real talk i thought samsung was joking when they said they wanted to sponsor an
unboxing and demo of the odyssey arc did anyone actually expect them to make this
thing after they showed it off to say yes i assumed that it was just some kind
of you know concept display you know to pull in the crowd you know
i was wrong very very wrong
100 pounds of gaming extravagance
wrong this is it the heaviest the most curved the most
immersive gaming monitor ever created
and while i don't know if i need an aggressively curved 55-inch monitor
i sure want to experience it let's roll that intro
whether you wanted it or not samsung has done it they've brought us the world's
first holy
crap 55 inch curved with a capital c
1 000r radius gaming display it uses their
quantum matrix tech with a mini led full
array local living backlight it's got HDR 10 plus dolby atmos and a speaker
setup that they and i cannot wait to experience this apparently call the
sound dome okay well don't go away
how am i going to set this up on my own samsung demands
that's just the stand this is just one part of the stand there's a whole second
are you freaking kidding me
samsung demands that you have a friend to help you set up the odyssey arc and
for good reason
oh my gosh so it goes in i think it goes the other way yeah yeah no problem just
put this together using my trusty LTT Store.com screwdriver
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wow i feel like i could almost support
myself on this spring lift mechanism
take that apple sup mac nerds that's a
nice monitor stand you've got there this is my cloud strife edition monitor's 10.
boy the buster stand there we go
hey we heard the click hey and then there's two screws yeah i'll
get them so but to get it yeah oh that's
it guys that's it that's what i'm talking about
that's why this thing needs the most mondo stand in the world
so you can watch youtube shorts
you guys have seen me one hand lift 65
inch tvs even and like mount them onto the wall i've done it on this channel
there is no way that i'm lifting this from here
to there that is not happening by yourself unless
i have a helper yeah you're supposed to so they're like the direction this is
how you're supposed to do it yeah so
we get a hand under the stand oh yeah tilt it under the scale back and then we
hold it and then we use our legs and not our back yep crap it's heavy okay
david's like coming over here like i can do it i have crts
don't don't knock it over anything but just hold on hold on please don't help
him okay
from the ground though
no no no no no no no no you're good you're good let's put it down you're
going to challenge me if you don't want me to fall obviously 95 of the time you're gonna
have it like this and the whole thing with its four
speakers and two integrated subwoofers comes together to make a personal gaming
theater that is samsung's words not mine
personal gaming theater and it's like a fun mirror
oh my god i'm wide putin
it recommends 80 cm oh distance 80
centimeters yeah so i gotta be the back here apparently huh
turn it vertical for alex oh my god yeah here you go alex ready
this is an officially supported mode ah
that's so cool can we get three of them
what are we gonna do with three of them
what would you do with one of them you might as well get three
everything about it is perfectly normal monitor
except that it's as tall as i am
we've seen this before but it's cool enough that it's worth another mention
this is called samsung one connect and
basically it's a single cable you can see the tv end is marked tv right here
that goes into the back of your
personal gaming theater cable manages
through this boy and carries all the power and all the
signal data that our display is going to need
that means that any of your devices plug into
this b a m f er
the one connect box you've got your oh is there no
displayport no so it's a tv then it's all HDMI 2.1 oh
all four of them are HDMI 2.1 yeah one with the arc wow i'm not even gonna miss
the DisplayPort then it's 4k whoa
shut up yeah sorry i'm gonna let you finish but i've
read it off there yeah it's 4k
165 hertz it has a usb b
uplink two usb a ports though they are usb2 so you're not going to use them for
anything other than maybe your keyboard or mouse something along those lines
it's got optical it has a network port so presumably it uses samsung's tizen os
for smart tv functionality and a total of as we mentioned before
four HDMI 2.1 ports
now we are going to need a tape measure i want to sit in the optimal position in
my personal gaming theater and i think
the reflection was because there's a peel on it
oh yeah that's way less reflective
naturally we've gone with an rtx 30 90 for our test bench because let's face it
if you can afford a personal gaming theater like this one
it's only the finest for you when it comes to gpus
and i think other than that we're ready to fire it
up aren't we it uses the same remote as samsung's tvs
that's interesting you can really tell that the sound is optimized for a near
field listening experience really yeah
or maybe part of it is just that you're sitting in this
reflective sound dome
that's what they call it right sound dome
it's got four speakers one in each corner and two subs in the center does
