LG's Best! Super Thin 4K OLED Signature TV - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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Thank you to Squarespace for sending us the CES 2016 this year. Check out their
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link in the description down below, which is squarespace.com/Linus
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and use offer code Linus for 10% off. So, we're here in an LG suite actually
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prior to the opening of the main show to have a sneak peek at some of the stuff
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that they'll be showing off on the show floor. So, to my left, we've got their
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new super UHD TVs, which is UHD, so 3840
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by uh 2160 resolution, but now with
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super. So, there's actually three lines within their LCD lineup of super UHD
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TVs, and you get a variety of different features, better contrast, uh things
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like high dynamic range depending on which tier you spring for. But this is
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the real star of the show. So, it's part of LG's new signature series concept,
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which is supposed to be the best of what they can do in terms of design as well
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as performance. And while some of the other products in the Signature series
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are stuff that we don't generally cover, like washing machines, this is
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definitely right up our alley. So, this is the G6 series of OLED TVs, and it
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builds on the previous generation flagship OLEDs from LG in a number of
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key ways. So number one is that while
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you can't improve on perfect black, that is to say the pixel being effectively
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off whenever there's black displayed on the screen, you can improve the maximum
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brightness. So it's still effectively infinite contrast, but this allows it to
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achieve what LG is calling HDR Pro. So,
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it's a level of high dynamic range image
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quality that you can't achieve unless you've made the tweaks that they've made
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to the pixels in the last year. They've actually dramatically improved the color
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reproduction of them as well, making these TVs capable of 99% of the DCI
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cinema color space, much like those LG monitors that we use to produce our
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videos back at the studio, which is all fine and good. That covers the
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performance part of the signature series, but I haven't talked anything
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about the design, and it shouldn't come as any surprise that LG's come back this
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year with bigger and yes, my friends,
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the other big trend, thinner. So, this puppy right here is actually an
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astonishing 2.7 mm thick across pretty much the entirety
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of the back of the display. Okay. Yes, there is a little bump in the back for
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some structural support as well as to attach to the bass which cleverly, by
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the way, integrates a Harman Carden collaborated 4.280 W soundbar. But the
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actual electronics have been moved outside of the TV. Something that I've
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been I've been saying someone's going to do this eventually. They're going to have to build a thinner TV and they're
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going to go, "Okay, well, we've run out of room for HDMI ports even. Let's just
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take it completely outside of the box." And they have effectively done it. Not
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only that, but the OLED panel is now mounted on a gorgeous piece of glass,
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giving it a very premium look and feel. Not to say that I'm recommending that
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you go and touch your TV all the time. It's just that the image looks so
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unbelievable, even here in the suite, which is not necessarily ideal viewing
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conditions, that you might actually be tempted to. So, thanks for checking out
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our coverage of the LG suite here just kind of in advance of the rest of the
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show at CES 2016. I want to take this time to give a huge shout out to
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