![]() That’s nearly twice as bright as even the latest premium OLED TVs can go with full-screen bright images. It’s worth mentioning, too, given the 98Q80C’s clear desire to offer a viable cut-price alternative to king-sized OLED TVs, that it achieves between 700 and 770 nits across the picture preset board with a full-screen white HDR signal. Brightness dropped around 300 nits with each of the most useful three presets using a 1% white window - a pretty natural result of a 98-inch TV driven by 120 local dimming zones. ![]() Happily, though, the other much more effective Standard, Movie and Filmmaker Mode presets all turned in figures comfortably above 1000 nits on the same 10% window. It’s designed, basically, for in-store conditions, not your living room. Not that I’d recommend that anyone actually use the Dynamic preset for real-world viewing. This was achieved in Dynamic mode, with the TV’s local dimming set to ‘high’. Talking of brightness, I measured the 98Q80C to be capable of delivering a peak brightness output of 1173 nits on a white HDR window covering 10% of an otherwise black screen. The Quantum Dot color engine, meanwhile, should enable the 98Q80C to deliver a more vibrant color palette capable of handling more brightness without tones and shades starting to look thin. IPS panels can offer slightly wider effective viewing angles, but find it notoriously difficult to control the amount of light that seeps through them during dark scenes.ĭetail of the 98Q80C's connections. It will surely help the 98Q80C’s light control that it uses a VA type of LCD panel rather than an IPS one. To abuse a common phrase, it’s not always the number of dimming zones you have that counts, but what you do with them. Surely, some will shout, in a year where we’ve seen much smaller TVs - including from Samsung - sporting literally hundreds more dimming zones than the 98Q80C carries, 120 just isn’t going to be enough to deliver a great picture on a 98-inch screen.Įven before getting into the 98Q80C’s performance, though, I’d counter this argument by saying that there’s been plenty of first-hand evidence over the years to show that while having gazillions of dimming zones can certainly class as a ‘good start’, it’s not the be all and end all of a great TV picture. ![]() I can hear the sharp intakes of breath from here. A status that boils down to a total dimming zone count on the 98Q80C of 120 (as confirmed by a visit to the TV’s service menus). Samsung describes the 98Q80C’s dimming engine as Supreme UHD Dimming - which, despite how grand it sounds, actually sits a step down from the top level Ultimate UHD Dimming engine Samsung saves for models that have the highest number of dimming zones. While the extra light controls and precision mini LED TVs provide might well have helped the 98Q80C in its battle against the key issues king-sized LCD screens can face, though, it does at least use a direct full array panel design with local dimming (where different zones of its LEDs can be set to output different light levels with any given frame, independent of the other LED zones).
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