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as well as hyperx LG's big push at the show for TVs this year is 4K OLED so
they've got a really cool demo behind me that really I I think explains some of
the advantages of OLED very visually so on your left you've got a traditional
LED back lit LCD so you've got the actual back panel you've got a diffuser
sheet for the back lighting so that it you don't just have like bright spots in
the middle of the panel you know you ever heard a backlight bleed well that's
the kind of thing that is inherent with a a backlit design that then has a panel
in front of it that has to turn the pixels black in order to try to block as
much light as they can to produce black well you can never reach black that way
with an OLED panel the one that I have here on my left well all there is is the
back cover of the TV and the OLED panel
because it emits its own light and each pixel can be turned off individually for
effectively black or infinite contrast but of course they don't expect you to
take their word for it behind me is the OLED experience room where they've got
their own LED back lit LCD TV with
localized dimming which is a way that LCDs can try to achieve better black
levels at least in certain parts of the screen where the image is darker for
better effective contrast a kind of like a a voodoo trick that I've never
personally really liked and I usually turn off and then they've got that next
to an OLED TV where this uh the the
imagery they have of this sweet little piece of motorcycle art demonstrates
extremely well how the black parts of the image really are black instead of
that gray that you've come to expect from anything that is not able to
individually turn off the pixels but OLED's about more than just improved
black levels and you know vibrant colors and all that kind of stuff through the
use of well what is effectively a simpler physically overall design
they're able to do some really cool stuff stuff like this now this isn't the first time we've seen LG show off a TV
that's actually flexible and with the push of a button can be changed from
Flat to curved but this is the first time that they're showing us something
that is going to be a product this year now there's no model number yet there's
no price or anything like that but they're telling us that this 77in OLED
TV that can be adjusted from all the way flat to actually quite curved is going
to be available this year as part of their 99 100 series looks freaking
amazing in person and I mean this addresses one of the issues that I have with curved TVs in general in that
you're stuck in this situation where you've got a sweet spot or you've got
distorted sort of a distorted view of the TV well now depending how far away
your couch is how many people need to be in The Sweet Spot you can actually
adjust it by adjusting the curve that's not going to be cheap though so that's
cool TVs that we don't know how much they cost and they have like Space Age
Technology in them but what are people actually more likely to be buying this
year for a 4K TV probably one of the flat IPS models that are going to be a
lot more affordable and are still coming with some new Innovations so first of
all with color Prime LG is upping the ante in terms of color reproduction
they're also improving contrast they're adding 4K upscaling as well as improving
viewing angles with their IPS technology which if you guys have been following
our channel for any period of time you're probably familiar with how much
we love IPS but I've got Kevin here to tell me what they're doing on the
software side to make their Smart TVs a little bit more smart yeah we're really
really proud of our Weber West platform we launched it last year actually Cs and
you remember seeing it since then we've launched and sold over 5 million webos
sets globally so we're really excited about the success this year we're bringing web OS 2.0 and what that brings
is enhan speed we're adding multi-core processing to actually speed up the
startup time and switching Time by 50% we're also keeping that easy to ous
interface that customers have known to love well there you go easier and faster
I guess it doesn't really get much better than that does it that's it but but as much fun as it is to look at what
you can buy today or even later on this year Well CES wouldn't be the same
without the stuff that there is no model number no model name no estimated
release time no nothing you got to you got to look at that stuff too so this is
what they're calling the world's first 98 in 8k color Prime Ultra HD TV you can
see how interesting it is to people even if we're filming they're like getting in there with their cameras and all that so
this is essentially a 98 in TV that runs
at 16 times the pi pix count of 1080p four times the pixel count of 4K has no
consumer interface that exists that would be able to drive this kind of
resolution but it's just here for the sheer wow factor of it all we're going
to get our camera as close as they're going to allow us to they don't let us pass the uh the little barricade here
and we're going to show you guys how fine that image is but basically this
would almost be usable from like monitor viewing distances as opposed to TV
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