LG Shows of 8K TV & Explains why OLED is the Future - CES 2015
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·2015-05-07
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as well as hyperx LG's big push at the show for TVs this year is 4K OLED so
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they've got a really cool demo behind me that really I I think explains some of
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the advantages of OLED very visually so on your left you've got a traditional
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LED back lit LCD so you've got the actual back panel you've got a diffuser
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sheet for the back lighting so that it you don't just have like bright spots in
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the middle of the panel you know you ever heard a backlight bleed well that's
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the kind of thing that is inherent with a a backlit design that then has a panel
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in front of it that has to turn the pixels black in order to try to block as
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much light as they can to produce black well you can never reach black that way
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with an OLED panel the one that I have here on my left well all there is is the
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back cover of the TV and the OLED panel
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because it emits its own light and each pixel can be turned off individually for
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effectively black or infinite contrast but of course they don't expect you to
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take their word for it behind me is the OLED experience room where they've got
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their own LED back lit LCD TV with
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localized dimming which is a way that LCDs can try to achieve better black
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levels at least in certain parts of the screen where the image is darker for
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better effective contrast a kind of like a a voodoo trick that I've never
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personally really liked and I usually turn off and then they've got that next
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to an OLED TV where this uh the the
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imagery they have of this sweet little piece of motorcycle art demonstrates
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extremely well how the black parts of the image really are black instead of
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that gray that you've come to expect from anything that is not able to
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individually turn off the pixels but OLED's about more than just improved
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black levels and you know vibrant colors and all that kind of stuff through the
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use of well what is effectively a simpler physically overall design
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they're able to do some really cool stuff stuff like this now this isn't the first time we've seen LG show off a TV
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that's actually flexible and with the push of a button can be changed from
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Flat to curved but this is the first time that they're showing us something
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that is going to be a product this year now there's no model number yet there's
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no price or anything like that but they're telling us that this 77in OLED
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TV that can be adjusted from all the way flat to actually quite curved is going
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to be available this year as part of their 99 100 series looks freaking
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amazing in person and I mean this addresses one of the issues that I have with curved TVs in general in that
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you're stuck in this situation where you've got a sweet spot or you've got
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distorted sort of a distorted view of the TV well now depending how far away
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your couch is how many people need to be in The Sweet Spot you can actually
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adjust it by adjusting the curve that's not going to be cheap though so that's
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cool TVs that we don't know how much they cost and they have like Space Age
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Technology in them but what are people actually more likely to be buying this
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year for a 4K TV probably one of the flat IPS models that are going to be a
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lot more affordable and are still coming with some new Innovations so first of
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all with color Prime LG is upping the ante in terms of color reproduction
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they're also improving contrast they're adding 4K upscaling as well as improving
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viewing angles with their IPS technology which if you guys have been following
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our channel for any period of time you're probably familiar with how much
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we love IPS but I've got Kevin here to tell me what they're doing on the
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software side to make their Smart TVs a little bit more smart yeah we're really
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really proud of our Weber West platform we launched it last year actually Cs and
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you remember seeing it since then we've launched and sold over 5 million webos
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sets globally so we're really excited about the success this year we're bringing web OS 2.0 and what that brings
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is enhan speed we're adding multi-core processing to actually speed up the
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startup time and switching Time by 50% we're also keeping that easy to ous
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interface that customers have known to love well there you go easier and faster
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I guess it doesn't really get much better than that does it that's it but but as much fun as it is to look at what
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you can buy today or even later on this year Well CES wouldn't be the same
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without the stuff that there is no model number no model name no estimated
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release time no nothing you got to you got to look at that stuff too so this is
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what they're calling the world's first 98 in 8k color Prime Ultra HD TV you can
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see how interesting it is to people even if we're filming they're like getting in there with their cameras and all that so
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this is essentially a 98 in TV that runs
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at 16 times the pi pix count of 1080p four times the pixel count of 4K has no
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consumer interface that exists that would be able to drive this kind of
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resolution but it's just here for the sheer wow factor of it all we're going
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to get our camera as close as they're going to allow us to they don't let us pass the uh the little barricade here
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and we're going to show you guys how fine that image is but basically this
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would almost be usable from like monitor viewing distances as opposed to TV
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viewing distances speaking of viewing distances if you're looking at your
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