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Cspan created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Welcome to the International Convention in las vegas. This is where a lot of the new technology is shown every year telecommunications are also presented. Were going to take a tour with tim moynihan. Tim, were in the lg booth here. Whats in here that made you want to see this booth . You name it. Lg makes a lot of things. My primary area of coverage is television. Lg is a very unique company in terms of making televisions because they make oled sets which is people see it as the future of picture quality. Theyre just very expensive, very hard to make. So lg right now is the only one really making that scale. Is it considered High Technology anymore to make a television . Yes. Most televisions right now are computers. I mean, there are tvs in this booth that have 10 core processors and all the integrated functionality for the web, streaming stuff, more k is a huge thing. It needs a lot of processing power. Those are the big buzz words this year. 4k something called quantum dot and lg is unique in that they have oled sets. Behind me it says 8k. Were already beyond 4k now. These are basically prototypes. There is one sharpe tv coming out that is going to be simulated 8k. Were talking about steps up in resolution. You think about it as the jump from standard definition to High Definition. This is four times the resolution of High Definition. So its Crystal Clear. Its sort of the next wave. This is the first year more and more people might start buying 4k tvs. Mr. Moynihan, a couple years ago 3d tv was the big talk. Yes. But that doesnt seem to have gone anywhere. It did not. A lot of 3d tvs were sold because most tvs just had 3d features built in. So you saw a lot of Market Research where it was like everybody is buying 3d tvs. They didnt really have a choice because everything had it. I dont think anybody is watching 3d at home. This is more of a difference, you know, standard definition, High Definition, people werent want that Crystal Clear picture and this just brings it to another level. Are people still buying tvs . We hear so much about people watching on their mobile device. Yes. This is sort of the first moment where people have an excuse to spend a lot of money to buy a new tv. Hd has gone from what, 10 years ago or so, it sort of took off. There was a boom in hd tvs. This is probably the year for 4k. Thats probably two years from now. What were seeing this year is a lot more content services delivered in 4k and a lot more sets becoming more affordable, still talking a few thousand dollars in most cases. There are a few around a thousand or 2,000. The longer you wait the cheaper theyre going to get and the more content is going to be available. Tim moynihan, did you come here to lg to see our oled is right over here. This he have a shape shifting oled tv which is pretty amazing. Youll see it over here. What does that mean . It goes from a curved display to a flat display by Remote Control. Thats this one right here. This is going to be their top of the line tv. A 77inch. Youll see its beautiful. Itll start curving in and will curve back out. You can do that with the Remote Control. I think she is operating it. How you doing . Good. How are you . So shes making it curve right now. What exactly are you doing to this tv . Well, i press the Remote Control and im changing it from the flat screen to the curved screen as we look down right now and you can see thats the curved screen. I hit it again and itll go back to being a flat screen. What does the curve do . How does that affect the tv picture . Basically the reason why you have the curve on the oled is you look at your eyes and they have a curve. When you look at a curved screen from your eye to the screen you get a more immersive view. When will this be on the market we have no idea. Itll be like 200 right . Exactly. Itll be more . So this is a prototype at this point . No. This is scheduled to be released. A lot of the prototypes youll see like the 8k tv back there theyre not going to come to market just yet. This is planned for their lineup this year. As you can see oled, the benefits of it with a normal tv which is l. E. D. Backed with l. C. D. Tvs, theres always a source of light coming through in the black, right . If you look when the picture is black on an l. E. D. Tv, there will be a little gray. This is the pure absence of light. That makes the contrast. You see the bright colors. They look incredible. The colors really pop off of that. Just beautiful right . These are still prohibitively expensive. What do you mean . Well, lg is the only one really making o. L. E. D. Sets right now. The ones last year which were 1080p i think now you can get in the mid 3,000 to 4,000 but thats a price cut when they were launched i think they were around 15 grand. So this is prices are coming down quickly. What does o. L. E. D. Stand for . Organic light emitting die ode. So its similar to l. He d. People think l. E. D. And o. L. E. D. Are the same but theyre very different technologies. L. E. D. Refers to the back light system. So l. E. D. Back light to color liquid Crystal Display and this one is actually using the individual o. L. E. D. Particles to, as a source of light. They can be turned on and turned off independently. With an l. E. D. Set, youre always going to see some sort of light sweeping through there. To my eyes this is pretty amazing. Right . I mean, this is 4k and o. L. E. D. Which is sort of the two big buzz words at this years show and have been for a few years. This is sort of the holy grail of tvs i think. What else did you want to see . Well