samsung is no stranger to cheating at benchmarks they've been doing it for
years and they're not the only ones the
question i have this time is why their new flagship
s95btv checks just about every flippin
box 4k 120 hertz variable refresh rate
over a thousand nits peak brightness and it's got the best color performance of
any display i've ever seen ever and then
samsung had to go and put this brown stain on their glorious victory by
getting caught juicing it's a ridiculous
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my first hands-on with samsung's qd OLED
or quantum dot OLED display technology was with alienware's aw
3423dw and i said what are the tvs with
this coming and here it is in all its glory but while i'd like to start by
saying it combines the amazing peak brightness of quantum dot with the
perfect blacks of OLED with no apparent burn in downside instead i have to
address the scandal first vincent from hdtvtest great channel by
the way discovered that while the s95b
seems color accurate when reviewing it in a standard sized test pattern window
if you adjust it to something non-standard the tv outputs a brighter
image than expected or i don't know maybe it's just his unit
no no it's not ours came off the shelf from the local
best buy it was not provided by samsung and when we compared our 2 window tests
to our previous ones at 10 you can see right here the eotf curve
isn't followed nearly as closely and we get major luminance errors when testing
in HDR this isn't what the content creator intended and it shouldn't be
happening but it also doesn't mean that the image looks like garbage the color
accuracy enthusiasts in our office who wandered by during testing noted that
it does look a little too vibrant when watching HDR content but still walked
away saying it looked amazing even if they felt like something was ever so
slightly off as for sdr it's quite accurate in the standard 10 window
netting us a delta e average of 2.7 in filmmaker mode but it gets even better
samsung has a little trick up their sleeve if you have an iphone or a newer
samsung phone there's a diy calibration option hidden away in the menus so we
paired a galaxy s21 using the app and followed the instructions netting us an
average delta e of just 1.7 in standard dynamic range with our
reds and purple standing out as our problem colors and as for HDR we went
from 10.3 with luminance errors down to
7.7 we have no idea how it's getting an
accurate enough reading to then calibrate the display using it but it
works at least in standard tests let's go take a look at how pretty it is
shall we before i can do that i've been tasked
with the apparent challenge of getting it out of game mode
it enters this mode automatically and then
if you're gonna create an error message that says hey here's what you need to do
to do this thing you're trying to do right now why not just have a button
that says do that oh oh there's a game sound mode why do i have to go to the
quick setting isn't this the quick settings why is there a game mode submit no no no
holding right on the d-pad brings it up why would that oh my god so it tells me
to go to the settings menu that i'm already
in to change the thing i'm trying to change
i'm going to throw this thing through the screen oh my god it previews with audio yeah
it previews with freaking audio though well you've got plenty of time to see it
because it's going to play forever netflix does that too a lot of things
pretty much this is the freaking home menu of my tv i know maybe you wanna
hear it a little bit no i don't wanna hear it a little bit no i want to use
the menu of my tv speakers are good though
i guess we can talk about io it's got four HDMI 2.1 ports that's
really nice to see one has e-arc it's got an optical port two usb media ports
wi-fi five uh it has Ethernet but
this guy didn't bother to test how fast it goes the internet didn't work in the
bedroom set you complain the remote sucks but honestly it's not really any
worse than like the shield remote yeah but i don't think the shield
remotes any good solar charging usb c2 on the back yeah it seems fine i mean
it's the interface that sucks why is it that i keep being dropped back into
shadow of the tomb raider here i'm trying to use the menu so my main
problem is that there's no input source button oh that's so so try to change
source manually look for it try to find it you already missed it
oh did i know all settings you're close it's connected
devices shut this took me way too long to find and i don't
understand why it's here instead of just like on the side when you bring up the
menu like why isn't there just like input one and put two input three or whatever that is so stupid yeah
and it keeps blanking i know it does that too now that there's like a pc
that's got a game running i think it's because there's something active on the signal it's trying to pull you back into
that active channel but i'm doing things i know now i know i
know i think once we play contact on the shield it'll be like okay we're good i
