so james and i haven't really reached a consensus on why exactly it is we are
doing this video do you mind grabbing an end oh wow i don't need it it's really
not very heavy but thank you anyway um
he figures it's because uh well we keep doing all these cheap
display videos yeah and then we were doing these walmart videos yeah so why
not just make a sandwich of those two you know
what sure let's go with that so this is the
on 43 inch led hdtv
class full class and we are going to find out if how much does this thing
cost i think 168 bucks some people have got it for 125 on clearance we're gonna
find out if the 43 inch 125 dollar tv is
worth 125 dollars if it even makes it to
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i think we should actually assess the shipping and packaging of this it has a
huge gen it's possible possibly it's possible that tyler drop kicked this but
i don't think so i don't think he did and the reason i'm doing a concern is
because inside there's really not a lot of extra packaging so not only is this a
cheaper a hard type foam
but this is cheaper among the hard type foam packing
materials that i've encountered did you see the way that piece just came apart
okay can we do a video together with you not throwing
absolutely no subject of the video no it's in my contract
there's nothing in front there's nothing in front
small correction just after mine and james's uh styrofoam
fight to the death we actually found that there is a little bit more protection on the panel side there's
this piece of cardboard it weighs like nothing the spec sheet says 18.5 pounds
but it feels lighter doesn't it just because it's so big it's like there's
nothing in it so there's our ir receiver
on a little pcb there
there's our stereo speakers that i have oh very high expectations for
i will say that cheap tvs have come a long way in terms of their i o or at
least i don't know this one has so it's got an audio pass-through so if you have
HDMI audio coming in from your cable box or your console or whatever you can pass
that through to your standalone speakers
optical um in or out
unclear at this time and then you've got actually component in as well as
composite and then you've also got uh three actually three hdmis count them
three HDMI ports including one with audio return channel so that's neat okay
what is this thing that some kind of old people connector and of
course there's one usb port which i mean it's nice to have especially since this
is not a smart tv so if you want to have any smart tv features you're gonna have
to get like a fire tv stick or roku whatever they call theirs yeah so at
least you can power something with it even if you don't want to just load
videos onto a usb thumb drive and plug them into your tv like my parents did
until actually i'm pretty sure they still do that it's got a base amount and you
could probably just double sided tape it to the wall for how much it weighs i'm
kidding don't do that but like holy crap and that's even with a metal backing
like this isn't even a plastic backing like the panel itself must just weigh
nothing and it's not like it has an external power brick or anything either
wait where's the stand
there you go that is not very impressive like i sincerely hope this thing is
decent but this is one of the sort of issues that i take with low-cost
electronics is that because they have a very limited lifespan both in terms of
how long they're gonna just continue to work and in terms of their features and
no real resale value they tend to generate a lot of waste it feels like
compared to higher end stuff it depends on who buys these things if you look at
their page it looks like who they're targeting are the type of the people who
actually are still using a crt
do you guys see what just happened there on the description page it says is your
tv 20 years old and blurry you're lying so i think this is like for grandpa when
he finally makes the switch because his giant crt is like just actually kicked
the bucket after 25 years
team lift team lift hold on hold on anything you can do with one hand
no did you hear that
i think we're okay i don't think anything cracked but yeah
you gotta have something to push against
oh man this is great uh integrated button layout they like
they have this on here as though that's some kind of desirable feature but
instead of can i power it on is it plugged in instead of a joystick configuration it's
this like orbiting configuration
that just kind of feels like nothing to the back of your hand and obviously
you're not gonna like you're not gonna leave this stupid sticker here
so you just have to kind of like guess this isn't even the good p like the good
peeling peel this is just like tape yeah it just feels like a like packing tape
oh like it's just my joy is so robbed
oh bottom one's not too bad
this is like lady in the oh i mean at least it does have an included
remote control oh i wasn't going to show you that until later because i wanted
you to struggle with the buttons on the back people in the house put your hands in
the eggs you don't care then we don't care
we've got picture modes oh it comes in
eco by default that's interesting i wonder if that's
part of their like good power efficiency ratings that they just like dim the
freaking backlight out of the box kind of makes sense because a lot of the reviews on walmart's product page say
how you absolutely must change it to dynamic picture mode
video or graphic uh that could be like an image return
retention thing oh you know what it might be is uh
like like a limited versus full range mode maybe this will become more clear
once we have a signal going through and you can actually see how it changes so
what sound mode are we supposed to choose movie
movie sound and dynamic picture is what everyone says makes it mint i think
all right if mint is like a flavor you detest it's mint
voice guidance voice vitamins
please keep this on speed standard fast
how do you like it
i feel like we're disabling hal get it to sing daisy
it sounds so sad
okay all right all right all right all right i'm done i'm done
oh let me help you with that thank you HDMI
2 r HDMI
2 car one girl
p 60 hd
so this was the uh hold on a second
and yeah the fact that you got signal okay please
don't interrupt me on the fact that we got a signal is
actually pretty nice because there's a lot of people in the reviews saying how they
either connected to the computer and it didn't work or they connected to a dongle and it didn't work or all these
different things so so far i've connected this to an amazon fire stick and a computer and it's
worked so bless up
so graphic is how you get rid of over scan
what so no it doesn't have to do with like uh
limited versus full range black levels it's how you do like just
