WEBVTT 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:06.319 and I shouldn't say point because in Europe they use a 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:11.719 comma so we're going to go ahead and open this bad boy I think I gave away 00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:14.960 the secret but this is the couch master 00:00:11.719 --> 00:00:19.439 and the couchmaster is intended to be 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:22.119 the ultimate gaming station designed to 00:00:19.439 --> 00:00:28.560 be used on your couch by Masters uh right here is a usb3 5 m 00:00:26.119 --> 00:00:32.960 active extension cable repeater that's actually the awesomest thing ever 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:36.879 especially cuz it's USB 3 which means that you can plug this into a hub and 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:44.800 you'll have full speed with no signal degradation at like 5 m which for you 00:00:40.760 --> 00:00:47.199 Yanks out there is 15 ft um which is 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:52.480 freaking awesome it's a big old thick cable that's like that's worth the value 00:00:49.879 --> 00:00:57.600 of like um at least a few dollars right there I wonder if that was on their 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:59.079 itemized list all right so we got the 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:06.640 orange one there's a bunch of different colors red uh whatever that is black blue green 00:01:02.480 --> 00:01:06.640 yellow orange purple and they 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:12.400 say San don't cut so I don't know what 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:16.280 accent that was but I was trying really hard to make it a good one and we're 00:01:14.759 --> 00:01:20.280 going to go ahead and cut but we're just going to be really careful about the way 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:25.159 that we cut the tape all right find out what's inside 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:31.600 here this is why they don't want you to just kind of dig in there with the knife 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:33.759 because that is the couch Master itself 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:38.079 right there so we're going to again be very very careful with our knife just 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:44.079 cutting the packing tape and not going any deeper than that and it looks like 00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:47.640 it comes in a sort of wide variety of 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:51.079 different pieces here all of which are 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:52.560 helpfully um valued at a particular 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.880 value and I'm running out of things to say about it so why don't I explain a 00:01:54.439 --> 00:02:00.479 little bit about what You' want to use this for so if you are the ultimate 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:07.079 anticon gamer and you insist on using a PC 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:11.480 whether it's for your sort of big screen what is it called big screen valves 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.239 thing big screen big box I don't know big 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:18.760 something big gaming big picture that's the one big picture gaming experience 00:02:17.519 --> 00:02:23.519 whether you want to use it with those optimized games with a controller or 00:02:20.920 --> 00:02:30.720 whether you actually want to sit on your couch with a mouse and keyboard and play 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:33.160 hardcore PC titles um 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:37.840 this will pretty much allow you to do it so guys I'm not going to take away any 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:42.920 of the unpacking experience from this video I want you to experience the whole 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:46.159 thing because from what I can see so far 00:02:42.920 --> 00:02:48.040 it is going to be quite a treat to uh to 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:54.120 reveal sort of every look at that they include two active extension cables they 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:57.519 want you to have the true pure PC gaming 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.879 experience where you do not as a PC 00:02:57.519 --> 00:03:03.920 Gamer have to use a hub you are are going to use a dedicated Dam cable for 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:09.080 your mouse and a dedicated Dam cable for your keyboard and that is the way it's 00:03:05.799 --> 00:03:10.640 going to be and Slick point three no 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:20.200 this is something else oh they include a hub too they include a four-port USB 3 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:22.440 Hub okay so at your desk you will have I 00:03:20.200 --> 00:03:29.000 mean this is just ludicrous so you'll have a hub and you'll have two full 5 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:31.560 gabit per second connections all right 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:34.879 so this right here is a little pocket for uh putting hanging your mouse in I 00:03:33.519 --> 00:03:39.480 believe it's also used for cable management or something like that although I'll have to double check what 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:44.239 exactly they want that pocket to be used for they also include an ample supply of 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:50.319 velcro tape so this is like a double-sided uh tape velcro thing so you 00:03:47.519 --> 00:03:54.760 can go ahead and uh get everything all stuck together real good they've got a 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:58.000 bunch of cushions so these are uh uh wrist cushions that you can go ahead and 00:03:56.360 --> 00:04:02.560 position wherever you want you can stick them down however you want you got got a 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:06.280 few of those and these right here are the main cushions themselves so we're 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:11.319 obviously not going to be able to finish this video here since I clearly don't 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:16.479 have an adequate couch but basically the couch Master sits on either side of you 00:04:14.079 --> 00:04:20.840 with a table that goes across the entire top these are soft like these are sule 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:25.520 cushions check this out let's see if he hits me 00:04:23.479 --> 00:04:30.520 back no he's not going to do it he's not going to do it okay so uh here I 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:34.199 actually have no idea where my switcher is between the two cameras but I'll let 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:40.080 I'll let Diesel have some fun with his camera for a change here well I show you 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:43.919 guys the uh the surface itself that 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:46.160 actually here we go oh okay so there's 00:04:43.919 --> 00:04:50.400 some cable management compartment action going on down there so this thing's 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:56.520 freaking awesome this is like a Geeks wet dream here so it's got ah here 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:59.440 whoops okay I popped that out but there's Cable Management holes that come 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:03.280 through the top there's actually four of them them and then you can go ahead and 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:07.440 either leave them in or take them out then you've got these little SP okay 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:11.120 well that's not staying in for me there but let's go ahead and sort of is there 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:14.880 like is there like an angle that it goes in at yeah there that's a thing okay so 00:05:13.080 --> 00:05:18.360 then you manage the cables here then when you're done managing the cables you 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:23.199 close up that bottom compartment