Samsung KN55S9C OLED HDTV Review: The Best Television?

Samsung’s KN55S9C is an incredible television. The image it creates is breathtakingly good. And at $9,000, you’d better hope it does. It’s able to create this superlative image because it uses an entirely new technology, better than plasma or LED LCD: OLED, Organic Light Emitting Diodes.

To find out what that all means, why it’s so good, and why you want one (eventually), read on…

Before we get started, if you want to learn some TV basics, check out What Is the Best TV? and LED LCD vs. plasma vs. LCD.

OLED?

The KN55S9C is an OLED television, one of the first of its kind (LG makes a model as well, Sony and Panasonic are still working on theirs). Without getting too far into the technical details, the benefit of OLED is that each pixel can be made bright or dark individually.

True, all TVs can do this, but not with…