pc gaming from the couch in many ways it's the holy grail but it takes a few
special ingredients to make it work bringing your computer into the living
room well that's easy enough and these days there are plenty of powerful small
form factor machines that look perfectly at home in your entertainment unit
then there's the wireless controls well fortunately cordless peripherals have
made huge performance and battery gains in recent years and now they fit nicely
inside these cushioned lap boards
sorry couchwood and then finally there's the tv which is
probably 4k and definitely bigger than your gaming monitor
but usually only 60 hertz and bound to
suffer from dog slow input leg
so yeah the tv is basically always the
weakest link when it comes to living room pc gaming setups
or is it this right here is the hp omen x
imperium 65 the first production bfgd or
big format gaming display to reach our studio but could it possibly be worth
the diaper filling price of 5
000 dollars
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this puppy here is just about as balling
as that two thousand dollar panty butter was but
at over four times the surface area
it's pretty much the tv we have always wanted like i am already trying to
figure out how to get this video done as quickly as i possibly can so that i can
just take it home and play games on it by myself in a dark room for all time
why you might ask well because the imperium 65 like all bfgds right now is
guaranteed to have a laundry list of vital stats including 4k resolution
g-sync ultimate which means not only g-sync but also HDR a 120 hertz native
refresh rate ultra low input leg and
as a total bonus a built-in NVIDIA shield tv
i mean i already have one of those but like hey
values value and those things are worth like 180 bucks on their own
so then let's go through each of these points in finer detail starting with
appropriately resolution it's 3840 by
2160 uhd so you can get inside of two
feet from this thing before you start seeing the individual pixels now it's
thick by modern tv standards but that's for good reason it uses a direct rather
than edge led backlight with full array local dimming across
384 zones which means they're just under five square inches each and they managed
to sustain brightness on this thing of 750 nits with peak brightness of 1 000
nits earning this puppy the display HDR 1000 certification
along with that of course comes great colors so it's an 8-bit plus frc panel
but in our tests it achieved over 94
of the dci p3 color space and it's got
professional grade color accuracy right out of the box
also while they are by no means
OLED level the blacks are pretty deep
because it uses a va panel so if you have black bars on your content it's not
nearly as distracting as it might be on an ips type display
with that said for strictly movie watching the imperium 65 was never going
to be a great value so let's talk gaming
now this is far from the only tv with a 120 hertz refresh rate but
the difference is that it's real like
the actual screen refreshes at full 4k
resolution 120 times per second no dropping down to
1080p no frame interpolation bs and it
can actually even be overclocked to 144
hertz by exposing the option through the on-screen display
we were able to get a stable overclock with no problems and the experience is
just buttery smooth it's got all the modern
g-sync features like support for windowed mode and fast sync vsync and no
sync options for if you somehow get FPS
higher than the display's maximum refresh rate which would take some
serious hardware at 4k res at this point in time
one of the biggest drags about gaming on a conventional tv though is something
that you won't find on the spec sheet input lag
that little delay between moving the mouse and seeing the action on the
screen now there are plenty of tvs out there
with input lag around the 50 60 or even
70 millisecond mark which is pretty bad since 30 milliseconds is what would be
considered noticeable as for this unit
honestly it feels like a gaming monitor now we measured lag times of about 30 to
35 milliseconds but keep in mind that our manner of measuring now measures the
delay of the entire chain from mouse to
pc to game engine to display electronics to pixel response times so the display
leg is lower than our measurements show now we do have some tools on the way
that should help us get more accurate results and i plan on doing a follow-up
video where i actually bring one of these puppies home and
decide for good what's going to live in my living room but for now let me just
say it this way this tv feels responsive
af but everything we've said so far is going to be the same for all of the
NVIDIA bfgds that are coming out what makes hp's offering different
to be frank not a lot it's mostly just down to the
physical design which in my opinion is kind of a mixed bag one of my favorite
things about this display is the little light bar that they put by the i o isn't
that awesome you just wave your hands and it lights up
this might seem trivial but it can be really hard to plug in a cable
especially with your tv mounted tightly against the wall and like trying to hold
your phone as a flashlight in your mouth rarely improves the situation speaking
of wall mounting this set is also interesting because it comes with a
sound bar and offers two different ways of standing it up
the first way is to attach these beefy matte black legs to the tv and then
according to the frustratingly brief instructions just kind of
