- Monitor TV, monitor TV. Monitor TV, monitor TV.
Neither. Get both. Samsung Smart Monitor M8.
And from here, I'm gonna call it the mate, 'cause you can't not, at that point.
This is a smart monitor. And I know you've probably used a lot of smart TVs over the years,
but you probably haven't used a lot of smart monitors. There's actually not that many.
The M7 is the predecessor to this guy.
I'm actually not too sure on what's new about this one, but we've got a 32 inch screen, it's 4K.
I think it's a 60 Hertz refresh rate panel. They're using Samsung TIZEN in or TIZEN,
it's their own operating system, it's not Android TV.
Terrible. I miss just a little bit of tape. Ooh, it's like Christmas.
Well, like I said, there's an operating system, so you can actually have this on its own,
and then use a few very simple programs. Like I think it comes with Office 365,
so you can like open emails and write Word documents, and all that stuff, open Excel, whatever.
And it should be able to handle that. So, there is some processing power going on, and so I'm not too surprised
that there's a beefy external power brick. Ooh. Yeah, it looks like herring bone.
Herring bones when you've got those like two pieces of wood, and they go like this, and then this, and then this.
You've probably seen it in floors or like a wall, or something. So, this goes in like that,
but this bottom part here should go on like this. So, then, one minor complaint that I have already
is this doesn't use the handy dandy tool list screw
that a lot of monitors on the base have. I haven't had to use a screwdriver for a monitor review
in like, or unboxing in forever, so let me get something.
It's a nice screwdriver, but not as nice as the LTT screwdriver. It's not out yet, and it's taken its sweet time.
But I tell you when it comes out, it's gonna be great. It's sign up and get notified,
same with a backpack. (laughs) It's actually pretty light.
Okay. That was fine. Are you ready for the unveiling?
♪ Ta-da, da ♪
Look at that? I haven't even seen any of it, does it look nice? Yeah, it looks pretty nice. Yeah, actually kind of, they're pretty thin, ay?
If you are into Apple products- - [Andy] Ha.
- You'll probably like this. - [Andy] Ha, this is better than the Apple one.
- You think this is better? - Yeah. - I guess the chin's smaller, ay? Who would've thought that such a minor feature
that's been around for ages, would all of a sudden, be worth like what, $400?
Is that what you have to pay to get the height adjustable stand, 400 bucks?
(Andy laughing) Come on, gimme a break. This thing is super thin.
It's 11.49 millimeters at the thinnest point.
Honestly, here check it up from the side. It's all in the stand, like where it connects to the stand,
where it gets a little thicker. What's this? - Dude, look at that?
Is that a power connection? - I have no idea.
It's like hard and flat. Oh, it's the webcam. Okay, so that's what the magnets' for,
so you connect it from here and then it goes somewhere. I'm not sure where, it just magnets right to the back here.
I actually really like this. This is the slim fit webcam
and it's 1080p for video conferencing and stuff.
1080p is perfectly fine, like no one's gonna complain. This is super neat.
I found the connector that goes with this, so it's a little like USB-C to whatever this connection is,
I actually don't really... It's like a mag safe connection or something. You can actually adjust it a little bit too.
Not a ton, but it can like move around and stuff, and you can even, or slide it down a tiny bit.
It also has face tracking. So, if you're one of those kinda people who wiggles around in your seat a lot,
or you get up and you're doing like a more active presentation
and you're moving around and stuff, it'll track you a little bit as you go. So, I unboxed all the power cables and stuff.
And obviously, this isn't gonna work for us, so Jono went to get a new cable.
But I noticed the remote that comes with the box, it's a smart monitor,
so you're not gonna usually have something hooked up to it. But you get a remote for it so that you can,
you know, put it on your counter and chill and use a remote to do stuff. It's got like Netflix button, Samsung TV Plus,
Prime Video, and Disney Plus. Other than that, it's pretty basic. You got a home button, you got a back button,
you got a play button. If you buy this in north America, it's gonna come with the right cables, don't worry.
