sony reached out to sponsor a video about their new
wh-1000xm4 headphones that pack up to 40 hours of battery life seamless
multi-device switching and active noise cancellation that's among the best in
the biz but hold up i don't want to do a video just about these headphones when
there is so much more sweet sony tech to look at so they sent over a little care
package with a tv a sound bar and
we've got a bit of a problem where am i gonna put all this stuff my wife's gonna
kill me if i try to overhaul the living room again so i was in a bit of a bind
for exactly where to put
this the personal micro theater
now the setup isn't without its downsides and we'll get into that but in
actual function it's kind of fantastic there's everything i need mini fridge
for the bevies popcorn at the ready and most
importantly for us a whole lot of tech so come on guys and i will give you a
little tour colin you have outdone yourself this is
freaking ridiculous
step one of this crazy project was finding someone who was willing to let
us convert one of their storage lockers into a home theater yeah easier said
than done i contacted like six only one got back to me and actually would let us
do it um there were a couple issues we had to sort out uh this unit doesn't
have power so we ran a really long extension cord and also we're in the
basement so we don't have any internet
uh so to speak we get like one bar when we tether a phone but it's just enough
but we did manage to update the tv and now we've actually got the 4k 120 hertz
update running on it with support for erc so it's officially playstation 5
ready even though we don't actually have a playstation 5 quite yet but we brought
along a pc so we can show off that capability now in terms of size
obviously i don't expect anyone to actually build a home theater in a
storage locker the rental rates actually don't make a ton of sense but definitely
if you were looking for inspiration for how to fit an amazing movie watching or
gaming experience into a very small space how big is this thing this is five
by ten so i decided to go for a long way so it makes getting in a lot easier yeah
and we actually ended up with still a little bit of room like enough to fit a
cooler nice yeah one of the best things about this setup is other than the tech
we spent almost nothing on it so on top
of this used tv stand that we scored on craigslist for 50 canadian rubles you
can't miss the huge sony x900h 65-inch
tv now to say that the fitment here is tight would be an understatement i
cannot actually get my fingers through here and you might think that the image
gets cut off a little bit where it sits behind the door track but you'd be wrong
because when you're sitting in this
repurposed lazy boy with a 20 cover on
it you can actually see every corner of the television
perfectly now we need to be very very careful exactly where we position the tv
because there's actually a little like uh hook thing on the edge of the door
that would scratch down the entire side of the screen if we had it too close but
the way that it is right now everything is peachy
yes confirmed peachy especially after the
latest update this bravia packs a ton of features we've got a 4k panel with
support for hdr10 at 4k 120 hertz and
dolby vision at 4k 60 hertz it's running
Android tv with apple airplay baked in as well if you're part of that other
ecosystem your beautiful HDR content won't be spoiled by huge hot spots like
the displays of old because it's got a full array led backlight and it's got
your next gen gaming consoles covered with support for HDMI 2.1 gaming
specific features like auto low latency mode then we've got this guy running
just a single cable down to what is honestly going to be one of the most fun
parts of our show today the sound bar in the interest of honesty
as good as the st5000 soundbar looks on our setup
it's totally overkill but i love it the wireless sub fits
perfectly next to our chair here meaning that we are going to be able to feel
what we're watching and the seven that's right count them seven front firing
speakers are no slouches either now there are two additional top firing
speakers over on the edge here and here which are intended to bounce sound off
the ceiling but if you look up
there's nothing to reflect off of because it's actually noise isolating
insulation up there so we won't be making the most of the dolby atmos
certification that this bar comes with that means it'll be mostly acting as a
more traditional surround sound setup and hub for all of our inputs
because it has 4k HDR pass-through it really simplifies the install and keeps
all the wires down low if this was a more conventional installation say if we
were wall mounting the tv at home that means less cables to run up inside your
wall and one extra nice thing that's not in the script is it actually has three
HDMI inputs which is more than the typical one to two setup for this puppy
couldn't be easier we hope we haven't actually tried this ahead of time so
you're about to see a live demo uh to pair you just tap your phone it's over
here on the side that took me a second to find in our space constrained uh
location here and
oh that was easy okay nice now colin
loaded up spotify with some monster cat music and we are about to
try this out well
oh that sub in a space like this
my poor popcorn maker wait a minute
hold on a second does sony have a feature where your phone vibrates with
the bass how do i how did i not know about this i
was like what the heck why is the phone vibrating am i someone calling
it's adjustable too when you change the volume there's a little scroll it's right beside the volume thing oh my god
that is so funny is it a spotify feature no it's across
the device it's hardware level
this is ridiculous
look at the popcorn
that is a lot of sound like
next thing i want to try is a movie i actually haven't heard of this movie
it's called your name apparently
well it's not my little pony but i guess it'll do
i hate to do this to you guys but see you later
some of you will probably figured this out but there's a reason that we only
applied sound deadening to the front and back of the room that's because we
actually want the sound bar to reflect off of these side walls here
for the optimal movie watching experience
this is absolutely crazy 65 inches is like as big as you can go
for like a near field viewing experience like you could totally put something
like this in a bay of your garage man the art in this movie is beautiful
dialogue on the soundbar sounds so good like
sorry it's probably like a little loud right now but it's really good and even
when music's playing in the background or there's other effects like i am
really impressed so far yes the video is sponsored by sony but i'm legit by law
not allowed to tell you guys anything i don't actually think if i'm offering an opinion this thing sounds great
especially considering the conditions of course some people are less into the
most crazy loud setup and more into a stealthy sneaky setup and that is where
these come in these are the next generation of sony's flagship wh-1000
lineup of noise canceling headsets the
wh-1000xm force and they are well let's
call them our secret weapon for a stealthy viewing experience sony has
improved on the already great xm3s with a handful of new features including
multi-device support which allows you to pair to both the tv and say for example
a phone with the idea behind it being that you get super seamless switching
between the two it's a little tough to demo somewhere where both of our phones
are struggling to grab even one bar of signal but that's fine i can still show
you guys how it works with the headphones paired to both the smartphone
and soundbar which i've already taken home so it's paired
to the tv using the sony connect app i can watch content on the big screen and
should a call come in a quick double tap of the right ear cup will seamlessly
switch devices over to my phone and pause whatever i'm watching on the tv
hit me colin
just like that neat huh also if you're a gamer on the
go the active noise cancellation is some of the best out there so you can focus
on pwning noobs rather than the noise around you it was a bit hard to show you
in the storage unit because it was under so much concrete and metal
back to the locker another cool feature that
i wasn't aware of when we started shooting that call-in configured on these is when you start talking it can
actually mute your content so that you can carry on a conversation with someone
that's really important when you consider how excellent the noise
isolation on these headphones is and not just isolation which is already very
good but they're active noise cancellation so i don't know if you guys
can hear can you hear the music when it's going okay well it's not going
anymore it just turned off because i'm trying to have a conversation with you
and it enables transparency mode so i can hear you just fine
so you go ahead and say something andy hi you look beautiful wait what you you
don't like working here anymore that's a shame i love working with you
ed this transparency feature is actually super handy because when the noise
cancellations kicked in i cannot hear a word you're saying and because like the
masks i don't even have the benefit of like lip reading at all like i can't
even guess and that is in no small part thanks to their new
generation mic array so it works freaking
awesome the one last thing i'm supposed to tell you guys about is of course the
return of their touch controls on the right ear cup and then all that remains
is to where's my popcorn sit and enjoy some movies and gaming
well see you later boys enjoy