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For years, I've dreamed of gaming on a

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massive LED video wall, but getting your hands on a new one ain't that easy or

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cheap. But what about this discount

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video wall from Craigslist? Yeah, I

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couldn't help myself. Logistics went out this morning and just returned with this

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pallet of rigging material and these four crates that apparently contain over

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30 connecting video wall panels. Guys, this is some peak high-risk, high reward

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because on the one hand, there's no support, no warranty, and no return

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policy on an $11,000 purchase. But on

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the other hand, hear me out, giant customizable video wall.

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>> It's actually even cooler than you thought. You set it up in any aspect

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ratio you want, and you can even configure it to be curved. I can't wait

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to see how this all fits together. and how freaking awesome or less awesome it

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Okay. So, you want to start with the panels? >> I think we should start with the boxes.

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Um, because it includes this box, too, I'm pretty sure.

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>> Okay, perfect. He's the one who's read the documentation, so I'm kind of

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following along here. >> I've barely read the documentation. I read it a little bit.

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>> Read it a little bit. >> Read it a little bit. >> Okay. >> Oh, yeah. So, this is like

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>> What the heck? >> I think this is the control box. That's fine. >> What kind of box is this? It comes off

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on both ends. >> Yeah, cuz it holds it cuz there's ports on both sides. So, look,

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>> we've got a bunch of like DVI, VGA, HDMI

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1.3, I want to say, and a bunch of Ethernet. I think it's gigabit. And then

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on the other side, all the buttons. >> Cool. This seems simple enough. You

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power it on here, and if everything goes wrong, you escape. >> Yeah. What do you think of when you

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think of uh VGA and DVI? >> I think this is pretty old.

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>> And HDMI 1.3. >> Hey, hey, hey. It also has DisplayPort.

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Uh, >> it does. It does. It's actually only a few years old. uh the documentation

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specifies like 2020 or 2021 >> and a bigger concern is that LED video

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well technology has come a long way since then and

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even when this was new I don't know that Novaar is a leader in the field sure

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yeah copyright 2020 ZN novastar tech

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this one is for the all-in-one controller so this is our VX4S-N

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so this is our controller uh not the panels to be clear though I am Still

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freaking stoked. >> Oh yeah, it's super cool. Apparently

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both the HDMI and the DisplayPort can do up to 4K 60 Hz.

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>> That's not 4K. You saw the 3840 and got excited, huh?

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>> Oh, 3840 by 650, too. >> Yeah. Well, you know, if it's really big

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and it's far away. >> All right, let's check out the panels.

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Should I open this one first? >> Yeah, let's do the blue box first. Uh, have you noticed how disgust like I'm I

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don't mind filth, but like I all I was doing was like touching the top of the

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box and they're they're co they're they're caked in dust.

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>> Why don't we start with the blue one then? >> Yeah, this one's different. This has what? Six panels it looks like. And then

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all the cables. >> Wo,

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look at all these guys. I've opened one of these boxes and looked inside to see

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the panels and get the manual. That's about it. So, I actually haven't even

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looked at all this stuff. I didn't open the blue box. I don't know what those little control boards are for.

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>> Is this an Ethernet to XLR? >> What is it? Is it just an extra XLR

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cable? >> Super duper locking Ethernet. >> Wow, that's wild.

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>> Does this look like one of them got hot and like melted a bit?

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>> Oh, it kind of does. Hey. >> Yeah, I'm sure it's fine. Maybe there's

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just like a single LED on the end that doesn't work. It's okay. >> You have any idea like how much power

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this thing? >> Absolutely not. I know basically next to nothing about these. You went and bought

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something and then dumped it in my lap and said, "Hey, let's make a video." And

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so here we are. I had like an hour to read through some of the manuals because

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there's like six manuals because there's there's a manual for the control box, there's a manual for the displays, and I

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think there's a third one or maybe it was just specs. >> Well, I'm having a great time so far.

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>> Oh, yeah. This is great. >> How heavy is it? How bad is how bad?

