For 2015 and 2016 Samsung has a new moniker for it's 4K TVs. Why be plain when you can spice things up a bit? It's SUHD. The “S” stands for Super. Alright, here are the particulars on what makes an SUHD. First, there is a new color system used called DCI P3 which has a wider color gamut or spectrum or pallet – call it what you will it's a bigger range of colors. That color is dispursed and presented further by the Nano Crystal Technology which is a competing technology to Quantum Dot technology used by some of the other OEMs. The combination of the two does improve the color. It comes across more refined, cleaner and more defined than the previous 4K TVs. To me, it's a 10% improvement in color representation. Next, the SUHD lineup has a brigher backlight which is capable of hitting 1000 nits at peak brightness and produce deeper blacks as well, though this is more difficule to discern. Last, all SUHD TVs in Samsung's lineup have the proprietary Samsung developed Tizen operating system for Smart TV though that's not part of what differentiates an SUHD. SUHD is all about those upgraded UHD picture quality features.
With all this work, Samsung has come a long way in catching Sony which produced the best 4K UHD TVs in 2014 (at great expense for the top models).
We asked Samsung at CES 2015 if they would be producing any OLED TVs this year and the answer was an emphatic, “No”. Instead, here are the particulars on what makes a Samsung SUHD. First, there is a new color system used called DCI P3 which has a wider color gamut or spectrum or pallet – call it what you will, it's a bigger range of colors. That color is dispursed and presented further by Samsung's Nano Crystal Technology which is a competing technology to Quantum Dot technology used by some of the other OEMs. The combination of the two does improve the color. It comes across more refined, cleaner and more defined than the previous 4K TVs. To me, it's a 10% improvement in color representation when displaying 4K content. Next, the SUHD lineup has a brigher backlight which is capable of hitting 1000 nits at peak brightness and produce deeper blacks as well, though this is more difficule to discern. Last, all SUHD TVs in Samsung's lineup have the proprietary Samsung developed Tizen operating system for Smart TV though that's not part of what differentiates an SUHD. SUHD is all about those upgraded UHD picture quality features, particularly the widened color gamut through Nano-Crystal, the brighter LED backlight, and the DCI P3 color system.
