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Samsung micro LED TV in the right swanky digs.
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Here is the product render of the said micro LED TV.
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Here is the product render of 8K flagship.
That’s the time of year when many TV manufacturers start announcing and carrying prices for their annual product refresh. Yesterday we took a look at Sony’s OLED lineup, and today we turn our attention to Samsung, which has just announced its imminent availability for its high-end micro LED and mini LED TV lineup (most models will start shipping this month). .
We’ll get micro LEDs in a minute, but let’s start with the high end of the mainstream, which includes a mini LED TV. Samsung is labeling this as a proprietary “Neo QLED”.
The top-end Q900 is the most deceptive 8K option, with 65-inch ($ 5,000), 75-inch ($ 7,000) and 85-inch options (000 9,000). One step down while keeping the 8K banner flying is the QN800A, which offers the same size but has 500 3,500, 4,700 and, 6,500, respectively.
Since there are hardly any out there to enjoy 8K content, most people who are not just looking for the right to laugh will want to choose 4K models. The flagship there is the QN90A, which is 55 inches (8 1,800), 65 inches ($ 2,600), 75 inches ($ 3,500) and 85 inches ($ 5,000).
One step below you get the QN85A, which comes in at the same size as the QN90A at $ 1,600, $ 2,200,000, 3,000 and, 4,500.
In anticipation of the new furred TVs offered, we will come up with the features you expect to come with, such as VRR, KK120, ALM, and EARC, regardless of manufacturer, including HDMI 2.1. Looking for specs. There is also a one-stop pop-up menu to access gaming-related features like Filmmaker mode, and HDMI 2.1 and VRR. (LG introduced something like this in its 2021 TV.)
And as always, Samsung isn’t playing ball with Dolby, so there’s no support for Dolby Vision HDR (or Atmos in that regard). Instead, you’ll need to pay attention to either the HDR-10 standard in some cases, as well as the HDR-10 +, which is a little light on the material, in either very-good-in-the-least-cases-even-inferior quality.
And of course, like every other 2021 TV, the new mini LED set will have an improved AI processor, which will do video and audio dio processing to maximize the wow factor.
The other big news with 2021 TV is that Samsung is reversing a widely criticized move in its lineup in 2020. That was when the company actually downgraded the number of dimming zones and some other features in its 4K TV. Instead of favoring the envelope push in its 8K portfolio to relate to their 2019 predecessor.
The 8K TV has even more dimming zones, but we don’t see a big year-over-year decline like last year. That’s because Samsung’s new 4K models will also feature a mini LED tech like the 8K TV – which, given what happened last year, wasn’t a forgotten conclusion.
Explain Micro LED and Samsung’s OLED-busting strategy
Samsung says its less expensive TV will launch later in the year, and it hasn’t provided any information we didn’t already see at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
While most of the hype in the TV world is currently focused on OLEDs, Samsung’s LCD TVs are the best-selling TVs in many regions, and technical in-depth technical reviews such as ratings consistently name Samsung’s sets as the best non-OLED ones available in terms. Picture quality, though not always in a bang-buck-buck. Samsung doesn’t even make OLED TVs, although it does make OLED panels for other products.
And to fight OLED potential in the long run, Samsung relies on micro LED technology, which, like OLED, has individual pixels. This means that the micro LEDs match the main advantage of OLEDs, which means that pixels of maximum brightness appear next to the full black pixels. But Samsung claims that the burn-in risk associated with OLED is not a factor similar to that of micro LEDs.
Plus, OLED TVs have been hardened to match the HDR peak brightness of the best traditional LED TVs. Micro LEDs are said to be the best combination of both worlds: very high peak brightness and full blacks with all the granularity you would expect between them.
Micro LED TVs have been talked about for years as the future TV tech, and were previously available commercially in very limited contexts, but this year Samsung has attempted the first semi-mainstream to sell their set.
Still, they still won’t be for everyone. They’re sure to be extremely expensive for one thing, but it will only come in sizes of 110- and 99-inches to get started. Later, we’ll get the 88- and 76-inch sizes, but it’s bigger than most people’s living rooms can fit.
So for its more mainstream flagship TVs, Samsung is leaning towards the Mini LED, which is not like the micro LED with the same name. Mini LED TVs are still basically the same technology as other LCD TVs the company has sold over the years, but a new approach that allows to reduce the peacock around bright objects and other problems associated with LCD TVs while still delivering strong peaks. Brightness.
Expect to see the word mini LED do a lot in the near future, while micro LEDs will probably be out of the mainstream for a while. Companies Other companies like Paul are also booming on mini LEDs and are rolling out its rollout in all types of products like laptops and tablets in the coming months.
As if the stew of words like “OLED,” “LED,” “LCD,” “Mini LED,” and “Micro LED” wasn’t confusing enough, Samsung chose to brand its mini LED set “Neo QLED” TV, which means essential. Nothing, except that Samsung wants to claim that it is the only company that makes “Neo QLED” TVs.
The company called its previous high-end LED TVs “QLED” TVs because of its high optimization dubbed quantum dot technology, which was the previous major push to make LCD TVs more competitive with OLDs, before coming up with mini LEDs. “QLED” will be the label for the company’s midrange LCD set.
List of images by Samsung