it come pre-loaded with all this stuff yeah okay you got your GeForce now got
your xbox app yeah those are all part of the samsung
gaming hub so you could stream games if you wanted to no downloads and no
storage limits yeah i forgot samsung has that partnership with microsoft so you
can just like play xbox games on it okay
pretty cool i mean we're pc around here so we're
gonna go ahead and switch over to our pc input let's go through and fine-tune our
settings uh yeah faster is almost always the right one standard is probably fine
screen ratio yeah we're not going to change that unless of course we wanted
to have you know the ultra wide experience
get some black bars more cinematic gaming going on here
yeah there it goes okay and i don't see any weird scaling issues
so if if that's what you want then you can do that personally i think i would
probably just make use of the entire canvas in front of me
oh this is not a good place for this why not
because oh if you want to rotate yeah when it's time oh it clears it push it
back a little yeah it's great okay never mind it works oh
my gosh hold on no it'll auto it'll no no no no no no we'll get to that later
lighting definitely gonna need some lighting
oh may increase power consumption yeah i think that's the least of my
concerns when i've got a 55 inch 2000
nit peak brightness mini led backlit gaming monitor on my desk let's see what
other modes we've got we've got some different colors got some uh oh oh are
we going full unicorn vomit yes
hdr10 gaming basic game HDR this
actually makes a ton of sense because they're probably just leaning on all the
excellent work their tv folks have done um
and putting it in a monitor weird the setup is actually that simple
i didn't even manage to get the arc dial out of the box
uh and it is already paired so
that's neat with the arc dial you can quickly access any settings that you
would want to as well as quickly change the aspect ratio or the screen size so
if you wanted to emulate a different screen size then
let's figure out what button hey there we go
multi-view flex move screen you want flex mode yeah
let's do i'm gonna flex i'm gonna flex on the haters what you don't even have
an arc dial hey what are you doing
man it's got buttons yeah yeah i see them i see them i see it
so i'm gonna put my i'm gonna put my screen over here what you get what your
your monitor doesn't do this that's okay if you don't have this at the very least
you can get a subscription over on Floatplane.com where we have great
behind the scenes like uh oh we had a ton of fun at the backpack launch pop-up
shop you guys can check that out okay so i think yeah i'm done with that
for now this can sit here man was the last time you saw this
many peripherals for a monitor you got the one connect box you got the arc dial
you got the remote okay i get to game on it now yeah sure i thought we'd do
vertical stuff first but it's already we're gonna do vertical later okay you
wanna do landscape first i wanna play a game i don't know if it's uh finished
installing but i put arc on the test
bench because that'd be fun if you played oh dog i heard you like arc yeah
i wanted to get an arc GPU as well so that we could play our arc on an arc
using an arc yeah yeah but they're not really out yet and i mean i don't know
if it'll run 4k so uniformity was an immediate concern for
me brandon you're gonna have to get a little bit closer to have the same experience that i'm having
but i do not actually see
any kind of uh dirty screen effect
oh oh and i might not even be in the optimal spot adcm 80 cm 80 centimeters
okay let's see who was right because i i don't remember what i said actually
but okay this is the optimal eyehole distance from the
screen thank you i will not move my feet put a marker
down hold on
is this an HDR game because this is really freaking bright no it's probably
not it's old and stuff i just i saw this thing is just really bright this is
literally entirely for the memes now one of the challenges with mini led
backlighting is that depending on how many zones you have you can get
significant halos when you've got bright objects on a dark background
but that problem is exacerbated by
extreme viewing angles so it seems to me
that samsung's odyssey arc team sought to get around this at least in part by
applying such an aggressive curve to the screen
because when i am standing in this optimal position here
i am actually looking straight at the screen
no matter what part of it my eyes are tracking toward
samsung's name for this anti-glare anti-reflection film is apparently sagar
film and it's not segar the horrible it's sega pretty good
that's an old reference isn't nick's supposed to be at work
what's he doing playing cookie clicker
this is the danger of adding your boss on steam it's an idle game minus this
it's just idle right now these are really deep blacks it's got 1056 dimming
zones it has 1056 dimming zones like it's pretty good
well that explains it because i was like i'm looking at this going
where is it that's really black how much is this thing
3 500 3500 okay
i mean they did put all the cookies and cream in it yeah
the stand is enough to you know kill a man
assuming you can wield it check the display make sure the display's got HDR
