LG UK6300 65" (65UK6300PUE) vs Samsung MU8000 82" (UN82MU8000)

This TV is a great option for fast-paced content such as sports and video games due to the quick response time. This makes sure the content doesn't appear blurred out due to fast movement on-screen. A full pixel color transition on the TV's panel takes 15 milliseconds.

The UK6300 offers a responsive and lag-free gaming experience. It has low input lag and a good refresh rate.

The TV has one of the lowest input lags in the market – approximately 11.5 ms. The “Game” and “_PC_” picture modes help achieve this. Moreover, the latency increase while gaming in 4K or HDR is extremely tiny and doesn't go past 1 ms.

The TV is great for high-end console gaming. It has a 60Hz native refresh rate and you can game in 4k60Hz if you enable the “HDMI Ultra HD Deep Color” setting.

The UK6300 runs on LG’s WebOS. The interface is functional and easy to navigate.

LG Content Store has a wide range of apps, including popular media streaming services such as YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, etc., and many other third-party apps, which are all kept up-to-date.

The UK6300 is a good TV for rooms with wide seating, because it offers a better viewing angle than other TVs at this price-point. The blacks are consistent at any viewpoint, and the color and brightness shifts aren’t too bad – they become noticeable at moderate angles. Colors shift at 22 degrees, whereas brightness shifts at 27 degrees.

The Samsung MU8000 is a good option for sports fans because of the TV’s decent color uniformity, well-controlled motion blur, and adequate picture quality.

Good color uniformity is essential for a sports TV since it allows it to reproduce beautiful and even looking sports pitches and arenas. In this aspect, the MU8000 performs as well as its more expensive competitors, like the Sony X850E and Sony X900E.

Also, a good sports TV must have a responsive panel that can eliminate the motion blur effect. Fortunately, the Samsung MU8000’s panel has a full pixel response time of 13.8 ms, which means that each pixel of this TV can fully change its color in about a 70th of a second, preventing fast-moving objects from leaving trails.

The Samsung MU8000 comes with a mini One Connect box which is used to move all the TV’s inputs away from the rear of the TV so that you can easily access all of the essential inputs even if the TV is mounted on a wall. The One Connect box can also be used as a USB charging hub.

The Samsung MU8000 runs the Tizen smart platform which is well known for its simplicity and intuitiveness. The whole menu of the Tizen OS is organized around the Smart Hub which acts as a gate for accessing all the functionality of the TV. Additionally, the Smart Hub has a row which contains the most-used items.

The Samsung MU8000 can detect and eliminate the judder effect from 24p content even when the content is sourced from a 60 Hz device, like a cable or satellite box, or Apple TV.

This 4K120 TV is an excellent companion to any current generation gaming console, such as the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, and Wii U. Additionally, the HDR gaming support of the MU8000 will allow you to experience the immersive HDR effects in the latest console games.

Out of the box, the color accuracy of the Samsung MU8000 is very high. It’s unlikely that you’ll need to spend substantial time calibrating this TV.

The Samsung MU8000 is among the best gaming TV in its range because of its low input lag and excellent motion-blur handling. The TV’s input lag of 24.2 ms makes it suitable for fast-paced gaming.

The Samsung MU8000’s picture quality is on par with its direct competitors. The TV produces a clear and good-looking picture in both dark and bright environments.

The MU8000 does an excellent job of displaying rich dark scenes because of the TV’s fair uniformity of its blacks and high contrast ratio.

High SDR luminosity allows the Samsung MU8000 to deal with the glare even in relatively bright rooms. The peak brightness of this TV is 380 nits, which is a good result considering that the competitors are only a tiny bit more luminous.