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>> It's not super heavy, but if it were to fall off something,

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>> I wouldn't trust that to hold it. >> Wow. That is

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>> not the tightest pixel pitch. I'll check the manual, but I think it's something

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like 568x 328 for the LED array. >> Oh, does this just have the specs for a

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whole bunch of different products? >> There's a bunch of different ones. Yeah, hold on. There's more of these. User

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manual for this guy. >> Oo, here's what they're for. Indoor

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concert, awards ceremony, celebration meetings, etc. LT screwdriver for scale.

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Hey, I figured out one thing, though. What? >> There's a power rating on the back of

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each one of the panels. How much does he

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>> 120 watts each?

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>> Probably. >> Hey, we can do up to 4K if we use

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Ethernet in >> Well, I mean 2160. We're short like 80

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pixels or so. >> Yeah. >> 2160. >> What's up with that? >> Uh I don't know. That's what Ethernet

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can do cuz most of this is actually being set up through Ethernet.

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>> What do you even Oh, yeah. No, there. Yeah. No, it's Ethernet into the panels. >> Yeah,

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>> there it is. There's your There's your doodad magma jig. >> Yeah. So the DVI and the VGA and the

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HDMI and all that, that's all for like our source um and a external monitor to

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like monitor everything from. Got it. Stuff like that, your computer hooking

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up to it. >> If we want to be technically correct, the best kind of correct. It's using,

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you know, twisted pair cabling and an RJ45 connector.

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>> Yeah. Bottom row two. >> Yeah. >> Dead pixel.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of a downer, especially when your pixels are like

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this big. >> We got the mid row here. Top row. >> Top row. That's bottom row.

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>> What is this supposed to Oh, >> those are just six extra panels and all the cables. I guess

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>> that makes sense. Why wouldn't they have the extra ones to fix the dead pixels?

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>> I don't know. >> Okay, cool. >> Okay, I think it's just panels in the

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rest of these boxes. Let's see how many we've actually got.

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>> 10. >> 10 in that one. Okay, so it's probably 10, 20, 30, and then there's what, six

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here. >> Yeah. >> Okay, so 36 panels. >> Well, that precludes doing a 16x9 setup.

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>> Do we have any idea what these are? >> Uh, those are A8s. These are I believe.

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>> What an >> Those are A8s. He says

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>> they're the receiving cards. They're the receiving cards. >> Okay. What's the receiving card?

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>> Adopting the exclusive LED image booster technology of Novastar. It can precisely

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calibrate the color gamut and grayscale of the screen and improve the grayscale

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by 64 times. >> Okay. So, this is effectively doing the

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job of what like a scaler would do on a display except not doing the scaling.

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Yeah. or the input. Almost like a like an OSD module that you're interfacing

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with. >> Yep. That's 10 in each one.

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>> You can fit so many displays in this bad boy.

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This video is like 10% actually looking

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at the video wall. 90% him trolling me for this irresponsible purchase. Who is

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this bad boy? Oh, >> power supply or something.

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>> Power distribution unit. >> This is like what we have at the LAN.

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This breaks out your big fat 30 amp 240 volt to a whole bunch of individual

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plugs and then just has breakers on it for safety.

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>> We're not done yet, though. >> Oh, what's in the box?

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>> Not the bottom of the box, that's for sure. >> Yeah. >> Oh,

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>> what is it? >> Replacement parts. So, if you needed to

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replace the interface plugs on one of the wall panels,

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>> it comes with a little replacement board. Power supply. These are power

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supplies. >> Okay. >> The Meg meetat switching power supply.

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>> Oh, that's quality unit. >> That's where that went >> with which I have great familiarity.

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>> They actually give you quite a bit of spare parts. Eh, >> knowing the way that companies like this

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work, that's probably in place of a warranty. Just like uh like back when

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I'd order containers of product from China, um it would be okay. Yeah,

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warranty too hard. Tell you what, we'll just ship you 1% more things.

