2019 Samsung Electronics Un40m5300a 40-inch Smart Led Tv Review

Test Results

Blueprint

Curved No

The design of the Samsung M5300 is decent. Information technology looks fairly basic and won't exist the centerpiece of a room, with an all-plastic outside. The stand is broad and may not fit on smaller tables simply feels quite stable. The TV is quite thick and may stick out from the wall a fleck if mounted, and doesn't provide any cablevision management.

The stand is almost as wide of the TV, which may brand it more hard to fit on some tables. It supports the Tv set well though, despite beingness entirely plastic.

Footprint of the 32" Idiot box stand: five.7" x 28.3"

Wall Mount VESA 100x100

A VESA mount is located on the back of the Boob tube for wall mounting. Unfortunately, if placed close to a wall then the component/composite inputs at the back may be difficult to access. There is no cable management on this Tv set.

Borders 0.83" (2.1 cm)

The borders have an average thickness and are fabricated of plastic. There is a slight texture which is squeamish.

Max Thickness 2.68" (six.8 cm)

The Telly appears a chip thicker than average when viewed from the side. It will stick out from a wall a fleck if mounted.

Maximum Temperature 100 °F (38 °C)

Boilerplate Temperature 93 °F (34 °C)

The Goggle box's screen stays adequately cool, but its power brick does get very warm to the touch, upward to 49 °C, though non hot enough to burn you lot.

The build quality of the M5300 is fine. All of the parts are made of plastic, merely in that location are a few prissy textured touches and everything fits together well. The build quality shouldn't exist an issue for normal use.

Picture Quality

Native Contrast 1,294 : 1

Contrast with local dimming N/A

The Samsung M5300 has a below average contrast ratio and when viewed in a dark room, blacks await more grayish than actually black. When set in a room with a practiced lighting, the ambient low-cal helps to negate the low dissimilarity ratio issue and the overall picture quality looks ameliorate. This is very typical of most IPS TVs out there.

Local Dimming No

Backlight Direct

The Samsung M5300 does not have a local dimming characteristic. The video is for reference merely.

SDR Real Scene Peak Brightness 227 cd/m²

SDR Peak 2% Window 169 cd/m²

SDR Peak 10% Window 297 cd/m²

SDR Peak 25% Window 295 cd/m²

SDR Tiptop 50% Window 295 cd/thousand²

SDR Peak 100% Window 295 cd/g²

SDR Sustained 2% Window 169 cd/m²

SDR Sustained x% Window 291 cd/m²

SDR Sustained 25% Window 291 cd/chiliad²

SDR Sustained 50% Window 291 cd/one thousand²

SDR Sustained 100% Window 291 cd/one thousand²

SDR ABL 0.038

Decent brightness, good plenty for a moderately lit room just may appear dim in a bright room. The Television is more dim near the edges, where the real scene brightness is measured, as visible in the Idiot box'due south gray uniformity photograph. The TV's CE dimming dims very night scenes like our two% white window in an endeavour to make the scene darker, but information technology unfortunately dims the highlights as well.

HDR Real Scene Peak Effulgence North/A

HDR Peak 2% Window N/A

HDR Peak 10% Window North/A

HDR Peak 25% Window N/A

HDR Peak 50% Window N/A

HDR Peak 100% Window N/A

HDR Sustained 2% Window Due north/A

HDR Sustained 10% Window Due north/A

HDR Sustained 25% Window N/A

HDR Sustained fifty% Window North/A

HDR Sustained 100% Window N/A

HDR ABL N/A

HDR is not supported.

50% Std. Dev. 5.146%

l% DSE 0.188%

v% Std. Dev. 0.699%

v% DSE 0.106%

The M5300 has a decent gray uniformity with some dirty screen effect. The center of the screen is a chip brighter than the sides and some darker vertical bands are too visible on each side of the center bright spots.

Looking at our 5% gray exam picture, nothing bad can be really noticed, which is practiced, especially for movies with darker scenes.

Color Shift 37°

Brightness 42°

Black Level 75°

Decent viewing bending, even for an IPS panel, and far better than all VA TVs. Blacks stay black, and colors and effulgence remain decent when the Tv set is viewed at moderate angles. This TV would be a proficient choice for a room where people often sit down to the side of the TV and view it at an angle.

