For years, I've dreamed of gaming on a
massive LED video wall, but getting your hands on a new one ain't that easy or
cheap. But what about this discount
video wall from Craigslist? Yeah, I
couldn't help myself. Logistics went out this morning and just returned with this
pallet of rigging material and these four crates that apparently contain over
30 connecting video wall panels. Guys, this is some peak high-risk, high reward
because on the one hand, there's no support, no warranty, and no return
policy on an $11,000 purchase. But on
the other hand, hear me out, giant customizable video wall.
>> It's actually even cooler than you thought. You set it up in any aspect
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Okay. So, you want to start with the panels? >> I think we should start with the boxes.
Um, because it includes this box, too, I'm pretty sure.
>> Okay, perfect. He's the one who's read the documentation, so I'm kind of
following along here. >> I've barely read the documentation. I read it a little bit.
>> Read it a little bit. >> Read it a little bit. >> Okay. >> Oh, yeah. So, this is like
>> What the heck? >> I think this is the control box. That's fine. >> What kind of box is this? It comes off
on both ends. >> Yeah, cuz it holds it cuz there's ports on both sides. So, look,
>> we've got a bunch of like DVI, VGA, HDMI
1.3, I want to say, and a bunch of Ethernet. I think it's gigabit. And then
on the other side, all the buttons. >> Cool. This seems simple enough. You
power it on here, and if everything goes wrong, you escape. >> Yeah. What do you think of when you
think of uh VGA and DVI? >> I think this is pretty old.
>> And HDMI 1.3. >> Hey, hey, hey. It also has DisplayPort.
Uh, >> it does. It does. It's actually only a few years old. uh the documentation
specifies like 2020 or 2021 >> and a bigger concern is that LED video
well technology has come a long way since then and
even when this was new I don't know that Novaar is a leader in the field sure
yeah copyright 2020 ZN novastar tech
this one is for the all-in-one controller so this is our VX4S-N
so this is our controller uh not the panels to be clear though I am Still
freaking stoked. >> Oh yeah, it's super cool. Apparently
both the HDMI and the DisplayPort can do up to 4K 60 Hz.
>> That's not 4K. You saw the 3840 and got excited, huh?
>> Oh, 3840 by 650, too. >> Yeah. Well, you know, if it's really big
and it's far away. >> All right, let's check out the panels.
Should I open this one first? >> Yeah, let's do the blue box first. Uh, have you noticed how disgust like I'm I
don't mind filth, but like I all I was doing was like touching the top of the
box and they're they're co they're they're caked in dust.
>> 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
all the cables. >> Wo,
look at all these guys. I've opened one of these boxes and looked inside to see
the panels and get the manual. That's about it. So, I actually haven't even
looked at all this stuff. I didn't open the blue box. I don't know what those little control boards are for.
>> Is this an Ethernet to XLR? >> What is it? Is it just an extra XLR
cable? >> Super duper locking Ethernet. >> Wow, that's wild.
>> Does this look like one of them got hot and like melted a bit?
>> Oh, it kind of does. Hey. >> Yeah, I'm sure it's fine. Maybe there's
just like a single LED on the end that doesn't work. It's okay. >> You have any idea like how much power
this thing? >> Absolutely not. I know basically next to nothing about these. You went and bought
something and then dumped it in my lap and said, "Hey, let's make a video." And
so here we are. I had like an hour to read through some of the manuals because
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
think there's a third one or maybe it was just specs. >> Well, I'm having a great time so far.
>> Oh, yeah. This is great. >> How heavy is it? How bad is how bad?
>> It's not super heavy, but if it were to fall off something,
>> I wouldn't trust that to hold it. >> Wow. That is
>> not the tightest pixel pitch. I'll check the manual, but I think it's something
like 568x 328 for the LED array. >> Oh, does this just have the specs for a
whole bunch of different products? >> There's a bunch of different ones. Yeah, hold on. There's more of these. User
manual for this guy. >> Oo, here's what they're for. Indoor
concert, awards ceremony, celebration meetings, etc. LT screwdriver for scale.
Hey, I figured out one thing, though. What? >> There's a power rating on the back of
each one of the panels. How much does he
>> 120 watts each?
>> Probably. >> Hey, we can do up to 4K if we use
Ethernet in >> Well, I mean 2160. We're short like 80
pixels or so. >> Yeah. >> 2160. >> What's up with that? >> Uh I don't know. That's what Ethernet
can do cuz most of this is actually being set up through Ethernet.
