 Our coverage of CES 2019 is brought to you by the dbrand Grip and Prism screen protector check them out at the link in the video description I'm gonna cheat a bit on this one because my notes are pretty dense Now I'm standing here in a booth that I have walked past Literally a hundred times without ever doing more than kind of cruising by and going. Oh, yeah Okay, so you got kind of some last-gen TV tech going on there. That's neat I'm a head over to Samsung and LG and see what the really hot stuff is but that all Changed today when I this thing right here caught my eye This is what they're calling you led XD and that stands for extreme detail so What they're doing is they're using VA LCD panel technology to achieve Damn near the black levels of OLED and on the one hand the way that they've done it is kind of obvious But on the other hand after getting a more thorough briefing I can totally understand why it took them years to accomplish what they've done here So here's how a normal LCD works. You've got a panel containing liquid crystals Color and polarization filters maybe some quantum dots for more vibrant colors and better power efficiency and then behind that you've got a strong backlight to illuminate the LCD panel that will either allow that light to pass through or color it which is where you get white and color or Attempt to block it which is where you get black or on every LCD that I've ever seen kind of like a gray High senses you let XD solution by contrast and the pun is 1000% intended here uses two LCD modules bonded together using a special process They've created into a single panel So the back module is gray scale only and runs at 1080p resolution while the front one is 4k and color this gives them effectively 2 million zones of local dimming because Anywhere that both panels are allowing through the full brightness they can take advantage of LCD's superior brightness To punch through both modules still outperforming current OLED displays And that's without the risk of burn-in and then anywhere that both of them are turned off They effectively get a multiple of the native light blocking capabilities of each module We're talking that they can get down to point zero zero zero three nits like it's at the point where I can cut my hands on it here on the show floor and it's Difficult to even tell if I can Discern any light coming through it even on edges where you're still gonna get some glow You've got this huge advantage because you get a multiple of that light blocking Let's go over to the real one. So here it is and let's talk specs So they're boasting just shy of 300 nits peak brightness point zero zero zero Three nits peak black as I just said an Indiscernible glow around bright objects even on black backgrounds. It's absolutely incredible a hundred percent coverage of the DCI p3 color space Outstanding viewing angles lower cost than OLED since even though they're using two modules they're using very mature MVA panel technology and anti glare finish which I'm actually On the fence about like I like anti glare, but I've never I haven't even seen it on a TV and like forever so I'm really excited to see how I feel about it like in my living room where I can evaluate it properly and Up to 120 Hertz refresh rates, which they're saying will give us 1080p 120 Hertz of HDMI 2.1 isn't ready by the time they ship or even 4k 120 Hertz if it is so Again now that we see the results the idea seems so obvious and in fact I sense isn't even taking credit for coming up with the concept the rep here pointed out that Dolby apparently this is like ages ago did some kind of similar demo with two panels and then shining like a halide Backlight through them, but they weren't satisfied with the results and never pursued it and part of the reason for that Is that when you put two full panels together you end up with all kinds of visual artifacts? That was why well part of why this took them so long and actually it's good That's a great transition into only part of why so another problem that you have to solve even once you do that is the processing Splitting up the image and then reassembling it so that you get not just a high contrast display that otherwise looks like garbage But also one that's correctly tone-mapped is not a trivial process and they had to use their own high view chipset So this is their own custom silicon to achieve it and not just do it but in under 25 Milliseconds according to the rep that I talked to so this could have potential even for gaming which was something that I was really worried About so I mean that that that's it is that is that not enough for you guys This could absolutely change the game for LCD bringing it back into competition with OLED and micro LED as we move forward and I for one and extremely excited to get my hands on this speaking of things. 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