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hey everybody I'm here at CES 2019 in LG's cool suite at the Mandalay Hotel this is an 8k oled television the first one available in the market later this year no price yet it's gonna be really expensive but hey it's an 8k TV and you also might have noticed it's pretty gigantic this TV is 88 inches diagonal that is really really big there's some larger TVs out there but for an OLED TV the biggest ever and of course the highest resolution with 8k now of course there's no 8k content today okay has dubious picks from quality improvements even with the TV this large but this is an OLED TV which has the best picture of any technology we've ever tested this TV we expect to be a spectacular performer it's got this cool stand here it's actually part of the television itself it's a little rectangular silver thing of course you can pop the TV off and wall mount it if you want look around back those speakers pointing up and there's also a cool little flange along the bottom here to send that sound out into the room it's a pretty nice overall design on this TV itself very minimal as you expect from an OLED TV LG says it's improve a video processing on this set a little bit it's added some AI to the secret sauce there it also has the ability to get some more noise reduction out of this set so again we expect very good picture of course Steve ibly stratospherically expensive so let's say you can't put an 88 inch OLED you still want 8k from LG they're selling an LCD TV this guy is 75 inches aka LCD it's actually the smallest LCD we've seen so far in the United States announced for a k' resolution again you get all of its processing and everything but the picture is not gonna be nearly as good because it's an LCD based television should be pretty decent but again we'll have to know when we check it out LG is also selling standard 4k versions of its OLED TVs this is the e series it's got a new design here the bottom is nice and clear they're also putting in some cooling features this year including ability to work with these clip speakers with a new whysa Wi-Fi standard that allows it to actually play full 5.1 surround sound without any wires the set also has that improved processor and LG says that it can work now this year with Alexa and Google assistant so you got both of those digital assistants on the TV at the same time you long press on the Amazon button and you get Alexa on the TV itself first time that's ever been done you're looking at LG's e this is a standard OLED television as in 4k resolution not 8k is 65 inch here there's also a 55 inch size and 77 inch size in some series LG hasn't made too many changes in the sense the previous year they've improved the processing a little bit but this is a pretty standard OLED TV LG has not told us its pricing yet this year but you know you do expect it to be relatively expensive just like it was last year and again one of the best performing TVs we've ever tested LG has also made a couple of improvements to its Smart TV system they have the ability now to interface with the smart home devices that are compatible with the set you can pop up the smart home screen here and drive around and control things like lights and thermostats LG says there's plenty of them compatible this year so that's a nice new addition you can also mouse over the Netflix icon here you can see shows pop right up individual shows you can jump right into there's also the ability to rearrange the apps themselves at LG can automatically sense which actually views the most and move those to the front of the line that's a quick look at LG's 8k and 4k OLED TVs here at CES 2019 David Katz marfa CNET