![]() The exception to that is the Cat 3 cable – Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable – which must pass the cable tests prior to shipment without exception.” To date, “features supported in the CTS so far are eARC and the connectors, and that’s all that can be tested and certified,” he said.Īlthough CE vendors can ship products with some HDMI 2.1 features, he noted, “as soon as a feature’s test is available, then manufacturers must pass that test with no grace period, so it is risky for them to release a product before the test because if it fails, then they are stuck. In HDMI developments, Samsung has forged ahead with HDMI 2.1 features in 4K and 8K TVs even though the HDMI Licensing Administrator (LA), which licenses HDMI technology, hasn’t released compliance-testing specifications for all HDMI 2.1 features.Īlthough the HDMI 2.1 Compliance Test Spec (CTS) was released last year, an HDMI LA spokesman said, “not all features have tests defined in it, and those will come out in phases.” Other technologies available from Samsung for theįirst time with the rollout of its 2019 4K and 8K Scott Cohen, Samsung’s senior training manager,Ĭonducted a deep dive into HDMI 2.1 features and ![]() They were unveiled at CES and will join a current 146-inch 4K MicroLED TV. Samsung didn’t announce the pricing or availability of its two latest modular 4K MicroLED TVs in 75- and 219-inch screen sizes. Only a handful of smart-home devices can be controlled through the TV without the hub, Cohen said. All are smart TVs.Īll 4K and 8K TVs except for the 4K entry-level RU7100/7300 series feature an on-screen SmartThings dashboard to control compatible smart-home products when a Samsung SmartThings Hub is purchased. The décor-focused Frame and Serif lines also come with QLED panels. The 2019 lineup consists of the 4K entry-level RU7100 series and its curved-screen RU7300-series offshoots, the 4K RU8000 Premium UHD series, four series of QLED quantum-dot TVs (Q60, Q70, Q80 and Q90), and an expanded 8K Q900 series, which likewise features QLED technology. Scott Cohen, Samsung’s senior manager for home entertainment training, outlined the advances in detail during a press event Thursday at the company’s Quality Assurance Labs in Pine Brook, N.J. ![]() ![]() And the Q900 8K series, which featured a single model at 85 inches in 2018, adds the 65-, 75- and 82-inch sizes, with a 98-inch model to come sometime later this year at an unannounced price. The entry-level 4K RU7100 series also adds a 75-inch model. With the retail rollout of its lineup, Samsung has added 75-inch or larger sizes to its 4K RU800 series and to all four Q series of step-up 4K quantum-dot QLED TVs. The features are showing up in a 2019 portfolio that also notable for an expanded selection of 4K and 8K TVs, more SKUs with screen sizes of 75 inches and up, more models with contrast-enhancing full array local dimming (FALD), and the expansion of Samsung’s Bixby virtual assistant to more TVs. ![]()
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