I am going to be comparing a 55" Samsung S95D vs a Hisense U8N 55" with the main games I play on PC which are Battlefront II, Star Trek Online, Battlefield 2042, Elder Scrolls Online and Planetside 2. A store might let me do it. Windows HDR On looks best in most games but you can't use Windows HDR when you have monitors in duplicate mode so I would have to compare them in SDR but it can be assumed that if one TV looks moderately to significantly better in SDR then it will also look better in HDR.

The problem now is the Samsung S95F will be releasing after CES, it will probably come out March 2025 like the S95D did last year. I will be very angry if let's say I did like the S95D moderately to significantly more than the U8N and I purchased one this year only to see next years model has significantly higher peak brightness in many brightness windows like 400 nits more or higher. I don't expect a big jump in tech for 2025 models so no big jump in tech would mean successor models won't look so different than last year but you can't know for sure, they can still make moderate to significant improvements for brightness/picture quality/highlights/black levels, etc.

Another problem is these TV's are very expensive when they first release, the S95D was 2600$ USD when it was released and I don't think the first price drop doesn't come until the Memorial day Holiday May 26.

TCL RGB OLED, Samsung Max OLED, NANOLED will probably come out for 2026 models so I will likely buy one of those in Jan 2027.

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