>> What do you even Oh, yeah. No, there. Yeah. No, it's Ethernet into the panels. >> Yeah,
>> there it is. There's your There's your doodad magma jig. >> Yeah. So the DVI and the VGA and the
HDMI and all that, that's all for like our source um and a external monitor to
like monitor everything from. Got it. Stuff like that, your computer hooking
up to it. >> If we want to be technically correct, the best kind of correct. It's using,
you know, twisted pair cabling and an RJ45 connector.
>> Yeah. Bottom row two. >> Yeah. >> Dead pixel.
>> Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of a downer, especially when your pixels are like
this big. >> We got the mid row here. Top row. >> Top row. That's bottom row.
>> What is this supposed to Oh, >> those are just six extra panels and all the cables. I guess
>> that makes sense. Why wouldn't they have the extra ones to fix the dead pixels?
>> I don't know. >> Okay, cool. >> Okay, I think it's just panels in the
rest of these boxes. Let's see how many we've actually got.
>> 10. >> 10 in that one. Okay, so it's probably 10, 20, 30, and then there's what, six
here. >> Yeah. >> Okay, so 36 panels. >> Well, that precludes doing a 16x9 setup.
>> Do we have any idea what these are? >> Uh, those are A8s. These are I believe.
>> What an >> Those are A8s. He says
>> they're the receiving cards. They're the receiving cards. >> Okay. What's the receiving card?
>> Adopting the exclusive LED image booster technology of Novastar. It can precisely
calibrate the color gamut and grayscale of the screen and improve the grayscale
by 64 times. >> Okay. So, this is effectively doing the
job of what like a scaler would do on a display except not doing the scaling.
Yeah. or the input. Almost like a like an OSD module that you're interfacing
with. >> Yep. That's 10 in each one.
>> You can fit so many displays in this bad boy.
This video is like 10% actually looking
at the video wall. 90% him trolling me for this irresponsible purchase. Who is
this bad boy? Oh, >> power supply or something.
>> Power distribution unit. >> This is like what we have at the LAN.
This breaks out your big fat 30 amp 240 volt to a whole bunch of individual
plugs and then just has breakers on it for safety.
>> We're not done yet, though. >> Oh, what's in the box?
>> Not the bottom of the box, that's for sure. >> Yeah. >> Oh,
>> what is it? >> Replacement parts. So, if you needed to
replace the interface plugs on one of the wall panels,
>> it comes with a little replacement board. Power supply. These are power
supplies. >> Okay. >> The Meg meetat switching power supply.
>> Oh, that's quality unit. >> That's where that went >> with which I have great familiarity.
>> They actually give you quite a bit of spare parts. Eh, >> knowing the way that companies like this
work, that's probably in place of a warranty. Just like uh like back when
I'd order containers of product from China, um it would be okay. Yeah,
warranty too hard. Tell you what, we'll just ship you 1% more things.
>> Sure. So, you order 400 cases and >> you get an extra 10 or something.
>> 440 or 404. Yeah. >> Yeah. The LEDs can be preserved for 1
year. >> What? Open one of these. Come on. We've got lots of extras. Open one.
>> I think they're a quarter. >> Oh, maybe.
>> Yeah. So, each of these, you can actually see the seam. Each of these, I
think, is four. So, this is almost certainly then a quarter of one of those
panels, and you get five extras. So, we might be able to fix our dead pixels.
However, one of the things that I learned back when I was exploring
possibly getting a video wall in the first place is that the way that they
wear out, they have much the same issue of older
OLED displays where they wear out very unevenly. >> Yeah.
>> When you have a failure and you pop a new panel or partial panel in,
>> patchy brightness. Nice. Nice. >> And color, too.
>> Well, apparently with the controller, we can adjust that. We can fix that
>> allegedly just based off of the instructions, you know. Oh, wow. Yeah,
look at that, >> buddy. >> Super cool. Are there two?
>> Oh, you might have twice as many. >> Oh, >> yeah. I think they're double stacked.
>> Oh, >> so that's not that bad. >> Okay, so you have 10 replacement quarter
panels and that one is completely missing a thing.
>> Awesome. If I recall correctly, we do have a 240 volt over here somewhere.
>> There's various kinds. >> Oh, you're right. >> Hold on. Before we do, can we bend this
a little? >> Oh, yeah. >> It's about as straight as my bottom teeth.
But hold on a second. If the output is just 120 volt anyway, then we could just
run extension cords from all over the warehouse and just not care about any of this.
