okay guys so we're here in the new store there's actually construction going on
in the background so I apologize if you can't hear me that well but we've got
another Samsung TV to unbox here this is their Smart TV 8000 Class LED back lit
LCD TV this is a 60in TV this is going
to be the centerpiece of this new
Samsung showcase store so it's actually going to go right there as you walk in
the door it'll be the first thing you see and that is for a very good reason
it's got all of the most advanced features that Samsung offers including
their 960 clear motion rate which is
sort of a combination between the refresh rate of the panel which is still
120 HZ and then the way that they process the image and modulate the
backlight in order to achieve what Samsung is saying is a perceived
960 imagees per second motion rate it's
a smart TV with full support for
3D oops oh this is a much bigger piece of star bone than I thought it was uh
with full support for 3D as well as all of their Smart TV features including
AllShare which allows you to easily share content in media from mobile
devices such as your tablet or your smartphone uh as long as they are part
of the Samsung ecosystem here we've got the mount adapter which we're going to
have a look closer look at in a minute when we actually mount the
TV in terms of the other specs it's got an ultra clear panel it's got Mega
contrast ratio micro dimming which actually someone bought one of these TVs
in our Vancouver store the other day and it was because he was looking for the
micro dimming feature which Samsung says without halo effect allows you to
achieve deeper blacks and brighter
whites and see the details without I mean I've
seen I've seen TVs with localized dimming in fact my TV has localized
dimming but honestly it's not that great because it takes a very substantial
chunk of the panel and brightens it or dims it um which because I'm using mine
as an as an htpc is very disruptive to my entertainment experience because as
soon as I go to my desktop which is black the whole TV goes and then as soon
as I open up content it's like it gets way brighter so it's kind of frustrating
that way but their micro dimming feature says that they can do that in much
smaller areas which means it'll be less disruptive here here the base which you
can see is an almost seamless piece of
metal so there's a little plastic piece here that forms the bottom and then the
top is one piece on this side which has a little seam here and then one piece on
the other side which has a little sort of seam right there so we're going to go
ahead and put this I don't know which way the TV goes on here but I'm going to
assume the rounded part is in the back I'm going to put this down here and then
let's see if I can actually even reach the accessories here so in terms of
accessory we've got the documentation which includes all your warranty and all
that info on the one side and then on
the okay we're going to have to pull out the TV first to find the accessories so
give me a minute here I got to get cameraman to help me with this I don't want to lay the panel down or anything
like that so give me a sec okay so we extracted the accessories here guys and
we've got a number of things we've got a power oh wow check that out I don't even
see a power brick so that means in this slim design TV they actually integrated
the power uh converter that's
outstanding actually okay we've also got
composite input adapter a component
input adapter so if you're using any Legacy devices that uh require an analog
signal to go out to your highly Advanced TV then you know you can do that these
are for the Vasa Mount to provide a little bit of structural rigidity and
then that looks like a cable management thing with some adhesive on the back and
here is the far cooler part so we've got the included four AAA batteries that
you're going to need for this and this is is Samsung's smart TV compatible full
quiry remote control so check this out so the thickness is actually fairly
thick okay it's quite substantial but there's a lot of electronics in here so
I can kind of understand that so on this side you see all your standard volume up
volume down Smart Hub menu blah blah blah and then the other side oh bam for
use pairing with TV is needed okay and then there's instructions for pairing
which a really oh no it's okay it's okay
because there's a plastic there's a plastic piece here that comes off okay
so there's a little screen here so you can see what you're typing and then we've got I was really disappointed I
was like really how could they have made such a major oversight so here is a full
querty key bad number pad as well as navigation buttons you can change your
input so you can actually choose which side of the remote you want to use and
look at that special characters and everything so this is going to be great
if you want to browse the web on your TV or uh you know search for YouTube videos
or um type anything on your TV it'll be
good to have a keypad pretty self-explanatory I think but it's neat
that they includ it that's not actually the only thing that Samsung includes
with this 8000 series TV you're ruining the unveiling you're looking at it
before I can it's okay aha so this is the sort of the
pitch for this TV check this out Samsung calls this their onesign bezel I have no
idea what they mean by one um maybe they
mean 1 cm that looks like about a centimeter but it's possible that's not
what they mean at all um but basically this is ha I'm going to pull out the old
iPhone thickness comparison this bezel
is not much thicker than an iPhone it's
not as thick as two iPhones it's so thin
that basically when cameraman and I were pulling it out of the box we couldn't
even figure out where to grip the TV because normally I would try to put most
of the pressure on the bezel I couldn't even couldn't even touch it um oh yeah I
wanted to talk about the other thing they include so Samsung includes uh two
pairs of their high-end super lightweight 3D Active 3D shutter glasses
with this TV so let's go ahead and open that up I'll just model this for you
guys taped together okay so it'll look kind of something like
this do that not do that not a good look for me whatever we have these on demo in
the new Vancouver store so you can you can check them out if you so desire what
the the selling point of these guys is is that they're much lighter weight than
existing other uh 3D glasses on the
market they're they're actually really really light and uh there and they don't
look quite as stupid although they you know they don't look great either 3D
glasses that's just what we have to live with so guys give me a sec I'm going to
get this onto the stand so we can see it in all of its glory and
magnificence well there's no doubt it's a thing of beauty I just checked my
notes there's a couple things I did miss so I did miss the wide color enhancer
plus feature that is an on this particular TV and then also the hybrid
3D engine so this is the processor that's built into this TV that actually
allows you to dynamically convert on the- fly any 2D content into
stereoscopic 3D which is great because it actually works if you guys checked
out my video on Samsung's uh 800 series
U monitor for your PC I actually did a
video on my ncic channel where I talked
about that particular technology is actually outstanding so there's no
performance hit to whatever it is that you're feeding the signal into the TV
with so you don't need a more powerful graphics card or anything like that to
play 3D games on this particular TV because all of the processing is done on
the Fly by your TV so I think that's pretty much it in terms of General
features but yeah it's pretty nice
looking don't forget guys if you do want to check it out in person you can see
this TV at our Vancouver store on Broadway our new Vancouver store on
Broadway and then you can also check it out in the new abine store that's going
to be right next to the old abine store that will still be there uh let's check
out what it's got in terms of inputs and outputs and we're on totally the wrong side of the TV for that look at this
from the back it's like a reasonably nice finish you know no plastic or
anything like that looks good okay let's go over into the other side so we can
see what we got in terms of inputs and outputs and here you take that angle and
I'll stand up here so we've got one two
three USB ports with this one optimized for hard drive uh because remember this
is a smart TV digital audio out optical
we've got four hdmis with one for DVI
and this one's for Arc okay AVN it's right here so that's
your component uh and then PC so that's
your VGA down there antenna in there's your composite input with audio out
xlink and land so smart TVs they do want
land so you're going to want like a power line adapter or a wireless bridge
of some sort in order to get a network connection to this TV so you can take
advant advantage of all those features you know your Skype your Twitter your
Facebook etc etc and your full
querty remote control and I think that pretty much
covers it so thank you for checking out uh this little Showcase of Samsung's
8000 series 60-in LED backlit LCD TV
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