Native Std. Dev. 2.682%

Std. Dev. westward/ L.D. N/A

Black uniformity of this Samsung TV is disappointing, but this is non surprising for an IPS Tv set, which tends to always have worse blackness uniformity than about VA TVs. This is visually more striking because of the depression contrast ratio. With the M5300, the nearly visually noticeable part is the flashlighting near the edges of the screen. The center of the screen is also a fleck brighter than the remainder of the screen, and it closely matches the brighter zone that we already noticed on the l% gray uniformity.

Screen Finish Semi-gloss

Total Reflections 5.2%

Indirect Reflections 0.1%

The M5300 is decent at handling reflections. Information technology has a semi-gloss terminate which diffuses reflections across the screen and reduces their intensity merely does issue in a larger reflection footprint. This is fine for virtually rooms but may be an issue in bright rooms.

Picture Way Movie

White Balance dE 3.39

Colour dE 2.55

Gamma 2.25

Color Temperature 6,690 One thousand

Before calibration and when set on the near authentic picture mode and color temperature, in this case, the 'Movie' motion picture way and the 'Warm1' color temperature, the M5300 has a skilful overall accuracy. The white rest dE is just a bit over 3, which at this dE, the inaccuracy is noticeable to enthusiasts, simply for most people should not be a problem. For the colour accurateness, the dE is but of two.55, which should simply exist noticeable to professionals who are used to working with calibrated TVs.

Every bit for the gamma, it is hovering a bit over our desire gamma of 2.2 with only a little bump in the darker IRE, which could make dark scenes a bit darker than what they normally should be.

Notation here that we did use the 'Warm1' on this Goggle box, but this is exceptional, every bit ordinarily, 'Warm2' give us meliorate result than 'Warm1', which is a bit too colder.

Picture Mode Movie

White Balance dE 0.21

Color dE 1.78

Gamma 2.21

Color Temperature 6,509 K

After calibration, the accuracy of the M5300 is first-class. The white residual dE is just of 0.21 which is about perfect since, at this level of accuracy, the imperfections are non noticeable. On the color side, the color dE was brought down to i.78, which is better than before calibration and should be expert for nearly people, except maybe professionals who might exist able to observe slight imperfections in the reds and blues. Equally for gamma, the correction done on the white balance took care of the little crash-land and flattened the gamma curve.

You tin run into our recommended settings here.

Low-quality content such every bit DVDs are upscaled well.

Upscaling of 720p content such every bit cable is good. The image is a bit soft, simply almost no halo artifacts are visible.

Native 1080p content is displayed without any issues.

The Samsung M5300 doesn't support a 4k input.

Wide Color Gamut No

DCI P3 xy 71.18%

DCI P3 uv 76.64%

Rec 2020 xy 51.07%

Rec 2020 uv 55.85%

Standard colour gamut, good plenty for SDR content using the Rec 709 colour gamut. This gamut wouldn't exist good for HDR content, but this TV doesn't back up HDR anyway.

Normalized DCI P3 Coverage ITP 62.4%

ten,000 cd/grand² DCI P3 Coverage ITP 15.v%

Normalized Rec 2020 Coverage ITP 44.two%

ten,000 cd/g² Rec 2020 Coverage ITP ten.9%

Poor HDR color volume, but this is expected of an SDR-only TV. The volume should be good enough for well-nigh SDR content, but the TV makes dark colors brighter than they should exist because of the Goggle box's mediocre contrast ratio.

Color Depth 10 Bit

Ruddy (Std. Dev.) 0.117

Dark-green (Std. Dev.) 0.121

Blue (Std. Dev.) 0.081

Greyness (Std. Dev.) 0.114

The Samsung M5300 is nifty at displaying our gradient exam image and surprisingly, viii-bit banding is not visible. Some little imperfections tin can exist seen in the darker colors, but this is not really problematic for normal content and is fairly typical of other Samsung TV we accept tested before.

IR after 0 min recovery 0.00%

IR after 2 min recovery 0.00%

IR after iv min recovery 0.00%

IR afterwards 6 min recovery 0.00%

IR after viii min recovery 0.00%

IR after 10 min recovery 0.00%

The Samsung M5300 does non suffer from temporary image retention.

Permanent Burn down-In Run a risk No

We don't expect IPS panels to feel permanent prototype retention, as the IPS panel in our long-term test appears immune.

