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- The Samsung S95B is a fantastic TV overall. Its self-emissive OLED technology is superb for watching movies or gaming in a dark room. HDR content looks fantastic thanks to its high peak brightness and exceptional color gamut.
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May 10, 2022 · The Samsung S95B OLED is a better TV than the Samsung QN90B QLED. The main strength of the S95B is that it uses a QD-OLED panel to display perfect blacks and much brighter and more vivid colors than the QN90B, which makes the S95B the better choice for watching content in dark rooms.
- QD-OLED is here, and it’s pretty wonderful
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It's here: the Samsung S95B. After years of dissing the technology, Samsung has launched an OLED TV. Kind of. For while Samsung has oddly decided to describe the S95B as just another OLED, in truth it’s more than that. Tucked away in its screen is actually a whole new type of OLED technology – one that combines the famous self-emissive properties of OLED with the brightness and color range potential of QLED.
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•Released in June 2022
•Samsung 55S95B 55-inch: £1,999 / $1,799
•Samsung 65S95B 65-inch: £2,999 / $2,799
By the context of the TV world at large, the 65-inch S95B’s £2,999/$2,799 price tag doesn’t look cheap. Actually, though, we’d argue that it’s unexpectedly affordable for what is, after all, a completely new TV technology. The first OLED, plasma and even LCD TVs to come to market all cost substantially more - over five figures in plasma and OLED’s case.
The 65S95B doesn’t cost massively more than premium 65-inch ‘regular’ OLED TVs, and actually comfortably undercuts the price of Samsung’s premium 4K mini-LED TV for 2022, the £3,399 65QN95B. This suggests that Samsung sees mini-LED as superior technology to the 65S95B’s new Quantum Dot OLED approach - presumably, in particular, when it comes to HDR-friendly brightness levels and, perhaps, mini-LED’s immunity to the potential screen burn-in problems still possible (albeit far less common than it used to be) with OLED technology.
The 65S95B is available now in both the UK and US, though at the time of writing it isn’t showing up in Samsung’s Australian range.
•Quantum Dot OLED Screen
•AI-powered Neural Quantum Processor
•OTS Sound system
The headline act of the QS95B is its Quantum Dot OLED panel. This new approach to TV hardware uses a blue OLED element to self-illuminate each pixel, the light from which is then passed through separate red and green Quantum Dot layers to deliver the final picture.
Crucially this approach means that unlike regular OLED technology, no white is involved in the colour process. This purer RGB delivery should on paper, at least, enable the S95B to deliver richer colours at higher brightness levels than regular OLEDs can, while simultaneously retaining if not improving on the black level, local contrast and viewing angle prowess OLED technology is renowned for.
The S95B’s pictures are powered by Samsung’s Neural Quantum Processor, which draws on the accumulated know-how of multiple neural networks to try and optimise the way all sorts of content types appear on the 65-inch screen. Experience suggests that this processor should be particularly effective at upscaling HD content to the screen’s native 4K resolution, but it should also play a big part in translating the extreme light ranges and wide colour gamuts of today’s high dynamic range sources to the screen’s potentially unique capabilities.
•Unprecedented color performance
•Peerless local contrast and black levels
•Perfect viewing angles
So does Samsung’s S95B QD OLED technology outgun at the first time of asking the long-established and endlessly refined regular OLED technology? Fundamentally, yes, it does. Though probably inevitably this rather stark statement comes with a bunch of ‘terms and conditions’ attached.
It’s been a long time since a TV made such an instant impact on me as the S95B did when I first fired it up. Right away I was slapped around the face - in a good way - by its remarkable brightness and contrast.
Bright highlights of mostly dark scenes look stunningly intense and pure, bringing such AV treats as night time cityscapes and star-lit skies to more natural, HDR life than I’ve seen them exhibit on any TV technology bar Samsung’s impossibly expensive MicroLED screens.
•OTS feature works well
•Sounds clean and detailed for much of the time
•Lack of bass and power revealed during loud soundtrack moments
As I’ll be covering more in the next section, the S95B’s bodywork is astonishingly thin for the vast majority of its rear, leaving precious little space for such prosaic things as speakers.
Nonetheless, the S95B manages to take advantage of Samsung’s Object Tracking Sound system surprisingly well, doing a quite uncanny job for much of the time of making voices and incidental sounds appear to be coming from the correct place on or slightly off the screen.
Voices sound believable and clear, too, and unlike Samsung’s Mini-LED and regular LED TVs, its sound seems to push forward into your room, rather than sounding squeezed between the screen and the wall behind it.
