Samsung GQ55S95BATXZG TV 139.7 cm (55") 4K Ultra HD Smart TV Wi-Fi Silver

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The Samsung S95B QD-OLED is available in just two sizes—55- and 65-inch options. People shopping for a Samsung QD-OLED in smaller or larger size options will have to wait for future releases. Because of its elevated display technology, it is priced at a premium—comparably higher than most of its OLED competitors this year. The Samsung S95B is only available in 55- and 65-inch screen sizes, while the new S95C adds a 77-inch option. (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung S95C vs Samsung S95B: Features For any content that you submit, you grant SAMSUNG a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Retook the reflection photos with the same camera and in the same room as the Sony A95K to make comparison easier.

The S95B supports the usual Wi-Fi DLNA and Bluetooth wireless file streaming options, including Airplay 2, and is unusually proactive on this front by actually generating prompts to see if you want to connect to smart devices it has detected in its vicinity. With the EU introducing extreme power consumption constraints on the TV world for 2023, Samsung will be relieved that QD-OLED’s manufacturer, Samsung Display, has managed to deliver substantial power consumption reductions for the S95C that enable it to deliver its extra brightness without increasing power consumption.All four HDMI ports support 4K 120Hz, which is a nice feature we’re happy to be seeing on more and more TVs. The power cable angles off the left edge of the control box. The control box and stand both have built-in channels for cable routing, which is a way to keep your setup tidy. Samsung 65-inch Class S95B OLED 4K Smart TV (QN65S95BAF) review: Performance The QN90B’s additional size options along with its lower price make this category an easy win for the Neo QLED. SAMSUNG OLED TECHNOLOGY: With roughly 8.3 million specially engineered self-illuminating pixels (ultrafast switching tiny lights), contrast is virtually limitless; At its best in viewing settings with controlled lighting, the Samsung OLED is intensely cinematic

There is no analogue sound output, and if you use your own sound system for hi-fi sound connected via a fibre optic Toslink you need to select TV speakers as the output, turn the TV sound down and control the sound level via your external amplifier. Turning the sound up on the TV simple turns up the volume of the built-in speakers. As is the case with all Samsung TVs, neither the QN90B nor the S95B supports Dolby Vision, a popular, proprietary version of HDR. Dolby Vision titles can be streamed on platforms like Netflix and Apple TV, and Blu-rays are often mastered for Dolby Vision, too.

Converted to Test Bench 1.10. With this update we've revamped our Gradient testing, added a new test for Low Quality Content Smoothing, and expanded our Audio Passthrough testing. The S95C range will also, crucially, add a 77-inch model to the 65- and 55-inch sizes the S95B range was available in. The Samsung S95C QD-OLED shown in a demo alongside the S95B (at left). (Image credit: Future/TechRadar) Based on that hands-on at an event at a Samsung facility in New Jersey, the S95C is around 32% brighter than the S95B. During our (admittedly brief) tests, Samsung’s new QD-OLED's peak light output on a 10% white window measured a hugely impressive 1374 nits in Filmmaker mode.

Smart features are provided courtesy of Samsung’s latest Tizen OS, and offer the most comprehensive streaming app support in town. The only notable absentee is the Freeview Play app that collates the catch up services of the UK’s main terrestrial broadcasters into a handy umbrella interface. All of those broadcasters’ catch up apps are provided individually, though. The S95C’s colours aren’t just even more spectacularly vibrant than those of the S95B, though. They’re also more refined. In particular, skin tones look much more consistently life-like than they tended to on 2022’s model, and there’s less evidence of slight colour striping in areas of very fine colour blends. Adding an OLED-based screen technology to its range after years of disparaging the tech seems to have given Samsung’s marketing department a few headaches. If it delivers the picture-quality goods, though, we somehow don’t think we’ll see many consumers complaining about Samsung’s change of tune.

Tizen Troubles

The default Standard preset is a much better combination of aggression and consistency - but still suffers with a few issues you should tweak. The default motion processing is overly aggressive, for starters, causing too many unwanted side effects. So you’ll need to set this to Custom and reduce the Judder and/or Blur Reduction elements considerably to get more natural results. The main reason the S95C is so svelte is down to the Samsung One Connect Box. Unlike the S95B with its internal cable connections, HDMI cables and other connections are housed in a separate media receiver for the S95C. This not only helps declutter your cables, it shaves the dimensions of the S95C. The extent to which we found we had to tweak multiple facets of the S95B’s pictures to get results that feel consistent as well as spectacular is a touch frustrating, and perhaps serves as a reminder that this is, after all, Samsung’s first QD-OLED TV. Certainly we’d like to see Samsung develop some sort of dedicated skin tone processing next time out – or even add one via a future firmware update. Sharpness levels with both upscaled HD and native 4K are very good – though perhaps not quite as blisteringly crisp as those of Samsung’s premium 4K LCD TVs. The sharpness remains high when there’s motion in the image too – especially if you take the edge off the screen’s native judder with a touch of Samsung’s motion processing. Samsung’s default motion settings, however, tend to generate too many messy side effects – choose a custom mode with judder and blur both set to around level three and noise reduction off for the cleanest results, or potentially leave the blur element a bit higher if you want a bit more sharpness. Gamers will love that both sets support 4K gaming at 120Hz across all four of their respective HDMI 2.1 ports, with VRR, ALLM, and FreeSync available right out of the box. In addition, both come equipped with Samsung Game Bar, a dedicated gaming settings menu that relays frame rate information, offers genre-specific picture adjustments, and gives folks easy access to each TV’s VRR settings.