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and I shouldn't say point because in Europe they use a

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comma so we're going to go ahead and open this bad boy I think I gave away

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the secret but this is the couch master

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and the couchmaster is intended to be

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the ultimate gaming station designed to

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be used on your couch by Masters uh right here is a usb3 5 m

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active extension cable repeater that's actually the awesomest thing ever

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especially cuz it's USB 3 which means that you can plug this into a hub and

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you'll have full speed with no signal degradation at like 5 m which for you

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Yanks out there is 15 ft um which is

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freaking awesome it's a big old thick cable that's like that's worth the value

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of like um at least a few dollars right there I wonder if that was on their

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itemized list all right so we got the

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orange one there's a bunch of different colors red uh whatever that is black blue green

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yellow orange purple and they

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say San don't cut so I don't know what

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accent that was but I was trying really hard to make it a good one and we're

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going to go ahead and cut but we're just going to be really careful about the way

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that we cut the tape all right find out what's inside

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here this is why they don't want you to just kind of dig in there with the knife

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because that is the couch Master itself

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right there so we're going to again be very very careful with our knife just

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cutting the packing tape and not going any deeper than that and it looks like

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it comes in a sort of wide variety of

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different pieces here all of which are

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helpfully um valued at a particular

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value and I'm running out of things to say about it so why don't I explain a

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little bit about what You' want to use this for so if you are the ultimate

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anticon gamer and you insist on using a PC

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whether it's for your sort of big screen what is it called big screen valves

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thing big screen big box I don't know big

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something big gaming big picture that's the one big picture gaming experience

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whether you want to use it with those optimized games with a controller or

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whether you actually want to sit on your couch with a mouse and keyboard and play

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hardcore PC titles um

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this will pretty much allow you to do it so guys I'm not going to take away any

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of the unpacking experience from this video I want you to experience the whole

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thing because from what I can see so far

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it is going to be quite a treat to uh to

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reveal sort of every look at that they include two active extension cables they

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want you to have the true pure PC gaming

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experience where you do not as a PC

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Gamer have to use a hub you are are going to use a dedicated Dam cable for

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your mouse and a dedicated Dam cable for your keyboard and that is the way it's

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going to be and Slick point three no

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this is something else oh they include a hub too they include a four-port USB 3

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Hub okay so at your desk you will have I

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mean this is just ludicrous so you'll have a hub and you'll have two full 5

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gabit per second connections all right

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so this right here is a little pocket for uh putting hanging your mouse in I

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believe it's also used for cable management or something like that although I'll have to double check what

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exactly they want that pocket to be used for they also include an ample supply of

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velcro tape so this is like a double-sided uh tape velcro thing so you

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can go ahead and uh get everything all stuck together real good they've got a

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bunch of cushions so these are uh uh wrist cushions that you can go ahead and

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position wherever you want you can stick them down however you want you got got a

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few of those and these right here are the main cushions themselves so we're

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obviously not going to be able to finish this video here since I clearly don't

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have an adequate couch but basically the couch Master sits on either side of you

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with a table that goes across the entire top these are soft like these are sule

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cushions check this out let's see if he hits me

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back no he's not going to do it he's not going to do it okay so uh here I

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actually have no idea where my switcher is between the two cameras but I'll let

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I'll let Diesel have some fun with his camera for a change here well I show you

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guys the uh the surface itself that

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actually here we go oh okay so there's

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some cable management compartment action going on down there so this thing's

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freaking awesome this is like a Geeks wet dream here so it's got ah here

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whoops okay I popped that out but there's Cable Management holes that come

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through the top there's actually four of them them and then you can go ahead and

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either leave them in or take them out then you've got these little SP okay

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well that's not staying in for me there but let's go ahead and sort of is there

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like is there like an angle that it goes in at yeah there that's a thing okay so

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then you manage the cables here then when you're done managing the cables you

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close up that bottom compartment like that then you have cable management

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holes on the other side two more cable management holes here that you can go

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ahead and cover up with another compartment made out of a stiff material

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feels like uh feels like some sort of particle board or something like that

