WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:08.679 I just picked up a sick new OLED TV and 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:10.200 okay adamir 11 diagonal Ines the Sony X1 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:16.880 isn't going to impress your friends with its size anymore but back in 2008 this 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:23.480 thing stunned the world with its organic LED screen its shockingly thin profile 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:25.960 and of course its astronomical price 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:31.199 according to OLED info.com Sony initially viewed this product as more of 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:35.000 a prototype but by the end of its run tens of thousands of these little guys 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:40.640 had made their way into the hands of wealthy eagle-eyed enthusiasts kind of 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:46.199 surprising given that even by 2008 standards it was woefully Impractical 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:52.280 what's more surprising is that as far as OLED technology has come in 16 years it 00:00:49.199 --> 00:00:55.199 still holds up shockingly well today I 00:00:52.280 --> 00:01:01.440 mean just look at the definition of this segue to today's sponsor see Sonic 00:00:58.239 --> 00:01:04.400 reliability check aord ability check 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:07.799 efficiency ability double check take a look at the new vertex lineup on sale 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:13.439 for Prime day using our Link in the description back in 2007 OLED had been 00:01:11.119 --> 00:01:17.960 invented and even featured in commercial products like this Pioneer car stereo 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:23.200 but most people had only ever seen one in a magazine or in an online article 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:27.640 and I still vividly remember the buzz around this thing both from the 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:33.720 optimists who saw it as a window into the future and from the haters who 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:36.280 criticized well everything cuz they're 00:01:33.720 --> 00:01:41.320 haters I'm really excited to try it cuz I never got a chance back then but first 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:46.240 let's do a quick tour shall we all the brains are in this bottom box down here 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:53.119 and then it's attached using this kind of funky ARM to what is true to Sony's 00:01:49.399 --> 00:01:55.079 marketing a shockingly thin panel though 00:01:53.119 --> 00:01:59.240 it kind of reminds me of LG's earlier OLED models where they had the really 00:01:57.119 --> 00:02:02.880 really thin display but then a pretty big caboose down at the bottom of them 00:02:01.399 --> 00:02:07.520 there isn't much in the way of viewing angle adjustments other than tilt though 00:02:06.119 --> 00:02:11.560 if that's what it took for them to have this tank like build quality honestly 00:02:09.679 --> 00:02:16.640 I'm okay with it so many of these survived that you can still readily find 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:20.920 them on eBay we got a big fat speaker girl in the bottom that kind of makes it 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:27.239 look more like a Bluetooth speaker now with display technology new product 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:30.160 category anyone huh music video 00:02:27.239 --> 00:02:34.720 players uh anyway unlike a lot of old display Tech that we look at it's modern 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:41.239 enough that we've got an HDMI input a USB port in case we want to play our 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:43.680 MP4s RF coax a landport because we've 00:02:41.239 --> 00:02:47.200 got the Japanese version and a handy dandy headphone jack on the side in case 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:51.840 you want to quietly game or watch TV next to your sleeping partner you know 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:54.519 if I hadn't been porish back in 2007 I 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:58.840 might have been able to see what a sick bougie bedside TV this thing could be as 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:03.200 it was I was just like fairness to me that's a pretty 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:08.159 reasonable reaction too let's give it a shot almost feels wrong playing 00:03:05.239 --> 00:03:12.319 PlayStation 5 on it but hey it can doesn't support the most modern features 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:17.840 there's no variable refresh rate it's only 60 HZ and even the resolution is a 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:25.680 little bit of an oddball it runs 960x 540 which is exactly one4 of the 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:29.879 pixel count of 1080p which even at the 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:33.640 time was weird because HD was often 136 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:37.439 6X 768 for some reason kind of makes me 00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:40.120 wonder if like a 22in full HD model was 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:44.480 ever considered but then scrapped out of concerns for cost I mean it have 00:03:41.799 --> 00:03:48.480 probably been like 20 grand there's definitely things about the display that 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:52.840 are not perfect by modern standards but if you didn't tell me that this was 16 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:58.720 years old I would not know the motion Clarity is awesome there's a bit of a 00:03:56.120 --> 00:04:07.400 weird flicker almost like Black frame insertion but it's super clear even just 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:10.599 like input leg is fine like dude this 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:12.480 plus a PS3 back in the day I mean yeah 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:19.079 