SAMSUNG SVC LED PANEL 55 INCH TV
The verdict? Right out of the gate, Samsung has bypassed a decade of incremental OLED improvements, and come out with an achingly good TV even by today’s high standards.
I had been hoping to review Samsung’s S95B by sitting it side-to-side with either a Samsung QLED TV, or a TV with an LG OLED panel in it, such as Sony’s wonderful (if annoying) A90J OLED TV.Īlas, I only got to review it in a room with no other screens to compare it to, which means I had to spend hours watching content, taking careful notes of anything that appeared to show any of the 1.0 defects I was worried about, before racing back to the Labs to watch the same content on a Samsung QLED screen. Early LG OLED screens looked distinctly maroon when they were turned off. And that manufacturing process can create a tinge on what should be the black panel.It was only this year that LG announced a truly humongous, 97-inch OLED panel. OLED panels are harder and more expensive to make than LCD displays, forcing TV makers to limit their size to the smaller end of the big-TV spectrum.It’s a phenomenon known as “crushing”, which LG has solved only in the past couple of years. The inky blacks can swallow up subtle not-quite-black tones, rendering shadow detail invisible compared with LED TVs.If the manufacturer is not careful to ensure no bright image stays in the one place for too long, the organic light sources in OLED can fade or “burn in” long before the TV’s use-by date.More to the point for a new, 1.0 OLED TV such as the Samsung S95B, OLED screens have historically displayed other weaknesses, too, that makers like LG have taken years to work through: LCD/LED screens have better, brighter whites, and OLED screens have blacker blacks. The two technologies each have their advantages and disadvantages. All the circuitry and connections are behind the TV, rather than in a separate box. If there’s one thing about the S95B that lags Samsung’s other high-end TVs, it’s that it doesn’t yet have the One Connect box that would let you mount it flush to a wall. Samsung’s QLED TVs (with the squiggle!) have a backlit LCD screen, meaning the pixels all share a light source, in the form of an array of LED lights that sits behind the LCD panel. Samsung’s S95B has an Organic LED screen, on which every pixel is its very own, tiny, organic light source.
That little squiggle at the bottom of the Q makes a world of difference.
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Despite the nearly identical names, QLED TVs are not OLED TVs at all but simply bear the name Samsung gave to its ordinary LCD/LED TVs back when it didn’t know how to make OLED ones.īut don’t be confused. Samsung’s first OLED TV is not to be confused with its QLED TVs, by the way. Right out of the gate, Samsung has bypassed a decade of incremental OLED improvements, and come out with an achingly good TV.Īnd anyone who knows anything about technology knows you should be extremely wary of buying a 1.0 of anything, especially when that thing costs $5249 for the 65-inch model, or $4079 for the 55-inch model. It was always risky advice, telling my friend to wait for a TV of unknown quality to come out before buying anything.ĭespite the fact Samsung has built more TVs in the past decade than any other company, and despite the fact it’s built more OLED screens in the past decade than any other company (its phones and tablets have Samsung OLED screens, as do many iPhones), Samsung’s first TV combining those two capabilities was always going to be a 1.0 release. Which is precisely what Samsung has done.Ī decade after LG released its first OLED TV, Samsung has finally caught up, announcing the S95B OLED TV in January and releasing it in Australia last month.Ī decade late, but worth the wait: Samsung’s S95B OLED TV. I’ve waited a decade to write this review and my friend Mark has been sweating on it, too – ever since January when he wanted to buy a new TV and I told him, don’t spend a cent until Samsung releases its first OLED TV, on the off chance it’s as good as it can be.
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