hey welcome to ces 2021 here in
beautiful los Linus british columbia
lg is sponsoring our coverage of their booth and we have a treat for you today
every year we've seen incremental upgrades to their OLED tvs that have
made them brighter and more color accurate with more features but lg's
never had a big enough jump to outright call it second gen
until today meet the 77 inch g1
featuring their OLED evo 2 panel lg is
calling this the second generation of their OLED technology for the first time
since they started shipping oleds to consumers in the mid 2010s and the
biggest jump in performance is that this generation is not just a little bit
brighter this is in large part due to the new luminous elements for blue light
which is the majority and for red which is kind of sprinkled in this means
second gen oleds can produce more precise colors in the first place
resulting in less brightness loss when that light passes through the next layer
which is the color filtering layer they also added some green similar to how
they have a bit of red but i'm not sure if we're allowed to say that or not
let's have a let's have a look at the stand shall we
well this is their g series
so there is no stand now you can get an optional gallery stand it's kind of like
uh looks kind of like a light stand but way classier but this one is intended to
either be mounted right against the wall like we did with my g10 in my living
room or you can actually do a whole thing where you like cut out part of the
wall and like embed it straight flat into the wall so this is the new concept
that replaces their old wallpaper tv and honestly i think this is
probably the better way to go it's like basically flat and you can do that in
wall mount if you really want to if the g in g1 means gallery what exactly does
the one mean okay so naming scheme we went from six to seven to eight to nine
to ten and then now we're back at one which sounds like a stupendously
confusing xbox-like branding move but actually makes a great deal of sense at
least for the next few years it's the 2021
model year as for the letters well we can't fault lg for consistency here just
like before the deeper into the alphabet you go the higher end it is so kind of
like the opposite of your marks in school so z is the absolute top of the
line g is your next gen OLED panel with the fancy wall mount c is your general
consumer model with pretty much everything you need and while b used to
be the entry-level bang for the buck skew and it still looks like a great
value now there's an a series a ones
will be 60 hertz rather than 120 hertz and they will use HDMI 2.0 rather than
HDMI 2.1 yep that's black all right
just taking a moment to enjoy some lg demo videos since there's nothing else
that we have the proper license for for this but they're definitely uh definitely
designed to get the most out of your OLED tv
oh man there's nothing quite like it is there enough theoreticals let's fire up
our xbox series x can i stop pretending that this microphone is connected to
anything new for 2021 series oleds is lg's alpha
9 gen 4 processor some of these features will be familiar but there's some new
ones as well so it's got ai upscaling object enhancement clearer text that's
for subtitles auto genre selection scene detection and this is pretty cool
5.2.1 channel up mixing as well as auto
volume leveling which is supposed to make it less jarring when you switch
between sources that are configured at different volumes like going from an ad
on your set-top box to netflix or
youtube or something like that to be clear it's not intended to level out the
dialogue and the action scenes in your movie or anything like that but that
does sound like a useful feature it's also got picture optimization by game
genre for gamers so we're in standard mode right now which just turns off any
non-game enhancements and features so that's applied to all game genres but it
also has an FPS mode which improves low level brightness rpg mode which
emphasizes contrast and an rts mode which emphasizes clarity as well as
having mid to high level brightness what is this what is this character doing no
you're done no you're done you need to get you're a menace you're you're dennis
the menace get off get off the road stop it sorry but what we're talking about
they've also got a new personalized home with like my viewing history based
content and like your favorite sports teams and stuff like that and
the new magic remote design has nfc so
you can quickly and easily pair it with oh lordy that was a good throw thank you
with your phone which sounds like a really stupid gimmick until you go oh
well what can you do with it well you can screen mirror between your phone and
your tv you can reverse mirror so you can take whatever's on your tv with you
to the bathroom during a you know well bathroom break you can cast you can
route audio through your phone and connect headphones to your phone while
you're sitting on the couch if you're into that like it actually does all
kinds of cool stuff that of course we haven't tried yet because this is just
ces coverage and this is not even a final product yet so we're hoping to
bring you the full coverage later on in the year once pricing and availability
and all that stuff is out subscribe so
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