WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:08.240 pc gaming from the couch in many ways it's the holy grail but it takes a few 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:11.759 special ingredients to make it work bringing your computer into the living 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:16.400 room well that's easy enough and these days there are plenty of powerful small 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:21.119 form factor machines that look perfectly at home in your entertainment unit 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:26.160 then there's the wireless controls well fortunately cordless peripherals have 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:32.079 made huge performance and battery gains in recent years and now they fit nicely 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:32.960 inside these cushioned lap boards 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:40.559 sorry couchwood and then finally there's the tv which is 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.280 probably 4k and definitely bigger than your gaming monitor 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:49.200 but usually only 60 hertz and bound to 00:00:46.559 --> 00:00:54.879 suffer from dog slow input leg 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:57.120 so yeah the tv is basically always the 00:00:54.879 --> 00:01:01.359 weakest link when it comes to living room pc gaming setups 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:09.280 or is it this right here is the hp omen x 00:01:04.960 --> 00:01:11.920 imperium 65 the first production bfgd or 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:18.320 big format gaming display to reach our studio but could it possibly be worth 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.330 the diaper filling price of 5 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.379 000 dollars 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:32.960 the lienly 011d has just been given a 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:37.360 facelift by razer now compatible with razer chroma devices it also comes with 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:42.000 customizable underglow powered by razer synapse 3. click the link below to get a 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:48.159 chance to win one for yourself if you found yourself salivating over our 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:50.640 review of the 4k 144 hertz ASUS pg27uq 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:56.399 gaming monitor last summer then the tl dr is this 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:58.399 this puppy here is just about as balling 00:01:56.399 --> 00:02:01.200 as that two thousand dollar panty butter was but 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:07.200 at over four times the surface area 00:02:04.399 --> 00:02:11.680 it's pretty much the tv we have always wanted like i am already trying to 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:16.959 figure out how to get this video done as quickly as i possibly can so that i can 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:22.400 just take it home and play games on it by myself in a dark room for all time 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:28.800 why you might ask well because the imperium 65 like all bfgds right now is 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:34.080 guaranteed to have a laundry list of vital stats including 4k resolution 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:42.480 g-sync ultimate which means not only g-sync but also HDR a 120 hertz native 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:44.720 refresh rate ultra low input leg and 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:47.519 as a total bonus a built-in NVIDIA shield tv 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:52.800 i mean i already have one of those but like hey 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:57.440 values value and those things are worth like 180 bucks on their own 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:03.920 so then let's go through each of these points in finer detail starting with 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:07.840 appropriately resolution it's 3840 by 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:09.680 2160 uhd so you can get inside of two 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:14.879 feet from this thing before you start seeing the individual pixels now it's 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:20.560 thick by modern tv standards but that's for good reason it uses a direct rather 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:25.440 than edge led backlight with full array local dimming across 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:30.200 384 zones which means they're just under five square inches each and they managed 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:37.120 to sustain brightness on this thing of 750 nits with peak brightness of 1 000 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:41.840 nits earning this puppy the display HDR 1000 certification 00:03:39.519 --> 00:03:48.640 along with that of course comes great colors so it's an 8-bit plus frc panel 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:52.000 but in our tests it achieved over 94 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:54.799 of the dci p3 color space and it's got 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:59.599 professional grade color accuracy right out of the box 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:02.720 also while they are by no means 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:05.280 OLED level the blacks are pretty deep 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:09.840 because it uses a va panel so if you have black bars on your content it's not 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:14.879 nearly as distracting as it might be on an ips type display 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:21.280 with that said for strictly movie watching the imperium 65 was never going 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:23.840 to be a great value so let's talk gaming 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:29.680 now this is far from the only tv with a 120 hertz refresh rate but 00:04:26.479 --> 00:04:33.280 the difference is that it's real like 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:34.680 the actual screen refreshes at full 4k 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:41.280 resolution 120 times per second no dropping down to 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:44.880 1080p no frame interpolation bs and it 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:47.120 can actually even be overclocked to 144 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:50.720 hertz by exposing the option through the on-screen display 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:54.960 we were able to get a stable overclock with