If all you care about are apps, you’ll be fine there’s a wide selection, and the (editable) horizontal list is near the top. Like a lot of the other smart TV operating systems, it throws a ton of information at you, but it’s more haphazardly organized and can take a while to navigate.įrom the TV’s home screen (which it refers to as Media), an abbreviated menu leads to Privacy Choices, Search, and Ambient (for displaying art during off-hours). One significant drawback of the QN65S95BAF is that it uses Samsung’s Tizen smart interface. Samsung 65-inch Class S95B OLED 4K Smart TV (QN65S95BAF) review: Smart features In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, for example, the movement was constantly smooth, with realistic melty colors assaulting the senses, and the searing light of the sun casting a reflective sheen on the wintry slopes and shores that constitute the game’s ravishing open world. This level of unintrusive control is appealing, but the more important thing is that games play well, too. These settings and more (such as for specific game genres) are instantly accessible from a pop-up bar when the TV is in Game mode. As measured with a Leo Bodnar 4K Signal Lag Tester, the set’s input lag is a captivatingly low 9.2ms-far below our 20ms threshold for a “good” gaming TV, and straight into competition for one of the best gaming TVs on the market.Įxcept for Dolby Vision, the QN65S95BAF supports all the major technologies found in the current generation of gaming consoles (as I discovered when I plugged in my Xbox Series X), including support for FreeSync Premium, variable refresh rate (VRR), and Samsung’s version of Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM). Samsung 65-inch Class S95B OLED 4K Smart TV (QN65S95BAF) review: GamingĪs good as the QN65S959BAF is with video content, it may be even better for gaming. Like the Sony A80J, this is a TV you won’t mind listening to. No distortion was evident in either high-soaring soprano vocals, and the pulsing bass throughout The Knife’s “Silent Shout” maintained solid presence despite lacking the chest-thumping power some may want. The set never gets too loud, but music, dialogue, and sound effects sound crisp and clear, with no clipping, straight to the top of the volume range. (They, and anyone less forgiving, will want to consider one of our best soundbars.) If the sound produced by the QN65S959BAF’s 60-watt speakers isn’t as good as its picture, it’s still more than good enough to satisfy any non-audiophiles. Samsung 65-inch Class S95B OLED 4K Smart TV (QN65S95BAF) review: Audio But for a TV this expensive, every detail counts, and this is one where the QN65S95BAF just fails to rise to the challenge. And, to reiterate, seeing the differences is not easy with most video. This may be due to some undesirable interaction the quantum dots and the OLED panel as this is the first QD-OLED set we’ve reviewed, it’s difficult to say for sure. In short, the QN65S95BAF’s picture is bright and both rich and accurate with its colors. HDR color was excellent, too, with the Samsung covering 99.8% of the UHDA-P3 color gamut, more than the Sony’s 97.2%. We saw even better brightness from the QN65S95BAF with HDR content, with the set measuring about 1,050 nits with a 10% field (our standard for brightness readings), versus just over 600 nits for the Sony A80J. For comparison, the Sony A80J, one of our favorite sets of 2021, was slightly less accurate in its Custom mode with a Delta-E of 3.3645, but covered more of the Rec.709 gamut (110.4%). Using the same settings, the set’s brightness registered as 329.5 nits-a high result for an OLED TV. In SDR Filmmaker Mode (the closest to an out-of-the-box calibration option) with the Brightness Optimization setting off, the QN65S95BAF’s Delta-E value, which measures how the source color differs from the displayed color (with lower numbers being better) was a fine 3.0184, and the picture covered exactly 100% of the Rec.709 color gamut. We tested the set using an X-Rite i1 Pro spectrophotometer, a SpectraCal VideoForge Pro pattern generator, and Portrait Displays’ Calman calibration software and encountered some outstanding results. One of the first TVs on the market to fuse OLED and quantum dot technologies into a single set, the QN65S96BAF all but promises next-generation picture quality by dint of its existence-and largely delivers. Samsung 65-inch Class S95B OLED 4K Smart TV (QN65S95BAF) review: Performance The control box and stand both have built-in channels for cable routing, which is a way to keep your setup tidy. The power cable angles off the left edge of the control box. All four HDMI ports support 4K 120Hz, which is a nice feature we’re happy to be seeing on more and more TVs.
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