expiredMellowCatfish6336 posted Apr 21, 2026 10:39 PM
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expiredMellowCatfish6336 posted Apr 21, 2026 10:39 PM
83" Samsung S85F 4K OLED SamsungVision AI Smart Tizen TV (2025)
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Confusingly, this year for the H series, the S85H and S90H use WOLED panels and the S95H use QD-OLED panels.
This applies to the North American market.
Confusingly, this year for the H series, the S85H and S90H use WOLED panels and the S95H use QD-OLED panels.
This applies to the North American market.
Hopefully, Samsung will be able to make 83" QD-OLED panels for next year.
Hopefully, Samsung will be able to make 83" QD-OLED panels for next year.
Me, I'm a Sony guy. .. so it pains me to consider either an LG or a Samsung. My first choice would be the 83 inch LG G5 . . then the 83 inch Samsung S90F (wouldn't touch the S95F because of the one connect box), and then this one, the 83 inch S85F.
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Wifi 6 and 7 mostly focus on speed improvements and offer near zero benefits for range. Video streams used by TVs do not need more bandwidth than what is offered by Wifi 5. Any money spent on a wifi 7 chip in a TV would mostly be wasted.
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Wifi 6 and 7 mostly focus on speed improvements and offer near zero benefits for range. Video streams used by TVs do not need more bandwidth than what is offered by Wifi 5. Any money spent on a wifi 7 chip in a TV would mostly be wasted.
My point also wasn't just about peak bandwidth. A TV may not need enormous speed for basic streaming, but newer Wi-Fi standards can still improve efficiency, congestion handling, and overall reliability, which can matter for things like high-bitrate local streaming and game streaming, or Plex and Jellyfin.
More broadly, manufacturers often include components that exceed what a device strictly "needs" in day-to-day use. That is true of Wi-Fi chips, cellular modems (LTE chip...2Gpbs download...top LTE network = 1Gbps in select spots and usually in non-US countries, NVMe drives (I'm aware of 0 consumer applications can use 14000MB/s), and RAM as well. Even 4K TVs came out several years before there was really anything to watch, and 15 years later, many stations still don't broadcast in 4K. In consumer tech, the standard usually is not "only include what is minimally necessary," but also performance headroom, longevity, and marketability.
So while Wi-Fi 5 may be sufficient for many TV use cases, I think it is still fair to ask why more sets are not moving to Wi-Fi 6 or 6E, especially if the cost difference is relatively small at scale. I notice that Samsung, HiSense, and TCL are putting WiFi 6 and 6E in their more premium sets, without really advertising it, so it leads me to think that they may be coming around.
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