1 00:00:00,359 --> 00:00:10,280 Canada recently celebrated its 150th anniversary and being good kuks 2 00:00:07,319 --> 00:00:15,200 and all we wondered what better way to show off our raw patriotism and 3 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:25,359 dedication to the maple leaf than some good oldfashioned nflix and chill but 4 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:27,920 watching 4K content on the PC is not as 5 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:32,920 simple as you might think so when Intel reached out to sponsor a video featuring 6 00:00:30,119 --> 00:00:39,520 their seventh generation Nook we jumped at the opportunity to cover how exactly 7 00:00:35,879 --> 00:00:43,760 it works and it is going to be such a 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:47,199 wild ride that your knuckles are bound 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,760 to be white by the end of it okay that 10 00:00:47,199 --> 00:01:01,800 last one was a bit of a stretch stretch like this 11 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:09,560 the reasons for hooking your TV up to a PC rather than a lower cost HDMI stick 12 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:14,640 like a chomecast or a streaming box mostly come down to flexibility you can 13 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:20,520 run whatever software you want interface seamlessly with storage devices on your 14 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:22,680 network and even use the media PC itself 15 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:29,439 as a file server for the rest of the household with external storage so here 16 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:32,200 then is the PC we chose this isn't the 17 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:38,600 fastest Nook available but we specifically requested the I5 variant 18 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:41,479 for a few reasons at under $400 we like 19 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:48,040 its balance of features performance and cost the I5 Nook is quite a bit shorter 20 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,640 and more Compact and its lower power 21 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:55,200 consumption partly thanks to offloading video decoding to the onboard GPU and 22 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:01,200 noise will make for a better home theater experience we configured it in 23 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:04,200 about 20 minutes with a 128 G Intel 600p 24 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:07,880 series SSD two sticks of crucial ddr4 25 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:09,800 memory and a fresh copy of Windows 10 26 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:16,879 now when we first did our proof of concept testing for this video we turned 27 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:19,840 to our tried and tested LG ud88 4K 28 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:26,360 monitors unfortunately while they support hdcp 2.2 we ran into some 29 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:32,000 handshaking issues but it just wouldn't be a video on Ultra HD without a problem 30 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:34,720 with DRM would it thankfully our Bros 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:43,440 over at LG hooked us up with a much more recent not to mention bigger screen to 32 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:48,200 play with the LG OLED 65 b6p an enormous 33 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:51,040 65 in Ultra HD premium certified OLED TV 34 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:58,080 with the now familiar and awesome web OS interface and gyroscopic remote as usual 35 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:00,760 my message here is the same OLED have I 36 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:05,480 mentioned OLED yet with its unbelievable contrast is the future and I'm actually 37 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:09,879 really glad that we're using this for our UHD testing instead so with the 38 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:15,040 hardware out of the way let's get into our first method of 4K content 39 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:20,959 consumption local playback of normal computer files while there isn't much 40 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:27,840 legitimately out there at the moment we can handle both freely available test 41 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:30,040 files and any consumer 4K video capture 42 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:35,239 thanks to everybody's favorite Flex POS media player 43 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:38,040 VC number two everybody's favorite free 44 00:03:35,239 --> 00:03:43,159 streaming site YouTube first demoed 4K playback in 45 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:45,879 2014 and that was without requiring any 46 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:52,360 elaborate hardware-based DRM more on that in a moment and they added hdr10 47 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:54,840 support in late 2016 though it should be 48 00:03:52,360 --> 00:04:01,040 noted that very little HDR content is available at this time our CPU usage on 49 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:04,120 our Nook stayed at between 5 5 and 10% thanks to that GPU decoding that I 50 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:10,560 mentioned earlier number 51 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:13,799 three all right so this box has full 52 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:18,120 support for the controversial software 