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hyperx so this is something we talked about on the podcast we're here in the
sony booth this is the vpl gtz1 and it looks like what's behind me
is like a tv wall thing like super
mega wide thing but actually this is
what is driving it this is a 4k laser projector it sits seven inches from the
wall and i'm probably kind of not supposed to do this but i'm like leaning
over so you can see here yes i am proving it is sitting seven inches from
the wall projecting a 147
inch image one of the most impressive things about it is the fact that it uses
a very non-traditional projector system so it's actually laser projection which
does a couple of things it gives it better contrast better color vibrancy it
also gives it better performance in very dirty environments and i mean dirty
in the sense of there's a lot of different light sources all over the
place here in the hall and even in this completely unideal environment it looks
absolutely fantastic it supports four HDMI 2.0 inputs so yes pc gamers running
gtx 980s you can hook your graphics card
up to this you can game at 4k 60fps on a
massive wall assuming you have the 55 000
and the what was it five to six weeks or so that you need to wait to get sony to
custom build one of these they are built to order in japan i don't think i've
missed anything critical at this point other than the fact that the solution
you see behind you is actually running two of them if i move to the side you
can see there's two and the gentleman over there is actually holding a tablet
that allows him to dynamically switch between different content sources all
over the place so the application here is not just in extremely high-end homes
but let's say you know an art gallery that wants to build a ginormous video
wall and have a simple tablet interface system to show different things move
them around and all like that very very cool stuff and another benefit
of the laser projection system is that you won't see any diminishing in the
brightness of it until 50 000 hours so
to put that in perspective that's eight hours a day of watching tv or gaming for
15 years when you compare that to a traditional projector bulb that's going
to last maybe a handful of thousands of hours and is significantly dimmer even a
couple thousand hours in this could be the last projector or tv you ever buy
mind you if you got 55 grand to drop on a tv then yeah you could probably buy
another one later anyway and you know give that to your grandkids or something
now this is a fun demo i've never seen a tv this thing and probably most people
haven't it's only 4.7 millimeters thick this is sony's new 900 series it's
available in 55-inch 65-inch it's a 4k
display it's an edge lit led backlit lcd
and i mean really the claim to fame here is how phenomenally thin it is but not
only that but how well it's it actually integrates into being used because super
thin tvs have been done before but not always in a way that's particularly
smart so first of all the way it mounts to the wall is pretty darn unique it
actually comes with a system that goes into your stud and then the tv has kind
of a bar that screws into the thicker part of the base it's only about half of
the tv that's 4.7 millimeters thick i mean it just compromises that you have
to make physics and and whatnot but you screw in this bar and then you actually
just hook it onto the wall where it sits so close against the wall that it's only
about how far is it looks like about two and a half centimeters yeah it's about
two and a half centimeters away from the wall now of course when you do that you
might have issues with cable management and sound so cable management they take
care of with a little cable door so you got your standard four HDMI 2.0 inputs
you got your lan because it is a smart tv happens to be running Android tv
which is pretty freaking cool because i for one am totally sick of tv makers
trying to make their own thing every time and not just going with something
standard that actually has support so you can have you know chromecasty type
functionality you can play Android games all that kind of cool stuff yeah that's
built right into your tv and then the other thing is sound so instead of just
firing sound down out of a speaker firing sound into the wall heaven forbid
i mean rear mounted speakers are bad enough on a phone never mind you do that
on your tv they've actually got like a flap baffle system that enables the
speakers to kind of fire this way and then deflect the sound toward the viewer
with that said if you're gonna get a tv this awesome i would definitely
recommend going ahead and getting a nice sound system to go along with it
now this is actually the same tv we were just looking at a second ago but the
difference is that instead of having content playing on it they've got a very
early build of their Android tv operating system running on this
particular model now something that i actually had been
asking about off-camera as we walked over here is okay well are you guys
positioning Android tv as this like super high-end feature oh you have to
buy the most expensive model to get it and the answer is no apparently 90 of
sony's tvs for 2015 are going to feature
an Android os on them and not in the same way that we've seen you know
Android-powered tv devices done in the past with a low powered processor so the
x1 processor that i mentioned does 4k upscaling before they're also saying is
well it's just pretty darn good for running just about anything in fact for
the kinds of things that you might want to do on a smart tv let's say launch a
netflix movie stream they're claiming that they can go from zero to movie
playing in under a minute whereas their competitors are looking at up to
multiple minutes due to the speed of the process and this is something that's
been a real frustration for me for a long time is it's all this functionality
that it supposedly has but the hardware is too slow to take advantage of it
anyway so there's 16 gigs of onboard storage i don't know if they're quoting
how much memory how much RAM there is on board or anything like that they won't
give me any details about the x1 other than that yeah it's like blazing fast is
super awesome but uh one thing that i can do i got to like i stole the remote
from the guy here is i can do a quick demo of how you would control an Android
tvs if you guys don't already know you're super smart
Linus tech tips
yeah dog there we go so a bunch of my videos just like that super fast but
you're not locked into using the remote you can actually use an Android or an
iOS device to control it and i think that's pretty much it it's extremely
exciting to see this kind of thing finally get standardized instead of
being that horrible proprietary nonsense i mean Android is a popular operating
system for a reason and the familiarity that you're already gonna have with a
google search and google now like interface is going to help a lot with
the learning curve that most people are just slamming into like a brick wall
when it comes to trying to operate a smart tv so i think that's pretty much
it for sony tvs here at ces 2015 i do
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