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emits its own light and each pixel can be turned off individually for effectively black or infinite contrast but of course they don't expect you to take their word for it behind me is the OLED experience room where they've got their own LED backlit LCD TV with localized dimming which is a way that LCDs can try to achieve better black levels at least in certain parts of the screen where the image is darker for better effective contrast it'll kind of like a voodoo trick that I've never personally really liked and I usually turn off and then they've got that next to an OLED TV where this the the imagery they have of this sweet little piece of motorcycle art demonstrates extremely well how the black parts of the image really are black instead of that grey that you've come to expect from anything that is not able to individually turn off the pixels but oh that's about more than just improved black levels and you know vibrant colors and all that kind of stuff through the use of what is effectively a simpler physically overall design they're able to do some really cool stuff like this now this isn't the first time we've seen LG show off a TV that's actually flexible and with the push of a button can be changed from flat to curved but this is the first time that they're showing us something that is going to be a product this year now there's no model number yet there's no price or anything like that but they're telling us that the 77 inch OLED TV that can be adjusted from all the way flat to actually quite curved is going to be available this year as part of their 9900 series looks freakin amazing in person and this addresses one of the issues that I have with curved TVs in general in that you're stuck in the situation where you've got a sweet spot or you've got distorted sort of a distorted view of the TV well now depending how far away your couch is how many people need to be in the sweet spot you can actually adjust it by adjusting the curve that's not going to be cheap though so that's cool TVs that we don't know how much they cost and they have like space-age technology and the motor people actually more likely to be buying this year for a 4k TV probably one of the flat IPS models that are going to be a lot more affordable and are still coming with some new innovations so first of all with color prime LG's upping the ante in terms of color reproduction they're also improving contrast they're adding 4k upscaling as well as improving viewing angles with their IPS technology which you guys have been following our channel for any period of time you're probably familiar with how much we love IPS but I've got Kevin here to tell me what they're doing on the software side to make their Smart TVs a little bit more smart yeah we're really really proud of our webOS platform we launched it last year actress yes so you remember seeing it since then we've launched and sold over 5 million web assets globally so really excited about the success this year we're bringing webOS 2.0 and what that brings is enhanced speed we're at a multi-core processing to actually speed up the start up time and switching time by 50% we're also keeping that easy-to-use interface that customers have known to love well there you go easier and faster I guess it doesn't really get much better than that does it that's it but as much fun as it is to look at what you can buy today or even later on this year well CES wouldn't be the same without the stuff that there is no model number no model name no estimated release time no nothing you got it he got a look at that stuff too so this is what they're calling the world's first ninety eight inch 8k color prime ultra HDTV you can see how interesting it is to people even if we're filming they're like and in there with their cameras and all that so this is I'm essentially a 98 inch TV that runs at 16 times the pixel count of 1080p four times the pixel count of 4k has no consumer interface that exists that would be able to drive this kind of resolution but it's just here for the sheer wow factor of it all we're going to get our cameras closest we're going to allow us to they don't let us pass the little barricade here we're going to show you guys how find that images but basically this would almost be usable from like monitor viewing distances as opposed to TV viewing distances speaking of viewing distances if you're looking at your phone ever and you want it to not get scratched up and still be you know super you're crystal clear and have a nice satisfying feel you might want to check out store dot phantom dog glass phantom glass is powering us here at the show they make the best iron screen protectors out there they go on bubble-free and they're super durable made of Gorilla Glass also want to give a shout-out to HyperX those guys have some great content over on their YouTube channel youtube.com slash HyperX got a lot of great great gaming stuff we've got links to both of those guys in the video 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