53 00:04:13,799 --> 00:04:21,000 guard extensions for playback 3.0 DRM 54 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:27,520 that's been spearheaded by the content production industry which lets us access 55 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:31,800 then streaming services like Netflix and 56 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:34,919 Amazon Prime video at full full UHD 4K 57 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,800 quality as long as we're using Windows 58 00:04:34,919 --> 00:04:44,720 10's edge browser though it should be noted that the native Netflix app also 59 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:47,120 supports UHD playback number four there 60 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:53,919 are also digital stores like Sony Pictures store and uh soon Microsoft's 61 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:57,680 Windows store and filming TV app both of 62 00:04:53,919 --> 00:05:02,400 which if you have the DRM compliance 63 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:05,199 built into your PC will support 4K 64 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:10,639 videos but none of the stuff I've mentioned is especially new and all of 65 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:16,160 it is either Limited in terms of content availability or in terms of sound and 66 00:05:13,479 --> 00:05:21,720 image quality so what about method number five I promis five playing back 67 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:30,440 UHD Blu-rays that option was conspicuously 68 00:05:26,039 --> 00:05:33,280 absent for months after the launch of 4K 69 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:38,360 Blu-ray and there is a significant and very noticeable difference in quality 70 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:44,520 between an internet stream running at about 6 megabytes per second versus a 71 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:48,000 disc spit rate which can nearly triple 72 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:52,440 that that is where our shiny new Pioneer 73 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:54,759 bdr 211 ubk comes in imported straight 74 00:05:52,440 --> 00:06:02,039 from the Land of the Rising Sun it's the world's first and at this time only 75 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:04,080 Ultra HD compatible PC Blu-ray Drive and 76 00:06:02,039 --> 00:06:09,039 given the decline in physical media use in modern computers it's likely to 77 00:06:06,039 --> 00:06:12,160 retain its title for some time with 78 00:06:09,039 --> 00:06:15,080 support for almost literally every major 79 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:21,319 disc based format sort of like laser disc and this along with a 5 and a/4 in 80 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:29,319 enclosure is the piesta resistance of our 4K playback PC it actually worked 81 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:33,720 far more painlessly than you'd expect 82 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:37,000 but but like our UHD streaming services 83 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,520 it doesn't work without Hardware support 84 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:45,199 and a software install for the software guard extensions 85 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:49,080 DRM so then we are now able to consume 86 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:52,479 virtually any content that we can go to 87 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:56,199 a store or online and buy as long as 88 00:06:52,479 --> 00:06:58,919 it's movies so can we game on this thing 89 00:06:56,199 --> 00:07:04,400 I mean there is a Thunderbolt 3 port on there so so this being lineus Tech tips 90 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:11,599 of course we grabbed a razor core slapped in a GTX 1080 TI and plugged it 91 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:14,840 in to see what it would do the answer 92 00:07:11,599 --> 00:07:17,319 well from my experience the much higher 93 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:23,240 clocked core i7 variants of Intel's mobile chips are quite a bit more potent 94 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:28,280 for this use case the good news though is that steam's inhome streaming is a 95 00:07:25,919 --> 00:07:33,879 thing if you really want to have a gaming PC experience on the couch with 96 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:37,560 the I5 and you have another gaming PC 97 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:40,080 Elsewhere on your network our 4K 60fps 98 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:45,039 gaming stream ran perfectly over a standard gigabit wired network 99 00:07:42,199 --> 00:07:49,199 connection so in summary then we basically been looking for an excuse to 100 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:57,039 buy one of these new blu-ray drives and test UHD compatibility on the latest PCS 101 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:02,199 with the hardware DRM support and hopefully seeing it all pretty much 102 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:06,520 working outside of some question marks with respect to monitor hdcp 103 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:11,240 compatibility was as interesting for you guys as it was for 104 00:08:08,919 --> 00:08:14,479 us so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if 105 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:19,599 it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in 106 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:23,479 the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts 107 00:08:21,199 --> 00:08:27,520 like this one and our community Forum which you should totally join