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Samsung S90F 65-inch: Two-minute evaluate
The Samsung 65S90F TV I examined options the model’s quantum dot strategy to OLED know-how. It doesn’t push the brightness of this comparatively new tackle the best OLED TV tech as arduous because the flagship Samsung S95F OLED TV does, however that doesn’t cease it from delivering an enormous enchancment over final yr’s Samsung S90D – a degree of enchancment that makes it arguably probably the most all-round enticing TV in Samsung’s 2025 TV vary when you’ve taken worth into consideration.
Film followers will probably be in awe on the Samsung 65S90F’s phenomenal distinction and lightweight management, which finds stunningly deep black ranges (supplied you’re not shining some kind of highlight on the display…) balanced with highlights that hit ranges of depth we as soon as thought OLED would by no means obtain.
Samsung’s strategy to OLED know-how additionally helps the 65S90F ship extremely vivid colours, whereas its newest NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor ensures that there’s far more subtlety and nuance in the best way these fantastically wealthy tones are used to create extra pure, three-dimensional photos than its already illustrious predecessor managed.
Avid gamers are in for a deal with with the 65S90F too, because it delivers such console and PC-friendly options as help for 4K at as much as 144Hz, variable refresh charges throughout all 4 of its HDMI 2.1 ports, and one of many quickest response instances I’ve ever seen from a TV.
Its Tizen good system is filled with content material and more and more simple to make use of, too, and however the occasional bass fumble, the 65S90F even manages to sound good regardless of its ultra-slim design.
Add to all this the truth that the 65-inch S90F prices lots of lower than its flagship S95F sibling, and it begins to change into severely arduous to withstand. However let me level out that this evaluate and the efficiency figures solely apply to the 65-inch model – at different sizes, as a substitute of a QD-OLED panel, chances are you’ll get a W-OLED panel, with totally different efficiency.
Samsung S90F sequence: Costs and launch date
- Launch date: April 2025
- 42-inch: $1,299 / £N/A / AU$1,799
- 48-inch: $1,499 / £1,499 / AU$2,499
- 55-inch: $1,799 / £1,899 / AU$3,299
- 65-inch: $2,499 / £2,699 / AU$4,299
- 77-inch: $3,499 / £3,799 / AU$5,999
- 83-inch: $5,399 / £5,999/ AU$7,999
The 65-inch S90F was launched worldwide throughout April 2025. It sits within the second tier of Samsung’s 2025 OLED TV vary, beneath the considerably brighter and dearer S95F flagship sequence.
Its $2,499 / £2,699 / AU$4,299 pricing locations it proper on the coronary heart of at the moment’s higher mid-range TV market, and pitches it squarely in opposition to such key rivals because the LG C5 and Samsung’s premium mini-LED TV for 2025, the Samsung QN90F.
The sizes above are the official costs for the opposite choices within the S90F mannequin vary, however once more, we’re solely specializing in the 65-inch right here.
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Specs
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Display screen sort: |
QD-OLED |
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Refresh charge: |
144Hz |
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HDR help: |
HDR10+, HDR10, HLG |
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Audio help: |
Dolby Atmos, Eclipsa Audio |
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Good TV: |
Tizen 9.0 |
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HDMI ports: |
4 x HDMI 2.1 |
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Constructed-in tuner: |
ATSC 1.0 (US) |
Samsung 65S90F evaluate: Benchmark outcomes
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Options
- 4K quantum dot OLED TV
- HDR10, HLG and HDR10+ HDR help
- Gaming help as much as 4K 144Hz with VRR
For a lot of AV followers, the 65S90F’s key enchantment will probably be getting Samsung’s QD-OLED know-how for considerably much less cash than the model’s S95F flagship OLED prices.
The attraction of QD-OLED know-how is that it delivers purple, inexperienced and blue colours with out the extra white factor utilized by conventional OLED screens, but nonetheless manages to at the least match these ‘WRGB’ OLEDs in relation to high dynamic range-friendly brightness for video and gaming content material.
