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I tested Alexa+ and was very pleased with how it worked, allowing me to adjust the volume and search for obscure 90s toys. You can enable Alexa voice prompts by skipping the remote mic button, but this didn’t work as reliably as I would have liked. Several times, saying “Alexa” did not turn on the TV.
Benchmarking
Benchmarks don’t lie, or so the theory goes. We all see colors differently, and we respond to contrast and light depending on our perspective. When the R95H met the BT.2020 color gamut specs, the result of Spears & Munsil Benchmarks made it clear that the performance of the R95H is not as good as that of its competitor LG Micro RGB Evo. I can say that the difference in the skin on the Samsung was not so obvious: two people who do not look the same, smart, look the same on the screen.
Image preferences didn’t help much. High intensity (which some TV producers call Vivid) caused colors to swell and bleed, and film production conditions made the appearance of skin very dark. The AI image processing worked very well, especially for football, but many adjustments related to contrast and brightness did not help as much as they did on the LG.
Likewise, the reel test was not as exciting as I had hoped for the new display technology. The green grass behind the wooden fence was not as bright as I would have liked for a high-end TV. The white mist on top of the snowy mountain was clearly visible but slightly eroded. Picture settings and tweaks to brightness, brightness, and color temperature didn’t help either.
The real LCD screen and anti-glare technology that Samsung uses on the R95H made this TV more comfortable with advanced tweaks than the LG or Hisense RGB models I tested. On the LG Micro RGB Evo in particular, simple tweaks to improve temperature and brightness had a huge impact on image quality, as they do for most images. For example, using the Vivid picture mode improved the test results, while the Dynamic mode on the R95H didn’t move the needle. A buffalo roaming the field looks a little smoother thanks to anti-glare technology. The dark trees in the mountains were not different enough from the darkness. The yellow flower looks very full in Dynamic mode but very long and blurry when using Filmmaker mode.
Testing the Not-So-Pretty Colors
Photo: John Brandon
While testing the R95H, I learned that color correction is more important for smaller RGB screens than OLED TVs, as colors need to be rendered more consistently.
