Samsung QE65QN95A

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65in Mini LED TV | £2999 | whf.cm/QE65QN95A

This year looks very much like the year of Mini LED. The technology, which sees the traditional LEDs of a TV backlight miniaturised in order to increase contrast, is a feature of the 2021 line-ups of most major TV brands, including LG and Philips.

For those brands, Mini LED TVs sit below their OLED models, but for Samsung, Mini LED is its flagship technology. The company has developed its own Mini LEDs, which it says are even smaller and more efficient than those of its rivals, and combined them with its existing Quantum Dot tech to create a range of premium TVs that it calls Neo QLEDs.

The QE65QN95A is the first Neo QLED we have tested. It’s the top 4K model in Samsung’s 2021 range, and it purports to offer a huge upgrade on last year’s equivalent without any increase in price.

Slimming regime

Besides the benefits in terms of contrast, a Mini LED backlight is much slimmer than one consisting of standard LEDs. Samsung has also worked hard to reduce the distance between the backlight and the Quantum Dot panel, making the whole display section slimmer.

Of course, a TV also needs to pack in processing hardware and speakers, but Samsung has managed to reduce the thickness of the QN95A to just 2.6cm, down from the 3.5cm of last year’s Q95T. That doesn’t make the QN95A as thin as an OLED is at its thinnest