Samsung - 65 Class - Led - Nu6070 Series Review
Our Verdict
Cutting border engineering science helps the QE65QN94A deliver the near spectacular all-round flick quality nosotros've seen on a 4K LCD TV
For
- OLED-baiting blackness levels
- Awesome brightness and contrast
- App-packed and user-friendly
Against
- Expensive
- Some backlight instability
- No Dolby Vision or Freeview Play
What Howdy-Fi? Verdict
Cutting edge applied science helps the QE65QN94A deliver the most spectacular all-circular picture quality we've seen on a 4K LCD TV
Pros
- +
OLED-baiting black levels
- +
Crawly effulgence and contrast
- +
App-packed and convenient
Cons
- -
Expensive
- -
Some backlight instability
- -
No Dolby Vision or Freeview Play
Things get pretty complicated in the upper echelons of Samsung'south 4K LCD Television receiver range. All sorts of small-scale model number differences plow out to hide some really pretty major differences, and Samsung also muddies the waters by giving the same models different model numbers in different territories.
Our starting time job with the 65-inch QE65QN94A, then, is to try and define how it differs from the QN95A above it and the QN90A beneath it. The master difference between the QN94A and QN95A (we're talking UK ranging here) is that it uses connections built into its bodywork, rather than an external Ane Connect box. This doesn't just mean yous might take more cablevision spaghetti to worry almost, though. For while the QN95A's I Connect carries iv HDMI 2.1 ports capable of handling the 4K at 120Hz and Variable Refresh Charge per unit (VRR) graphic features from the PS5, Xbox Series Ten and high-end PCs, only 1 of the four HDMIs built into the QE65QN94A can handle the full gamut of new gaming features.
Then there's the QN90A which, in the UK, shifts to an IPS type of LCD panel for all screen sizes bar the 50QN90A, while the QN94As utilize college-contrast VA panels. The QN94As boast Samsung's premium Ultra Viewing Angle Pro technology, while the QN90As get a less robust wide viewing angle arrangement. The QN94A's get a more than powerful audio system with more than born channels than the QN90A'south too, and finally, from the l-inch model down, the QN90A delivers a peak claimed effulgence of 1500 nits versus the 2000 nits across the range on the QN94As.
In summary, the QN94A is a QN95A without the One Connect box, and that ways information technology should take meliorate contrast, better viewing angles and better sound than anything lower down in the visitor'south range. Assuming you tin practice with only 1 HDMI 2.1 socket, it could well exist the pick of Samsung'due south 2021 Tv range – only is information technology?
Price
The QE65QN94A is a premium TV with a premium price. In fact, at the time of writing its £2099 price makes it £300 more than expensive than both LG'south OLED65C1 and the Award-winning Philips 65OLED806. Given how impressive both of those OLED-based rivals are, this puts serious pressure level on Samsung's LCD model to perform.
Samsung tin can signal to the QE65QN94A's significantly higher claimed top effulgence than OLED tin can manage as a reason to spend the actress, but this volition only count for something if the brightness is put to proficient use. Brightness for effulgence' sake won't cut it.
Pattern
The QE65QN94A is a handsome Goggle box – where handsome ways 'barely visible'. The frame around the screen is ultra-thin, drawing practically zero attending to itself when you're viewing the screen straight on. The rear is startlingly slim, too, for a TV that uses direct lighting (where the LEDs are positioned straight backside the screen rather than around its edges).
The rear is equally apartment as the forepart, too, creating a absurd monolithic feel, and making it ideally suited to wall hanging. Though if yous'd rather stand it on a piece of furniture, it sits very stably (later a rather fiddly assembly procedure) on an ultra sturdy metallic mount.
If yous're fed upwards with your TV turning into a gaping black pigsty in your living room when it's turned off, you lot should check out the QE65QN94A's Ambient mode. This lets you replace the 'standby' screen with any of a huge range of digitised artworks, videos or animations, all played using the bare minimum of power. You can even brandish your own photographs if you like.
One final cool QE65QN94A blueprint feature is the fiddling solar panel built into the back of the smart remote control, making replacement batteries a thing of the past.
Features
The QE65QN94A is a Neo QLED Television receiver. This ways that it uses Samsung's new Mini LED lighting system, where the chunky LEDs of old are replaced by LEDs simply around one fortieth of the size. This partly explains why the TV is then slim. Much more than excitingly, though, it also allows far more than LEDs to be packed into the aforementioned screen expanse, opening the door to much more local lite control. Especially when powered, every bit the QE65QN94A is, by a local dimming organization capable of simultaneously emitting different amounts of light from a massive 792 separately controlled dimming zones.
The brain ability behind this assuming new Mini-LED lighting organization is Samsung's latest Neo Breakthrough 4K processor which, too as analysing incoming images to effigy out how to best illuminate each split up section of the backlight, tin can also route power more intelligently to different LED 'zones' to further boost dissimilarity.
The Neo Quantum processor also specialises in upscaling, using AI/machine learning to add the millions of extra pixels needed to turn HD and SD into 4K more intelligently.
