The Samsung S95D’s OLED Glare Free display is a reason to choose the flagship if you have a bright room
Samsung just unveiled its new, brighter OLED TVs at CES 2024, and I had the chance to see them in person straight after the big reveal, along with with its new soundbars for 2024 and fascinating picture frame speaker.
One of the upgrades to the Samsung S95D flagship OLED TV is a new anti-reflection screen, and I’m on record as saying that I think reflection-busting tech is going to be a big new feature on the spec lists of TVs in the next couple of years, so naturally I made a beeline straight to see this.
Samsung clearly saw me coming, because it had the S95D on display next to the Samsung S95C, in a room set up with identical simulated windows next to each TV, giving the effect of sunlight streaming onto the TV. Standing in the middle and looking at the two models, I could see the reflections of these matching windows in the corner of each screen, so I could assess the difference directly – and see how the new TV improves on the old elsewhere while I was at it.
The image at the top is a comparison of the two – here it is again.
Look at the corners of the screen in the center of the image. On the older TV on the right, the reflection of the screen is fully defined – you can see the exact edges of it, the lines of the window panes. And though it doesn’t look that overly bright in this photo (I would say that in real life, it jumped out of the image more than it does here), it’s still interfering with the clarity of the picture where it overlaps with the guy’s jacket.
