Sharp Flexible OLED Screen Demo - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted
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storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is
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linkis in the sharp Booth the first thing we checked out is the flexible
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OLED display so this is only a 3.4 in
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model they've got two prototypes on display here they have all the same
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benefits that we're used to seeing with LED that is to say they have more
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vibrant colors better contrast ratios lower power consumption all of that good
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stuff however now all of a sudden you can see that with there's one demo there
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where it's curved by default and then there's another one over here on the
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right where they've actually got it flexing in real time that dramatically
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increases the applications that we can use this technology for now this these
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particular ones right here Implement Sharp's EXO technology which does a
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couple of things number one is that it is a highly sensitive touch panel
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technology and number two is that it
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actually reduces the power consumption again compared to other approaches from
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when when it comes to OLED screens now you might say Okay OLED is already very
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efficient why do we care and the answer is if you want to build a larger format
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panel or if you want to pack more pixels into it power consumption becomes a
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factor again so the great thing about this is unlike so many things we see at
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CES this isn't actually science fiction unlike you know product that was in the
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Sony Booth where no one from the booth had actually even heard of this or seen
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it they basically pulled it out of a box put it in a display stand and no one
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knows what it is this could be produced tomorrow if a partner of Sharps said hey
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look we we're going to cut a PO we want you to produce this let's get it done
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very very exciting stuff now 4K is here in now and sharp is launching a couple
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of models this year one of them in the summer and the other one in sort of the
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second half of 2013 so that's a 60in first and then a 70in however on display
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here at the booth they have what they're calling the future of Television so this
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is an 8K 85 in TV that is actually
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displaying native 8K content so the
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difference between 4K and 8K quite simply is four but but not the four
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you're thinking of not not not 4,000 actually it is four times the resolution
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of 4K content so what I'd like is for my cameraman here to get up close and
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personal with this TV sharp is
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encouraging uh visitors to the show to get as close to the TV as they want and
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see if they can actually make out the individual pixels and standing about 60
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cm away from it I would say no you
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actually can't see an individual pixel so this is still voodoo magic this is
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still not uh not ready for Prime Time by
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any stretch of the imagination but maybe 5 10 years down the road we'll actually
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be getting AK content broadcast to our homes or at least available on some kind
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of future science fiction media thanks
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for watching Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair Seagate technology
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and
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linkis