slide the sound bar underneath i guess
now it's kind of inconsequential but this method felt kind of weird because
we weren't actually attaching the sound bar to the tv even though they come
together in the box so then if you want to do that then you use
method number two where you don't use the legs and instead you mount these
brackets to the soundbar first and then everything to the bottom of the display
which by the way takes forever because you can't just lay the display down on
the table like the instructions say because the bloody sound bar is thicker
than the display meaning that you will cross thread the screws which you can
barely turn because the allen key doesn't anyway look it doesn't matter we
got it done but if all that sounded like it's not
worth the hassle then mission accomplished i guess because
don't set it up this way unless you're going to wall mount it because it's
tippy to the point of being very dangerous like this thing is puppy
crushingly heavy on the subject of wall mounting though
that works great and i was very pleased to see a standard face amount with no
curvature and no nonsense but don't expect to get that sexy
flush mount look because this tv as i alluded to before is really thick and
then again the sound bar makes it jut out even more than it absolutely has to
yeah you know what the the sound bar overall it's just kind
of a contentious issue for me so on the one hand it is nice that a 5 000 tv
comes with speakers that are at least halfway decent though to be clear not
amazing but on the other hand i mean isn't it fair to assume that most people
who are in the market for a 5 000 display
also have money for decent speakers
so i guess that's a tidy transition into the imperium 65's weak points and the
first one is a real doozy screen
uniformity the edges and particularly
the corners have this sepia toned gramosatic almost
dirty look to them when you're looking at white or a bright background now in
fairness i wouldn't notice it in a game where i'm typically pretty focused on
the crosshair right in front of me but once you see it it's hard to unsee it if
you're doing something like web browsing or really anything that's light colored
also there's some pretty noticeable vertical banding going on and these
things contributed to while using it just this feeling of
having bought an oversized gaming monitor versus a
premium television and it gets worse
one of the biggest improvements to tvs in the last few years has been their
nearly perfect off-axis viewing experience at least to a degree
pun intended and the bfgd falls well
short of what i would consider to be acceptable for a large living room
viewing experience where someone like even on a couch like the one i'm sitting
here on right now someone is gonna end up either off on
the side or on a beanbag chair over there and they are not gonna have as
good an experience both color and contrast are affected but
it's the banding and the halos around bright objects because of the local
dimming that are truly distracting now
they get better if you turn the local dimming off
but like that's not what i want to do when i'm gaming or watching a movie in
HDR on my 5 000 display
and finally keep in mind that like anything using displayport 1.4 running
4k at 144 hertz comes with the trade-off of chroma 422 sub sampling rather than
444 which we discussed in more detail in our pg27uq review
also the screen takes a good 10 to 12 seconds to turn on
woof and when it comes to HDR support the
imperium does not support dolby vision instead only offering HDR 10 which
hp somehow thinks can be appropriately described as
one of the most ambitious HDR standards
yeah okay in conclusion then
this display is kick-ass and i really
really want to play i want to play with it and then and then clean it and tuck
it in at night and the thing is that i already have it it's
here and hp sent it to me to review so then yeah if you're a billionaire you
should go get one right now for your dedicated gaming salon
but i just have a harder time recommending this to anyone for whom
five thousand dollars is a stretch and here are the reasons
number one while i've been referring to it as a tv it isn't strictly speaking
a tv it's actually missing some tv features like for example a tv tuner
i don't personally consider that a big deal because i don't remember when the
last time anyone used their tvs onboard tuner was but it's an important enough a
distinction that hp sent us an irate email because we kept calling it a tv
and they were like no it's a display so fine i'm mentioning it there you go
two it's really tough to push aaa games past
about 70 FPS at 4k and the thing is if you're not going to
game at either 4k or 120 hertz or more
specifically both of them then you might as well save yourself
some cash with a freesync 120hz 1080p tv
then perhaps most importantly three
within the next year we're going to see a lot of the gaming features that make
the imperium so great start to appear in
mainstream tvs sets with HDMI 2.1 are
due out this year that means 4k 120
hertz and again with freesync support so
then as long as they have low input lag and a fair number of tvs out there do
now they'll probably offer up a very similar gaming experience compared to
the bfgd but they could be as much as a few
thousand dollars cheaper
so this was an amazing product concept
that addressed a huge gap in the market when
NVIDIA unveiled it at ces 2018.
now it is a bit of a tougher sell
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