Samsung DU7000 and DU8000: what they ship with and what comes off

Let us start with what saves time: these sets run Tizen, which is not Android. There is no ADB, no pm uninstall, no list of packages to disable. Everything you can do on a Samsung lives in its own menus, and we have written it up in cleaning up a Samsung television with Tizen.

If you came here looking for commands, that page is the answer, and the reason these brands were left out of the directory is in why Samsung and LG sets are out of scope.

What belongs here is what is left when Samsung goes all the way down to the floor of its catalogue. Crystal UHD is the range that turns up in every sale, and the DU7000 and the DU8000 are its two series from 2024.

Three HDMI ports, and only Spain says how fast#

The eleven product pages we downloaded — four Spanish, seven German — all eleven declare HDMI: 3. Same as the mid-range: one port fewer than the tier above.

The difference is in what comes next. The Spanish sheet adds a maximum input rate row, in these words: 4K 60Hz (for HDMI 1/2/3). The German sheet has no such row: the string "4K 60" does not appear once in any of the seven German pages we kept.

eARC is declared on all eleven, all with the same value, eARC/ARC. And none of them says which port it is on. The manual only asks you to connect the soundbar to the eARC dedicated HDMI port on your TV, without saying which. If you have one in front of you, the label on the back closes that gap in ten seconds.

The refresh rate, with an 85-inch exception#

The website says 50Hz in the refresh rate field, in Spain and in Germany, on both series. The regulated product fiche for the sixteen codes we downloaded says 60 Hz as the default rate.

The European manual settles it with a list by model. Under the ones that go up to 50/60 Hz it puts CU6/DU6/CU7/DU7/BEC/BED, CU8/DU8 (75-inch and smaller models). And under 100/120 Hz, CU8/DU8 (85-inch and larger models), DU9.

Which means the 85-inch DU8000 is a different television. Its German page says 100Hz and its regulated fiche, 120 Hz. The 85-inch DU7000 stays at 60 in all three countries. The codec tables in the manual repeat the split: in the DU7 one, H.264 only reaches 3840 x 2160: 30 frames.

The VRR the Spanish sheet claims and the manual denies#

The four Spanish DU7000 pages carry, in the gaming section, a row that reads VRR: Sí. None of the seven German pages carries that row, on either series.

And the manual is clear: its table of supported resolutions for FreeSync (VRR) starts at 1920 x 1080 at 120 Hz. There is no entry below that. A set that never passes 60 Hz cannot use any of those modes. FreeSync, in fact, only turns up on the DU9000 pages, which is the 144 Hz one.

Where they actually differ#

The DU7000 lists PurColor in its summary, a single USB port on the German DU7179 and DU7199 pages, and no optical output. Its remote runs on batteries: the manual separates the DU7 Series (except for DU77** model), Standard Remote Control from the rest, which charge over USB-C or from a solar cell. The Spanish page gives the model, TM2240A.

The DU8000 steps up to Dynamic Crystal Color and the AirSlim design, brings two USB ports and a digital optical audio output, and its remote is the Premium Solar Smart Remote. It also adds a row the DU7000 does not have: 10 Bit Unterstützung / 1 Milliarde Farben: Ja.

What does not change is the sound: 20 W in 2 channels on both series and at every size. The manual confirms it once for the whole range: DU7/DU8/DU9/QE1D/Q6*D/Q7*D/S85D Series: 20 W. Both declare OTS Lite and Q-Symphony. Against the 60 and 70 watts of the top range, it is the same figure as in the middle.

Nor does the HDR change: HDR10+ on all eleven pages, Dolby Vision on none. Zero occurrences, in both countries, on both series and across the four support documents. HLG is declared only by the German site. Dolby Atmos appears in no specification at all; it only shows up in customer reviews.