It's just, we tend to get a lot of products shipped directly from China or Korea, wherever.
The other cables are pretty nice. They're these off white gray kind of.
I don't know if the other colored one come with colored cables.
I really hope they do. This gray kinda works with everything admittedly.
But, oh my God, if I bought a blue monitor and then it came with the blue cables, oh!
We've got a little bit of IO here. Micro HDMI
- [Andy] Micro? - Yeah, Micro. - Why? - Actually, yeah, it is micro.
I don't know why they couldn't fit it, there's plenty of space here. Two USB-C, I think one also gives you
45 Watts of power delivery. That's another minor complaint. I really wish it was 60.
45 will do most like notebooks and stuff. A heftier laptop is gonna want 60,
even 90 would be really nice. I really wish they'd been able to fit USB-a port.
They were probably just a little dead set on getting this thing to be super duper slim.
This thing does have speakers. Like it does work like a smart TV. Like you can go to Netflix and watch TV on it,
and it has its own built-in speakers, so you don't have to worry about having an external stereo setup or anything like that.
On top of the IO, it's well, I guess underneath the IO,
it's got this handy dandy navigation nipple that we've been liking on pretty much every monitor.
Honestly, if they use the buttons, at least a point off. Like you gotta use this navigation nipple.
It's just handy, it goes in any direction, easy to press, easy to navigate, love it.
There's this little bar down here, and I think it's for the remote. I think it's like an IR thing,
but I'm not a 100% sure. - You need to stop this. - Whoa. You need to stop, it's time for tech.
Screw ShortCircuit. - Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's TechLinked time. (panel booing)
- [Riley] I work so hard here. - And screw TechLinked.
- Plus, subscribe. Describe - Yeah, Subscribe though. There's lots of news, you'll never miss anything.
I mentioned that it's got a micro HDMI port, and we're like, "Who the hell has a micro HDMI cable?"
Well, they do include one, which is nice. So, it's got HDMI regular on one side,
and then micro on the other. So, don't, you're totally set.
They're not gonna make you go and buy a $20 cable as soon as you've paid.
How much does this thing cost? I mentioned that it's 4K and I mentioned the camera,
but I haven't mentioned the price. It's $729.
That's not bad for a 32 inch 4K display, it's only 60 Hertz, but you know?
- This is really beautiful. They have great design. - Height adjustment, not $400.
'Cause it's 32 inches- - 32-inch, 4K panel 4K is what? 180 PPI or a 100- - It's like 130.
- 130 PPI. - And MacOS looks horrible
at a reasonable desktop scaling with- - I wouldn't say it looks horrible.
- I remember when Apple did stuff like this. (Jono laughing)
- Yeah, I thought it looked like an Apple charger. It looks like a Mag safe charger, right?
- It's so easy to put on. If you're security minded, like it has a cap,
like whatever, you just pop it off. Oh, you got a web call?
- Boom! - Subscribe. Yeah, subscribe to Mac Address. - Hey, Jonathan, if this thing has high adjustment,
then the panel is only $300. (Jonathan laughing)
- Oh they're like smart TV, but monitor- - Yeah, smart monitor. You did them seven last year.
- Someone finally did a magnetic webcam. - Yeah. - When did I first ask for that?
In like a laptop review of some sort? - [Jono] think so.
- It makes so much sense. - I know. Its even got a little privacy cover. - Look at that? - Yeah.
I'm doing everything the hard way today. Yeah, backwards, does that turn on?
(exclaims) Samsung. "Hi," "Ola," "Pozdravl," "Perdhendetjel," "Salut."
Sure. Let's try the smartphone. How do I do this? "Check your notification with a QR."
Okay. So, location, my home. Room, living room. Sure.
Next. "If the screen is off, turn it on using the remote." Well, it's on.
