There’s more you can do with the Samsung QN95B Neo QLED TV than watch movies and shows, though. The TV is also a fully-equipped SmartThings hub, so it can act as a control center for your SmartThings-connected smart home devices. It has Google Assistant and Alexa, so you can use your voice to control both the TV and other devices, too. Samsung QN95B Neo QLED TV review: Remote As with LG’s webOS when it went from an overlaid menu approach to a full screen system, Samsung’s switch to a full-screen look for its Tizen-based smart OS hasn’t been plain sailing. The first go at it last year really wasn’t helpful at all, feeling sluggish, hard to navigate and poorly focused when it came to helping you get to content you wanted to watch (unless you made good use of its voice recognition features, anyway). Updated to Test Bench 1.7 with an updated HDR Brightness test that better reflects real world usage. We've also split the console compatibility boxes into separate PS5 Compatibility and Xbox Series X|S Compatibility tests. You can see our full changelog here.

The Samsung QN95B is the first TV that has native 144 Hz refresh rate panel. On the other hand, like most TVs in 2022, the Samsung S95B has native 120 Hz refresh rate panel. This means, the QN95B can properly play any content with frame rate up to 144 Hz while the S95B support any content with frame rate up to 120 Hz. Additionally, they also support VRR technology that work across their wide range of their refresh rate, which is 20 – 120 Hz for the S95B and 20 Hz to 144 HZ for the QN95B. As we have known, VRR technology can improve their gaming screen experience by removing screen tearing. Additionally, they also supports LFC (Low Frame Rate Compensation) where it will be automatically enabled when the frame rate drops very low, so you still will not see screen tearing. If you’d rather leave it sat on a piece of furniture, it ships with a pleasingly heavy duty, centrally mounted metallic plate stand. Note, though, that fitting this stand is a fiddly business involving lots of screws and even more heart-in-mouth carefulness.Put all of the QN95B’s strengths together and you have the most all-round potent and explosive demonstration of HDR’s potential that the TV world has given us to date. The Game mode gets input lag down to just 10.4ms, too - an excellent result. Though handily Samsung has provided options - accessible from a helpful new Game Dashboard shortcut menu - for adding a little more input lag in return for a little motion processing with games that aren’t so dependent on response times. We spent hours testing the LG C2 OLED and Samsung QN95B QLED both in the lab and by watching a variety of content. Each of the TVs excelled in our tests, producing some of the most impressive numbers we've ever seen on our bench. While in a dark room the Samsung S95B is better, in a bright room, the Samsung QN95B is better. With real SDR content, the S95B hits about 425 nits only. On the other hand, the QN95B can get much brighter, which is about 1000 nits. Meanwhile, with white window test, the S95B hits its brightest peak brightness on 2%, 10%, and 25% white window where it can get about 475 nits. With white window test, the QN95B can even get much brighter where on 2% white window it get about 1800 nits while on 10 % white window, it get about 1875 nits. Both may have ABL (Automatic Brightness Limiter) that automatically dim their brightness when the bright area increase. So, when the entire screen is bright, the S95B get about 200 nits only while the QN95B gets about 560 nits. With peak brightness reached by them and combined to their excellent reflection handling, can be ascertained that both can overcome the glare in a bright room fairly well. But of course, in a very bright room, the QN95B is better thanks to its outstanding peak brightness. Samsung has a powerful "AI" video processor but most of the power is channeled into dynamic video systems that we prefer to deactivate to ensure accurate picture quality. In SDR mode, QN95B delivers much more accurate and balanced pictures than in HDR, partly because it can be set to respect the SDR standards and partly because the zone dimming systems does not have to work so aggressively to stay within SDR content's boundaries.

Overall, the Samsung QN95B has great dark room performance. But of course, it cannot beat OLED TV including the S95B that has infinite contrast ratio.

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Bright colours in the Standard preset can look a touch faded compared with the Filmmaker Mode and Movie modes, and finally the QN95C’s out of the box motion settings cause alarming side effects, such as objects flitting in and out of the picture as they cross the screen, and haloing around moving objects. Films look too smooth, too. The rest of the connections amount to digital optical out, CI+ 1.4, two satellite tuners, an aerial antenna, two USB ports and an ethernet, as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.2. Picture Quality With an ultra slim profile, every inch of your QN95B Neo QLED 4K TV has been thoughtfully designed to lift all distractions away. With One Cable for all your connections, you won’t have a spaghetti of wires cluttering up your space. You can even plug all your multimedia devices into the attachable One Connect box and keep it hidden in the rear of the TV stand. So no matter where you place your TV, you’ll experience pure cinematic viewing – at its best. The Standard preset can cause minor sparklies in some very small details, such as Dune’s swirling sands, and occasionally a dark scene can look a little brighter than it should, exposing noise in the mastering that should have remained hidden. Converted to Test Bench 1.10. With this update we've revamped our Gradient testing, added a new test for Low Quality Content Smoothing, and expanded our Audio Passthrough testing.

