What Are The Samsung Q80T Best Calibration Settings? (Complete Guide)

With our recommended Samsung Q80T calibration settings, get ready to enjoy your favorite content like never before. Our carefully chosen settings will optimize your TV’s performance and deliver the most immersive and realistic viewing experience possible.

We utilized the following calibration settings to evaluate the Samsung 55″ Q80T (QN55Q80T), and we expect them to apply to the 49″ (QN49Q80T), 50″ (QN50Q80T), 65″ (QN65Q80T), 75″ (QN75Q80T), and 85″ models as well (QN85Q80T).

These settings should apply to most content categories, excluding gaming and use as a PC monitor, which require the modifications described below.

Best Samsung Q80T HDR Content Calibration Settings

If your movie or TV show has HDR capabilities, you should see more colors and details than standard TV. However, you may need to make a few tweaks before obtaining high-quality photographs on the Samsung Q80t.

Here’s how to optimize the Samsung Q80t for watching HDR movies and TV shows. Begin by activating Input Signal Plus. To activate this function:

• Press the Home button on the remote and navigate to Settings > General by pressing the Home button.
• Click Input Signal Plus within the External Input Manager

Also, keep all settings at their default values. If the television plays HDR content, it will automatically tune itself until the optimum picture is displayed. If the result seems too dark, apply the following settings to modify the image quality.

• Brightness: Maximum 
• Contrast: Maximum
• Contrast Enhancer: Maximum
• 2084: Maximum
• Contrast Enhancer: High

The optimal calibration settings for SDR content on the Samsung Q80T

If you wish to watch Blu-ray discs or other SDR content on your Samsung Q80T, try the following configurations. If you don’t like the output, feel free to make minor modifications to these suggestions.

• Select Movie Mode for Picture
• Contrast with 45
• Leave Sharpness at 0 and adjust Color to 25
• Set the Tint to 0
• Leave Gamma on 2.2
• Set the Color Temperature to Warm 2

General Settings

ECO SETTINGS

As we do not want the TV to change the image during testing, one of our first steps was to disable all Eco Solution choices.

SDR

For SDR content, four preset image modes are available. The ‘Movie’ picture mode is the most accurate out of the box and permits excellent flexibility. We suggest leaving Contrast at ’45’ and Sharpness at ‘0’ from the Expert Settings menu. We also left the Color and Tint (G/R) settings at their default values of 25 and 0. Last but not least, we selected the ‘Warm2’ Color Tone, which was the closest to our calibration targets. Gamma is set to 2.2, which is closest to our calibration target.

Depending on your unique viewing conditions, you should modify the Brightness option to make the image brighter in SDR. Changing this parameter does not affect the image quality as a whole. Samsung has renamed the former Backlight setting and eliminated the Brightness option.

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IMAGE IMPROVEMENTS

We disable most image processing features, including the Contrast Enhancer, to produce an image as close as possible to the creator’s intended. However, it would help if you tailor these to your preferences.

HDR

HDR is enabled automatically for native apps. A small HDR icon displays next to the picture mode in the quick settings menu when you play HDR video. Once you begin playing HDR content, several settings are modified automatically, including the Backlight, which is set to ‘Max’ We advise leaving these HDR settings at their default values.

For external devices to support HDR, Input Signal Plus must often be activated from the External Device Manager menu for the input being used. Leaving this option on may cause compatibility difficulties with older devices, so it is recommended to only enable it for devices that require it.

If you find HDR content too faint, set Contrast and Brightness to maximum, set ST.2084 to maximum, and set Contrast Enhancer to ‘High.’

Motion Preferences

Although we disable most of our tests’ motion enhancement features, you should tweak them to your liking. Some settings may need to be modified based on the content being viewed.

MOTION INTERPOLATION

Although we leave these settings off for most of our testing, you should alter the settings under the Picture Clarity Settings menu to your liking, as different individuals enjoy varying levels of motion interpolation. If you want to allow motion interpolation, set Picture Clarity to ‘Custom’ and adjust the Judder Reduction slider to your desire. LED Clear Motion controls the Black Frame Insertion function of the Q80T. Most of these settings will need to be modified based on the content being viewed.

Gaming

Very few adjustments are necessary from the default SDR and HDR settings for an excellent gaming experience. However, when you start gaming, it’s best to choose Game Mode from the General settings menu to get the lowest input lag and apply the suggested parameters for SDR or HDR. In addition, input Signal Plus must be activated for the input being used for HDR gaming.

GAME MOTION PLUS

Like last year’s QLEDs, the Q80T features low latency motion interpolation, perfect for improving motion on low frame rate games. The options are virtually comparable to the Motion Interpolation settings. To enable motion interpolation in Game mode, enable Game Motion Plus, and set the sliders to your desire. The Judder Reduction slider adjusts the interpolation of low frame rate video (30 fps), while the LED Clear Motion setting enables the Black Frame Insertion feature.

FREESYNC

The Q80T supports FreeSync variable refresh rate technology. There is no enabling setting, as it is activated automatically when the TV detects a VRR-enabled device launching a game.

The Q80T supports FreeSync when connected to a PC or Xbox One with a compatible AMD graphics card. Unfortunately, it does not support FreeSync with NVIDIA’s new Adaptive Sync drivers, as NVIDIA’s implementation requires DisplayPort, which this television does not have.

PC GAMING

The Q80T will typically identify when it is connected to a PC and enter PC mode automatically to ensure chroma 4:4:4 capability. Change the input icon to ‘PC’ to manually enable PC mode. In PC mode, many picture options are disabled, and there are just two Picture Modes available: ‘Standard’ and ‘Dynamic.’

SCREEN SETTINGS

Depending on the format, the upscaling mechanism may need to be modified when viewing content with a lower resolution. You can modify the screen position, zoom, and image size from the Picture Size Settings submenu. However, during testing, we discovered an issue in PC mode where the image was zoomed in excessively. To resolve this issue, change the aspect ratio to 16:9 and enable Fit to Screen.

White Balance Adjustments

The following are the outcomes of our unit’s white balance and colorspace calibration. Due to manufacturing tolerances, the calibration values vary between individual units, even for the same model and screen size as the television we examined.

To test them, you must input all the displayed values, as they are all active simultaneously. If you wind up with lower image quality, revert the settings to their default defaults.

Conclusion

The Samsung Q80T can manage a variety of material types. Therefore, if you wish to achieve the maximum possible image quality, the following settings should suffice. However, if the results are unsatisfactory, you can seek further settings from the Samsung service center or any reputable user forum.

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