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SAMSUNG 32-Inch M8 (M80D) Series 4K UHD Smart Monitor with Streaming TV, Speakers, HDR10+, AI Upscaling, USB-C, Ergonomic Stand, SlimFit Camera, Gaming Hub, LS32DM801UNXZA, 2024
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Brand | SAMSUNG |
Screen Size | 32 Inches |
Resolution | 4K UHD 2160p |
Aspect Ratio | 16:9 |
Screen Surface Description | Matte |
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- ACCESS TO OTT CONTENT: Stream OTT content directly from monitor or tune into Samsung TV Plus¹ to get live TV channels & on-demand content at zero cost; Need to make the most out of a small space or want a 2nd TV? The Smart Monitor is the best choice
- UPSCALE OTT CONTENT w/ AI: Unlock the full potential of a 4K screen when streaming content directly on your monitor; AI upscaling, powered by the NQM AI Processor, turns lower resolution content up to nearly 4K²
- 1 MOUSE & KEYBOARD ACROSS DEVICES: Maximize multitasking by controlling multiple devices with one mouse and keyboard; Seamlessly drag & drop content across the Smart Monitor, a Galaxy Tab & Galaxy mobile device, streamlining your workflow³
- CATCH EVERY DETAIL: Pictures with precision, UHD resolution ensures every piece of content is brought to life beautifully; HDR 10+ support creates brighter brights and darker darks, for more nuanced settings without losing any vivid detail⁴
- STYLE & COMFORT, WITHOUT COMPROMISE: The Smart Monitor combines cutting-edge design with ergonomic features and a slim, stylish look; Its height-adjustable stand, which also tilts & pivots, ensures the optimal viewing angle for maximum comfort
- CONNECT w/ CONVENIENCE: With USB-C, HDMI & USB-A ports, you can connect to the Smart Monitor without adapters; Charge your devices, transmit data & make the most out of your multiscreen setup - or do all at once - thanks to the 4 available ports
- WHERE GAMING COMES TOGETHER: Samsung Gaming Hub is the ultimate home for gaming; Instantly play the biggest games from top streaming partners, with no PC or console needed; Discover new games or replay old favorites all in one place⁵
- HEAR EVERY WORD CLEARLY w/ AI: Active Voice Amplifier Pro uses AI technology to analyze background noise and optimize dialogue, delivering every word with crystal clear clarity through advanced audio processing
- SOLAR POWERED CONTROL: The SolarCell Remote, featuring a solar charging panel on its back, eliminates the need for disposable batteries, making it an eco-friendly choice⁶
- DESIGNED FOR LOW VISION USERS: Designed with accessibility in mind, it comes equipped with tools that help low vision users see and use the screen more easily, including screen magnification, color switching and audio descriptions for TV settings
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display size | 32 inches | 27 inches | 27 inches | 32 inches | 32 inches | 32 inches |
resolution | 4K UHD 2160p | FHD 1080p | QHD Wide 1440p | 4K UHD 2160p | 4K UHD 2160p | FHD 1080p |
display technology | LCD | — | OLED | LCD | LED | — |
hardware interface | hdmi, usb3.0 c, 802 11 bgn, bluetooth 5 | hdmi, usb3.0 c, 802 11 bgn, bluetooth 4 0 | hdmi, displayport | hdmi, usb3.0 c, 802 11 bgn, bluetooth 5 | hdmi, usb3.0 c, 802 11 bgn, bluetooth 4 0 | hdmi, usb3.0 c, 802 11 bgn, bluetooth 4 0 |
viewing angle | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees |
mounting type | Wall Mount | Table Mount | Wall Mount | Table Mount | Table Mount | Table Mount |
HDMI ports | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
number of usb ports | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
weight | 15.9 pounds | 10.6 pounds | 15.2 pounds | 15 pounds | 14.2 pounds | 13.7 pounds |
model name | M80D | M50D | G60SD | M70D | M70D | M50D |
refresh rate | 60 | 60 | 360 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
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Brand | SAMSUNG |
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Series | M80D |
Item model number | LS32DM801UNXZA |
Item Weight | 15.9 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 7.9 x 28.9 x 24.3 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 7.9 x 28.9 x 24.3 inches |
Color | Warm White |
Voltage | 240 Volts |
Manufacturer | Samsung |
ASIN | B0D1DBQRRS |
Country of Origin | Vietnam |
Date First Available | June 4, 2024 |
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Samsung’s 32" Smart Monitor M8 (M80D) is an all-in-one streaming TV and desktop monitor powered by AI. Stream content directly from the monitor or tune into live TV channels. Maximize your multitasking using a single mouse and keyboard across devices. 4K UHD resolution & HDR10+ support brings content to life and creates brighter brights and darker darks. AI upscaling transforms lower resolution content to nearly 4K with new levels of definition. Iconic slim-design with height-adjustable stand ensures maximum viewing comfort, and multiple ports, including USB-C, eliminates the need for adapters. Samsung Gaming Hub allows instant gameplay, and AVA Pro allows you to hear every word without distractions. Control with SolarCell Remote™ and use SmartThings IoT hub as an easy way to manage devices in different rooms.