>> All right. Well, let's get one lit up. So, we'll we'll light one up with an
extension cable and see how that goes. >> Okay. So, let's just start plugging
things in, I guess. >> I don't know. There's a wiring diagram that I'm just going to we're just going
to have to follow.
>> I'm thinking output one. >> Okay. Okay. Cool.
Now I'm thinking plug this into a panel.
>> That sure. Yeah, that sounds about right. And then uh did you get a power
cord for the panel? >> Nope. >> What do they take? >> Uh they take these blue fat boys, I
think. Or rather, I think one of them is
the power in and one of them is the power out. And I think they're colorcoded, but I don't know which is
which. >> This thing is huge. But I mean, I guess you're just going to plug one of them
out to power and then the rest are daisy chain. >> Yeah. Well, at least a row of them would
probably be daisy chained. Yeah. >> Ah. Oh, but did it just turn on on its
own? >> I don't know. There's a green. Yeah. >> Okay. Uh, still flashing. Oh, we
probably have to turn the controllers on. >> That's probably true. Yep.
>> Hey, one of our inputs lit up. Do Do you have an input plugged in?
>> Well, you've got this Ethernet. >> No, that's an output. Uh, okay. Cool.
Okay. Do we have a a source? Did we just use the laptop?
>> Oh, yeah, bud. >> Okay. Oh, it did something.
>> Yeah, it did something on my laptop, too. It definitely detected the source.
Ooh, screen settings. Cabinet row quantity. Oh. Whoa. Hello. Hey, I went
to extend. Dude, >> I don't know if the resolution is right,
but it's displaying something. >> Yeah, look at that. It's um
>> It's 12:26 p.m. >> Not very bright. So, whatever port we're
plugged into is the bottom right.
>> Yeah. >> So, we've landmarked it now. >> Okay. And then we can configure what
it's expecting in terms of the width and
the height >> in this controller software right here.
>> And then we just have to make sure that however we daisy chain it is however
it's expecting that to go. >> It's going to take some foresight and
planning and probably we're known for. >> Yeah. Oh yeah. So much. We totally think
of things before we >> That's what people think when they see this.
>> So now what? >> So now what? >> Well, we have 36. >> All right. What do you want to What do
you want? What do you want to do? >> I want to do like a regular 16x9
configuration. >> Okay. >> And then we just watch some regular
content on it. We can game on it. We should be able to. We should be able to plug a computer in.
>> How would we do 16x9 though? >> We don't have to use all 36 panels.
>> Yeah, this is really not a lot of panels. What the heck are we doing with this? >> When you think about it like that,
>> we could do 8x4. That would be one and then we have four spare panels. Four
high. This would be a considerable size display. >> Okay. 8x4 it is. Let me write that down.
>> Four is write that down. The only question in my mind is how far back do I
have to go from this thing before it stops looking like butt cheeks.
>> This is the worst screen door effect I've ever seen in my life.
>> Oh my god. >> I can still see the pixels. It's still
not a perfect like gradient. >> I mean, yeah, but you're the kind of person who owns a display, so
>> No. Yeah, it's bad.
>> He never laughs hard except
when I waste money. This is stupid as
the are we going to do with it? This thing looks terrible. It's like 1440p.
Like it's not even 4K.
You've got about uh 14 pixels per inch
or something. Maybe 25.
He's not done yet. >> What resolution will that actually be?
>> I have no idea. Hold on. Let's check. Cuz what are these? They're 250 by 250.
That seems about >> something like that.
>> So, my 20 PPI was probably pretty close.
>> Wait, no. It's way lower than 250 x 250.
What is it, >> dude? The highest one on here is 96 by 96.
>> Yeah, actually, no. Uh, no, no, no. You know what? >> This is going to be way more than 64,
cuz this is this is 10. >> That's 10. That's 10. >> It's probably 128 then.
>> So 10. >> Like if that's 10 >> 20 170 about 180 something I think. You
know what the 96x 96
>> is the panels. >> Oh, right. Cuz they're quartered.
>> Why don't we try and figure out the a little bit? What I don't know is if the
truss >> is modular. I have no idea. I've never
used truss at like once in my life. Those look like the feet.
>> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Pixelate this. Pixelate this
editor cuz it's feet.
>> We kind of have to decide where we're putting this now because I feel like once it's down, it's staying there
>> cuz it's going to be huge. >> All hands meetings. >> You could. >> We have one coming up.
>> Look how small that TV is there. >> That's a tiny TV. >> That's a tiny TV.
