Yeah when you have debrid and found cached source, torrent peer count doesn't matter.

For me I always go for h265 followed by Dolby vision and Atmos (Sony TV and HTA7000). I don't really go for remux as sometimes it is just the multi lang audio being in it. Yes supposedly that's the highest quality video but non remux with well known group ripping it encoded it pretty well.

Do you ever find sometimes some source/torrent will play fine but some will buffer frequently? Which known group (I'm assuming torrent uploader) are you referring when you say encoding is done pretty well?

Is the acoustic centre thing really good? Thinking of getting a3000 or 5000 cos I see 7000 is too big.. surely can’t fit on my table lol

Sharing Samsung free TV channels
https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home...ter/tvs/tvplus/

Playlist as below,
https://i.mjh.nz/SamsungTVPlus/all.m3u8

Night time aldebrid seems to have routing issue for my case since early of the year. Could be related to sea cable issue. Realdebrid for me stable even at night since they have singapore server. I use both RealDebrid and Aldebrid depending on what i want to watch since RealDebrid seems to block more content like certain season of CBS's Survivor USA series im watching with my family now. For hot and popular movies, i doubt will have prob getting cached source since likely other ppl have cached it before.

For the encoding, im not too picky as long as it looks right. Some content has fake or incorrect tagging like claimed DV but it doesnt map properly to my tv. However when trying another DV release for same movie ok pula in dolby vision bright/dark preset. Just need to see see mana works well but so far isnt troubling. Cant remember specific scene release group since theres too many.




I think i can live without acoustic center channel. On modern content that has been mixed well, it doesnt provide much diff. But when watching older 90s TV show i can hear vocals slightly better with it. I had mine default to on anyway. A7000 is overpriced actually. Samsung can provide similar performance with much much cheaper price since they bundle in woofer and rear upfiring speakers as well in the mix. I just got it for sake or matching everything Sony5. The only pros i have is i can connect PS5 direct to soundbar for 120hz+VRR and can control everything using remote TV (no need to rely on soundbar remote anymore).

S95D is not that much brighter than S95C.

The S95C can get up to 1500 nits. Meaning you can also do the same with the much cheaper S90C (2nd gen version) by changing the setting from service menu.
So 1600 nits is barely an improvement.

What the gen3 QD-OLED was really improving is the dark color saturation , the tracking is far more accurate OOTB.


If the sunlight is really distracting from the outside , getting a thicker curtain would a better solution.

Because the matte filter is NOT exactly a solution from direct reflection. AR coating is more efficient than Matte but then it will raise the cost significantly.
Matte surface drastically lower the contrast under normal viewing condition , lower contrast is counterproductive to an OLED TV.

The only situation I would consider a S95D is if your entire room is pitch black , otherwise the raised black level is extremely distracting.
It doesn't look much better than its LCD counterpart like QN95D but with the risk of burn ins.


There are several comparison where the S95C simply look better in a bright room because Samsung previous antiglare was already considered the best in class in the field.

What Samsung did to their 2024 flagship OLED is confusing. When the monitors are trying to move from matte to glossy , they did the exact opposite.

This post has been edited by Convael: Jul 26 2024, 04:40 PM

Sorry, somehow this thread didn't pop up in my notice alert for some reason.

Anyway bro, if I spent all my time finding faults in every version release, I don't think I'll be buying anything at all for several years. They'll always be an issue with every model update. S95C had people complaining that it wasn't true 48Gbps, signal drops during gaming due to some HDMI voltage issue in the one connect box etc.; S95B having flickering during gaming, some weird issue I forgot that was luckily fixed after firmware update, and not sure what else. Didn't have the money to get it that time anyway.

I don't need super crazy bright panels as I said, it's like staring in the face of the sun whenever I turn it on so I actually reduced the brightness.

My curtains are yes, blackout curtains, but I can't have total darkness in my living room as I have old folks and there needs to be some light for them to navigate. I can't use those fancy backlight leds or floor lights, as they aren't able to turn it on themselves whenever I'm not around. so they are more comfortable with lamp switches. Thus the matte helps a lot whenever they want to watch their shows in the day or night time.

I don't have the money to constantly keep buying new generations and I've been wanting to get an OLED since S95B, so this present version ticked my boxes, and most importantly, my family is happy with the wow factor after constantly admiring these OLEDs whenever we go shopping.

However, I do appreciate you educating us all these while with your experience and expertise, so keep it up bro. Your reviews and comments are most likely helping others lurking in this thread.

It was a TV box issue , what was insulting is that the S90C , which was cheaper actually is the one that has full 48 GBPS.

Since S95D comes with one connect box , it is likely to be restricted to 40 GBPS. But in reality this isn't a dealbreaker unless you are planning to push 120 fps on a 4k screen via gaming PC .
(Update : just confirmed with a few guys of mine its still 40gbps for S95D )

Anyway I am not degrading your TV , S95D still a fantastic screen so enjoy every penny you've spent on it.

This post has been edited by Convael: Jul 26 2024, 04:40 PM

any samsung tv came along with hdmi 2.1 , if yes which model ?

I had a hard time deciding on a replacement TV. I finally chose the Samsung budget TV, model CU7000, which was last year's model. I got it for only 2k for a 65" TV.

planning get a 65" is either frame or QN85D. any recommend?

Just answering my own question:
Samsung to support AI smart TVs with 7 years of Tizen OS updates
https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-to-s...zen-os-updates/

Not sure which model will get 7 years of updates...

Basically , most of the mid range ( from Q70 ) to high end Samsung TV ( such as the QD OLED and Neo 8K ) come with 4 X HDMI 2.1 ports.

However there is a drawback for specific models that uses One connect box . These models ( such as the S95 series ) is limited to 40 GBPS ( instead of 48 GBPS ) despite being advertised as fully HDMI 2.1 compliant.

This post has been edited by Convael: Aug 30 2024, 10:52 AM

why my samsung tv got no samsung tv plus?

Noted

My QN85C just received an update (version 2000.2) that apparently prepares it for this



So I guess 2023 Neo QLED and OLED models are covered as well

My CU7100 updated to v2003, i dunno what different, mostly parent watch TV

mine is CU7000

no idea why there is no change log like phone
and update very fast, screen only show 1 second, then TV restart

Any difference after update? Wonder what do tv updates bring to user experience