Samsung is rethinking its TV lineup and has been offering OLED TV for a long time. Those are the details.
As part of its 2022 TV production line, Samsung introduced its first TV with an OLED panel long ago at its Eschborn headquarters. Although they remain convinced of QLED technology, they respond to the wishes of many customers who are also expecting an OLED TV from Samsung.
OLED panels come from Samsung’s proprietary screen-forming kit. They generate their light using blue organic light-emitting diodes, which in turn excite a layer of red and green quantum dots to glow, thus creating a trio of RGB sub-pixels. Although the similarity to Quantum dot LED technology is clear, Samsung is not talking about QD OLEDs here, but simply marketing the screens as Samsung OLEDs.
Sony already introduced an OLED TV with this screen technology at CES.
In the dim showroom light, we were able to make a first impression on the quality of the GQ65S95B’s 65-inch monitor. As always with OLED screens, this screen also impresses with richer colors and deeper blacks in direct comparison even with the new Neo-QLED TVs. But what was noticeable was that the lower pixel font of the white “Samsung” characters in the beta material, as well as in the whitelist texts, were displayed in red. Whether this is a design element or a display error will only appear on the test device. Samsung sets the peak brightness at 1500 cd/m². We’re excited to see what’s left of it in testing. For comparison: With current OLED TVs in our TV leaderboard, we measure a maximum permanent peak brightness of around 1,000 cd/m². However, in terms of reflectivity, the TV is unfortunately in no way inferior to the competition.
The S95B series will be available from May in 55-inch and 65-inch sizes. Samsung did not want to commit to pricing when introducing the product. Since the OLED TVs in the TV range fall between the premium QLED series QN90 and QN95, prices are likely to range between 3,000 and 3,500 euros.
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Panasonic TX-55JZW2004
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Sony XR-65A90J
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Sony XR-75Z9J
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LG OLED 55C1
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Samsung GQ65QN95A
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Panasonic TX-55HZW2004
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Sony KD-75ZH8
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Philips 55OLED936
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Samsung GQ55QN90A
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LG OLED 55CX
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sound quality (2.0)
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Energy Efficiency (1.6)
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