huge shout out to AMD for sponsoring this video from CES 2017 learn more
about their ryzen processors at the link in the video description so here in the
Sony Booth they've got actually a whack ton of cool display Tech behind me is
Cletus which stands for Crystal LED
integrated structure and the main difference between this and the like
huge display wall or tunnel that every other TV guy does every year is that you
can buy one of these today so a Cletus display is made up of a
whole bunch this one's somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 a whole bunch of
modular 16in X 18in panels that can be
seamlessly assembled and then be driven by what they call a Cletus brain which I
think costs like $20,000 or something like that anyway the one behind me is
driven by two Cletus brains this display
technology is utterly unique in that it
achieves its fantastic black levels in
part by having almost 98% of the entire display area be black
but looking at it from here it doesn't make any sense when you get in close you
realize that every pixel is made up of a
tiny red green and blue LED and the
entire rest of the space is black it's trippy as hell I jumped up on the stage
and managed to get within about 6 to 8 in of it and the image completely
disappears you move back and it appears it's actually quite disorienting though
I don't consider it a knock against the technology because you would obviously
never watch it from that range on Sony's blog they said it's capable of up to 120
HZ refresh rates and it looks absolutely
incredible it is nearly impossible to see the seams with many types of content
now let's talk things you'd be more likely to actually put in your living
room this is the A1 series Bravia TV and
it is Absolut mindboggling for a number of reasons so
this is Sony's second OLED TV the first
one to actually make any sense it's available in 65 and 77 in and they've
done a lot of stuff in here that makes a ton of sense so the first is they're
going for no compromises on the viewing experience so it uses an OLED panel it
uses their X1 extreme processor which by the way is completely separate from the
processor that runs Android so it's
exclusive for processing the image and analyzing
the individual panel remember there are manufacturing variances in real time to
get the best possible image number two is they've gone bezeless all the way
around even the Sony logo is Tiny how
many Brands like this have the stones to pretty much take the logo off their
product and let it speak for themselves almost none of them one there one
additionally they have instead of chasing thinness distance from the wall
at all cost gone you know what we're going to have all the inputs and outputs
and the vase amount and everything still attached to the TV it's okay to be 4 in
Off the Wall which I personally really don't mind except that hold on a second
how can you call it no compromises if there isn't even an integrated speaker I
have to go buy speakers no this is where stuff gets like crazy bananas they have
turned the entire glass surface of the TV into a speaker not just one speaker
there's two vibrating actuators on each side of the TV so the entire pain of
glass and there's a subwoofer in the base too but the entire pan of glass
actually vibrates vibrating actuators it actually vibrates and you might be
thinking well hold on a second line if you vibrate a piece of glass sure that'll create a sound wave but are we
talking about Mono sound absolutely not so they have this demo where a bird goes
across ch ch ch ch chep back and forth you kind of go oh yeah that's working pretty well and then this Crow comes in
like God like holy crap it actually sounds like it's coming from exactly
where the image is no like algorithmic
we got the speakers over here but it sounds like it's coming from over there it's really freaking cool and in terms
of the sound quality I mean that's a big question mark right so we did a side
by-side demo in the secret black room
that apparently very few people have been going into with a well-respected
very high-end TV they wouldn't let me name who it is out of respect but let's
say it's an integr ated Soundbar TV with which I am intimately familiar and the
difference was astonishing and again I'm intimately familiar with the TV I asked
for the remote I was like bling around with it making sure there was no funny
business going on image quality sound quality this thing is the cats pajamas
so a huge shout out again to AMD for sponsoring our coverage of CES
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