Earlier yesterday evening, Samsung formally announced that its Vision AI would be shipping out with its updated Neo QLED 8K TV lineup. But the lineup’s greatest selling point is perhaps the fact that Samsung is going completely, if not nearly, wireless with the lineup.
The Neo QLED 8K TV will not ship out with a new box that wirelessly connects other devices to the TV. The technology is known as Wireless One Connect and rather than have the box sitting close to the TV, Samsung boasts that you can put the proprietary box anywhere in the room, and it will still be able to project and stream video content directly to the TV, and at a maximum resolution of 8K 120Hz.
To be clear, you’re still going to need to connect the TV to a power source and also, this goes without saying, you’re going to want to ensure that the wireless box has a direct line of sight to the TV, and isn’t obstructed by a wall or anything else. Least of all, a Faraday cage. All you need to do with the new Neo QLED 8K TV, as Samsung says, is turn on the power.
As mentioned before, the system will transmit a signal from devices such as game consoles from the box to the Neo QLED 8K TV wirelessly; you will still need to connect your consoles’ wires to the transmitter and more importantly, the transmission happens from a maximum range of 10 metres. The TV also supports AMD’s FreeSync Premium Pro anti-tearing technology but only if the console in question is connected directly to the TV’s micro HDMI port.
The TV will be available in two models, QN990F and QN900F. The QN990F comes in four sizes: 65-inches, 75-inches, 85-inches, and 98-inches. The QN900F is available in three sizes: 65-inches, 75-inches, and 85-inches. At the time of writing, Samsung did not provide local availability or pricing for the new Neo QLED 8K TV series.
(Source: Samsung)
