- At a recent event here in New York City,
Samsung launched their latest version of their QLED
which is their top of the line Tvs and I have
to admit they look pretty damn sexy.
One model unit has 8K upscaling and they have
ambient mode which is my new favorite feature,
which we'll get to later and a bunch more.
Now, since I was at the American Stock Exchange
where they were holding this, and it was a blizzard
essentially outside, I figured I would spend
my time in there trying to do a complete
walk through of these line of TVs.
Now, if you're not familiar with my complete
walk through, it's basically me going
through as many features as I possibly
can in as short a period of time as possible.
So that you can make better informed decisions
about the products, et cetera, on your own.
With that said, there are a lot of models here,
so let's just get started as quickly as possible.
Firstly, there's a plethora of different models,
each with different features slightly
and with their own sizes.
Now, I'll get to that later really fast so you
understand but first let's go through the coolest
features that I found across the majority of the range.
Now, all of the models are QLED or quantum dot LEDs,
which combine the contrast ratios and deep blacks of OLED
with the superior color and brightness of quantum dots.
Now without going into too much technical detail,
let's just suffice it to say that they all
have really great contrast ratios, crazy colors,
and just look amazing.
Done.
All of these have a new feature, that I'm
sort of in love with already called ambient mode.
Now the ambient mode allows you to take a photo
of the TV and the surrounding wall with your phone
and it'll automatically recreate the walls' pattern
onto the TV making it look almost invisible.
Now the idea here, is that Samsung found that TVs
are off a lot of the time, go figure, and since LEDs
don't use much power, they figured it was time
to leave them on and make them more useful,
while also looking just really cool.
On top of this ambient mode, you can also layer photos
that appear to just kind of float in a frame,
put on a weather widget, news from a partnership
with New York Times, play music, give traffic reports,
et. cetera.
I personally love this concept, because it is another
screen in the house that could just be more useful.
Next, the Q7 and Q9 models are available
with a one connection option that uses a fiber
optic cable in available up to 15 meters long
to deliver data as well as power.
Talk about easy cable management, right.
Also, they're all smart TVs, duh, and can be set up super
quickly using the SmartThings app and they have a new UI
that is a lot more intuitive and cleaner
than the one's I have previously seen.
Also, they can all use Bixby for not only voice
controls but also to control and display other
things from smart things and control these devices as well.
For example, show the video feed from the smart doorbell,
or show you what's inside your smart fridge, et. cetera.
Now, the Q8 and the Q9 models use a direct full array
that allows for the controlling of different zones
of the LEDs to make them brighter or darker depending
on the need for much higher contrast ratios.
The Q9 has more of these zones for even more control
which is one of the differentiators
between it versus the Q8 but more on that later.
They all support HDR10+ so any HDR10 content
will be extra bright, have much higher color gamut,
et. cetera. and the brightness depending on the model
is up to 2,000 nits, which if you aren't familiar,
equals fricking bright and they all have the same
anti-reflective coating from last year's models
which helps with the blacks being actually black
and everything just being a more lifelike image.
Now all models use the Samsung Q engine, they call it,
they can upscale content to the resolution
of the TV using AI.
Now this means, all the way up to 8K on the Q9SN
top model and up to 4K on all the others.
I know it's easy to be cynical of this type
of upscaling and using the word AI, et. cetera, but all
I can say is that the demos that I am
seeing it looks pretty impressive.
The Q7 and the Q9 are compatible with Samsung's
no gap wall-mount and the Q9 actually includes
the wall-mount for free.
The others can utilize the current Samsung gravity and
easel stands as well as other third party mounts of course.
The TVs also have a game mode which will
automatically detect a video game and go into
low latency which means there's no more need
for turning on and off game mode manually,
it will also auto detect any game that drops below 60 frames
per second and begin interpolating extra frames of image
data to reduce tearing, kind of clever right.
Now, let's quickly go through the various models
starting with the cream of the crop, the Q9SN.
Now this model only comes in one size,
huge, or in inches, 85 inches.
It has an 8K display with AI based upscaling
tech that will take any resolution content
and upscale it to 8K resolution as I mentioned.
Now, besides the crazy resolution, the Q9SN has an
unprecedented number of dimming zones that they call
micro-dimming that can be used to automatically
control the brightness not to mention eliminate
a lot more zones than any other models on this list.
Next up we have the Q9FN, which comes in
88, 75, 65 and 55 inch models.
This model has a 4K resolution and local dimming
instead of the micro like the crazy top model.
So it has hundreds of zones to control dimming
instead of the undisclosed crazy amounts
that is more than that used for micro-dimming.
Now that still results in crazy contrast levels,
then we have the Q8FN which along with the Q9
has a full array display, that means better
contrast but the TV isn't as thin as say the Q7
and the Q6 which have ultra slim arrays for
thinner profiles but less contrast.
And again when I say less contrast, I just mean less than
those models, they still have really good contrast.
The Q8FN has a 4K resolution and local dimming
but less zones again than the Q9FN and the Q8FN
will come in 75, 65 and 55 inches.
Then there's the Q8CN in certain markets
that is a curved version of the Q8FN
and is also slightly less bright at 1,500 nits
instead of 2,000, thanks in part to the edge
LED lighting that spreads the lighting
across the panel from the edges instead of the
direct LED light coming from the LEDs across
the panel of the Q9 models and the Q8FN model above.
Also, it will come in 65 and 55 inch models.
Next, we have the Q7FN and Q7CN models,
one being flat and one being curved.
The keen viewers out there might have
already found the naming pattern.
The Q7FN will come in 75, 65 and 55 inches,
while the Q7CN will only come in 65 and 55.
Both models will have edge lighting that we saw
in the curved Q8CN and will have 4K
resolutions as well as local dimming.
Now, lastly in the model line up we have the Q6FN
which will have a 4K resolution and come in 82,
75, 65, 55 and even a 49 inch model, will all have edge
lighting but instead of local dimming will only have frame
dimming for around the edges.
And there we go, a complete walk-through
of all of these new QLED models.
Let me know what you guys thought of this video
in the comments below, love to hear from you
and also what you think of the TVs.
Right now there is no pricing, you can go
look at the last year's model though to get
an idea of kind of where they're going to sit
and I imagine that Q9SN model, the very top
of the line with 8K is going to be
in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Let's just assume.
I will update the article though below
so if you're watching this later,
you click that link to be taken to my site and I'll put the
pricing there once it's available and also the different
markets that these different models will be available
in because again they're going to be in specific markets,
probably most likely sizes will change as well
for the markets, all that fun stuff.
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