Samsung's new flagship OLED television, the S95H, is a better set than the S95F it replaces. Wired's review, published Thursday, says so plainly. What it does not say is that the S95H is the obvious pick in Samsung's own 2026 lineup anymore.
That's the headline finding from the review: OLED, long treated as the default answer for serious picture quality, now has to share the shelf with Samsung's own RGB and Art TV lines. Wired's reviewer singled out the Samsung The Frame Pro 2026, with its matte display built for showing art on a wall, and the LG Micro RGB Evo, which the review says looked excellent on movies and games once its settings were adjusted. Both arrive around the same price as the S95H.
Against its own predecessor, the differences are real but not dramatic. The S95H carries over the S95F's anti-glare coating and adds a notch of improvement in picture quality and AI processing, per Wired. The most visible change is cosmetic: a silver bezel sits recessed behind the OLED panel, giving the set the look of a metal picture frame rather than a flat screen. The reviewer said family members noticed it immediately.
Ports move onboard, thickness goes up
The bigger functional change is the disappearance of the Samsung One Connect box, the breakout unit that used to handle cable connections separately from the panel. On the S95H, every device plugs straight into the TV, which pushes its thickness to 1.04 inches, up from 0.4 inches on the S95F. Wired's reviewer said they preferred it anyway, since it means one less box to manage, and noted the One Connect can still be bought separately for anyone who wants a cleaner wall mount.
The set carries four HDMI ports, including one rated for 165Hz gaming and one with eARC passthrough for surround sound, plus an Ethernet jack, optical audio out, two USB ports and a headphone jack. It also moves up to Wi-Fi 6E, a step up from the Wi-Fi 5 radio in the S95F.
Samsung is not publishing brightness, contrast or color gamut figures like DCI-P3 for the S95H, which Wired's review treats as reasonable given how much those numbers vary by settings and content. Instead, the reviewer ran scenes from films including "Awake," "The Creator" and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" to check dark-scene detail and color handling, reporting mixed results across picture modes until switching to the AI Optimized setting, which the review says outperformed Samsung's own Micro RGB R95H in several of the same scenes.
Tizen OS still a sore point
On software, Wired's reviewer repeated a complaint from the earlier S95F review: Tizen OS remains harder to set up than Google TV, which runs on sets like the Sony Bravia 7 II. The remote fared better in the review, praised for keeping its button count low compared with Hisense's more cluttered designs.
Samsung has not detailed pricing or a release window for the S95H beyond the review itself. The set is positioned as the successor to the S95F within Samsung's 2026 TV lineup, which now also includes the RGB-based Micro RGB R95H and the Art TV-focused Frame Pro.
HTFiled by The Home Tech Desk
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