WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:08.000 samsung is no stranger to cheating at benchmarks they've been doing it for 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:10.960 years and they're not the only ones the 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:16.000 question i have this time is why their new flagship 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:19.039 s95btv checks just about every flippin 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.439 box 4k 120 hertz variable refresh rate 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:27.039 over a thousand nits peak brightness and it's got the best color performance of 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:29.439 any display i've ever seen ever and then 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:36.399 samsung had to go and put this brown stain on their glorious victory by 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:38.879 getting caught juicing it's a ridiculous 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:44.239 cell phone almost as ridiculous as this segway to our sponsor any cubic the 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:49.520 photon m3 air pure and water washable resin is an affordable fantastic entry 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:52.800 level combo to explore resin 3d printing you can print detailed miniatures right 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.800 out of the box learn more at the link below 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:07.200 my first hands-on with samsung's qd OLED 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:12.799 or quantum dot OLED display technology was with alienware's aw 00:01:09.479 --> 00:01:15.360 3423dw and i said what are the tvs with 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:19.920 this coming and here it is in all its glory but while i'd like to start by 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:24.320 saying it combines the amazing peak brightness of quantum dot with the 00:01:21.759 --> 00:01:29.280 perfect blacks of OLED with no apparent burn in downside instead i have to 00:01:27.119 --> 00:01:35.200 address the scandal first vincent from hdtvtest great channel by 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:37.200 the way discovered that while the s95b 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:41.759 seems color accurate when reviewing it in a standard sized test pattern window 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:46.640 if you adjust it to something non-standard the tv outputs a brighter 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:50.479 image than expected or i don't know maybe it's just his unit 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:56.320 no no it's not ours came off the shelf from the local 00:01:53.840 --> 00:02:01.439 best buy it was not provided by samsung and when we compared our 2 window tests 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:06.640 to our previous ones at 10 you can see right here the eotf curve 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:11.120 isn't followed nearly as closely and we get major luminance errors when testing 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.680 in HDR this isn't what the content creator intended and it shouldn't be 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:20.720 happening but it also doesn't mean that the image looks like garbage the color 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:25.360 accuracy enthusiasts in our office who wandered by during testing noted that 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:30.239 it does look a little too vibrant when watching HDR content but still walked 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:34.800 away saying it looked amazing even if they felt like something was ever so 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:39.599 slightly off as for sdr it's quite accurate in the standard 10 window 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:44.319 netting us a delta e average of 2.7 in filmmaker mode but it gets even better 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:49.840 samsung has a little trick up their sleeve if you have an iphone or a newer 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:54.160 samsung phone there's a diy calibration option hidden away in the menus so we 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:57.959 paired a galaxy s21 using the app and followed the instructions netting us an 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:02.640 average delta e of just 1.7 in standard dynamic range with our 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:08.720 reds and purple standing out as our problem colors and as for HDR we went 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:10.560 from 10.3 with luminance errors down to 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:14.560 7.7 we have no idea how it's getting an 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:19.840 accurate enough reading to then calibrate the display using it but it 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:23.519 works at least in standard tests let's go take a look at how pretty it is 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:27.680 shall we before i can do that i've been tasked 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:31.280 with the apparent challenge of getting it out of game mode 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.480 it enters this mode automatically and then 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:37.920 if you're gonna create an error message that says hey here's what you need to do 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.480 to do this thing you're trying to do right now why not just have a button 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:45.519 that says do that oh oh there's a game sound mode why do i have to go to the 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:51.360 quick setting isn't this the quick settings why is there a game mode submit no no no 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:56.640 holding right on the d-pad brings it up why would that oh my god so it tells me 00:03:54.239 --> 00:04:00.159 to go to the settings menu that i'm already 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:02.159 in to change the thing i'm trying to change 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:10.959 i'm going to throw this thing through the screen oh my god it previews with audio yeah 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:14.159 it previews with freaking audio though well you've got plenty of time to see it 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:18.320 because it's going to play forever netflix does that too a lot of things 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:22.720 pretty much this is the freaking home menu of my tv i know maybe you wanna 