The OLED Gaming TV from ALIENWARE!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,283 words · ~6 min read
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Linus tech tips coverage of ces 2019 is brought to you by dbrand their grip
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cases and prism screen protectors protect your phone and really what else
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do you need to know check them out at the link in the video description we are
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here in the alienware suite or restaurant or whatever this is it
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doesn't matter the point is this is the star of the show this is the
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alienware 55 OLED monitor technology
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preview don't worry it's going to have a much cooler name when it comes out i
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promise you because nothing could be less cool than that but the product
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itself is something that we have been wanting so much
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ever since we first saw OLED technology
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perfect blacks fast pixel response times
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vibrant colors nothing else is quite
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like it today the fact that you don't have to deal with uh zone backlighting
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in order to achieve the kinds of crazy contrast ratios that these things do
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because every individual pixel emits its own light absolutely incredible
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technology except for one critical like
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game-breaking flaw dell actually released an OLED monitor it was either
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last year or the year before can't remember they wouldn't seed it to me
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because they didn't want me to review it as far as i can tell anyway i just
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bought it and then it broke in shipping and by the time i could try to get a
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replacement it was discontinued i was like damn it
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i just wanted to get my hands on this thing so apparently they learned their
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lesson about going at this too early but this time they're taking a more
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conservative approach so they'll only tell us a little bit about this it's
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using a 4k panel it's 55 inches it's
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going to run at 120 hertz so
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that gives us some sort of guesses as to who their supplier is lg
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and what's really cool is we were hanging out with lg display yesterday
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and they were actually showing us a really impressive demo on what they've
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been able to do with OLED pixel response times over the last year so we could
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expect because remember lg display is not the same company as lg electronics
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so we could expect that lg displays hard work to make OLED better for gaming
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could finally amount to a tv okay they're calling it a monitor but
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whatever to a tv gaming experience that's as low latency as you would want
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it to be now there's a lot of stuff they legitimately
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don't know about this yet whether it's going to be compatible with precinct
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whether it's going to be compatible with g-sync they do know that they're
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targeting some kind of variable refresh rate gaming technology but there are a
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ton of things up in the air they know that it'll run 120 hertz over
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displayport but hey HDMI 2.1 is upon us
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maybe it's going to end up with a 2.1 compatible scaler and we could run 4k
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120 hertz over HDMI who knows the point is they're taking their time we're not
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expecting this anytime in the next six months because they're doing some
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long-term testing on burn-in prevention
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to make sure they don't have a repeat of last time so one thing that we do know
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they're doing is they're not going to crank the brightness the same way that
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they did on the original m13 OLED gaming laptop that thing was freaking cool but
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of course any OLED is eventually going
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to burn in it's just due to the nature of the organic
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light emitting diode it degrades so they're doing their best to figure out
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what exactly it is they can do OLED technology has also gotten more
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resilient over time and i for one am
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incredibly excited to see where we're going with this
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so i think we're kind of in the way but you know whatever uh yeah do you mind
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hey thanks
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can you hold that for me for a sec thank you just one moment
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so here from the back we can get a better look at the cable management system that they've built into the
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monitor so they've got all the inputs over there including a usb hub they've
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got power over here the whole thing comes down in a nice tidy little ponytail uh there's no word on pricing
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whatsoever but yeah i mean hey whatever
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the price is people are gonna buy this thing because this is gonna be one
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unreal gaming experience and i am pretty excited
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and in other OLED gaming news we've got the alienware m15 OLED display and did i
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just unplug it bloody hell nope it's fine it's all good yay now just like
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pretty much every other gaming laptop that we've seen here at the show they
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have upgraded their lineup with rtx graphics so this particular one is going
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to be available with an rtx 2060 or 2070 max q but unlike everything else we've
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seen it is going to be equipped with a yes my friends they still haven't
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learned their lesson from the alienware 13 r3 and OLED panel now i shouldn't say
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haven't learned their lesson because they say they did and they've been hard
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at work making sure that this thing isn't going to be a problem but yes my
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friends it's coming back OLED gaming and
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in a bigger chassis with a bigger screen which was basically the only issue that
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we had with the old alienware 13 was we just wanted a screen that was a touch
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bigger it's still shockingly thin considering the gaming power on tap and
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not just gaming power this is equipped with a core i9 8950 hk which assuming
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that it doesn't thermal throttle to hell and back no guarantees we'll have to
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wait for the full review means that you've got six cores 12 threads of
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pretty impressive power again in a pretty slim design
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speaking of slim designs if you're looking to uh protect your phone you can
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use dbrand dbrand's new prism screen protectors are super thin they feel
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really glassy but it's like kind of incredible they've got this applicator
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so you can put them on perfectly every time and once they're on they offer
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impact protection that i wouldn't have thought possible like i'm not
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recommending you do it but this footage is real i'm taking a phone and hammering
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a nail into a piece of wood with it i peel off the screen protector which is
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obviously dented to hell and the phone
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screen is pristine it's absolutely incredible and they're also promoting
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their grip cases so the grip is back and better than ever it's got well the super
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grippy design so you won't drop your phone it's got the impact protection
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just in case you do it's got their extra clicky buttons and of course it's dbrand
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so you can customize the look with one of their many true textured 3m vinyl
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skins so check them out at the link in the video description
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so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our ces 2019 content we will see
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you at the next booth