seen this bargain, seems to be a slightly better deal than the JbHiFi deal, thinking of pulling the trigger on this on whilst there still is stock, thoughts?.
Samsung 65-Inch AI S95D OLED 4K Smart TV $3492 + Delivery ($0 C&C/In-Store) @ Harvey Norman
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LLixnaw on 02/01/2025 - 16:04 harveynorman.com.au (251 clicks)
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Might want to learn what that means and how broadly it applies before making the below average take.
Best question you can ask is "will the AI still work without an internet connection?" If the answer is no then avoid. If yes then it probably is just enhancing the picture and sound. Smart TVs are already sending everything you do to their servers. Probably including everything they can get from the network they are connected to. They do what they can with it and then sell it.
Not me with the downvote, but It's still more complicated than that, as you can have all sorts of content-specific updates and settings changes over the air come through in time as part of streaming and digital media.
AI decompression will expand further than the upscaling, interpolation and de-judder done today, just to name a few, and again that can be shifted to be content specific over the air and update over time through more training.
AI creates better voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities, more context aware menus and voice prompts. What you don't want to get locked into is mediocre ecosystems that are conducted off-device for a fee, or use your marketable data as the cost of the service without appropriately de-identifying it for your own privacy.
Thanks for the compliment. Glad you love AI, future boy.
This tv is closer tier to G4 than C4.
Not giving Hardly Normal my business anyway
Hard to justify this unless you have a specific need for the more matte panel in brighter conditions.
Looking at sub-$2300 for the S90D, which is close to the G4 in general performance also.
There's a few other differences such as screen thickness (as the 95 uses the one connect box) plus different vesa wall mount specs etc. Also the s95 looks as though the precalibration isn't as good as the s90. Rtings is a pretty good reference site and has a comparison of the two.
Whether or not you wall mount is not going to have a huge impact on the choice though, and Samsung have taken to offering a stand for the S95D by default, so most people aren't doing that. Even if you do wall mount, I'd imagine few people are doing it flush against the wall these days, as most TVs do not offer an external box.
Stock calibration likely reflects a rush job with respect to the matte coating. The poor Samsung Display engineers are probably tearing their hair out at how the TV division uses their new tech in first gen deployments.
Thanks. I was just advising the OP that your statement regarding the panel whilst relevant, is not the only difference between the models. I just took the stand/wall mount as a couple of examples.
My TV room is surrounded by big windows and even with blinds drawn is still brightly lit by sunlight during the day (obviously). Would the matte panel work well in these conditions as it is difficult to check in store with the brightness coming from mostly flouro lights and not sunlight as in my case? Sorry to ask but you seem to be a hell of a lot cluer than me about this.
You can see how this works in the RTings review under the reflections testing.
Personally I think I prefer the S90D overall, and that perhaps your curtains should do enough during the day.
Jb had their 10% perk day which made it ATL i believe. Tried to buy the 77 but there was no stock by the time i went and they weren't comfortable taking back orders. Still a good buy compared to everything else and their prices.
Seems on JB and HN are only selling at this price, cheaper than Samsung site though. Spec are good see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vPQ0bpbyLo
Been looking but undecided on best option for price or wait for new 2025 models ..I have an S95B 65" and I would avoid buying both a Samsung TV and especially this series.
I won't neg the deal, but personally, the ultra thin part of the TV is a burden not a feature for me, it may be great if wall mounting I'm not sure, but a real pain to setup, I found.
Additionally the OS on the TV is terrible compared to LG, there's no easy way to switch inputs, you need to bring up the home button, scroll up from recent to other recent inputs and then if a previously mapped input is there and has been moved to the left side manually after it was connected initially, it'll be there and you can select it. On LG, you press the "inputs" button, and move left or right and click, way simpler imo.
The game mode option, as far as I can tell, I can't both shut it off from changing how the menus appear, and have 4k@120hz turned on, it prompts me every single time.
Seems HDR10/+ is far less common than Dolby Vision, HDR is amazing but will depend if you have a lot of shows you want to watch that have HDR mastering, if you do I'd go for something that has DV as I think that implementation is more common than HDR10/+
I mean, it's a modern OLED television of a decent size, it's not going to be bad, and almost anything else on the market will be worse, I just wouldn't buy into the QD-OLED hype, unless you've seen specific content back to back that you know, you'll value for example, higher red values in content, something like that. As others have said, there C4 can be bought for $2.5-3k, I wouldn't pay more for this television (based on my experience with an S95B, C1 and C2 TVs).
S95B has more in common with the S90C and S90D, but it has a weaker SoC/processor and less advanced pixel refreshing.
S90D walks all over the C4 regardless of HDR10+ adoption rates - which is distinct from HDR10 - and the TV software both have their strengths and weaknesses.
AI in my TV?! No Thankyou ðŸ«