Samsung OLED and Neo QLED TVs Reduce Glare, Add More AI
The company also unveiled two concepts: a Holographic TV and a MicroLED mirror display that analyzes your face.
Hey guys, Samsung is releasing a ton of new TVs in 2025. There’s new glare-free models. There’s new frame TVs. They’re even stepping that art store down to all the other TVs. Lots of AI stuff too. We’re going to check it all out starting now. So I’ll start with my favorite innovation that Samsung has. It’s called the Glare Free screen technology. It’s not completely glare-free, but what it’s designed to do is improve picture quality in bright rooms. So last year we tested this on their OLED TV. This year they’re also using it on an OLED TV at the highest end, but they’re also saying it’s a little bit. this year, so we’ll see that in the lab. The idea is that it takes reflections, reduces them, so they really don’t distract, especially if you have bright stuff in the background of your room. It won’t distract on the screen. So I really liked how it worked. They’ve improved it this year. That Glare Free tech is also available in 83 inch screen size, so Samsung is expanding the size of their OLED TVs this year. Also new for 2025 is a new Frame Pro. So Samsung’s frame TVs are kind of like an art store in the TV. You turn them off and there’s actually pictures, art on the wall. Look like a TV. This is the newest version of that. It actually has better picture quality than any other framed TV. It uses mini LEDs arranged around the edge. They say it uses local dimming as well, so all that to say, I think it’s going to have better picture quality than any framed TV before. It’ll also be a lot more expensive. And by the way, they’re throwing a wireless box on this TV to connect your devices without running all those wires up to the back of the television. That’s the frame Pro. So one more thing Samsung is doing with its art store is it’s making it available on TVs that aren’t the frame. If you buy a TV at the Q70 level and above this year, you’ll be able to go in there and purchase paintings and other things from the art store, even if it’s not a framed television, and of course display them and have it be that art that’s not a TV show or a movie. So that’s a new option available on Samsung TVs this year. Finally, Samsung is expanding its AI features to more TVs this year, so they’ve always had these AI picture enhancements that’s still going to be there, but now they’re adding a few other AI features. I’m not really convinced that they’re going to be better than AI on the phone. But they are pretty TV specific. For example, one is called Click to Search, so it’ll identify actors or things on the screen automatically using AI. If you press a button. There’s also a feature for AI karaoke where you can use your phone as a microphone and it’ll turn off the words just like regular karaoke. A few other AI features that they’re adding, none of them are really going to move the needle, and a lot of them are similar to what you find on AI in your phones. We’ll see how they perform later this year. Hey guys, so that’s it for the TVs that are actually going to go on sale this year, but behind me you’ll see some TV. That are concepts, so these aren’t going to go on sale anytime soon, but they’re still pretty cool. One of them is a hollow display. So this thing is essentially like a hologram. The images stick out from the TV. I walked around and they actually disappear when you move off center. When you go to an extreme angle, you can kind of see them pop right back out again. So it’s a really cool effect in person. I don’t know how well you can see it on the video here, but trust me, it’s a neat hologram. Another one is a mirror display. It’s a mirror micro LED. They’re saying it’s potentially something you could buy next. It’s a concept for now. Imagine a mirror you put on your vanity and you can actually use it to scan your face, and it’ll tell you what kind of skincare products you need and you can even use it to watch like a YouTube video while you’re doing your skincare at the same time. Perfect for me. I totally use that all the time. And the third concept here is a transparent micro LED. Now Samsung released this last year, but this year they’re showing even more applications for it. So there’s some kind of things where you can see through the screen with like a frame in the background. There’s the micro. LED transparent screen itself that’s kind of a concept of how this works and again this is a completely see-through display not available for sale this year and probably not anytime soon, but it’s a really cool concept of being able to see right through that screen and put whatever you want behind it. So that’s a look at Samsung’s 2025 TVs, both the ones that are shipping this year, and the concepts, bunch of TVs, a bunch of screens from the world’s largest screen manufacturer, but that’s you’d expect. I’m here at CES 2025. If you liked what you saw, be sure to like and subscribe.