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:26.560 hear it a little bit no i don't wanna hear it a little bit no i want to use 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:30.479 the menu of my tv speakers are good though 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:34.800 i guess we can talk about io it's got four HDMI 2.1 ports that's 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:40.720 really nice to see one has e-arc it's got an optical port two usb media ports 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:42.800 wi-fi five uh it has Ethernet but 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:46.080 this guy didn't bother to test how fast it goes the internet didn't work in the 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:50.160 bedroom set you complain the remote sucks but honestly it's not really any 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:53.680 worse than like the shield remote yeah but i don't think the shield 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:58.800 remotes any good solar charging usb c2 on the back yeah it seems fine i mean 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:01.759 it's the interface that sucks why is it that i keep being dropped back into 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:06.479 shadow of the tomb raider here i'm trying to use the menu so my main 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.000 problem is that there's no input source button oh that's so so try to change 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.360 source manually look for it try to find it you already missed it 00:05:11.919 --> 00:05:18.320 oh did i know all settings you're close it's connected 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:22.240 devices shut this took me way too long to find and i don't 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:25.280 understand why it's here instead of just like on the side when you bring up the 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:33.440 menu like why isn't there just like input one and put two input three or whatever that is so stupid yeah 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:37.280 and it keeps blanking i know it does that too now that there's like a pc 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:42.160 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 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:46.880 that active channel but i'm doing things i know now i know i 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.240 know i think once we play contact on the shield it'll be like okay we're good i 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:54.960 can see why they didn't send us a review sample 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:58.800 we go to the shield connected devices where is it 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:02.880 how is it why is mark strong in like everything 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:06.560 i've looked at lately i don't know we came back after the weekend and found 00:06:04.479 --> 00:06:10.800 out samsung pushed a firmware update on monday that fixes the window size issue 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:14.560 as you can see it's still not quite perfect but it's significantly better 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:19.199 than what we saw before they don't get any kudos for this though because this 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:22.880 happened only after they got caught and it never should have been sent to stores 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:26.319 like this in the first place so if you have an s95b and you want to get the 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:30.400 latest updates make sure you download the firmware from their site and install 00:06:27.919 --> 00:06:34.960 it using a usb flash drive auto update was no help for us and kept telling us 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:39.360 that 1204 was the latest and greatest update available thanks samsung 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:44.080 and also thanks samsung uh this is like a really good fire scene 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:50.240 yeah yeah around here is fine that's one of the things that qdo led really excels 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:51.199 at is extremely vibrant yellows yellow 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:59.039 and red a big part of the reason for it is that unlike traditional oleds it doesn't have 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:00.720 a white subpixel so it doesn't need that 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:06.479 to boost to max brightness it can actually achieve its maximum brightness 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:06.479 with individual colors 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:12.720 wow that fire looks fiery 00:07:11.039 --> 00:07:16.400 yeah this is the big one you can really feel 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:19.680 the cold there's a lot of white on screen 00:07:17.599 --> 00:07:24.479 and it's not dimming or anything not even a little 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.919 the grass is super green still 00:07:24.479 --> 00:07:31.680 and you've still got these bright explosion flashes and it looks like you can see every grain of dust and stuff in 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:35.360 each of the clouds too and of course you get the absolutely 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:39.120 perfect blacks in the bar so you don't have any kind of 00:07:36.960 --> 00:07:42.639 distracting glow or anything that was one of the things james really 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:48.560 brought up when he went down to see the panel tech early was that metal looks 00:07:46.479 --> 00:07:52.720 richer and more metal yeah like look at the shine on that button on the left of 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:56.720 his coat yeah you see the reflection on all of the surfaces 00:07:54.160 --> 00:08:00.160 i mean even in his eyes too yeah okay check out encanto check it on kanto 00:07:59.039 --> 00:08:05.759 they've got one scene with some fireworks it's nuts wow this looks good 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:09.120 the colors hey wow like the bright highlights are just 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:13.199 incredible incredible wow that's pretty much it i just want to see 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.879 the fireworks it's not just bright i know it's the 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:20.800 contrast it's the it's the richness yeah you don't think 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:26.400 it's brown until you see this and then it's like yellow shining instead of 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.319 looking