PRIVATE DEMO of Glass Speaker TV
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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957 words · ~4 min read
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huge shout out to AMD for sponsoring this video from CES 2017 learn more
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about their ryzen processors at the link in the video description so here in the
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Sony Booth they've got actually a whack ton of cool display Tech behind me is
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Cletus which stands for Crystal LED
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integrated structure and the main difference between this and the like
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huge display wall or tunnel that every other TV guy does every year is that you
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can buy one of these today so a Cletus display is made up of a
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whole bunch this one's somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 a whole bunch of
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modular 16in X 18in panels that can be
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seamlessly assembled and then be driven by what they call a Cletus brain which I
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think costs like $20,000 or something like that anyway the one behind me is
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driven by two Cletus brains this display
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technology is utterly unique in that it
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achieves its fantastic black levels in
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part by having almost 98% of the entire display area be black
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but looking at it from here it doesn't make any sense when you get in close you
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realize that every pixel is made up of a
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tiny red green and blue LED and the
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entire rest of the space is black it's trippy as hell I jumped up on the stage
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and managed to get within about 6 to 8 in of it and the image completely
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disappears you move back and it appears it's actually quite disorienting though
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I don't consider it a knock against the technology because you would obviously
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never watch it from that range on Sony's blog they said it's capable of up to 120
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HZ refresh rates and it looks absolutely
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incredible it is nearly impossible to see the seams with many types of content
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now let's talk things you'd be more likely to actually put in your living
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room this is the A1 series Bravia TV and
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it is Absolut mindboggling for a number of reasons so
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this is Sony's second OLED TV the first
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one to actually make any sense it's available in 65 and 77 in and they've
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done a lot of stuff in here that makes a ton of sense so the first is they're
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going for no compromises on the viewing experience so it uses an OLED panel it
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uses their X1 extreme processor which by the way is completely separate from the
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processor that runs Android so it's
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exclusive for processing the image and analyzing
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the individual panel remember there are manufacturing variances in real time to
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get the best possible image number two is they've gone bezeless all the way
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around even the Sony logo is Tiny how
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many Brands like this have the stones to pretty much take the logo off their
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product and let it speak for themselves almost none of them one there one
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additionally they have instead of chasing thinness distance from the wall
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at all cost gone you know what we're going to have all the inputs and outputs
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and the vase amount and everything still attached to the TV it's okay to be 4 in
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Off the Wall which I personally really don't mind except that hold on a second
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how can you call it no compromises if there isn't even an integrated speaker I
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have to go buy speakers no this is where stuff gets like crazy bananas they have
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turned the entire glass surface of the TV into a speaker not just one speaker
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there's two vibrating actuators on each side of the TV so the entire pain of
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glass and there's a subwoofer in the base too but the entire pan of glass
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actually vibrates vibrating actuators it actually vibrates and you might be
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thinking well hold on a second line if you vibrate a piece of glass sure that'll create a sound wave but are we
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talking about Mono sound absolutely not so they have this demo where a bird goes
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across ch ch ch ch chep back and forth you kind of go oh yeah that's working pretty well and then this Crow comes in
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like God like holy crap it actually sounds like it's coming from exactly
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where the image is no like algorithmic
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we got the speakers over here but it sounds like it's coming from over there it's really freaking cool and in terms
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of the sound quality I mean that's a big question mark right so we did a side
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by-side demo in the secret black room
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that apparently very few people have been going into with a well-respected
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very high-end TV they wouldn't let me name who it is out of respect but let's
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say it's an integr ated Soundbar TV with which I am intimately familiar and the
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difference was astonishing and again I'm intimately familiar with the TV I asked
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for the remote I was like bling around with it making sure there was no funny
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business going on image quality sound quality this thing is the cats pajamas
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so a huge shout out again to AMD for sponsoring our coverage of CES
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2017 check out the new Vega GPU
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architecture which supports A high bandwidth cache at the link in the video
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description but we're going to make that easy for you it's v.g ve. GA and also be
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sure to check out after the uprising on YouTube which we're going to have linked
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in the top right corner right there