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>> Sure. So, you order 400 cases and >> you get an extra 10 or something.

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>> 440 or 404. Yeah. >> Yeah. The LEDs can be preserved for 1

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year. >> What? Open one of these. Come on. We've got lots of extras. Open one.

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>> I think they're a quarter. >> Oh, maybe.

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>> Yeah. So, each of these, you can actually see the seam. Each of these, I

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think, is four. So, this is almost certainly then a quarter of one of those

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panels, and you get five extras. So, we might be able to fix our dead pixels.

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However, one of the things that I learned back when I was exploring

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possibly getting a video wall in the first place is that the way that they

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wear out, they have much the same issue of older

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OLED displays where they wear out very unevenly. >> Yeah.

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>> When you have a failure and you pop a new panel or partial panel in,

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>> patchy brightness. Nice. Nice. >> And color, too.

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>> Well, apparently with the controller, we can adjust that. We can fix that

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>> allegedly just based off of the instructions, you know. Oh, wow. Yeah,

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look at that, >> buddy. >> Super cool. Are there two?

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>> Oh, you might have twice as many. >> Oh, >> yeah. I think they're double stacked.

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>> Oh, >> so that's not that bad. >> Okay, so you have 10 replacement quarter

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panels and that one is completely missing a thing.

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>> Awesome. If I recall correctly, we do have a 240 volt over here somewhere.

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>> There's various kinds. >> Oh, you're right. >> Hold on. Before we do, can we bend this

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a little? >> Oh, yeah. >> It's about as straight as my bottom teeth.

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But hold on a second. If the output is just 120 volt anyway, then we could just

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run extension cords from all over the warehouse and just not care about any of this.

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>> All right. Well, let's get one lit up. So, we'll we'll light one up with an

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extension cable and see how that goes. >> Okay. So, let's just start plugging

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things in, I guess. >> I don't know. There's a wiring diagram that I'm just going to we're just going

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to have to follow.

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>> I'm thinking output one. >> Okay. Okay. Cool.

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Now I'm thinking plug this into a panel.

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>> That sure. Yeah, that sounds about right. And then uh did you get a power

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cord for the panel? >> Nope. >> What do they take? >> Uh they take these blue fat boys, I

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think. Or rather, I think one of them is

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the power in and one of them is the power out. And I think they're colorcoded, but I don't know which is

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which. >> This thing is huge. But I mean, I guess you're just going to plug one of them

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out to power and then the rest are daisy chain. >> Yeah. Well, at least a row of them would

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probably be daisy chained. Yeah. >> Ah. Oh, but did it just turn on on its

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own? >> I don't know. There's a green. Yeah. >> Okay. Uh, still flashing. Oh, we

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probably have to turn the controllers on. >> That's probably true. Yep.

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>> Hey, one of our inputs lit up. Do Do you have an input plugged in?

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>> Well, you've got this Ethernet. >> No, that's an output. Uh, okay. Cool.

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Okay. Do we have a a source? Did we just use the laptop?

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>> Oh, yeah, bud. >> Okay. Oh, it did something.

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>> Yeah, it did something on my laptop, too. It definitely detected the source.

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Ooh, screen settings. Cabinet row quantity. Oh. Whoa. Hello. Hey, I went

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to extend. Dude, >> I don't know if the resolution is right,

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but it's displaying something. >> Yeah, look at that. It's um

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>> It's 12:26 p.m. >> Not very bright. So, whatever port we're

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plugged into is the bottom right.

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>> Yeah. >> So, we've landmarked it now. >> Okay. And then we can configure what

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it's expecting in terms of the width and

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the height >> in this controller software right here.

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>> And then we just have to make sure that however we daisy chain it is however

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it's expecting that to go. >> It's going to take some foresight and

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planning and probably we're known for. >> Yeah. Oh yeah. So much. We totally think

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of things before we >> That's what people think when they see this.

