The Samsung DU7200/7200D is an entry-level model in Samsung's D Series lineup. It sits above the Samsung DU6900 and below the Samsung DU8000. It's a pretty basic model without local dimming, and it only has HDMI 2.0 bandwidth and a 60Hz panel. However, it still has some basic features like VRR, motion interpolation, black frame insertion, AirPlay, and HDR10+. It runs a stripped down version of Samsung's Tizen OS, but it's still loaded with a ton of streaming apps and comes with Samsung's TV Plus, which has a ton of free channels. It also has a built-in 20W 2.0 channel speaker system. We bought and tested the 65-inch model, but it's also available in 43, 50, 55, 60, 70, 75, and 85-inch models.
The Samsung DU7200 is decent for mixed usage. It's not bright enough for use in a well-lit room, so it's best suited for use in a moderately lit room. It also doesn't look too impressive in a dark room due to its unremarkable contrast; don't expect deep blacks on this model. It displays fast motion well, making it suitable for gaming and sports. However, it lacks modern gaming features. It also has a narrow viewing angle, so it looks its best when one or two people are seated directly in front of the screen.
Very good response time.
Easy to use interface and smart features.
Narrow viewing angle leads to a degraded image when viewed from the sides.
No local dimming to improve contrast.
The Samsung DU7200 is alright for watching TV shows. There aren't any issues finding shows to watch since its Tizen OS is loaded with streaming apps. Its reflection handling and SDR brightness are good enough that it overcomes glare in a moderately lit room, but it's too dim for use in a bright room. Unfortunately, its narrow viewing means it's not a good choice if you regularly watch shows with a group, since the image degrades when viewed from the sides of the screen.
Easy to use interface and smart features.
Narrow viewing angle leads to a degraded image when viewed from the sides.
Poor low-quality content smoothing means low-bitrate content still has visible artifacts.
The Samsung DU7200 is okay for watching sports. It has a very good response time, so fast-moving players only have minimal blur behind them. It has the SDR brightness and reflection handling needed to overcome glare in a moderately lit room, but it's not bright enough for well-lit rooms. Unfortunately, the image degrades rapidly when viewed from the sides of the screen, so it's not a great option if you like to watch sports with a group of friends. It only has decent gray uniformity, so you do see some dirty screen effect when watching certain sports, like football or hockey.
Very good response time.
Easy to use interface and smart features.
Narrow viewing angle leads to a degraded image when viewed from the sides.
Only decent gray uniformity with noticeable dirty screen effect.
Poor low-quality content smoothing means low-bitrate content still has visible artifacts.
The Samsung DU7200 is decent for playing video games. It has a very good response time and low input lag, so it delivers a responsive gaming experience with minimal blur behind fast motion. It's not bright enough to overcome glare in well-lit rooms, so it's best suited for moderately lit environments. The TV has a very limited VRR range and is limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth and 4k @ 60Hz, so it doesn't take full advantage of modern gaming consoles and PCs.
Incredibly low input lag for a responsive experience.
Very good response time.
Very narrow VRR range limits its effectiveness.
The Samsung DU7200 is satisfactory for watching movies in a dark room. It has mediocre HDR brightness, a narrow color gamut, and unremarkable contrast, so highlights and colors don't stand out against darker backgrounds, limiting the impact HDR content should have. Its pre-calibration SDR accuracy is decent enough that you don't need to get it calibrated, but color purists will see some noticeable inaccuracies. It removes judder from 24p sources, but it doesn't remove judder from 60p or 60i sources like a cable box. It has satisfactory upscaling, so low-resolution content doesn't look too soft. However, it does a poor job of removing artifacts from low-bitrate content.
Removes judder from 24p sources and the internal apps.
Easy to use interface and smart features.
No local dimming to improve contrast.
No Dolby Vision or DTS audio support.
Poor low-quality content smoothing means low-bitrate content still has visible artifacts.
Doesn't display a wide range of colors.
The Samsung DU7200 is good for gaming in HDR, but that's mostly due to its general gaming capabilities, as HDR adds very little. You get a responsive gaming experience due to its low input lag, and fast motion is mostly clear due to its very good response time. The TV supports VRR, but the range is very narrow, which greatly limits its usefulness. You also don't get other modern gaming features and are limited to 4k @ 60Hz. The TV's unremarkable contrast, mediocre HDR brightness, and narrow color gamut mean HDR games really lack impact and don't look much different than SDR games.
Incredibly low input lag for a responsive experience.
Very good response time.
No local dimming to improve contrast.
Very narrow VRR range limits its effectiveness.
Doesn't display a wide range of colors.