The power figures, and three German ones that do not add up#

The regulated fiche declares class G in SDR and in HDR on all sixteen codes. In watts: the 43-inch DU7000, 53.0 in SDR and 104.0 in HDR; the 65-inch, 110.0 and 169.0; the 85-inch, 166.0 and 250.0. The 43-inch DU8000, 53.4 and 106.0; the 65-inch, 107.0 and 164.0; the 85-inch, 164.0 and 292.0. All of them, 0.5 W on standby and 2.0 W in networked standby.

The Spanish page for the 65-inch DU7105 says "Consumo de energía (Estándar): 110 W", which is exactly the figure in the fiche. The German ones do not. The GU65DU7179U and the GU65DU7199U say 112 W and 187 W where the fiche says 110.0 and 169.0. The GU65DU8079U says 108 and 174 against 107.0 and 164.0. The 85-inch, 168 and 304 against 164.0 and 292.0. Only the GU65DU8579U matches its own fiche.

The brightness sensor that vanishes at 85 inches#

Here is a detail you only catch by reading the sixteen fiches back to back. The automatic brightness control field says "Yes" on almost all of them, but it says "No" on the 85-inch DU7000, and it says it in all three countries at once: TU85DU7105K, UE85DU7100K and GU85DU7179U. On the 85-inch DU8000, "Yes".

And the pages for those same 85-inch sets still say "Eco Sensor: Yes". If you buy the big one from the cheap series expecting it to dim on its own, the enforceable sheet says it will not.

Five different periods for the same thing#

Worth lining them up.

The Spanish footnote says: La actualización del software de seguridad está garantizada durante al menos tres años desde el lanzamiento del producto. The German one, on all seven pages: Sicherheitsupdates werden für drei Jahre ab Produkteinführung bereitgestellt.

The British DU9000 sheet has a whole row for this: Security Update Period (At least 5 years from launch of product), with the value 31 DECEMBER 2029. The Statement of Compliance Samsung publishes for the whole 2024 range under the UK product security regulations says the same: Defined Support Period: 5 years from the date of initial supply, 2024.

And the regulated fiche says 8 years of minimum guaranteed availability of software and firmware updates, on all sixteen codes, plus 7 for spare parts and 7 for product support.

Three, five, five and eight. And that same DU9000 row, on the Spanish page, reads "Período de actualización de seguridad: No disponible". The enforceable figure is the one in the fiche.

A bonus: Samsung publishes no Tizen version in any spec sheet, but the update release note it hosts on the UE65DU7100K support page does say it: Upgraded Samsung One UI Tizen OS from 8.0 to 9.0.

How to tell whether this sheet is your television#

The code changes by country, and the prefix is not the QLED one. On Crystal UHD it is TU in Spain, UE in the United Kingdom and GU in Germany, not TQ, QE or GQ. The 65-inch DU7000 is TU65DU7105KXXC, UE65DU7100KXXU and GU65DU7179UXZG. Look only at the middle block: 65DU7 or 65DU8. The D is the 2024 model year.

And do not trust the field entirely. The German page for the 65-inch DU7170 is named 65" Crystal UHD 4K DU7170 and, two rows down, reads Artikelnummer: GU65DU8579UXZG. The EAN and the power figures on that page are the DU7170's; only the code is wrong.

The tuner changes too: Spain says DVB-T2C with the satellite input at zero; Germany, DVB-T2CS2 and HD+ integriert: Ja (6 Monate).

What ships on it and what you can do#

Both declare Samsung TV Plus, built into the system: it is not an app you uninstall, and neither are the streaming ones that arrive by commercial deal. What is in your hands are the privacy checkboxes and the decision not to link a Samsung account, and that is all in the Tizen guide.

One worry fewer: there is no microphone in this set to switch off. The manual says the microphone switch exists only on the QN8**D/QN9**D/Q7*D/Q8*D/QN8*D/QN9*D/QNX1D/S8*D/S9*D and The Frame series, and the sixteen regulated fiches all say "Voice recognition sensor available: No".

What Samsung does not publish#

Brightness. Not one figure in nits across the eleven pages or the sixteen regulated fiches.

RAM and storage, which appear on neither series.

The eARC port, as we saw, and the HDMI speed if you live in Germany, where it is simply not declared.