for years TV manufacturers have been trying to make their bezels Slimmer and
their TVs thinner well us we're going in the opposite direction we picked up this
Gem of a 2006 flat screen TV with one
goal to use its ample girth to store not
one not two but four gaming systems
inside it making it the ultimate all-in-one gaming TV if we succeed which
spoiler we will we will have upgraded the picture quality the sound quality
and the smarts For Better or For Worse so uh Mr who's the boss I see your
world's biggest iPhone and I raise you the world's biggest OLED TV in um
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that unmodern until yeah last time I saw one of these
was probably in the mid 2000s when my friend's dad bought one and I was like
wow that's huge but boy does it ever not
look very good rear projection TVs were sort of a stop Gap solution when they
could make LCDs but they couldn't really make them big enough to be a big screen
TV so what they did was they took a
backlight sha it through it and put a projection screen in the front of them
that oh yeah right when you shake them the whole thing kind of wobbles around
because it's actually a projector in there that's why they've got the Big
Caboose because they actually need a throw distance in order to project onto
the front screen this is going to be a godsend for us though because we are
going to pack so much goodness back here
and as Alex alluded to already we are going to be completely replacing the
front screen with a brand new OLED oh it
looks way better if you get down here I mean yes but why don't we crack it open
and see how much space we've even got to work with man this is the kind of retro
technology that just I feel no guilt
whatsoever for destroying yeah I know this is not like CRT TVs where they have
redeeming qualities these were awful when they came out and are still awful
so much room for activities down here I bet we could do I don't know like a a
Wii we have four inputs so I decided to
go for the four gaming systems that matter the most in 2024 okay PS5 y
Nintendo switch pc pc Nintendo wiii ouch
yep and I think the front's ready to come off there here she goes
who did the structural rigidity just take a big hit uh yeah the entire top
comes off now all right there's your guts boys nice all the really cool stuff
seems to be on this um daughter board this seems to be mostly just the power
supply down here wa buddy so there it is
there's your projector that makes sense that the bulb replacement was at the
front there here's the drivers for those speakers here's your daughter board for
the front IO and there's your giant actually
wow really nice mirror and it's
clean this is 18 years old this does not
have a speck of dust on it yeah now that
you mention it like everything in here like that's perfectly clean it's perfect
they'd obviously have to have a solution for it because as soon as you got any
dust or any crud in here the TV would look even worse well I think that right
here we have a fan and my guess is that it's probably filtered and yeah
positively pressurizing this so that all the air just doesn't go in wow one other
thing that's really cool this is one massive Fel lens on the
front here oh so if we take that
outside yeah should we yeah I have to
confess I don't don't understand why you would want a frel lens is that to
improve viewing angles I think that is just to make all of the light coming out
like colinear I don't actually know I just know that if you point it be
careful oh you can focus the Sun's light and make a death ray with this thing oh
using this melt rocks yeah what yes
yeah oh I'm sorry I did not I've never
with Fel lenses so there we go
okay so this is it yeah wa buddy that's bright okay so let's see how hot it
is oh my God
that's like immediate here we go okay I
don't think we're going to make it darn defeated by latitude question now is how
much stuff can we stuff into the bottom I'd love to get a look at what the base
looks like without the top piece oh nice
nice it's really nice I think that that whole top section is held in primarily
by just these guys right here oh that's
great so all of this can just get
deleted thinking that goes right there yeah we'll have a nice little cover here
cuz there's one built in yeah you flip that down yeah buddy and then you can
change out your Wii games the rest of it's all just digital so you don't care about that hey there we go so here's our
lamp there's some sick looking prisms
and stuff in here we should decide on speakers right now I'll tell you what
I'm thinking so many ridiculous
conversations start with those words oh my gosh
Alex no it would sound so good they're
so big they're they are so big but have
you seen how much room we have Alex they're in ceiling speakers they are yes
but they could be in TV speakers no
they're this big a that's so cool no you
can't put them facing the back it's going to look so stupid and it's not
going to sound good it'll sound way better than most TVs I think this is a
really bad idea you're not wrong okay Alex it's stupid bounces off the wall
well do you know of any good speakers that can fit kind of in here yeah I mean
we could just get some like audio engine a2s or something like that just oh
that's kind bad idea I know crazy pitch y we use
extensions for the PCI iio and we just have the PC like wherever inside and the
io's over here and we use this back access hatch to put the switch behind so
that if you needed to you could get your switch oh yeah we could spend the next 3
days just going ahead 3D scanning this whole thing making a perfect everything
fits in like this and it's all beautiful but instead I think we're just going to
start cutting it and weld in some steel seems like the better option to me let's
