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It's here. The Vizio P series QuantumX

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2020 1 has finally arrived. This is the

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TV that enthusiasts are expecting to leave budget competitors like TCL and

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Highense in the dust while even punching up market against premium sets from

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brands like Samsung and Sony. It's got fullfeatured HDMI 2.1 ports. Yes, my

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friends. 48 Gbit per second, 2800 nit

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peak brightness HDR. I'm expecting to be basically blinded if I get too close to

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it. And all kinds of great inbuilt features like chcast, for

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example. But can the real world experience hold up to all of that?

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Can't. Or can it?

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I want to start like I always do at the

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back. Oh my god. All things considered,

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for a full array local dimming set, it's not that thick.

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You can also see where they cut corners to make their aggressive $3,000 price

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point. Plastic chassis. How many zones is it though? This is the 75 in version.

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480 zones. That's not bad. $2,000. The

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86 in this version, which is new this year, $3,000, 792 zones. That's crazy.

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And that one's brighter. That one actually is 3,000 nits. And oddly

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enough, the 65 in is also 3,000 nits. It's only the 75 in that is 2,800. 200

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nits short. Darn it, Vizio. I don't know

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why. We got powering over here. And then way the smack over on the other side, we

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got everything else. Your Ethernet, your antenna, uh, left and right audio. Okay.

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HDMI X 4. So only two of them are 4K 120

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Hz. That's HDMI 2.1. Still got that

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composite input, optical, and one USB port only. Can we just take a moment to

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marvel though that a 75 in HDR TV is 2

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grand? I mean, it depends on if the HDR is actually I'm expecting it to be good.

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480 zones. Can we jump right into that? Hold on a second. Before we do that, I

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need to make a little comment here. This this thing this is getting out of

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control. I get it. You know, there's money to be made for Vizio that helps to

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subsidize the cost of the TV, but I don't need a Netflix, Voodoo, Prime

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Video, Redbox, Hulu, Zumo. I mean, what's what's next? Hub button. Are

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these reconfigurable at least? Usually, you'd have to get another app, but

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there's not even an app store on here. So, I think you're probably So, that

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means out of luck. I love the OSD on this thing. It's so highly configurable.

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It is for enthusiasts. I really like this cuz it's like if you're ever

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wondering like is my shiz working the answer is well as long as your shiz is

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stereo PCM then yes picture mode right

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calibrate oh so calibrated we shouldn't make too many comments about the color

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because this is an early engineering sample and they said that one of the

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things that was early about it was how calibrated it would be. Got it. Okay.

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Did they recommend bright? Is that why we're using that one? I think that's just the default. Uh yeah, we're not

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going to use the ambient light sensor. That's going to be a little unfair. Some of the advanced options are really

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sweet. You can actually get down to jutdder reduction, which I want to try

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with you in a minute. But you can also just totally calibrate it. Go all the

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way down. Color calibration.

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Color to Hey, there you go. Thank you. Why doesn't everybody just do this? All

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right. Input. What's watch free? Okay, now I

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have to know. It's on my remote. It's on It's the second thing in the input menu.

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I think it's like a Oh, lame. Nothing

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Nothing region locked should be having a

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dedicated button on the remote. What do you think of that remote? It's okay. I

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like the soft touch feel. The waiting is kind of weird. Like if I ever actually

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use the buttons, it's really topheavy. Kind of not. Yeah, it's not that

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ergonomic. But realistically, I don't use my TV remote that much. So, how

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about the tactility? I'd say the D-pad is very good, but the other buttons are

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like I'd say okay. Uh, that's not bad.

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So, where you don't have that really really sharp line between your bright

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object like the moon and your black object like the night sky, it's not too

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shabby. I noticed a lot of jutdder on the rotating Earth. Yeah. Oh, wow. That

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is a lot. Uh, we can adjust the jutdder

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setting. Okay. So, jutter reduction. Jutter reduction is probably going to

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make the picture darker because it's probably black frame insertion. Like

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just strobing black in between. It's better. That looks a lot better. So,

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this is midway. This is at five. There

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is still some jutter, but it's not like sickening like it was. No, it's like

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cinematic now. It's not like disgusting and it looks like a mistake. It just

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looks more filmic. I'm totally okay with it the way that it is now. I can't say

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that I'm blown away by the brightness. Now, that 2800 nit spec is only on a 10%

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patch of the screen. It can't even do that on a whole screen flash, as far as

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I know. It's more like 800 or something like that. Well, sustained brightness

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across the whole thing is 800, which which is fine. Still leaves an OLED in

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the dust. So, one of the main issues on the PQX last year was banding. And one

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of the famous examples online that someone used was this red background and

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the smoke scene of the Last Jedi. This

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actually looks really smooth. Now, I'm

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getting a little bit of halo effect around his hand here with the light

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reflecting off of it, but it's not distracting in any way from the image.

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And I really don't see anything that

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stands out to me as a problem here. As far as banding, you mean? Yeah.

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Whoa. I tend to be a little more forgiving of these halo effects around

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text cuz that's not it's not the content. I find it distracting and

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annoying, but I try to put it out of my mind because you don't buy a TV to read

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the news on it. You know, there's your full array local dimming. Oh, and I can

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see it's not just the fact that there's a big halo around this small object. Can

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you see that, Linus? Around the ball, there's this little dirty It looks like

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a comet. It looks like there's like a an outer orbit, like an outer ice kind of

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thing. Wait till the ball gets bigger. Like there's like a blue discoloration,

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then there's like a brown discoloration. See that right there? Okay. When it's

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moving slowly. Yeah. It's almost less useful when it

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moves. This white edge is fine when it's moving slowly. But once this picks up in

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speed, you'll see that the leading edge will kind of brownify. See that? It's

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like a brown moon. But like, come on.