¹Features, services and app availability may vary by country and region. Samsung TV Plus and Universal Guide may not be available in some regions. Some features may require separate subscriptions. The user interface is subject to change without notice. Smart Monitor does not include a TV tuner, which is not necessary for streaming apps. Internet connection is required. Remote control specifications vary by country and region. Keyboard and mouse control compatibility varies by app. Access to the full range of smart features, such as network-based services, applications (including games and streaming services), and smart home functionality requires a Samsung account. Without logging in, functionality is limited to external devices, e.g. via HDMI. ²Viewing experience may vary according to types of content and format. Upscaling may not apply to PC connection and Game Mode. Screen images simulated for illustrative purposes. ³Each device must be registered with a single Samsung account and connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
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Setup:
It came with everything I needed, power, usbc, hdmi, some other miscellaneous cables and the remote. Since I have a Samsung phone I was easily able to set up the monitor with that and tie it to my Samsung account. It automatically connected to my wifi through phone setup and I am able to control the monitor with my phone as well as the (awesome solar powered) remote control. It gives you two other options to setup which I'm sure are simple as well. It easily mounted on my existing VIVO monitor mount too. It also has a camera that clips super easily to the top and THANKFULLY comes with a privacy blocker on it, great looking camera too.
Features:
It's got a whole app store you can go through, which I've used on my TV and can say it works as it should with a wide variety of apps. Even the fitness apps are great! I enjoy putting on the Samsung TV Plus app where it's basically free cable, a lot of older shows are on there but my partner and I have watched hours and hours of Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen, etc haha. I personally don't use streaming services on this but glad it has all the major players included, especially with the Gaming hub where you can connect your Xbox Game Pass, Luna, GeForce account and do the streaming straight to it without any console (or computer for that matter). That is a game changer as this is an expensive monitor, but being able to connect your controller to it and stream full games means this is basically a console in itself. Even has built in speakers too!
4k is very crisp on this, great colors and brightness gets very high and are very customizable to your exact taste (my pic doesn't even do it justice). It has a game mode where you can add a virtual crosshair, change response times, HDR, etc. It's worth mentioning that the refresh rate is 60HZ so if you are an ultra competitive twitch shooter gamer (ie Counter Strike, Valorant) you may want something with a higher refresh rate, I come from a 200hz so it's definitely noticeable but perfectly sufficient for most people. If you like cinematic single player games, nice looking coop games, or are an avid 4k movie enjoyer then this is great for you (just be sure you have a good machine if you are running intensive games at 4k). Everything looks so amazing on here. Pro tip: Get some animated 4k wallpapers on Wallpaper Engine and you'll be blow away.
Overall:
I am extremely happy with this monitor. While it is expensive, it looks, runs, and performs great and as expected! I like that it has enough features that you can get a lot of use out of it even without a PC or other device attached to it. If you're looking for a high end monitor to pair with your PC or console, this is a great choice and I would easily recommend it!
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Setup:
It came with everything I needed, power, usbc, hdmi, some other miscellaneous cables and the remote. Since I have a Samsung phone I was easily able to set up the monitor with that and tie it to my Samsung account. It automatically connected to my wifi through phone setup and I am able to control the monitor with my phone as well as the (awesome solar powered) remote control. It gives you two other options to setup which I'm sure are simple as well. It easily mounted on my existing VIVO monitor mount too. It also has a camera that clips super easily to the top and THANKFULLY comes with a privacy blocker on it, great looking camera too.
Features:
It's got a whole app store you can go through, which I've used on my TV and can say it works as it should with a wide variety of apps. Even the fitness apps are great! I enjoy putting on the Samsung TV Plus app where it's basically free cable, a lot of older shows are on there but my partner and I have watched hours and hours of Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen, etc haha. I personally don't use streaming services on this but glad it has all the major players included, especially with the Gaming hub where you can connect your Xbox Game Pass, Luna, GeForce account and do the streaming straight to it without any console (or computer for that matter). That is a game changer as this is an expensive monitor, but being able to connect your controller to it and stream full games means this is basically a console in itself. Even has built in speakers too!
