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I've been trying to get into CinemaCon for almost five years now if you haven't heard of it it's the annual convention for movie theater owners I know it might not sound as sexy is like a comic-con but for those movie buffs it's the absolute place to be it's generally where upcoming films get showing off new trailers get released and the movie loving fans of the world get to see the latest tech that makes those movies possible this year alone said makan was where the new venom trailer drops Aquaman was partially shown and we learned that Wonder Woman too was going to take place in the 80s it's awesome so when Samsung asked if I wanted them to sponsor us to go to cinema con I could not reply yes fast enough it's in Vegas which meant I could essentially make a day trip out of it so I had to wake up around 5:00 a.m. which was not awesome to cachi 7:45 AM flight which was slightly better to get to Vegas the city was pretty sleepy especially when you consider the usual CES craziness that I'm used to after a quick taxi ride to Caesars Palace and picking up her badges we were ready for the show like I said this is a totally new experience for me so I was kind of just geeking out and walking around and checking out the displays and really just being a fan some of the movie stuff I saw I can't even talk about yet doo doo serious embargoes but let's just say a movie that rhymes with schwa qualms and is going to be awesome when that unnamed movie does eventually hit theaters chances are you're probably be watching using some old-school tech you know a theater with a giant projector room in the back and black levels that kind of look great if you look at it close enough it's a weird time when most home viewing looks better than what you get a typical cinema so since Samsung sponsored this trip I obviously had to check out what they were showing what they had to show is the answer to a traditional movie screen it's the world's first cinema LED screen called onyx I know what you're probably about to say I read the comments on YouTube Oh John you have to say how awesome it is truth is I really don't I'm sure at this point Samsung is sweating the video but I was not overly optimistic so to show off onyx who rushed it into a mini make sure it's movie theater which led cinema display and sound from hardened all around us we're given some active 3d glasses and asked to just sit and watch to experience they're about to show for the next 30 minutes so I took the glasses i sat down and first thing to know is this is a giant LED displays on a giant screen he's a projector think of it kind of like a giant TV built in to do some movie theater wall we saw some STR on HDR clips and various resolutions and they kept it they were gonna show us a secret and while it was an infinity war like I hoped it was still pretty awesome since it's not a projector the image called it doesn't start to look super faded any sort of ambient light kind of comes in from the side it's imagined to be pretty good for like some dining situations or even some sort of eSports gaming and they decide to call it onyx because onyx is black and I kind of get it now black levels were like they should be super black to make the images and pictures really start to pop then they switch over to some 3d content traditionally cinematic 3ds bins like garbage lose a ton of brightness with those stupid tinted glasses and 3d effects that supposed to show the depth look completely laughable but because this is LED you can get things way brighter and the act of glasses and the depth of the three actually showed was pretty good they talked a lot about how it's way cheaper to install for theater owners and how the LED array has modules that can be easily replaced another theater owner jargon that went way over my head what a boiled down to was that the fidelity of the picture coupled with the killer audio just made for a better movie watching experience and I was actually pretty relieved that the tech here didn't suck and it was good and I'm guessing Samsung knew it they're gonna show is pretty good which is probably why didn't any restrictions on what I could say or not say if it had been bad this would have been a really uncomfortable video to publish it boils down to this onyx made a difference movies look better if you never see a movie on onyx screen you'll never know what you're missing once you do struck notice the deficiencies of regular laser projectors it's kind of like the first time that I watched a football game in HD and I can actually see the blades of grass it made watching standard def after that just looked basic if I had the option to see a movie and the theater that had Onyx Tech or one that didn't I'd go at onyx and that is the honest truth but for now there's only one theater that's got onyx and it's worth of that way so probably not taking my word for it at least for a while so my CinemaCon experience was awesome unlike comic-con that was mostly just dudes and suits not guys dresses wizards and various Spider Man but a sort of really cool experience I felt closer to the movie industry kind of like an insider which was which is a neat feeling Marc and I finish up our filming and headed back to the airport completing one of the longest and most satisfying days for me in recent memory