Austin here, and I'm excited to be in San Jose for Display Week, where LG has sponsored this video with a special prize – a dope hat! The comments will tell you what it says.
One thing that's got me really excited is the 65-inch rollable OLED TV. We took a look at this at CES, but it's amazing to see how far we've come since then. The trend of foldable displays and flexible screens has continued to evolve, and now we have a full-size 65-inch OLED TV that's taking things to the next level.
If you compare this to an LCD screen, you can appreciate just how much of a difference OLED technology makes. Without a backlight or any other additional components, the OLED panel itself is all you need. This means we can create truly innovative form factors like rolling it up into a box – and let me tell you, it feels like something out of a movie!
In reality, this 65-inch rollable OLED TV doesn't just look cool; it's also an incredibly elegant piece of furniture that I find myself wishing was mine.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys, this is Austin,and today I'm here inSan Jose for Display Weekfor one very simple reason.Not only did LG sponsor this video,but they gave me this dope hat.The comments will tell you what it says.Probably the most eye-catchingthing here at this showis the 65-inch rollable OLED TV.Now we got to briefly takea look at this at CES,but it is so cool to see somethingwhich of course iskeeping that same trend ofall the foldable displays,all the flexible displays,and taking that to afull-size 65-inch OLED TV.So if you compare thisto something like an LCD,obviously a form factor likethis wouldn't be possible.OLED is much, much simpler.There's essentially justthe OLED panel itself.There's no backlight oranything else like that,which means that you cando some really interestingform factors likerolling it up into a box.Actually, that feels mean, it's not a box.It's like an incrediblyelegant piece of furnitureand I'm just like, "Youcan put the OLED in a box!"So when you look at thingslike rollable displayson phones and tablets and PCs and stuff,there's a very obvious reasonwhy that's there, right?You're going to get somethingwhich actually fits in your pocketbut you can roll out to be like a tablet.When you look at a TV,the immediate answer is, like,"Wait, why do you actually need this?"But there are some interesting use cases.But because it's flexibleand because you actuallycan roll it up and down,you can actually getdifferent form factors.So for example, if you'rejust wanting to look at, like,some music or some, didI say look at music?You can listen to some musicwith a little bit of, like, yeah,see the little frame mode,or you can have some photos,and TV can get much smaller,or say you're watching a moviethat has a 21:9 aspect ratio.Well, the TV can justroll down just enoughso you don't have any blackbars on top and bottom.So as with a lot of brand-newtechnology like this,it is probably not going to come cheap,when it does go on sale later this year.But with something that'sthis cool and this innovative,it's only a matter of timebefore things get a little bit cheaper.They have different models,they get the technologysort of really fine-tuned,but for now, you can definitely see whythis does feel like very muchit could be the future of TVs.I say that as someonewho doesn't actually knowthe price, though. (laughing)The next cool thing LG has on display hereis the Crystal Sound OLED.So I step into this very loud room.This is all coming from the TV itself.So what they do is theyactually vibrate the displayto create the sound, so,oh, it just got quiet.(ethereal music)Oh, man!(laughing) It's, like, vibrating!It's like literally puttingyour hand on a speaker!What makes this possible isa combination of the OLED display,which because it is so thin means thatit can actually conduct the sound,as well as a series of excitersthat are behind the panel.Yes, my friends, they are called excitersbecause it's an exciting topic.Too much?Not enough?Anyway, the exciters combined witha little bit of an air channelthat actually goes betweenthem and the panel itselfmeans that it actually will createa proper full sound that'sstraight from the TV.You can imagine a version of this techif it was on, say, aphone or a laptop, right?I mean, imagine the entiredisplay being your speaker.You can even go farther than that, right?I mean, I just put my hand on that thing,and it has some serioussort of vibrations,so if that was somesort of haptic feedbackfor when you Force Touch somethingor when you try to select an iconor do play a game or something,there's a lot of really cool functionalitythat you can imagine withsomething like this, right?It's just a clever piece of design,and I'm always a fanof some clever design.If you take a close look behind me,you'll see something that is alittle bit larger than usual.There's a full 88-inch 8K OLED.First of all, an 88-inchTV always looks nice.Well, there's a lot ofpeople here suddenly.I'm gonna step over here.(laughing) But on top if it being huge,and of course it has all thebenefits of being an OLED,it also has a full 8K resolution.That, my friends, is aboutthe definition of crispy.So I've talked a lot about OLEDand why the technology's cool,but of course one of thebiggest advantages hereis that it has analmost-unlimited contrast ratio.So because each individualpixel is lit on its ownunlike something like an LCDwhich does have a seriesof backlights behindthat at the end of the daycould never go full blackwithout actually beingall halo-ey and ghosty,which is not totally fair,but, I mean, I feel like we've all seenan LCD which has a littlebit of an aura around itwhen you get into dark areas.With OLED, you don't haveto worry about any of thatbecause each individualpixel is lit on its own.So one of the nice things about it,especially something which is this huge,is it really gives you thedetail in the contrasty areas.So if you take a look over here,you will see The Rose.So this is a series offour 4K 65-inch OLEDs,all of which have been curvedto this really cool look.So one of the nice things about OLEDis that because you haveall these such weird angles,you actually don't really lose out onany of the viewing angles,so you can look at it right up close,you can look all the way over to the side,and yet the image qualityreally isn't impacted.So that, my friends, is a look at whatLG Display has here in San Joseto get a little bit of an in-depth lookat the OLED future that we all want.That sounded weird, butI'm gonna go with it.