4k is very crisp on this, great colors and brightness gets very high and are very customizable to your exact taste (my pic doesn't even do it justice). It has a game mode where you can add a virtual crosshair, change response times, HDR, etc. It's worth mentioning that the refresh rate is 60HZ so if you are an ultra competitive twitch shooter gamer (ie Counter Strike, Valorant) you may want something with a higher refresh rate, I come from a 200hz so it's definitely noticeable but perfectly sufficient for most people. If you like cinematic single player games, nice looking coop games, or are an avid 4k movie enjoyer then this is great for you (just be sure you have a good machine if you are running intensive games at 4k). Everything looks so amazing on here. Pro tip: Get some animated 4k wallpapers on Wallpaper Engine and you'll be blow away.
Overall:
I am extremely happy with this monitor. While it is expensive, it looks, runs, and performs great and as expected! I like that it has enough features that you can get a lot of use out of it even without a PC or other device attached to it. If you're looking for a high end monitor to pair with your PC or console, this is a great choice and I would easily recommend it!
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Knowing already what I hated about the previous model, I went directly at those features expecting to see the same behavior. I was disappointed in a good way I guess, and somewhat encouraged that the gremlins that had plagued the older versions had finally been addressed. So, from there, I just used it as my main monitor for a few weeks.
Coming from a gaming monitor with a super-wide aspect to a 4:3 squarish ratio was a bit of a jolt. My other monitors are all sub 4K so those extra pixels were pretty great, especially while consuming media. Far more full resolution playbacks are available with this aspect.
Gaming is very good as long as you have the hardware to push 4K at a reasonable frame rate. I played some StarCraft, No Man's Sky, Star Citizen, and Assetto Corso. I had never played these games in 4K and while frames were hit by around 10% over my 1440P display, all of the extra pixels make it more than worth it.
I like the remote, trad monitors do not have them and the power buttons can be fiddly. That may still one of my nitpicks, but I don't have more than one of these where I am. My previous review was based on units purchased for my clients, with 4 in the same office and 2 in another. Whenever one person turned theirs on or off, all the others were also controlled. It took a low-tech solution of pointing the remote through a tube of paper towels. That cost them numerous hours of lost productivity. There has to be a better way Samsung.
I run this monitor via a USB-C cable out of my GPU. On the previous models, I was not able to use the built in webcam in windows unless did some really silly looking wiring shenanigans. It did not work in Windows via the built in magnetic connection. It does now. Camera quality is good, 1080P, though.
The Smart TV functions just are not appealing to me. I tested Disney + just to say I had tried the features, but I prefer the Windows format for selecting my media and going full screen when I want to.
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The clarity and resolution is amazing. What a treat! First thing I did was seek out some 4K footage on YouTube and I was blown away. I also have an NVIDIA graphics card which supports 4K.
Assembly was easy. The base is very heavy but quite thin, maybe 1/8” thick. It is also very non-slip. So rotating this if needed isn’t going to be easy. I might have to put it on a turntable for the times I have to turn the angle. The adjustment up and down is good and it stays put. Pivoting to portrait orientation is a great option to have, I used to love being able to do that years ago when I just had two monitors, but now with three, my space for manoeuvring is quite limited.
There aren’t a lot of choices on the back for connecting to a desktop computer. For me, it was HDMI and that’s it. I’m not using a laptop and so far, support for USB-C isn’t really happening on desktop motherboards and GPUs.
I have a three-monitor setup and ended up having to buy another cable for one of the other monitors since the M8 took over the HDMI spot that one was using.
When you first turn it on, it walks you through a setup for connecting to your Samsung account, Amazon (for Alexa), and whatever other accounts you have. It also goes through some other settings for their built-in system.
So I now have this big one in the middle with two 24-inch monitors either side. My other two are set at 1920x1080 and this new one is 3840x2160. My setup is such that I can drag a window from one monitor to another. It used to be seamless when I had three set at the same resolution, but I’m finding that my system struggles a bit as it switches resolutions on the window I’m dragging between monitors. It’s no fault at all of the new Samsung, it’s just a practical reality of what I’m doing. The window just stops momentarily as I’ve entered the lower-resolution monitor once about 1/5th of it passes into that monitor, then it adjusts and I can continue dragging it over to the lower res monitor. There is no delay in the other direction (dragging from the lower res monitor to the M8’s high resolution).
Using the remote is intuitive and useful. If I want to tell my monitor something while addressing Alexa, I can just speak while holding down the mic button on the remote. This allows me to talk to it without using the trigger word which would then wake up my Alexa Show that’s sitting right beside me.
The speakers are okay, a little tinny in sound, but it’s nice to have built in speakers – one less thing on my desk but it is not going to compete with our surround sound stereo system.
