A true Samsung cinema experience? Samsung’s newest LED cinema display comes alive in South Korea
Forget traditional cinema projectors. Samsung Onyx is an LED cinema display that beams true blacks and vivid colours directly into your eyeballs.
Ever wanted true blacks and vivid colours during your cinema experience? Samsung has that in the form of an LED cinema display, and it recently got a major upgrade.
Samsung announced that its latest version of Samsung Onyx has debuted at Lotte Cinema Sillim, South Korea. Unlike traditional projector technologies used in most cinemas, Samsung Onyx is a cinema LED display solution.
The Gwang-eum LED theatre that contains Samsung Onyx, located inside Lotte Cinema Sillim.
Samsung Onyx’s LED display directly outputs cinema content to an LED screen. It supports up to 4K120Hz resolution and framerate, and comes in four standard sizes (5m, 10, 14m, and 20m) that can also scale to the movie or film’s aspect ratio.
A screening of Samsung Onyx’s 4K120Hz capabilities, with true black and rich colours.
However, the most crucial aspect is the vibrancy and contrast in its true blacks and colour space, which is further supported by its 300-nit peak brightness (six times brighter than conventional projectors, per Samsung’s claim). You can see what it looks like in the unlisted YouTube video that Samsung uploaded here:
According to Samsung, its cinema LED Samsung Onyx first came to market in 2017 but received a major upgrade (in April 2025) with new features, including DCI certification. Lotte Cinema Sillim was the first cinema to feature the upgraded Samsung Onyx, but the preceding version had already been in use at the Pathé Palace cinema in Paris, France.