The Wall By Samsung Everything You Should Know
In recent years, Samsung’s The Wall has dominated the tech fair circuit. However, the modular MicroLED display from Samsung, which was unveiled at the company’s First Look event at CES 2017 and has since been released in various sizes and revisions, is only now beginning to feel like a possibility for many home theater fans.
It’s only now, in 2021, that the set is being released at sizes that are more logical and practical for commercial use after initially debuting in a 146-inch size and later in a 292-inch version. Prior to CES 2021, Samsung revealed a new version of The Wall that would be offered in sizes as small as 88 inches. The Wall would also include a screen-splitting video stream capability to assist viewers in making the most of the large display.
OLED and MicroLED are self-emissive (MicroLED contains millions of self-emissive LEDs, whereas OLED has self-emissive pixels), which in both cases results in excellent brightness control and contrast, MicroLED has been hailed as a serious rival to OLED.
Although we are still in the early phases of MicorLED being used in homes, The Wall by Samsung seems to be making a strong case for all of us to upgrade our current living room TVs. What is known so far about the intriguing TV line is listed below.
The Wall's Pricing
We’re really curious to see what Samsung decides to charge for its The Wall devices considering that it has historically been very cautious about pricing.
The cost of the 146-inch variant is estimated to be over $100,000 (around £73,500 or AU$129,000), however the customized nature of MicroLED’s modular construction and the requirement for professional installation have complicated expectations for consumers. We anticipate that the greater uniformity of sizes will improve pricing transparency and set configuration availability for The Wall.
What Does MircoLED Mean?
Let’s first go through what MicroLED is exactly and why it’s so essential to this TV before we discuss the TV itself.
MicroLED, also known as micro-LED, mLED, and LED, is a technology that reduces the size of conventional LEDs while enabling them to generate their own light. Consider OLEDs (organic LEDs), but ignore the organic component.
Both an LCD shutter and a separate backlight are not necessary with microLED. As a result, a television with increased brightness and contrast that can turn off individual pixels is produced.
One after another representative from Samsung had the same reaction when asked to clarify the distinctions between OLED and MicroLED: MicroLED features everything you love about OLED without any of the compromises.
In particular, Samsung is attempting to convince journalists that the TV has no issues handling contrast or dark levels while retaining the brilliant, HDR-friendly whites of conventional LED screens.
Of course, image burn-in is another problem with OLED, much like with plasma TVs before it. Samsung claims that since The Wall is built on a non-organic foundation, this issue should never arise. Ever.
The ability to connect The Wall to other identical devices to create ever-larger panels is undoubtedly MicroLED’s coolest feature. Although signal degradation will come sometime, the Samsung spokesmen we spoke to indicated they haven’t yet noticed it. Additionally, Samsung claims there is currently no cap on how large you could go with modular upgrades.
The Design, The Features, And The Wall
One of the most appropriate titles for a TV we may have ever come across is The Wall. Samsung’s moniker is spot on, unlike most manufacturers who could employ a chaotic mix of numbers and letters.
If you haven’t already guessed, The Wall is enormous. Even though Samsung is learning to make the technology smaller, it wasn’t easy to picture it fitting in anyone’s home after seeing it for the first time in person. But it’s still far from a flagship 55-inch size.
The Wall has edge-to-edge glass, so it, too, lacks bezels. We were informed that this was done on purpose so that when The Wall is placed next to other devices, it will seem like a single continuous image rather than two TVs working together with bezels in the way.
In addition, the modular construction allows for precise customization of the television’s shape during installation, which accounts in part for Samsung’s earlier reluctance to disclose pricing information. This is the way to go if you’re dying for a 4:3 aspect ratio, while we anticipate that the majority of purchasers will still choose a display that is close to a 16:9 or 21:9 aspect ratio in order to accommodate the majority of TV and movie material produced today.
The 110-model also includes 24 million self-emissive LEDs, which, while not nearly as precisely controlled as a 4K OLED’s 33 million self-emissive pixels, should still be stunning.
The Wall employs a Samsung audio technology called Arena Sound, which uses center speakers placed behind the screen rather than below it to enable front-firing audio that Samsung claims “travels more freely.”
The Wall Will Stand Tall
Let’s talk about how The Wall was set up before we get into the performance. When we first saw it, it was a showcase. It was in the center of the floor, surrounded by security personnel. It was stuck playing the same few clips over and over. The Wall presented only the most stunning content, in contrast to other demos that let you browse some of the content.
Samsung’s The Wall was a showpiece encircled by security personnel and showedshowed the same few films repeatedly when we first saw it in 2017. Despite this, the technology’s potential was still plain to see.
The Wall was (at the time) brighter than anything we had ever seen, even brighter than the 1,600–2,000 nit Samsung Q9F QLED TV that was unveiled at CES the year before, just as Samsung had promised.
Thankfully, it’s not just our eyes that are bulging out; at the time, The Wall was referred to as “one of the brightest panels Samsung has ever manufactured” by Andrew Sivori, Samsung’s VP of TV Marketing. It produced some amazing pictures when combined with MicroLED’s capacity to dim down to almost total darkness.
Although a few years have passed since then, the fundamentals of the technology were still outstanding in 2017, and Samsung has since simply been refining The Wall.
While we must wait to make any firm judgments on The Wall TV for this year until we have tested one for a review, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to disregard MicroLED as an upcoming panel technology or The Wall as a display for people seeking a distinctive home theater experience.