you got to sit kind of close and everything but like holy crap at this 00:04:16.239 --> 00:04:23.360 size the resolution's fine overall the most surprising thing about this to me 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:28.440 is how close it is to a modern device even the marketing is the same uh Sony 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:32.520 boasted rapid pixel response times super high contrast ratios thanks to Inky 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:36.759 blacks high peak brightness on a per pixel level and they talked about the 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:42.360 thin panel all stuff that's only just starting to give way to new marketing 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:44.840 Focus points like AI goodie now for 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:49.840 funsies what we wanted to do is take it another step and compare it to Apple's 00:04:46.919 --> 00:04:55.919 new Ultra Retina xdr Display with tandem OLED this thing incredible not only does 00:04:53.400 --> 00:05:00.320 the SDR and HDR accuracy rival the $20,000 reference display that we looked 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:06.400 at last year but this thing get bright and while 1600 nits isn't as high 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:12.440 as some of the newer OLED TVs this can do a th000 nits full screen sustained 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:18.440 and there's just nothing else like that at the moment though with that 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:23.960 said if we account for the differences in 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:26.160 time boy is this ever impressive like 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:30.840 damn it looked good in games and I was like wellow this looks really good for 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:34.800 the time in games but it's it's not even 00:05:30.840 --> 00:05:39.800 HDR it just has nice Punchy SD HDR 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.600 didn't exist yet as a standard holy crap 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:45.560 what is going on right now this should not look this close you can really see 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:51.319 it in a couple spots like when she brings up the flame the flame gets really bright like even there that it's 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:58.600 way brighter on the iPad Moon looks like more highlighted on the iPad like you 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:01.639 can tell yeah and the colors are a 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:03.800 little off y I am super impressed right 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:08.599 now right it's so good oh yeah the highlights look way better on the on the 00:06:05.880 --> 00:06:14.319 iPad little bit of a green cast to that brown we'll get to color accuracy later 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:16.840 but if I took this away and you said 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:22.720 watch this movie enjoy this movie I would enjoy this movie I was dude when I 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:27.919 pitched the comparison to this for the video cuz this was something I asked 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:30.120 plof to arrange for my expectation was 00:06:27.919 --> 00:06:35.680 that it was really going to put in the development that had been done over the 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:39.120 last 16 years instead all it's really 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:41.319 showing us is how far ahead Sony was now 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:47.039 there's issues it falls short of the coverage of even the srgb color space 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:51.639 and while it's average Delta e 2000 of 6.36 is about in line with high-end LCDs 00:06:49.880 --> 00:06:55.919 at the time it's on a completely different planet from our calibrated 00:06:53.400 --> 00:07:00.360 tandm OLED even if it's the sort of thing that only a big nerd is likely to 00:06:57.919 --> 00:07:04.000 notice frankly these ended up looking so close to each other that we were digging 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:08.639 around in the shield menu to find out if it was doing some kind of HDR to SDR 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:14.400 tone mapping or something that was giving the xcl1 an advantage but it just 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:20.000 looks really good I mean I ran into the same thing on my TCL TV at home where 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:22.080 SDR content looks great on it because it 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:27.280 just allows itself to take full advantage of its full brightness giving 00:07:23.599 --> 00:07:29.639 it a more poppy HDR look even if you're 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:33.120 definitely missing some color volume and in How to Train Your Dragon that 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:37.800 difference in color volume we saw that in the night scenes where there wasn't 00:07:34.520 --> 00:07:40.479 enough saturation also the difference in 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:44.440 color accuracy are very noticeable you can really see the pink cast in the sky 00:07:42.479 --> 00:07:48.360 here compared to a properly calibrated display one thing that's come a really 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:54.120 long way in the last couple decades is audio performance in compact devices so 00:07:50.479 --> 00:07:54.120 I'll be curious to see how the speakers 00:07:54.319 --> 00:08:01.120 are and now spinning not too loud you got to kind of 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:07.800 crank it useless reptile okay I'm sorry I'm sorry just 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:12.080 get me off of this thing good dialog Clarity though God this is a good 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:15.960 soundtrack and these speakers do not do it 00:08:13.479 --> 00:08:19.960 justice plug your headphones