Samsung UE55F8000 (F8000) Review Review europea, atentos a lo que dicen sobre el Precisión Black One last thing: the American version of the 2013 Samsung Series 8 LED LCD television is advertised as having another feature, on top of “Micro Dimming Ultimate”, called “Precision Black Local Dimming”. We should point out now that this is our own research, and that Samsung UK has never mentioned such a feature. However, we live in the age of the world wide web (obviously if you’re reading this), and this has led to European buyers wondering if they’re being short-changed given that no mention of it is made in Europe. To clear up some of the confusion: neither the American model nor the European versions feature a fully local dimmable backlight array. European buyers are not being short-changed in this way: they are all edge LED TV displays. Samsung’s US site claims that the mysterious feature “produces a much greater increase in contrast and black levels by dimming LEDs behind dark areas of the picture thus making blacks darker without affecting brighter elements of the picture”.

Our first instinct upon reading this is, “How?”. It seems impossible to provide any hugely useful degree of localised backlight control without actually having a matrix of LED clusters behind the LCD module. Attempting it without this hardware would likely result in other side-effects, so even if there was such a feature, we would likely end up disabling it anyway. So, as far as we can ascertain from behind our desks, European F8000 buyers should feel no remorse