i could not be more excited to experience alongside you guys today
the first 8k consumer television the q
900r series from samsung it has a
whopping 33 million pixels now to be clear we've
seen 8k displays before but only on the desktop at sizes that are so small that
you couldn't possibly hope to get any benefit from it this
this promises to be different so in today's video sponsored by samsung we're
going to be going through the experience of 8k
on a 65-inch tv and also
experiencing some of the pitfalls of being such an early adopter of such
bleeding-edge technology
wow it's thick it's a thick boy
look at that i don't think i've seen a tv this thick
in quite some time i wonder if that has something to do with they can do like
the oh flush mound like cool yeah they've got the legs just
right in here so if you like mount it you don't have to worry about losing them interesting
you know what i wonder is if it has to do with the powerful backlight that you
need to generate what is it like three thousand three focus on this thing so
something a lot of people don't know is that the tighter you make the matrix
of your lcd the harder it is to beam light through
it because the more of the actual screen area is covered by you know opaque
things like wires so i would guess they need one heck of a back light to get
that kind of brightness uh okay now what
i guess just lift it up yeah we probably should read how to do it but uh well
it's too late for that now the ship has sailed you put your
left tv in you put your left tv out you
put your left tv in so wait do you have multiple spots that
you can put it just like here or oh yeah how about that all right where do you
want to go let's go with the wide stance that's what i was going oh jeez
do you ever just think that you probably should have read the instructions do you
ever think that you as the writer for this video probably should have read the
instructions did it
it needs a screw doesn't it it definitely needs a screw but it also probably should just like go in uh-huh
um so where are those screws
ah well there we go there's your problem oh
that's a heavy one connect
and the box hey
now we've got it wow you can really tell
this thing needs cooling though and if the number of heat pipes that i can see
through the back of this grill at the rear of the tv is anything to go
by it takes some serious power i wonder
how close they were to just like strapping a fan on the back
you know i gotta say as someone who cares more about performance and features then
like then thinness i'm actually
pleased as punch that we're getting a tv that's like you
know what all the brightness all the resolution
yeah i'm pretty excited to see the 3000 mix that'll be the brightest
display i've ever seen for sure unless you count like those displays at like
vegas well yeah okay
so our power for the whole beast comes in here
and then all your inputs including networking audio uh right usb all this
stuff over here is all routed through this single cable
along with power up to the tv it's no secret that i love it i've said that a
lot of times and i don't love it any less today than i did before
well i don't know let's just turn it on did you notice that the screen is
relatively matte oh yeah like it's not that glossy apparently samsung has like
the best anti-reflective filters in the business yeah because we have like
filming lights behind the tv and it's actually shocking how little of it gets
reflected through like especially the uh like there's an led array light
that's through that window if you sit where i am you see it oh wow yeah
and then like look at how bright it is directly like that is a shockingly
small amount of light reflected back at us part of what samsung's done that's
special on this tv is they're using a va panel but one with a different
configuration so you don't get that same color shift at an extreme angle so it's
kind of ips like in that respect but it also just has this really sharp va like
contrast and then of course the the matte screen that
it's really good so i've actually watched this clip
quite a few times as a um
like a demo clip and it actually looks even really good
bearing in mind of course that this is just
4k and just like the lines and even like
the hairs and stuff are really good out into a world that wasn't ready
of course what we really want to do is jump to 8k resolution so let's fire up
the nvidia control panel and see what happens because remember this is an hdmi
2.0 connection so it's not even showing up in the drop
down here we're gonna have to create ourselves a custom res here
oh oh it just worked it just worked well that
was easy okay so let's have a look at this puppy
so this is a three hour 50 second clip that's three minutes and 50 seconds
and it's nine gigs yeah
the actual one's like 105 gigs so theoretically
this is basically as high definition
as it gets because this is shot on one of our red
8k cameras and it's output
at 8k resolution now i will say the bit
rate could be higher because you can also see some like pretty brutal
artifacting in spots brutal compression we can try like a red file if you want
to but hey that sounds pretty good
oh our poor computer that's right
i forgot about that yeah we don't have 10 gig on this
i mean even ignoring that our poor cpu is at 100
wow hey uh sure i get
wow look at this it looks like it's my desktop background poor windows just has
no idea what to do with this resolution 500 scaling
here's our start menu
i wonder if the tv is scaling it or something though
yeah oh
interesting
we are now on the latest driver so we're gonna bump it to 4k
yeah that's looking pretty 4k we're
gonna color oh are there actual options now there
are yeah okay so maybe this will help uh so hold on 7680 by 4320
yeah test it
okay does that look native nope okay but that's fine because we're
not in the fourth input so go ahead and chuck
it on the fourth input and let's see if it works this time no signal damn it
okay all right netflix it is
a shot like this with the penguins you can really appreciate the finer detail
and i will say compared to the early days of 4k up
sampling even with the birds flying in different directions here actually one
of the shots of the birds from the original planet earth was like
my classic yeah why upscaling shouldn't be a thing
examples while they're flapping you can
see they're handling it just way better it's almost like tvs have undergone you
know 10 generations of processing upgrades since then
okay so where we left off yesterday we were having a pretty decent 4k to 8k up
sampled experience but we weren't able to get true 8k working however yeah we
were talking to the guys at our tings and we should be able to get real full
blown these ak on the go and 4k 120.