scan like pixel one-to-one pixel mapping instead of having it over scanned
it's been a while since i've looked at a 1080p display
from this close it ain't great it's not a great experience i remember there was
this guy that i used to go to lan parties with back when i had a life i
mean sort of i went to land parties and i don't even think his was 1080p and he
was like yeah it's great i'm like yo it's like measurably like like with a
like with a measuring tape like not great
display adapter properties are these gonna come up that's weird i've never seen this fail
to come out is that because it
you have no properties is that Windows you're homeless
they don't call it Windows for nothing here have all the Windows Windows 10. at
least they're allowing you to close them in whatever order you want all right so
i guess probably like what we want to watch some content on it like
really we're gonna watch mkbhd instead of our own channel you know what fine he's not
gonna copyright strike us so i guess this was your agenda here you
pulled up mkbhd because you figured well we want something with known good audio
and we can't always trust ourselves so we can properly evaluate the speakers
fine i can take it you clicked on this he sounds like ass
no offense yeah like no offense dude
the imac pro 10 grand for that machine the imac pro starts that somehow it
really does sound like it's coming from like
under the table or something i was watching infinity war yesterday on netflix and it was basically like
everybody was in the bottom of a barrel but like like it somehow doesn't sound like it's
coming from here it somehow sounds like it's coming from lower
let's watch a trailer this is a great hold on this is a great freeze frame of
him that's exactly my thoughts on this tv
come on action i rewatched this recently it was still good i liked it
did you put the on movie mode now let me check let me check
okay it's this no no it's working
just like glitched out you're gonna go to the menu that's what you're doing
this might actually be worse like i can barely like make out the
dialogue even though this is like a trailer and typically the dialogue is
so i did some uh i ran calman and i can i can i do a subjective
evaluation sure did you see those they looked like weird artifacts in my
eyes oh do you see that is that a compression
issue with the playback or is that the tv that is not handling
darks very well you can actually see the same thing in my mouth i actually need
to grab a laptop
no that's not present on the laptop
what do you think of just the colors overall i mean
they're not right but they don't stand out to me as
particularly terrible there's not a lot of depth um there's some oversaturation
going on in the default profile here at the very least it's less noticeable in
this kind of a dark scene but here you can really see that's not a very
natural look for me
oh wow that is really overdone sorry people suggest this mode yes
that doesn't even look like wood why don't you pull up the results here
okay and this isn't dynamic or standard this one's dynamic the standard didn't
fare too much better so to be clear guys
a delta e of less than two is considered
color accurate with less than five being
fine for consumer grade this is anywhere
from an average it's an average of 12.6
and a maximum of 23. so we have dots here that are so far off their boxes
it's hard to tell what box that it went with color space 97 of srgb is that right
yeah that's actually not terrible
should we play some games check out the input lag all right
well if we had any doubt that the scalar in it is a steaming pile of hot garbage
um resalmon it's a pokemon
so we selected a fast-paced game to evaluate the tv's input lag because i
could actually see this making a ton of sense for like
just like a side room like a like a den or something where you just play video
games and it doesn't need to be the most cinematic or kids like a rec room for
the console gaming exactly exactly now that's weird is this like an open over
sharpening artifact or is this because of the low res
like these look at the edges of these strands they look like a cheap stereo 3d
effect or something because of how sharpened they are now i
had another idea you know how i was saying that it was hard for me to tell
if the issue was uh to do with just the low resolution i haven't looked at a
1080p display from this close-up in a long time
so we can figure out if it's sharpness or if it's low res by just adjusting it
and it was definitely
that's right
wow that looks so much better
and the crazy thing too is like yeah text here too
same thing now i can make out the low contrast more easily now oh that was
probably the eye no no it's still kind of there let's see
how it's still there you know what though honestly it's not that hard to tell it's not bad
like there's no game mode but and it's not amazing
but considering this is a 60 hertz display
this is very very usable for sure
so really what it's competing with then is the scepter model that was uh how
much 230 bucks so 50 bucks more and how big 50 inches 50 inches now with scepter
we actually had pretty good luck with those guys when we did the cheapest 4k
monitor on amazon that was a scepter but we got a peach we got a good one and
from the reviews on amazon they're pretty hit or miss there's lots
of lemons so what would you do do you buy this one turn the sharpness
off and enjoy the the dynamic theater
quality sound oh yeah you have to factor in an extra 70 bucks for an entry level
sound bar just so you can hear dialogue if you're watching the evening news so
at that point i think i would just spend the money get a little higher or if if
you want to cheap out just get something used so we want to hear from you guys in
the comments below they both had kind of bad speakers and kind of bad color this
one had worse color but do you take the scepter
4k but smaller display that we featured last time or do you take the on
1080p 43 inch one or do you just go used
or do you step up a little bit in the product stack do you want us to take a
look at that scepter 50 inch in the future let us know we will be reading them
because i think we are far from done with cheap displays
can it run at uh 120 hertz like can you overclock it did we try
no i didn't try
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the stuff we featured at the link in the video description james and i are sort
of not really in agreement
about whether you should or shouldn't or whether this has any application whatsoever but i think what we all agree
on is that we should probably have a styrene fight to the death
grenade
no i know
the joke's on him though because i knew that i wasn't going to be cleaning this