WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.040 I make a pretty big deal about how awesome our merch is and In fairness it 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.320 is lttstore.com but even I can't help 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:16.619 but feel a little bit of small PP energy when I see other YouTuber merch that is 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:19.920 this freaking cool in front of me are 00:00:16.619 --> 00:00:22.699 four gaming computers and a special 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:29.279 black box that allows me to effortlessly seamlessly and nearly instantly switch 00:00:26.340 --> 00:00:35.399 between them with the exact same monitor keyboard and mouse setup I'm sorry what 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:42.180 here watch I'll do it again Boop that is so freaking cool and 00:00:39.899 --> 00:00:46.680 of course it would come courtesy of Wendell from level one text I just have 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:52.020 a few questions Wendell hey what exactly is this thing why did you create it and 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:56.579 what makes it so flipping special I mean what is the difference between YouTuber 00:00:54.300 --> 00:01:02.160 merch and just an actual tech product at this point I don't know maybe I can get 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:04.500 the answer from our sponsor Mexico their 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:10.680 new Aurora Pro 4K projector features three HDMI 2.1 inputs a maximum screen 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.439 size of 150 inches and support for Dolby 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:17.780 Vision next It Go learn more at the link down below everything about 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:23.280 this product is just delightfully Wendell from the Plain 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:26.280 White Packing box with the simple not 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:28.979 even glossy adhesive backed laser 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:35.759 printed label on it to the unimaginative yet amply descriptive name I mean what 00:01:32.100 --> 00:01:39.180 is it if not 8K DisplayPort 1.4 KVM 00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:42.540 switch with USB 3.2 gen 1. that's what 00:01:39.180 --> 00:01:45.540 it is right and this is everything it 00:01:42.540 --> 00:01:49.079 does which when you dig into it is not 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:53.220 padded that is a freaking lot but first 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:55.500 what exactly is a KVM switch 00:01:53.220 --> 00:02:02.220 goodness gracious this thing is huge oh I see we've got the chungus one all 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:05.460 right well included is a little manual 00:02:02.220 --> 00:02:07.020 a basic power adapter with oh okay yeah 00:02:05.460 --> 00:02:12.420 it's got the modular thing on it but you only get a North American one sorry 00:02:09.179 --> 00:02:16.140 everyone else oh and that's pretty much 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:19.440 it which is fine because this this is 00:02:16.140 --> 00:02:22.020 what you need for the uninitiated what 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:27.900 you guys are looking at here is a KVM or keyboard video Mouse which okay it's not 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:33.060 much of a keyboard and it certainly isn't a mouse or a video is actually a 00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:37.260 switcher for those three devices and the idea here is that if you have multiple 00:02:35.099 --> 00:02:42.180 computers say for example your gaming machine is a PC and your work machine is 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:47.040 a Mac or a Linux box you have the ability to switch your peripherals and 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:51.660 the device that your monitor is accepting an input from all with the 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:57.660 Press of a button or actually with a good KVM and this is a good KVM with a 00:02:55.379 --> 00:03:01.860 hotkey that you press on your keyboard of course none of that is what makes 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:05.879 this special kvms in their various forms have existed basically since the dawns 00:03:03.780 --> 00:03:12.420 of keyboards mice and video devices what's cool about this one is how much 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:18.120 video it can handle this is a DisplayPort 1.4 KVM and this one doesn't 00:03:15.659 --> 00:03:22.080 just switch which machine or machines are taking input from your mouse and 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:26.000 keyboard and outputting to your monitor it actually can handle up to two 00:03:24.420 --> 00:03:33.480 monitors across four separate systems not only 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:40.080 that friends but each of these ports is DisplayPort 1.4 which means this thing 00:03:36.659 --> 00:03:44.400 is capable of up to 8K 60fps with chroma 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.319 sub sampling or 4K 120 hertz 444 and 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:51.180 it's packed with all kinds of other gaming Centric features like support for 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:55.680 HDR support for freesync that's right variable refresh rate meaning it might 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:58.680 not have RGB or flashy packaging or even 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.239 an impressive sounding name but this is 