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>> So now what? >> So now what? >> Well, we have 36. >> All right. What do you want to What do

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you want? What do you want to do? >> I want to do like a regular 16x9

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configuration. >> Okay. >> And then we just watch some regular

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content on it. We can game on it. We should be able to. We should be able to plug a computer in.

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>> How would we do 16x9 though? >> We don't have to use all 36 panels.

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>> Yeah, this is really not a lot of panels. What the heck are we doing with this? >> When you think about it like that,

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>> we could do 8x4. That would be one and then we have four spare panels. Four

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high. This would be a considerable size display. >> Okay. 8x4 it is. Let me write that down.

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>> Four is write that down. The only question in my mind is how far back do I

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have to go from this thing before it stops looking like butt cheeks.

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>> This is the worst screen door effect I've ever seen in my life.

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>> Oh my god. >> I can still see the pixels. It's still

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not a perfect like gradient. >> I mean, yeah, but you're the kind of person who owns a display, so

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>> No. Yeah, it's bad.

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>> He never laughs hard except

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when I waste money. This is stupid as

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the are we going to do with it? This thing looks terrible. It's like 1440p.

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Like it's not even 4K.

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You've got about uh 14 pixels per inch

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or something. Maybe 25.

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He's not done yet. >> What resolution will that actually be?

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>> I have no idea. Hold on. Let's check. Cuz what are these? They're 250 by 250.

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That seems about >> something like that.

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>> So, my 20 PPI was probably pretty close.

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>> Wait, no. It's way lower than 250 x 250.

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What is it, >> dude? The highest one on here is 96 by 96.

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>> Yeah, actually, no. Uh, no, no, no. You know what? >> This is going to be way more than 64,

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cuz this is this is 10. >> That's 10. That's 10. >> It's probably 128 then.

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>> So 10. >> Like if that's 10 >> 20 170 about 180 something I think. You

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>> is the panels. >> Oh, right. Cuz they're quartered.

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>> Why don't we try and figure out the a little bit? What I don't know is if the

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truss >> is modular. I have no idea. I've never

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used truss at like once in my life. Those look like the feet.

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>> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Pixelate this. Pixelate this

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editor cuz it's feet.

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>> We kind of have to decide where we're putting this now because I feel like once it's down, it's staying there

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>> cuz it's going to be huge. >> All hands meetings. >> You could. >> We have one coming up.

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>> Look how small that TV is there. >> That's a tiny TV. >> That's a tiny TV.

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>> Yeah, it's going to look awful. We're going to have like the announcements and

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on it >> and it's going to look so bad. >> I think it's going to be okay. I'm going

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to be the contrarian here. I think it's going to be all right. I'm going to be honest with you. I have no idea if I got

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a good deal on this or not. >> You didn't look up the price. >> I don't even know how much they cost

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new. >> That's great. >> Oh, in answer to your question, yes, >> these do extend.

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>> And they have numbers and standards. 15 cm, 20 cm. Oh, centimeters. Oh, okay.

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Sure. >> Why don't we mount a panel to one of the

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back pieces? >> Okay. After this, you're going to be in love with trust. You're going to want to

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put truss everywhere. >> Clearly, this goes here.

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>> That seems right. And then there's a bunch of hardware in here. >> Yeah.

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>> 16 pieces. So there's 16 of these. And they look like the bolts that would fit

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in there. Oh, does that go underneath? Oh,

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>> dude. You're not doing up more bolts, are you? There's so much more hardware.

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I think this is spacers. It's spacers. You can't just butt these

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together. >> Oh, these guys. Oh, sure. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

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>> Okay, there. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's that makes sense. >> So, that goes there.

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>> That makes sense. >> That goes there. Okay, let's grab a panel and let's see if we can figure out

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how it goes on here. Sure. >> You don't happen to remember which way was up, do you? So, here's the things

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you were talking about. >> Yeah, those are the things I was talking about that they can lock into the other

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panels and whatnot. As for how it attaches to the truss.

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>> Mhm. Wait, it's got to be the clamps. These go on a round thing. They unpin.