no problems and the experience is 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.960 just buttery smooth it's got all the modern 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:05.759 g-sync features like support for windowed mode and fast sync vsync and no 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:07.120 sync options for if you somehow get FPS 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:11.520 higher than the display's maximum refresh rate which would take some 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:14.720 serious hardware at 4k res at this point in time 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:19.280 one of the biggest drags about gaming on a conventional tv though is something 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:22.720 that you won't find on the spec sheet input lag 00:05:20.479 --> 00:05:25.280 that little delay between moving the mouse and seeing the action on the 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:30.639 screen now there are plenty of tvs out there 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.440 with input lag around the 50 60 or even 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:37.120 70 millisecond mark which is pretty bad since 30 milliseconds is what would be 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:43.360 considered noticeable as for this unit 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:48.880 honestly it feels like a gaming monitor now we measured lag times of about 30 to 00:05:45.919 --> 00:05:54.960 35 milliseconds but keep in mind that our manner of measuring now measures the 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:57.840 delay of the entire chain from mouse to 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:03.680 pc to game engine to display electronics to pixel response times so the display 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:06.960 leg is lower than our measurements show now we do have some tools on the way 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:10.880 that should help us get more accurate results and i plan on doing a follow-up 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:15.199 video where i actually bring one of these puppies home and 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:18.720 decide for good what's going to live in my living room but for now let me just 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:24.319 say it this way this tv feels responsive 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:28.479 af but everything we've said so far is going to be the same for all of the 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:32.560 NVIDIA bfgds that are coming out what makes hp's offering different 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:36.960 to be frank not a lot it's mostly just down to the 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:41.840 physical design which in my opinion is kind of a mixed bag one of my favorite 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:46.400 things about this display is the little light bar that they put by the i o isn't 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:49.680 that awesome you just wave your hands and it lights up 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:53.360 this might seem trivial but it can be really hard to plug in a cable 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:58.479 especially with your tv mounted tightly against the wall and like trying to hold 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:02.639 your phone as a flashlight in your mouth rarely improves the situation speaking 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:06.560 of wall mounting this set is also interesting because it comes with a 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:10.800 sound bar and offers two different ways of standing it up 00:07:07.919 --> 00:07:15.520 the first way is to attach these beefy matte black legs to the tv and then 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:20.080 according to the frustratingly brief instructions just kind of 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.680 slide the sound bar underneath i guess 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:27.919 now it's kind of inconsequential but this method felt kind of weird because 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:32.240 we weren't actually attaching the sound bar to the tv even though they come 00:07:29.919 --> 00:07:36.720 together in the box so then if you want to do that then you use 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:41.520 method number two where you don't use the legs and instead you mount these 00:07:39.039 --> 00:07:46.720 brackets to the soundbar first and then everything to the bottom of the display 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:50.319 which by the way takes forever because you can't just lay the display down on 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:54.560 the table like the instructions say because the bloody sound bar is thicker 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:57.919 than the display meaning that you will cross thread the screws which you can 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:01.440 barely turn because the allen key doesn't anyway look it doesn't matter we 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:05.199 got it done but if all that sounded like it's not 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:09.520 worth the hassle then mission accomplished i guess because 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:13.520 don't set it up this way unless you're going to wall mount it because it's 00:08:11.520 --> 00:08:19.280 tippy to the point of being very dangerous like this thing is puppy 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:23.599 crushingly heavy on the subject of wall mounting though 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:28.800 that works great and i was very pleased to see a standard face amount with no 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:34.159 curvature and no nonsense but don't expect to get that sexy 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:39.360 flush mount look because this tv as i alluded to before is really thick and 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:43.360 then again the sound bar makes it jut out even more than it absolutely has to 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:48.399 yeah you know what the the sound bar overall it's just kind 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:53.680 of a contentious issue for me so on the one hand it is nice that a 5 000 tv 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:57.279 comes with speakers that are at least halfway decent though to be clear not 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:04.480 amazing but on the other hand i mean isn't it fair to assume that most people 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:09.839 who are in the market for a 5 000 display 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:12.720 also have money