The QLED office of the QE65QN94A's Neo QLED branding alerts us to its use of Quantum Dot colour engineering science. This will hopefully enable its colour range to keep pace with the 2000 nits of peak brightness Samsung claims this model can achieve without colours starting to look washed out even in the brightest HDR imagery. The Quantum Processor 4K drives a wide angle viewing system, besides, which means you lot tin can lookout man the gear up from a wider angle than usual with LCD technology without color or contrast fading.
Samsung QE65QN94A tech specs
Screen type QLED
Backlight Mini LED
Resolution 4K
Operating system Tizen
HDR formats HDR10, HDR10+, HLG
HDMI x4 (1x HDMI two.1)
USB x3
Optical x1
Dimensions 83 ten 145 x two.6cm
The QE65QN94A's smart features are built around Samsung's Tizen-based Eden organization. This impresses with the number of content apps it carries, the economy and slickness of its interface, and its phonation recognition back up. It doesn't back up Freeview Play or YouView, information technology should exist said, nor does it back up Dolby Vision streaming from those services that carry it, for the simple reason that the Tv doesn't support Dolby Vision at all. Dolby Vision sources play in the bones HDR10 format, without Dolby Vision'southward actress scene-by-scene image data.
The lack of Freeview Play and YouView is a shame, but it's worth noting that all of the take hold of up apps for the UK'south primary terrestrial broadcasters are bachelor as individual apps – and given the problems Sony and LG have faced with recent TV ranges by failing to strike deals at the concluding minute with YouView and Freeview Play, maybe Samsung's preference for doing separate deals with the broadcasters isn't necessarily such a bad idea.
The lack of Dolby Vision back up is more disappointing. Especially now the format is available for Xbox Series X games. Samsung would presumably argue that its own dynamic tone mapping processing for dealing with HDR reduces the need for Dolby Vision – especially on a TV as high-end every bit the QE65QN94A. Such 'logic' is undermined rather by the QE65QN94A'due south support for Samsung'due south HDR10+ system which, like Dolby Vision, adds extra scene-past-scene data to the HDR stream. There are also an increasing number of TVs out there that but support both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, so the consumer doesn't have to worry about any potential 'format war'.
The QE65QN94A's connections are a mixed purse, as noted earlier. On the downside is the presence of just one fully fledged HDMI two.1 port. On the plus side, the now-expected support for wireless streaming of media via wi-fi and Bluetooth stretches to 'Tap View', where owners of recent Samsung phones can but tap them against the Telly to found a content-sharing connexion.
Looking past the single 4K/120Hz-capable HDMI, the QE65QN94A'southward gaming entreatment is given a major boost past the fact that it keeps input lag downwardly to just 10.1ms in its Game mode, and even supports the SuperWide attribute ratio options bachelor with some PC games.
The QE65QN94A'southward stiff picture features are backed by a promising audio system, too. This uses eight unlike speakers arranged around all sides of the Telly'due south frame to deliver Object Tracking Sound+ – a proprietary Samsung arrangement designed to create both a wider but too a more than detailed soundstage into which specific effects are placed with more precision.
If y'all partner the QE65QN94A with a recent compatible Samsung soundbar, meanwhile, y'all will also be able to combine the Tv'southward speakers with those in the soundbar to deliver a bigger, more detailed 'wall of sound'.
Motion-picture show
If you lot similar your HDR playback bright and in your face, you won't find a 4K Tv set out there right now that'southward more satisfying than the QE65QN94A.
Bright HDR scenes look explosively vivid, erupting off the screen with an intensity that delivers the upper cease of HDR's expanded light range more emphatically than any other TV in its class bar its own QN95A sibling. During shots of sunny exteriors the image thus feels more than like you're looking out of a window rather than looking at a TV screen, while direct shots of the sun are so vivid that you near feel like yous tin feel the heat in your living room.
The QN94A's class-leading brightness levels are partnered with a color range that won't quit. Samsung uses metal-clad Quantum Dots in its Neo QLED TVs, since these can be driven harder/brighter without becoming unstable. This results in a massive color volume (the combination of brightness and saturation) that marries perfectly with HDR content'southward actress brightness and wider colour range.
In fact, colour saturations even in the very brightest areas expect every bit fulsome and rich on the QE65QN94A as we've ever seen them, reversing the slight slide in vibrancy that has been noticeable with Samsung's high-end TVs for the by couple of generations.
OLED TVs are capable of delivering beautifully rich colours too, of course, thanks to their stellar contrast performance. No OLED Goggle box we've seen, not even models that employ the latest higher-brightness panels can get close to the sort of raw brightness and attendant color book the QE65QN94A can reach.
Not that the QE65QN94A is but a 'light cannon'. Information technology's too capable of producing some of the deepest and most consistent black levels e'er seen from an LCD Television. In fact, for much of the fourth dimension its black levels challenge those of OLED TVs, reproducing the darkest parts of even HDR pictures with scarcely a hint of the grey clouding or mist over them that we'd expect to see with LCD technology.
This black level prowess would be remarkable enough even if the QE65QN94A's pictures weren't also capable of being spectacularly punchy. That nighttime areas expect and then good on such an unapologetically vivid screen is near hard to believe.
