When comparing Samsung MU9000 65" (UN65MU9000) vs VIZIO D-Series 43" (D43-F1), the Slant community recommends VIZIO D-Series 43" (D43-F1) for most people. In the question“What are the best TVs?” VIZIO D-Series 43" (D43-F1) is ranked 35th while Samsung MU9000 65" (UN65MU9000) is ranked 163rd. The most important reason people chose VIZIO D-Series 43" (D43-F1) is:
The VIZIO D-Series offers decent gaming experience thanks to its high overall responsiveness and excellent motion handling. The gaming feels lag-free because of the TV's low input lag that measures at only around 22.2 milliseconds.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great picture quality
The MU9000 can produce really detailed pictures, especially in dark scenes thanks to its really deep black levels. It has a contrast ratio of about 6000:1, which enables it to produce blacks that are 6000 times darker than the brightest white.
The colors are lifelike and accurate even without any calibration by the user. They will look really vibrant even in bright scenes because of the panel’s high peak brightness levels of ~400 nits for SDR & ~450 nits for HDR.
Even in a decently-lit environment, the MU9000's picture quality can still hold up - the panel is excellent at handling reflections thanks to its glossy finish, and it can get bright enough to fight off glare.
Pro Excellent at handling glare
The MU9000's panel has a glossy finish that reduces reflections significantly. This makes it excellent at fighting glare, along with its adequate brightness levels of ~400 nits for SDR & ~450 nits for HDR.
Pro Capable of smooth 24p content playback
The MU9000 is great at dealing with 24p content, such as Blu-rays or media sourced from a cable or satellite box. It can detect and eliminate the judder effect present in these content, where images displayed can appear jittery.
Pro Inputs are very accessible
The MU9000 comes with a OneConnect box which moves all the hard-to-access rear inputs away from the TV. Thanks to this, you’ll always have full access to all inputs and outputs of the TV even if it’s wall-mounted. The OneConnect box can also be used as a USB charging hub.
Pro Intuitive user interface
The MU9000 runs on the Tizen smart platform, known for its simplicity and intuitiveness.
It’s easy to navigate and access all the functions of features of the TV - the whole menu of the Tizen OS is organized around a menu known as the “Smart Hub” which contains everything: apps, settings, input switching, etc.
It also has a section for quick access to frequently used items.
Pro Great at up-scaling low-res content
The MU9000 can upscale 480p, 720p, and 1080p content to 4K quite well. The upscaled content has almost no noticeable artifacts, and all the details are preserved.
Pro Suitable for gaming and watching sports
The MU9000 is pretty versatile. On top of its great picture quality, it has features that make it perform quite well for gaming and sports.
It offers a responsive and fluid gaming experience - players will have no issues keeping their actions in sync with what’s on the display, and fast-moving objects won’t leave any trails on the screen. That is thanks to the low input lag of ~25ms and the panel’s quick response time of ~15ms, which results in virtually no motion blur.
It’s also great for watching sports because of the virtually non-existent motion blur that makes fast-moving objects, like football, look smooth. The panel is also pretty uniform - it has also had no issues with displaying large, same-color objects on the screen, like football fields.
Pro Remote has a voice command feature
The MU9000's remote has a voice command feature that can perform actions as you physically would with the remote, and it can even be used to adjust settings directly.
Pro Good for HDR content
On top of its great picture quality, the MU9000 has a high HDR peak brightness level and wide color gamut that makes it good for HDR.
Shadows look pretty good with nice details, and highlights are quite vibrant thanks to the peak brightness level of ~450 nits.
The panel can reproduce the wide range of colors required for true HDR playback because of its wide color gamut, which covers ~60% of the standard colors required for HDR according to the Rec. 2020 color space. This is considered decent enough for reproducing HDR details, and it can display these colors accurately at different brightness levels.
It’s worth noting that while the MU9000 has local dimming that’s supposed to make HDR better, the local dimming is crap and doesn’t do much - it increases the contrast ratio by a meager amount and does nothing else.
Pro Good for gaming
The VIZIO D-Series offers decent gaming experience thanks to its high overall responsiveness and excellent motion handling. The gaming feels lag-free because of the TV's low input lag that measures at only around 22.2 milliseconds.
Pro Ads-free
The VIZIO D-series runs SmartCast which is free of ads.
Pro Fair motion handling
The motion on this TV looks smooth and clear thanks to the TV's pixels that can change their colors very fast as well as the optional black frame insertion feature that works at a high frequency.
The TV's full pixel response time measures at only 12.1 ms - fast enough to eliminate long traces of the artificial motion blur.
Additionally, the motion looks clear, and the details look sharper thanks to the TV's black frame insertion feature. This feature allows the TV to insert black frames in between of the actual content frames. This makes the details appear definite.
Cons
Con Not suitable for group watching
The MU9000 has a narrow viewing angle that makes it unsuitable for watching with groups.
Audience sitting away from the center of the screen will not experience the same picture as those sitting in the center, because the picture quality starts to deteriorate significantly when viewing from just ≥20° away from the screen's center - the colors will start looking dull and blacks will look like greys.
Con Lacks support for Dolby Vision
The MU9000 currently only supports the HDR10 format for HDR content.
Con Interface has ads
There are ads that can't be removed on the MU9000's interface.
Con Mediocre sound quality
The sound quality of MU9000's built-in speakers is mediocre. It sounds quite bassy and the clarity is reduced at higher volumes - you might have a hard time following dialogues at higher volumes because of this. There’s also distortion at higher volumes.
Con Not really high value for money
The MU9000 is a great TV, but the retail price can be off-putting for some because the picture quality and features it offers are present in other similarly-priced models, e.g. the Sony X900E. This TV can be really worth it when on sale, or if Samsung offers better after-sales service in your region.
Con Bad for group watching
The VIZIO D-Series isn't the best TV to watch with a crowd because those who sit at an angle to the TV will experience degraded image because of the TV's lousy viewing angles. As soon as the angle between the viewer and a TV gets more significant than 13 degrees, the black levels start to degrade. This is a common problem for the VA TVs.
Con Can't fight glare
The VIZIO D-Series is a poor choice for bright rooms because the TV's peak brightness is not high enough to fight glare emitted by other sources of light.