go over there are so many to pick from. Lets go to 8k i guess. I mean this one is going to be a prototype. What does 8k stand for . Its basically 8,000 lines of resolution, you know, 4 k is 4,000 lines of resolution on the vertical axis, right . So this is four times as sharp as 4k. Today when we buy a tv we go to the store and buy a tv, how many lines of resolution are there . Thats 1080p. Thats 2k. People are buying it calling it 2k because its 1920 by wait. 1920 by 1080. And the 4ks are on the market. Theyre everywhere. The price is starting to come down, correct . Yes. The price is starting to come down but it is still a little bit expensive. I know its lg in particular is coming out with more 4k sets than 1080p sets. This is sort of a breaking point in terms of what will be available. In your view from wired magazine is lg one of the leaders in Television Technology . Yeah. Lg, samsung, sony. All the big players. Sharpe. You know, theres a couple Chinese Companies that are coming out t. C. L. , which are sort of huge Chinese Television manufacturers that are just starting to come to the u. S. Theyre starting to break nah it because theyre offering Similar Technology like really good, High End Technology at lower prices. They both have done smart things like build roku into their tvs, a streaming platform. But they have now sets with that integrated so theyre making really smart pushes into the u. S. Market. They might not be household names like lg or sony or samsung but theyre coming up. All right. 8k. 8k. It looks like paper right . You cant see individual pixels. You can get really close to that and you wont see any pixels. That is pretty amazing. Its hard to even i mean, its so sharp. Now are we looking its probably hard to see on the camera but are we looking at a 3d screen here . No. It looks like 3d because it is so sharp and youre not used to a televised picture looking that sharp. It looks like moving photographs, right . It looks like its incredible. What struck me about all these tvs is how thin they are. Yes, yes. A lot of that o. L. E. D. Thats supposed to be the capable of being the thinnest and also is flexible as you saw where you can curve it and then go back to flat. Theyre doing a lot of things youll see i think at the sony booth, super thin tvs that are actually l. E. D. Tvs with Quantum Dot Technology which is another thing to talk about. Proprietary for sony . Not proprietary for sony. I just learned this yesterday actually. There are a lot of companies coming out with things that are either quantum dot or their own proprietary names. What quantum dot does is a layer of nanoparticles theyre calling them that theyre very easily controlled by light. So they can glow a certain shade of red or green. What that does is it improves the overall picture quality because l. E. D. s by nature kind of have a harsh orb of light. This is basically a tuning mechanism between the l. E. D. s and the panel that makes the colors very vibrant and very accurate. Thats different technology. But youll see quantum dot. Lg has a quantum dot right over here. Lets look at it. Why quantum dot exists is because o. L. E. D. Is very expensive to make and to buy. So this is cheaper. Its based on an l. E. D. l. C. D. Set but with an extra layer. So even the glass has become pretty high tech. Right. Yes. I dont know much about the glass. But, yeah. It seems like in the past few years theyve done Amazing Things with antiglare technology. You can see here its the quantum dot. These are quantum dots. Ultra hd quantum dot. Every company has well, quantum dot is the panel technology. That was the nanoparticle thing i talked about. That is basically the color tuning technology. And the reason it exists is because everybody wants to make an o. L. E. D. Tv but theyre prohibitively expensive to make and to buy. So this is based on l. E. D. Or l. C. D. Technology and its much cheaper to make. L. C. D. Is very, you know, a mature platform. People can sort of turn out l. C. D. Tvs. Thats why you can find them so cheaply. This is going to be more than an l. E. D. Tv but the picture quality is pretty amazing. Whats hard here is walking through these crowds because nobody nobody is really looking straight ahead. Everybody is looking at tvs and stuff. You know increasingly people are just on their phones all the time especially me and my team wired because were trying to cover this whole show using cell phones for the second year in a row. Right. This year were not allowed to recharge our phones using wall sockets. What is the philosophy . Why is that . The philosophy is that the last year it was sort of an example of like, hey, things that fit in your pocket are in some ways better than exist Previous Technology in being able to cover a show like this. You can do everything you need to on a pocket device and its lighter. You can do things like take pictures and video while youre going and post it immediately. So thats an advantage that actual mobile devices have over lap tops. Those are a struggle to bring around this show. You know be . Everything weighs you down a little bit. All right. We are at samsung with this wall of amazing tvs. What are we looking at . Yes. This is samsungs spin on quantum dot, which they dont call quantum dot. Its their own proprietary spin on it. The most someone at samsung would say to me is that its similar but its different because they did a lot more things. But its a very Similar Technology. What youll see is the colors are crazy vibrant. They really pop off the screen. Thats what, you know, the Quantum Dot Technology is supposed to do. So sort of a proof piece that these are stunning sets that can sort of rival