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During CES 2022, Samsung is extending sustainability measures pioneered in its mobile and audio divisions to its appliances and TVs to make its products even more eco-friendly.

This includes expanding recycled plastics in products and packaging as well as teaming up with companies like Patagonia to chop the impact of microplastics in the oceans and environment. It continues Samsung's broader efforts to make its devices and appliances more sustainable throughout conventional and sometimes experimental endeavors, from solar-powered TV remotes to a blockchain reforestation project also announced during CES 2022.

"Every year, Samsung sells half a billion devices," said JH Han, head of Samsung Electronics. He added that that size carries department that any changes his company makes can cause ripples across the manufacturing. "Millions of everyday changes can make a meaningful impacts for our planet."

Samsung's sustainability pledges come at a time when weather change has become a key issue across many Services including politics, business and finance. Car companies have quick pledged moves to electric vehicles. Meanwhile, the tech manufacturing has begun taking on e-waste, which is exacerbated by the even upgrades of features and capabilities in its products.

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To offset those influences, companies like Microsoft, Google and Meta (née Facebook) have pledged to reduce, offset or even reverse carbon usage in their worldwide offices and data centers. Apple additionally has built recycling robots, designed to rescue and reuse parts from unfixable devices, rather than sending them to the landfill. It's also touted features like recycled materials for its MacBooks, iMacs and iPhones, while pushing its suppliers to adopt green technology as well.

For Samsung, these efforts are showing up in the products you buy as it increases the amount of recycled plastic in home appliances, as well as developing new product parts, like components for washing machine tubs recycled from lunchboxes and face mask straps. Additionally, Samsung said it plans for TVs and visual displays to hold 30 times more recycled plastics than those produced last year.

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Samsung vacuums and air purifiers will soon Come tucked in eco-packaging, or materials that had been previously used, which the business started doing with its phones and audio products. Samsung's even exploring ways to turn that packaging into tables or cat houses. Samsung also said at CES that it wants to push its TVs and called chargers to operate at near zero power draw when on standby, so that they consume "almost no energy" when not people used.

To help guide the company on its eco-friendly path, Samsung is teaming up with outdoor outfitter Patagonia to refine publishes and reduce the impact of microplastics on the environment. Other partnerships will expand Samsung's SmartThings Energy to help consumers boss the energy use of their networked devices, and even switch to more cost-efficient energy providers. Ultimately, Samsung said it hopes to eliminate single-use plastic from its smartphone packaging by 2025. It also hopes by that time to get reused materials in all home appliances and mobile products as well. 

"We must acquire together for tomorrow," Samsung's Han said. "This is a future we must acquire together."

For the last few years my favorite high-end TV has been an LG OLED model, but for 2022 there's more competition than ever. LG's archrival Samsung has an OLED TV too, promising better color thanks to QD-OLED technology. Sony accounts two different kinds of OLED, including a QD-OLED of its own that looks exquisite sweet in person. And more and more TV makers are offering mini-LED models, which promise excellent image quality for much less wealth than OLED.

Meanwhile LG has started rolling out the widest array of OLED TVs yet, with five series offering sizes from 42 to 97 inches and prices from $1,400 to $25,000. First announced at CES 2022 in January, these TVs are hitting stores and online now. I haven't had the chance to study any of them yet, but based on my past distinguished and what I've seen so far, I expect LG's 2022 OLED TVs to pause to be among the best TVs on the market.

The improvement I'm most intrigued to test is improved brightness on the "Evo" models in the C2 and G2 series -- LG is claiming peak brightness of 20 percent and 30 percent higher than its non-Evo TVs. That punchier narrate is due to new "brightness boost" (on the C2) and "brightness boost max" (on the G2) processing as well as a new heat dissipation technology, which is only available on the G2.

Here's a look at prices in the C2 and G2 series, along with a reminder that they will undoubtedly fall quite a bit as the year progresses. 