on too use the dial what are you doing oh yeah what am i doing the remote is for cave what am i some kind of idiot oh
you got it yeah no no i'm just i'm looking i'm looking
oh it's almost definitely HDR that's so bright totally
probably but it's gotta be i'm having too much fun with this
it's dumb it's extravagant as all hell
but like it's it's pretty fun it's pretty cool
so when you're full screen okay you get variable refresh rate with AMD freesync
premium pro with support up to at least 120 hertz low frame rate compensation
low latency and sdr and HDR and full support for HDR color and luminance
certification this looks
freaking amazing zero tearing or stutter hyper responsive
bright HDR we have not tested samsung's
2000 nit claims but frankly speaking at this distance it's bright enough
like that does matter and the wild part is that samsung is
normally the king of you know blown out vibrant best buy
effect colors but it's vibrant but it's not like that
at all like look at these greens they're not overdone friendly reminder no matter
how good your gaming display is it will not make you a pro gamer
okay quick play here we go boys i'm the one
person playing halo infinite right now
this is gonna be your new office monitor ah 55 inches is really
big i know i my desk isn't deep enough at work you don't think so no i don't
think so what about at home ah it's tempting at home i just got a super deep
desk at home it's deeper than this one hey all right i mean there you go
hey oh you didn't get him how did i not get that i don't know i thought for sure
he was i am terrible you guys swapped to the pistol yeah nice i don't have to do
nothing i don't have to do what you say all right i'm never gonna call you dad
all right there's quad object tracking sound and dolby atmos dolby atmos you
say obviously it doesn't have the same bass as a subwoofer that's the size of the tv
or anything like that but it's not bad clarity is good
and i guess there's something to be said for having speakers that are just
physically far far separated from each other right when you're sitting right
close to it like this full credit the sound stage is really
wide like the directionality is outstanding when there's a frog like
over here it sounds like it's coming from over there enough of the
can confirm it's a top of the line gaming monitor let's have a look at the
gimmick cockpit mode
oh yeah
and you say it's supposed to oh it does too yeah it did
automatically moved to portrait mode
wow i mean that is
something i feel like i'm in the front row you know what i'm saying uh videos
okay let's find some shorts
whoa wow it's right there it's big
hey look it's Linus actual size
on your tv
okay i had to try it i had to try it come on
oh geez oh my goodness this is
uh wow this is a little disorientating
it barely fits on screen oh my goodness
oh my goodness this is you're actually fighting like
life-sized demons okay they're life-sized now it's time for perhaps an
actual practical application to this let's try multi-view press the button
below to add a view let's add a view
oh oh sick okay so you could have like okay app or
source ah
man we don't have a ton of sources here no so you're able to mirror stuff
through like miracast or whatever yeah um and you can have the apps but my one
big issue is that you can't do two hdmis
really you can't you can't do picture-in-picture yeah it was a very i'm
i was like ecstatic about this thing until i found that out we even tried i
grabbed the xbox and i tried to throw the xbox and the uh pc on it doesn't
want to do it as soon as you select one HDMI input it grays out the rest when
you go to the second view the way i was doing this was uh create like a custom
uh multi-view but you've got three can you do tizen apps or anything like
that like if you had a plex app or something like that could you just have like a movie chill in there yeah and
then so like it's it's fine it's just kind of disappointing
HDMI inputs would be better i'd love to see them address that in a firmware
update or something like that because as it is
this could actually make sense yeah i just have like some app with like i
don't like my stocks or something whatever it is that i want peripherally
available to me and then i've got you know maybe a movie
that's you know playing while i'm you know working on a project down here on
my bottom monitor yeah that's great that's
wild man and then and then if it's horizontal you can do four
uh 27 inch screens roughly four 27 inch screens yeah so you can do
the same thing but quad that's pretty cool i do wish that you could have two
HDMI sources that would improve it a lot
or four because there's four HDMI 2.1 ports on the connect box
that would be amazing samsung if you're listening
that's an improvement that we would like to see it really does have a like a
concept product vibe to it that wow factor but then they actually did it the
mad lads actually shipped it thanks samsung for sponsoring this video thank
you for sending over the odyssey arc the
most unbelievable monitor that i think i have ever seen
if you enjoyed this video i don't even know what to send you to
i don't know there was that there was that curved laptop we checked out that
one time go watch that that's pretty wild too