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huge shout out to AMD for sponsoring this video from CES 2017 learn more about their rise and processors at the link in the video description so here in the Sony booth they've got actually a wack ton of cool display tech behind me is Cletus which stands for crystal LED integrated structure and the main difference between this and the like huge display wall or tunnel that every other TV guy does every year is that you can buy one of these today so a Cletus display is made up of a whole bunch this one's somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 a whole bunch of modular 16 inch by 18 inch panels that can be seamlessly assembled and then be driven by what they call a Cletus brain which I think costs like $20,000 or something like that anyway the one behind me is driven by - Cletus brains this display technology is utterly unique in that it achieves its fantastic black levels in part by having almost 98% of the entire display area be black but looking at it from here it doesn't make any sense when you get in close you realize that every pixel is made up of a tiny red green and blue LED and the entire rest of the space is black it's trippy as hell I've jumped up on the stage and managed to get within about six to eight inches of it and the image completely disappears you move back and it appears it's actually quite disorienting though I don't consider it a knock against the technology because you would obviously never watch it from that range on Sony's blog they said it's capable of up to a hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rates and it looks absolutely incredible it is nearly impossible to see the seams with many types of content now let's talk things you'd be more likely to actually put in your living room this is the a1 series bravia tv and it is absolutely mind-boggling for a number of reasons so this is Sony's second OLED TV the first one to actually make any sense it's available in 65 and 77 inches and they've done a lot of stuff in here that may a ton of sense so the first is they're going for no compromises on the viewing experience so it uses an OLED panel it uses their x1 extreme processor which by the way is completely separate from the processor that runs Android so it's exclusively for processing the image and analyzing the individual panel remember their manufacturing variances in real time to get the best possible image number two is they've gone bezel-less all the way around even the sony logo is tiny how many brands like this have the stones to pretty much take the logo off their product and let it speak for themselves almost none of them won their one additionally they have instead of chasing thinness distance from the wall at all costs gone you know what we're going to have all the inputs and outputs and the base amount and everything still attached to the TV it's okay to be four inches off the wall which I personally really don't mind except that hold on a second how can you call it no compromises if there isn't even an integrated speaker have to go by speakers no this is where stuff gets like crazy bananas they have turned the entire glass surface of the TV into a speaker not just one speaker there's two vibrating actuators on each side of the TV so the entire pane of glass and there's a subwoofer in the base too but the entire pane of glass actually vibrates vibrating actuators it actually vibrates and you might be thinking well hold on a second Linus you vibrate a piece of glass sure that'll create a sound wave but are we talking about mono sound absolutely not so they have this demo where a bird goes across cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep back and forth you can't go yeah that's working pretty well and then this crow comes in he's like God like holy crap it actually sounds like it's coming from exactly where the image is no like algorithmic we got the speaker's over here but it sounds like it's coming from over there it's really freaking cool and in terms of the sound quality I mean that's a big question mark right so we did a side-by-side demo in the secret black room that apparently very few people have been going into with a well-respected very high-end TV they wouldn't let me name who it is out of respect but let's say it's an integrated soundbar TV with which I am intimately familiar and the difference was astonishing and again I'm intimately familiar with the TV I asked for the remote I was like fooling around it making sure there was no funny business going on image quality sound quality this thing is the cat's pajamas so a huge shout out again to AMD for sponsoring our coverage of CES 2017 check out the new Vega GPU architecture which supports a high bandwidth cache at the link in the video description but we're going to make that easy for you it's vega v e dot g a and also be sure to check out after the uprising on youtube which we're going to have linked in the top right corner right there