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I just picked up a sick new OLED TV and

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okay adamir 11 diagonal Ines the Sony X1

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isn't going to impress your friends with its size anymore but back in 2008 this

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thing stunned the world with its organic LED screen its shockingly thin profile

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and of course its astronomical price

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according to OLED info.com Sony initially viewed this product as more of

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a prototype but by the end of its run tens of thousands of these little guys

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had made their way into the hands of wealthy eagle-eyed enthusiasts kind of

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surprising given that even by 2008 standards it was woefully Impractical

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what's more surprising is that as far as OLED technology has come in 16 years it

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still holds up shockingly well today I

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mean just look at the definition of this segue to today's sponsor see Sonic

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for Prime day using our Link in the description back in 2007 OLED had been

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invented and even featured in commercial products like this Pioneer car stereo

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but most people had only ever seen one in a magazine or in an online article

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and I still vividly remember the buzz around this thing both from the

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optimists who saw it as a window into the future and from the haters who

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criticized well everything cuz they're

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haters I'm really excited to try it cuz I never got a chance back then but first

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let's do a quick tour shall we all the brains are in this bottom box down here

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and then it's attached using this kind of funky ARM to what is true to Sony's

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marketing a shockingly thin panel though

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it kind of reminds me of LG's earlier OLED models where they had the really

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really thin display but then a pretty big caboose down at the bottom of them

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there isn't much in the way of viewing angle adjustments other than tilt though

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if that's what it took for them to have this tank like build quality honestly

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I'm okay with it so many of these survived that you can still readily find

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them on eBay we got a big fat speaker girl in the bottom that kind of makes it

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look more like a Bluetooth speaker now with display technology new product

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category anyone huh music video

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players uh anyway unlike a lot of old display Tech that we look at it's modern

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enough that we've got an HDMI input a USB port in case we want to play our

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MP4s RF coax a landport because we've

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got the Japanese version and a handy dandy headphone jack on the side in case

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you want to quietly game or watch TV next to your sleeping partner you know

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if I hadn't been porish back in 2007 I

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might have been able to see what a sick bougie bedside TV this thing could be as

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it was I was just like fairness to me that's a pretty

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reasonable reaction too let's give it a shot almost feels wrong playing

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PlayStation 5 on it but hey it can doesn't support the most modern features

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there's no variable refresh rate it's only 60 HZ and even the resolution is a

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little bit of an oddball it runs 960x 540 which is exactly one4 of the

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pixel count of 1080p which even at the

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time was weird because HD was often 136

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6X 768 for some reason kind of makes me

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wonder if like a 22in full HD model was

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ever considered but then scrapped out of concerns for cost I mean it have

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probably been like 20 grand there's definitely things about the display that

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are not perfect by modern standards but if you didn't tell me that this was 16

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years old I would not know the motion Clarity is awesome there's a bit of a

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weird flicker almost like Black frame insertion but it's super clear even just

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like input leg is fine like dude this

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plus a PS3 back in the day I mean yeah

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you got to sit kind of close and everything but like holy crap at this

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size the resolution's fine overall the most surprising thing about this to me

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is how close it is to a modern device even the marketing is the same uh Sony

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boasted rapid pixel response times super high contrast ratios thanks to Inky

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blacks high peak brightness on a per pixel level and they talked about the

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thin panel all stuff that's only just starting to give way to new marketing

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Focus points like AI goodie now for

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funsies what we wanted to do is take it another step and compare it to Apple's

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new Ultra Retina xdr Display with tandem OLED this thing incredible not only does

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the SDR and HDR accuracy rival the $20,000 reference display that we looked

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at last year but this thing get bright and while 1600 nits isn't as high

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as some of the newer OLED TVs this can do a th000 nits full screen sustained

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and there's just nothing else like that at the moment though with that

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said if we account for the differences in

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time boy is this ever impressive like

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damn it looked good in games and I was like wellow this looks really good for

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the time in games but it's it's not even

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HDR it just has nice Punchy SD HDR

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didn't exist yet as a standard holy crap

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what is going on right now this should not look this close you can really see

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it in a couple spots like when she brings up the flame the flame gets really bright like even there that it's

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way brighter on the iPad Moon looks like more highlighted on the iPad like you

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can tell yeah and the colors are a

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little off y I am super impressed right

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now right it's so good oh yeah the highlights look way better on the on the

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iPad little bit of a green cast to that brown we'll get to color accuracy later

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but if I took this away and you said

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watch this movie enjoy this movie I would enjoy this movie I was dude when I

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pitched the comparison to this for the video cuz this was something I asked

