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SAMSUNG is doubling down on cloud gaming by adding Samsung Game Center with 4K OLED TVs and Freestyle TVs.
Announced at CES 2023, the Samsung 4K S95C OLED TV bundled with the Gaming Hub will feature over 1,000 games starting next spring. The latest OLED and quantum dot combination TV
technology.
Samsung OLED’s individual self-illuminating pixels are unobstructed by the TFT layer, increasing brightness and color accuracy. Samsung’s custom-designed 4K Neural Quantum Processor enables Samsung OLED to deliver unparalleled brightness, vivid color mapping, and intelligent 4K upscaling with AI detail recovery. (LG also puts a lot of AI into its TVs.)
Focused on gaming, the TV has a 0.1 millisecond response time and a refresh rate of up to 144Hz. The S95C eliminates ghosting – which blurs the screen when an image dims instead of disappearing entirely – and offers visualization and correction options.
The S95C’s cloud gaming support with Gaming Hub provides 4K support for Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming and can also access cloud games on Microsoft Xbox, Utomik, and Amazon Luna. The TVs are less than half an inch thick and they have Dolby Atmos 70W 4.2.2ch Top Speakers.
The Freestyle model also comes with the Samsung Gaming Hub and is designed to be a smart TV platform with interactive and portable entertainment. Designed to fit homes, offices, and art galleries, Freestyle has also been redesigned to address new use cases, including real-world metaverse applications.
Visually extend the canvas across large or multi-wall walls, new Edge Blending technology allows two Freestyles to synchronize their projections into one vibrant, ultra-wide screen. Samsung’s patented Edge Blending technology automatically keystones and adjusts images for an even more immersive cinematic experience.
Samsung also introduced the 76-inch Micro LED CX TV in its high-end lineup. And the Samsung Neo QLED 8K has 8K picture quality using Quantum Matrix Technology, delivering 4,000 nits of brightness with 14-bit contrast. And the Neo QLED 4K 2023 TV will use deep learning AI to analyze content to convert any content into brighter, clearer and more vivid HDR – even if the source material is SDR.
And Samsung has more than 2,500 works curated by galleries in its art store. The second version of the art store will have a better experience as well as the NFT marketplace with artwork from over 1,000 artists.
Samsung says it will have a new home health monitoring technology on its TVs for the first time. Samsung’s camera analysis measures five vital signs – heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate,
oxygen saturation and stress index – all from your couch. It does this using remote gas volumetric imaging (rPPG), an intelligent computer vision technology that assesses vital signs by detecting changes in skin color on the skin. face caused by heart rate. The system is opt-in, contactless, accurate, and easy to use. Along with that, it also features telemedicine.
And Samsung’s Chat Together is a TV embedded platform that enables real-time communication while watching live TV. It allows you to easily communicate with people outside the home in real time. Additionally, the mobile app, available on both Android and iOS, allows users to respond quickly on both TV and mobile platforms using a single interface. The whole connection process is done simply by downloading the mobile app and tapping on the BLE pop-up.
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