Samsung's new flagship QN95C is its best mini-LED TV yet
Back panel inputs include four side-mounted HDMI 2.1 ports , an optical digital output, an antenna connection and RF connectors. Native 4K resolution with HDR10+ supportWith both QD-OLED and traditional OLED screens all seriously upping their games for 2023, Samsung clearly needed to do something drastic with its mini-LED TVs too. Which they have, in the shape of far more local dimming zones driving their tiny LED lights than we got last year.
The Samsung QN95C has a slim detachable camera designed to sit in the middle of the TV’s rear top edge. 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.
You might think that an LCD TV that handles black levels and dark scenes as well as the QN95C must have had to seriously compromise its brightness potential. Actually, though, the set still proves measurably capable in its default Standard preset of shipping a massive 2240 nits of brightness on a white HDR window covering 10% of the screen.
The much-improved light consistency of the QN95C’s new local dimming system additionally helps colours enjoy notably more consistency across the image, as well as helping the screen retain better saturations during dark sequences. All this improved colour consistency in turn joins forces with the finer light control and some striking enhancements in the QN95C’s ability to detect and effectively deal with picture noise to deliver a picture that looks immensely detailed and refined.
This happens less often than it has on previous Samsung mini-LED generations, but it’s still quite noticeable when it does. Especially if you’re familiar with the way OLED TVs are able to deliver even bright objects as small as a distant star without causing blooming or dropping any of the bright object’s intensity.
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 eight mid-range drivers spread across the QN95C’s rear deliver low frequency sounds more cleanly and responsively than last year’s QN95B did. I’d still have liked bass to have more depth and weight, but at least low frequencies don’t cause nearly as much distortion and muddiness as they did before.
The QN95C is supplied with two remote controls. The so-called ‘smart’ one you’ll probably use for most of the time is small, sleek and impressively low on buttons. It also, brilliantly, carries a solar panel on its back to save you from having to buy any batteries for it. Ever. It can even recharge using your router’s broadband signals if the solar panel is blocked.
The interface now runs more slickly too, and Samsung’s excellent voice command support still gives you a great shorthand way of avoiding the onscreen menus altogether once you’ve got used to the idea of talking to your TV. There are also virtual aim point and minimap zoom gaming aids this year, alongside the previous ‘cheat’ of being able to boost the brightness of exclusively the dark parts of the picture to make enemies hiding in dark corners easier to see.system where the console can be calibrated to your TV’s capabilities and then get the most appropriate HDR output levels from compatible game engines, and as with most TVs now, the QN95C can use HDMI 2.
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