Samsung UE50AU9000

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Television | £599 | whf.cm/AU9000

We Brits, it seems, just love a good mid-range LCD TV. For whereas the US and Australia get only a single series of Samsung’s sub-QLED ‘Crystal’ range, in the UK we get no fewer than three Crystal ranges: AU7100, AU8000, and the premium AU9000 series represented here by the 50in UE50AU9000.

As you would hope, the AU9000 has the design prowess and extra features required to start justifying its supposed cream of the Crystal 4K crop status. Whether or not you think its prowess extends to the performance, though, probably depends on what you most use your TV for. At £599, the UE50AU9000 sits at the upper end of what might reasonably be called a ‘budget’ TV. You can, after all, get Samsung’s own entry-level Crystal LED model, the 43in UE43AU7100, for a mere £399, while Hisense even does a 50in Roku TV,