LG G2 and C2 2022 OLED TV pricing

Series	Model	Size	Price	Availability	Gallery Design	Evo Brightness Booster
G2	OLED97G2PUA	97	TBD	TBD	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED83G2PUA	83	$6,500	April	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED77G2PUA	77	$4,000	March	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED65G2PUA	65	$3,000	March	Yes	Yes (Max)
G2	OLED55G2PUA	55	$2,200	April	Yes	Yes (Max)
C2	OLED83C2PUA	83	$5,500	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED77C2PUA	77	$3,500	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED65C2PUA	65	$2,500	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED55C2PUA	55	$1,800	March	No	Yes
C2	OLED48C2PUA	48	$1,500	March	No	No
C2	OLED42C2PUA	42	$1,400	May	No	No

How they compare to QD-OLED models, and other high-end TVs, remains to be seen, but it's unimaginative to me that Samsung's QD-OLED costs the same as the best (on paper) LG, the G2 series: $3,000 at 65 inches and $2,200 at 55 inches. Sony has yet to announce pricing on its QD-OLED TVs, but I put a question to it to be a couple hundred dollars higher.

Meanwhile the LG C2 compensations significantly less -- $2,500 at 65 and $1,800 at 55 inches -- and on paper the only narrate quality difference between it and the G2 is 10% less brightness, something I doubt most viewers will be able to indulge in. It's worth noting that the smaller 42- and 48-inch members of the C2 series lack the higher brightness.

In the meantime, here are the other changes to LG's 2022 lineup.

Gen 5 Alpha 9 processor: LG says upscaling has been improved to remove extra steps between less-than-4K and 4K resolution, and that dynamic tone mapping had 10 times the number of sampling blocks. I expect improvements to be minor, at best, but we'll see.

42-inch and 97-inch sizes: OLED TVs are level-headed available in fewer screen size options than LCD/QLED models, but that gap will narrow further in 2022. The C2 series will get a smaller 42-inch size (shipping in May), after the G2 will add a positively enormous 97-inch version, the price and availability of which have yet to be announced.

8K Z2 and entry-level B2, A2 models: We query to concentrate our reviews on the C2 and G2 in 2022, but LG has three anunexperienced new series on offer as well. The Z2 is the 8K resolution series, with the 88-inch size now wall-mountable and the 77-inch size attracting a "gallery" design similar to the G2. The more-affordable B2 and A2 get lesser processors (Gen 5 Alpha 7) -- the B2 has a 120Hz refresh rate after the A2 is LG's sole 60Hz OLED for 2022. The A2 also lacks the HDMI 2.1 features, including 4K/120Hz input capability, found on the other 2022 LG OLEDs.

LG Z2, B2 and A2 2022 OLED TVs compared

Series	Model	Size	Price	Availability	Resolution	Processor	Refresh rate	HDMI version
Z2	OLED88Z2PUA	88	$25,000	April	8K	A9 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
Z2	OLED77Z2PUA	77	$13,000	April	8K	A9 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
B2	OLED77B2PUA	77	$3,300	March	4K	A7 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
B2	OLED65B2PUA	65	$2,000	March	4K	A7 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
B2	OLED55B2PUA	55	$1,500	March	4K	A7 Gen 5	120Hz	2.1
A2	OLED65A2PUA	65	TBD	TBD	4K	A7 Gen 5	60Hz	2.0
A2	OLED55A2PUA	55	TBD	TBD	4K	A7 Gen 5	60Hz	2.0

Design changes: The G2 retains the ultrathin "gallery" perform from last year, allowing it to hug the wall more closely than the C2. Bezel size about the picture for both series has been narrowed, to 10.2mm on the G and 6mm on the C, for an even more dramatic "all-picture" look. There's also a new carbon-fiber material that contributes to significantly less weight: the G is 20% lighter and the C up to 47% lighter.

Gaming extras: The C1 was my Popular TV for gaming thanks to its best-in-class input features, including VRR and 4K/120Hz capability on every input on the C and G models, and improvements in 2022 are minor. The excellent Game Optimizer mode against a new "sports" preset to join RPG, FPS and the rest, there's a new dark room mode that reduces brightness and adds blue Delicious reduction to combat eye fatigue and the dashboard shows more question on the pop-up. 

