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- tech tips coverage of CES 2019 is brought to you by D brand their grip cases and prism screen protectors protect your phone and really what else do you need to know check them out at the link in the video description we are here in the delay lien where sweets are restaurant or whatever this is it doesn't matter the point is this is the star of the show this is the Alienware 55 oled monitor technology preview don't worry it's gonna have a much cooler name when it comes out I promise you because nothing could be less cool than that but the product itself is something that we have been wanting so much ever since we first saw oled technology perfect blacks fast pixel response times vibrant colors nothing else is quite like it today the fact that you don't have to deal with zone backlighting in order to achieve the kinds of crazy contrast ratios that these things do because every individual pixel emits its own light absolutely incredible technology except for one critical like game-breaking flaw del actually released an OLED monitor it was either last year or the year before can't remember they wouldn't seen it to me because they didn't want me to review it as far as I can tell anyway I just bought it and then it broke in shipping and by the time I could try to get a replacement it was discontinued like dammit I just wanted to get my hands on this thing so apparently they learned their lesson about going at this too early but this time they're taking a more conservative approach so they'll only tell us a little bit about this it's using a 4k panel it's 55 inches it's gonna run at 120 Hertz so that gives us some sort of guesses as to who their supplier is LG and what's really cool is we were hanging out with LG Display yesterday and they were actually showing us a really impressive demo on what they've been able to do with OLED pixel response times over the last year so we could expect because remember LG Display is not the same company as LG Electronics so we could expect that LG displays hard work to make OLED better for gaming could finally amount to a TV okay they're calling it a monitor but whatever - a TV gaming experience that says low latency as you would want it to be now there's a lot of stuff they legitimately don't know about this yet whether it's going to be compatible with precinct whether it's going to be compatible with g-sync they do know that they're targeting some kind of variable refresh rate gaming technology but there are a ton of things up in the air they know that it'll run 120 Hertz over DisplayPort but hey HDMI 2.1 is upon us maybe it's gonna end up with a 2.1 compatible scaler and we could run 4k 120 Hertz over HDMI who knows the point is they're taking their time we're not expecting this anytime in the next six months because they're doing some long-term testing on burning prevention to make sure they don't have a repeat of last time so one thing that we do know they're doing is they're not going to crank the brightness the same way that they did on the original m13 OLED gaming laptop that thing was freaking cool but of course any OLED is eventually going to burn in its just due to the nature of the organic light-emitting diode it degrades so they're doing their best to figure out what exactly it is they can do OLED technology has also gotten more resilient over time and I for one am incredibly excited to see where we're going with this so I think we're kind of in the way but you know whatever yeah do you mind hey thanks can you hold that for me for a sec thank you one moment so here from the back we can get a better look at the cable management system that they've built into the monitor so they've got all the inputs over there including a USB hub they've got power over here the whole thing comes down in a nice tidy little ponytail there's no word on pricing whatsoever but I mean hey whatever the price is people are gonna buy this thing because this is gonna be one unreal gaming experience and I am pretty excited and in other OLED gaming news we've got the Alienware m15 OLED display and did I just unplug it bloody hell no it's fine it's all good yay now just like pretty much every other gaming laptop that we've seen here at the show they have upgraded their lineup with r-tx graphics so this particular one is going to be available with an RT X 2060 or 2070 max-q but unlike everything else we've seen it is going to be equipped with a yes my friends they still haven't learned their lesson from the Alienware 13 r3 and OLED panel now I shouldn't say haven't learned their lesson because they say they did and they've been hard at work making sure that this thing isn't gonna be a problem but yes my friends it's coming back OLED gaming and in a bigger chassis with a bigger screen which was basically the only issue that we had with the old alien where 13 was we just wanted a screen that was a touch bigger it's still shockingly thin considering the gaming power on tap and not just gaming power this is equipped with a kora 989 50 HK which assuming that it doesn't thermal throttle to hell and back no guarantees we'll have to wait for the full review means that you've got six cores 12 threads of pretty impressive power again in a pretty slim design speaking of slim designs if you're looking to protect your phone you can use D brand D brands new prism screen protectors are super thin they feel really glassy but it's like kind of incredible they've got this applicator so you can put them on perfectly every time and once they're on they offer impact protection that I wouldn't have thought possible like I'm not recommending you do it but this footage is real I'm taking a phone and a nail into a piece of wood with it I peel off the screen protector which is obviously dented to hell and the phone screen is pristine it's absolutely incredible and they're also promoting their grip cases so the grip is back and better than ever it's got well the super grippy design so you won't drop your phone it's got the impact protection just in case you do it's got their extra clicky buttons and of course it's D brand so you can customize the look with one of their many true textured 3m vinyl skins so check them out at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our CES 2019 content we will see you at the next booth