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Tom's Guide
20-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
Samsung OLED TVs are about to get even better for gaming — here's how
Samsung OLED TVs are already among the best TVs you can buy, but they're about to get even better for dedicated gamers. According to a FlatpanelsHD, the brand just announced that Nvidia G-Sync compatibility is coming to its 2025 OLED TV lineup, including the recently released Samsung S95F flagship. Nvidia G-Sync is a proprietary technology that synchronizes the refresh rate of a display with a device's frame rate. In doing so, it minimizes visual artifacts like screen tearing and stutter, thereby allowing for much smoother gameplay. If this tech sounds familiar, that's because it operates similarly to Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), a standardized version of the technology, as well as FreeSync, AMD's proprietary version of it. The feature is important for gamers who use their TV as a monitor for high-end PCs that tap Nvidia GPUs. While neither the Xbox Series X or the PS5 Pro are G-Sync-compatible, the feature is important for gamers who use their TV as a monitor for high-end PCs that tap Nvidia GPUs. Using a TV like the Samsung S95F for PC gaming would also allow users to take advantage of the TV's 165Hz native refresh rate. Even the aforementioned consoles max out at 4K/120Hz. Currently, only a handful of TVs are officially certified by Nvidia as being G-Sync compatible, but this includes LG-branded OLED TVs like the recently released LG C5 as well as the brand's flagship, the LG G5 OLED. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. While an official timetable has not been made public, according to Samsung, the flagship S95F will be the first of its OLED TVs to receive G-Sync compatibility in an upcoming firmware update sometime in the coming months. Samsung's other 2025 OLED TVs — the mid-range S90F and the entry-level S85F — are set to receive the update sometime later this year. If you consider yourself a dedicated gamer and were holding out to buy one of the best OLED TVs this year, I would consider this another possible point in Samsung's favor. However, if you do most (or all) of your gaming on a console, G-Sync compatibility probably doesn't need to be at the top of your wish list.
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Yahoo
Sony's fixing the wrong panel problems while showing off its new 'RGB LED' backlight tech with outrageous colours and brightness
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Sony has taken the wraps off a new backlight tech for LCD panels known as RGB LED. In really simple terms, it's similar to existing mini-LED backlight tech, such as that offered by the BenQ MOBIUZ EX321UX, but with coloured RGB lighting zones as opposed to monochrome blue LEDs moderated by a quantum dot layer. Sony claims the results include much wider colour rendering, plus increased brightness. How much better? Sony says colour space coverage is increased to 90% Rec.2020, while peak brightness jumps up to 4000 nits, all while delivering improved viewing angles. To put that into context, those kinds of numbers are similar to a professional video grading monitor costing tens of thousands of dollars. So, in at least some respects, this technology looks very impressive indeed. The colours are likely to be outrageous, as is the peak brightness and overall visual pop and punch. However, there is a catch. According to FlatpanelsHD, the demo screen Sony showed off had 3,840 dimming zones. That's an increase over most existing mini-LED displays. Sony's current high-end 75-inch Bravia 9 TV has 2,800 dimming zones and the BenQ monitor mentioned above has 1,152 zones. However, it still means that the display tech shares one dimming zone across 2,160 pixels on a 4K panel. In other words, if you want to light up just one pixel, you also have to drive a backlight zone covering another 2,159 pixels. Of course, few image details are just one pixel. But a point of light like a star might be just tens of pixels, which is still much, much smaller than the 2,000-plus pixels of an RGB LED dimming zone. Likewise, correctly rendering the edge of a bright object on a dark background requires per-pixel precision. So, this new tech does little to solve the basic lighting precision problem of mini-LED compared to a per-pixel technology like OLED. The difference here is that instead of uniform white halos around small, bright details, the halo colour will vary according to the colour of the object being rendered. Sony says it has a new advanced backlight control chip to help compensate for the inherent shortcomings of low-resolution local dimming. But the fundamental issues remain. How much all of this is a problem depends on both personal preference and the image being shown. For a really bright movie or game scene, something sunny and outdoor, this new panel tech will probably be utterly amazing. But for darker scenes, or images with a mix of very bright and very dark objects, it will retain major issues. Of course, OLED tech has its own issues. The best current OLED monitor tech, such as the Dough Spectrum Black 32 OLED, can only hit a feeble 275 nits for full-screen brightness. And even next-gen OLED panel technology from LG and Samsung is only promising to increase that to around 400 nits, miles short of the thousands of nit mini-LED and indeed Sony's new RGB LED can achieve. All of which means for the foreseeable future, there will be no single screen tech that excels everywhere. But given how bright and vivid mini-LED tech already is, I can't help feeling Sony is solving the wrong problem here. What backlit LCD panels need more than anything is more lighting precision, not even more outright punch. Anyway, as for when you might see this new RGB LED tech in a screen you can buy, that's not totally clear. Sony says the technology will go into mass production later this year, so it will probably be in TVs some time in 2026. Whether it comes to PC monitors is another matter. But if it truly does offer clear advantages, you can probably expect something similar to appear in PC monitors before long. Best CPU for gaming: Top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game first.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Google and Samsung's Dolby Atmos rival should be coming to Android TVs, too
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Google and Samsung's Dolby Atmos rival Eclipsa Audio is set to debut in Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars, and it could be coming to more devices soon. The highly anticipated open-source alternative to Dolby's immersive audio format was rumoured in 2020 and revealed to a greater extent in 2023. At CES 2025, FlatpanelsHD heard from the two companies about their plans, and it has certainly piqued our interest on the long-awaited release. But what actually is it? Essentially, it is the audio equivalent of HDR10+ video, so is free to use in products and content. Google told FlatpanelsHD that Eclipsa Audio does not need to be bundled with HDR10+ or anything else. It also said that, unlike Dolby Atmos, Eclipsa Audio is not object-based but rather channel-based, with support for first- and third-order ambisonics to create a 3D audio perspective. It can contain up to 28 input channels, which are then rendered to a set of output speakers or headphones. This is all well and good, but the two brands have only said so far that it's available on Samsung TVs and soundbars. That rules out a lot of customers. However, FlatpanelsHD reports that a Google spokesperson told them the format will be officially supported on Google TV devices from brands such as Hisense, Sony, Philips and TCL starting with Android 16, where it will get OS-level support. Google also said that TV devices will bring support to mobile devices and the web, including web browsers. We have not had the chance to hear the 3D audio format, but will keep you updated when we do. Time will only tell if it is able to truly rival Atmos. MORE: Here is all you need to know about Dolby Atmos These are the best soundbars right now And these are the best Samsung TVs we recommend