The Samsung DU7200 is good for use as a PC monitor. Its low input lag means you get a responsive desktop experience, and its quick response time means fast cursor movements aren't blurry. The TV doesn't have the SDR brightness needed to overcome glare in bright rooms, but it's bright enough for use in a moderately lit room. The TV's gray uniformity is only decent; there's some dirty screen effect, and you do notice the sides of the screen being darker than the middle when browsing the web. It displays chroma 4:4:4 properly, but it uses a BGR subpixel layout that affects text clarity, which can bother some people.
Incredibly low input lag for a responsive experience.
Very good response time.
Chroma 4:4:4 works properly.
Narrow viewing angle leads to a degraded image when viewed from the sides.
Only decent gray uniformity with noticeable dirty screen effect.
We've bought and tested the 65-inch Samsung DU7200, which is also available in 43, 50, 55, 60, 70, 75, and 85-inch sizes. All sizes offer the same picture quality and overall performance. Note that with Samsung TVs, the four letters after the short model code (FXZA in this case) vary between different retailers and regions, but there's no difference in performance.
Costco and Sam's Club sell a variant of this TV known as the Samsung DU7200D. This variant performs the same but comes with an extended warranty and other store-specific perks. Some retailers, like Walmart, sell the TV as the Samsung DU7200B, but it performs the same.
Size | US Model | Costco Model (US) |
43" | UN43DU7200FXZA | UN43DU7200DXZA |
50" | UN50DU7200FXZA | UN50DU7200DXZA |
55" | UN55DU7200FXZA | UN55DU7200DXZA |
60" | UN60DU7200FXZA | UN60DU7200DXZA |
65" | UN65DU7200FXZA | UN65DU7200DXZA |
70" | UN70DU7200FXZA | UN70DU7200DXZA |
75" | UN75DU7200FXZA | UN75DU7200DXZA |
85" | UN85DU7200FXZA | UN85DU7200DXZA |
Our unit was manufactured in June 2024, as seen on the label.
The Samsung DU7200 is a decent TV overall, but it doesn't stand out in many ways. Since it lacks local dimming, doesn't get very bright at all in HDR, and has a narrow color gamut, it doesn't provide an impactful HDR viewing or gaming experience. It's also relatively dim in SDR, so it's not well-suited for use in a bright room. It's a pretty basic 60Hz TV, and for less money, you can get better overall picture quality from a TV like the Hisense A7N. If you care about modern gaming features, you can even get a fully-featured gaming TV like the Hisense QD7N for around the same cost as the Samsung.
For more options, take a look at our recommendations for the best budget TVs, the best TVs under $500, and the best TVs for watching sports.
The Samsung DU7200/DU7200D and the Samsung DU6900 are very similar overall. The DU7200 has better contrast, so it displays deeper blacks. The DU7200 also has much better pre-calibration accuracy, so colors in SDR are more accurate. However, the DU6900 has a slight edge with SDR brightness and reflection handling, meaning it's a bit better for bright rooms.
The Samsung DU7200 is better than the LG UT7570. The Samsung displays deeper blacks in a dark room, and it overcomes more glare in rooms with the lights on due to its better SDR brightness. The Samsung also displays slightly more vibrant colors, does a better job at upscaling, and has a quicker response time for less blur behind fast motion. However, the LG does a much better job removing artifacts from low-quality content, and it has a significantly wider viewing angle.
The TCL Q6/Q651G QLED is mostly better than the Samsung DU7200/DU7200D. The TCL is brighter overall, so it overcomes more glare in bright rooms and makes highlights stand out more in HDR content. The TCL also displays a wider range of colors and has better color accuracy. Additionally, the TCL has a faster response time and supports up to 1440p @ 120Hz with a wide VRR range, so it's better for gaming.
The Samsung DU7200/DU7200D is better than the Hisense QD6/QD65NF QLED in most ways. The Hisense displays slightly deeper blacks and a much wider range of colors, which makes it look better in most contexts. The Hisense is also the brighter TV overall and has better reflection handling, making it the better option for use in a bright room. However, the Samsung has the faster response time, so quick motion has less blur behind it.
The Hisense A7N and the Samsung DU7200/DU7200D are similar overall, but the Hisense is a bit better. The Hisense is brighter in SDR and has the better reflection handling, so it's more suitable for use in rooms with the lights on. The Hisense also displays a wider range of colors, so colors stand out more on it. Additionally, the Hisense has a faster response time and slightly lower input lag, making it the better option for gaming.
The Hisense QD7N QLED and the Samsung DU7200/DU7200D each have their own strengths. The Hisense is much brighter in SDR and does a better job fighting reflections, making it much more suitable for use in a bright room. Colors also stand out more on the Hisense since it displays a wider color gamut. If you're a gamer, the Hisense has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, 4k @ 120Hz, VRR, and a faster response time, making it fully compatible with modern gaming consoles. On the other hand, the Samsung has much better contrast, so it looks better in a dark room.