The tech has already delivered some actually spectacular image high quality outcomes since Samsung first launched the know-how again in 2022, together with a number of TV of the Yr award-winners.
Samsung claims to have improved the efficiency of the 65S90F over its S90D predecessor with elevated brightness and extra granular management of its QD-OLED panel, in addition to an upgraded NQ4 AI Gen 3 processor.
That is said to run NPU and GPUs which might be twice as quick as those utilized in Samsung’s step-down S85F OLEDs, in addition to a 17% sooner CPU, whereas introducing new AI-driven image and sound parts on the again of a 6.4 instances enhance within the variety of neural networks the TV carries.
The 65S90F’s sound additionally advantages from Samsung’s OTS know-how, which, regardless of the TV solely having a 2.1-channel speaker configuration, makes use of intelligent audio processing to attempt to make sounds seem like coming from the right a part of the display. And even the exact space past the display’s edges if that’s what an audio combine dictates.
If you happen to accomplice the 65S90F with a Samsung soundbar, you get the extra benefit of Samsung’s Q-Symphony function, the place the audio system within the TV be a part of forces with these within the soundbar (moderately than being changed by them) to ship a bigger heart channel sound with extra correct element placement.
The 65S90F’s connections are excellent for a mid-range TV, dominated as they’re by a set of 4 HDMI ports which might be all constructed to deal with the most recent gaming options of 4K 120Hz feeds (truly 4K 144Hz is supported through Samsung’s Movement Xcelerator know-how), variable refresh charges (together with each AMD FreeSync Premium Professional and Nvidia G-Sync, with the latter coming in a software program replace), and auto sport mode switching.
All of that’s backed up by each a devoted gaming hub inside the TV’s Tizen operating system and a selected sport monitoring and adjustment menu, however extra on this later.
As ever with Samsung TVs, the 65S90F’s HDR help consists of the ‘core’ HDR10 and HLG codecs, in addition to the premium HDR10+ system that provides additional scene-by-scene picture knowledge to assist appropriate shows ship extra correct and punchy outcomes.
This HDR10+ help extends to the Adaptive model that may modify its output to compensate for ambient gentle situations, and HDR10+ gaming.
Samsung continues, although, to not help the Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR format on its TVs.
One different factor the 65S90F doesn’t have is likely one of the potent anti-glare display filters sported by Samsung’s S95F flagship OLED TVs and a few of its 2025 premium LCD TVs.
That doesn’t imply the 65S90F’s display is so reflective that it usually or severely will get between you and the TV’s excellent image high quality in an everyday lounge arrange, although. And whereas I personally have a whole lot of time for Samsung’s anti-glare TV filters, some folks truly desire a barely shiny display, and for these folks, the 65S90F is due to this fact a probably nice QD-OLED different to the S95F.
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Image high quality
- Distinctive distinction
- Wealthy, pure RGB colours
- No viewing angle limitations
Regardless of not being the flagship 65-inch mannequin from Samsung’s 2025 OLED vary, the 65S90F nonetheless delivers a gorgeously potent demonstration of what the most recent QD-OLED panels are able to.
Its gentle management and distinction are significantly phenomenal. The power of every pixel in any OLED display to ship its personal brightness and shade completely independently of its neighbors at all times provides OLED TVs an on the spot and necessary space of benefit with residence theater followers, in fact – however for the overwhelming majority of the time the 65S90F manages to mix the kind of phenomenally inky, deep black tones anticipated of OLED TVs with brighter HDR picture highlights than its S90D predecessor managed.
And that’s whereas additionally revealing considerably extra constantly seen shadow element within the darkest picture corners – it is higher in each vibrant and darkish scenes.
Its brightness sees the 65S90F managing to succeed in as excessive as 1,500 nits on a ten% white HDR check window – an enormous enhance of virtually 50% over the brightness in the identical check circumstances achieved by 2024’s 65S90D.