With its astonishingly narrow frame, slim rear, monolithic shape and an Ambient mode that can play artworks or photos on screen when you’re not actually watching the TV, the QN95B can actually enhance rather then ruin a stylish room. Don’t buy it if… The search function is supposed to be universal to let you find content across streaming services but most of the time you just end up with YouTube results, even when using a popular and generic search term like 'Marvel'. What's the point then? The other remote is a relatively old-fashioned, button-heavy affair. But it’s still actually easier to find your way round than many such ‘traditional’ remotes are. The TV can reproduce a passable amount of bass without succumbing to buzzing or breakdown, too, and fine audio details are plentiful and reasonably clean.The QN95B has not, though, changed either the number of Mini LEDs or the number of dimming zones (720) from its 2021 predecessor. This might seem a little disappointing at first glance. However, it’s worth remembering that 720 separately controlled dimming zones is actually a big number by the standards of an LED world where regular full array with local dimming LED sets often deliver dimming zones in the 10s rather than the 100s. Samsung's revamp of Tizen to a fullscreen user interface is in our opinion not an improvement and in addition to the occasional issues and freezes (most likely software issues), the new fullscreen UI feels as if it has been designed for Samsung rather than the end user, as it allows Samsung to show more ads and highlight content from its own services and partners. On the other hand most popular streaming apps are readily available. The Gaming Hub is not active yet and will be introduced through a software update later this year, which we look forward to as it will introduce Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now apps. Samsung's remote control is still one of our favorites but the sponsored buttons must go. The TV speakers are better than average and Samsung's 2022 TVs finally support Dolby Atmos. HDR10+ is like Dolby Vision to some extent – at least in the way it includes extra scene by scene picture data in its HDR feeds that compatible TVs can use to deliver more accurate HDR pictures. However, HDR10+ is used substantially less in the content creation world than Dolby Vision. With anything mastered in Dolby Vision, the QN95C will only be able to play the HDR10 core of it, without the extra scene by scene data. The main problem is that the sound just doesn’t escape forward from the screen. In fact, if anything the action seems to be taking place almost exclusively slightly behind the screen, meaning it fails to engage you to the same extent the pictures do. For HDR, we have included measurements of the different HDR picture modes (with 9% windows) below and in the table to the right. We also adjusted our HDR workflow in other ways (which is why the graphs look a little different from normal) to make sure that the Samsung TV did not detect our test patterns based on other parameters. Ultimately it seemed to react only to the window size. As you can see, none of the built-in HDR picture modes are accurate.

We uploaded the initial brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test. To test the Samsung QN95B we used Portrait Displays Calman colour calibration software. Samsung QN95B Neo QLED review: Gaming

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The Mini LED light source is further enhanced with the addition of 14-bit HDR Mapping (which adds even more details to dark and bright scenes), while the Quantum Matrix Technology (which controls the Mini LEDs) is made even more accurate with Shape Adaptive Light control. On the other hand, although not as good as the S95B, color coverage of the Samsung QN95B in DCI P3 color space is also great. In DCI P3xy, it cover around 90% while in DCI P3 uv, it cover around 94%. Its color coverage in DCI P3 may be not as perfect as the S95B, but it is wide enough to makes most current HDR looks colorful and life-like on its screen. Meanwhile, like most TVs in 2022, their color coverage in Rec.2020 is only decent. In Rec.2020 xy, it cover around 65% while in Rec.2020uv, it cover around 72%. This actually is only a bit worse then white-OLED TV. Overall, it may wide enough to show most colors of HDR images that mastered in Rec.2020 like HDR10+ content, but some certain colors may be not able to be shown properly, which causes lose of fine details. The QN95C's mid-range drivers deliver low frequency sounds more cleanly and responsively than its predecessors. (Image credit: John Archer) Samsung QN95C TV review: sound quality As typical of OLED TVs, the Samsung S95B has nearly-instantaneous pixel response time that makes fast motion looks incredibly clear with almost no blur following fast-moving object. Additionally, there is also no overshoot artifact like inverse ghosting, which is great. Meanwhile, the blur that may be visible is more caused by persistence due to sample and hold nature of OLED panel technology. On the other hand, although not as low as the S95B, the Samsung QN95B also has excellent pixel response time, which is about 7 ms. As the result, fast moving images looks very clear on its screen. Following fast moving object, there is only a very short trail that should be hard to notice and there is only very little overshoot. But just like on S95B, its fast response time still results in persistence blur. Additionally, it also can cause low frame rate content like 24p movies appears to stutter.