 Huge shout out to AMD for sponsoring this video from CES 2017. Learn more about their Ryzen processors at the link in the video description. So here in the Sony booth, they've got actually a whack ton of cool display tech. Behind me is Cletus, which stands for Crystal LED Integrated Structure. And the main difference between this and the like huge display wall or tunnel that every other TV guy does every year is that you can buy one of these today. So a Cletus display is made up of a whole bunch, this one's somewhere in the neighborhood of 300, a whole bunch of modular 16 inch by 18 inch panels that can be seamlessly assembled and then be driven by what they call a Cletus brain, which I think costs like $20,000 or something like that. Anyway, the one behind me is driven by two Cletus brains. This display technology is utterly unique. In that it achieves its fantastic black levels in part by having almost 98% of the entire display area be black. But looking at it from here, it doesn't make any sense. When you get in close, you realize that every pixel is made up of a tiny red, green, and blue LED. And the entire rest of the space is black. It's trippy as hell. I've jumped up on the stage and managed to get within about 6 to 8 inches of it and the image completely disappears. You move back and it appears, it's actually quite disorienting, though I don't consider it a knock against the technology because you would obviously never watch it from that range. On Sony's blog, they said it's capable of up to 120 Hz refresh rates and it looks absolutely incredible. It is nearly impossible to see the seams with many types of content. Now let's talk things you'd be more likely to actually put in your living room. This is the A1 series Bravia TV and it is absolutely mind-boggling for a number of reasons. So this is Sony's second OLED TV, the first one to actually make any sense. It's available in 65 and 77 inches and they've done a lot of stuff in here that makes a ton of sense. So the first is they're going for no compromises on the viewing experience. So it uses an OLED panel, it uses their X1 Extreme processor, which by the way is completely separate from the processor that runs Android. So it's exclusively for processing the image and analyzing the individual panel. Remember there are manufacturing variances in real time to get the best possible image. Number two is they've gone bezel-less all the way around. Even the Sony logo is tiny. How many brands like this have the stones to pretty much take the logo off their product and let it speak for themselves? Almost none of them. One. There, one. Additionally, they have instead of chasing thinness, distance from the wall at all cost gone, you know what? We're going to have all the inputs and outputs and the vase amount and everything still attached to the TV. It's okay to be four inches off the wall, which I personally really don't mind, except that hold on a second. How can you call it no compromises if there isn't even an integrated speaker? I have to go buy speakers? No, this is where stuff gets like crazy bananas. They have turned the entire glass surface of the TV into a speaker, not just one speaker. There's two vibrating actuators on each side of the TV. So the entire pane of glass and there's a subwoofer in the base too, but the entire pane of glass actually vibrates, vibrating actuators actually vibrates. And you might be thinking, well, hold on a second Linus, you vibrate a piece of glass. Sure, that'll create a sound wave. But are we talking about mono sound? Absolutely not. So they have this demo where a bird goes across cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, back and forth. You kind of go, oh yeah, that's working pretty well. And then this crow comes in. He's like, God, like, holy crap. It actually sounds like it's coming from exactly where the image is. No like algorithmic, we got the speakers over here, but it sounds like it's coming from over there. It's really freaking cool. And in terms of the sound quality, I mean, that's a big question mark, right? So we did a side by side demo in the secret black room that apparently very few people have been going into with a well-respected, very high-end TV. They wouldn't let me name who it is out of respect, but let's say it's an integrated soundbar TV with which I am intimately familiar. And the difference was astonishing. And again, I'm intimately familiar with the TV. I asked for the remote. I was like, blowing around with it, making sure there was no funny business going on. Image quality, sound quality. This thing is the cat's pajamas. So a huge shout out again to AMD for sponsoring our coverage of CES 2017. 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