So, how do I go to the next step? Oh, I just tap it. "Connecting your screen.
"Make sure your phone or tablet is near your screen, so they can connect." Okay. - Look at that- - Ooh.
It's doing it. Yeah, "Your screen is being registered
to your Samsung account." What do we name our device?
But I'm calling it the Monitor Mate, 'cause it's your mate. Right, mate?
"Choose which a voice assistant you would like to help control your smart monitor." So, you can use...
I'll spell it like Linus does. So, you know actually activate any of your stuff at home.
It's got big- - [Jono] Bixby - Dammit, Jono. It's got B-I-X-B-Y.
I forgot about the Y, A-L-E-X-A, I'll choose later option,
so you can just choose later. I'm gonna go with BIXBY 'cause we're using... (beep) I just said the name.
(panel laughing) - [Jono] Does it have "Hello (beeps)"?
(panel laughing) - "After you finish setting up your smart monitor,
(phone beeping) the settings you choose will be backed up
to the Samsung Cloud." Okay, to identify an external device such as a cable box
connect it to your smart monitor, and turn it on. That's cool, you can connect this thing to a cable box.
I mean, it kinda makes sense. It's basically a smart TV in a monitor.
Enjoy music on Spotify, so you can add apps and stuff to it if you want to like Spotify,
I don't have Spotify, so sorry. (whispers) 696969, all done.
- [Jono] Really? - "Enjoy your Samsung smart monitor."
(bright upbeat music) "Enjoy your smartphone on your TV simply by tapping."
Oh yeah, you tap it. I saw Linus do this in the other video. (phone tapping)
(smart monitor beeping) - Oh, my God, it worked. - Okay, tap it.
(phone tapping) That didn't do anything. Where did it go?
Netflix. Hit the Netflix button. Hey, "We'll be right back after this break."
What break? I don't want to go on a break. Like I said, it's a smart monitor, right?
So, there's a bunch of stuff just built-in. You've got like Netflix, Disney Plus, Samsung TV.
YouTube's already installed, Prime Video, Apple TV, Spotify.
DAZN, Internet, Plex, (tape fast-forwarding)
BritBox by BBC. Okay, that's it. I thought that list was gonna go way further.
That's still a ton of apps, honestly. ♪ Check the web cam out ♪
Oh, cool. Here, what if we put it over this way?
Oh, my God, you're seeing the secrets of our set design.
That's pretty good. - [Jono] It actually kinda looks better than the Apple one. - You think so?
- [Jono] I'm just really biased right now. - So, that's maxed up.
(upbeat music) It's probably doesn't sound good for you guys,
because it's going from here to a mic, and then to your own personal speakers,
but like that's a lot of volume. For a little display like this,
that's more than enough for your kitchen, or your office, or your bedroom,
or honestly, even your living room. (upbeat music)
There's like zero base, unfortunately. So, it's the one complaint.
But honestly, like who cares? You're not not using this for a big music experience, right?
You want it for news audio or like here's your TV show,
or here's your cooking show that's on at the moment. You just wanna hear them clearly.
And that's gonna do this for you every time. That looks pretty good if you ask me.
it's HDR 10+ support, and that supports up to like 4,000 nits brightness.
This doesn't do 4,000 knits brightness, it just has support for it.
Even with our studio lights on, like it was nice and bright. We're turning stuff off now
to kinda give a better representation of what your own living room or kitchen
would actually look like. Obviously, it's not OLED, so the blacks aren't gonna be like as black
as they could be. Yeah, it's got adaptive picture modes. If it gets too bright, like it senses light around you,
and then it'll be like, "It's really dim. We can like dim the lighting as well." There's a Home button which will take you to home.
There's no... Like I wanna see the settings. It's got a filmmaker mode?
I can't guarantee how color accurate that is. I'm not testing it. But I guarantee you, if you're gonna watch
any kind of movie on this thing, set it to Filmmaker Mode, it's almost definitely the most accurate preset on the TV.