>> Yeah, it's going to look awful. We're going to have like the announcements and
on it >> and it's going to look so bad. >> I think it's going to be okay. I'm going
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
a good deal on this or not. >> You didn't look up the price. >> I don't even know how much they cost
new. >> That's great. >> Oh, in answer to your question, yes, >> these do extend.
>> And they have numbers and standards. 15 cm, 20 cm. Oh, centimeters. Oh, okay.
Sure. >> Why don't we mount a panel to one of the
back pieces? >> Okay. After this, you're going to be in love with trust. You're going to want to
put truss everywhere. >> Clearly, this goes here.
>> That seems right. And then there's a bunch of hardware in here. >> Yeah.
>> 16 pieces. So there's 16 of these. And they look like the bolts that would fit
in there. Oh, does that go underneath? Oh,
>> dude. You're not doing up more bolts, are you? There's so much more hardware.
I think this is spacers. It's spacers. You can't just butt these
together. >> Oh, these guys. Oh, sure. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
>> Okay, there. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's that makes sense. >> So, that goes there.
>> That makes sense. >> That goes there. Okay, let's grab a panel and let's see if we can figure out
how it goes on here. Sure. >> You don't happen to remember which way was up, do you? So, here's the things
you were talking about. >> Yeah, those are the things I was talking about that they can lock into the other
panels and whatnot. As for how it attaches to the truss.
>> Mhm. Wait, it's got to be the clamps. These go on a round thing. They unpin.
>> Okay. >> Okay. And these go on here.
>> Okay. I'm following so far. >> Yes. That's as far as I've gotten.
Maybe we can tell from what looks like it's had threads run through it.
>> Thinking, >> okay, we just got to we got to look closer at this. I think
>> I'm 100% now that these just bolt through the pipes into No, totally. I I
think that's correct. >> We just don't have those screws. >> Do we have a Oh.
>> Oh, >> hey, look at that. >> That doesn't show panels going on,
though. how it goes together. But it does show that we have the feet facing
completely the wrong way and this whole thing would have come down like that.
>> We definitely we definitely did it wrong. Okay. Well, you've got to go film a ShortCircuit. Uh I'll look up some
videos and look into this and see if we can figure out one how to attach the the
displays. And two, we'll at the very least get the truss set up properly. And
then if we have to go buy some bolts from Canadian Tire or something, we'll go buy a bunch of bolts.
>> Okay. >> All right. >> Okay. >> See you later. I just came back from
lunch. Jamie and David helped me figure out what was going on. Uh Jamie, please
tell the people what you did. >> I did what PLO was unwilling to do and
read the manual. Supposed to use one of these things and go through two panels
and then lock it in place. That's that's
literally it. >> So, we're going to build out the rest of
the truss and then we'll put some panels on. >> Yeah.
Okay, we've got our truss set up. Now, what we're pretty sure we do to get
these panels attached is you flip back this little corner lock piece. You get
the panels together and then once
they're together and they've got this locking mechanism in place, you then
clamp them down to the rest of the truss. And like I didn't really trust a
single clamp, but they're on there pretty good.
big moment. Three, two, one. Wait, what?
>> We've only done one row so far. >> Okay. I was going to say I don't That
can't be all of them, right? You know what? I actually kind of like it.
>> It's not bad, eh? >> Yeah. >> And it's not at full brightness right
now, either. No, it can go brighter. Yeah, >> I found some dead pixels.
>> There's probably some. >> Okay, how far back do I have to go for
the Oh my god. >> pretty pretty far back. It's 8 by1 right
now. What a great aspect ratio.
>> We're not 100% sure still, but we do still think it's about 200 by 200 for the pixel count.
>> But how far back do I have to go for it to look like a somewhat serviceable
>> image? Probably past the tripod. >> You know what, dude?
With scaling, it'll be a lot better, too. This is going to be pretty cool.
>> I think so, too. Like, it's it's genuinely pretty cool.
>> This might have been not >> 100%. I'm very on board now. I think
especially once we go three more rows high, it's going to be a very like legit
screen. This could be cool for like Smash or Whale. >> Whale land. Yeah. Like just imagine like
a Smash tournament on something like this. It' be sick. Well, might not be.
See what the latency is like. Let's get the rest of it built and then let's game and
>> watch content on it. >> Yeah. Sounds good.
Holy crap. It's glorious. >> Yeah, it looks way better from back
here, dude.
Wow. Doom Dark Ages could be better. I agree with you about the whole glory
kill thing. That kind of sucks. But the wall, >> dude, >> look at how good the wall looks.
>> This is awesome. >> It's It's not without its flaws. Nope.
