[Music] this coverage is sponsored by Richardson's Manchester called Oh triple tree 900 wat6 for the best prices and expert advice for TVs AV and hi-fi hello everyone my name is Vince appear I am T reviewer and in this video we're going to compare the picture quality of Samsung's and Sony's 20 24 K LED LCD TVs on my left is the Sony XH 95 which is also marketed as the Brava X 950 H in the USA on my right is the Samsung hue ATT culet television this comparison is going to be extra special because not only do these two TVs command the same launch price of 1,600 pounds in the United Kingdom where we are based they also have the same screen size of 55 inches as well as a similar number of local dimming zones allowing us to assess the picture processing from these two leading TV brands on sort of a level playing field both TVs have been calibrated to the common standards he used within the film and broadcast industry for SDR this means d65 whitepoint 2.4 gamma and rec 709 colours or as for HDR it's the same d65 white point st 2084 PQ OTF and DCI p3 color space within a rec 2020 container due to our cameras limited dynamic range YouTube's encoding and color accuracy of your screen not to mention the off-axis color shifts of these v8 hyper LCD panels what you are seeing in this video may not fully represent what I'm seeing in person so please do not judge a picture quality based solely on what you see on your screen both the Sony XH 95 and Samsung kill ATT use full or a local beaming directly LED backlighting so let's kick things off by comparing the number of zones using our own custom auto test pattern consisting a small white box crawling horizontally and then vertically against the borders of a black background we counted 48 independently dimmable zones on the sony 55 x 95 in 6 times 8 grid and 50 zones on the Samsung 55 Q ATT in a 5 by 10 arrangement you will also notice that the Samsung q8 it he exhibited less blooming around a moving white box than the Sony XH 95 this is because Samsung has designed its local dimming algorithm to prioritize minimizing blooming or hollowing artifacts so much so that the TV is willing to dim down prior objects to make this happen you can clearly see Samsung's philosophy at work in another of our own test pattern where a white circle rapidly expands to fill up the screen when small the circle looked significantly dimmer on the samsung QA TT then on the Sony XH 95 and even as the circle expanded there's a stronger vignetting effect along its circumference on samsung QA TT because the television is actively darkening the relevant zones to reduce light leakage into adjacent black areas moving on to real-world content the Samsung hue ATT consistently suppress blooming to a more effective degree than the Sony XH 95 but as a consequence shadow detail may be crushed and bright elements may look darker than reference it's a case of pick your poison with Samsung you see less blooming and inking at the Box bars but also a less accurate image with more backlight fluctuations Sony is more faithful to the creator's intent but blooming artifacts are more obvious color accuracy was very close between the two review samples we have here this year samsung has closed the gap on Sony because of two reasons one the South Korean brand has developed an algorithm that can distinguish content from interface and to the latest better version of cowman released in april 30 2011 tvs to be calibrated over a wired or wireless network instead of requiring a cumbersome excellent cable the sony xh 95 didn't maintain color accuracy better in dark scenes thanks to better look up tables and less aggressive local dimming at low light levels but for brighter STR scenes it's basically a wash between the two screen uniformity can vary from unit to unit so our findings may not be representative or what you'll be getting but both our review samples were some of the clean and LED LCDs we've tested to date exhibiting no significant bending or dirty screen effect if anything our sony xh 9 v was a hair more uniform than the samsung q ATT in the center of the screen but exhibited slightly more darkening in the corners please ignore the horizontal shadowing of the FAL B grits captured by our camera it's not visible in real life by eye Samsung has improved its 24p motion handling this year implementing native fi pulldown for the very first time so users can enjoy smooth pans in movies without Allison each other even if all motion settings are turned off however the Sony XH 95 still has the upper hand in general motion handling over the Samsung QA TT in a couple of key areas first Sony's X motion clarity technology allows for backlight blinking to be inserted on a zonal basis instead of the entire screen as used by Samsung's black frame insertion which means the XH 95 can achieve high motion resolution without suffering from excessive darkening or flicker associated with convention of BFI secondly even when both sets had been correctly set up the sony xh 9 5 was less prone than the samsung QA TT to stuttering and frame drops especially during scene changes in the 50s broadcast we get in the UK and Europe Samsung and Sony have some of the best upscaling in the business and I like both of them for different reasons on this SMPTE appearance Rashid has cut in 576i the sony xh 95 look cleaner than the samsung QA TT with less ringing and junk pixels note that I had to enable / scan under Sony to level the playing field since Samsung