This may be delivered on the 65S90F, too, with out inflicting any of the backlight haloing and clouding issues rival LCD TV know-how would usually current when coping with the kind of distinction the 65S90F loves to point out.
Simply often, the 65S90F can nonetheless generally crush the refined element out of the image in a few of its presets – but when this turns into problematic to you, then nudging the TV’s Shadow Element adjustment as much as degree three or 4 just about fixes the difficulty with out inflicting any undesirable unwanted side effects.
I used to be additionally struck by how clear the 65S90F’s darkish image areas and scenes look. There’s actually zero signal of the kind of graininess or gray blocking noise that much less in a position OLED screens can present in darkish areas, revealing a fantastically granular degree of management over the QD-OLED panel even in difficult near-black picture areas.
Having a lot additional brightness in its arsenal massively will increase the depth the 65S90F can pump into HDR playback, leading to HDR pictures that look extra pure and practical in addition to extra dynamic.
It feeds additionally right into a considerably richer shade efficiency than the S90D served up, getting far more worth out of the QD-OLED pixel design. That is significantly and spectacularly apparent within the hard-to-resist Normal image preset, however crucially, the extra correct Film and Filmmaker Mode presets additionally look richer and hotter than they did on the 65S90D with out dropping that sense of ‘because the director meant’ authenticity residence cinema followers are so usually in search of.
On that accuracy level, the 65S90F’s measured shade and white stability outcomes with SDR content material in Filmmaker Mode common out at marginally above the Delta E common error degree of three – something beneath that is the place the human eye is taken into account incapable of perceiving a visual distinction between what the TV is displaying and the established video requirements.
However for the reason that outcomes common solely misses that Delta E error margin purpose of three by a puny 0.48, I’m fairly assured that solely probably the most educated eye could have any probability of recognizing something off-key concerning the Filmmaker Mode’s superb efforts.
In reality, due to the refinements the 65S90F can apply to its extra vibrant colours, the Filmmaker Mode appears to be like as beautiful in its personal calmer, extra nuanced manner because the far more vibrant Normal mode does, with each presets bringing out the extremes of the QD-OLED panel’s capabilities. Extremes that now embody a degree of subtlety to go along with the efficiency that simply wasn’t there earlier than.
The 65S90F’s extremes of sunshine and shade precision additionally play their half in making a fantastically crisp and clear image with each native 4K sources and, due to the efforts of Samsung’s newest AI image engine, upscaled HD pictures.
The one factor that damages the 65S90F’s sense of readability and element is the out-of-the-box movement settings Samsung applies to a few of its image presets, which might trigger fairly aggressive glitches within the image throughout digital camera pans or round/over fast-moving objects.
Fortunately, although, it’s attainable to tweak these points away fairly straightforwardly by selecting a Customized setting for the Image Readability settings, after which turning off noise discount and decreasing the judder and blur discount processing parts to round degree three or 4.
Not like most LCD and even some rival OLED screens, the 65S90F’s photos don’t lose distinction or endure from shifting shade tones when considered from even a extremely vast angle, making it a fantastic possibility for giant households or awkward room layouts.
I may discover solely two actual points with the 65S90F’s photos. First, regardless of being a lot brighter than its predecessor, its brightness falls a good manner wanting the kind of numbers we’re seeing now from the high-end OLEDs on the market from the likes of LG, Samsung, and Philips. And second, if the 65S90F is being watched in very excessive ranges of ambient gentle, its usually gorgeous black ranges can begin to look a bit grey.
The brighter OLEDs on the market are usually far more costly than the 65S90F, although, until you decide up a 2024 mannequin if you’ll find one. And the circumstances that trigger grayness to creep into black areas are rarer and the diploma of grayness milder than it was with the 65S90D, a lot so that the majority residence setups will seldom discover it.
- Image high quality rating: 5/5
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Sound high quality
- 2.1-channel, 40W speaker array
- OTS Lite system precisely positions sound results
- Dolby Atmos and AI sound modes
The 65S90F’s sound isn’t fairly as proficient as its photos, but it surely nonetheless is a lot better and louder than you may anticipate from such an ultra-thin TV.