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>> Okay. >> Okay. And these go on here.

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>> Okay. I'm following so far. >> Yes. That's as far as I've gotten.

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>> Thinking, >> okay, we just got to we got to look closer at this. I think

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>> I'm 100% now that these just bolt through the pipes into No, totally. I I

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think that's correct. >> We just don't have those screws. >> Do we have a Oh.

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>> Oh, >> hey, look at that. >> That doesn't show panels going on,

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though. how it goes together. But it does show that we have the feet facing

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completely the wrong way and this whole thing would have come down like that.

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>> We definitely we definitely did it wrong. Okay. Well, you've got to go film a ShortCircuit. Uh I'll look up some

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videos and look into this and see if we can figure out one how to attach the the

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displays. And two, we'll at the very least get the truss set up properly. And

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then if we have to go buy some bolts from Canadian Tire or something, we'll go buy a bunch of bolts.

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>> Okay. >> All right. >> Okay. >> See you later. I just came back from

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lunch. Jamie and David helped me figure out what was going on. Uh Jamie, please

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tell the people what you did. >> I did what PLO was unwilling to do and

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read the manual. Supposed to use one of these things and go through two panels

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and then lock it in place. That's that's

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literally it. >> So, we're going to build out the rest of

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the truss and then we'll put some panels on. >> Yeah.

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Okay, we've got our truss set up. Now, what we're pretty sure we do to get

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these panels attached is you flip back this little corner lock piece. You get

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the panels together and then once

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they're together and they've got this locking mechanism in place, you then

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clamp them down to the rest of the truss. And like I didn't really trust a

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single clamp, but they're on there pretty good.

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big moment. Three, two, one. Wait, what?

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>> We've only done one row so far. >> Okay. I was going to say I don't That

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can't be all of them, right? You know what? I actually kind of like it.

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>> It's not bad, eh? >> Yeah. >> And it's not at full brightness right

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now, either. No, it can go brighter. Yeah, >> I found some dead pixels.

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>> There's probably some. >> Okay, how far back do I have to go for

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the Oh my god. >> pretty pretty far back. It's 8 by1 right

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now. What a great aspect ratio.

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>> We're not 100% sure still, but we do still think it's about 200 by 200 for the pixel count.

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>> But how far back do I have to go for it to look like a somewhat serviceable

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>> image? Probably past the tripod. >> You know what, dude?

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With scaling, it'll be a lot better, too. This is going to be pretty cool.

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>> I think so, too. Like, it's it's genuinely pretty cool.

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>> This might have been not >> 100%. I'm very on board now. I think

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especially once we go three more rows high, it's going to be a very like legit

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screen. This could be cool for like Smash or Whale. >> Whale land. Yeah. Like just imagine like

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a Smash tournament on something like this. It' be sick. Well, might not be.

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See what the latency is like. Let's get the rest of it built and then let's game and

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>> watch content on it. >> Yeah. Sounds good.

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Holy crap. It's glorious. >> Yeah, it looks way better from back

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here, dude.

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Wow. Doom Dark Ages could be better. I agree with you about the whole glory

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kill thing. That kind of sucks. But the wall, >> dude, >> look at how good the wall looks.

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>> This is awesome. >> It's It's not without its flaws. Nope.

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>> I can see some of the seams. There's some obviously dead pixels. Yep.

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>> But the overall experience is way better

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than I expected. >> I Yeah, I, you know, fully expected to

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kind of poo poo this thing, but it's been pretty sick. And we're only at 75%

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brightness right now. >> Really? And this is with all of our like

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lights and stuff. One pointing directly at it. >> Yeah. So, we could crank it up a little

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bit. I'm not saying it's going to get like, you know, like 200 nits brighter,

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but yeah, it'll get better than this. And also, the weird jutteriness, that's

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just the mouse being used on like a sofa. That's not the screen tearing

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weirdly or anything like that. That's just It's weird. This is awesome. I

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noticed we're running a pretty mid GPU. Are we leaving any performance on the

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table? >> Nah, this is less than 720p.

