One month after announcing the TV at CES 2023, Samsung has announced the price and release date of its upcoming Samsung S95C OLED TV.
According to the electronics maker, we’ll get your hands on the new 77-inch QD-OLED display later this month for $4,449.99. That’s quite a bit of a change, however, for those who pre-order before February 20th via Samsung’s website (Opens in a new tab) Or one of their retail partners will receive a free professional in-home installation.
Having seen the TV at Samsung’s CES event, we can attest to just how good the new 77-inch model looks. Not only does it offer a higher refresh rate of 144Hz which is great for gamers using a living room PC, but it will also see an increase in brightness compared to last year’s Samsung S95B OLED TV.
Still, it’s hard to ignore the steep sticker price — especially given how cheap LG sells its OLED models. Last year’s LG C2 OLED, one of the best TVs of 2022, has a 77-inch version that’s only $2,499 right now.
Yes, the Samsung S95C uses QD-OLED instead of LG’s wOLED panels — the difference is the quantum dot layer on Samsung OLED models — but $2,000 isn’t a small amount of money these days and it might be worth using a slightly older display technology to save some money.
Samsung S95C OLED: cutting edge QD-OLED TV
As of now, we only know the price and release date of the larger Samsung S95C OLED — hopefully the smaller 55-inch and 65-inch models will be more in our price range. As for when we’ll see those, we’ll likely see them in the next month or two, though we’ll definitely update you when they’re officially announced.
One of the new aspects that Samsung is touting in today’s news is a feature called HDR OLED+ that does dynamic mapping of each scene. We’ve seen a variant of this technology called HDR+ in Samsung TVs for years, so it’s interesting to see Samsung bring an upgraded version of it to OLED 2023.
Both the upgrade and tone-setting will be handled by the new Samsung Quantum Neural Processor that also powers Samsung’s Tizen OS. We weren’t completely enamored with last year’s release of Samsung’s Smart TV platform, unfortunately, but hopefully a few changes to the layout can help make the UI a little easier to navigate.
We’ll call this QD-OLED for review as soon as possible, but if you’re looking for a cheaper option in the meantime, check out last year’s Samsung S95B OLED or Sony A95K OLED, the latest member of our exclusive five-star review club.
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