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Just about everything is more expensive

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these days, except TVs. What's the deal

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with that? Modern TVs are bigger, look

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better, and are more capable than ever

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before, just like me. Inside everyone is

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a full-blown computer complete with its

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own app store. They even have games and

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stuff. So, how are they cheaper than

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ever? Well, let me tell you. Because TV

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companies don't sell TVs anymore. What

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do I mean by that? Story time. Before

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being acquired by Walmart for $2.3

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billion in late 2024, TV manufacturer

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Vizio posted some very interesting

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quarterly results. See, Vizio lost money

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selling TVs. And yet, they were able to

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make $19 million in profits. How? Well,

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it was all thanks to their platform plus

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advertising platform. And if you need

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any more evidence that televisions are

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now advisions, look at this. Vizio makes

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not one mention here of electronics

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manufacturing. Then to really drive the

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point home, Walmart's press release

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announcing the deal boasts about how

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this new acquisition will enhance our

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advertising capabilities.

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And it's not just Vizio. TCL, Samsung,

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LG, name a major TV brand and they have

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found that the real way to make money is

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to take your data and serve you targeted

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advertisements via their smart operating

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systems. Though I think we can all agree

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that the word smart doesn't really

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describe the current state of Tyizen OS.

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And that's why in spite of all the

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recent enhancements, consumers now find

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themselves yearning for the days when

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turning on their TV just brought them

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directly to the content instead of to an

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adinfested home screen.

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Seriously, it's the whole thing. This is

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also Disney Plus. So is this.

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It's 80% ads. So, what options are there

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for folks who just want to display? As

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it turns out, not many outside of

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commercial displays that, as you'd

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expect, cost a lot more. But there is

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one. After some digging, we found that

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there is still a company proudly making

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untainted, pure displayonly TVs. Adam,

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bring it in.

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It's Scepter, the budget monitor, guys.

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But this ain't no monitor, guys. It's a

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75 in TV that they promise delivers

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resolution at its finest. And we're

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Right out of the gate, this is exceeding

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my expectations. I did not think that

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some random Scepter TV would have HDR

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support.

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>> Did you notice that it also has 4K

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support? Is true 4K resolution, true 4K

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input, ultra HD upscaling.

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It's also a 4K UHD series.

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>> Okay, so it doesn't have a lot going for

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it,

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>> but that's exactly what's going for it.

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>> Exactly. I wouldn't mind if it gave me a

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little more detail. We talk in HDR10,

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Dolby Vision, but hey, audio return

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channel. But wait, there's more. It also

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says here that it supports 4K three.

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>> All right. All right. We get the bit.

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>> Um, we get three HDMI ports. We get a

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USB port, HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2, and a

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one-year limited warranty.

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>> Wait, Adam, we haven't showed the people

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the best part. Turn it around. It won an

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award.

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The cinema award.

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>> The scepter cinema.

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>> Absolute scepter cinema. In all

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seriousness though, how much did we pay

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for this thing?

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>> About $800, which for 75 in is a pretty

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good price.

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>> Yeah. Memes aside, I'm genuinely excited

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to see it. Good packaging all things

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considered.

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>> They probably can't uh can't afford the

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RMAs. Still, that's one of the first

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things you see companies cheap out on.

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But they've got an extremely rigid

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screen protector on here,

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>> as well as like some nice soft styrofoam

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for the screen as well. Though some hard

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foam for structural integrity.

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>> Yeah, this is not great, but probably

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adequate. That is that is one of the

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remotes.

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>> That's a old school remote.

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>> I like this picture of the batteries.

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Yeah, this is the most Teimu brand

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remote I've ever seen

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>> along with the most Teu screwdriver.

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>> Can I interest you in a bagged TV?

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>> Oh,

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you know, I would love that.

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>> Okay.

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>> I don't know if I trust it, though.

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>> Two persons required to prevent injury.

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Lift this display with both hands.

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>> I don't know if I've ever seen a bag

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with lift handles for a TV before.

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>> Me neither.

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>> Let's see if it's actually good.

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Oh,

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>> it's stretching a little.

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>> Yeah,

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>> it feels a little scary,

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>> but it it did the trick.

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>> It's a heavy TV.

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>> Where's the stand?

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>> Um Um I

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>> It must be in the top foam in there.

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>> Okay,

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that's the stand.

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>> Oh, those are dinky. The whole lift bag

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concept might have been more useful if

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it actually lifted it somewhere where we

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could put the feet on it. It's just

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>> Yeah,

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>> that's fine. I got an idea.

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>> It's nice because unlike all of the

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stupid skinny OLEDs, there's structural

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integrity to this panel.

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>> That's one way of saying that it's

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really thick.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Really? You're going to use that when we

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have so much better screwdrivers on

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ltdstore.com?

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>> I want the true scepter experience.

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Okay. Oh, this does suck though. Do we

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have a screw? Do you have your

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screwdriver?

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>> Yeah, I do. Do you have

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>> I can hold it. Yeah.

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>> Okay, give me a sec. Hopefully the TV is

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better than the screwdriver.

