Samsung’s new OLED TV could make annoying glare a thing of the past

Samsung’s third-generation QD-OLED TV, the brand new S95D, comes with a novel trick in comparison with its predecessors: it’s obtained a glare-free show that the corporate claims all however eliminates any noticeable reflections. This could forestall annoying distractions if you’re watching the TV on a sun-drenched day and attempting to get pleasure from your content material.

Anti-reflective coatings are nothing new on high-end TVs — Samsung, LG, and Sony are all fairly good at them because it stands — however Samsung appears to have gone a step past that with the particular panel therapy getting used right here, and it insists there aren’t any adverse impacts on viewing angle or shade distortion because of this.

“The OLED-optimized, low-reflection know-how makes use of a brand new, specialised hard-coating layer and floor coating sample to ship the gorgeous element of OLED with out the glare,” Samsung stated in its CES press launch. The corporate claims that is “the brightest OLED display from Samsung but,” and like final yr, the S95D is on the market in sizes as much as 77 inches. It helps refresh charges as much as 144Hz and has “AI-enhanced shade accuracy” that’s been validated by Pantone.

Apart from the brand new glare-free show, you’re getting the identical quantum dot OLED advantages that we’ve seen from these Samsung units during the last couple of years: they will produce richer, extra vivid colours at greater brightness ranges in comparison with conventional WOLED panels (like these utilized by LG), they usually’re fairly a bit brighter than the easiest OLED TVs from just some years in the past. The S95C earned rave opinions, and there’s little cause to anticipate any totally different from this yr’s mannequin — particularly now that it ought to be loads seen in nearly any sort of viewing surroundings you possibly can throw at it.

The S95D is below 11 millimeters skinny, and it comes with Samsung’s One Join Field. You plug your streaming gadgets and gaming consoles into that, and it runs every thing as much as the TV with a clear single cable.

Like the remainder of Samsung’s 2024 TVs, the S95D runs the most recent model of the corporate’s Tizen software program, which permits every particular person in a house to make use of their very own Samsung ID for customized content material suggestions. Samsung can be persevering with to strongly push its Samsung TV Plus FAST service, which mixes a whole bunch of free-to-watch channels right into a single interface.

I’m anticipating to get a glimpse of this glare-free OLED throughout Samsung’s First Look occasion at CES in Las Vegas tonight, so keep tuned for some hands-on impressions and pictures to see if the brand new panel therapy is the reflection killer that Samsung claims it to be. Samsung can be saying a step-down S90D OLED that lacks the glare-free end and some of the opposite design frills of the flagship mannequin, however you possibly can nonetheless rely on top-notch QD-OLED image high quality.