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:05.580 no ordinary piece of office equipment this is the gaming KVM I gotta say this 00:04:03.780 --> 00:04:11.400 thing reminds me more of an AV receiver than anything else here is where each PC 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:13.980 can input up to two monitors here's the 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:17.880 USB Uplink here's the audio Uplink for each one and then things get a little 00:04:15.420 --> 00:04:22.380 bit confusing because if you want to plug in a peripheral well okay your 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:26.880 human interface devices so your keyboards and mice they all go here your 00:04:24.780 --> 00:04:31.020 headphones that you actually to use go here okay these are upstream and then if 00:04:29.400 --> 00:04:36.120 you have a USB device that you want to plug in all right to these PCS that high 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:40.020 speed Port is right there and then you've also got another human interface 00:04:38.100 --> 00:04:45.240 device one and another high speed one on the front super convenient the buttons on the 00:04:43.259 --> 00:04:48.180 front are to switch which computer you want but of course there's an easier way 00:04:46.979 --> 00:04:54.840 to do that which I showed you guys already and there's more there's a version that supports USB 3 5 gig but 00:04:52.259 --> 00:04:58.979 also one that supports USB 310 gig meaning you could have a storage device 00:04:56.220 --> 00:05:04.020 connected through your KVM and transfer files at up to 10 gigabit per second 00:05:01.139 --> 00:05:08.940 from you know this computer to that one not that you would ever do that with 00:05:06.479 --> 00:05:13.020 your KVM because let's face it you know level one text and you can afford one of 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:19.080 these so you probably just have a 10 gig Network already which brings us to kind 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.060 of an uncomfortable point it's 700 for 00:05:19.080 --> 00:05:24.840 the version I have in front of me that isn't even the top of the line and it 00:05:23.039 --> 00:05:29.220 doesn't even come with cables because while Wendell does stock cables on the 00:05:26.940 --> 00:05:33.240 level one tech store he figured hey look if you can get them affordably somewhere 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:37.500 else and he doesn't have to QC them so much the better so with that pricing 00:05:35.699 --> 00:05:41.580 in mind you're probably wondering how could anybody justify this 00:05:39.479 --> 00:05:45.479 well why don't we see it in action and I'll show you I really hope you guys 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:51.419 don't like cable management because this is about to get really ugly really fast 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:53.220 come on around back here with me 00:05:51.419 --> 00:05:58.199 boom you are now pc4 something to be aware of 00:05:56.220 --> 00:06:02.580 is that while it's super convenient to have the KVM up close to the user and 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:07.680 the computer is far away from the user you're just going to want to make sure that you've used extremely high quality 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:13.440 cables in a case like that because you're going to have to account for all 00:06:10.440 --> 00:06:15.840 the loss from the cable itself as well 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:19.500 as the loss from the interface here I talked to Wendell about this when I was 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:24.860 actually using one of these to switch between a lan PC in the land room and my 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:30.300 own PC and he was like yeah it's just really important to use 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:32.759 high quality cables in a nutshell 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:36.240 oh how did I manage to get these so hopelessly mixed up this one's still not 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.300 plugged in what just happened you see this yeah yeah which one oh that's the 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:44.759 first that's what I was trying to tell you I hope these are all good cables I 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:48.060 hope so too oh this one is infinite cable so this one's going to work great 00:06:46.139 --> 00:06:51.840 can you show for them slightly harder you think um well that one's not so it's probably 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:56.100 not going to work because it's not from Infinity it's probably going to be fine 00:06:54.419 --> 00:07:02.400 it just depends monitor because one of them is 1440p and that one's 4K this is 00:06:59.100 --> 00:07:04.380 awful and we don't even have any audio 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:07.860 devices plugged in yet you have a suggestion for a better way to do it yes 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:15.060 everything should be wireless Bluetooth oh wonderful this is great the weight of 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:16.500 the cables pulling the feet up you need 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:21.000 some lead weights in there Wendell that's my free consultation for you for 00:07:19.020 --> 00:07:24.539 your product design or you could use the upcoming LTT Cable Management things oh 00:07:23.039 --> 00:07:30.539 yeah actually that's true that's a better show sorry Wendell do you want any other things 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:34.500 um like an Xbox controller or some high-speed storage controller would be 00:07:32.819 --> 00:07:39.500 cool how about this high