Please, don't use vivid. Picture Setup, brightness, contrast, sharpness, color, tint.
Your Filmmaker Mode is gonna set all that stuff for you. It's actually nice how it doesn't lock it.
Normally, a lot of filmmaker modes or IMAX, they'll lock all the other settings.
They're like, "No, we're correct. You don't wanna touch this." But, I mean, sometimes you do, just a little bit.
Standard Sound Mode. Ooh, Equalizer. Okay. So, you can send NiQ to this thing?
That's actually really cool. What? Yeah, you can send NiQ, so that's actually great.
Honestly, if you wanna listen to music on this thing, don't get me wrong, the bass isn't great and everything,
but you totally could. That's actually super cool. You don't like these speakers?
You want something better? You want something with bass? Boom, hook it up to your Bluetooth speakers,
and you're good to go. I'm not the hugest fan of the Samsung smart TV UI stuff,
but it's snappy and responsive. It's a lot faster than most smart TVs that I've used.
Yeah, learned more about it from our Techquickie. What's the Techquickie on? You can do multi view too.
Look at this? It's got two Windows. I can do like news here, but then boom,
you wanna keep checking stuff out? It's like a TV, and you can even change the screen size. Ooh!
- Woow - Wow. - Yeah, that's actually really cool. Listen to this sound from two screens though.
Like that's pretty cool. So, you can turn audio off or on on one of them,
and/or have them on both. It actually comes with Office 365.
So, we're gonna plug in some peripherals. To connect your stuff, you just go to Connection Guide,
and then there's a bunch of different input options. You go to input, we're gonna use a mouse.
So, Input Device, go to... Not us USB mouses, but it's nice that these are all options.
Really, makes it really handy to troubleshoot. Found it like right away.
Pair and connect. Hey, that's super cool.
Okay. So, the mouse is clearly working. Does this have like a built in keyboard though?
That'd be really nice. Yeah. Okay, so I mean I could search like this. Can I use the mouse for this?
I totally can. That is actually super easy. It's not gonna get one, 'cause it's a TKL.
- It's built-in. - Heey. All right, so that took a little bit, but it worked.
As you can see here, if you wanna use a Windows PC, or a Mac, or deck
to just hook up through your phone or something, you can totally do that. We don't even need...
You don't even need a computer. We've got a keyboard and an mouse hooked up to this thing.
No problem. It does take a little bit of time to start up everything.
You're not using a computer, you're using a smart monitor. You know, you're gonna click an app
and it's gonna take a few seconds to load. But that did take that long,
like that was totally fine. (typing) "Brown fox jumped"
I mean, okay, this is really bad. (laughs) Not the monitor of my typing.
That's pretty quick. It's not instantaneous, it is taking a second
for like all my texts to come up on screen. But honestly, you could totally write out a document on this
and/or work on it or something. I don't think it's that much worse than using like to remote into your PC
or something like that, and then work remotely. (typing) "I like ShortCircuit."
- [Jono] One word. - Two words. - No.
- (laughs) There you got it, guys. This is the Samsung M8 Smart Monitor.
It's 4K, 60, it's got super thin design.
It looks pretty good, and it'll do just about whatever you want,
unless you're trying to like game on this by itself. But even then, you gotta game and PC hook it up, it'll game.
It's $730, which is pretty fair considering all the things you're getting for it.
This was a lot of fun. I actually really like this thing. I probably wouldn't buy
'cause I don't have a need for it personally. But if I had a bigger house or something, and I wanted like a hub computer
that I can just search stuff from and whatever, 'cause I don't like tablets very much,
this would be a great addition to like a living room or a kitchen.
Thanks Samsung for sponsoring this video. And if you wanna check out any other Short Circuits,
check out the G7. If you wanna look at a monitor
that you could do a bit more gaming on instead of production and browsing the web.