The Samsung QE65QN95A even delivers a marked colour improvement over last year’s Samsung models. Inevitably, the new sets continue to use the Quantum Dot technology the brand has championed for a number of generations now. This time round, however, that technology – now called Neo QLED, to mark the arrival of Mini-LED – seems able to maintain more fullness at extreme brightness levels. some of these web prices are cheaper than in-store, so please mention that you've seen these offers online) The first chapter’s police raid on the National Opera House in Kiev is a masterclass of HDR performance. This TV is so bright compared to OLEDs, with the Mini LED technology allowing for such careful pinpoint control of that luminance, that it’s hard to draw our eyes away from the action even for a second. The screen also supports Samsung’s Anti-Reflective technology. To my eyes, I’d say it minimises the intensity of reflections better than the Q95T. With bright lights there’s a slight reflection, but for the most part, watching in a bright room offered few distractions. Interface

DCI P3 is a color space, introduced in 2007 by the SMPTE. It is used in digital cinema and has a much wider gamut than the sRGB. The QE65QN94A enjoys a strikingly fulsome sound. Its mid-range is expansive and fleshed out by more prominent, smooth, distortion-free bass than you typically hear from built-in TV sound systems. Samsung's long been at the forefront of gaming TV tech, and that remains the case in 2021. 4K@120Hz is supported on all models from the Q70A and up, VRR support includes Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, ALLM and HGiG are both supported, and input lag is down to just 9.8ms.

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The issue with the 2020 models, where brightness of small objects was reduced, isn’t observed here; so the scene where Chris falls into the Sunken Place maintains the same, consistent brightness throughout. Samsung’s dimming algorithms aren’t quite as sophisticated with subtitles, with some words bright and others less so. This is the top 4K Samsung TV for 2021. We understand that it's identical to the UK-exclusive QN94A, which means it's the same as the QN95A but without the One Connect box. Joining the 50QN90A’s terrific contrast is some exceptionally high brightness for a small screen when showing full-screen bright HDR images. Only Sony is capable of getting even brighter than the 50QN90A in the mid-range/small screen market when it comes to the most intense HDR content – but those Sony sets don’t have Mini LED lighting on hand to keep dark scenes free of blooming.

Blooming becomes a little more noticeable if you’re having to watch the 50QN90A from a fairly wide angle, but not nearly as much as you’d expect with LCD screen technology. As mentioned above, the new Motion Xcelerator Turbo tech is designed to deliver a 4K@120Hz-like experience despite the set's native refresh rate being 60Hz. It also gets OTS Lite, which adds two virtual speakers that add height to the sound produced by the two physical speakers along the bottom. OLED TVs are capable of delivering beautifully rich colours too, of course, thanks to their stellar contrast performance. No OLED TV we’ve seen, not even models that use the latest higher-brightness panels can get close to the sort of raw brightness and attendant colour volume the QE65QN94A can achieve.

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More important than how it fares against its discontinued sibling, though, is how it fares against similarly priced 2020 TVs from rival manufacturers. Essentially, we’re talking about OLEDs such as the LG OLED55CX and Philips 55OLED805. The high number of Mini-LEDs in the QE65QN95A are driven by a new Quantum Matrix system that combines local light controls with enhanced power management – to ensure that more power goes to parts of the image that need it while less goes to parts of the image that don’t – and a new system for enhancing shadow detail. For gamers there is also support for HDMI 2.1 and 4K @120Hz as you’d expect to see at a flagship level like this. However, on top of these gaming features there is also Freesync premium pro for seamless performance without screen tearing during fast moving action. It certainly puts this at the top of the list for new generation console owners. With image content where the QN95C does have to dim down small light highlights to combat the dreaded haloing issue, new OLED TVs such as the LG G3, with their self-emissive pixels, still achieve more intensity for the bright highlights than the QN95C does. The QN95C reasserts its brightness authority emphatically, though, with HDR images that are pretty uniformly bright, driving such ‘full-screen brightness’ content out in all presets (but especially Standard and Dynamic) with two to three times as much pure brightness as even the best new OLEDs will likely muster. You can also raise the brightness floor of dark parts of a game’s graphics to make it easier to see hidden enemies or traps; you can magnify and even share a game’s minimap if it has one; and you can call up a virtual aiming point in the centre of the screen.

This isn’t the first time Samsung has used an external One Connect box with its premium TVs. However, the unit that ships with the QE65QN95A is much slimmer than previous versions, making it easier to hide away. Regardless of the tech involved (or not), the QN95A puts in a solid audio performance that’s clear, direct and punchy but with good weight and openness. It delivers a strong sense of space and atmosphere while ensuring that dialogue and effects are presented clearly. Detail levels are high by the standards of an integrated sound system, too. Information about the maximum horizontal viewing angle, within which the image on the screen is of acceptable quality. Custom allows for manually setting De-Blur and De-Judder settings as well as fiddling with noise reduction. De-Blur and De-Judder are set to 10 and 3, but to my eye there’s no difference between having this option on or off. If there is an effect then it’s very slight.Approximate height of the display. If the manufacturer does not provide such information, the height is calculated from the diagonal and the aspect ratio. The QE65QN94A is a handsome TV – where handsome means ‘barely visible’. The frame around the screen is ultra-thin, drawing practically zero attention to itself when you’re viewing the screen straight on. The rear is startlingly slim, too, for a TV that uses direct lighting (where the LEDs are positioned directly behind the screen rather than around its edges). Approximate diagonal size of the display. If the manufacturer does not provide such information, the diagonal is calculated from the width and height of the screen. Yet more good news finds the QE65QN95A achieving its remarkable contrast performance without compromising shadow detail. In fact, provided you avoid the Natural picture preset, the amount of subtle detail visible in dark areas is quite exceptional. The QE65QN95A’s biggest story is its adoption of Mini-LED technology. It isn’t the first Mini-LED TV the world has ever seen; TCL claimed that honour a couple of years ago. But it’s a new step for Samsung that sees the QE65QN95A able to deliver 792 separately controlled lighting zones. The brand’s 2020 4K flagship, by comparison, only boasted just over 100 such zones.

This image shows the new One Connect attached to the rear of the pedestal stand (Image credit: Samsung) These talents make the 50QN90A a seriously compelling gaming display too, despite the set having to rein in some of its contrast and colour enhancement technologies to deliver its exceptionally low 9.2ms (at 60Hz) input lag time when running in its Game picture mode.Information about the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical side of the screen. A higher resolution allows the display of a more detailed and of higher quality image. In fact, colour saturations even in the very brightest areas look as fulsome and rich on the QE65QN94A as we’ve ever seen them, reversing the slight slide in vibrancy that has been noticeable with Samsung’s high-end TVs for the past couple of generations.