watching, but new for 2022 pressing the home key summons an all-new Smart Hub menu that takes over the whole screen - just like Roku, Google TV and new LG TVs.
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