Samsung Launches 8K TV That Is 99% Picture, With Bezels Barely Visible

Samsung, the world’s biggest TV maker is launching a new 8K model named Q950TS, with extra thin frames around the pictures.

When you see the TV in the work, it is challenging to make out any bezels. Everything looks just like a disembodied moving image. According to Samsung, the Q950TS is 99% picture, compared to a maximum of 95% on most other TVs available on the market. That mere 4% can totally change the game for Samsung, it appears.

What Samsung did to minimize the bezels is to remove the black matrix around the panel’s edges, making pictures going right up to the metallic edge.

Although it features a full-array local dimming LED backlight, the 8K TV is only 15mm deep.

Buying an 8K TV isn’t a wise decision to make now, given that there is no content that can support that much resolution, as PlayStation 5, 2020 Olympics, and Xbox Series X have been delayed.

These TVs are much more expensive than their 4K counterparts and the improvements you can notice are limited. This is why experts predict 8K TVs sales won’t pick up in the next few years.

To make these TVs more appealing to consumers, Samsung adds something called local power distribution, which can boost maximum brightness by around 20%, and better controls blooming.

With a deep learning neural network onboard, the TV can literally teach itself algorithms to improve picture quality overtime.

The enhanced viewing angle and antiglare on the 2019’s flagship TVs also make it to the Q950TS this year.

However, for now, it isn’t clear if these extras can make Samsung’s 8K TVs a worthy competitor of OLED.

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