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>> On the subject of things that are

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better, we've got a great look at the IO

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while we're up here. And this kind of

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rocks. You got your three HDMIs, all

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that do 4K 60 Hz, one with ARC, you got

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your coax, USB, and then unlike many

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modern TVs, we've actually got component

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in composite as well as optical audio

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and a headphone jack. pretty much

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everything you need. What it's got, you

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got the headphone jack. You know, my my

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grandpa uses it for his uh assisted

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audio headphones.

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>> And note the absence of an Ethernet

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port,

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>> but again, that's a feature, not a bug.

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>> What are you doing?

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>> Well, everything else about this thing

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has been pretty good so far, but I

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noticed that the power cord appears to

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be hardwired, and so I was seeing if

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maybe behind this little cover there's a

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better situation. There is not. What's

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nice is this is giving me a look at the

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internals. Um, if you had any hopes that

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it was so thick because it had full

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array local dimming, for instance, you

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can put those to rest.

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>> You know what? I wasn't worried. It's

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all Phillips.

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>> Uh, I mean, yeah, that's unrelated, but

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good.

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>> No, but there's like it seems like you

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could like just take apart this TV

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yourself if you want

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>> and put full Local Ding on it yourself.

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>> Oh, dude.

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>> No,

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>> no, you don't want to upgrade the

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upgrade the Scepter TV.

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>> Okay. All right.

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>> World's Listen, write in the comments if

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you want to see the world's best dumb TV

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mod. We got the energy guide on here,

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but also it's for the N75.

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>> Oh, but I thought that this was the U75.

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>> Here we go. 1 2 3.

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>> Oh, you wanted the other way. You You

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>> Oh, I thought I said this. I'm sorry.

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>> Oh, okay. We're

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here. We made it. We made it.

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>> Okay.

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>> When you've been working together as

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long as me and Adam, you still have no

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idea what each other are talking about,

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but it's funny.

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>> Oh, wow. There's so many peels.

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I'm failing.

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>> Hey, peel number one.

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>> Wow.

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It's big and reflective. Wow. It's very

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reflective, but quite flat.

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Yeah, you get some you get some like

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some wiggles there.

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>> Yeah, a little bit at the top.

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>> Me and every every time I kill you. Huge

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moment.

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Sorry, I just looked at the remote just

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now. How could they? How could they?

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>> What?

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>> F Adele. We love Adele. She is a

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generational talent. Why would they put

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that on the remote? Says F Adele. That

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>> no love Adele.

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>> Did you have to wear a white shirt

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today?

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>> I can see you. So,

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>> whatever, beige boy. Okay.

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>> Hey, at least we both have matching

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tubes from ltstore.com. We did not

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coordinate this today.

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>> It just happened.

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>> I got so confused for a second. Yeah,

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>> cuz I was like, "Oh, hold on. How do I

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get to select the right input so I'm on

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my shield instead of

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>> It just went.

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>> Actually, it was crazy. Turn it off

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again.

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>> Content.

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>> That was so quick.

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>> That is the fastest I've gone from I'd

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like to watch content to watching

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content in years."

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>> Yeah. It's like you don't really realize

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it. You you've gotten so used to like

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the delay of waiting for your TV to

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boot.

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>> Okay. So, what is in the menu?

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>> Okay. Picture

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>> picture settings.

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>> Okay. That's pretty basic. What is mild

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picture mode?

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>> I don't know.

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>> What I like about it though is you can

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see what it's changing.

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>> Yeah, this is actually a great

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interface.

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>> It's like what what does game mean? It

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means we crank the brightness and the

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sharpness a little bit and we crank the

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backlight and the contrast is up

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compared to user.

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>> And it's crazy because the smart TVs

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could have setting menus like this. Like

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there's no reason that they don't have

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settings like this,

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>> but they choose not to. They choose to

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have you configure everything and then

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you change inputs and you have to

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configure it all again. And so when we

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when we're not looking at our content,

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we just get nothing.

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>> You get a high piercing blue.

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>> CEC control on. Let's go. This is

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probably the simplest CEC interface that

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I have ever seen. And I'm comparing to

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devices that in some cases cost 10 times

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as much. I blew a bunch of money on that

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stupid AV receiver for my home theater

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and it has caused me nothing but grief

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with CEC. Uh, that

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was it. Now I never need to touch the

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Teu remote again because theoretically

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hit the power on the shield.

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Ooh. Oh, wait. No,

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>> maybe you do need to use the

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>> turn the shield back on because the

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Shield has its own CC settings.

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>> There we go.

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>> There we go.

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>> Got to reboot.

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>> Okay, so that was the problem. Coming

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back to our CC issue. We didn't have it

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enabled on the Shield, which to me means

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that from now on, we really shouldn't

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need this again. Now that I think about

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it, usually I avoid doing any sleep

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features on a TV because of how annoying

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the power on cycle is and how long it

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takes and how confused it gets. This

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thing is actually just going to work.

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Well, maybe. Okay, I've got it

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configured now. Big moment. Power's off.

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And

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we power on the Shield. TV's on already.

