Samsung S95D QD-OLED TV Score Details “The most bright room-friendly OLED TV we've tested.” Pros Cons I have never, in all my years as a tech reviewer, seen such intense feelings over a TV.
Samsung S95D QD-OLED TV Score Details “The most bright room-friendly OLED TV we've tested.” Pros Cons I have never, in all my years as a tech reviewer, seen such intense feelings over a TV. That TV, of course, is the Samsung S95D QD-OLED — Samsung’s flagship OLED TV for 2024. We’ll get to the controversy and hoopla in a moment, but first things first: the Samsung S95D is one hell of a TV, one of the brightest — and definitely one of the best of the year.
Video review Samsung S95D OLED TV Review | The Most Versatile OLED TV? Overview and features Before I get into picture quality, let’s cover some basics. The S95D is a QD-OLED TV, which means it can fundamentally produce higher color purity and a slightly wider color gamut, with better saturation in very bright colors than a WRGB OLED panel. That enhanced performance is not something so easily seen on its own.
The Samsung S95D comes with the company’s solar-rechargeable remote. It’s kind of small, but never having to worry about batteries is pretty great. It’s also pretty small, which is good, but, that makes it a little easier to misplace. Additionally, the buttons are not backlit, although there really aren’t many buttons to try to keep track of anyway.
Unfortunately we have sound-absorbing slat-wall material in the review studio, so we did not get the best sound out of the S95D. Fortunately, I still have Samsung’s flagship Dolby Atmos soundbar, which remains one of the best soundbar systems you can buy. And it, along with Samsung’s Q-Symphony sound utilizing the TV speakers as enhancement, provides one hell of an at-home cinematic experience.
When the lights are up, really up, you may notice that black areas aren’t as inky as OLED TVs made with WRGB type OLED panels. For more discerning viewers, there are a couple of things to consider. When the ambient lights are up, really bright, you may notice that black areas aren’t as inky as OLED TVs made with WRGB type OLED panels. Frankly, it’s never bothered me. Once the screen is lit up with content, the contrast is still so good that I can look past large swathes of dark areas not being as inky.
The result is the following: Whether the light source is direct and concentrated — like a bright light bulb or sun-flooded window sitting right behind you — or more generalized, room-filling light, the S95D spreads that light over a large amount of screen surface area, thus having a more gentle, less invasive effect. But it occurs over most of the screen.
I think that fairly represents what most folks are going to think of the S95D. The TV tends to be a bit brighter than what’s considered accurate in SDR, even in its Filmmaker Mode picture preset. And then of course you can really juice up the brightness by picking a brighter picture mode or just turning up the OLED light level.
HDR highlights have pop, and colors are bright and well-saturated. More to the point, most of the time I watched this TV I did not see an obvious hazy, smearing effect even though the measurements show objectively that it is happening.
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