WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:06.359 I want it in my search for the ultimate 00:00:03.780 --> 00:00:09.620 home theater experience I explored micro LED displays that would have cost 00:00:08.099 --> 00:00:14.519 hundreds of thousands of dollars necessitated additional power circuitry 00:00:12.420 --> 00:00:19.260 to the room and a dedicated air conditioning unit just to cool it and 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:26.939 Jake was all like that's really stupid you should get one of these ah Instead 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:30.660 This is the ls-12000 B from Epson and it 00:00:26.939 --> 00:00:32.880 promises to be a really heavy and B the 00:00:30.660 --> 00:00:37.680 best bang for the buck projector on the market by a country mile literally you 00:00:35.579 --> 00:00:42.360 could spend four times the amount just to get image quality parity never mind 00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:46.920 better and today I finally get to experience I've had to look at this for 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:50.940 so long just like I'm always looking for opportunities to tell you about our 00:00:48.239 --> 00:00:55.620 sponsor see Sonic see Sonic's Focus plus 750 watt gold power supply is fully 00:00:53.579 --> 00:01:01.699 modular and features both at 80 plus gold rating and a 12 year warranty learn 00:00:58.140 --> 00:01:01.699 more through the links below 00:01:08.119 --> 00:01:14.939 I can't believe you fired this thing up without even like calling me over this 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:19.920 yeah I set it up at my desk with the office lights which are so bright and I 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:24.360 was like wow this looks great I'm so excited I can't imagine what it's going 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:28.140 to look like in an empty room but wait where's the screen we need to put up a 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:31.979 screen again you can just there's an electrical box right here ready no no we 00:01:30.360 --> 00:01:35.220 can just you know I 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:41.040 we actually reached out to Epson about checking out one of their Flagship projectors ages ago like back when we 00:01:38.939 --> 00:01:47.220 started the house no for the lounge right so we had the 60 50 UV this is 00:01:44.100 --> 00:01:48.780 supposed to be the new 6050 UB I mean 00:01:47.220 --> 00:01:53.759 they've told they told us they're like yeah I mean our stuff is good but wait 00:01:51.899 --> 00:01:56.939 till you see what we've got coming and I think because of covid Supply 00:01:55.140 --> 00:02:00.920 constraints it took a little bit longer I feel like their original estimate was 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:08.640 like November last year oh my god did you actually just do that 00:02:04.259 --> 00:02:10.679 oh my God oh my God oh my God did you 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:16.200 get that on camera no don't get that on camera oh my God I can't believe you 00:02:13.739 --> 00:02:18.800 just did I just wanted to hear the noise it made 00:02:22.099 --> 00:02:25.760 look at this lens 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:31.520 did you hear the noise 00:02:32.940 --> 00:02:38.879 at least it's a laser not a lamp 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:42.900 thanks Epson to be clear this is still an expensive piece of kit at five 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:50.060 thousand US dollars but it features a solid-state laser light source that can 00:02:44.940 --> 00:02:53.640 push 2700 lumens it does 4K and up to 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:55.739 120 hertz so I'm actually expecting the 00:02:53.640 --> 00:03:00.420 gaming experience on this thing to be decent gaming experience being good this 00:02:58.260 --> 00:03:03.720 thing is less than 20 milliseconds delay in a projector you literally you can 00:03:02.459 --> 00:03:08.459 spend fifty thousand dollars on a projector and still have worse latency of course brightness isn't everything 00:03:06.540 --> 00:03:12.239 when it comes to projection you can have great highlights but if you don't have 00:03:09.959 --> 00:03:15.780 good lows it's not going to be a great image right it's because of the way your 00:03:13.980 --> 00:03:20.400 pupils will will dilate to match whatever amount of ambient light is in 00:03:17.940 --> 00:03:23.879 the room it's rated to 2.5 million to one Dynamic contrast and unlike the 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:29.220 projector we have in the lounge that has an iris that adjusts the whole image 00:03:26.220 --> 00:03:30.959 yeah this makes use of multiple lasers I 00:03:29.220 --> 00:03:35.879 think they said there's about 15 and they can kind of dim them or shut them 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:37.739 off and also it uses the LCD panels to 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:42.739 try to block light so wait this effectively has like it's kind of like 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:45.180 local local vending yeah 00:03:42.739 --> 00:03:52.760 can we talk about this for a moment Epson love you guys but come on this is 00:03:49.019 --> 00:03:55.379 like quite literally an