Jason Hiner/ZDNETThe improvements taking place within the TV area are making content material extra immersive to devour than ever and the world’s main TV maker led the cost at CES 2024 with significant upgrades throughout its high units, the launch of new product strains, and two first-in-the-world breakthroughs. Also: CES 2024: What’s Next in TechI received to go eyes-on with every part Samsung unveiled in Las Vegas in its new lineup of TVs, laptop displays, and residence leisure units and these are the 4 issues I was most excited to share with you. 1. S95D OLED TV’s new “glare-free” matte end One of the best 2024 upgrades was additionally essentially the most spectacular to see in particular person. Samsung’s new “Glare Free OLED” that it is bringing to the top-of-the-line S95D OLED makes this TV the perfect one to take a look at in your entire Samsung lineup. When you mix the attractive distinction and vibrant coloration of Samsung’s QD-OLED expertise with the new matte end, it produces a TV that may be a pleasure to look at from any angle and within the brightest or darkest rooms. Also: Samsung unveils 2024 TVs with AI options that you simply’d really wish to useInstead of being a large black mirror like most of at present’s TVs, the matte end on the S95D disperses and softens the sunshine from lamps and home windows right into a minimal glow that is overpowered by the brightness of Samsung’s OLED show. My buddy David (*4*) from CNET did a take a look at the place he held up a telephone with a very white display in entrance of the new matte S95D and then in entrance of final 12 months’s S95C. Last 12 months’s mannequin was like a mirror reflecting again the form of the telephone, whereas the new glare-free mannequin softened the sunshine right into a minimal spherical glow. ZDNET’s Kerry Wan and I did an identical take a look at utilizing the flashlight from Kerry’s telephone — with much more intense mild — and received a equally pleasing outcome. With the effectiveness of this new matte end and Samsung’s already-great QD OLED expertise, I’m assured the S95D can be a high contender for finest image high quality on the earth amongst all TVs in 2024. Jason Hiner/ZDNET2. The Premiere 8K projector Samsung introduced the world’s first 8K wi-fi extremely brief throw projector, and I spent deal of time soaking it in at Samsung’s First Look occasion at CES. In the demo space, it was projected onto a 150-inch ambient mild rejection (ALR) display that makes a projector’s image seem like a daily TV with its skinny black body across the edge, and can be reminiscent of being on the films as a result of of the dimensions of the image and the glare discount you get from ALR. The outcome was a really cinema-like expertise, and regardless that projectors can by no means match the distinction and dynamic vary of OLED or QLED, the vibrance of the image high quality was very sturdy. Also: Xgimi’s new IMAX Enhanced projector is an leisure beast, however wait till you see ‘Aladdin’For this new era of projectors that we’re seeing from Samsung and its rivals, 8K makes quite a bit of sense as a result of they’re bringing 100-inch and bigger TV shows to much more folks. And at that dimension, the additional degree of element and sharpness you get with 8K begins to make a notable distinction in image high quality. Even at 150 inches, the Premiere 8K projector solely needed to sit 12 inches from the wall to venture a picture that giant. With its fashionable wood end, it is also one of the best-designed extremely brief throw projectors I’ve seen. That issues since it is a huge rectangular field that usually sits awkwardly in your lounge. It additionally comes with an identical One Connect field you can place elsewhere within the room as a result of it is wi-fi — so you do not have to run a bunch of HDMI cables to that awkwardly positioned projector field. Jason Hiner/ZDNET3. Music Frame Building on the success of The Frame TV — which turns a TV right into a traditional work of artwork or a household picture album whenever you’re not watching one thing — Samsung unveiled a new product line at CES 2024: the Music Frame. This product can function a hidden speaker to enhance the sound of your own home cinema expertise or supply a way more aesthetically pleasing kitchen speaker than an Amazon Echo or Apple HomePod. Also: Samsung has its personal line of online game controllers now. Here’s the primary mannequinThis product masquerades as a typical image body and you possibly can slip a photograph or a bit of artwork into it. But it’s totally thick and has the look of a deep shadowbox, besides that the picture or paintings is on the entrance, and it hides two sound woofers behind it on the again of the body. You can use two Music Frames to create left and proper audio system or a set of rear encompass sound audio system that may pair with a Samsung soundbar and TV to create Q-Symphony clever encompass sound. Music Frame additionally has an identical body type and colours to The Frame TV and might match properly in a room the place they had been used collectively. Jason Hiner/ZDNET4. Transparent Micro-LED show Samsung confirmed off the world’s first clear Micro-LED show and the demo was spectacular — even when somewhat gimmicky for one thing that will not be a viable product for some time. On a slab of glass about an inch thick, the demo unit ran every kind of flashy content material from fireworks going off to vibrant paint forking out of cans to sports activities infographics displaying on display. The colours seemed extra intense and the show extra clear than competing clear OLED screens from LG, which have been round for a couple of years. Also: I saw Samsung and LG’s new clear TVs at CES, and there is a clear winnerThat is sensible since Micro-LED is the show expertise that can probably supersede OLED in the future for the very best high quality TVs. Samsung has been working for years on Micro-LED, which is finest identified for its place in The Wall, the completely huge and exorbitantly priced TV system that’s largely utilized in business installations like stadiums, automobile showrooms, giant company convention rooms, and retail experiences, for instance. So why would anybody desire a clear TV or show display? In the house, it will most likely be little greater than a digital fish tank or maybe a spot to indicate the household calendar, depart messages, and play a slideshow of household pictures. Perhaps that can make sense a decade from now when these shows are manufactured at low value. But at present, like The Wall, it would probably be restricted to makes use of like high-end luxurious packing containers in stadiums the place the glass to look at the sport may mild up with participant data, information factors from the sport, advertisements, and notifications. When it will get far cheaper, it might finally be used to exchange glass in public areas equivalent to bus stops and prepare stations to indicate the schedule and reside updates. June Wan/ZDNET
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I saw Samsung’s CES 2024 deluge of new TV tech and these 4 products impressed me
