WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Look, we've all been there. You want a bigger TV, but your partner ain't having none of that. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:11.000 Luckily, at CES 2024, CCD has the solution. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:17.000 For the low, low price of around a quarter million US dollars, you can have this. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Oh s***, forgot I'm standing in front of the dummy one. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:33.000 This is the solution. CCD's N1 137 inch micro LED 4K HDR folding TV. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.000 It's a, I mean, just look. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Have I not said enough? 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:47.000 God damn. You might have made the connection that seeing it in the kind of down mode versus now that that wasn't the full range of motion. 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:54.000 Typically, it's around 60 to 90 seconds to go from fully closed sculpture mode to the viewing experience. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.000 It's just that the power in the booth here is not really set up for this. 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.000 And when they were setting up, it was kind of like, it was having a little bit of trouble. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:07.000 Not really the best power. I actually got confirmation the rotation is like 90 degrees either way. 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.000 It won't go 180 all the way in one direction. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:16.000 Still cool. We got a little, you know, room for improvement in the future, maybe for the $300,000 one. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:22.000 Now, before you say that this isn't that cool, yes, there are folding phones and even folding laptops now. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000 Those are based on OLED, a technology we've all come to know and love. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.000 This is micro led and it's quite a bit different. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:35.000 You see, just like OLED, you get the actual proper, the pixel is off black. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:43.000 But instead of OLED, where you're laying in a missive layer down on a substrate, it's actually individual pixels. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.000 Individual LEDs that are, I guess, soldered together in some form. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:51.000 And that's one of the reasons this TV is so fricking expensive. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:57.000 Micro LED is a very new technology and it really has not reached that affordable price point yet. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.000 And the reason for that is it's very hard to get the LEDs close enough together that you can't see them. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:12.000 This is their 137 inch model, but they do go as small as 103 inches, which is apparently the smallest 4k micro LED display that you can buy. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:20.000 You've probably heard of Samsung's The Wall, which is the same technology just at a larger pixel pitch, which means the pixels are further apart. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:31.000 So even a huge company like Samsung that actually makes display panels has had a hard time getting those pixels or LEDs close enough that you could make a display that's high resolution and also small. 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:37.000 I mean, small is a bit of a stretch for 103 or 137 inches, but for the technology, it is quite small. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:47.000 Samsung has shown smaller than these micro LED displays. They're just lower resolution and seemingly not actually purchasable, although this is kind of one of those things where you call for a quote. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:55.000 You don't really just buy it off the website, right? Their current The Wall is around 0.6 millimeter pixel pitch, which means 0.6 millimeters between each of the LEDs. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:03.000 This is around 0.4, which is what enables them to have this density, I guess you would call it, or this size. 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:10.000 And it is apparently unique to them. Small correction here. I found out the 137 inch model has a pixel pitch of 0.7 millimeters. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:18.000 It's the 103 that goes down to 0.4 millimeters. If you go up to the full size, which is 165 inches, it's 0.9 millimeters. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:26.000 And the reason for that is, well, they're all 4K. If you make the display bigger and you don't make the pixels farther apart from each other, you're just going to have a giant bezel and your screen's not any bigger. 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.000 You have to space the pixels out more to fill the space. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:33.000 If you were to keep the pixel density the same, you would have to make the resolution higher. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:40.000 And they do actually have 8K models, which is also the smallest size 8K micro LED display, apparently on the market right now. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:46.000 They don't manufacture the tiles themselves in-house. They have a company that builds them for them, but they are built to their specifications. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:52.000 So they are at least their tiles. Now, speaking of tiles, as you probably have noticed, this is not a monolithic panel. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:58.000 There is a bunch of individual tiles. And if you look between the gap, you can actually see where each of them are. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:05.000 And they're put together in what they call a wing, and the wings fold and unfold together to make the full display. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:11.000 You might be wondering why nobody else has made a folding micro LED TV, and it's because it's not as easy as you'd think. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:22.000 When you assemble a micro LED display out of tiles, you actually have to calibrate the display because the gap between each individual tile is never going to be quite the same. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.000 And the human eye can pick up on weird variances like that very easily. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:38.000 So traditionally, you take a fancy camera in a very dark room, and you calibrate the brightness of the pixels on the very edge to be brighter than the rest of the display so you don't see that gap to basically make up for it. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:46.000 Well, if you add in the folding, despite the gap apparently being less than a millimeter, there is still variance each time you open and close it. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:52.000 And if you don't account for that, you will see a jarring line in between the individual wings. