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three years it was three long years ago

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that I first laid eyes on the technology that would put OLED in its place and

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I've waited since then for what would eventually become

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the high sense u9 DG this is no normal

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TV instead of one LCD panel filtering

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the white backlight turning it into the vibrant content that you enjoy the u9dg

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has two LCD panels in theory this unique

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design gives it the best of all worlds near perfect blacks like an OLED and

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vibrant Peak brightness for the best possible home HDR experience and

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and it's already discontinued that's

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that's tific because it means that you might be able

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to score a deal on the remaining stock which appears to be now on clearance

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making this video interesting for two reasons first to get deep under the hood

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of a display Tech the world may never see again and second to maybe score a

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deal perhaps oh and a third to learn about our

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today using Code Linus at the link below the big problem with displaying HDR

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content on LCDs is that even the best ones can't fully block out the backlight

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behind them making black look like more of a faded out gray and the solution

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thus far has been to divide up the backlight into multiple zones that can

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be individually controlled to darken or brighten the image depending on the

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content in front this works okay but

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even on mini LED TVs with a thousand plus dimming zones the bloom or halo

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effect around bright objects is almost always visible to the naked eye but what

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if you had 2 million local dimming zones

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this one doesn't it's only got 132 but

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in front of those dimming zones is a

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1080p IPS black and white LCD panel that

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acts as a light filter and then in front of that is a 4K IPS color panel to

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Output our final 75 inch image at refresh rates of up to 120 hertz doesn't

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that add a lot more cost and complexity you might ask yes for everything packed

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into it the u9dg is impressively slim but Hisense says that the bonding

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process to fuse the panels together was extremely difficult to perfect and it

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clearly contributes to the shocking 42 kilogram curb weight that resulted in

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our first sample being damaged in shipping the good news is that it took

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years but it was worth the wait the two

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panel solution gives us an unbelievable amount of dynamic range on an LCD I mean

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these are nearly OLED like blacks less

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than .01 knits and it still reaches as

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high as roughly 1100 nits in a five percent window and the best part is the

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fineness of that control the 1080p monochrome panel doesn't quite

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match the resolution of the 4K color one but if you need a pinhole of light in

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the darkness it'll block most of the backlight strength before it ever

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reaches the color panel and with over 2 million effective dimming zones the halo

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effect is nearly imperceptible unless you put your eyeball to the glass

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for reference we compared the u9dg to a

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cheaper OLED and a nicer mini LED and

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even though the mini LED had a whopping thousand zones of local dimming on a

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smaller 65-inch panel the 75-inch

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Hisense was hands down the best performer for HDR content did I even

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mention yet that it has a quantum dot film and supports Dolby Vision so unless

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you're in a light controlled environment where the OLED really shines it's just

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wow and the u9dg is pretty color accurate too giving us an average Delta

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e of 5.5 in IMAX HDR and just 2.3 in SDR

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filmmaker mode similar to our LG mini LED and way ahead of our Vizio though it

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too is still pretty respectable for a home display

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a quick note for the high sense though if you want to get this crazy dynamic

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range while maintaining color accuracy you'll want to use IMAX mode with local

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dimming set to high now at this point everything is preceded as I had foreseen

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but my big question for Hisense from day

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one has been this going to add a bunch of processing

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delay and totally Fubar the gaming experience

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to find out we had to hook it up along with Ethernet USB ARCA a headphone

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jack and Optical output the i o is solid with two HDMI 2.1 ports one with e-arc

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and the u9dg supports variable refresh rate with AMD freesync as well as

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automatic low latency mode which should kick in with any supported input device

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that's promising for gaming but unless the pixel response times of the two

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panels are darn near identical you could

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end up with some really weird motion artifacts now Hisense says they solved

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this getting both of them to a matching eight milliseconds but keeping them

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synced up does require some extra work courtesy of their capable SOC with t-con

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or timing controller we used an ldat then with an RTX 3080 on

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our three TVs to test latency and

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unfortunately the high sense does indeed

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lose handily to the competition it's not the worst we've seen and they were at

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least upfront about it eight milliseconds on the box should tell you

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that there will be noticeable ghosting or motion blur but as long as the scene

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isn't moving too fast your games will look gorgeous

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like our new towels at lttstore.com at

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this point some of you must be wondering if this performs as well as it does then

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why is this the only TV on the market using this two panel Tech and why is it

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already discontinued well first of all this TV is relatively

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new but the technology isn't and there's a commercial mastering monitor from Sony

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that actually uses the same idea the BVM

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hx310 it came out in 2019 and cost a

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whopping thirty thousand dollars at launch keeping it firmly in the hands of

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the Hollywood Elite kind of like Chris Rock's face it can also do a thousand nits full

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screen and it has insane color accuracy for film colorists by contrast pun

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intended the u9dg was always intended to

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undercut OLED for the consumer market and it launched at just three to three

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and a half thousand US Dollars that's roughly a tenth of the price

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but now mere months later you can already find it for just two grand at

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Best Buy thanks to strong competition both from mini LED and new oleds from

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both LG and Samsung as for why they're not being made

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anymore our best guess is that it's due to production complexity and a

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competitive landscape that looks dramatically different today than it did

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three years ago when I first saw this demonstrated so with Sony's mastering

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display being forever Out Of Reach of the general public and dual panel Tech

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off of high senses public roadmap the u9dg might make more sense in a Tech

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Museum than it does in your living room but if you can find it for a clearance

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price and you need a huge TV mostly for movies with a little bit of light gaming

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it's actually a pretty solid choice and the built-in Google Assistant Chromecast

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