for decent speakers 00:09:09.839 --> 00:09:18.800 so i guess that's a tidy transition into the imperium 65's weak points and the 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:21.920 first one is a real doozy screen 00:09:18.800 --> 00:09:23.760 uniformity the edges and particularly 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:30.160 the corners have this sepia toned gramosatic almost 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:35.360 dirty look to them when you're looking at white or a bright background now in 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:39.200 fairness i wouldn't notice it in a game where i'm typically pretty focused on 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:42.800 the crosshair right in front of me but once you see it it's hard to unsee it if 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:48.640 you're doing something like web browsing or really anything that's light colored 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:53.680 also there's some pretty noticeable vertical banding going on and these 00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:56.959 things contributed to while using it just this feeling of 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:02.320 having bought an oversized gaming monitor versus a 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:06.000 premium television and it gets worse 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:10.720 one of the biggest improvements to tvs in the last few years has been their 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:16.640 nearly perfect off-axis viewing experience at least to a degree 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.399 pun intended and the bfgd falls well 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:23.040 short of what i would consider to be acceptable for a large living room 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:26.399 viewing experience where someone like even on a couch like the one i'm sitting 00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:30.480 here on right now someone is gonna end up either off on 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:34.240 the side or on a beanbag chair over there and they are not gonna have as 00:10:32.800 --> 00:10:40.560 good an experience both color and contrast are affected but 00:10:37.839 --> 00:10:45.279 it's the banding and the halos around bright objects because of the local 00:10:42.560 --> 00:10:48.560 dimming that are truly distracting now 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.160 they get better if you turn the local dimming off 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:57.920 but like that's not what i want to do when i'm gaming or watching a movie in 00:10:54.240 --> 00:11:00.320 HDR on my 5 000 display 00:10:57.920 --> 00:11:05.680 and finally keep in mind that like anything using displayport 1.4 running 00:11:02.880 --> 00:11:10.959 4k at 144 hertz comes with the trade-off of chroma 422 sub sampling rather than 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:15.519 444 which we discussed in more detail in our pg27uq review 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.560 also the screen takes a good 10 to 12 seconds to turn on 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:32.399 woof and when it comes to HDR support the 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:38.160 imperium does not support dolby vision instead only offering HDR 10 which 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:45.440 hp somehow thinks can be appropriately described as 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:47.839 one of the most ambitious HDR standards 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:53.519 yeah okay in conclusion then 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:55.200 this display is kick-ass and i really 00:11:53.519 --> 00:12:00.240 really want to play i want to play with it and then and then clean it and tuck 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:06.560 it in at night and the thing is that i already have it it's 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:11.680 here and hp sent it to me to review so then yeah if you're a billionaire you 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:16.320 should go get one right now for your dedicated gaming salon 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:21.120 but i just have a harder time recommending this to anyone for whom 00:12:18.560 --> 00:12:24.959 five thousand dollars is a stretch and here are the reasons 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:30.720 number one while i've been referring to it as a tv it isn't strictly speaking 00:12:28.079 --> 00:12:35.839 a tv it's actually missing some tv features like for example a tv tuner 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:40.880 i don't personally consider that a big deal because i don't remember when the 00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:46.000 last time anyone used their tvs onboard tuner was but it's an important enough a 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:50.000 distinction that hp sent us an irate email because we kept calling it a tv 00:12:47.839 --> 00:12:53.279 and they were like no it's a display so fine i'm mentioning it there you go 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:58.560 two it's really tough to push aaa games past 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:03.600 about 70 FPS at 4k and the thing is if you're not going to 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:05.120 game at either 4k or 120 hertz or more 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:11.920 specifically both of them then you might as well save yourself 00:13:06.800 --> 00:13:14.320 some cash with a freesync 120hz 1080p tv 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:17.040 then perhaps most importantly three 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:22.800 within the next year we're going to see a lot of the gaming features that make 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:26.560 the imperium so great start to appear in 00:13:22.800 --> 00:13:30.320 mainstream tvs sets with HDMI 2.1 are 00:13:26.560 --> 00:13:33.519 due out this year that means 4k 120 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:35.760 hertz and again with freesync support so 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:40.320 then as long as they have low input lag and a fair number of tvs out there do 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.839 now they'll probably offer up a very similar gaming experience compared to 00:13:42.560 --> 00:13:49.120 the bfgd but they could be as much as a few 00:13:45.920 --> 00:13:52.560 thousand dollars cheaper 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:53.680 so this was an amazing product concept 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:58.240 that addressed a huge gap in the market when 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:02.880 NVIDIA unveiled it at ces 2018. 00:14:00.639 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