For starters, it will get good traction from its Object Monitoring Sound (OTS) system. As its title suggests, this enhancement ensures that soundtrack parts are coming not simply from the display typically, however from the right a part of the display. The system additionally manages to stage ambient sounds and music in order that they seem, appropriately, to be hanging out someplace past the on-screen motion.
The 65S90F’s OTS Lite system isn’t fairly as uncannily exact with its sound impact positioning as Samsung’s higher-end TVs are – not least as a result of it solely carries a 2.1-channel speaker system versus the 4.2.2-channel speaker setups usually supplied by these extra premium fashions. But it surely’s nonetheless efficient sufficient to make soundtracks really feel detailed, busy and immersive.
The staging features a good sense of ahead impression with arduous feels like gunfire, punches and explosions too, regardless of the TV missing any forward-facing audio system, whereas shrill treble results keep away from sounding distractingly harsh or skinny.
The 65S90F isn’t the loudest TV we’ve heard – at the least on the kind of quantity ranges you’ll want to stay to if you happen to don’t need the audio system to start out feeling a bit strained. Its audio system have sufficient headroom, although, to be able to shifting up at the least just a few gears as motion or horror scenes escalate in the direction of a crescendo – even when they don’t fairly have that ‘fifth gear’ required to hold the film world’s loudest moments all the best way residence.
The 65S90F even manages to discover a little bit of bass from someplace, regardless of its skinny type. This will succumb to buzzing interference, nonetheless, and sound a bit strained with probably the most excessive bass drops, however such moments don’t crop up all that usually.
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Design
- ‘LaserSlim’ design at its extremities
- Screw-free stand design
- Extremely-thin bezel
At first look, the 65S90F appears to be like like probably the most futuristic TVs you’ll see. It is because at its outer edges, the display is extremely skinny – barely deeper than a few bank cards stacked on high of one another. The width of the body across the display can be unusually slender, including to the sensation that you simply’re watching photos being conjured up out of skinny air.
The 65S90F just isn’t truly as skinny because it initially seems, although. There’s a a lot deeper mid-section on its rear internet hosting the TV’s audio system, connections and electronics. This leads to a barely awkward two-tier look if you happen to’re wanting in the back of the TV, with the display seeming prefer it’s simply been caught onto the chunky part moderately than the 2 areas coming collectively to forge a really unified design.
Who of their proper thoughts, although, needs to look in the back of a TV moderately than its entrance? And from the entrance – and, truly, even from fairly vast viewing angles – the 65S90F is a futuristic cutie.
Whereas the 65S90F may be held on a wall if you want, most customers will in all probability decide to put it on its included stand. This includes a distinctive design that finds a pair of ft slotting screw-free into the TV’s bodywork, and a metallic plate then slotting onto the ft to create what appears to be like like a centrally mounted pedestal help. The ensuing central pedestal permits the TV to sit down on just about as slender a chunk of furnishings as you need.
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Good TV and menus
- Tizen 9.0 good TV system
- A number of voice management techniques
- AI-bolstered content material advice
The Tizen OS carried by all Samsung TVs is now in its ninth era, and after just a few stumbles alongside the best way, all that have has paid off handsomely.
For starters, Tizen is now extraordinarily wealthy with content material, together with – as far as I can inform – all the primary streaming apps used all over the world, in addition to many extra obscure ones apart from.
The one apparent absentee within the UK is the Freeview Play app that brings collectively all the streaming companies of the UK’s primary terrestrial broadcasters. However crucially, every of these catch-up apps remains to be obtainable on a person foundation.
The Tizen interface can really feel just a little overwhelming once you’re first introduced with it, and it may well additionally run a contact sluggishly for a second or two after the 65S90F is switched on. As soon as it’s settled down, although, and also you’ve spent only a few moments exploring what it may well do, it’s now a pleasant and – in the best way it learns your viewing habits and recommends content material accordingly – extremely smart TV OS.