inch thick 00:03:52.760 --> 00:04:00.959 what the heck okay so power goes in here oh oh we 00:03:58.799 --> 00:04:07.620 should talk uh input so it's got HDMI 2.1 two of them which I mean I can't 00:04:04.620 --> 00:04:09.299 imagine myself running two HDMI plugs to 00:04:07.620 --> 00:04:12.659 the projector but I guess oh you know if you want to throw like a dongle or 00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:15.840 something on there and power it with USB then you got your Chromecast or whatever 00:04:13.980 --> 00:04:18.780 directly on it but everything's going to go through the receiver for our setup 00:04:17.459 --> 00:04:23.880 you know what that USB is actually for what's that for it's supposed to be for 00:04:20.579 --> 00:04:26.639 powering an active optical cable oh 00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:29.580 that's so cool I absolutely love it but then you've got this one yeah your 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:35.940 Chromecast off that this one for power that's awesome uh this is for control 00:04:32.520 --> 00:04:38.160 with third-party systems uh this is also 00:04:35.940 --> 00:04:41.940 for just having like an IR receiver somewhere else that can control this bad 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:47.639 boy and then land because everything is smart now I'm turning it on I'm firing 00:04:44.220 --> 00:04:49.199 my laser oh no way it's motorized of 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:54.540 course it's motorized are you kidding me I thought the shade was manual oh that's 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:59.040 sick oh there you go now our camera operator hey Mark uh noted that the 00:04:57.479 --> 00:05:02.000 lighting really changed in here because the sun came out so that's why 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:06.419 everything looks kind of weird right now but that's a great thing for us to talk 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:10.380 about because as part of getting the best projector experience possible you 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:16.800 need to completely light control your room we are talking blackouts here and 00:05:13.139 --> 00:05:18.600 check this out this is amazing okay look 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:23.639 at this see we got a little strip of weather stripping stuff right here and 00:05:20.460 --> 00:05:25.500 when it closes it hits the door frame 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:28.759 and goes down so you don't get any light leakage or sound 00:05:28.820 --> 00:05:34.199 holy crap this window is gonna need some 00:05:31.860 --> 00:05:39.000 serious blacking out oh I was gonna double up the well yeah I guess I will 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:45.180 then is that air flow or is that it's the light 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:47.280 oh okay but listen how quiet it is 00:05:45.180 --> 00:05:51.300 oh that's totally fine you were asking about Zoom before yeah yeah we have 00:05:49.380 --> 00:05:55.800 optical zoom so why do we need to move it around relative to how big we want 00:05:53.580 --> 00:06:01.500 the end the thing with zoom is when you start to use it you lose a bit of light 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:05.460 generally you want to put it like at the 00:06:01.500 --> 00:06:07.320 absolute minimum so then if we can which 00:06:05.460 --> 00:06:11.699 we can we should put it where we should which we should yes okay but I mean yes 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:15.479 you can you can totally oh wow that's a lot of zinc yeah it's like 2X or 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:21.660 something like that it's quite a bit yep right about there cool okay 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:26.900 oh it looks so Penner now that I saw the big one but look at it this way if you 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:31.740 had a TV it would have been like here yeah if you really want down the road we 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:36.360 could get a bigger screen yeah I think we should okay let's start with this 00:06:33.900 --> 00:06:40.500 though this is good wow look how bright studio lights on in this room right now 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:46.259 I know and it's like actually usable oh let's shut them off let's see there's 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:48.380 the one oh and there's 00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:52.979 uh two we're not even close to fully light 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:57.180 controlled in here but that is freaking amazing the big difference between this 00:06:55.860 --> 00:07:02.880 projector and the one we have in the lounge is this is full 00:06:59.580 --> 00:07:04.919 full 4K pixel ship so it shifts over and 00:07:02.880 --> 00:07:09.240 down the one in the lounge only shifted over so you got around 4 million pixels 00:07:06.840 --> 00:07:12.180 on the screen this is like the full 8.3 that you would get with a native 4K 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:16.139 projector you're probably wondering why they didn't go native 4K for this right 00:07:14.039 --> 00:07:21.120 like this is a premium product why not