like it's yellow 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:32.080 wow like that firework goes off and you're like whoa 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:35.839 yeah okay it doesn't have dolby vision but check out the dolby vision demo it 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:41.039 doesn't have dolby vision no it's the one it's got HDR 10 plus it's got HDR 10 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:44.560 plus samsung what are you what are you doing 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:50.800 basically perfect perfect if you can see the tv 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:54.160 you are getting the full experience now you don't mind sitting on the side of 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:59.040 the room well i'm still going to be centered wow sure but you don't feel bad 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:02.880 but i don't feel as bad yet crank up to crank up the noise 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:07.680 the speakers are actually really good on this tv man that looks good i know 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:13.200 the fire what the sound even the sound 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:16.160 it's not bad for tv speakers with no sound bar 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:20.080 and it's still gonna work with a sound bar if you get it with all the other 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:24.560 speakers in the tv as long as it's q symphonic compatible right and that's 00:09:22.560 --> 00:09:29.519 something that sony's also been pushing with their their center channel tvs it 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:33.279 actually works really well like juicing up your center like that is really 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:37.120 important to enjoying anything with dialogue which is like 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:40.720 everything the major complaint that people have been complaining about in tv 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:44.959 and movies for the last like 15 years yeah i can't hear what they're saying in 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:47.760 the quiet scenes i have to and i have to turn it down when there's something big 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:52.480 happening did i catch myself falling for 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:56.720 best buy vivid effect during those fireworks i think you kind of did 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:00.640 because it did because like even though we tested it in a 10 window and it 00:09:58.560 --> 00:10:04.480 looked great like really accurate yeah when we did it again in a two percent 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:08.800 window it's obviously pretty wrong like you see it clearly and this is not a 10 00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:14.160 window or a 2 window it's a full screen so i don't know is it okay 00:10:11.680 --> 00:10:17.760 to just enjoy those boosted highlights when everything else looks so good 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:21.519 i don't mind personally i think it looks really good when you put it up next to a 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:26.399 direct like actual mastering monitor yeah you can see the difference and it's 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:29.040 kind of like okay sure i'd probably pick 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:33.440 that one but if i walked into a store and i saw this playing content you'd be 00:10:30.800 --> 00:10:38.160 like wow wow that's amazing so is what samsung's doing shady 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:41.040 absolutely but it still looks amazing just like our new screwdriver t-shirt 00:10:39.839 --> 00:10:46.160 get yours today while you wait for the real screwdriver to come out soon i 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.240 promise for real this time now let's 00:10:46.160 --> 00:10:53.040 pivot to gaming i mean who needs movies when you've got unskippable cutscenes 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:55.200 right the panel does up to 4k 120hz with 00:10:53.040 --> 00:10:58.399 support for variable refresh rate and auto low latency mode and the results 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:02.160 are well we're waiting for the lab to figure out 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:06.640 a better way to run pursuit tests on oleds but let me say this subjectively 00:11:04.640 --> 00:11:10.880 the ufo looks shockingly crisp and when it comes to 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:16.240 click to photon latency we're getting about 18 milliseconds which is darn good 00:11:14.560 --> 00:11:22.079 we've even seen reports of the panel being able to be overclocked to 144 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:29.360 hertz it was vincent right yeah tv test damn wow that saturation though i know 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:32.240 oh so that's one problem is in game mode we're stuck between two different 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:36.240 picture options it's like uh content and entertainment 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:40.320 or something like that they call it two different things so we we can't get a 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:45.279 calibrated filmmaker mode or even the custom um like calibrated movie mode 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:50.959 that we get using the phone app this is the kind of upgrade that you make 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:54.640 where it makes all your old content new again yeah you're gonna go back and play 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:57.600 your old favorites again because you've never seen them like this you know what 00:11:56.160 --> 00:12:04.079 i mean i had just let myself accept that red 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:06.880 light meant just brown a red cast 00:12:04.079 --> 00:12:11.440 on everything around me this looks lit in red 00:12:08.839 --> 00:12:14.800 wow keep going it gets better but the shooting feels good right like 00:12:12.880 --> 00:12:20.880 everything's responsive because it's 120 hertz 100 variable refresh rate 500 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:24.000 super like automatic low latency mode whoa 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:28.480 are you seeing this brandon of course you are because of the viewing angles 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:32.639 man why wouldn't we just use a tv like this for like editing 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:37.600 maybe this becomes our new mainstay living room tv huh 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:41.279 