Motility

eighty% Response Time 7.ii ms

100% Response Time fifteen.vii ms

Very adept low motion blur, adept enough for watching fast moving content. The pixel response time is fairly fast, leading to just a short trail following moving objects. Most of the mistiness in the motion-picture show is due to the image flicker. The Goggle box applies just a bit of overdrive to make the response fourth dimension faster without adding much visible overshoot, which is good.

Flicker-Free No

PWM Dimming Frequency 120 Hz

Poor image flicker. The TV simply dims the backlight by using PWM dimming, which introduces more flicker the dimmer the backlight. While this flicker does reduce persistence blur, information technology also produces the double image artifacts visible in the move blur film.

Optional BFI Yeah

Min Flicker for 60 fps 120 Hz

lx Hz for 60 fps No

120 Hz for 120 fps Due north/A

Min Flicker for 60 fps in Game Mode 120 Hz

While the TV does have a BFI setting to reduce persistence mistiness (the 'LED Clear Motion' setting), all information technology does on this TV is cap the brightness so that flicker is e'er nowadays, so it's useless. While the Boob tube's 120 Hz PWM backlight does assist somewhat to make motion look clearer, it's not every bit proficient as threescore Hz flicker similar on the Sony X720E.

Motility Interpolation (30 fps) Yes

Motion Interpolation (60 fps) No

The M5300 is able to interpolate lower frame rate content up to its native 60Hz refresh rate. To do so, set 'Auto Motion Plus' to 'Custom' and increase the 'Judder Reduction' slider.

Frame Hold Time @ 24 fps 26.0 ms

Frame Concord Time @ lx fps 1.0 ms

This Television set is very expert at displaying content without stutter. The response time helps to polish the transition between frames, and so static images are simply shown for a short time - even at depression framerates.

Judder-Free 24p No

Judder-Free 24p via 60p No

Judder-Free 24p via 60i No

Judder-Costless 24p via Native Apps No

The Samsung M5300 can't play 24p movies without judder, and this no thing if the source is 24p, 60p, or 60i. If you are sensitive to judder, you might observe it, but for virtually people, this is usually not a deal breaker.

Native Refresh Rate sixty Hz

Variable Refresh Rate No

4k VRR Maximum N/A

4k VRR Minimum N/A

1080p VRR Maximum Due north/A

1080p VRR Minimum N/A

VRR Supported Connectors Due north/A

This Television receiver doesn't back up any variable refresh rate features.

Inputs

1080p @ 60Hz 35.1 ms

1080p @ 60Hz + HDR Northward/A

1080p @ 60Hz Exterior Game Mode 35.ane ms

1080p @ 120Hz Northward/A

4k @ 60Hz N/A

4k @ 60Hz + HDR N/A

4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 N/A

4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 + 8 bit HDR N/A

4k @ 60Hz Outside Game Way N/A

4k With Interpolation Northward/A

4k @ 120 Hz N/A

4k with Variable Refresh Charge per unit Due north/A

1080p with Variable Refresh Rate N/A

Low input lag, good enough for most people but it may disappoint more competitive gamers. Game mode has an oddly loftier 51.four ms of input lag, which is significantly higher than movie mode's 35.1 ms when all processing is disabled (motility interpolation, noise reduction, etc), which seems similar a problems. PC manner fortunately ever has low input lag. Nosotros highly recommend not using game mode, and instead using moving picture manner with processing disabled or using PC mode.

Nosotros had some issues during testing, read more about them in our Boosted Review Notes.

1080p @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 Yep

1080p @ 120Hz No

1440p @ 60Hz No

4k @ 30Hz @ 4:4:4 No

4k @ 60Hz No

4k @ 60Hz @ four:4:4 No

4k @ 120Hz No

Only basic resolutions are supported, because the TV has a 1080p @ 60 Hz panel. 4:4:4 colour is only shown properly in PC way (when the HDMI input'due south icon is set to PC). PC mode does not work for some input refresh rates (such as 24 Hz); the icon still changes to PC but the settings that are normally disabled in PC way are not disabled, and iv:4:4 color is not shown properly.

