CES 2022: Samsung Focuses on Software for its 2022 Smart TVs

New MicroLED and MiniLED product lines, a host of new features and a few surprises… of all kinds

Samsung led its new 2022 TV sets announcement with the MicroLED models it’s bringing to the market, despite the extremely small number of people that can actually afford them. Oh, such a tease, those Koreans. (Image: Samsung)

CES 2022 does not officially open its doors until January 5th, but many manufacturers have already started making announcements in its context, including Samsung: the Koreans have revealed (most of?) their plans regarding televisions for 2022 and, as it turns out, those include a few surprises that shake things up a bit.

Let’s get the latter out of the way so we can dive into what consumers can actually expect from Samsung during the first half of 2022: the company did not announce its heavily-rumored QD-OLED TVs at CES. It’s an interesting development because (a) Samsung was thought to be on track for releasing those TVs during Q2 of 2022 and (b) because Sony, also heavily rumored to offer QD-OLED TVs this year, now has the chance to claim being first to present models based on this much-promising tech. In the eyes of many, though, QD-OLED TVs remain very much a 2022 thing for Samsung. Maybe the company is not ready to reveal its own models yet or it might prefer to keep people’s attention on its other TVs for now. Yours truly will get back with more information as soon as it becomes available, of course.