i feel like for lg it's the equivalent of overclocking your last gen processor 00:12:40.160 --> 00:12:46.639 to try and compete with your competitor's new gen 1 though yeah 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.639 sony's actually not just staying 100 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:53.200 siloed these days they're actually using the like image and sound expertise they 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:56.720 have across their company to make like their products better 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:59.519 screen ratio 16 by nine it doesn't look like it right now i don't know what's 00:12:57.839 --> 00:13:04.000 going on right now game settings and then you see how it pulls up this mode even though we're already in the game 00:13:01.839 --> 00:13:07.519 settings mode no i know so this is why i don't like auto can we solve the more 00:13:05.839 --> 00:13:11.279 pressing issue which is that our yeah i don't know why i did that i think it's a 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:16.560 thing in here okay it was a tomb raider thing not the tv oh 00:13:14.560 --> 00:13:19.440 nelly that it's doing it that is 00:13:18.079 --> 00:13:25.680 smooth that is responsive and look at those 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:29.120 mouse cursors each one is a discrete 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:30.959 distinct it looks like a cr freaking t 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:36.079 that's my testing every time i get a new monitor is i look at the cursors when 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.760 you do a circle there's no trail yeah 00:13:36.079 --> 00:13:41.600 but even here look at like the bright flashlight against like the dark rocks 00:13:39.680 --> 00:13:45.680 or whatever blinding yeah i want to turn it off yeah look how bright that light 00:13:43.839 --> 00:13:50.240 is though i know it's and look at how big wow and that's like a huge portion 00:13:47.680 --> 00:13:54.800 of the screen yeah and it doesn't dim right like it's like it's insane that is 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:59.120 mind-blowing no pure OLED is gonna do that well that was 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:03.600 a useful demo anyway just to see that flashlight sear my eyes 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:08.560 did you notice any weird dimming like where it'll just periodically dim or 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:12.800 brighten like the lgo lids no but i've got that turned off you can turn it off 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:17.839 on this and i haven't seen it happen since then because that's a that's a 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:21.920 thing i can't deal with that i hate watching your monitor during script 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:25.680 review because it just dims constantly it can apparently be fixed with like a 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:29.600 hidden menu but lg has it hidden away because of the risk of burning but if 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:33.760 it's not a risk because as the OLED pixels fade they should fade fairly 00:14:31.920 --> 00:14:38.240 evenly since the color is handled by the quantum dot layer 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:43.600 then samsung doesn't have to do that it's very impressive and i cannot wait 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:48.399 to see the same panel with a processor from sony in the new bravia xra95k i 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:54.160 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 00:14:51.680 --> 00:14:58.000 it i'm not taking any sponsorships for that spot because that's a really 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:02.720 important tv watching spot for me so it's going to come down to the 65 inch 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:06.959 heavyweight champion and there's more than just two contenders lg has been 00:15:04.959 --> 00:15:12.240 hard at work improving their gen 2 OLED panels we've got a g2 on the way as well 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:15.680 of course we haven't really talked about price yet 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:19.279 while last gen OLED is becoming more affordable 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:22.639 all of the tvs that i just mentioned are not and the cheapest option 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:27.040 currently is actually the one we're looking at today the s95b at 3 000 us 00:15:26.079 --> 00:15:31.519 dollars that's a lot in a world where you can go 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:35.040 to the local best buy and pick up a 65 inch tv for like 500 bucks 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:39.920 but it's a value compared to the a 95k and 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:44.480 still a couple hundred dollars cheaper than the g2 another major hurdle to 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:49.040 overcome with this latest generation is the lack of size options 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:54.720 while lg's oleds are coming out in both larger and smaller models sony and 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:58.880 samsung are both stuck with just 55 inch and 65 inch for the time being 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:03.199 as they perfect the qd OLED manufacturing process says samsung not 00:16:01.040 --> 00:16:07.920 sony in this case we're sure to see more size options but for now you might end 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:11.360 up having no choice but to stick with lg since 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:16.240 size does matter oh there's more good news though everyone last year's oleds 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:21.120 they're still top notch and the prices are finally coming down so you can save 00:16:18.160 --> 00:16:26.000 a buck now and if you can wait a little longer for this to be last gen wow are 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:29.519 you ever in for something special at hopefully a more affordable price you 00:16:28.079 --> 00:16:34.399 know what else is affordable waiting to hear about our sponsor ting mobile tired 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:39.120 of paying for some ting and getting noting in return 00:16:36.959 --> 00:16:44.320 ting mobile is a low-cost carrier with the perfect plan for whatever your needs 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:48.240 might be they offer nationwide lte and 5g coverage in the us as well as 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:53.680 award-winning support and all of their plans offer unlimited talk and text 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