The processor’s power isn’t just restricted to picture quality, either. (Image credit: John Archer)ĭriving all these tiny LEDs and local dimming zones, along with other key features of premium 4K TVs such as noise handling, motion processing, HDR tone mapping and colour management, is a new version of Samsung’s Neural Quantum 4K processor that now draws on the pool of knowledge assembled by an impressive 20 different neural networks. The Samsung QN95C has a slim detachable camera designed to sit in the middle of the TV’s rear top edge. That becomes especially powerful when partnered with a local dimming system as extreme as the one in the QN95C. Namely that by using LEDs 40 times smaller than those you get in standard LED TVs, mini-LED screens increase the ability for control over where their light goes – with potential knock on effects into contrast, color and brightness. While the QN95C hasn’t to our knowledge increased the number of mini-LEDs illuminating its pictures from last year’s QN95B, it’s worth restating why mini-LED technology matters.
It’s here, really, where mini-LED technology continues to earn its corn despite the onslaught of fast-improving OLED rivals. Even the latest QD-OLED TVs will struggle to get past 1400 nits and 260 nits for 10% and 100% white HDR patterns respectively.
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This substantial upgrade is made all the more exciting when combined with a new, improved Neural Quantum 4K processor, the screen’s mini-LED lighting and the return of Samsung’s Shape Adaptive Light technology, which manages to adjust the wavelength of the light in any given dimming zone to try and help it blend in better with its neighbors.īrightness peaks at beyond 2000 nits on a 10% of the screen area white HDR test pattern across the QN95C’s picture presets, and the set also manages a monster 805 nits with full-screen bright HDR images. We’re talking 1344 versus 720 separately controlled areas of lighting – a much bigger increase in a single generation than we’ve seen from Samsung before. Which they have, in the shape of far more local dimming zones driving their tiny LED lights than we got last year.
With both QD-OLED and traditional OLED screens all seriously upping their games for 2023, Samsung clearly needed to do something drastic with its mini-LED TVs too.
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(Image credit: John Archer) Samsung QN95C TV review: features Samsung QN95C TV review: Specsīack panel inputs include four side-mounted HDMI 2.1 ports (one with eARC and another with ARC), an optical digital output, an antenna connection and RF connectors.
In the US, though, Samsung has chosen to launch the 65QN95C for exactly the same price as the 65S95C, essentially positioning both technologies on a performance par and letting the consumer place their $3,299.99 / £3,699 where they will.įor what it’s worth at this early stage in the review, we’re probably more inclined towards the US approach, with Samsung’s QD-OLED and mini-LED models arguably being more about satisfying different types of customer than one actually being hands down better than the other.
In the UK, where the 65QN95C costs £100 more at its March 2023 launch than Samsung’s 2023 premium QD OLED TV – the 65S95C – it seems that Samsung is clearly making a statement that it continues to see mini-LED technology as the jewel in its TV crown. While I think we can all agree that the 65QN95C's price point of £3,699 in the UK and $3,299 in the US puts it squarely in the high-end TV category (you can, after all, get perfectly functional 65-inch TVs for well under a grand these days), the price differences in these two key territories tell two slightly conflicting stories.
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