SAMSUNG S95D QD-OLED TV: A MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE IN A NUTSHELL

The next stage in the evolution of high-definition television has now been reached with the emergence of the Samsung S95D QD-OLED TV, a synthesis of cutting-edge technology and design aesthetics that elevates the viewing experience to unprecedented levels of immersion. In typical fashion, Samsung have pushed forward the boundaries of technological development once more in a device that offers a viewing experience like no other. In this detailed exploration of its features, strengths, foibles and interface, we take an in-depth look at what this device has to offer.

SAMSUNG'S TIZEN INTERFACE: WHERE AESTHETICS MEET FUNCTIONALITY

The Tizen interface that lies at the core of the Samsung S95D TV is beautifully designed and really easy to set up, offering a well-designed and simple initiation into what appears to be a brilliant innovation. However, it is also a bit maze-like and difficult to use. This beautiful interface is riddled with a paradox: the more gorgeous it is, the more difficult it becomes to navigate around and make use of its features.

OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLE COURSE: NAVIGATING THE TIZEN INTERFACE

The process of installing new apps such as Peacock reflects the bizarre nature of the app store, with its convoluted terminology and specific movements required to install. Moreover, the main settings bar, with its jumble of options, would leave the most diehard tech user bewildered. And yet, within that madness lies a multiverse of features, including a vast health and fitness suite, as well as, of course, the pioneering Game Hub, designed to enhance your gaming experience with unprecedented precision.

THE HARMONY OF HIGH PERFORMANCE AND IMMERSIVE SOUND

The visual mastery of Samsung is supplemented by a 4.2.2-channel audio system that covers you in a blanket of immersive perfect sound thanks to Dolby Atmos technology combined with outstanding overhead sound expansion capabilities. And if your only thirst is for the audio experience, you’re not shortchanged there, either. Thanks to the VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), Freesync Pro and ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) features, and four HDMI 2.1 inputs, you’ll be able to play your games with a responsiveness that eliminates any possibility of lag.

NAVIGATING THE SHORTCOMINGS: A LOOK AT WHAT'S MISSING

For all its bells and whistles, the Samsung S95D still lacked Dolby Vision HDR and Chromecast streaming, but as the South Korean tech giant pointed out, the burden of managing those features is removed by reducing picture settings to a minimum – one setting, in fact, that should practically guarantee maximum picture quality without any user input whatsoever, thanks to the Filmmaker mode.

A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE: SAMSUNG'S ANTI-GLARE SCREEN TECHNOLOGY

Samsung’s new anti-glare screen technology in the S95D paves the way for a definite step forward — no longer do you have to squint and avert your eyes at your posh HD plasma in a brightly lit apartment. Samsung’s new TVs, which I caught a sneak preview of at their TV event a few weeks ago, produced the most scintillating colours ever emitted from plasma, but with radically diminished reflections. The sad downside is that the perfectionistic blacks are ever so slightly dulled to a charcoal.

ABOUT SAMSUNG: LEADING THE WAY IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Samsung is one of the giants of consumer electronics. It keeps up with the time and pushes the possibilities. It keeps setting new standards that it then delivers with each next instalment. It continues to wow its user base, which is becoming more and more demanding. The viewer is becoming more and more sophisticated. The company goes above and beyond the call of duty, raising the bar higher and higher. Samsung’s S95D QD-OLED TV will stun its viewers. It will offer an experience far richer and deeper than most will ever see again. It may even be the proudest achievement of this kind in our day and age. It delivers a viewing experience as dark, immersive and vivid as art can get. Samsung opens up the future. With Samsung, it’s to the future and beyond.

Finally then, and hopefully, we can remark that, as a demonstration of technological prowess and capability, as an embodiment of ‘out of the box thinking’, as an expression of function and form, as a synthesis of cutting-edge technology and gaming and entertainment, and as a visual experience unlike any other, the Samsung S95D QD-OLED TV is simply unparalleled. Thanks to its self-reflective profile, its immersive audio-visual capabilities and its leading-edge features, it invites us to enter the realm of an ‘ideal vision’ where everything and everyone has been carefully considered and attended to. Going forward, Samsung will continue to develop new and existing technologies that will set the benchmark for further innovations in television viewing into the next decade and beyond. It’s a promised journey that we all look forward to exploring.