Samsung Micro RGB R95H Review (2026): Not the Brightest

Incredibly casual to acceptable up. The distant is elemental to use. Amazing AI Soccer Mode Pro made games much vivid and improved dependable clarity.

Colors did not look mind-blowing oregon realistic. Not arsenic customizable arsenic akin LG oregon Hisense RGB models. Some insignificant bugs with streaming apps.

With immoderate new tv you acceptable up, you privation the colors to pop, the situation dependable to boom, and the wide acquisition to mimic that of a movie theater. This is particularly existent with caller mini RGB televisions, which usage red, green, and bluish pixels to nutrient a much vibrant show than the achromatic oregon bluish airy of a accepted LED oregon OLED TV. Micro RGB TVs should bring vibrant colour and fantabulous opposition to moody fearfulness films and bright, fast-paced shot games alike.

Instead, Samsung’s Micro RGB R95H is simply a truly bully tv that doesn’t connection the precise picture-quality controls and different forms of popular and roar arsenic its competitors do. At $3,200 for the 65-inch model, the Samsung R95H conscionable can’t vie with the superior LG Micro RGB Evo. (The smallest LG size is 75 inches and is priced astatine $4,500; the 75-inch Samsung R95H besides retails for $4,500.) Apart from that disparity successful size availability, Samsung’s anti-glare tech proved to beryllium an Achilles’ heel, making movies and immoderate video games look excessively subdued.

Easy to Set Up and Install

Setting up the R95H tv is casual and quick, acknowledgment successful portion to its azygous pedestal ft that snaps into spot successful astir 10 seconds and doesn’t necessitate screws. Because the TV has a azygous foot, arsenic opposed to 2 legs astatine its edges, I was capable to spot it atop a smaller hutch. The sides of the 65-inch exemplary stuck retired similar airplane wings, but the TV was wholly stable.

On the broadside of the R95H television, determination are 4 HDMI ports, including 1 that is dedicated to gaming (it adjacent has a tiny video crippled controller icon) and 1 for HDMI eARC pass-through audio to a soundbar oregon AV receiver. There’s besides a coaxial transportation for cablegram TV oregon an antenna, integer optical, 2 USB ports, and an Ethernet larboard for a wired connection. Like the Hisense UR9 RGB MiniLED (8/10, WIRED Recommends), the R95H uses Wi-Fi 6E, which is faster than Wi-Fi 6.

You tin besides adhd the Wireless One Connect box—Samsung’s wireless set-top container that connects from astir 30 feet away—to adhd adjacent much outer HDMI ports and different connections, similar USB. The main vantage of doing truthful is that it allows you to skip the ports connected the R95H itself, which is bully for eliminating cablegram clutter and besides for having a cleanable wall-mount aesthetic.

Samsung uses its ain operating system, called Tizen OS, adjacent though I privation it would power to the much intuitive Google TV, arsenic Hisense and Sony have. Netflix didn’t instal and gave maine an mistake (Samsung is looking into the issue), truthful I ended up investigating that app utilizing a Google TV streamer. While the Samsung Frame Pro 2026 did not necessitate maine to usage the Samsung SmartThings app during setup, I did person to usage the app to adhd R95H and past spell done a two-factor authentication process.

On the affirmative front, I loved utilizing the remote. It’s acold much intuitive to usage than the LG, Hisense, and TCL remotes that travel with their caller mini and micro RGB televisions. The R95H distant has less buttons, appearing astir similar the minimalist Apple TV 4K remote. The Home fastener is centered, truthful it’s casual to find successful the dark, though there’s nary backlighting. I didn’t similar that determination are abstracted AI and mic buttons, since those concepts are merging. The AI fastener navigates to a surface that explains AI features, portion the mic fastener starts Samsung’s Bixby oregon Amazon’s Alexa+ bots, depending connected which 1 you privation to use.

I tested Alexa+ and was mostly pleased with however it worked, allowing maine to set the measurement and hunt for obscure ’90s intelligence thrillers. You tin alteration the Alexa dependable punctual and skip the mic fastener connected the remote, but that didn’t enactment arsenic reliably arsenic I would person liked. A fewer times, saying “Alexa” didn’t trigger the TV.

Benched connected Benchmarks

Benchmarks don’t lie, oregon astatine slightest that’s the theory. We each spot colors differently, and we respond to opposition and brightness based connected our ain ocular perception. While the R95H met each of the BT.2020 colour gamut specs, results of the Spears & Munsil Benchmarks made wide that the R95H’s show is not arsenic outstanding arsenic that of rival LG Micro RGB Evo. I could archer skin-tone variance connected the Samsung was not rather arsenic obvious: 2 radical who don’t look that similar, complexion-wise, looked astir the aforesaid connected the screen.

Picture-quality settings didn’t assistance that much. Dynamic mode (which different TV makers telephone Vivid) caused immoderate colour blooming and bleeding, and Filmmaker mode made the tegument code country excessively dark. The AI representation mounting worked the best, particularly for soccer, but astir of the tweaks related to opposition and brightness didn’t assistance arsenic overmuch arsenic they did connected the LG.