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>> No. >> Yeah, we'll check. >> No, it doesn't look like less than 720.

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>> Look at the text on the bottom there. That sure. >> No. No, that's more pixels than 720p.

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>> Oh, you're right. >> You just got um actually. So, we have way more pixels. Sort of.

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>> Um >> a few more pixels. >> Uh not many more.

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>> Some more. >> The screen quality. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of like old

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rear projection TVs. >> Yeah. It's not super bright. It's

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probably a scale thing. I was so much smaller cuz I was a child when rear

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projection TVs were a thing. So, they looked huge to me. And I'm bigger now.

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And the TV's bigger, so I think it's all just kind of scaled up. Here, I'm going

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to turn the brightness up. >> That's a good idea. >> Doom's a little bit of a dark game.

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>> You might say it's a dark age.

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>> All right, that's 100. It does look brighter. It is brighter.

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Yeah, >> the contrast is actually not bad. >> It's not great, but it's not terrible.

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It's not terrible. That's a big advantage of LED walls or of the

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upcoming microLEDD technology that hopefully will someday make its way into

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consumer. >> I don't think that's ever happening. >> Is that like OLEDs, they are a

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self-emissive display. So there is no backlight that's shining through a you

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know a black pixel so to speak. Uh instead your black is dictated by how

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dark the empty space on the panel is

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around the emitting LED. So, the darker we can get this room, the more contrast

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we can get out of our display. In fact, can we lose that one as well?

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>> Wow, >> dude. Okay, this is pretty cool. The only

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problem with this is that it doesn't exist in a vacuum. This is super cool.

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And honestly, I don't even feel like it was a bad deal. I paid less for my TV at

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home. >> This is bigger. We're at 179 in

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diagonally. that is bigger. >> That's huge. Um, but yeah, in terms of

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like literally everything else, your TV

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at home is better and it doesn't need trust. >> The not needing trust is a major factor.

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However, the installation of my TV at home is a little specialized. But for

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me, the bigger thing, the bigger difference is that my TV at home is 4K.

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If I want a more immersive image like this, I could just sit closer to it

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>> 100%. Whereas this one, yeah, it could sit closer, but I don't

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really want to. >> David found some of the retina information for me. Guess the PPI of

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your display of your video wall in this configuration.

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>> Uh, 15. >> It's single digit.

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>> No, >> it's 9.68 PPI.

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>> No. >> And you'd need an average distance of

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355 in. >> Like 30 ft away.

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>> It's pretty far. It looks not bad. >> No, it's pretty good. And you know what?

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The latency >> is not amazing,

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>> but if we were playing a single player game or something, this would be totally fine. I could I could play like an RPG

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on this thing and it'd be all right. >> I'm willing to bet this is 75 to 80

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milliseconds. There would be no reason for me to have this over a 65 in TV. But

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I do think we'll have uses for it. I think we can use it for training. And

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based on how good it looks from that distance, this is going to be freaking

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awesome for the stage at Whandland. >> Oh yeah, it'd be really cool. Imagine

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like four player uh Mario Kart cuz each quadrant is like a 65 in TV. Not

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exactly. I'm just like looking at it and eyeballing it, but like you know that's

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like that's a whole TV right there. >> I think the latency is honestly too

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crappy >> for Smash >> for us to to play real games on it. So

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we have those Epson projectors that I'd probably rather use for that.

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>> Fair enough. But if we were like playing stage games or announcing winners or

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>> draw or if we had like uh we wanted to have

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like an exhibition match or something on the big screen, this is the one I'd want

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it on. >> Yeah. Or even if like let's say you did uh a big, you know, WAN Show again, like

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a live WAN Show. This could be the second screen that's for like the

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audience that's too far away to see you guys. >> That'd be so cool.

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>> I Okay, fine. There's a lot of uses for it. I don't think you've wasted your

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