just have a fully well it's premium but 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:24.780 it's only five grand right so part of it is cost when you switch to 4K native 00:07:22.979 --> 00:07:27.840 LCDs there's three of them in there you got your red green and your blue and 00:07:26.099 --> 00:07:31.680 they get combined when you switch them to 4K you need roughly three times as 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:36.900 much light to get the same amount of light on the screen more heat more 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.759 powerful noise usually yeah but what 00:07:36.900 --> 00:07:43.080 they'll do to compensate is make the projector way bigger or way heavier and 00:07:41.460 --> 00:07:46.800 usually it ends up being louder even with all that and of course obviously 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:52.440 the price goes up so for five grand they're like ah no this gets basically 00:07:49.740 --> 00:07:55.500 the same thing I'm down I'm in yeah and look how sharp it is can we put content 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.919 on it now yeah let's turn off the lights again let's do it oh I brought a few 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:03.599 things we've got an NVIDIA Shield so we can do some 4K movies and stuff cool I 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:09.180 brought a 3090 equipped test bench so we can play some games and stuff don't you 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:12.720 ever got some Xbox controllers oh yeah 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:15.000 dude cranking this thing 4K 120. 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:19.740 there's a HDMI 2.1 thanks infinite cables I guess we should tell them about 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:21.479 the cabling setup you can't see it but 00:08:19.740 --> 00:08:26.520 up in the ceiling somewhere up here there is cables there's an optical HDMI 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:29.699 2.1 as well as power and I think we actually made a two HDMI cable systems 00:08:28.259 --> 00:08:35.099 yeah when they do the finishing for the room I think one goes to the cabinet there and one goes to the sort of 00:08:33.599 --> 00:08:39.979 mechanical room yeah you ready to shut off the light well we don't have sound yet 00:08:41.599 --> 00:08:47.459 like move some speakers in should we seems like a lot of work just to drag 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:51.300 them back out we could just use the projector speaker 00:08:50.040 --> 00:08:57.420 do we have an extra pair of outdoor speakers yes that would work 00:08:55.320 --> 00:09:00.000 those guys right there yeah that would be pretty quick 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:03.420 oh no no you're good you're good you're good it's fine 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:07.140 uh now you're not good you're actually grabbing it made it worse here's the 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:11.100 plan hopefully Clips packed this really well 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:13.860 it's a controlled drop oh you're just like a courier where the hell is the 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:19.740 receiver is it behind those ceiling speakers maybe no I just moved those there I got 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:25.200 a tower Tower subwoofer oh my God 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:28.920 Jake I found it what is it like awful 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:31.580 it's tremendously awful what I can't it 00:09:28.920 --> 00:09:31.580 can't be that bad 00:09:34.260 --> 00:09:38.519 I'm just gonna find the coach I meant the other coach okay see you 00:09:37.560 --> 00:09:46.260 later ow trap it's heavy it's very heavy oh this 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:52.200 this sucks um what are you even doing this might be 00:09:48.060 --> 00:09:55.019 bad how are you sideways oh shoot okay 00:09:52.200 --> 00:10:00.660 new plan new plan we're going up and over what that oh God yeah put the heavy 00:09:57.839 --> 00:10:06.080 thing really high up yeah great idea okay 00:10:02.040 --> 00:10:06.080 glutes looking good man thank you 00:10:07.140 --> 00:10:10.040 oh 00:10:10.920 --> 00:10:15.600 not you hey Linus I think we can throw 00:10:13.920 --> 00:10:20.279 less shade at Epson I actually think this is thicker 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:26.940 yeah I'll show you mine if you show me yours let's see 00:10:23.839 --> 00:10:29.279 it is at its thickest point I think you 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:35.519 win yeah but mine averages you might have like like more square centimeters 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:38.720 or cubic centimeters sorry okay oh my 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:41.459 God can I help with that 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:46.860 I always forget how absolutely insane this receiver is like look at that I O 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:51.779 holy that is 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:54.600 amazing oh and once the walls are black 00:10:51.779 --> 00:10:59.220 yeah there's actually a ton of light in