The TV uses a pair of plastic feet that can be adjusted into different positions depending on your needs. The narrow position (pictured above) brings the feet close together, which is great for smaller tables. You can also keep the feet close together and lower the height. If you're more worried about stability, you can widen the feet and set them to either a high or low position. In the higher position, the feet lift the TV about 3.54 inches above the table, so almost any soundbar fits underneath.
The footprint of the 65-inch stand is 40.28" x 10.5" in the wide position and 11.8" X 10.5" in the narrow position.
The back of the TV is made from plastic. All of the inputs are on the right side of the TV when facing the front, but they're in a recessed cutout that makes them quite hard to access if you have it wall-mounted. The back has grooves and a clip that can be attached to one of the feet to help with cable management.
The TV has alright build quality overall. It wobbles a bit when you're cleaning the screen, but it settles quickly and doesn't cause any issues. There's quite a bit of flex on the back panel that becomes more pronounced near the VESA mounting points, but it doesn't prevent you from wall-mounting it.
Unfortunately, our unit has a stuck pixel on the left side of the screen towards the middle.
The Samsung DU7200 has unremarkable contrast. Its native contrast ratio is very good, so blacks are somewhat deep during purely dark scenes. Unfortunately, since the TV lacks local dimming, blacks become raised and grayish when brighter elements are also on screen.
This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so it doesn't adjust the backlight of individual areas to brighten up highlights without impacting the rest of the image. This means that there are no distracting flickers or brightness changes as bright highlights move across the screen.
Switching to Game Mode doesn't result in any noticeable difference in dark scene performance. Our local dimming transition video looks different here than it did outside of Game Mode due to a bug; the TV maxes out its brightness whenever you turn on VRR.
The Samsung DU7200 has mediocre HDR brightness. Combined with the TV's unremarkable contrast, it doesn't deliver a very impactful HDR viewing experience.
Our results are with HDR Tone Mapping set to 'Static.' Below are the results with HDR Tone Mapping set to 'Active:'
Although the TV is a tiny bit dimmer in Game Mode, it's not noticeable. Our results are with HDR Tone Mapping set to 'Static.' Below are the results with HDR Tone Mapping set to 'Active:'
The Samsung DU7200 has outstanding PQ EOTF tracking. Since the TV lacks local dimming, blacks are displayed brighter than intended, and some darker shadows are also a bit brighter than they're supposed to be. However, the TV follows the curve incredibly closely until there's a roll-off near its peak brightness to maintain details in highlights that are brighter than its capabilities.
The Samsung DU7200 has mediocre SDR brightness. It's not bright enough to overcome glare in a well-lit room, so it's best suited for dark or moderately lit environments.
The TV has a narrow color gamut. It has great coverage of the commonly used DCI-P3 color space, but all colors are undersaturated and inaccurate. It has passable coverage of the wider Rec.2020 color space, but colors are even more inaccurate and undersaturated.
The Samsung DU7200 has acceptable color volume. It's not nearly bright enough to display colors at high luminance levels, and it struggles with displaying darker colors due to its unremarkable contrast.
The TV has decent pre-calibration SDR accuracy. Greens and reds are underrepresented in darker shades of gray, while blues are underrepresented in all shades of gray. This makes the color temperature warmer than our target of 6500K, but it's still pretty close. Its color accuracy is very good overall, but whites, lighter colors, and saturated reds, blues, and greens are a bit inaccurate. Gamma is close to 2.2, but dark scenes and very bright scenes are noticeably darker than they're supposed to be.
The TV has outstanding SDR accuracy after calibration. Reds, blues, and greens are still underrepresented in dark shades of gray, but brighter shades are almost perfect, so the color temperature is now very close to the 6500K we aim for. The inaccuracies with lighter colors are mostly gone, but there are still some minor inaccuracies with some saturated colors. The gamma is the same as it was prior to calibration.
Unfortunately, the TV is a bit difficult to calibrate, as more aggressive changes in the 10–30 point range ended up making the image worse.
See our full calibration settings.
The TV has decent gray uniformity overall. There's some dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen, and the sides are quite a bit darker than the center. On a near-black screen, its uniformity is excellent, with only the sides and bottom edge being a bit lighter than the rest of the screen.
The Samsung DU7200 has an inadequate viewing angle, so it's not suitable for a wide seating arrangement. There's significant gamma shifting, color shifting, and color washout that worsens the further you move to the sides of the screen.
The Samsung DU7200 has satisfactory reflection handling. Its semi-gloss screen finish significantly reduces the intensity of indirect reflections, like glare from a ceiling light that isn't directly facing the screen. However, its handling of direct reflections is only okay, so reflections caused by something like a lamp positioned in front of the screen are distracting.
The Samsung DU7200D has alright HDR gradient handling. There's some noticeable banding in dark grays, dark reds, dark blues, and greens. Fortunately, there's minimal banding in other color gradients.
