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on the friday before ces started lg announced that they'd be unveiling a

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lineup of real ak tvs for 2020. hell

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yeah ak is finally becoming wait a second why did lg say real 8k so

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many times in this release it's in the headline it's italicized which must be

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for emphasis because it doesn't appear to be part of the branding

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could lg be implying that someone else perhaps a major competitor like i don't

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know samsung does not have real 8k

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did samsung really create its own certification program because their aka

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tvs couldn't meet the same specs as lg's

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okay now i'm curious so i went down a rabbit hole to find out which 2020 aktvs

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are actually legitimate for consumers to buy

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all the scandalous details after this message from our sponsor pulseway don't

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in september 2019 the consumer technology association or cta the same

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group that puts on ces announced the official industry display definition and

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logo for 8k ultra high definition televisions the idea is that consumers

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laying down serious money for an ak tv will be able to see this logo on the box

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and trust that the tv inside the box is capable of the performance you'd expect

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things like having 7680 by 4320 pixels

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inputs that deliver content at that resolution at 60 frames per second and

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the ability to upscale content from lower resolutions because let's face it

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elon musk will probably be living on mars before most of us will be able to

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stream aka movies from netflix but there's another requirement in this

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certification that might sound a little weird to you the one that's at the

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center of all this controversy the cta spec states a display shall meet a

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minimum of 50 contrast modulation using a 1x1 grill

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pattern what the heck is contrast modulation well lg actually had a

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contrast modulation demo at their booth back at ifa 2019. that was in september

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where they showed their 2019 8k tv

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squaring off against an other 8k display which many people

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thought to be from samsung in the demo a microscope panned over

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both tvs showing the clarity or lack thereof of the displays from super close

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up the obviously worst competing brand was only capable of a contrast

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modulation of about 12 far below the cta 8k ultra hd threshold

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of 50 and not even close to the 90 level of

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lg's 8k tvs and i mean if these pixels look blurry then does it

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even matter how many of them you have is your tv still 8k then on january 1st

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2020 samsung made the eyebrow raising announcement that there would be a

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different sticker on the box of their ak tvs a certification from a group called

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the 8k association a group that has samsung as a founding member but lg

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isn't involved at all and critically a

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certification spec that as far as anyone knows does not include any targets for

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contrast modulation and the funny thing is almost the exact same thing happened

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just a couple of years ago except it was samsung taking shots at lg for having

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blurry screens check out this samsung blog from 2016 where they amplify the

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icdms that's the international committee for display metrology

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conclusion that contrast modulation is quoting the optimal criterion for

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display resolution measurement and that reporting contrast modulation numbers

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would be mandatory in other words instead of defining resolution by raw

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pixel count we should be using the perception of clarity and right now

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contrast modulation seems to be the best way to quantify that the reason

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that samsung was trumpeting contrast modulation back in 2016 was because back

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then it was lg who was putting out displays with suspicious 4k performance

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so on those ones rather than using an RGB sub pixel arrangement this lineup of

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entry to mid-level tvs used rgbw panels

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meaning that every fourth pixel simply shone white while this increased the

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brightness of the screen these lcds could not achieve full uhd resolution in

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color because 25 of the pixels weren't

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contributing to that so in a sense they could only pull off 4k with

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monochromatic resolution test patterns fast forward to the current 8k battle

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and all of lg's new lcds use RGB screens

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and it's a completely separate issue that's hurting samsung basically the

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contrast modulation of their 2019 ak the one that lg likely had in their

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microscope demo was being lowered in exchange for increasing viewing angles

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everyone knows that ips panels have awesome 178 degree viewing angles right

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that's one reason everyone's buying ips pc monitors instead of faster tns

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but remember ips is proprietary to lg

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and in the past lg has even sued samsung for infringing on their ips patents so

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the reason why samsung's 2019 8k had

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viewing angle issues while lg's did not was because samsung's panels are v8

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which are known to have deeper blacks but narrower viewing angles

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therefore samsung decided to employ a couple of techniques to widen their

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viewing angles sub pixel dithering and

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more importantly a film that scattered light horizontally but degraded clarity

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now none of this means that samsung went out and started its own consortium

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to bypass the all-important contrast modulation spec doesn't mean that while

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it is true that samsung is a founding member of the 8k association and that

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the group believes its certification criteria should be determined by its

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members the group's been around since 2018. it has a lot of really big

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companies in it that aren't samsung and there isn't any reason why lg couldn't

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join the ak association now but here's a better indicator than any of those

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samsung says that for 2020 they've sorted out their priorities and all

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their aktvs will have contrast modulation figures in excess of the 50

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target all this hollow blue about them not having real 8k only applied to their

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2019 aks which i hope no one bought

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anyway samsung even went as far as to tell me that consumers will see both the

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cta and 8k association logos on their

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packaging two different stickers however

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that little tidbit has been known for almost a week already yet just two days

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ago lg uploaded this video which still has real ak in the title so is lg

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deliberately spreading disinformation or did some lonely social media manager

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just not get the memo or care enough to edit their scheduled youtube post

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