HOT DOTS - Samsung S95B

Quantum Dot OLED has properly arrived and here it’s simply stunning

SPECIFICATIONS

Screen sizes 55-inch, 65-inch Panel 3,840 x 2,160 QD-OLED HDR HDR10+ Sound Dolby Atmos, Object Tracking Sound OS Tizen Voice assistant Google Assistant, Alexa, Bixby Connectivity HDMI 2.1 x4 (eARC x 1), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.2 Dimensions 1225.4x774.5x288.2mm / 1444.3x897.6x288.2mm Weight 20.7kg / 25.5kg

£1,199 samsung.com

You're probably thinking: a Samsung OLED TV, surely there's some mistake? No, you read that correctly: after a decade without producing an OLED, the Korean giant is back with its cutting-edge QD-OLED panel. And despite such bleeding-edge tech, thanks to some recent price drops, it's actually a bargain from the off.

The Samsung S95B's big new feature is its use of the brand's proprietary Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED) technology. So what is QD-OLED? Put simply, it's a blue OLED that uses Quantum Dot layers to create the red and green sub-pixels. This approach eliminates the issue of the blue OLED decaying faster than red and green OLED by increasing their size, while also delivering brighter images and more precise colours.

The S95B's picture and sound are powered by an upgraded 4K Neural Quantum Processor, and it runs the latest iteration of Samsung's Tizen operating system. It also includes a Filmmaker Mode, and supports HDR10, HLG, and HDR10+ - but annoyingly there's still no support for Dolby Vision.