HDMI ii

USB ane

Digital Optical Audio Out ane

Analog Audio Out 3.5mm 0

Analog Sound Out RCA 0

Component In 1 (shared)

Blended In 1 (shared)

Tuner (Cablevision/Ant) 1

Ethernet 1

DisplayPort 0

IR In 0

SD/SDHC 0

HDR10 No

Dolby Vision No

HLG No

3D No

5.1 Passthrough ARC Dolby Digital Yep

v.1 Passthrough ARC DTS Yeah

5.1 Passthrough Optical Dolby Digital Yes

5.i Passthrough Optical DTS Yeah

HDMI 2.0 Full Bandwidth No

HDMI 2.i Total Bandwidth No

ARC Yes (HDMI 2)

USB 3.0 No

HDCP two.two No

CEC No

MHL No

Variable Analog Audio Out No

Wi-Fi Support Yep (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz)

Strangely HDMI CEC control didn't work on our Samsung K8500 Blu-ray histrion or our PlayStation 3, unlike other Samsung TVs.

Sound Quality

Low-Frequency Extension 213.57 Hz

Std. Dev. @ seventy 5.99 dB

Std. Dev. @ fourscore six.02 dB

Std. Dev. @ Max half-dozen.59 dB

Max 88.v dB SPL

Dynamic Range Compression 2.91 dB

Bad frequency response. The M5300'southward very small speakers cannot reproduce low frequencies well, making the Boob tube'southward sound disappointingly thin and tinny. The Tv'south unbalanced response significantly deteriorates the experience of most content.

Weighted THD @ 80 0.354

Weighted THD @ Max 0.746

IMD @ 80 1.34%

IMD @ Max 6.39%

Average baloney performance. While THD levels remain reasonable at lower volumes, we've measured over 20% at the Television receiver'southward not very loud maximum volume. This is mostly due to an audible rattle of the TV'due south enclosure that consistently occurs at higher volumes.

Smart Features

Smart Os Tizen

Version 2017

Ease of Use Easy

Smoothness Boilerplate

Time Taken to Select YouTube 4 s

Time Taken to Modify Backlight 5 south

Advanced Options Many

The TV's interface is centered effectually the Smart Hub, which gives admission to all other settings. This makes navigating the interface easy to sympathise for new users, while more advanced users can utilise the remote'south extra buttons to go direct to the setting they want. Overall, the interface is the aforementioned as all other 2017 Samsung TVs, but some animations are more stuttery and the Television has a bug where it sometimes will show a black screen and needs to be turned off or sometimes unplugged before it becomes usable once more. This problems hopefully isn't present on all units and it may be stock-still with a firmware update.

Ads Yeah

Opt-out No

Suggested Content in Home Yes

Opt-out of Suggested Content No

The TV didn't show any ads during testing, however, ads on Samsung TVs are ofttimes inconsistent. Because all Samsung TVs since 2016 accept had ads, and ads were visible on many 2017 models we tested, it can be assumed that this Telly has ads. If anyone notices ads on their M5300 please send united states of america an email with a photo of the advertising, we'll update the review.

App Selection Many

App Smoothness Average

Cast Capable Yep

USB Drive Playback Yep

USB Drive HDR Playback N/A

HDR in Netflix Northward/A

HDR in Amazon Video N/A

HDR in YouTube N/A

Many popular apps come preinstalled on the TV, such as Netflix and Amazon Video. More than apps can be downloaded from the Samsung app store, which has a larger selection of apps than most other smart platforms.

Size Medium

Voice Control No

CEC Menu Command No

Other Smart Features No

The M5300 comes with a basic remote without voice support, and the Television set can't be used with the Samsung smart remote included with other TVs. The remote is light and has many buttons, but the buttons are tall chunks of safe that aren't as easy to printing as the buttons of other remotes. Strangely HDMI CEC carte control didn't work on our Samsung K8500 Blu-ray role player or our PlayStation iii, unlike other Samsung TVs.

Acts every bit the Remote Yes

Directly Launches Apps and Inputs Apps Only

Inputs Text in YouTube No

Inputs Text in Netflix No

Streams Device Files Aye

Controls Telly Settings No

Voice Control No

The Samsung SmartView app has a few useful features such as streaming files from your device, only it lacks other features normally found in smart Goggle box apps such as text entry. The voice control feature can't be used with this Goggle box, dissimilar with other Samsung TVs.

The Television has i concrete push. Pressing it brings up a menu with six icons: ability, input, volume up/down and aqueduct up/downwards. A short printing changes which icon is highlighted, while a long press activates the icon.