Similarly, the demo reel tests were not arsenic awesome arsenic I would person expected for caller show tech. The greenish writer down a woody obstruction was not arsenic agleam arsenic I would person liked for a premium TV. The achromatic mist implicit a snowy upland was intelligibly disposable but a small washed out. Picture modes and tweaks to achromatic balance, brightness, and colour temp didn’t assistance that much, either.

The existent LCD surface and anti-glare tech that Samsung uses connected the R95H made this TV little susceptible to picture-quality tweaks than the LG oregon Hisense RGB models I tested. On the LG Micro RGB Evo specifically, elemental tweaks to colour temp and achromatic equilibrium had a much noticeable interaction connected representation quality, arsenic did astir representation modes. For example, utilizing Vivid representation mode improved the benchmark tests, portion Dynamic mode connected the R95H didn’t determination the needle. Buffalo roaming connected a tract looked a spot level owed to the anti-glare tech. Dark trees successful a upland country were not chiseled capable from the acheronian background. A yellowish angiosperm looked oversaturated utilizing Dynamic mode but excessively level and dull utilizing Filmmaker mode.

Testing the Not-So-Brilliant Colors

In investigating the R95H, I learned that colour processing is hugely important connected micro RGB televisions arsenic opposed to OLED televisions, due to the fact that the colors person to beryllium perpetually rendered.

My movie investigating started with a thud: The moody movie Awake connected Netflix looked excessively acheronian and washed out. Standard mode helped lone a bit, but upping the brightness conscionable added much gray. More shadiness item besides improved the visuals, but this capableness was buried successful the adept settings.

The movie The Creator (which besides has precise acheronian scenes) looked a spot much colorful, particularly during a predawn location penetration scene. Tron: Ares connected Disney+ had heavy blacks and reds, which looked excessively agleam connected Dynamic mode and excessively acheronian connected Filmmaker mode. Hoppers connected Disney+ besides looked dark, moody, and gray, erstwhile it was expected to beryllium agleam and colorful. When bluebirds flew onto histrion branches, the country looked drab alternatively than its intended shocking blue. Project Hail Mary connected the Fandango astatine Home app has a country with rings astir a planet, but erstwhile again, the blues appeared dim, not brilliant. That aforesaid country connected the LG and Hisense RGB models had a stunningly agleam look.

Streaming the archetypal Dune movie implicit HBO Max to the R95H utilizing Google Cast from my iPhone 17 Pro didn’t enactment and gave maine an mistake (which Samsung reps are investigating), but it did enactment implicit Apple AirPlay. Streaming the movie Americana from Hulu connected my iPad 12.9 worked fine.

The Samsung R95H performed OK but not large for video games, sporting events, and quality programs compared with different mini RGB models.

This TV supports a 120-Hz refresh complaint for the Xbox, with an fantabulous effect clip and debased latency, helping Subnautica 2 connected Xbox Series X look impressively vivid. Forza Horizon 6 connected the Xbox tested well, showing a smoky haze implicit a chiseled and colorful upland road successful the distance. The anti-glare tech helped adhd immoderate realism to this racing sim, making a achromatic BMW M5 look little similar a integrative car connected a fake track. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II besides had a gritty realism during a level adjacent the ocean. If you similar “the Netflix look” for shows, wherever everything looks a spot gray, past the R95H is for you.

On a PC, I tested Crimson Desert astatine a 165-Hz refresh complaint utilizing the HDMI larboard marked with the crippled controller icon. I wasn’t arsenic impressed with the prime oregon responsiveness, but it was surely amended than utilizing an HDMI larboard that lone supports a 60-Hz oregon 120-Hz refresh.

Ironically, World Cup shot games didn’t person that grayed-out look, but that’s due to the fact that this TV (like the Frame Pro 2025 and 2026 models) has a circumstantial AI Soccer Mode Pro. The colors and clarity looked phenomenal.

I tested a BritBox amusement called Inheritance to spot if the built-in speakers were up to snuff. This amusement was a spot hard to hear, but connecting a TCL A65K soundbar improved the clarity. An NBC News broadcast looked wide and crisp acknowledgment to the anti-glare tech.

If you subscribe to the Samsung Art Store for $7 per month, your R95H tin show artwork. However, respective paintings of shipwrecks lacked texture and realism, compared with the overmuch much susceptible Samsung Frame Pro 2026.

In the last tally, the R95H didn’t overwhelm maine with superb colors and wasn’t arsenic customizable for representation prime arsenic the LG oregon Hisense models I tested. I wanted the micro RGB tech to beryllium truthful awesome that the terms wasn’t an issue. That’s not to accidental this is simply a mediocre performer; it’s conscionable that the $3,200 terms would bespeak it is acceptable to springiness OLED fans thing to deliberation about. What I thought astir the astir is that the colors didn’t look arsenic mind-blowing arsenic they should.

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