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Canada recently celebrated its 150th anniversary and being good kuks

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and all we wondered what better way to show off our raw patriotism and

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dedication to the maple leaf than some good oldfashioned nflix and chill but

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watching 4K content on the PC is not as

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simple as you might think so when Intel reached out to sponsor a video featuring

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their seventh generation Nook we jumped at the opportunity to cover how exactly

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it works and it is going to be such a

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wild ride that your knuckles are bound

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to be white by the end of it okay that

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last one was a bit of a stretch stretch like this

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the reasons for hooking your TV up to a PC rather than a lower cost HDMI stick

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like a chomecast or a streaming box mostly come down to flexibility you can

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run whatever software you want interface seamlessly with storage devices on your

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network and even use the media PC itself

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as a file server for the rest of the household with external storage so here

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then is the PC we chose this isn't the

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fastest Nook available but we specifically requested the I5 variant

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for a few reasons at under $400 we like

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its balance of features performance and cost the I5 Nook is quite a bit shorter

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and more Compact and its lower power

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consumption partly thanks to offloading video decoding to the onboard GPU and

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noise will make for a better home theater experience we configured it in

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about 20 minutes with a 128 G Intel 600p

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series SSD two sticks of crucial ddr4

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memory and a fresh copy of Windows 10

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now when we first did our proof of concept testing for this video we turned

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to our tried and tested LG ud88 4K

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monitors unfortunately while they support hdcp 2.2 we ran into some

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handshaking issues but it just wouldn't be a video on Ultra HD without a problem

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with DRM would it thankfully our Bros

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over at LG hooked us up with a much more recent not to mention bigger screen to

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play with the LG OLED 65 b6p an enormous

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65 in Ultra HD premium certified OLED TV

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with the now familiar and awesome web OS interface and gyroscopic remote as usual

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my message here is the same OLED have I

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mentioned OLED yet with its unbelievable contrast is the future and I'm actually

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really glad that we're using this for our UHD testing instead so with the

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hardware out of the way let's get into our first method of 4K content

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consumption local playback of normal computer files while there isn't much

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legitimately out there at the moment we can handle both freely available test

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files and any consumer 4K video capture

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thanks to everybody's favorite Flex POS media player

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VC number two everybody's favorite free

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streaming site YouTube first demoed 4K playback in

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2014 and that was without requiring any

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elaborate hardware-based DRM more on that in a moment and they added hdr10

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support in late 2016 though it should be

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noted that very little HDR content is available at this time our CPU usage on

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our Nook stayed at between 5 5 and 10% thanks to that GPU decoding that I

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mentioned earlier number

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three all right so this box has full

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support for the controversial software

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guard extensions for playback 3.0 DRM

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that's been spearheaded by the content production industry which lets us access

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then streaming services like Netflix and

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Amazon Prime video at full full UHD 4K

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quality as long as we're using Windows

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10's edge browser though it should be noted that the native Netflix app also

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supports UHD playback number four there

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are also digital stores like Sony Pictures store and uh soon Microsoft's

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Windows store and filming TV app both of

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which if you have the DRM compliance

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built into your PC will support 4K

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videos but none of the stuff I've mentioned is especially new and all of

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it is either Limited in terms of content availability or in terms of sound and

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image quality so what about method number five I promis five playing back

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UHD Blu-rays that option was conspicuously

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absent for months after the launch of 4K

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Blu-ray and there is a significant and very noticeable difference in quality

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between an internet stream running at about 6 megabytes per second versus a

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disc spit rate which can nearly triple

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that that is where our shiny new Pioneer

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bdr 211 ubk comes in imported straight

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from the Land of the Rising Sun it's the world's first and at this time only

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Ultra HD compatible PC Blu-ray Drive and

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given the decline in physical media use in modern computers it's likely to

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retain its title for some time with

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support for almost literally every major

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disc based format sort of like laser disc and this along with a 5 and a/4 in

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enclosure is the piesta resistance of our 4K playback PC it actually worked

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far more painlessly than you'd expect

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but but like our UHD streaming services

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it doesn't work without Hardware support

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and a software install for the software guard extensions

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DRM so then we are now able to consume

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virtually any content that we can go to

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a store or online and buy as long as

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it's movies so can we game on this thing

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I mean there is a Thunderbolt 3 port on there so so this being lineus Tech tips

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of course we grabbed a razor core slapped in a GTX 1080 TI and plugged it

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in to see what it would do the answer

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well from my experience the much higher

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clocked core i7 variants of Intel's mobile chips are quite a bit more potent

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for this use case the good news though is that steam's inhome streaming is a

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thing if you really want to have a gaming PC experience on the couch with

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the I5 and you have another gaming PC

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Elsewhere on your network our 4K 60fps

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gaming stream ran perfectly over a standard gigabit wired network

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connection so in summary then we basically been looking for an excuse to

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buy one of these new blu-ray drives and test UHD compatibility on the latest PCS

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with the hardware DRM support and hopefully seeing it all pretty much

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working outside of some question marks with respect to monitor hdcp

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compatibility was as interesting for you guys as it was for

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us so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if

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