can see why they didn't send us a review sample
we go to the shield connected devices where is it
how is it why is mark strong in like everything
i've looked at lately i don't know we came back after the weekend and found
out samsung pushed a firmware update on monday that fixes the window size issue
as you can see it's still not quite perfect but it's significantly better
than what we saw before they don't get any kudos for this though because this
happened only after they got caught and it never should have been sent to stores
like this in the first place so if you have an s95b and you want to get the
latest updates make sure you download the firmware from their site and install
it using a usb flash drive auto update was no help for us and kept telling us
that 1204 was the latest and greatest update available thanks samsung
and also thanks samsung uh this is like a really good fire scene
yeah yeah around here is fine that's one of the things that qdo led really excels
at is extremely vibrant yellows yellow
and red a big part of the reason for it is that unlike traditional oleds it doesn't have
a white subpixel so it doesn't need that
to boost to max brightness it can actually achieve its maximum brightness
with individual colors
wow that fire looks fiery
yeah this is the big one you can really feel
the cold there's a lot of white on screen
and it's not dimming or anything not even a little
the grass is super green still
and you've still got these bright explosion flashes and it looks like you can see every grain of dust and stuff in
each of the clouds too and of course you get the absolutely
perfect blacks in the bar so you don't have any kind of
distracting glow or anything that was one of the things james really
brought up when he went down to see the panel tech early was that metal looks
richer and more metal yeah like look at the shine on that button on the left of
his coat yeah you see the reflection on all of the surfaces
i mean even in his eyes too yeah okay check out encanto check it on kanto
they've got one scene with some fireworks it's nuts wow this looks good
the colors hey wow like the bright highlights are just
incredible incredible wow that's pretty much it i just want to see
the fireworks it's not just bright i know it's the
contrast it's the it's the richness yeah you don't think
it's brown until you see this and then it's like yellow shining instead of
looking like it's yellow
wow like that firework goes off and you're like whoa
yeah okay it doesn't have dolby vision but check out the dolby vision demo it
doesn't have dolby vision no it's the one it's got HDR 10 plus it's got HDR 10
plus samsung what are you what are you doing
basically perfect perfect if you can see the tv
you are getting the full experience now you don't mind sitting on the side of
the room well i'm still going to be centered wow sure but you don't feel bad
but i don't feel as bad yet crank up to crank up the noise
the speakers are actually really good on this tv man that looks good i know
the fire what the sound even the sound
it's not bad for tv speakers with no sound bar
and it's still gonna work with a sound bar if you get it with all the other
speakers in the tv as long as it's q symphonic compatible right and that's
something that sony's also been pushing with their their center channel tvs it
actually works really well like juicing up your center like that is really
important to enjoying anything with dialogue which is like
everything the major complaint that people have been complaining about in tv
and movies for the last like 15 years yeah i can't hear what they're saying in
the quiet scenes i have to and i have to turn it down when there's something big
happening did i catch myself falling for
best buy vivid effect during those fireworks i think you kind of did
because it did because like even though we tested it in a 10 window and it
looked great like really accurate yeah when we did it again in a two percent
window it's obviously pretty wrong like you see it clearly and this is not a 10
window or a 2 window it's a full screen so i don't know is it okay
to just enjoy those boosted highlights when everything else looks so good
i don't mind personally i think it looks really good when you put it up next to a
direct like actual mastering monitor yeah you can see the difference and it's
kind of like okay sure i'd probably pick
that one but if i walked into a store and i saw this playing content you'd be
like wow wow that's amazing so is what samsung's doing shady
absolutely but it still looks amazing just like our new screwdriver t-shirt
get yours today while you wait for the real screwdriver to come out soon i
promise for real this time now let's
pivot to gaming i mean who needs movies when you've got unskippable cutscenes
right the panel does up to 4k 120hz with
support for variable refresh rate and auto low latency mode and the results
are well we're waiting for the lab to figure out
a better way to run pursuit tests on oleds but let me say this subjectively
the ufo looks shockingly crisp and when it comes to