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plof to arrange for my expectation was

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that it was really going to put in the development that had been done over the

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last 16 years instead all it's really

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showing us is how far ahead Sony was now

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there's issues it falls short of the coverage of even the srgb color space

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and while it's average Delta e 2000 of 6.36 is about in line with high-end LCDs

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at the time it's on a completely different planet from our calibrated

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tandm OLED even if it's the sort of thing that only a big nerd is likely to

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notice frankly these ended up looking so close to each other that we were digging

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around in the shield menu to find out if it was doing some kind of HDR to SDR

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tone mapping or something that was giving the xcl1 an advantage but it just

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looks really good I mean I ran into the same thing on my TCL TV at home where

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SDR content looks great on it because it

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just allows itself to take full advantage of its full brightness giving

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it a more poppy HDR look even if you're

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definitely missing some color volume and in How to Train Your Dragon that

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difference in color volume we saw that in the night scenes where there wasn't

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enough saturation also the difference in

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color accuracy are very noticeable you can really see the pink cast in the sky

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here compared to a properly calibrated display one thing that's come a really

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long way in the last couple decades is audio performance in compact devices so

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I'll be curious to see how the speakers

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are and now spinning not too loud you got to kind of

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crank it useless reptile okay I'm sorry I'm sorry just

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get me off of this thing good dialog Clarity though God this is a good

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soundtrack and these speakers do not do it

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justice plug your headphones in yeah plug your headphones

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in which isn't a guarantee they'll sound good hold on I'd watch theit out of

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movies like this yeah it's almost like dialogue

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enhancement is on yeah so the music

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score is not standing out enough the clarity if I was an elderly person

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watching content on here though is outstanding there's a whole other

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paragraph scripted talking about how they compare to each other and I just

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don't know if we need it because you can have the conversation of well which one

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is the more bestest in these specific ways but at the end of the day for most

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people that's not what they're asking what they're asking is am I enjoying

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this experience and I am even seeing it

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next to the State ofth art I am I don't

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need it but one area where a lot of

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advancements have been made are in OLED longevity we did notice some reverse

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burning on the display where the sides

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are a little bit brighter than the middle and our suspicion is that this is

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because a lot of content back then was letter boxed so those pixels probably

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weren't used as much now part of why our Sony looks so good is it's taking

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advantage of modern processing trick that didn't exist back when it came out

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it's hooked up to an NVIDIA Shield but

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part of why it looks so good is that it's just kind of incredible so I guess

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the question is why did it take so long

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to get from this to this well research

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and development costs a lot even at the best of times and unlike with LCD which

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can be manufactured in a few separate parts before being assembled OLED is put

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together in mostly a singular package so

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instead of a product ecosystem with a few companies that are focused on

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components like backlight Liquid Crystal layer color filter polarization film and

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then tossing individual components if there are errors within the batch it's

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one company focused on one finished good for the most part speaking of Errors you

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can get notified about our next round of scribe drivers at LTT Store.com every

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pen is made of a failed screwdriver shaft so you can own your own piece of

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one of my most expensive mistakes another huge Factor making OLED

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expensive is the difference in yields from a single sheet of motherg glass due

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to the Precision and cleanliness that are required at the deposition step to

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make an OLED panel display companies needed to learn to work more like a

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semiconductor Fab you vaporize organic

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material in a vacuum and you deposit the sublimated particles perfectly onto the

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mother glass a bit too much material or a bit too much moisture or heat during

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this process and that entire sheet is ruined necessitating the use of clean

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rooms on the other hand LCD is a lot

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more tolerant to dust and defect so in a less perfect environment you could still

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get a perfectly working panel and don't forget just like with our OLED here LCD

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prototypes and little concept models were coming out decades before we saw a

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mass adoption of that technology companies like Epson and sharp were

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releasing early LCDs as far back as the 1980s and it wasn't until about 20 years

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later that big for the time 40 50 60in

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LCD TVs started replacing the bulky CRTs

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in everyone's living rooms so the progress here is largely thanks to LG if

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we're being realistic who really banked on making OLED a premium but obtainable

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option and who contined to invest in new Innovations like the tandem OLED panel

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that this iPad has that Stacks two OLED layers on top of each other to produce

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that Brighter Image now that the competition's heating up though and

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Manufacturing processes are a lot more mature and there's some actual demand

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thanks to HDR advances on the content side of things who knows in another four

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years OLED whether it's tandem QD W or

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otherwise could be your standard issue and future Technologies like microed or

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man those emissive quantum dot ones woo

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might finally start popping up in the premium consumer space just like this

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