this room just bouncing off of this wall 00:10:57.060 --> 00:11:04.200 that's one of the big reasons that in a media room you need to have everything 00:11:00.779 --> 00:11:06.240 blacked out carpet walls ceiling sorry 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:11.339 okay like that there you go there's Dynamic mode now it's even brighter holy 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:13.560 crap what so Dynamic is not going to be 00:11:11.339 --> 00:11:17.760 I mean even for dynamic mode it looks like looks not bad this looks amazing 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:21.000 usually Dynamic mode looks like Costco affecty 00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:25.800 Jake micro LED would have been a huge mistake 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:29.160 you were right this is amazing we haven't even put a screen on yet I know 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:34.500 I've got a freaking electrical box in the middle of the image and I'm already mesmerized by it look at this you're 00:11:32.220 --> 00:11:41.300 also like standing like right up against you yeah but that's the thing it's like 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:41.300 it looks better better from farther away 00:11:41.640 --> 00:11:50.339 very sharp if there's no screen door at all oh my God that's bright that's crazy 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:54.839 it kind of hurts my eyes this is a Showcase of hdrf I've ever 00:11:53.339 --> 00:11:58.500 seen one time to play some games you know what 00:11:56.640 --> 00:12:01.920 I'm kind of not even feeling like bothering putting the screen on here and 00:12:00.300 --> 00:12:05.880 risking damaging it while they finish up honestly this is just like if we're 00:12:04.140 --> 00:12:09.420 already at this level already and it's only going to get better with the screen 00:12:07.380 --> 00:12:13.800 I'm satisfied clearly we're sticking with this solution so 00:12:11.220 --> 00:12:19.040 look at this graph it doesn't even get you can get steady state and download 00:12:15.540 --> 00:12:21.420 it's just done all the updates done 00:12:19.040 --> 00:12:26.220 holy crap I can't believe I'm going to be downloading it over 200 megabytes a 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:31.740 second at home it's a game changer look at the CPU usage though 30 of a 00:12:29.160 --> 00:12:34.740 threadripper 32 core 240 00:12:35.459 --> 00:12:44.700 oh my God we're gonna hit 250. holy that's amazing there is so 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:48.420 much spill from this room being so white and yet it still looks really good I was 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:53.279 thinking about how the Shadows look a tiny bit washed out but it is totally 00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:58.620 just because this room is Uber white yeah and once the screen surround is all 00:12:56.160 --> 00:13:03.839 black uh-huh it's gonna look so gonna look amazing in the dark I don't know 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:10.139 that I would be able to tell that it's not a TV it looks great I mean it's not 00:13:08.100 --> 00:13:16.380 OLED level blacks like don't get me wrong no but it's like very good a very 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:19.680 good LCD yeah this game is so funny it's 00:13:16.380 --> 00:13:21.360 so arcadius oh I know I can see how 00:13:19.680 --> 00:13:27.600 you'd like it because it's just automatic drift God 00:13:23.180 --> 00:13:30.120 like oh look at this oh what oh wait no 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:35.279 we share controls stop it 00:13:32.300 --> 00:13:39.720 hello Doom oh is this oh sorry is this making it difficult for you thanks 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:41.040 thanks that's great that's perfect 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.260 yeah I remember when this game was relevant for like two weeks yeah 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:57.380 but damn though roasted oh okay that's 00:13:52.740 --> 00:14:01.079 uh maybe too much HDR oh oh 00:13:57.380 --> 00:14:03.899 okay so we're just a little Juiced here 00:14:01.079 --> 00:14:07.980 okay that's a little less ice earring it's still pretty 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:11.639 it's very hdre like when you catch a glint at the sun off the back of the car 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:14.639 and stuff like it's yeah the Shadow's got a lot of detail I definitely think 00:14:12.899 --> 00:14:19.620 we could tweak this more but I love it the responsiveness though and 00:14:17.760 --> 00:14:23.700 I love our sponsor did you just fart Jack remakes solar ready portal power 00:14:21.959 --> 00:14:27.839 stations designed to improve outdoor Life by providing power Outdoors 00:14:25.380 --> 00:14:31.139 whenever and wherever you need it their Explorer 1500 portable power station has 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:36.180 enough juice to keep all your devices powered and connected it's huge 1500 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:40.320 watt hour capacity and 1800 watt output rate allows up to seven devices to be 00:14:38.459 --> 00:14:44.279 plugged in simultaneously it 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