the image quality of o. L. E. D. Okay. If you want to get pictures like this at home, do you connect it to, i mean, and you just plug in your tv and you dont have cable or satellite or anything, does it work as well that way or does it work better when you can connect it through cable . Yes. Everything you are seeing here is a demo, right . So what makes the 4k thing very, very different from any other resolution thats happened in the past is the primary form of delivery this year for 4k sets will be over the internet. And were talking about very, very big beefy files. And i think only 17 of u. S. Households have Internet Connection thats rated to be able to handle that sort of data regularly without stuttering. If youve ever watched netflix at home in 1080p sometimes itll buffer, stop, go. I think washington, d. C. Where you live has some of the best Internet Service in the country so maybe not. But its sort of different. Broadcast i talked to someone who works in the tv industry. Theyre estimating broadcast forte is five or six years away so this is a new revolution where streaming is going to be the main source of content. Now later this year, there will be blue ray disks for forte. Thats slated for later this year. Were not there yet. I know directv and i think dish network are going to have Satellite Services in 4k. But for now you need to stream your stuff and youre going to need like a pretty hefty Internet Connection to be able to do that. The booths weve gone to have been companies that make a lot of different things. Like sony makes everything. Samsung makes everything. Lg makes everything. So they sort of have the biggest presence at these shows. All right. What are you going to show us here at sony . This is the step up. I think you want to do a demonstration. So this is a penny. Right . And its like its, what, a fifth of a penny wide . Its crazy. It seems like a piece of plywood. But its a 4k tv. It has quantum dot but theyre not calling it Quantum Dot Technology. So its the highest quality picture and the thinnest tv ive ever seen. It seems like those two things could not possibly go together but this is thinner than an iphone. Its thinner than most cell phones out there. I mean, its this is on the market . Its coming out. Usually the tvs announced at the show come out in the spring or the fall. But this is the big show piece for all of them. You see something this thin and the picture again as clear as it is, is this a 4k . 4k, yes. What would that sell for . This . Im assuming this is going to be i dont know but probably five to 6,000 i would assume. Probably. But you can see its just this is like impossibly thin. It doesnt look like its possible right . Right. What im worried about with them is it feels like this thing could blow over. It does have a little face but theyre saying you can mount this from the bottom on a wall pretty easily. So whats the technology in this tv . What are we talking about . What is contained in this back side . Well, this is has an l. E. D. Back light system. And then it has a layer of the quantum dots that theyre not calling them quantum dots. I think they call it triluminos display. Thats their name for it. And, honestly, quantum dot im not sure why people are calling it different things. I think its because they all put their own propriety spin on the technology or they start with the concept and then develop outward in different directions. So this is, you know, an l. E. D. A next generation l. C. D. l. E. D. Panel. Its not o. L. E. D. O. L. E. D. , lg is the only one making them right now. What all of these companies are trying to do is make something thats like o. L. E. D. But cheaper to make for them and cheaper to buy. Because people see an o. L. E. D. Set and theyre like i want that and oh, its 10,000. Then they cant afford that. So these are sort of technologies that are meant to over time get cheaper and cheaper until, you know, this just becomes your standard set. So we toured different televisions. Yes. Some of the bigger companies. What are you going to write about tonight in wired . I have to use my cell phone to do it. Right. But whats going to be your lead . Well, the way were covering the show is like traditional stories. Ive written the big stories, the deep dives, the analysis type stuff comes after the show because i still havent seen everything here. Its impossible to see everything here. But ill be here until thursday doing meetings and going around to booths and everything and by that time ill know what the major trends are. There are already obvious ones. You know, the curved displays, that transform from curved to flat thats a new one. So things like that, just keeping track of whats going on and taking stock of it and then following up with all these companies and interviewing people that were involved in the process of developing it. I love seeing it but its exhausting. I love the fact that you come to this and its everything in one building. If you Like Technology at all its just a dream world. A lot of people knock it because its so chaotic and hard on you but you just have to run around and look at things and, you know ask questions and, you know, follow whats going on from year to year and it becomes really interesting. While we have you here is there anything that were missing that we havent seen that you want to show us . Wow. Sure. Yes. Sharpe. Sharpe has the first 4k tv that upscales to something that looks like 8k. So its thats their own technology . Yes. This is the first set they are putting out that does that. Itll be out by the end of the year if you want to see it. Lets go. This is another case where its going to be expensive but its a first step. Right . You see things that in two years might end up in your house. And tim moynihan, a lot of smaller manufacturers that are integral to the tv business, right . Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, its a mix. Its a mix of things, right . Like these are i believe these are action care another growing trend these action cameras. These action cameras that are super rugged. Go pro is the most famous one. Sony Just Announced one that does 4k video. Thats another big thing. Sony and panasonic are really the only two that have been active in making cam corders, consumer camcorders that shoot 4k. Thats the other side of whats going on, right . If youre going to, you know, record your childs soccer game or baseball game eventually your eyes are just going to get used to 4k and youll just want everything in 4k. Sort of like what happened with High Definition and standard definition. So sharp is famous for making very big tvs. They have concentrated on 60 inches and up for the past few years. And what goes hand in hand with that is the upgrade in resolution. You want a bigger screen to be able to see the difference in a bigger resolution. The bigger you make a 1080p set the more youll see picks els in that. Its like stretching, taking a two megapixel image and stretching it as far as it goes. So sharp last year introduced their first 4k tvs and now they have one that is a 4k tv that can upscale to something more like 8k. And they do this with technology they introduced something called quantrons a few years ago. Thats their own word . Well, its different. The subpixels make up each pixel so usually its red, green, and blue colors. They mix and match them and that creates what you see with your eyes. Like different colors with your eyes. Theyve added a yellow subpixel to that set so they have four subpixels for color and well go this way. All right. Even i get lost here. But so they started off with having they claim a wider color gamut than other tv makers because they added this new subpixel technology. Now what theyve done is cut the subpixels in half horizontally and made them individually addressable by the set. So what it does is it actually increases what theyre claiming the resolution of the panel because it can create, you know, theyre saying its like 42 million more subpixels than other tvs. All that is probably mumbo jumbo. Its pretty technical. We have a pretty advanced audience. Good. They follow you. All right. Were on our way to sharp. Tim moynihan, were coming up on sharp. We got toshiba here. Yeah. All the companies weve been touring today should we consider them high End Companies . Yeah. Well, obviously toshiba is pretty high end if they have a robot lady. Hello. That is very an android. Disturbing . Is that disturbing . A little bit disturbing. You know, theres the robot that looks a little too much like a human. Okay. So the moving along. How much are these going into theas products . Well, thats what they make the companies that ive the lgs, samsungs, the sonys, and sharp, i would say, and a lot of other companies are doing it, too, but in the past few years ive kind of seen them come up with more leaps and bounds in the tv rem. Another company we were talking about, vizio, theyve been great. I think theyre number one brand in the u. S. Or were number one brand in the u. S. And they came out last year with a 4k tv that cost a thousand dollars. So i dont know whats going on. Thats weird. You see some weird things here. You do. So sharp out of japan, isnt it . Yes. They have huge, huge tvs. And what goes hand and hand with huge tvs is increase in resolution. Youll see here, we saw it at lg with the 8k tv. I think this one is even better. I believe it is over here. The most life like . Yes, yes. All right. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. All right. These thing to be a little thicker than the tvs weve been looking at. Yes. More like the old style. Yes. These i believe the reason for that, this is a full array, which is the back light system is for l. E. D. l. C. D. Sets they are basically to it says android tv on top of that. Yeah. Thats a new thing thats coming out. Ill talk about it. The back light system, the reason its thicker is it is a polar eight back light system which means the entire panel is addressed by l. E. D. Back lights. In a lot of them there will be edge light where there are just rows directed by things inside the tv just to face forward. Android tv is a big thing thats going to happen this year also that google developed, a tv platform. I played around with it on one device, the nexus player. That was sort of googles little set top device, the first one was android tv. Its interesting. What it really does is it makes Youtube Content really tv friendly. I dont think, you know, people dont think of youtube as watching it on tv but this has Voice Control where you can just say a key word and then you just get a bunch of videos to watch based on that key word. So that is a platform that a lot of manufacturers are building in. Sony is another one of them that has android tvs. Sharp is another one. There will probably be more vendors coming out with it. So thats an exciting thoing watch this year. As streaming becomes more and more main stream and its going to have to because thats the only way to watch 4k right now, thats going to be a really important component of tvs is what theyre running under the hood. You want to show is a sharp tv. This is sharp in two ways. It is a four k tv. You can see how sharp that is. Four k is sharp. This is taking it to another level. What they are showing here is 8k footage on a four k tv. Four k is probably future proof