really yeah massive shout out to those guys um however apparently there's a bit of a
process why don't you uh walk us through this so the first thing we have to do is
when we plug in a device we have to go through the setup wizard no skipping it
correct yeah otherwise for whatever reason on input four it just doesn't
work so then you need to do signal plus enable that cool
uh that this that just did something uh
we're just not gonna worry about that yeah let's just proceed then yep okay
so then you need to do the custom resolution utility and hit reset all
right but don't actually use the custom resolution utility don't try to do it in
the nvidia driver it's a bad time just this reset all feature and then we go to
display settings advanced display settings display adapter properties list
all modes oh now we have all of these guys here a
big old list in there now it seems to work best if you do
8k 29 hertz first yeah
and hit apply that looks pretty sharp yeah so that's real ak real ak well
brandon brandon come look come look it's pretty funky
so then you want to just go list all modes again and go to 8k 30. okay
whatever reason if you go to that first sometimes the system just stops working
i don't know why but it's a thing and there we go we have full blownsies
ak-3420
so you're not getting the full color
everything you're not getting the full color depth you're not getting hdr but
for better or for worse you are driving 33 million pixels 30 times a second
through your display if you're into that sort of thing and i have to say it looks pretty damn
good it looks really sharp like that text is just like it's something else
for a display of this size 4k is effective to about 3.8 feet so
that's about right here so 8k you can do 2 feet before you see pixels so that's
like here all right so this is it this
is our first 8k playback experience on
our 8k tv with 8k footage
it's sharp beautiful shot brandon by the way
okay so just for fun before we play games can i do what i had wanted to do before and set it to 100
that's pretty comical this is so ridiculous i look how much i have to
move my mouse just to get it across the
screen one
two but it should still be sharp damn and it
is the system works okay so why don't we do something
different this time we'll fire up city skylines yeah
this is like such a great example it's like you can really make out the people
walking around on the street even oh yeah from this vantage point
like in that park right there so next up
is forza so dynamic render quality ultra
7680 by 4320 that's a crazy number to
look at 30fps all right let's see this let's go to benchmark
like there's rain like it looks like water droplets
yeah like it's pretty easily like the best graphics i think i've ever seen
the sharpness is crazy like even without anti-aliasing enabled you can see this
license plate is a perfect example normally of the staircase effect as it
tilts back and forth but it's just crystal clear and we actually managed 30
fps
now the actual frame times uh there was definitely some stutter in
there so my friends are you going to be gaming in triple a
titles with a smooth 60fps experience at 8k anytime soon
uh probably not but
is 8k at a tv size an absolutely eyeball
popping experience the answer is definitely yes and
sometime in the next year or two you may even get a chance to
experience it once samsung sends out the upgraded boxes with hdmi 2.1 and
japan broadcast the 2020 olympics in ak so
there you go that's the way forward
for 8k so thanks for watching guys thanks to samsung for sponsoring this
video and letting us have this very early look at the 8k experience if
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