 Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom Glass. Visit store.phantom.glass for the best darn screen protectors out there, as well as HyperX. So this is something we talked about on the podcast. We're here in the Sony booth. This is the VPL GT-Z1, and it looks like what's behind me is like a TV wall thing, like super mega wide thing, but actually, this is what is driving it. This is a 4K laser projector. It sits 7 inches from the wall, and I'm probably kind of not supposed to do this, but I'm like leaning over so you can see here. Yes, I am proving it. It's sitting 7 inches from the wall, projecting a 147 inch image. One of the most impressive things about it is the fact that it uses a very non-traditional projector system. So it's actually laser projection, which does a couple of things. It gives it better contrast, better color vibrancy. It also gives it better performance in very dirty environments. And I mean dirty in the sense of there's a lot of different light sources all over the place here in the hall, and even in this completely unideal environment, it looks absolutely fantastic. It supports 4 HDMI 2.0 inputs, so yes, PC gamers running GTX 980s, you can hook your graphics card up to this. You can game at 4K 60 FPS on a massive wall, assuming you have the $55,000 and the, what was it, 5 to 6 weeks or so that you need to wait to get Sony to custom build one of these. They are built to order in Japan. I don't think I've missed anything critical at this point, other than the fact that the solution you see behind you is actually running two of them. If I move to the side, you can see there's two, and the gentleman over there is actually holding a tablet that allows him to dynamically switch between different content sources all over the place. So the application here is not just in extremely high-end homes, but let's say, you know, an art gallery that wants to build a ginormous video wall and have a simple tablet interface system to show different things, move them around and all like that. Very, very cool stuff. And another benefit of the laser projection system is that you won't see any diminishing in the brightness of it until 50,000 hours. So to put that in perspective, that's 8 hours a day of watching TV or gaming for 15 years. When you compare that to a traditional projector bulb that's going to last maybe a handful of thousands of hours and is significantly dimmer even a couple thousand hours in, this could be the last projector or TV you ever buy. Mind you, if you got 55 grand to drop on a TV, then you'd probably buy another one later anyway and, you know, give that to your grandkids or something. Now this is a fun demo. I've never seen a TV this thin and probably most people haven't. It's only 4.7 millimeters thick. This is Sony's new 900 series. It's available in 55 inch, 65 inch. It's a 4K display. It's an edge lit, LED, back lit LCD. And, I mean, really the claim to fame here is how phenomenally thin it is. But not only that, but how well it actually integrates into being used because super thin TVs have been done before but not always in a way that's particularly smart. So first of all, the way it mounts to the wall is pretty darn unique. It actually comes with a system that goes into your stud and then the TV has kind of a bar that screws into the thicker part of the base. It's only about half of the TV that's 4.7 millimeters thick. I mean, there's compromises that you have to make, physics and whatnot. But you screw in this bar and then you actually just hook it onto the wall where it sits so close against the wall that it's only about how far is it? Looks like about two and a half centimeters. Yeah, it's about two and a half centimeters away from the wall. Now of course when you do that, you might have issues with cable management and sound. So cable management they take care of with a little cable door. So you got your standard 4 HDMI 2.0 inputs, you got your LAN because it is a smart TV, happens to be running Android TV, which is pretty freaking cool because I for one am totally sick of TV makers trying to make their own thing every time and not just going with something standard that actually has support so you can have, you know, Chromecast-y type functionality, you can play Android games, all that kind of cool stuff. Yeah, that's built right into your TV. And then the other thing is sound. So instead of just firing sound down out of a speaker, firing sound into the wall heaven forbid, I mean rear mounted speakers are bad enough on a phone, never mind you do that on your TV. They've actually got like a flap baffle system that enables the speakers to kind of fire this way and then deflect the sound toward the viewer. With that said, if you're gonna get a TV this awesome, I would definitely recommend going ahead and getting a nice sound system to go along with it. Now this is actually the same TV we were just looking at a second ago, but the difference is that instead of having content playing on it, they've got a very early build of their Android TV operating system running on this particular model. Now, something that I actually had been asking about off camera as we walked over here is, okay, well, are you guys positioning Android TV as this like super high-end feature? Oh, you have to buy the most expensive model to get it? And the answer is no. Apparently 90% of Sony's TVs for 2015 are going to feature an Android OS on them and not in the same way that we've seen, you know, Android powered TV devices done in the past with a low powered processor. So the X1 processor that I mentioned does 4K upscaling before, they're also saying is, well, that's just pretty darn good for running just about anything. In fact, for the kinds of things that you might want to do on a smart TV, let's say launch a Netflix movie stream, they're claiming that they can go from zero to movie playing in under a minute, whereas their competitors are looking at up to multiple minutes due to the speed of the processor. This is something that's been a real frustration for me for a long time, is it's all this functionality that it supposedly has, but the hardware is too slow to take advantage of it anyway. So there's 16 gigs of onboard storage. I don't know if they're quoting how much memory, how much RAM there is on board or anything like that. They won't give me any details about the X1 other than that. Yeah, it's like blazing fast, it's super awesome. But one thing that I can do, I got to like, I stole the remote from the guy here, is I can do a quick demo of how you would control an Android TV, as if you guys don't already know, you're super smart. Linus Tech Tips. Yeah, dog, there we go. So a bunch of my videos just like that, super fast, but you're not locked into using the remote. You can actually use an Android or an iOS device to control it. And I think that's pretty much it. It's extremely exciting to see this kind of thing finally get standardized instead of being that horrible proprietary nonsense. I mean, Android is a popular operating system for a reason. And the familiarity that you're already gonna have with a Google search and Google Now-like interface is going to help a lot with the learning curve that most people are just slamming into like a brick wall when it comes to trying to operate a smart TV. So I think that's pretty much it for Sony TVs here at CES 2015. I do want to do a call out for our sponsors. 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