Samsung OLED 4K S92C
Menu system aside...
27/04/2023 11:08
My 55" Samsung S92C arrived with me nearly 2 weeks ago now - and honestly I'm pretty impressed.
The experience out of the box with my sound system was actually the most fluid I've had - HDMI functions worked really well without any messing about.
Tizen (the TV OS) seems a little bit tidier and more coherent than it once did - though it still has a few quirks in personalising that took a while to work out. The settings menu is incredibly frustrating, and nothing feels like where it should be - so takes a lot longer to figure out. Probably not an issue for the average user - but I like to play and set things up to my own taste.
Coming onto the viewing experience - I own another current flagship OLED and this replaced a much older OLED - I can't actually stress enough how good the picture quality actually is - especially when this isn't the flagship product. Out of the box, there was nothing that I immediately felt as though needed changing - colour reproduction is very good, and it didn't seem especially blown out or overly vibrant - just bright, natural colours.
Something that OLEDs have struggled with historically is gradients - where you'd see a visible banding on the image as it struggled to process. There's a hint of that on this unit, although it's difficult to tell at times whether it's the TV struggling - or a compression artefact, and to be honest, if you weren't looking for it, you probably wouldn't see it.
As you'd expect from an OLED, the blacks are eerily black - the room shuts down entirely with a blank screen, and that's one of the biggest draws to them. A credits screen really shows off the lack of backlighting where you'd usually have a grey background interspersed by brighter white areas
Ultimately, I've given the TV 4 stars on the menu experience both with the Smart Hub and TV settings - but if it's something I hadn't felt the need to jump into, it'd have been a solid 5 stars.
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Age: 36
Gender: Female