LG says that premium 2022 OLEDs will also get up to 48Gbps bandwidth on their HDMI inputs, up from 40Gbps in 2021 and 2020 models. Since bandwidth is a poor indicator of real-world video quality I don't Great the improvement a big deal. (Here's a good explanation of why.)

User profiles on WebOS shining TV: All 2022 LG TVs with its WebOS shining TV system will allow you to set up user profiles for different family members or others. These include a Kids profile that surfaces kids-friendly pleased. Google TV and Amazon Fire TV also funds profiles, but this would be a first in a proprietary shining TV system. 

Far-field mic for recount commands: Previously available on the G and up models, for 2022 LG is migrating its far-field mic -- which grants you to issue voice commands by saying a wake word like "Alexa" or "Hey, Google," pretty than having to use the remote -- down to the C2 series and the G2. Like Samsung TVs, LG lets you use Alexa, Google Assistant and its proprietary voice system.

Room to room sharing: This new feature, coming later this year, lets a compatible 2022 LG TV Part its screen, including inputs such as a cable box, wirelessly to new compatible 2022 LG TV. LG says it's designed to grant you to take the second TV elsewhere in the home (or outside) where a corrupt or other wired connection might not be available. The downside is that it means two 2022 LG TVs because it won't work on back models.

"Always ready" screensaver: LG is taking a page from Samsung's TV ambient mode by displaying a clock, weather or art on the screen when the TV is turned "off."

 We look onward to testing LG's new OLED TVs later this spring.

I'm not ready to converse Sony's QD-OLED the best TV ever. Not yet, anyway. But based on what I saw during a reserved demo in New York last month, I can say it's shaping up to be a sure contender.

Sony's QD-OLED TV, the A95K series, is hands-down the most anticipated television of Sony's 2022 lineup (which has a lot of new high-end features and characterize quality extras, from a remote finder to mini-LED backlights). Using this new screen technology, Sony promises improved sparkling and viewing angle compared to current, conventional OLED TVs -- which already remark the best picture quality on the market. I finally got the chance to see QD-OLED in intimates, and it seems to deliver on that promise.

Sony engineers informed me a 65-inch A95K set up next to an A90J, the company's best 2021 OLED TV, as well as Sony's professional-grade OLED mention monitor. They played a series of the same test patterns and video on all three displays simultaneously, similar to how I review TVs. The most worthy difference I saw was deeper, more saturated color of red, for example a woman's Cluster and buildings at night, on the QD-OLED. Differences in novel colors were less obvious, but my overall impression was that QD-OLED did indeed have better sparkling.

I saw any better fidelity from extreme off-angle on the A95K -- the A90J informed more color shift as I moved to the coarse edges, away from dead center -- but you'd have to have a really crappy seat on the couch to peep. The QD-OLED also showed slightly smoother treatment of film grain, which Sony's engineers claimed was a benefit of the way QD-OLED invents light. Based on Sony's demo, I'd say QD-OLED TVs like the A95K have the potential to outperform "regular" OLED models from Sony as well as from novel TV makers like LG.

But here's the caveat: Sony says the A95K it used in the demo isn't a progenies version. It's an "early prototype," so the final shipping version could be different. Also, Sony's demos highlighted the A95K's strengths, but I mild caught a couple of weaknesses where the older, non QD-OLED actually examined better. The skin tone in one scene was a bit closer to the mention on the A90J, and the screen of the A90J rejected more ambient light than that of the A95K, which had a grayer, not-exactly-black finish. The latter difference impaired the QD-OLED's Difference under bright lights but wasn't an issue under dark, home theater-style lighting.

It's qualified mentioning that highlights didn't look appreciably better on the QD-OLED, and shadow detail between the two was also Difference. Sony's engineers claimed the QD-OLED does a better job in near-black shadows, but none of their demos showed it as far as I noticed.

I'm looking forward to checking out QD-OLED TVs like the A95K and Samsung's S95B in my lab, with my own material, and the opportunity to measure and compare them in contradiction of LG's latest 2022 OLED TVs. Until then, I'm not ready to divulge a winner.

