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hi there David Katz Meyer here from CNN and next to me is Samsung's F 9000 this is the company's first 4k TV that doesn't cost forty thousand dollars this thing is still extremely expensive it's a 65 inch size the F 9000 is also available in a 55 inch size we got to all that 4k goodness in a little bit but first let me start by telling you this TV is pretty much identical to the F 8000 that we really liked earlier this year except for that extra resolution of 4k it's got the same really cool design kind of a little strip around the edge of the picture that makes the entire TV seem almost all picture it's also got that really cool almost disappearing stand along the bottom the flipside is you'll need to have a stand or a table top that's wide enough to encompass the entire stand or else the TV's gonna fall over of course you could always wall mount this expensive television and not be too shabby this feature set on this TV is great up to Samsung's normal standards you get it's excellent smart TV suite the ability control a cable box umpteen apps and of course the ability to adjust the picture six ways from Sunday one of the things that make this TV different from the f8000 however is it's a jack pack the TV has a separate connector box where all the HDMI inputs are connected there's also a USB ports and pretty much every other port on this separate box the idea is once a new format standard comes around for connecting into this TV otherwise known as HDMI 2.0 Samsung says you can discard the current connector box grab a new connector box for an undisclosed sum and plug it into the back of here and get pretty much future-proof upgradability that future connector box will also allow the TV to have the smart evolution upgrade which will enable new processor and new software so all told a pretty slick way to keep this TV up with the times in the future another standout feature shared with the F 8000 Samsung's touchpad remote unlike that TV this also comes with a separate standard remote with a bunch of buttons on it so you get your choice in this case and like other high-end Samsung TVs this one is 3d compatible it comes with four pairs of 3d glasses and now for 4k what a lot of people been wondering and what we've been running ourselves until we got our hands on this TV to test it it's how much of a difference 4k really makes well I'll tell you it's 65 inches it doesn't really make that much of a difference we compared this TV side-by-side with a 1080p 65 inch television and unless you look extremely close it's really hard to tell the difference in fact with 1080p sources the 1080p TV actually looked a tiny bit sharper than this one in some cases so if you're looking at today's 1080p sources displayed on this TV expecting a really big increase in detail you're not going to find it in terms of 4k sources the couple things that I was able to test include some video from red which looked very good as well as a 4k game off of a PC that's really the main thing you're gonna be using this TV for right now is the 4k video game aspect and it really does look really good as long as you have a high enough PC to take full advantage of it of course beyond its mere resolution the F 9000 is an excellent performer it has the same deep black levels as the F 8000 so it does have really nice contrast for an LED LCD although still not as good as a lot of the plasma TVs we've tested it also has extremely accurate color and I appreciated the screen uniformity so again an excellent performer even beyond its 4k resolution on the other hand the Samsung is extremely expensive and it's still early days among 4k TVs in a couple of months we expect some new 4k TVs to be announced and they'll probably have better specs and at least have that HDMI 2.0 that this one lacks out of the box so unless you're really early adopter and don't mind spending five thousand dollars on a high-end first generation 4k TV we recommend you wait that's a quick look at Samsung's F 9000 4k television I'm David Katz my from Cena