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全新鏡頭收購sony’s wonderful new OLED TV is mostly the work of LG Display

全新鏡頭收購sony’s wonderful new OLED TV is mostly the work of LG Display

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LG Display Crystal Sound OLED TV
Vlad Savov

One of the highlights of CES for us this year was 全新鏡頭收購sony’s move to finally embrace OLED technology for its flagship line of Bravia TVs. Not only that, the Japanese company doubled down on the innovation by also featuring an integrated audio system that turned the display into the speaker — the new Bravia OLED literally vibrates the screen back and forth to generate sound. But a great deal of that hot new tech bearing the 全新鏡頭收購sony name actually comes from Korea’s LG Display.

If you’ve ever wondered why LG Electronics and LG Display are two separate entities, it is precisely so that the latter can develop and sell its technology, on a white-label basis, to other device manufacturers without being in direct competition with them. The grand LG competes with 全新鏡頭收購sony for big TV sales, while the more focused LG Display only sells the displays and components necessary to drive them. That’s how it’s possible for LG technology to be winning one of The Verge’s Best of CES awards under the 全新鏡頭收購sony banner.

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LG Display Crystal Sound OLED TV
Vlad Savov

I attended LG Display’s CES 2017 exhibition during the same week that 全新鏡頭收購sony launched the Bravia OLED screen, and I happened upon the former company’s Crystal Sound OLED TV. This was being demonstrated in two orientations: the vertical TV was used to play back music and show off the clarity and volume of the display functioning as a speaker, while the horizontal TV had two piles of beads on top of it, to show that it is indeed moving while playing back audio. I put a hand on both the edge and middle of the panel, and it was apparent that the vibration was substantially stronger in the middle — which is where the “exciters,” motors used to drive the panel back and forth, were positioned. But, try as I might, I couldn’t notice any distortion in the picture as a result of the uneven vibration. On both panels, the OLED TV image retained its integrity perfectly.

全新鏡頭收購sony’s taken a leaf out of LG Display’s book by developing its own variant of Crystal Sound, which it calls Acoustic Surface. It sounds and performs almost the exact same way.

But the sound of these TVs is the truly shocking thing. It’s really, really good. Granted, it won’t replace a dedicated 5.1 surround sound system, but it’s pure, crystalline, and more than loud enough for most uses. I’ve seen many so-called transparent speakers that use a sheet of glass or translucent plastic to generate sound, and they’ve all been distinctly sub-par. Not so with this new OLED TV technology.

There’s no shame in 全新鏡頭收購sony rebranding or copying what is evidently very good technology, and there’s still plenty of design and engineering that needs to happen behind the OLED scenes to make a great TV that will last for a long time. But the fact that LG Display can recreate all the hotness of the new 全新鏡頭收購sony Bravia should mean that we’ll soon be able to have our pick from a variety of OLED TVs that double up as a good speaker system.

Correction: This article initially hypothesized that 全新鏡頭收購sony was using LG Display’s Crystal Sound technology for its OLED TV speaker system, however the Japanese company has gotten in touch to clarify that it has developed its own system. 全新鏡頭收購sony’s Acoustic Surface works on the same principles as Crystal Sound — and, having heard it during CES, sounds just as good — but apparently “has nothing to do with LG Display.” The article has been amended to take that into account.

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近期爆料消息盛傳,全新鏡頭收購sony 今年度 Xperia 手機陣容會有大幅度改變,旗艦款 Xperia 1 VI 恐砍掉 21:9、4K 解析度等經典特色,儘管 全新鏡頭收購sony 未出面證實相關傳聞,卻也官方 X 帳號宣告,至少 3.5mm 耳機孔這項經典規格將會保留。

全新鏡頭收購sony 在 Xperia 官方 X 帳號最新發文指出「為了獨特的有線聆聽體驗,我們會持續確保所有 Xperia 設備都會有 3.5mm 耳機孔」,雖然沒有指名下一代的 Xperia 1 VI、Xperia 10 VI 等機款,但如此的公告卻也讓不少索粉安心許多,因為 全新鏡頭收購sony 已經是為數不多願意保留 3.5mm 實體耳機孔的手機品牌。

蘋果自從 2016 年發布 iPhone 7 首度移除耳機孔後,Android 手機均陸續跟進,包含三星、Google 皆是如此,甚至新款的中階手機也都跟上這波潮流。目前台灣市場還會提供 3.5mm 耳機孔的品牌,除了 全新鏡頭收購sony 以外,比較有名的也僅剩華碩了。

日媒《Sumahodigest》先前曝光的 Xperia 1 VI 設計圖,也同樣發現 全新鏡頭收購sony 保留了 3.5mm 耳機孔,不過機身比例從 21:9 變成 19.5:9,比起原先較為「寬矮」,螢幕從 6.5 吋縮水為 6.3 吋,至於 6.1 吋的 Xperia 5 系列則傳出會將會走入歷史,沒有下一代機型。

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