Is OLED the future? LG thinks so
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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squarespace.com LTT we'll have that linked below
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you have got to be kidding me l lg is showing off tvs in there boob
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no way so they've got an update to the w7
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signature from last year that we actually built into my office as a
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window tv and in terms of the changes well quite frankly they couldn't have
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made it any thinner they couldn't have made it any higher resolution until we
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get a next generation display interface so it's mostly tweaks as far as that
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goes with that said some of the tweaks are pretty significant it now has google
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assistant integration and works with amazon alexa so you can ask it questions
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like what's the weather today or what's the weather going to be like later or
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tell it to dim the lights etc and it's also got lg's thin q
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which they call thin q instead of think for some inexplicable reason that lets
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you use voice control also to control tv functionality like screen brightness uh
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pointer options changing the channel and telling the tv to go to sleep just so
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that it doesn't sit there and maybe risk burning in when you pass out
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on the couch the big thing though is what's under the hood so it's still got
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that sound bar under the tv but the processor in it is different so the
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alpha nine addresses five key aspects of image quality color so it has a lookup
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table that is 7.3 times larger clarity so it's got twice as many steps of noise
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reduction sharpness it increases depth by tracking
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objects rather than edges necessarily
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and then contrast and motion though contrast is a bit of a funny one because
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if you can already turn your pixels off you're already technically infinite so
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um maybe more brightness i'm just making things up now at this
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point though so this chip is gonna appear in their c8 e8 g8 and w8 tvs for
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2018. so that's all cool but one of the
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most interesting things that lg is showing off this year is actually way
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way deep under the hood and the demo behind me is being run in partnership
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with a company that we've worked with in the past called spectra
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sorry i mean a portrait portrait they changed the name a little while ago
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anyway lg is changing the way that you can calibrate their tvs with third-party
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hardware and software so behind me we've got an HDR tv with
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portrait calman software and there's a new mode that they're rolling out called
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autocal and okay technically autocal is not new but the way that it works is
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really different so now on certain lg
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tvs so the one behind me is a 2018 model you're going to be able to basically
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click one button and instead of it taking an hour to calibrate your tv to a
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professional level even HDR calibration it'll take just a
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couple minutes and instead of your calibration software
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having to fight with the pre-existing luts or any image settings that you
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alter in the let's face it it's pretty confusing menu it just wipes all that
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stuff out and does it fresh from scratch
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not only that but you can even calibrate the image in multiple modes including
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game mode so you no longer have to choose between higher latency and crap
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your image quality wait and better image quality lower latency you can get lower
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latency and better image quality at the same time speaking of things going
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cloud-based interface so check them out over at squarespace.com LTT we've got
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you didn't like it hit dislike i suppose but if you really liked it check out uh
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well you can't buy one of these yet so yeah so much for our standard outro
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check out the rest of our ces content i'm gonna go over there now