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Were we expecting it to be an OLED? No. It's a fraction of the cost. The colors

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look really good. And in fact, this actually will have better colors than an

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OLED. It'll have brighter colors and a wider coverage of the gamut. Previously,

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the last year's model had 85% coverage of the Rec 2020 color gamut uh due to

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the quantum dot enhancement film that's in there. And OLAs do not have that. One

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of the big use cases for this TV from my perspective though is gaming since it's

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one of the first sets you can get your hands on that will have official support for 4K at 120 Hz to go with those shiny

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new graphics cards that are right around the corner. So, but before we switch

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over to the PC, I think we should take a moment to appreciate how much snappier

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the OSD feels compared to their previous TVs. Like this is actually pretty

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responsive. Yeah, it used to be really bad. Then there was a firmware update

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that made it better, but I think the new model is even better than that. Oh god,

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why? Why not?

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Oh, you have to register. Okay, don't judge the banding on this background.

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It's just a bad compressed background. Okay, this feels like I'm at 60 Hz right

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now, though. I sure am. Okay, so I'm going to have to

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probably drop down to 1440p because

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unfortunately there aren't any HDMI 2.1 graphics cards yet. So, there are

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adapters to go from DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.1. In fact, James has one right

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there because we tried it. Unfortunately, we were not able to get

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that working on our pre-production model because the HDMI 2.1 4K120 ports on this

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unit right here aren't working right now because of firmware, but they'll work

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for you. Just bear in mind if you do use one of these, you're going to need a

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supporting graphics card that has display stream compression 1.2. Okay, so

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that's RTX or AMD cards 2019 and newer.

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Yeah. So, just like we talked about with the Samsung Odyssey

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G9 counter terrorists going to win.

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So, because this is a VA or vertical alignment LCD panel, what we're looking

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for here is smearing particularly of black values. If you're in a dark area,

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you move around quickly, uh things like the edges of walls and stuff, things

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that are black can smear. or if they're not going to smear, it's because there's

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going to be a lot of pixel overdrive. And in that case, you can get overshoot,

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which is going to be like a white kind of corona, they call it. Not bad. I can

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see it a little bit on these ones. Oh, yeah. There it is. Yeah. I would

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describe the input lag as pretty darn good. Like I'm I'm gaming on this for

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sure, boys. I obviously this is a terrible experience being this close to

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it, but it's a wired keyboard and mouse, so this is interesting. Most of the

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image quality evaluation that we've done has been with devices that are plugged

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in via HDMI. But of course, there is an Ethernet jack on the TV. And you might

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think plugging into a wired connection is going to give you well more reliable

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service with something like Netflix. But go ahead and hit play on that, would

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you, James? Well, let's try to load it up. So load times are quick. You might

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say, "Oh, well that's fantastic." Except that if you look a even marginally

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closer at this image, I would be surprised if this is higher than

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equivalent to about 480p. It does not look good. And

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surprisingly, we had this playing for as long as 3 minutes at a time and it never

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snapped into 1080p. Or actually, I'm

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subscribed to the 4K tier. That sure ain't 4K. You ever see this movie? Still

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terrible. Yeah. How good is it? Oh, I didn't see uh Wait, no, I did see one.

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Is it good enough to cover on Carpal Critics, our movie podcast?

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Shameless. What I actually want to do is go back on Wi-Fi. We got only 3 megabit

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per second on the wired connection and we're still getting 3 megabit per second

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on the wireless connection. We were getting 10 times that when we used

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NVIDIA Shield wired. So, it's not our internet here. No, we were getting 100

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times that. This is only three. Oh god. It's really annoying because even LG's

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OLEDs have chipsets that only cap out at

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100 megabit per second. These are high-end TVs. They really should upgrade

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them. This has been a problem for multiple generations now. Hopefully, that'll improve with the final hardware

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and software. Look at this. Otherwise, you're going to have to factor in the

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cost of something like a Shield or Roku or Fire Stick. Okay, so what's our

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what's our bottom line here? You're saving some money on the display. I

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mean, this is an incredible amount of technology packed into a 75 inch display

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for $2,000. That's something that we really

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can't forget here. But obviously, you are making some compromises. The good

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news is that you can make up for some of them after the fact. Like, for example, you pair something like this with an

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NVIDIA Shield where you don't have to rely on Vizio's upscaling or Vizio's

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network connection and you can use NVIDIA's AI upscaling and their

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networking connection. and like all of a sudden you're looking at, wow, that's a

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that's a big old TV. Now, I wasn't a huge fan of the way that fastoving white

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objects were not handled very well by the full array local dimming backlight,

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but unless you want to pony up for an OLED, there's going to be some

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compromises there. If this is your picture quality range and your price

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range, then it's a good way to futureroof at least for probably 10

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years your setup because when you get your new console, it's going to work.

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It's going to be ready to go. 4K120. 4K120 PC. And this is one of the first

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sets in North America to support all the major HDR standards. HLG, HDR10, HDR10

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Plus, and Dolby Vision. So, you can find it down at the link in the video

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description where I'm sure James will also embed the latest episode of Carpool

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this is still a little rich for your blood, smaller though. They are smaller

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