click to photon latency we're getting about 18 milliseconds which is darn good
we've even seen reports of the panel being able to be overclocked to 144
hertz it was vincent right yeah tv test damn wow that saturation though i know
oh so that's one problem is in game mode we're stuck between two different
picture options it's like uh content and entertainment
or something like that they call it two different things so we we can't get a
calibrated filmmaker mode or even the custom um like calibrated movie mode
that we get using the phone app this is the kind of upgrade that you make
where it makes all your old content new again yeah you're gonna go back and play
your old favorites again because you've never seen them like this you know what
i mean i had just let myself accept that red
light meant just brown a red cast
on everything around me this looks lit in red
wow keep going it gets better but the shooting feels good right like
everything's responsive because it's 120 hertz 100 variable refresh rate 500
super like automatic low latency mode whoa
are you seeing this brandon of course you are because of the viewing angles
man why wouldn't we just use a tv like this for like editing
maybe this becomes our new mainstay living room tv huh
i feel like for lg it's the equivalent of overclocking your last gen processor
to try and compete with your competitor's new gen 1 though yeah
sony's actually not just staying 100
siloed these days they're actually using the like image and sound expertise they
have across their company to make like their products better
screen ratio 16 by nine it doesn't look like it right now i don't know what's
going on right now game settings and then you see how it pulls up this mode even though we're already in the game
settings mode no i know so this is why i don't like auto can we solve the more
pressing issue which is that our yeah i don't know why i did that i think it's a
thing in here okay it was a tomb raider thing not the tv oh
nelly that it's doing it that is
smooth that is responsive and look at those
mouse cursors each one is a discrete
distinct it looks like a cr freaking t
that's my testing every time i get a new monitor is i look at the cursors when
you do a circle there's no trail yeah
but even here look at like the bright flashlight against like the dark rocks
or whatever blinding yeah i want to turn it off yeah look how bright that light
is though i know it's and look at how big wow and that's like a huge portion
of the screen yeah and it doesn't dim right like it's like it's insane that is
mind-blowing no pure OLED is gonna do that well that was
a useful demo anyway just to see that flashlight sear my eyes
did you notice any weird dimming like where it'll just periodically dim or
brighten like the lgo lids no but i've got that turned off you can turn it off
on this and i haven't seen it happen since then because that's a that's a
thing i can't deal with that i hate watching your monitor during script
review because it just dims constantly it can apparently be fixed with like a
hidden menu but lg has it hidden away because of the risk of burning but if
it's not a risk because as the OLED pixels fade they should fade fairly
evenly since the color is handled by the quantum dot layer
then samsung doesn't have to do that it's very impressive and i cannot wait
to see the same panel with a processor from sony in the new bravia xra95k i
think that's the one that's going to end up in my family room at my new house get subscribed by the way so you don't miss
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heavyweight champion and there's more than just two contenders lg has been
hard at work improving their gen 2 OLED panels we've got a g2 on the way as well
of course we haven't really talked about price yet
while last gen OLED is becoming more affordable
all of the tvs that i just mentioned are not and the cheapest option
currently is actually the one we're looking at today the s95b at 3 000 us
dollars that's a lot in a world where you can go
to the local best buy and pick up a 65 inch tv for like 500 bucks
but it's a value compared to the a 95k and
still a couple hundred dollars cheaper than the g2 another major hurdle to
overcome with this latest generation is the lack of size options
while lg's oleds are coming out in both larger and smaller models sony and
samsung are both stuck with just 55 inch and 65 inch for the time being
as they perfect the qd OLED manufacturing process says samsung not
sony in this case we're sure to see more size options but for now you might end
up having no choice but to stick with lg since
size does matter oh there's more good news though everyone last year's oleds
they're still top notch and the prices are finally coming down so you can save
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thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video make sure to check out the qd OLED
alienware monitor video at the time of filming it is still arguably the
best gaming monitor on the market and they are selling out as fast as dell can
make them