It has been a number of months since we have heard any particulars about Samsung’s newest 98-inch TV, which we discovered about again at CES in January. Now, the corporate has supplied up extra details about the 98″ Class Crystal UHD (DU9000), which is on the market beginning at the moment for $4,000 from its personal webstore and choose retailers.
Samsung beforehand revealed that this mannequin makes use of an AI-powered function to optimize image high quality for the bigger display. Sometimes, as screens get greater so do their pixels. Nonetheless, with Supersize Image Enhancer (which the corporate’s different present 98-inch fashions boast), Samsung says it will possibly improve sharpness and scale back seen noise to make sure there isn’t any pixel distortion.
Different options of the DU9000 embody 4K upscaling, PurColor (which provides one other layer of picture processing to enhance the image high quality) and HDR. The Movement Xcelerator operate and a refresh price of as much as 120Hz ought to assist guarantee clean gameplay — you’ll stream video games from the likes of Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna by way of the Gaming Hub. Different gaming options embody AI Auto Recreation Mode, Mini Map Auto Detection and Digital Purpose Level.
If you happen to’re cautious {that a} 98-inch TV is likely to be an excessive amount of display to your small front room, Samsung would not need you to fret about that. The corporate claims that the really helpful viewing distance for a 98-inch TV is between six and 12 ft. The DU9000 joins different 98-inch TVs in Samsung’s portfolio, together with ones with Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED 4K and QLED 4K panels.