It’s easy to switch between the built-in applications like Prime Video, Netflix, Samsung TV Plus, and Disney+ and then switch back again to my computer desktop, but it takes clicking a few buttons.
The webcam is cool, it connects magnetically. I do wish it had a privacy cover though.
A couple of times I’ve had a message on my screen, I don’t remember the circumstances, but it flashed a big message that was useless to me. I’ve attached a screenshot of it. It wants you to go download and install some .msi file. I use Linux, so that’s of no use to me. That window popping up is trouble sometimes as when I first start my computer and my desktop loads, I’m asked for a password for my system and that window blocks me from being able to enter my password in time before I lose my chance. The fallout from that is very annoying but I won’t go into detail here about the trouble that causes. I’ve managed to check the box with the remote to not show again, so hopefully that’ll be the end of that problem.
I do wish it was more of a monitor than a computer itself. Using the apps means I’m cut off from stereo system, there’s no way for me to plug it into the M8, as good as our system is, it was before Bluetooth. I also don’t know what else it’s up to. I haven’t found where to mute the built-in mic, and as I said, the webcam has no privacy cover. These concerns are just my opinion, for others, they will have more use for those features and not share my concerns.
Overall, I am VERY happy and love this monitor and highly recommend it.
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Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2024
The clarity and resolution is amazing. What a treat! First thing I did was seek out some 4K footage on YouTube and I was blown away. I also have an NVIDIA graphics card which supports 4K.
Assembly was easy. The base is very heavy but quite thin, maybe 1/8” thick. It is also very non-slip. So rotating this if needed isn’t going to be easy. I might have to put it on a turntable for the times I have to turn the angle. The adjustment up and down is good and it stays put. Pivoting to portrait orientation is a great option to have, I used to love being able to do that years ago when I just had two monitors, but now with three, my space for manoeuvring is quite limited.
There aren’t a lot of choices on the back for connecting to a desktop computer. For me, it was HDMI and that’s it. I’m not using a laptop and so far, support for USB-C isn’t really happening on desktop motherboards and GPUs.
I have a three-monitor setup and ended up having to buy another cable for one of the other monitors since the M8 took over the HDMI spot that one was using.
When you first turn it on, it walks you through a setup for connecting to your Samsung account, Amazon (for Alexa), and whatever other accounts you have. It also goes through some other settings for their built-in system.
So I now have this big one in the middle with two 24-inch monitors either side. My other two are set at 1920x1080 and this new one is 3840x2160. My setup is such that I can drag a window from one monitor to another. It used to be seamless when I had three set at the same resolution, but I’m finding that my system struggles a bit as it switches resolutions on the window I’m dragging between monitors. It’s no fault at all of the new Samsung, it’s just a practical reality of what I’m doing. The window just stops momentarily as I’ve entered the lower-resolution monitor once about 1/5th of it passes into that monitor, then it adjusts and I can continue dragging it over to the lower res monitor. There is no delay in the other direction (dragging from the lower res monitor to the M8’s high resolution).
Using the remote is intuitive and useful. If I want to tell my monitor something while addressing Alexa, I can just speak while holding down the mic button on the remote. This allows me to talk to it without using the trigger word which would then wake up my Alexa Show that’s sitting right beside me.
The speakers are okay, a little tinny in sound, but it’s nice to have built in speakers – one less thing on my desk but it is not going to compete with our surround sound stereo system.
It’s easy to switch between the built-in applications like Prime Video, Netflix, Samsung TV Plus, and Disney+ and then switch back again to my computer desktop, but it takes clicking a few buttons.
The webcam is cool, it connects magnetically. I do wish it had a privacy cover though.
A couple of times I’ve had a message on my screen, I don’t remember the circumstances, but it flashed a big message that was useless to me. I’ve attached a screenshot of it. It wants you to go download and install some .msi file. I use Linux, so that’s of no use to me. That window popping up is trouble sometimes as when I first start my computer and my desktop loads, I’m asked for a password for my system and that window blocks me from being able to enter my password in time before I lose my chance. The fallout from that is very annoying but I won’t go into detail here about the trouble that causes. I’ve managed to check the box with the remote to not show again, so hopefully that’ll be the end of that problem.
I do wish it was more of a monitor than a computer itself. Using the apps means I’m cut off from stereo system, there’s no way for me to plug it into the M8, as good as our system is, it was before Bluetooth. I also don’t know what else it’s up to. I haven’t found where to mute the built-in mic, and as I said, the webcam has no privacy cover. These concerns are just my opinion, for others, they will have more use for those features and not share my concerns.
Overall, I am VERY happy and love this monitor and highly recommend it.
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