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You can see it.

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>> Oh my gosh, that's awesome.

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>> And look, you might not like the NVIDIA

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Shield. There's, you know, other TV

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boxes.

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>> Yeah. Plug it into your computer.

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>> But that's the beauty of this is that

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you can use whatever thing you want on

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it.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And it doesn't get in your way. I never

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need to look at this ever again. This is

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the one remote I need. So convenient.

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Kind of wish I hadn't thrown it at the

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floor. Like the batteries all came out

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and everything.

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>> It's like underneath the shelf now.

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>> Okay, but we really need to fire up some

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content and see if this thing is even

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worth having. Also, I wanted to know if

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HDR was working because realistically,

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this is not a full array local dimming

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backlight. So, it's going to be kind of

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hard to tell. It's as simple as pressing

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the info button.

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>> Oh my gosh. H

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>> How does every TV not have that

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>> right there? Just tell me what mode

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you're operating in

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>> right there. 24 hertz.

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>> That's amazing. That's exactly what it's

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supposed to be for this content right

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now.

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>> Oh yeah. Volume up. Oh, you want to hear

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it?

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>> Well, yeah. Yo, the volume is the

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Scepter logo. That's

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>> That's pretty cute.

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>> The speakers are bad.

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>> Hold on. Hold on. You don't know that

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yet. We haven't heard Crab Rave yet.

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>> No, that didn't happen. That didn't

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happen.

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>> Okay, here we go.

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>> 48 million views. 8 million of them are

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ours.

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There's supposed to be uh

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>> Okay. The speakers are bad. In their

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defense, that's true of most TVs.

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>> Yeah. And in their defense, the TVs that

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that's not true of are so expensive that

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you should probably be getting offboard

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speakers anyway.

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>> Yep.

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>> But image quality. Let's fire up some

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content. And a perfect piece of content

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to evaluate it would obviously be the

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most perfect piece of content of all

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time. The Aussie Mandas episode of

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Breaking Bad.

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>> M.

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It is very dim. It is not a bright

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display by any means.

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>> No. No, it's not. However, in fairness,

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we have a big light over top of it.

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>> Yep.

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>> And it's also not bad. I mean, this is a

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dim scene. Let's go to a not dim scene.

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Does that look like a mat painted behind

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them? It's still definitely doing a bit

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of weird sharpening

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>> that is kind of mucking with the film

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grain. Oh yeah. I think if we just

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completely lose any sharpening that this

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TV is attempting to do, we end up with a

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way more natural image.

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>> Those clouds are incredibly blue.

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There's a pretty solid blue tint to the

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display in general. There's like loss of

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details on the colors of like Skyler's

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shirt here.

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>> Yeah,

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>> but like it gets the job done.

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>> I think there's a little bit too much

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magenta in Hal's skin tone there out in

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the desert. But these are the kinds of

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things that only display dorks, people

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who review technology for a living are

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likely to notice or especially care

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about.

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>> Speaking of people who review technology

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for a living, Labs tested this display.

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>> Oh, did they?

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>> Yes.

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>> How'd that go?

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>> Not great. When it comes to the Labs

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results, it's pretty not good. The TV

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not super bright. Peak brightness around

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361 nits. In SDR, delta E is not so bad.

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In HDR, they are literally off the

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chart. You cannot see how bad the bars

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go on every single color. It is not even

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close. In terms of coverage, it also

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doesn't do very good, but it does what

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is promised on the manufacturer website.

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So, they didn't lie.

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>> Cool.

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>> That's pretty much all it's

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>> do any motion performance?

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>> Motion performance. Let me see.

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>> And it's awful. And that's input lag.

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And that's even ignoring the fact that

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the pixel transition response time is

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also horrible, which normally I can't

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tell in just regular content. It's the

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kind of thing that normally I'd need to

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play games to notice, but I don't even

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need them.

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>> Yeah, you can see it a lot when you're

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using interfaces. Also, the other thing

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is that even at $800, there's not a lot

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of TVs that are 75 in at that price,

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unless you're buying like stuff that's

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like deeply discounted. It's kind of a

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no man's land. And I was blown away that

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they even made a 75 in TV. But it's

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nice. You get to avoid all of the ad

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tracking. You get to avoid stuff like

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automatic content recognition where they

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take a scan of what's on your screen and

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compare it to a database. All that weird

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stuff.

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>> It's literally not sophisticated enough

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to do that.

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>> And it'll it won't slow down, right?

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Like think about how sluggish older

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smart TVs are now because they care so

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little about the uh user experience for

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an operating system cuz they kind of

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want you to upgrade. It's worth noting

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that this model specifically is kind of

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on its way out, but they have a new

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75-in model that is coming in.

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>> We'll have that link down below.

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>> Yeah.

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>> So, in conclusion, it's a pretty bad TV,

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but they're also not charging a lot of

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money for it. And it comes with benefits

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that I think could be well worth the

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trade-offs for people who value privacy

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and simplicity. Like, watch this. I

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don't want to watch this TV anymore. I

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press one button, it's off. And watch

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