doesn't allow over scan to be disabled for standard definition video signal in real-world content the Sony XH 95 upskill a standard F content in a slightly sharper manner but a question aliy could look over processed for 1080p broadcast whereas the Samsung QA TT was consistently more forgiving across the board both TVs are outstanding up scalars I don't think you can go wrong with either for HDR the Sony XH 95 reached a peak brightness of 1200 nips on a 10% window after calibration while the Samsung hue ADT topped out near 900 needs as a result specular highlights in HDR content generally look brighter and more impactful on the Sony XH 95 here my colleague Adam fell off or better known as evil Boris online has kindly lent us his expertise to apply a luminance heat map so you can better see the difference in peak brightness of various elements on screen at the top left are the actual non he mapped footage of the TVs and at the top right is a heat map version of the original clip captured directly from an at almost ninja 5 the reference so to speak that demonstrates how far off consumer displays are from one one tone mapping interestingly on a small minority of scenes the Samsung hue ATT actually renders certain specular highlights to be brighter than the Sony XH 95 maybe it's something to do with Samsung's new local power distribution technology that draws power from darker regions to be redistributed to brighter areas overall though the XH 95 delivered greater HDR impact although the TV would clip more bright detail above 2000 s than the Samsung hue ATT due to Sony's tone mapping algorithm that favors preserving average picture level over specular highlight detail Samsung has improved the gradation quality in HDR mode on the Q ADT to match that on the XH 95 although the Sony did have an additional smoke rotation feature of its sleeve which can reduce in content polarization even further also occasionally the Samsung QA DT would introduce strange posterization artifacts in the most unexpected places for example on this lamp from the greatest showman the Sony XH 95 supports double vision whereas the Samsung QA DT supports HD attend class and while Sony continues to use the low latency version of Dolby vision unlike previous years it's not any darker in APL than HDR pen in the most accurate dolby vision that picture mode in case you are wondering the only reason I still own two copies of power rangers is because I couldn't find anyone to buy it off me when washed through the internal Netflix app on the TV's a handful of shows exhibited near black polarization in Dolby vision on the sony xh 95 whereas they looked cleaner in HDR 10 on the samsung QA TT even if it's a bit washed out or into lack of dynamic metadata we gave more engaged onboard TVs in Pula measure 13 milliseconds on the samsung QA TT and half a frame higher at 21 milliseconds on the Sony XH 95 however to achieve a lower input lag Samsung's game board neuters local dimming to a greater degree than Sony's leading to not only great blacks but also less pop and detail in the highlights in this HDR sequence from horizon zero dawn now when I did the same comparison for the samsung q 9 TR vs. LG c 9 last year a few q90 our owners doubted my findings claiming that either mike unity our sample was faulty or it suffered from an HDR back with the consoles so here i'm gonna display an SDR movie not a game from a blu-ray player not a game console on samsung q entity and sony xh 95 both in calibrated game mode with local dimming and able as you can see from the elevated blacks on the QA TT that's just how local dimming behaves in game mode on Samsung TVs in pursuit of the lowest input lag in Samsung's favor the QA TT is quantum door enhancement me the fire in horizon zero dawn looked more saturated at higher luminance than what's presented by the Sony XH 95 also the Samsung hue ATT supports Auto low latency mode variable refresh rate and on HDMI port for 4k at 120 Hertz at 10 bit 444 whereas the sony xh 95 suppose none of these hdmi 2.1 gaming features making the samsung the more logical choice for pairing with next-gen consoles such as the xbox series X and PSV coming out at the end of 2020 before I end this video I want to show you a couple more things these TVs have been bored out of their mind after being quarantined in my test room for more than two weeks so I took them out for some fresh air which also allowed me to compare the anti glare filter on both sets while the Samsung hue ATT looked hazy with a yellowish cast when like hit the screen the Sony XH 95 was able to maintain a relatively black appearance we do wonder if it's helped by the viewing angle composition film although occasionally there will be rainbow reflections on the screen of the Sony XH 95 when light hits it at a certain angle talking of which the XY angle technology implemented on the Sony XH 95 meant that it could hang on to contrast and color saturation better of axes compared with the Samsung QA TT step up Samsung models such as the q9 TT or q95 T will have better viewing angles and anterior active filter to compete with the Sony but then they would also be more expensive in summary the Samsung qada T and Sony Accession i-5 have their own strengths and weaknesses which TV you choose will depend on what features you prefer or need hopefully this video has gone somewhere to illustrate the pros and cons to help you decide if you found 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