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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality pc components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is linksys in the sharp booth the first thing we checked out is the flexible LED display so this is only a three point four inch model they've got two prototypes on display here they have all the same benefits that were used to seeing with 0 LED that is to say they have more vibrant colors better contrast ratios lower power consumption all of that good stuff however now all of a sudden you can see that with there's one demo there where it's curved by default and then there's another one over here on the right where they've actually got it flexing in real time that dramatically increases the applications that we can use this technology for now this these particular ones right here implement sharps XO technology which does a couple of things number one is that it is a highly sensitive touch panel technology and number two is that it actually reduces the power consumption again compared to other approaches for when when it comes to LED screens now you might say okay Oh LED is already very efficient why do we care and the answer is if you want to build a larger format panel or if you want to pack more pixels into it power consumption becomes a factor again so the great thing about this is unlike so many things we see at CES this isn't actually science fiction unlike you know the product that was in the sony booth where no one from the booth had actually even heard of this or seen it they basically pulled it out of a box put it in a display stand and no one knows what it is this could be produced tomorrow if a partner of sharp said hey look we were going to cut a p.o we want you to produce this let's get it done very very exciting stuff now 4k is here and now and sharp is launching a couple of models this year one of them in the summer and the other one in sort of the second half of 2013's oh that's a 60-inch first and then a 70 inch however on display here at the booth they have what they're calling the future of television is an AK 85 inch TV that is actually displaying native 8k content so the difference between for kak quite simply is for but but not before you're thinking of not not not 4000 actually it is four times the resolution of 4k content so what I'd like is for my cameraman here to get up close and personal with this TV sharp is encouraging visitors to the show to get as close to the TV as they want and see if they can actually make out the individual pixels and standing about 60 centimeters away from it I would say no you actually can't see an individual pixel so this is still voodoo magic this is still not not-ready-for-prime-time by any stretch of the imagination but maybe five ten years down the road will actually be getting a k content broadcast to our homes or at least available on some kind of future science fiction media thanks for watching linus tech tips at CES 2013 powered by corsair seagate technology and linksys you