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not too heavy or anything though and then this guy right here seems to be oh

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I don't think you're supposed to peel that up that's not really a thing okay

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so the angle of it is such that it is inclined for optimal PC sort of keyboard

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and mouse use so you can see it has uh a bit of a a bit of a slope to it so you

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can go ahead and you stick down your wrist rests so that you can comfortably

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use your keyboard and mouse guys we got to set this up on the couch we're going

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to have to we're going to be back this is amazing so just for the laws we had to

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set up the couchmaster in its uh Native

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environment so I've got my media PC over

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there we actually only had to run one of the active USB 3 cables so I'm just

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running that to the keyboard itself and then I'm running the G9 mouse off of the

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keyboard since I happen to already have wireless headphones um I mean honestly

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though if I'm going to play on a media PC I might as well you know use my full

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size speakers in this case I'm just playing audio surf so we could uh we

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could easily run other games but honestly my media PC is kind of anemic

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it's optimized more for silence versus uh being optimized for sheer horsepower

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but uh when I'm done playing video games here which is going to be at the end of

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my actually you know what I already hit a wall anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter so I'm going to show you

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guys how we did get it set up for optimal use here so number one is I'd

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like to show you guys the convenient baby pouch here on your lap where you

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can have your baby sitting with you while you play video games um second I'd

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like to show you guys how we did set up the velcro so we made it so that you can

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kind of disassemble it but you can also get the couch Master set up really

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really quickly with the wrist rest the wrist rests are extremely comfortable so

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what you do is you when you want to get deified you can see the keyboard and all

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the wrist rests are actually velcroed down if I had a hard mouse pad I would

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probably also velcro down the mouse pad itself so I could take the whole thing

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and lift it off me it's some heft to it because it does use wood for the

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construction if I want to put my mouse away though uh oh did you guys take that

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off oh slick apparently took off the see there's a this is a mouse pouch so you

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just go ahead and tuck your mouse in there so it doesn't get scratched or

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lost or whatever else and then you can clip it to the front of the couch Master

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right here um I'm not going to sort of work too hard at this though honestly I

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don't know that the well no actually I'd probably use that for when I put the

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couch Master away it's the kind of thing that like when your great ant comes to

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visit you don't necessarily want to have it sitting on your couch not not that I'm saying you should be embarrassed to

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be nerdy enough to have a couch master I'm just saying that your great ant

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probably doesn't need to know about it so Cable Management wise on the bottom

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there's plenty of room for that uh USB 3

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Hub that's included as well as the active cables and whatever else not only

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that but aside from the four Cable Management holes that allow you to run

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wires up to the top of the unit there's also a pass through right here so you

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can actually go between the two compartments giving you a ton of

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flexibility in terms of cable management space and even these covers here are

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extremely rugged made out of some kind of wood with like a pley coating on top

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of them looks like a laminate actually looks like a laminate floorboard to be

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perfectly honest I'm not sure what they actually made it out of but uh but there

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you go uh very comfortable very comfortable overall I've seen demos on

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their site of it being used on the armrests but I'd say it's actually best

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used on a couch as opposed to on an easy

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chair with these cushions on the armrest I guess what you could also do though if

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you had two cushions that were closed together is you could just use the board

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itself because we were we were discussing this off camera the cushions

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aren't really where the magic happens I mean yeah you've got your integrated

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drink holder do that or whatever else you want to put in there but you can buy

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a cushion like this at sort of any furniture store the magic piece is this

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guy with the correctly inclined piece here the integrated Cable Management as

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well as the well mostly that the the sturdy construction the wrist

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rests is the couch Master worth your money I guess it depends on how much

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time you expect to spend sort of playing video games on the couch with a keyboard

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and mouse versus using a controller um if it was me I definitely prefer a

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controller to a keyboard and mouse I was even talking to Slick about whether or

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not you could potentially hook up like a racing wheel to this thing it's quite

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wellb built so we haven't tried it of course but uh hey there's options there

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as well thank you for checking out my unboxing and first impressions of the

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