Tizen 9.0 has additionally now resolved a lot of the navigational quirks that used to have an effect on it when it first switched to a full-screen interface, and it’s customizable sufficient to simply be tailored to your private preferences. Additionally, it may well adapt to the private preferences and viewing habits of various members of your family due to its help for a number of person profiles.
Accessing the 65S90F’s setup menus from inside the Tizen OS is a bit long-winded, however urgent the settings menu on both of the 2 distant controls the TV ships with presents a shortcut to all of the most-used changes.
A notable addition to Samsung’s 2025 menu system is a brand new AI shortcut possibility that each makes Samsung’s AI-based image and sound enhancements simpler to entry, and makes customers extra conscious that such AI options exist.
Purists possible gained’t look after the AI enhancements, in fact, and issues can get a bit difficult when it seems that among the different image settings you may select can have an effect on how features of the AI enhancements work. However I’d advocate that most individuals at the least experiment with them, even when solely with broadcast or sub-4K content material too if you happen to desire the way it sharpens issues up.
One of many distant controls I simply talked about is a reasonably chunky, button-crowded ‘commonplace’ one, whereas the opposite is a a lot sleeker, much less button-heavy good handset that I believe will change into the one most individuals use.
- Good TV & menus rating: 4.5/5
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Gaming
- 4K 144Hz help on all 4 HDMI ports
- Variable refresh charges help, together with FreeSync and G-Sync
- Recreation hub and Recreation Bar screens
The 65S90F is an impressive gaming show. For starters, all of its HDMI ports can soak up full bandwidth gaming feeds, that means you could possibly concurrently connect 4 4K 120Hz-capable consoles and PCs if you happen to needed to.
All 4 HDMIs additionally help variable refresh charges, together with within the AMD Freesync Premium Professional format and Nvidia G-Sync (although that is being added through an replace), in addition to auto low latency mode switching in order that the TV routinely switches into its quickest response mode when the TV detects a sport is incoming.
When in its Recreation mode, the 65S90F solely takes 9.2ms to render incoming 60Hz feeds – a really excellent end result for a TV that just about halves, too, if the sport you’re taking part in helps 120Hz.
The 65S90F additionally permits you to name up a devoted Recreation Bar menu display moderately than the same old TV menus when it is aware of a sport is being performed, and from this Recreation Bar you may each get key details about the incoming gaming feed and entry just a few gaming aids, together with a mini map zoom, the choice to lift the brightness of darkish image areas with out impacting vibrant areas, and a crosshair superimposed over the middle of the display.
The Tizen OS homescreen, in the meantime, features a devoted Recreation Hub web page, the place your entire gaming sources, from related consoles to sport streaming companies, are gathered collectively.
The 65S90F’s gaming efficiency, lastly, is incredible. Its wealthy shade and distinction are completely positioned to ship gaming graphics with distinctive exuberance and dynamism, particularly with titles that make significantly aggressive use of excessive dynamic vary. The speedy enter lag time ensures that gaming at all times feels extremely fluid and responsive, too.
The one unfavorable factor to say concerning the 65S90F’s gaming efficiency is that until you’re profiting from its HDR Gaming Curiosity Group (HGiG) help, the place the console takes management of the HDR that’s fed out to the TV, the default sport settings could cause some distracting brightness fluctuations as you run round any map that has a mixture of gentle and darkish areas.
If that is troubling you with no matter sport you’re taking part in, although, you simply want to show off the TV’s dynamic tone mapping setting.
Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Worth
- Cheaper QD-OLED possibility than flagship Samsung S95F
- Enhanced image high quality over S90D predecessor
- Lacks S95F’s anti-reflection filter
Whereas the 65S90F just isn’t by any stretch of the creativeness low cost, it does sit barely on the proper finish of the identical worth ball park as its key rivals.
Additionally, extra importantly, it’s round £700 / $800 cheaper than its 65-inch S95F sibling, whereas delivering a stronger sense of QD-OLED know-how’s strengths than its S90D predecessor.