•Incredibly thin screen
•Centrally attached desktop stand
•Solar powered remote control
Fittingly for a TV that’s using a new generation of panel technology, the S95B looks seriously futuristic. Its screen is extraordinarily thin - about the equivalent of a couple of credit cards sat on top of each other. It’s probably the skinniest TV we’ve seen since LG’s ‘Wallpaper’ OLED TVs, in fact.
The skinniness is actually a bit scary, as the screen bends and twists quite alarmingly when you’re attaching it to its heavy duty, centrally attached desktop stand. It still feels a little flimsy once set up is complete - but mercifully it was still intact and working at the end of my time with it. Naturally you can’t fit speakers, connections, processing, tuners and the like into a panel as slim as the S95B’s, so there’s a chunkier section that sticks out three to four centimetres from the middle of the screen’s bottom half. Even this ‘brain box’ is smaller than similar chunky bits on other super-thin OLED and LED TVs, though.
The S95B ships with two remote controls. One standard plasticky, button-heavy one that’s nonetheless actually very easy to use, and one ‘smart’ one with a helpfully stripped back button count and a built-in solar panel so you don’t have to keep plying it with batteries.
•Great app support
•Unintuitive menu system
•Extensive picture adjustments
Samsung has revamped its Tizen-based Smart TV interface for 2022 - and on current form, I wish it hadn’t, honestly.
The home page now takes over the entire screen rather than limiting itself to a couple of tidy rows of app links along the bottom of the screen. This does enable more content links to be shown right away, but it can also feel overwhelming.
The new menus run very sluggishly for a while after you first turn the TV on, too, and the new interface features some very strange and illogical navigational decisions.
•New game hub
•Fast response time
•4K/120Hz and VRR support
For the most part the S95B is a sensational gaming screen. For starters, as noted earlier all four of its HDMIs support the latest game features of 4K at 120Hz and variable refresh rates, with the latter including AMD Freesync and Nvidia G-Sync support (though the G-Sync support isn’t formally stated, for some reason).
Its remarkable colour, contrast and, by OLED standards, brightness capabilities together with another aggressive Samsung presentation make HDR games look dazzlingly colourful, punchy, sharp and ‘alive’. Beyond anything even LG’s mighty G2 can do, in fact.
Sometimes, though, the S95B’s ultra-bold presentation can go too far, causing some bright colours to look a little flared out/stripped of subtle detail. And it’s hard to correct this without ramping down the contrast enhancer, which takes a lot of the lovely punch out of the picture. There’s also more evidence of the brightness instability while gaming that we noticed occasionally with video sources, though strangely it’s typically less distracting - presumably due to the usually faster changing nature of game image content.
•Cheaper than Samsung’s top 65-inch 4K Mini LED TV
•Cheaper than LG’s 65-inch G2 OLED
•Still very much a high-end TV
With 65-inch TVs now available for just a few hundred pounds/dollars, there’s no doubt that the £3,000 S95B sits at the premium end of the TV market. That said, its price is nowhere near as premium as we might have expected of a brand new technology.
In fact, not only is it not thousands of pounds more than more established TV technologies, it’s actually significantly cheaper than both Samsung’s QE65QN95B flagship 4K Mini-LED TV, and slightly cheaper than LG’s OLED65G2 flagship 65-inch OLED TV.
The price relative to the QE65QN95B suggests Samsung sees it as an inferior technology to Mini-LED, but our experience doesn’t necessarily back that up. At least when it comes to the sort of AV fan who would typically be more interested in OLED than LCD technology.
Nov 30, 2022 · Given Samsung is the one producing the panels, and its history with TV, the S95B should be a winner, right? But how does it actually stack up when it’s plonked on your television stand? Samsung S95B design: slim lookin’s
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- 3840×2160 w/ 120Hz refresh rate
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Aug 11, 2022 · The innovative Samsung S95B combines Samsung’s consumer electronics know-how with the best aspects of both OLED and quantum dot technology, stumbling only slightly—but significantly—when it...
Jun 29, 2022 · Verdict. While not always the most subtle performer, the S95B QD-OLED delivers thrills aplenty. TODAY'S BEST DEALS. Check Amazon. Check Walmart. Pros. +. Spectacularly vibrant and dynamic. +. Peerless viewing angles. +. Excellent gaming support. Cons. - Needs tweaking for best results. - Imperfect skin tones. - Some brightness instability.
Jul 1, 2022 · “The Samsung S95B is a truly revolutionary TV” Pros. High overall brightness. Excellent color brightness. Superior contrast. Perfect blacks/uniformity. Great for gaming. Cons. First-gen...
Jun 28, 2022 · The Samsung S95B is a very promising start to the QD-OLED revolution with this first generation set offering excellent blacks, good shadow detail and stunning colour volume and brightness.