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:02.000 So they've added a sensor in between the wings that detects the distance on close and open to then adjust the brightness of those edge pixels to make it so you don't see it. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:14.000 And to be honest, the effect is pretty convincing. Standing, I mean, what am I like six feet away, let's say, in the middle, I can't make out the individual pixels and I can't see any lines really. 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:24.000 If you go off axis, you can maybe start to see tiles, but you back up a little bit more, and it all just kind of blends into one. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.000 That's a really big TV. And I like that there's no bezels. That's cool. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:36.000 Naturally, something that's designed to be a showpiece like this doesn't exactly have HDMI ports just chilling on the back of the panel. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.000 Each individual wing is connected at minimum with a duplex single mode fiber. 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:46.000 So there'd be five of these running from the control center to the actual TV itself. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:51.000 There will also be two Ethernet cables, one of which is used for control and the other for the gap sensors. 00:05:51.000 --> 00:06:00.000 I also asked if you can run Ethernet and you can, but instead of five fiber cables, it's 25 Ethernet cables, which is a lot more. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:10.000 And kind of funny because inside of these panels, that fiber just gets converted back to Ethernet because the actual tiles like a standard video wall connect each individually with Ethernet. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:16.000 And lastly, a power cable. So that's five single mode duplex fibers, two Ethernet and a power cable. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:25.000 I'm not going to pretend to understand really like the mechanics going on there and I imagine they probably won't tell me, but it looks pretty baller. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:35.000 I see some stipper motors in there behind this door that is unlocked is the video processing setup, which I'm not allowed to show you. 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.000 They're going to apparently give me an image of what it looks like. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:47.000 So here it's literally a standard 19 inch rack with their video controller, which is a standard kind of off the shelf part that you would use for a tile video wall like this. 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:54.000 There's a Denon AVR, which they use for video switching. This is what you would plug your Xbox or whatever into, which is an important note. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.000 Not really made for gaming. The display out there runs at a refresh rate of 30 Hertz. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.000 It's fine for movies. It has HDR 10 plus, but no Dolby vision. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:09.000 It's just really not great for gaming unless you game on a last gen console on your quarter million dollar TV. 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:16.000 Also, when there is a mini PC that they use for control, you can have the whole setup automated with Creston or other home automation things. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:22.000 So you don't have to use a giant Siemens control panel to move the TV and the power stuff. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.000 It's probably a power supply of some sort. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:31.000 It does draw a fair bit of power. You're looking during operation on the 137 inch at around three kilowatts. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:36.000 And then typical, which is just the display being a display is around 900 watts. 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.000 And it goes up based on size and down based on size. 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 Sounds like a lot. The Samsung wall also a lot. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.000 It's just kind of the nature of the technology. 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:49.000 It will improve with time. Cost is going to be coming way down on these in the next five years. 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:58.000 They were saying that they suspect this $250,000 one to be closer to 100,000 in about five years, which is a monstrous amount of money still. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.000 But shrink it down a little bit more. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Maybe you'll have a micro LED monitor on your desk one day. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.000 Probably not one that folds, but still. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.000 Now, a couple of burning questions. Yes, you can sit on it. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.000 I did ask. He said that's the number one thing people ask him. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.000 It's just kind of, should you sit on a quarter million dollar TV sculpture thing? 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.000 Can you get one that goes in the ground? Yes, it's called the M1. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:28.000 They built this specifically for the baller penthouse where you can't dig like three feet into the concrete because that would be your downstairs neighbor. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.000 They also make outdoor variants, which is actually where they started. 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:36.000 Those models have a bit higher pixel pitch, but also 4,000 nits brightness. 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:44.000 This one is about a thousand, which looks pretty bright, but we're also in kind of a covered area and that helps a lot. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.000 If you were to put this outside, it would look super washed out. 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 I don't know what else there is to say other than I want one in my bedroom. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.000 I'm probably not going to get that, but one day maybe. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:00.000 So check CC'd out in the description if you have a quarter million dollars burning a hole in your pocket and you want to build a crazy TV like this. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.000 They can apparently build them as big or sort of as small as you want. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.000 Oh my God. It's just crazy. 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.000 Get subscribed so you don't miss the rest of our CES show coverage. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.000 Like the video. Tell me, do you want this TV in your bedroom? 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.000 Would you get the one that goes in the ground instead? 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:18.000 How baller are you?