>> I can see some of the seams. There's some obviously dead pixels. Yep.
>> But the overall experience is way better
than I expected. >> I Yeah, I, you know, fully expected to
kind of poo poo this thing, but it's been pretty sick. And we're only at 75%
brightness right now. >> Really? And this is with all of our like
lights and stuff. One pointing directly at it. >> Yeah. So, we could crank it up a little
bit. I'm not saying it's going to get like, you know, like 200 nits brighter,
but yeah, it'll get better than this. And also, the weird jutteriness, that's
just the mouse being used on like a sofa. That's not the screen tearing
weirdly or anything like that. That's just It's weird. This is awesome. I
noticed we're running a pretty mid GPU. Are we leaving any performance on the
table? >> Nah, this is less than 720p.
>> No. >> Yeah, we'll check. >> No, it doesn't look like less than 720.
>> Look at the text on the bottom there. That sure. >> No. No, that's more pixels than 720p.
>> Oh, you're right. >> You just got um actually. So, we have way more pixels. Sort of.
>> Um >> a few more pixels. >> Uh not many more.
>> Some more. >> The screen quality. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of like old
rear projection TVs. >> Yeah. It's not super bright. It's
probably a scale thing. I was so much smaller cuz I was a child when rear
projection TVs were a thing. So, they looked huge to me. And I'm bigger now.
And the TV's bigger, so I think it's all just kind of scaled up. Here, I'm going
to turn the brightness up. >> That's a good idea. >> Doom's a little bit of a dark game.
>> You might say it's a dark age.
>> All right, that's 100. It does look brighter. It is brighter.
Yeah, >> the contrast is actually not bad. >> It's not great, but it's not terrible.
It's not terrible. That's a big advantage of LED walls or of the
upcoming microLEDD technology that hopefully will someday make its way into
consumer. >> I don't think that's ever happening. >> Is that like OLEDs, they are a
self-emissive display. So there is no backlight that's shining through a you
know a black pixel so to speak. Uh instead your black is dictated by how
dark the empty space on the panel is
around the emitting LED. So, the darker we can get this room, the more contrast
we can get out of our display. In fact, can we lose that one as well?
>> Wow, >> dude. Okay, this is pretty cool. The only
problem with this is that it doesn't exist in a vacuum. This is super cool.
And honestly, I don't even feel like it was a bad deal. I paid less for my TV at
home. >> This is bigger. We're at 179 in
diagonally. that is bigger. >> That's huge. Um, but yeah, in terms of
like literally everything else, your TV
at home is better and it doesn't need trust. >> The not needing trust is a major factor.
However, the installation of my TV at home is a little specialized. But for
me, the bigger thing, the bigger difference is that my TV at home is 4K.
If I want a more immersive image like this, I could just sit closer to it
>> 100%. Whereas this one, yeah, it could sit closer, but I don't
really want to. >> David found some of the retina information for me. Guess the PPI of
your display of your video wall in this configuration.
>> Uh, 15. >> It's single digit.
>> No, >> it's 9.68 PPI.
>> No. >> And you'd need an average distance of
355 in. >> Like 30 ft away.
>> It's pretty far. It looks not bad. >> No, it's pretty good. And you know what?
The latency >> is not amazing,
>> but if we were playing a single player game or something, this would be totally fine. I could I could play like an RPG
on this thing and it'd be all right. >> I'm willing to bet this is 75 to 80
milliseconds. There would be no reason for me to have this over a 65 in TV. But
I do think we'll have uses for it. I think we can use it for training. And
based on how good it looks from that distance, this is going to be freaking
awesome for the stage at Whandland. >> Oh yeah, it'd be really cool. Imagine
like four player uh Mario Kart cuz each quadrant is like a 65 in TV. Not
exactly. I'm just like looking at it and eyeballing it, but like you know that's
like that's a whole TV right there. >> I think the latency is honestly too
crappy >> for Smash >> for us to to play real games on it. So
we have those Epson projectors that I'd probably rather use for that.
>> Fair enough. But if we were like playing stage games or announcing winners or
>> draw or if we had like uh we wanted to have
like an exhibition match or something on the big screen, this is the one I'd want
it on. >> Yeah. Or even if like let's say you did uh a big, you know, WAN Show again, like
a live WAN Show. This could be the second screen that's for like the
audience that's too far away to see you guys. >> That'd be so cool.
>> I Okay, fine. There's a lot of uses for it. I don't think you've wasted your
money. >> Yes. Yeah. And if I did, I could get it
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