Interesting. I bought the s90c 77" at rm12085. Will check the power on time after i set it up tonight.

This post has been edited by cloudeen: Nov 16 2023, 02:46 PM

doesnt look so. I was not at home when they delivered, my mum snapped a photo and show me.

Finally finish setting up the tv. here is my report:

1.The box is being hold by 3 flat plastic ropes. After cutting the 3 ropes, the top cupboard lit can be slide up, leaving the tv sitting on the bottom cupboard.

2. following the installation guide, on both left side and right side of bottom cupboard, there are "locks" which need to be unlock (origami style) in order to lay the bottom cupboard flat. this process will actually damage/crease the cupboard holding the lock. before me unlocking it, the cupboard appear to be new and fresh without any sign they have been folded/used before.

3. all the polyforms inside the cupboard holding the tv appear to be in good condition.

4. the white protective foam looks new, smooth and without crease, except there are some of minor folded area near the bottom part of the white foam touching the bottom polyform. maybe it was not being tuck in properly during factory packing. Anyway its minor. 95% of the white foam looks fresh.

5. tv still have the transparent peel in tack. no sign of it being pilled prior.

6. After turning on the tv, i forgot to immediately check the panel display time. After logging in all my apps, i checked the panel time using smartthings app (i dont have service remote). it shows (3) <-- with bracket.

7. initially i thought it means 3 hour? not bad? but after some further 15mins fiddling, the app shows (5). so i guess it means 50mins. i suspect after i pass the hour mark, it will show 1 (without bracket).

So based on all of the above, i conclude that the s90c 77" i bought with 12k is not a display unit, as the rumors suggest.


One interesting story to add is that, as i live in jb quite near to that exact shop selling all 3 size of s90c cheap, i actually went to the shop physically on 9/11 and pretending to be shopping for this tv. I did not want to ask the staff directly about their online listing because at that time i thought the price was a price error, and i didnt want to alert them.
The price for s90c 77" given by the promoter was rm20k (after the purported 11.11 discount). I just say i will consider and left.
Tempted to go back now and ask the promoter why i got it 8k (7k without laz cash) cheaper.

screenshot on my phone, in case anyone want to see.


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sounds like other sellers just want to create false news to justify why they cannot match the price.

Edit: also i was referring to "rumors" invented by other seller, not you bro. cheers.

This post has been edited by cloudeen: Nov 17 2023, 10:04 AM

I agree on the OS part, samsung really loses in the UI department. I was shocked yesterday that i need to point the remote at the tv for it to work. Also there is not pointer (i think, may be wrong) like on LG?

Coming from LG CX, the samsung UI really felt decade behind.

Ah. never know its unique feature.
but i think my path of upgrading, if any, would be sony flagship oled 77 3 years later. which will likely to cost a fortune.

Just finish watching hercules poirot 3 using plex app on the s90c.
(my source file is 18g in size, streamed from my main pc)

the image quality is extremely beautiful in HDR picture mode (peak brightness high, contrast enhancer off)
I find FMM is too dull/dark for my taste.
Similar result when i tried FMM on flinch on apple tv+.

I know the experts keep saying FMM is closest to creator intent etc etc.
But i really felt FMM doesnt unlock the full capability of the panel at all. HDR picture mode with contrast enhancer off is the way to go for now.

And during some quick camera pan shot, i noticed very obvious imperfection of the motion processing of samsung tv.
Immediately off the entire picture clarity function but then notice some jaggerness.
Look like i will have to manually tweak the picture clarity setting to find the sweat spot.
Cant remember i have such struggle when i was using LG CX.

I think samsung firmware/software/ui is really too unintuitive compare to LG.
For example it seems to me the picture mode wont stick (or i dunno how to do it intuitively) for different type of source.
I want the the picture mode to be set to eco mode (with manually lowered brightness) while my parent is watching the sdr tv show.
But it seems after watching HDR content (in hdr picture mode), switching back to tv, the picture mode no longer stick to the eco mode.
Too much time wasted in doing research to find out how to do these kind of small small setting.

Another annoyance is that my sonos beam 2, while putting on center, will block the tv's IR sensor.
I totally cannot understand why they didnt just put the sensor at edge of the TV??
I was forced to use the digital remote during the entire session just now. using it to slowing change setting for each picture mode is such pain in the ass (unlike LG magic remote, can adjust a slider very fast)

These minor inconveniences are slowly pushing me away towards sony flagship. Not sure i can tahan for 5 years or not.

This post has been edited by cloudeen: Nov 18 2023, 01:16 AM

my s90c will forgot my beam gen2 the next day.
have to power cycle the beam to get the tv detect the eArc connection.

did some research and look like its firmware issue happening after sonos 15.8 update. major annoyance to me.