The TV uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional RGB layout. This doesn't cause any issues for video or gaming content, but it can be a problem for PC monitor use as it impacts the text clarity, although not everyone notices this.
The panel doesn't use any KSF phosphor or Quantum Dot enhancement film to achieve better color separation, which can be seen in the spectral power distribution (SPD) chart.
The TV has a very good response time, so there's only a bit of blur behind fast motion. However, it's slower when coming out of dark states, so there's some black smearing in dark scene transitions. There’s also significant overshoot when the TV transitions from a dark state, so there's noticeable inverse ghosting in shadow details.
The TV uses pulse-width modulation (PWM) to dim its backlight, which introduces flicker that can bother people who are sensitive to it. The amount of flicker varies depending on what picture mode the TV is set to and what settings you're using. When using 'Filmmaker Mode,' the TV flickers at 120Hz with all brightness levels. It flickers at 480Hz in all other picture modes with the brightness set above '19' and flickers at 120Hz with the brightness set to '19' and below.
The TV supports backlight strobing, more commonly known as black frame insertion (BFI). The feature is designed to improve the appearance of motion by strobing its backlight and reducing the amount of persistence blur. The BFI feature on the TV flickers at 60Hz, and there's noticeable image duplication present.
The TV has optional motion interpolation to help smooth out low-frame-rate content. It does an okay job with smoothing slower-moving scenes, but it struggles so much with faster scenes that there are noticeable artifacts, a screen-tearing type effect, and haloing around characters, and sometimes, it stops interpolating altogether.
Due to this TV's quicker response time, it does a decent job with stutter in 24p content like movies and shows, but there's still some minor stutter with slower camera movements.
The Samsung DU7200 removes judder from native 24p signals, like DVD or Blu-ray players, as well as from native apps. Unfortunately, it doesn't remove judder from 60i or 60p sources, so movies played from satellite/cable boxes aren't judder-free.
The TV supports every VRR technology to reduce screen-tearing. Unfortunately, its usefulness is limited since it has a very narrow VRR range and doesn't support sources with Low-Frame-Compensation (LFC), so you get screen-tearing when your frame rate dips below 48 fps. Unfortunately, Game Mode doesn't work in 1440p @ 60Hz, so you can't use VRR and game in 1440p.
The TV has incredibly low input lag when used in Game Mode. To have low input lag while transmitting a chroma 4:4:4 signal, you need to set the input to 'PC' and enable Game Mode.
Unfortunately, 1440p @ 60Hz doesn't work while in Game Mode, so the 1440p @ 60Hz results are with the TV set to 'Movie,' which results in a lot more input lag.
The TV supports all common resolutions at 60Hz. Unfortunately, 1440p doesn't work in Game Mode.
The Samsung DU7200 is limited to 60Hz with all resolutions, so it only supports up to 4k @ 60Hz on the P55. It has Auto Low Latency Mode, so it'll automatically switch to Game Mode when the TV detects a game console as its input device, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games. Unfortunately, 1440p doesn't work while in Game Mode, so you can't game in 1440p with low input lag.
The Samsung DU7200 is limited to 60Hz across all resolutions, so it only supports up to 4k @ 60Hz on the Xbox Series X|S. It has Auto Low Latency Mode, so it'll automatically switch to Game Mode when the TV detects a game console as its input device, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games. Unfortunately, 1440p doesn't work while in Game Mode, so you can't game in 1440p with low input lag. The TV also doesn't support Dolby Vision.
The TV has HDMI 2.0 bandwidth on all three of its ports. It supports HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG, but it doesn't support Dolby Vision.
The TV has eARC support, which allows it to pass uncompressed high-quality audio from a connected source to your home theater system or soundbar. Unfortunately, it doesn't support any DTS formats that are commonly used on many Blu-rays.
The TV has an alright frequency response. Like most TVs, deep bass is pretty much non-existent, but the sound is well-balanced at most volume levels. At maximum volume, the sound profile does become more unbalanced, but dialogue is still clear enough to understand. Unfortunately, the TV speakers don't get very loud.
The TV's distortion performance is adequate. Distortion is audible near and at max volume, so you need to listen at lower volume levels for minimal distortion.
The TV comes with the 2024 version of Samsung's proprietary Tizen OS but has a reduced feature set compared to more expensive models, so you don't get features like Samsung's Multi View.
Samsung's app store has all of the most common streaming services, so it's easy to find your favorite content. It also includes a great selection of additional apps. You can also cast content from your phone onto the TV or play videos from a USB stick.
The TV comes with a simpler remote than the Samsung DU8000. It requires external batteries and lacks solar charging. It still has buttons for popular streaming services, but it doesn't have an integrated microphone for voice controls. Overall, a very simplistic, but functional, remote.