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hey what is up guys okay VHD here and I'm in Las Vegas for CES 2015 and if you've been following the show at all or if you've been paying attention to the news you've probably heard of a little something called quantum dot technology and TVs if you haven't heard of it that's okay too we're going to break it down so despite the name quantum dot isn't really all that insane it's essentially just an improved backlighting technology so with the LED and LCD TVs we have now the backlight is this pure white light that gets shined through but white light isn't just red green and blue white light is red green blue some yellows some Purple's some other colors and that needs to be filtered before it goes through as those RGB pixels and that filtering will take away a little bit of light a little bit of vividness what quantum dot backlighting promises is to not need that filtering so it'll shine pure red green and blue light through and it'll appear to be pure white but it won't require any of that filtering that an LED or LCD backlight does and that'll make it a little bit of a brighter image and a much more efficient picture so of course I have to take a look at these at the show floor at CES and I found Samsung's new s UHD TVs these are all quantum TVs and they made these big bold claims about showing a wider color gamut and being much brighter and much more efficient and technically these claims are correct though you might not be able to see this difference with normal content or games unless you have it side-by-side with a normal LCD backlit TV these quantum TVs look good nevertheless don't get me wrong not insanely great or anything but definitely very bright and very vivid but it's still no OLED display you can definitely tell when something is an oh le d-- display LED panels like we've seen in a lot of TVs here and also a lot of phones don't require any backlighting at all so all the individual pixels are creating their own light it's not as bright as a backlight but it's also a little bit more efficient because when you want to create black you just don't like to pick and that creates these super dark inky blacks and awesome contrast ratios it's beautiful and it's the future of television so we have LED displays already in a lot of our smartphones will we ever see quantum dot displays in our smartphones - I would say yes maybe not this year or anything but it makes perfect sense considering one it's more efficient than LCDs and that would be great for battery life and two it's much brighter because of the lack of filtration which means outdoor visibility would be much better and that's where we use our phones anyway it's just a matter of getting a technology small enough to fit in a smartphone and fit in our pocket so that's essentially it quantum dot is what's going to start showing up on TV stickers in a Best Buy near you it's not something super insane like the name might imply it's some physics trick but is it legit absolutely it legitimately allows for brighter and more efficient display panels thanks to improved backlight is it new actually no the idea has been around since the 1990s but for the past two years there have been quantum dot backlit displays available on the market they're just now getting that fancy branding and s UHD sticker from Samsung so here at CES 2015 this is where it gets branded it now has a sexy buzz term alongside 4k curved 3d flexible quantum dot now you know thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one peace you