Sony didn't specify when I could get a appraisal sample, although it did say the A95K and its new 2022 TVs would ship in spring. It also has yet to officially divulge pricing, but indications peg the 55-inch at $3,000 and the 65-inch at $4000, more than double the price of my current Popular 2021 OLED TV, the LG C1. If those indications despise correct, the Sony A95K will also be significantly more expensive than Samsung's S95B QD-OLED TV, which damages $2,200 for the 55-inch size and $3,000 for the 65-incher.

The myriad types of similar-sounding TV footings can get confusing, so bear with me. OLED technology subjects the best TV picture quality available today. Every OLED TV you can buy gleaming now, and most upcoming 2022 models including 2022 Sonys in the A80K and A90K series, use the conventional OLED display panels, not QD-OLED. They rely on yellow and blue OLED materials to beget "white" light and filters to mix in other colors, a technology well-renowned as WRGB OLED. 

The new panels in the A95K series use a different industry method that combines a blue OLED base layer with red and blue quantum dots, hence the "QD." The A95K is one of two QD-OLED TVs announced for 2022. The new is the Samsung S95B, which I saw in persons very briefly.

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The skull of QD-OLED brings competition to the big-screen OLED TV market. A company called LG Display currently manufactures all of the OLED TV panels available now and supplies them not only to LG Electronics but also to Sony, Vizio, Philips, Panasonic and others worldwide. 

Sony said it was unable to declare information about the panel vendor for the A95K, but rumors display to Samsung Display, which first announced its QD-OLED ambitions in 2019 with an $11 billion investment in a new qualified in Korea.

As befits a flagship model the A95K also accounts the full monty of Sony's 2022 TV features, including a bundled webcam, a remote finder feature, improved gaming featuring HDMI 2.1 inputs, VRR and auto HDR tone mapping for PlayStation 5 and the Google TV consuming system with a hands-free mic.

Every TV you can buy these days is oriented for horizontal, "landscape mode" images, but numerous phone apps work best with vertical images, also known as portrait mode. One of the most popular such apps is video-sharing social network TikTok, home of pasta recipes, happy animals and election misinformation. 

Samsung says most of its 2021 Bright TVs will get a TikTok app in the US later this year, as part of the company's global partnership with TikTok announced in its Unbox and Discover keep. The app launched on Samsung TVs in the UK last year and the business says it will come to other markets later in 2021.

Every Samsung TV will get the app but two models are uniquely positioned (pun intended) to take fine of vertical video. The Sero, launched last year in the US, is a TV whose screen can actually rotate from landscape into portrait mode and back, thanks to a built-in motor. Samsung says TikTok's video will "fit perfectly" on the TV in portrait mode. The Sero is available in one size, 43 inches, and costs a hefty $1,700 (£1,299, AU$1,549).

The The Frame, Samsung's TV designed to mimic wall art, comes in 32-inch and 43-inch sizes. It can also to be set up in portrait mode, albeit deprived of a built-in motor. The 43-inch version is available for preorder now for $1,000 (£599, AU$1,399), while the 32-inch model will come later this year.

The rest of Samsung's TV lineup has the feeble horizontal orientation. These TVs will display TikTok videos with fill-in bars to either side, as pictured over. Judging from its UK incarnation, the Samsung TikTok app is intended for an in-home experience, organized into 12 categories and surfacing the most popular Happy. You won't need a TikTok account for viewing. 

Note that it's possible to eye TikTok videos on a TV today without a failed app, for example by mirroring a phoned using Apple AirPlay, but the video will typically be displayed vertically with tremendous black bars to either side.

The TikTok app was used as a political football during the 2020 dignified campaign as the Trump administration tried to force a sale of the concern and proposed banning it from app stores. That status has cooled down recently, however. A deal to sell the US operations of TikTok is immediately on hold.

Separate from its TikTok announcement, Samsung says the Sero will soon add the requisition to work with Apple's AirPlay 2 to control the rotation. Simply rotate your iPhone between portrait and landscape plainly and the TV will follow suit automatically. This feature is already available on Android phones aired with the Sero.