- Hey, welcome to CES 2021
here in beautiful Los Linus British Columbia.
Ha-ha.
LG is sponsoring our coverage of their booth
and we have a treat for you today.
Every year we've seen incremental upgrades to their OLED TVs
that have made them brighter
and more color accurate with more features.
But LG has never had a big enough jump
to outright call it second gen, until today.
Meet the 77-inch G1, featuring their OLED evo 2 panel.
LG is calling this the second generation
of their OLED technology for the first time
since they started shipping OLEDs
to consumers in the mid 2010s.
And the biggest jump in performance is
that this generation is not just a little bit brighter.
This is in large part due to the new luminous elements
for blue light, which is the majority,
and for red which is kind of sprinkled in.
This means second gen LEDs can produce more precise colors
in the first place, resulting in less brightness loss
when that light passes through the next layer,
which is the color filtering layer.
They also added some green,
similar to how they have a bit of red,
but I'm not sure if we're allowed to say that or not.
Let's have a look at the stand, shall we? (clears throat)
Well, this is their G Series, so there is no stand.
Now you can get an optional gallery stand.
It's kinda like a light stand but way classier,
but this one is intended
to either be mounted right against the wall
like we did with my G-TEN in my living room,
or you can actually do a whole thing
where you cut out part of the wall
and embed it straight flat into the wall.
So this is the new concept
that replaces their old wallpaper TV,
and honestly, I think this is probably the better way to go.
It's basically flat and you can do that
in wall mount if you really want to.
If the G in G1 means gallery,
what exactly does the 1 mean?
Okay, so naming scheme.
We went from 6 to 7 to 8 to 9 to 10,
and then now we're back at 1,
which sounds like a stupendously confusing
Xbox-like branding move,
but actually makes a great deal of sense,
at least for the next few years.
It's the 2021 model year.
As for the letters, well,
we can't fault LG for consistency here.
Just like before, the deeper into the alphabet you go,
the higher end it is,
so kind of like the opposite of your marks in school.
So Z is the absolute top of the line.
G is your next gen OLED panel with the fancy wall mount.
C is your general consumer model
with pretty much everything you need.
And while B used to be the entry-level,
bang-for-the-buck skew,
and it still looks like a great value,
now there's an A series.
A1s will be 60 hertz rather than 120 hertz,
and they will use HDMI 2.0 rather than HDMI 2.1.
Yup, that's black, all right.
Just taking a moment to enjoy some LG demo videos
since there's nothing else
that we have the proper license for for this.
But they're definitely,
definitely designed to get the most out of your OLED TV.
Oh, man. There's nothing quite like it, is there?
Enough theoreticals, let's fire up our Xbox Series X.
Can I stop pretending
that this microphone is connected to anything?
New for 2021 series OLEDs
is LG's Alpha 9 gen four processor.
Some of these features will be familiar,
but there's some new ones as well.
So it's got AI upscaling, object enhancement,
clearer text, that's for subtitles,
auto genre selection, scene detection,
and this is pretty cool, 5.2.1 channel upmixing,
as well as auto volume leveling,
which is supposed to make it less jarring
when you switch between sources
that are configured at different volumes.
Like going from an ad on your said top box
to Netflix or YouTube or something like that.
To be clear it's not intended to level out the dialogue
and the action scenes in your movie or anything like that,
but that does sound like a useful feature.
It's also got picture optimization by game genre for gamers.
So we're in standard mode right now,
which just turns off any non-game enhancements and features.
So that's applied to all game genres,
but it also has an FPS mode
which improves low-level brightness,
RPG mode which emphasizes contrast,
and an RTS mode which emphasizes clarity
as well as having mid to high level brightness.
What is this character doing?
No, you're done. No, you're done.
You need to get, you're a menace.
You're Dennis the Menace, get off the road. Stop it.
Sorry, what were we talking about?
They've also got a new personalized home
with my viewing history based content
and your favorite sports teams and stuff like that.
And the new Magic Remote design has NFC,
so you can quickly and easily pair it with...
Oh, Lordy, that was a good throw. Thank you.
With your phone,
which sounds like a really stupid gimmick
until you go, "Oh, well what can you do with it?"
Well, you can screen mirror between your phone and your TV.
You can reverse mirror
so you can take whatever's on your TV with you
to the bathroom during, you know, well, bathroom break.
You can cast.
You can route audio through your phone
and connect headphones to your phone
while you're sitting on the couch,
if you're into that.
It actually does all kinds of cool stuff,
that, of course, we haven't tried yet
because this is just CES coverage
and this is not even a final product yet.
So we're hoping to bring you the full coverage
later on in the year once pricing and availability
and all that stuff is out.
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