do it little bit of LMG internal baseball here we got a new email
security server that is just way too aggressive and it killed my internal
request for a bunch just steel so when I refilled out the form to actually put it
through I was an idiot and bought quar
in Steel by accident and a whole bunch of it this right here is going to be the
base of our TV and it's going to be heavy as all freck we also cannot easily
work with this stuff so we're going to be using oxyacetylene after spending the last 20
minutes watching YouTube videos on how this works I am very qualified to give
you an explanation right here is our acetylene or the fuel this right here is
going to heat up to somewhere around 3000° C that is very hot and we're going
to use that to heat up our steel right here then we have this trigger right
there which just full blasts a bunch of oxygen and we are basically going to be
making this rust incredibly fast blow
right through it it's going to be a lot of fun well that was fun now I'm just going
to rotate at 90° so this doesn't fall down and we should be good that's pretty
easy after an actual hour of grinding of
both plastic and Metal here is the final piece look at this it
just slots right in there uh it sort of just slots right in it's really heavy
uh just like that from here though all of our mounting should be super easy we
can just attach literally anything that we want to this and we don't have to
worry about it going anywhere 1/ qu in steel on the bottom man it's going to be
one stury television what am I even looking at you know how proof points a
real M no no well my request
for 8 in steel didn't go through uh-huh
and when I submitted the second time I accidentally ordered quarter inch do you
want to feel how heavy this thing
is oh my goodness Alex we don't even
have any components in this thing yet and it already weighs like a two person
job 60 lb the main design constraints were the nendo Wii and the speakers cuz
we wanted those to be placed correctly because we want those things to be
accessible from the front don't want your speakers blowing at the back that's
thing we'd like to be able to put GameCube discs in our Wii yeah with that
in mind why don't we start by installing our Nintendo wiii we're using a modded
one that has a mini HDMI output which is going to make switching between our
different devices quite a lot easier all we had to do was 3D print this Mount and
then weld some brackets to our 1/4 inch
thick steel plate and there's VHB tape
good Lord Alex our goal for everything here is to get get it done this project
has been just sitting in the queue for like 8 years we're finishing it here
it's happening is a bit of an exaggeration but it has been more than
five now what you probably mentioned these speakers right here yeah Prime
elevations they were supposed to go in your house 300 watts and you might
notice they're uh modified modified yeah that's the word I was going to use yeah
I wasn't going to say mangled the internal volume still the same but we
moved the Tweeter here and it looks like we stuffed a bunch of packing material
in the back that was actually just to bring the like frequency roll off up cuz
the sub was way cleaner than these at like 90 HZ got it what is this it's Al
Packa W oh that's one thing to do with all of our actt Al there's the power for
everything oh don't show the fire
department you know Alex I imagined how this was going to pan out
yep good job oh it it all comes together and once
it's sealed up it'll be amazing oh these things oh yeah this thing's
sick these are cool these SVS streaming boxes they're DTS playi certified which
is kind of a Sonos Wi-Fi audio thing but
they're are really high quality amp so you can hook up your speakers and subwoofer to it to do like room byro
wireless audio or you can do whatever the heck it is that we're doing is this
movable when it's complete I think we're going to have a couple dudes and I had
Logistics bring in a dolly nice my God is this acoustic foam
you guys are trying to like eliminate internal Reflections in the
chat you know he said he was going to do
this and I said no we have 1200 watts of speakers in
this TV this thing plays down to 23 Hertz and that's minus 3db yeah say the
the foam's more so so it doesn't shake itself apart is this to ratchet strap it
down yes no we wouldn't do that
were ratchet straps too much to hope for we're using bungee cords well the
ratchet straps you see this is big and it's metal and it kind of hits against
that can we listen to it before we oh
yeah keep building I'd love to not bad
wa not bad suck it
Soundbars
damn oh that's a cool frame case who is
this from Street that makes sense those guys do all kinds
of cool frame cases uh we actually use them for our test benches 7950 x3d y 16
bloody cores 32 gigs RAM seic 1300 W
power supply I mean in all seriousness maximum efficiency and minimal heat
output is actually going to be a benefit for us in here cuz the 490 is going to
be enough heat for us to deal with in this space and then for our CPU we're
using an nhd15 now what is our planned
airflow path here oh hope for the best couple fans in
the back I thought he was going to say hope for the best prepare for the worst
no just hope and duct tape hey there's
no duct tape it's mostly HW glue what did this go oh there's threaded inserts
in there yeah wow quality manufacturing
Justin oh thank you quality cool those inserts are driven in from the bottom so
this is actually a super strong Mount then oh yeah yeah she'd go no
whereare easy awesome no I'm showing the people I'm showing the people what a
great job you guys did it's not like we've had any projects recently where
we've buttoned the whole thing up and then found out the GPU Riser was
unpluged okay In fairness that was plugged in and then I