in yeah plug your headphones 00:08:17.479 --> 00:08:24.639 in which isn't a guarantee they'll sound good hold on I'd watch theit out of 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:29.720 movies like this yeah it's almost like dialogue 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:32.680 enhancement is on yeah so the music 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:36.800 score is not standing out enough the clarity if I was an elderly person 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:40.360 watching content on here though is outstanding there's a whole other 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:44.720 paragraph scripted talking about how they compare to each other and I just 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:49.279 don't know if we need it because you can have the conversation of well which one 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:53.720 is the more bestest in these specific ways but at the end of the day for most 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:59.160 people that's not what they're asking what they're asking is am I enjoying 00:08:55.839 --> 00:09:03.480 this experience and I am even seeing it 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:06.480 next to the State ofth art I am I don't 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:09.000 need it but one area where a lot of 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:14.720 advancements have been made are in OLED longevity we did notice some reverse 00:09:11.640 --> 00:09:15.959 burning on the display where the sides 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:20.519 are a little bit brighter than the middle and our suspicion is that this is 00:09:18.079 --> 00:09:25.959 because a lot of content back then was letter boxed so those pixels probably 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:29.760 weren't used as much now part of why our Sony looks so good is it's taking 00:09:27.640 --> 00:09:34.720 advantage of modern processing trick that didn't exist back when it came out 00:09:31.560 --> 00:09:36.680 it's hooked up to an NVIDIA Shield but 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:41.800 part of why it looks so good is that it's just kind of incredible so I guess 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:45.959 the question is why did it take so long 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:47.839 to get from this to this well research 00:09:45.959 --> 00:09:52.760 and development costs a lot even at the best of times and unlike with LCD which 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:58.760 can be manufactured in a few separate parts before being assembled OLED is put 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:01.200 together in mostly a singular package so 00:09:58.760 --> 00:10:05.360 instead of a product ecosystem with a few companies that are focused on 00:10:02.959 --> 00:10:10.200 components like backlight Liquid Crystal layer color filter polarization film and 00:10:08.040 --> 00:10:15.440 then tossing individual components if there are errors within the batch it's 00:10:12.640 --> 00:10:19.720 one company focused on one finished good for the most part speaking of Errors you 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:24.880 can get notified about our next round of scribe drivers at LTT Store.com every 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:29.399 pen is made of a failed screwdriver shaft so you can own your own piece of 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:33.600 one of my most expensive mistakes another huge Factor making OLED 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:37.600 expensive is the difference in yields from a single sheet of motherg glass due 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:42.440 to the Precision and cleanliness that are required at the deposition step to 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:48.040 make an OLED panel display companies needed to learn to work more like a 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:50.600 semiconductor Fab you vaporize organic 00:10:48.040 --> 00:10:55.519 material in a vacuum and you deposit the sublimated particles perfectly onto the 00:10:52.880 --> 00:10:59.519 mother glass a bit too much material or a bit too much moisture or heat during 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:05.079 this process and that entire sheet is ruined necessitating the use of clean 00:11:01.680 --> 00:11:07.959 rooms on the other hand LCD is a lot 00:11:05.079 --> 00:11:12.800 more tolerant to dust and defect so in a less perfect environment you could still 00:11:10.040 --> 00:11:18.720 get a perfectly working panel and don't forget just like with our OLED here LCD 00:11:15.920 --> 00:11:23.000 prototypes and little concept models were coming out decades before we saw a 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:27.639 mass adoption of that technology companies like Epson and sharp were 00:11:24.880 --> 00:11:35.440 releasing early LCDs as far back as the 1980s and it wasn't until about 20 years 00:11:30.959 --> 00:11:38.600 later that big for the time 40 50 60in 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:41.360 LCD TVs started replacing the bulky CRTs 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:46.440 in everyone's living rooms so the progress here is largely thanks to LG if 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:52.160 we're being realistic who really banked on making OLED a premium but obtainable 00:11:49.680 --> 00:11:56.959 option and who contined to invest in new Innovations like the tandem OLED panel 00:11:54.240 --> 00:12:01.120 that this iPad has that Stacks two OLED layers on top of each other to produce 00:11:59.040 --> 00:12:04.320 that Brighter Image now that the competition's heating up though and 00:12:02.680 --> 00:12:08.519 Manufacturing processes are a lot more mature and there's some actual demand 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:15.839 thanks to HDR advances on the content side of things who knows in another four 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:18.199 years OLED whether it's tandem QD W or 00:12:15.839 --> 00:12:24.519 otherwise could be your standard issue and future Technologies like microed or 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