It helps the otherwise mid-range model hit the peak brightness of a top Samsung QLED TV while maintaining excellent contrast and great black levels.įor a time, Mini-LED was something only available in the highest-end TCL TV, before making its way into Samsung, Sony and now Hisense TVs. Take, for instance, the Mini-LED backlight inside the Hisense U8H. Mini-LED TVs came down in price with the 65-inch Hisense U8H hitting an all-time low of $899 on Amazon.īoth these were huge milestones for TV technology - and, in fact, one of my favorite parts of covering TVs is when super-expensive tech becomes affordable to everyone. Mini-LED TVs came down in price with the 65-inch Hisense U8H hitting an all-time low of $899 on Amazon, and the OLED Evo technology made its way from the expensive LG G1 Series into the more affordable LG C2 OLED series. Hisense U8H Mini-LED TV on living room tv stand (Image credit: Tom's Guide)īut just because the latest and greatest TV tech didn’t turn out to be…well, that great, it doesn’t mean the rest of the year was a wash. Still, 2022 was a great year for mid-range TVs In the end, all we could do was give Samsung’s first QD-OLED a respectable - though not quite immaculate - score of 4 out of 5. We could actually see the raised black level in ambient lighting. “Although an OLED TV should, in theory, have a perfect black level (because any pixel not in use is turned completely off) that results in infinite contrast,” our reviewer wrote, “the S95B doesn’t”. the S95B doesn’t."īlack levels similarly left us disappointed. "Although an OLED TV should, in theory, have a perfect black level. That meant great HDR highlights when there were only a few bright objects on the screen, but not very impressive brightness when everything was supposed to be bright. While we were pleasantly surprised by the peak brightness of Samsung’s QD-OLED (1500 nits), it wasn’t able to sustain that brightness when the window size grew beyond 10% of the total screen. ![]() That’s exactly what we discovered when we reviewed the Samsung S95B OLED.
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