hit it with a hammer a bunch of times
exactly okay all right so now this is the fun part we're going to have to
angle this in oh yeah no okay a question
for you though with this here is the screen going to we don't know we have
tested everything but we have never tested everything
together what we did know though is that you this guy used to build like racing
buggies would you believe that they broke a
lot what we did know for sure was that this whole thing sounded like a drum so
we put in a whole bunch of sound eding that makes sense is it going to help oh
yeah this right here sounded like d
before and now it's like actually that makes a surprisingly big difference this
is pretty cool dude I wanted to do this
for so long great job bringing it to life we did make that video about the
gaming TV like 7 years ago almost all of
it's come true that was supposed to be part one of this don't you remember I I
don't remember that that was part of this it was also going to be a series
where we were going to make like our ideal thing oh yes and then we
remembered it's a lot of work to do that well also that video performed like
garbage but that's okay this one will do better share it with all your friends
leave a like and I'll do a handstand
please don't hurt yourself no they liked the video I have to do it I have to do
it now
okay let's go ah it's just the note 9 it's not the
iPhone all good oh dude this is amazing
3D scanned the inside made this right here uh can we tighten this a little bit
uh sure uh oh uh it's hex wait oh I have
a new thing I haven't actually loaded any of my bits into it yet but I finally
have our bit
case oh what is this that is a switch
dock oh that's super cool so you do
power in for the switch Yeah and then
the switch goes in here and then there's the HDMI output SL USB input built right
into the brick yeah that is so cool oh yeah it's perfect for this we had a
whole other Mount design you can see it right here that went in like that and it
was super easy to get the switch in and out yeah it obviously hits everything
yeah so is there any way to get the handheld out yeah
dude that looks so clean oh my God
God so where's the switch then does it
just yeah oh sick so you just plug it in
so it's that easy until Nintendo releases the new one imminently awesome
and we have IO as well oh no way so one
for PS5 one for the switch and then PC gets a couple how is this going to go
how's it go big zip ties and prayers I
think oh actually have you not seen the TV yet no oh man it's so so
sick I was away I was in New York they
were working on this they kind of vaguely ran through the plan with me we
literally told you you're too busy you have no more
input look at how well it mounted power for the
piece it's so perfect are these the
original metal pieces they are Justin
had to very slightly bend the top one in a vice but the rest is just what held in
the panels originally like the diffusion layers and stuff it's so sick it just
holds it in yeah yeah it's like actually like Sony meant for this to happen it
looks perfect I love that we kept the full HD 1080 sticker on it oh that is
amazing I mean technically it can do it
oh buddy I was worried that the bezels
were going to cut off the screen a little bit or like it's like an eth4 of
an inch Maybe you don't even notice it looks almost Factory like scary good I
didn't even notice the integrated sensor bar may I make a crazy suggestion
absolutely can we power it up before we Buckle it all that's a really good idea
that's a fantastic idea that right there that's the years of experience okay I
think I just heard the TV click on do you want to grab that side and we'll just kind of prop her up I mean what
could go wrong I'm going to turn on the computer no wa did you wire it into the
original power button we did yeah we did
you absolute mad Lads oh I love it so much this is sick
like seeing everything in here it all came together so well wait does the back
of the TV keep the PS5 from slipping out of the mount kind of
yeah oh gosh there we go y uh how
worried are we about that Bo out I guess I'm kind of worried now I wasn't before
what if we just put them here and just
freaking like scent it and screwed some stuff in and they just kind of grabbed
on like that yeah that's what my thought was why don't we just do one in the middle well that seems actually yeah
that's really solid really
good oh looks great oh okay all right
PS5 oh what a quick fix okay awesome time to mount this with a bunch of
plastic screws I guess there's no ventilation if the PC isn't
on uh yeah by the way this fan bracket
looks amazing thanks Sebastian and then we took his handiwork and we put 75% of
the screws in it can you reach it really well oh dude that's perfect yeah this is
awesome and you know what the funny thing is is so many modern devices right
they try to have the slimmest bezel or the whatever and I do appreciate a
beautiful minimalist design but with a
display this beautiful I'm not I'm not looking at
this I'm not noticing any of that club nefarious got oh and nice Works dude
that sounds so good
dude what oh it sounds so good between that
and the rumble in the controller it's like oh yeah right dude now that we're
in Windows you could see it's like maybe
two pixels cut off at the B oh yeah dude it's like nothing if you look at this
angle I thought it was so much worse it's like almost perfect you can
actually see the edge of the display there okay tell me something yeah are
you noticing the chin didn't think about it at all see that's what I'm talking
about who cares it looks so good so
Sony here's an idea free of charge
ultimate gaming TV she's a little thicker built-in PlayStation okay big
subwoofer big speakers
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