• Transmission
• Remote
• Batteries

Power Consumption 27 Westward

Power Consumption (Max) 51 W

Firmware 1144

Differences Between Sizes And Variants

We tested the 32" (UN32M5300) version XA01. For the most part, we wait our review to be valid for the 40" version (UN40M5300), 43" version (UN43M5300), 49" version (UN49M5300) and l" version (UN50M5300).

If someone comes across a unlike blazon of panel or if their Samsung M5300 doesn't correspond to our review, let the states know and we will update the review.

Size	Model	Warehouse	Panel*
32"	UN32M5300	UN32M530D	IPS
twoscore"	UN40M5300	UN40M530D	VA
43"	UN43M5300	UN43M530D	VA
49''	UN49M5300	UN49M530D	VA
50''	UN50M5300	UN50M530D	VA

*Update 1/25/2019: We have received reports that the larger models take a VA panel only we are not sure. The models with VA panel should have better contrast ratio merely narrower viewing angles.

Compared To Other TVs

Top left: LG LJ5500 (43LJ5500). Bottom left: TCL S305 (40S305). Heart: Samsung M5300 (UN32M5300). Meridian right: Vizio D Serial 1080p 2017 (D32F-E1). Bottom correct: TCL D100 (40D100).  Unlike our other photographs, this film wasn't taken under a controlled environs, so do not describe conclusions from it.

The Samsung M5300 is a budget 1080p Telly, however, it faces tough competition which is often available at a lower price. See our recommendations for the best TVs nether $300 and the best budget TVs.

32" 43"

The Samsung M5300 is marginally better than the Samsung N5300. The M5300 has a lower input lag that is great if yous play games and a motion interpolation characteristic for the soap opera outcome fans. On the other hand, the N5300 has better SDR peak brightness which is great if your Idiot box room is slightly brighter and too a better gray uniformity, so yous can enjoy watching sports without dirty screen effect.

24" 28" 32"

The Samsung M5300 is ameliorate than the Samsung M4500, unless yous use information technology more often than not in a dark room. The M5300 has an IPS panel, which is meliorate suited for a wide viewing area in a brighter room. The M4500 has a VA panel, which has a worse viewing angle simply much better native contrast. The M5300 also has a college native resolution and is bachelor in larger sizes, as well as less input lag for gamers.

32" 40"

The Samsung M4500 and the Hisense H4F accept different console types, each with advantages and disadvantages. The M4500 has a VA panel and tin display deeper blacks in a night room, while the Hisense has wider viewing angles, which is good if y'all frequently walk around while you watch Boob tube. The Hisense is also available in more sizes and has a lower input lag, which is bully for gamers.

24" 32" 39" 40" 43" 48" 50" 55"

The Samsung M5300 is a meliorate TV than the Vizio D Serial 1080p 2017. The Samsung M5300 has improve motion interpolation to handle those fast-moving scenes in movies and when used as a PC monitor tin can display properly a 1080p @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 signal. The Samsung M5300 has marginally ameliorate SDR top brightness that is apparent when watching TV shows in brighter rooms and slightly improve contrast ratio and black uniformity to improve picture quality when watching movies or HDR content in a dark room.

40" 43" 50" 55" 65" 75"

The Samsung MU6300 is much meliorate than the Samsung M5300. The MU6300 has a VA type console (except the 43" model) and has much ameliorate night room performance thanks to the college contrast ratio and much better blackness uniformity. The Samsung M5300 has an IPS brandish which is improve for brilliant room performance and has wider viewing angles. The MU6300 supports HDR and has a college resolution 4k display as well every bit lower input lag for games.

43" 49" 55"

The Samsung M5300 is better than the LG LJ5500. The Samsung M5300 has better reflection treatment and a wider viewing angle, and then information technology will better accommodate a wider variety of rooms. The M5300 also has an optional motion interpolation feature which the LJ5500 lacks. This optional feature can clear upwardly motion but introduces some artifacts. The LG LJ5500 is improve able to remove judder from 24p sources, which the M5300 tin't do.

32" twoscore" 49"

The Samsung M5300 is somewhat better than the TCL D100 and is more than suitable for a broad room as it has an IPS Panel with better viewing angles. The TCL D100 has a VA panel and thus better contrast and better black uniformity and so it can display amend blacks is a dark room. The Samsung M5300 is a smart TV whereas the TCL D100 has no smart platform and you need to employ an external device so that yous get smart features. Finally, the Samsung M5300 has a move interpolation feature for the fans of the soap opera effect.

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