Things become a scrap more complicated when information technology comes to HDR images where extremely bright highlights appear against very night backdrops. Something like a brightly lit window against a night sky, for case. On the one manus, the huge number of dimming zones enabled by the QE65QN94A's Mini LED technology helps it deliver small brilliant highlights with more punch than they get on Samsung's step down Neo QLED models. And much more than punch than they get on Samsung's previous non-Mini LED TVs.
On the other manus, the QE65QN94A does still noticeably dim downward highlights in farthermost contrast HDR pictures – presumably in a bid to reduce the possibility of the backlight system causing halos of unwanted calorie-free to appear in the darkness around the brilliant objects. This certainly works; signs of backlight blooming actually are incredibly rare by the standards of LCD TVs with straight dimming. Just the bellboy dimming down of bright highlights in some shots is a price y'all have to pay for such consistent black levels, that you don't take to worry most with cocky-emissive OLED TVs (though don't forget that those OLED TVs tin can't become equally vivid as the Samsung can with bright HDR images).
Very dark scenes can look a little hollow in the QE65QN94A'south default and in many means most alluring Standard picture mode, cheers to the fashion some subtle shadow detailing can exist lost in the darkness. At that place is a dedicated shadow detail aligning that tin help, simply you can't really push this more than than i or perhaps ii levels above its default zero signal without information technology also having an unwanted impact on bright parts of the picture.
The QE65QN94A's Moving picture and Filmmaker Modes (the latter of which has been calibrated past the UHD Brotherhood) dim high-contrast HDR peaks less aggressively than the Standard mode, and endure less shadow particular loss. These modes also essentially reduce colour punch and the overall sense of dissimilarity, though – admitting in a style that tracks closer to the image values used when mastering most films and TV shows.
Getting dorsum into wholly positive territory, the 65QN94A'south pictures are phenomenally abrupt and detailed. A truly outstanding 4K feel that holds up well fifty-fifty when at that place's motility in the frame. But make sure you don't stick with Samsung's default 'Flick Clarity' settings, which tend to generate lots of unwanted digital side effects. Instead cull a Custom setting and ready the blur and judder limiters to around their iii or four level. Or you tin turn the move processing off completely without the motion picture turning into a blurry, juddery mess.
The extreme sharpness of the QE65QN94A seems to be down to a combination of the set'south Neo Quantum 4K processing, extreme colour range and refinement, and fine calorie-free management.
The quality of the latest AI-driven processor can be seen, too, in the fix'southward upscaling of HD sources. In the Standard pic preset this adds a remarkable sense of extra detail and pixel density to HD or fifty-fifty SD sources while simultaneously detecting and removing – or, at least, not exaggerating – any grain or noise a source might contain. Note, though, that in its Motion-picture show mode the upscaling adopts a much softer approach that personally we detect hard to accept later condign accustomed to the sharpness of the Standard mode.
Finally, the QE65QN94A proves to be a spectacular gaming display thanks to its ultra smoothen 120Hz and VRR move handling, high brightness, assuming colours, extreme 4K sharpness and fast input lag when running in its Game picture manner. The only pity is that all this gaming greatness makes u.s. wish the full monty of cutting border gaming features was available on more one HDMI.
Sound
The QE65QN94A enjoys a strikingly fulsome sound. Its mid-range is expansive and fleshed out by more than prominent, smooth, distortion-costless bass than you typically hear from built-in TV audio systems.
The sound also projects well clear of the QE65QN94A's bodywork in all directions, creating a satisfying and involving wall of sound. Especially as Samsung's OTS+ audio system does an first-class chore of placing specific furnishings accurately within that wall. So, for instance, voices seem to exist coming from the right part of the screen, moving vehicles audio as well as look every bit if they're crossing the screen, and fifty-fifty off-screen action seems to be coming from the area in your room where you'd wait to hear information technology. Though to be articulate about this, sound doesn't venture down the sides of y'all or behind y'all; this is a detailed wall of audio with some depth backside it rather than an aggressively forrad-projected experience.
It's a compassion given how sophisticated the QE65QN94A'south speaker organization is that it doesn't carry Dolby Atmos decoding, and surprising to find its audio sometimes suddenly shrinking dorsum rather than continuing to swell during the very loudest soundstage moments. For about of the time, though, it'south one of the TV globe's more satisfying audio efforts.
Verdict
The QE65QN94A proves again the worth of Samsung's shift to Mini-LED backlighting. Its combination of brightness, dissimilarity and sharpness leads to the well-nigh all-round bright and punchy HDR pictures the 4K earth has to offer right now.
OLED TVs with their self-emissive pixels can still do local contrast more pristinely than fifty-fifty this Mini-LED hero can, of course. If you similar your HDR bright and colourful, though, especially if you watch Television in a mostly fairly brilliant room, the QE65QN94A is an absolute beast.
SCORES
- Picture v
- Sound 4
- Features five
More:
Read our review of the LG OLED65G1
Check out our review of the Samsung QE65QN95A
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