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hi there I'm David Katz Meyer with CNET and next to me is the world's first 4k curved LED LCD TV this is Samsung's best TV for 2014 it's the hu 9000 series I'm having to be next to a 65 inch member there's also a 55 and a 79 insurer in the series this is a really really nice looking television externally it's got samsung's patented all picture look around the edges really really thin bezel nice silver finish and of course is silver stand beneath it the stand is curved to kind of accentuate that radius it's pretty much identical to the radius of the television Samsung tells the ideal seating distance is pretty much where you want to sit although you know ideally you do want to be a little bit closer to this curve to you to experience what Samsung calls that immersion in my experience that immersion really isn't that immersive there's really no major difference in watching this TV versus watching a flat TV so you do get a little bit of a distortion when you watch this TV you can see a little bit of a bowtie effect slightly where the edges are a little bit bigger than the middle there's some other distortions if you move off angle that are again relatively subtle the curve is pretty cool looking in person especially when you look at it from the side you show somebody hey look at my new cool curved TV but in practice in terms of picture quality really doesn't have that big of a benefit the one exception is it does reduce reflections some was if you have a really reflective room with a lot of lights in the background this TV will catch fewer of them than a flat TV but aside from that the curve really isn't that big of a deal this TV has all the features you could ask for it's got a built in camera it's got samsung's patented smart TV suite it's got this fancy remote control that's got motion control on us a little bit like a Nintendo Wii mode nice part about that remote is you don't need to aim it at the television you go around back the inputs are special on this TV as well there's none on the back of the television in fact the inputs are all removed to a separate box Samsung calls one connect which is little silver box here it's got four HDMI a smattering of USB on it of course all those HDMI ports can handle 4k video at 60 frames per second if something new comes down the road Samsung promises to have future one connect boxes that'll handle those different connectivity types and smart TV Suites another extra on this TV is this little 4k content pack so only a few movies in here including the counselor and GI Joe and World War Z they're actually in 4k though so you can demo by plugging this little box into the one connects USBs port and get some 4k video right away on the flipside that really isn't much other 4k content available there is Netflix available on 4k you can stream house of cards season two and Breaking Bad but aside from that it's really not all that much 4k video out there on the other hand the cyan TV looks great with pretty much any resolution source it has excellent black levels thanks to the best local dimming I've tested on any Samsung TV the set also has very good color and video processing so all told you're going to get it a great picture out of this set so even with the curve the HU 9000 is definitely one of the best performing 4k TVs I've tested this year not quite the best but extremely good of course it'll cost you a lot of money and once again that curve isn't really going to affect your image quality that much at all in hero direction that's a quick look at Samsung's hu 9000 high-end 4k curved television for 2014 I'm David Katz I receive