The S95F sequence does look set to ship a serious brightness improve over the S90F, to be honest, in addition to carrying a extremely robust anti-reflection filter that the S90F doesn’t have.
However that worth distinction provides as much as a whole lot of 4K Blu-rays and/or different residence theater gear.
Ought to I purchase the Samsung S90F 65-inch?
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Ranking |
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Options |
Except for not supporting the Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR format, the 65S90F general delivers a mammoth set of good, gaming, audio and video options for its cash. |
5/5 |
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Image high quality |
The 65S90F’s photos radically enhance on these of its already glorious predecessor, delivering a mid-range OLED masterclass. |
5/5 |
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Sound high quality |
Whereas extra strong bass dealing with would have been good, the 65S90F is loud sufficient, detailed sufficient and intelligent sufficient with the accuracy of its staging. |
4/5 |
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Design |
Whereas its two-tier design feels just a little awkward throughout setup, the slender, well-built bezel, and gorgeous thinness at its outer edges make it an opulent, elegant addition to your lounge. |
4.5/5 |
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Good TV and menus |
It takes just a little getting used to, however when you do, the rewards supplied by the intelligence and scope of its content material advice and voice recognition techniques are immense. |
4.5/5 |
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Gaming |
In addition to wanting beautiful due to the display’s wealthy colours and sensational distinction, video games on the 65S90F really feel fantastically responsive and crisp. |
4.5/5 |
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Worth |
The 65S90F delivers an enormous chunk of QD-OLED goodness for manner lower than Samsung’s flagship S95F vary. |
4/5 |
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Samsung S90F 65-inch evaluate: Additionally take into account…
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Samsung 65S90F |
LG OLED65C5 |
Panasonic 65Z85A |
Philips 65OLED909 |
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Value |
£2,699 / $2,499 |
£2,699 / $2,699 |
£1,999 / $1,799 |
£2,499 / $N/A |
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Display screen sort |
QD-OLED |
OLED |
OLED |
OLED (w/ MLA) |
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Refresh charge |
144Hz |
144Hz |
144Hz |
144Hz |
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HDR help |
HDR10+/HDR10/HLG |
HDR10, HLG, HDR10+, Dolby Imaginative and prescient |
HDR10, HLG, HDR10+, Dolby Imaginative and prescient |
HDR10, HLG HDR10+, Dolby Imaginative and prescient |
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Good TV |
Tizen 9.0 |
webOS 25 |
Hearth TV |
Google TV |
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HDMI ports |
4x HDMI 2.1 |
4x HDMI 2.1 |
4 (2x HDMI 2.1) |
4 (2x HDMI 2.1) |
How I examined the Samsung 65S90F
- Examined over 13 days
- Examined with 4K Blu-rays, a number of streaming platforms and resolutions, Freeview HD broadcasts, and HD Blu-rays
- Reviewed in each darkish and lightweight devoted check room situations, on its stand in each nook and flat wall positions
The character of the 65S95F’s QD-OLED know-how required me to spend as a lot time testing it in daylight situations as I did testing it in darkened rooms, to verify I wasn’t disturbed by the potential for vibrant gentle to impression the display’s distinction. So it grew to become my full-time lounge TV for a lot of the practically two weeks I spent with it.
That stated, I additionally examined it underneath the identical particular darkish check room situations TechRadar assessments all of our TVs in, with a variety of disc, sport and streaming check content material. Disc content material included the 4K and HD Blu-rays of It: Chapter One, Blade Runner 2049 and Pan, whereas for gaming assessments, I deployed each a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X operating such titles as Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, Forza Horizon 5 and South Of Midnight.
Lastly, as ever I put the 65S90F by a barrage of goal assessments utilizing Portrait Displays’ Calman Final evaluation software program, G1 sign generator, and newly launched C6 HDR5000 gentle meter.
You may learn an in-depth overview of how we test TVs at TechRadar for extra data.