Nearly 30,000 Samsung flagship HDR TV 9800 real machine experience

KS9800 is Samsung's flagship model SUHD curved TV sold in 2016. The TV is equipped with Samsung's second-generation quantum dot technology and HDR 100 technology, and the software platform uses Samsung's self-developed Tizen system. The price of the 65-inch model is close to 30,000 yuan, and the price of the 55-inch unit is close to 20,000 yuan. No matter how the picture quality, function, and design are developed for the high-end consumer market.
As a flagship product, the KS9800 also represents Samsung's highest level of design in the television industry. Although it uses a minimalist style, but the body material and even the body of the back of the material, the choice of different materials, collocations are very elegant, very much attention to the sense of quality and texture creation.
The KS9800 uses a low-visibility, ultra-narrow edge design to reduce interference on the screen. This is a common practice for all brands today.
However, Samsung does not overemphasize the border width and thickness values ​​(some Internet TV brands using Samsung's curved panels like to advertise their industrial design capabilities through thickness and border width), and pay more attention to overall aesthetics.
The back of the KS9800 fuselage close-up under natural light. The famous domestic industrial designer Yang Mingjie said: After Bauhaus, Minimalist has become a style, an aesthetic standard. However, minimalism does not mean that simplicity is the more complex the product is. The number of screws on the back of the KS9800 is far less than that of ordinary curved TVs. This will not change the overall performance, but it will bring more simple overall visual effects. This is not the only idea to achieve the best, but also the high-end products and general low-end products in the design, manufacture, the biggest difference.
The back of the KS9800 fuselage close-up under natural light.
This cantilevered base is also a major highlight of the entire design. The base is made of all-metal, high-polished mirror surface treatment, cool temperament.
This is not a cantilevered cantilever but it supports the entire huge screen and gives the screen a feeling of being suspended on the table.
From the front you can't see the connection posts between the base and the screen, creating a floating illusion.
The side of the screen border is also made of silver metal, but it uses a matte texture.
Although the border is very narrow, the LOGO breathing light in the center of the bottom border is not saved. The vast majority of medium- and low-end TVs directly paste metal trademark LOGOs for the sake of saving children.
The KS9800 can also be mounted on the wall, but for curved TVs, wall-mounting can neither fully fit the wall to save space, but also loses the unique flavor of the base. Today, the screen is generally thin and light, and today the product itself Reduced visibility.
The close-up of the KS9800's back bracket is chrome-plated on the surface of the metal material. The mirror surface treatment is exceptionally smooth, while hand fingerprints are not easily left.
The back uses a matt light blue-gray brushed texture and doesn't have much metal texture, but the atmosphere of modern art is still very strong.
The input and output terminals of the KS9800 are still used in an external manner and are connected via special cables and screen sections. However, this generation of external smart hubs is significantly smaller and more convenient when placed.
The curvature of the screen of the KS9800 is comparable to that of previous generations of products, and the curvature of most curved TVs on the market is basically the same. This curvature is slightly cramped on the 55-inch scale, and on the 65-inch scale it can create a visual effect with a certain degree of immersion.
The standard remote control of the KS9800 has changed compared to last year's flagship model remote control. The volume of the KS9800 is even smaller, and the number of buttons is further simplified, but the workmanship and texture are not reduced, and it is very exquisite.
The entire outline of the remote controller is curved, although the volume is smaller, but the weight is not light, in the hand is still more feel.
This minimalist remote control is also related to the Tizen system on the KS9800. Compared to the older system, the Tizen system developed by Samsung itself has a very simple UI style, and will not affect the current video being viewed. Most operations can be performed in a few steps, so the keys of the remote control can also be simplified.
The interface of the Tizen system, the main function icons at the time of operation are displayed as floating layers at the bottom of the screen. The Tizen system is a common software platform independently developed by Samsung. In addition to the TV field, Samsung also plans to carry all of the white power and mobile phone products. Tizen is also the basic platform for Samsung's future smart home platform.
The Tizen system still retains some traditional style menus, but these menus are less commonly used by users.
As the flagship product of the year, the KS9800 has the highest picture quality configuration in Samsung's entire line of products, including second-generation quantum dot technology using cadmium-free materials (which can increase the color gamut range), and LCD panels with low-reflection characteristics. Black level performance), automatic depth-of-field optimization technology (enhanced image stereo), and most important HDR technology. This is the actual display effect of HDR video.
HDR is the hottest technology in color TV industry this year. Although many low-cost TVs in the market also advertise support for HDR, most of them are only compatible with HDR input signals, and a slightly higher point is that the chip performs analog HDR processing on the input signals. TVs that can really achieve HDR 1000 specifications in display performance are not cheap, because to achieve the high brightness of 1000nit that HDR 1000 requires, the entire hardware structure needs to be redesigned, which is costly.
The KS9800 has a "hard" HDR capability. It does not interfere with the low-brightness part of the screen while displaying high-brightness images. Therefore, the contrast of the screen is more intense, the details are more abundant, and the realism of the screen becomes more prominent.
The test piece source contains a large number of high-brightness elements in the natural world. When an ordinary television is displayed, it is difficult to reproduce the brightness on the one hand, and on the other hand, the overall brightness of the dark part image is also increased, thereby reducing the image authenticity.
KS9800 display real shot. In this night scene, the bright area and the dark area do not interfere with each other, and it is difficult to do this on an ordinary TV.
KS9800 display real shot. Bright iron does not affect the gradual effect of the surrounding dark background, the attenuation of color, brightness are very delicate and natural.
KS9800 display real shot. HDR makes the texture of the image more prominent, and the three-dimensional feeling is also strengthened.
KS9800 display real shot. In fact, the purpose of HDR on the TV is not to blindly increase the brightness, but to let the TV have the ability to display high-brightness images. After all, the brightness range perceived by the human eye is much larger than the brightness range that the LCD TV can reproduce. .
Experience summary: The KS9800 is a TV set with a very good industrial design. The newly added HDR also greatly enhances its display performance. It has the effects that non-HDR TVs and pseudo-HDR TVs cannot achieve. However, the price of this series of TVs is also very "high-grade".