The Samsung The Terrace is a great QLED TV designed for outdoor use. It gets exceptionally bright, providing good visibility in broad daylight, and its high contrast ratio allows it to produce deep blacks when viewing at night. It has a fast response time and a Black Frame Insertion feature to further improve motion clarity, making it great for watching sports or for gaming. It also has low input lag and a 120Hz refresh rate, but there's no variable refresh rate support to minimize screen tearing when gaming. Its wide color gamut, high peak brightness, and full-array local dimming help to deliver an incredible HDR experience, with vibrant colors and highlights that pop. Unfortunately, its VA panel has sub-par viewing angles, which isn't ideal for big parties or wide seating arrangements. Also, it's designed to be wall-mounted but doesn't include a wall-mount or a stand.
Our Verdict
The Samsung Terrace is an overall great TV. It gets incredibly bright and handles reflections well, so you can watch outside during the day. You can also game on it thanks to its low input lag and fast response time. It has a high contrast ratio and full-array local dimming, making it an excellent choice for watching movies. HDR content looks fantastic, as it can display a wide color gamut and it gets bright enough to make highlights pop. Unfortunately, it has sub-par viewing angles, which is expected of most VA panels.
- High contrast ratio.
- Exceptional build quality.
- Can get extremely bright.
- Outstanding reflection handling.
- Sub-par viewing angles.
The Samsung Terrace is great for watching TV shows. It has impressive reflection handling and gets incredibly bright, so you shouldn't have any visibility issues even if you're watching outside in direct sunlight. Its internal speakers also get loud enough for noisy outdoor environments. Unfortunately, its sub-par viewing angles cause images to look washed out from the side, which isn't ideal for wide seating areas.
- Can get extremely bright.
- Outstanding reflection handling.
- Sub-par viewing angles.
- Some dirty screen effect and vignetting.
The Samsung Terrace is great for watching sports. It gets incredibly bright and handles reflections well, so you can watch the game outside while enjoying a BBQ. It has a fast response time to deliver crisp images in fast-moving scenes, and a Black Frame Insertion feature to further reduce motion blur. Sadly, its VA panel has sub-par viewing angles, so images can look washed out when viewed from the side. Also, our unit has some uniformity issues that can be distracting.
- Can get extremely bright.
- Outstanding reflection handling.
- Fast response time.
- Sub-par viewing angles.
- Some dirty screen effect and vignetting.
The Samsung Terrace is excellent for playing video games. It has all the basics to provide a good gaming experience, such as low input lag, a fast response time, and a high refresh rate. However, it doesn't support any variable refresh rate technology to help reduce screen tearing. On the upside, its high contrast ratio allows it to produce deep blacks, making it an excellent option for gaming in the dark.
- High contrast ratio.
- Low input lag.
- Fast response time.
- No VRR support.
The Samsung Terrace is excellent for watching movies in HDR. Its high contrast ratio and superb black uniformity result in deep and inky blacks, which is great for watching at night. It can display a wide color gamut, it has a full-array local dimming feature, and it gets bright enough to make bright highlights stand out.
- High contrast ratio.
- Can get extremely bright.
- Can remove judder from all sources.
- Superb black uniformity.
- Some dirty screen effect and vignetting.
The Samsung Terrace is excellent for gaming in HDR. It has exceptionally low input lag that makes every action feel nearly instantaneous, and its fast response time results in minimal motion blur in fast-moving scenes. It delivers an incredible HDR experience due to its wide color gamut, high peak brightness, and full-array local dimming. Unfortunately, it doesn't support variable refresh rate to reduce screen tearing when gaming.
- High contrast ratio.
- Can get extremely bright.
- Low input lag.
- Fast response time.
- No VRR support.
The Samsung Terrace is a great TV for use as a PC monitor. It has low input lag, a fast response time, and it can display proper chroma 4:4:4 to render text clearly. Unfortunately, its VA panel has narrow viewing angles, so images can look washed out at the edges if you sit too close.
- Outstanding reflection handling.
- Low input lag.
- Fast response time.
- Sub-par viewing angles.
Changelog
- Updated Sep 26, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Jul 08, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Apr 17, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Feb 11, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We tested the 55" (QN55LST7TAFXZA) variant of the Samsung Terrace, and for the most part, we expect our review to be valid for the 65" (QN65LST7TAFXZA), and the 75" variant (QN75LST7TAFXZA). The version we tested is rated by Samsung only for partial or full shade. There's a full sun variant, known as the LST9, which has an additional coating to protect the screen from UV rays. Strangely, the full sun variant is advertised to have a lower peak brightness.
| Size | Lighting Conditions | US |
|---|---|---|
| 55" | Partial/Full Shade | QN55LST7TAFXZA |
| 65" | Partial/Full Shade | QN65LST7TAFXZA |
| 75" | Partial/Full Shade | QN75LST7TAFXZA |
| 65" | Full Sun | QN65LST9TAFXZA |
| 75" | Full Sun | QN75LST9TAFXZA |
If someone comes across a different type of panel or their Samsung Terrace doesn't correspond to our review, let us know and we will update the review. Note that some tests, such as gray uniformity, may vary between individual units.
Our unit of the Samsung Terrace was manufactured in June 2020; you can see the label here.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Samsung Terrace is a great TV overall. It stands out for its exceptional build quality and high peak brightness. However, unless you need a TV specifically for outdoor use, there are better TVs that cost much less. For more options, check out our recommendations for the best TVs, the best 4k HDR TVs, and the best outdoor TVs.
Overall, the Samsung The Terrace is a bit better than the Sony X950H. The Samsung has a higher contrast ratio to produce deep blacks, much lower input lag, and gets much brighter in both SDR and HDR. However, the Sony has wider viewing angles, better color accuracy out-of-the-box, and significantly better gradient handling.
The Samsung The Terrace and the Hisense H9G are very similar overall. The Samsung gets brighter, and its brightness stays relatively consistent across different content. The Samsung also has better color accuracy out-of-the-box and much lower input lag. On the flip side, the Hisense has a better local dimming feature and a significantly faster response time.
Although the Samsung The Terrace and the Samsung Q80T perform similarly overall, there are significant differences between the two TVs. The Terrace has a higher contrast ratio, and it gets a lot brighter to combat glare since it's meant to be used outdoors. The Q80T has faster response time and VRR support, making it a better option for gaming. The Q80T also has wider viewing angles thanks to the 'Ultra Viewing Angle' layer, and it has better reflection handling and is more accurate out of the box.
The Samsung Q90/Q90T QLED and the Samsung The Terrace score similarly overall, but they each have their pros and cons. The Q90T has much wider viewing angles, its local dimming performs better, and it has variable refresh rate support. The Terrace is an outdoor TV that can get significantly brighter in SDR and HDR, and it has a higher native contrast ratio since it doesn't have Samsung's 'Ultra Viewing Angle' layer.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
Test Results
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