like that then you have cable management 00:05:20.479 --> 00:05:26.440 holes on the other side two more cable management holes here that you can go 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:30.680 ahead and cover up with another compartment made out of a stiff material 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:34.000 feels like uh feels like some sort of particle board or something like that 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:38.440 not too heavy or anything though and then this guy right here seems to be oh 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:43.720 I don't think you're supposed to peel that up that's not really a thing okay 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:49.600 so the angle of it is such that it is inclined for optimal PC sort of keyboard 00:05:46.919 --> 00:05:53.800 and mouse use so you can see it has uh a bit of a a bit of a slope to it so you 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:57.240 can go ahead and you stick down your wrist rests so that you can comfortably 00:05:55.880 --> 00:06:00.199 use your keyboard and mouse guys we got to set this up on the couch we're going 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:07.319 to have to we're going to be back this is amazing so just for the laws we had to 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:10.440 set up the couchmaster in its uh Native 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:12.840 environment so I've got my media PC over 00:06:10.440 --> 00:06:18.120 there we actually only had to run one of the active USB 3 cables so I'm just 00:06:15.479 --> 00:06:22.680 running that to the keyboard itself and then I'm running the G9 mouse off of the 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:27.039 keyboard since I happen to already have wireless headphones um I mean honestly 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:31.520 though if I'm going to play on a media PC I might as well you know use my full 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:34.800 size speakers in this case I'm just playing audio surf so we could uh we 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:40.960 could easily run other games but honestly my media PC is kind of anemic 00:06:38.039 --> 00:06:45.840 it's optimized more for silence versus uh being optimized for sheer horsepower 00:06:43.599 --> 00:06:48.039 but uh when I'm done playing video games here which is going to be at the end of 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:53.440 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 00:06:51.039 --> 00:06:56.800 guys how we did get it set up for optimal use here so number one is I'd 00:06:55.479 --> 00:07:01.000 like to show you guys the convenient baby pouch here on your lap where you 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:05.759 can have your baby sitting with you while you play video games um second I'd 00:07:04.400 --> 00:07:10.039 like to show you guys how we did set up the velcro so we made it so that you can 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:13.440 kind of disassemble it but you can also get the couch Master set up really 00:07:12.039 --> 00:07:17.919 really quickly with the wrist rest the wrist rests are extremely comfortable so 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:21.800 what you do is you when you want to get deified you can see the keyboard and all 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:26.000 the wrist rests are actually velcroed down if I had a hard mouse pad I would 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:30.319 probably also velcro down the mouse pad itself so I could take the whole thing 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:34.840 and lift it off me it's some heft to it because it does use wood for the 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:40.319 construction if I want to put my mouse away though uh oh did you guys take that 00:07:37.479 --> 00:07:44.759 off oh slick apparently took off the see there's a this is a mouse pouch so you 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:47.919 just go ahead and tuck your mouse in there so it doesn't get scratched or 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:52.159 lost or whatever else and then you can clip it to the front of the couch Master 00:07:49.599 --> 00:07:56.080 right here um I'm not going to sort of work too hard at this though honestly I 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:58.800 don't know that the well no actually I'd probably use that for when I put the 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.960 couch Master away it's the kind of thing that like when your great ant comes to 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:07.120 visit you don't necessarily want to have it sitting on your couch not not that I'm saying you should be embarrassed to 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:09.560 be nerdy enough to have a couch master I'm just saying that your great ant 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:14.680 probably doesn't need to know about it so Cable Management wise on the bottom 00:08:11.479 --> 00:08:16.520 there's plenty of room for that uh USB 3 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:20.639 Hub that's included as well as the active cables and whatever else not only 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:25.120 that but aside from the four Cable Management holes that allow you to run 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:29.879 wires up to the top of the unit there's also a pass through right here so you 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:34.279 can actually go between the two compartments giving you a ton of 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:40.039 flexibility in terms of cable management space and even these covers here are 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:44.440 extremely rugged made out of some kind of wood with like a pley coating on top 00:08:42.479 --> 00:08:47.720 of them looks like a laminate actually looks like a laminate floorboard to be 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:52.839 perfectly honest I'm not sure what they actually made it out of but uh but there 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:57.320 you go uh very comfortable very comfortable overall I've seen demos on 00:08:55.080 --> 00:09:03.040 their site of it being used on the armrests but I'd say it's actually best 00:08:59.959 --> 00:09:05.200 used on a couch as opposed to on an easy 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:08.519 chair with these cushions on the armrest I guess what you could also do though if 00:09:06.839 --> 00:09:12.320 you had two cushions that were closed together is you could just use the board 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:16.440 itself because we were we were discussing this off camera the cushions 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:20.279 aren't really where the magic happens I mean yeah you've got your integrated 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:23.839 drink holder do that or whatever else you want to put in there but you can buy 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.760 a cushion like this at sort of any furniture store the magic piece is this 00:09:26.640 --> 00:09:34.279 guy with the correctly inclined piece here the integrated Cable Management as 00:09:31.640 --> 00:09:38.720 well as the well mostly that the the sturdy construction the wrist 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:43.360 rests is the couch Master worth your money I guess it depends on how much 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:48.120 time you expect to spend sort of playing video games on the couch with a keyboard 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:52.320 and mouse versus using a controller um if it was me I definitely prefer a 00:09:50.560 --> 00:09:55.360 controller to a keyboard and mouse I was even talking to Slick about whether or 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:59.360 not you could potentially hook up like a racing wheel to this thing it's quite 00:09:57.040 --> 00:10:03.760 wellb built so we haven't tried it of course but uh hey there's options there 00:10:01.959 --> 00:10:08.320 as well thank you for checking out my unboxing and first impressions of the 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:12.680 couchmaster don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:15.680 and other computer videos