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when I was a teen anything bigger than 48 inches was considered a giant big

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screen TV and they were big this 65-inch

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Mitsubishi weighed over 330 pounds but

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these days 55 to 65 inch TVs are quickly

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becoming mainstream and in many homes anything smaller is probably pulling

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guest bedroom Duty and why not these giant screens somehow keep getting

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cheaper so today after a two-year Hiatus

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we're gonna take a look at the forces behind this trend with another

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installment of why the advertiser friendly content are you all buying this

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featuring the best-selling 65-inch TV on

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amazon.com the TCL 65s425 protect your floors from your

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computer chair with ruggable ruggable rugs are machine washable and they'll

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stay in place with their non-slip pads use all for code funlin is 10 to get 10

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off at the link below

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the reasons that 65-inch TVs like this

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TCL are getting more and more popular is because one that's what consumers want

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bigger TVs and two it's becoming more

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and more cost effective to make them this big thanks to improvements in the

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manufacturing process just like in the world of CPU silicon TV

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manufacturing capabilities are specified by Fab generation with the latest being

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generation 10.5 but these Fabs rather

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than being defined by how small the transistor gate length is in nanometers

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like a processor are defined by how big

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of a piece of glass you can make if you've ever Stood Beside an 86 inch TV

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you know how impressive a single piece

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of perfect glass that larges but that's

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only the tip of the iceberg because TV screens aren't actually manufactured as

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individuals instead they're cut from an

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even larger sheet of what is appropriately called mother glass

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when I graduated high school in 2004 TV

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Fabs were on gen 7 and could produce sheets of mother glass that were about

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114 inches diagonally they probably could have made one giant weird shaped

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TV out of it but that size was actually chosen because it was optimal for making

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up to eight 40 inch panels which were a

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lot easier to sell at prices that consumers could afford like this hoodie

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from lttstore.com today the most common Fab generation is

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Gen 8.5 which being about the size of two pool tables pushed together can be

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cut into six 55-inch TV panels or into

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three 65-inch panels with some extra

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left over to make smaller devices like monitors 632 inchers to be precise but

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while 55-inch screens used to be the sweet spot where consumers and

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Manufacturing cost met today ATV manufacturers are aiming more towards 65

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inch and the mother glass coming out of the New Gen 10.5 facilities which are

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currently all in China can be cut into eight 65-inch TVs

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wow but why does cutting up a bigger piece

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of glass make the individual TVs cheaper it's because many of the components of a

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TV substrate are put together using deposition which happens across the

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entire mother glass sheet at once so the

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length of time to process a sheet is roughly the same regardless of its size

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meaning that larger sheets are more economical because you can process more

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surface area at a time there's already more than a few gen 10.5 Fabs in

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operation and soon there are going to be dozens meaning that thanks to increased

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competition TVs like rtcl over here are

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only going to get cheaper and that is pretty remarkable when you consider that

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this is a 3840 by 2160 UHD TV with a

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direct LED VA panel and it already costs

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under 500 US Dollars it's an especially

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good deal for gamers considering it's low input leg we measure just one to

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three frames in CS go with game mode on and the pixel response time is good

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enough that fast-paced games don't get too much blurrier than they have to

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just don't expect some of the more advanced gamer features like freesync or

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a 120 hertz native refresh rate for that stuff you guys should check out our

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upcoming reviews of LG's 2020 TVs which

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are on their way to our lab now so get subscribed for that if you think about

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it though that's kind of the story of this thing

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and the answer to why is everybody buying it it covers the basics and does

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it well but without the extra Frills for

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example it technically supports HDR in the form of hdr10 but given that it's

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got an 8-bit panel and a peak brightness of around 200 nits the color volume and

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contrast just aren't enough for it to really check my HDR box

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the VA panel does give it pretty decent contrast in dark environments but when

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the sun comes out you're gonna be fighting glare so I wouldn't put one of

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these in a bright room also if you haven't guessed by now that relatively

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low performance means it has no support for dual division

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none of which means that we're not recommending it for the price the i o is

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typical even if it's a little underwhelming with a side accessible

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jackpack containing three HDMI 2.1 ports RJ45 Ethernet a lone USB 2.0 port spitif

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and just in case you have a really long cable a headphone jack the industrial

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design is Spartan with basic bezels a

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stamped metal back and simple feet that screw directly to the set and one thing

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to note is that those feet are 50 inches apart so you're going to need a pretty

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wide table to sit it on unless you decide to wall mount it which might be a

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pretty good idea there's a 400 by 200 millimeter vase amount on the back and

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the TV is relatively light so you should be able to get it up there without too

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much trouble in the Box you get an adapter that breaks out the composite

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Port into its constituents and a pair of batteries for the Roku remote which

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feels a little small like kind of like a kid size remote but I still support this

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decision TCL has opted to integrate Roku inside their TV for their Smart TV

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experience that would otherwise cost you about 40 bucks if you bought it on a

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stick and it's not as slick as LG's web OS as versatile as Android TV or as

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Snappy as well the same OS running on a TV with a faster processor but it's easy

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to use and supports most major streaming apps and it's certainly better than if

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they had tried to Homebrew something so bottom line there are obviously

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compromises but I don't want to sound nitpicky either for an entry level set

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tcl's s425 lineup which launched in 2018

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still packs a lot of value for people on a budget or for people who just aren't

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that concerned about having the most mouth-watering picture quality on the

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Block I'd even go as far as to say that most people I know outside of the

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techosphere would never complain about

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this one except for one thing that I think we can all agree needs Improvement the speakers

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the pair of 8 watt down firing drivers are harsh and baseless and speech can

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actually be kind of hard to make out especially if you're listening to

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someone who has an accent that you're not used to so maybe if you do go for

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something like this consider an inexpensive sound bar like this one that

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we checked out in a previous episode of this wonderful why are you all buying

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this stuff series and if you liked our discussion on Fab Generations by the way

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maybe check out our companion video so to speak on Quantum dots and the future

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of TVs it's a bit of a deeper dive but I

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