i'm pretty sure we all saw that viral clip out of china where the guy's like
kicking this tv and it doesn't break and if you guys are anything like me you
probably googled it and tried to find out some more information like what is
this tv who makes it and is the thing
actually kick proof and there's no information out there
fortunately we have dug into the root of this and this i am assured by the
friend of the guy who runs the warehouse that ships our lttstore.com merchandise
that this is in fact the kick proof tv unfortunately all the packaging's in
chinese i don't know what this brand is i don't know who this guy is and i don't
see any indication on either side of this packaging that this thing is in
fact kick resistant let alone kick proof
but i'm gonna kick it anyway not yet later after this message from
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andy i don't think i stand a chance here without my trusty chinese translator so
can you come and hook me up please
wow thank you for that let's start with this do you know this brand i know this
brand but i almost forgot this brand exists okay so it's like curtis
it's like oh yeah they make portable cd walkmans or whatever
yeah led i got that led
basically screen tv basically this part says
our brand yeah the total value of our brand is like 7.5 billion
chinese who puts that on their box who cares so it's must be 55 inch
4k this is a fairly budget tv i think it's priced at about 400 dollars for the
55 look at this you can immediately tell
that there is a layer in front of the actual display panel behind it honestly
that kind of seems like cheating we made a kick proof tv by putting the tv behind
a gigantic thick layer of glass
well i i don't know that it's glass it's quite ripply so it could be some
kind of a plastic or a composite standard vase amount only two HDMI
inputs composite component wait two composites
no component look at this antenna huh vga in that's curious and it's
apparently a smart tv it does have an rj45 jack isn't china 120 volt nope
1040 or 220. even though it uses the same prongs yeah same problem but six
amp 250 volt 220. let me call brian the electrician
hey you've reached the voicemail box of Linus sebastian please leave a message
up no i'm just i'm just playing with you um hey brian
oh my god he hung up
wait new idea maybe we don't need brian we'll take it over to the workshop the
outlet for the mill wouldn't work but it turns out that the four-prong outlet for
the lathe i actually have this old adapter that i
bought for the server room that i never ended up using we got power
i wonder there is a is there a physical button on the back
hey oh my god it has an ad the first thing
when you turn it on that's hilarious that's terrible
i can tell you right now that this panel is not fast you can actually see the
ghosting the trails behind these things as it's just moving across the screen
even though it's so slowly and you know what the craziest part is is we weren't
even connected to the internet yet that buick ad
is in the tv like it's all it's pre-loaded wow it's super slow look at
this what is this is this an ad that's an ad because
that's why they need the kick proof tv
so uh what are we looking at here we've got some chinese dramas
we've got some super slow response on
this thing this is like super crazy
reflective but so that's the thing is one of the things that apple did so well
on their mobile devices over the last 10 years is reducing the air gap between
the front glass and the actual panel because that air gap is where you get a
lot of the distortion and that's where you get a lot of the reflection okay so
i gotta pay for that you have to pay for that can i play a preview
maybe the black levels on this are terrible
and you said this was a va panel right it's samsung
samsung panel apparently i guess a big part of the problem though is just that
we have ambient light and we've got this horrible reflection
look at this i got english subtitles and everything other than the reflection
issues i would say the viewing angles meet expectations you're losing a lot of
color saturation but i think that is to do with the reflectiveness
so what i'm looking for is if we minimize the reflections does the color
quality change oh it does yeah because what you'll notice is that you actually
get a ghost of the image that is refracting off the
front glass oh yeah i see that yeah yeah it's hard to say if the problem is the
panel or the glass but if i had to guess based on that this is a samsung va panel
i would say it just has to do with this gigantic air gap and how much it
distorts the light that's coming out of the panel itself so is that it it's time
we were being a little facetious before we can imagine some scenarios where
having a more robust tv might be important test number one
gaming in vr and you forgot to put on your wrist strap andy let's simulate the
vr experience can you put my hood over my eyes please ah
ltdstore.com yeah thanks for that i'm playing my beat saver
i'm slicing on dyson he's slashing he's whacking
is it broken did it break why are you guys making
those noises okay don't worry this controller is already a dead one this time i'm going for like a
big sideways slash it break no
like the whole tv was like where'd i hit it
this part not even a scratch nothing scenario number two something a
little more intentional close your eyes and imagine this you're on blood gulch
capture the flag you got one more cap and this 10 year old shrieking into the
microphone no scopes you from across the freaking map
there's plastic residue from the controller that i'm wiping off the tv do
you see that the residue so that's not part of the tv i go like
that it's gone of course you didn't pay good
money to cs throw controllers at the tv you wanna see us kick it so we're gonna
start with a simple test that's very close to what they do in the viral video
which honestly speaking was pretty weak sauce i'm gonna take my shoe
off but they basically went like this
okay meets expectations
i mean i'm hitting it reasonably hard
i think we've got the same tv now let's kick it up a notch
i get it no doesn't need to be cool yeah
okay i'm dennis dennis blackmail taekwondo
this time you've got some friends over they're playing charades and they've had
a little bit too much to the clue is
power rangers jackie chan uh gymnastics
taekwondo black belt oh glasses nerds
oh my god oh look at it did he break it
i see a mark where oh my god
can you see it brandon yep nothing
what no way david
taekwondo black belt 12 years of soccer single
one year ballet
new scenario you invite over a friend to check out this sweet new taivo you know
video that you've been following along to and your friend's a little
enthusiastic
oh my god
you put a hole in the wall but wait wait
james a little bit of jiu jitsu a little bit of kickboxing mostly just happened
to be on set new scenario you got someone over and you decide to just kind
of roughhouse and wrestle in the living room so this this one's really fun you
just put your feet together like this and the idea is that the right foot must
stay planted you can only make contact with just your right hand so it's like
uh kind of yeah
is that cheating okay i didn't know you were gonna go
right then but it's good
so that was the difference between that one is it wasn't quite as sharp a point of contact
but that was my full body weight
huh i'm nick big sports fan come on
there's some residue again is this where you hit it yeah right that's where i hit
it let's see does it wipe off
and it's gone so the image quality ain't
great the viewing angles kind of suck
but is it as advertised
yeah for better for worse whatever your reason for needing a kick proof tv is
this thing is kick proof
af unreal i cannot believe
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go this is incredible i want to check out the screen protector next can we get
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