speed storage high speed storage yeah oh my goodness 00:07:37.380 --> 00:07:44.699 this is I got some more things for you here 00:07:41.940 --> 00:07:48.419 here's a mic why not right uh I mean I guess so here's a hub you can plug in 00:07:46.500 --> 00:07:52.740 there why are you why are you determined to push this to the Limit why not I mean 00:07:50.819 --> 00:07:57.960 I guess so I got a capture card if you want Jake I like how you're using the 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:02.460 Xbox controller as your hid device is it not a human interface device well 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:07.020 you won't be able to use the hotkeys oh no there's all there are four hid ports 00:08:04.620 --> 00:08:10.620 oh really yeah oh cool no this thing is freaking awesome oh sick yeah did you 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:14.400 mention you can rack mount it that would kind of solve these problems no I hadn't mentioned that yet it's cheap I think 00:08:13.080 --> 00:08:18.539 it's like 20 bucks for the rack mount kit yeah okay 00:08:16.259 --> 00:08:24.120 okay hey look at the plug and freaking play g-sync 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:27.840 compatible display connected you don't understand how remarkable it is that 00:08:26.520 --> 00:08:31.800 that just worked the pleb way to switch to another 00:08:30.060 --> 00:08:36.659 computer and you can see the light goes from green to green plus red is to press 00:08:34.620 --> 00:08:41.880 the button there and there it is look satechi d Drive 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:46.680 and the other USB drive oh man I never even thought about like sharing a webcam 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:49.800 for example yeah where's the webcam I thought we got a webcam yeah let's get a 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:54.839 webcam we've got the mic the webcam is actually like a uniquely kind of awesome 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:59.100 use case because that's really difficult to do through I mean realistically any 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:03.240 kind of Hub I always recommend plugging a webcam directly into a USB 3 port and 00:09:01.800 --> 00:09:09.600 the other thing is that it's really uncommon for these KVM switches to have 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:12.260 USB 3 ports at all usually it's keyboard 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:18.680 video Mouse not keyboard video Mouse webcam microphone USB drive I mean then 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:23.339 it would be a KVM now a point of clarification is that 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:28.019 Wendell doesn't actually recommend using it for mass storage devices probably 00:09:25.500 --> 00:09:31.920 because you're not going to be on top of it and you're not going to safely remove 00:09:29.339 --> 00:09:36.260 them not because it can't do it so your mileage may vary with that but he does 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:41.700 support a lot of other Enthusiast specific use cases like it's 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:45.540 been tested with high-end RGB keyboards from the likes of Coursera cougar brands 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:50.279 that don't start with c and it's validated for hdcp pass-through so I 00:09:47.940 --> 00:09:55.620 mean we can test that real quick uh what's a what's an hdcp protected 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:57.300 something I mean Netflix is flex I think 00:09:55.620 --> 00:10:00.300 do we have Network running to any of these nope and one of them probably has 00:09:58.740 --> 00:10:04.980 Wi-Fi I imagine one of them definitely is oh god oh geez everything is going 00:10:02.459 --> 00:10:11.519 bad all right you know what we can test is HDR hello hey well that immediately 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:17.459 worked freaking awesome is there like hdcp test 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:21.600 website you know like is that a thing is there a simple tool to determine if my 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:25.339 hdcp is working oh wow this looks like a wonderful app download advisor 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:32.580 bruh how about no okay the NVIDIA control 00:10:30.300 --> 00:10:38.180 panel can apparently do it also a fantastic app very recently updated 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:41.459 definitely not fresh out of 2006. yes all good 00:10:40.019 --> 00:10:45.779 so we weren't going to be able to run into anything that was not going to work 00:10:43.560 --> 00:10:49.079 because it's fine great that was our problem good job Wendell why is our 00:10:47.579 --> 00:10:53.660 webcam not working are you sure it's not working I mean it's like red and looks 00:10:51.180 --> 00:10:58.019 sad oh you probably need this hey literal actual poser okay fine fine I 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.980 will take that I'll take a picture there you happy you gotta shave make yourself 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:07.140 look younger I don't think it'll help remember when Luke shaved it's true but 00:11:05.220 --> 00:11:10.560 Luke's also younger than me you know what really makes you look younger being 00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:16.019 younger Line This is just going through his Obama phase that eight years when 00:11:13.380 --> 00:11:19.440 you just age 25 years wait you haven't even like switched between computers 00:11:17.339 --> 00:11:22.459 that much oh right right right let's show the cool way to do it 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:28.620 what really that's so cool scroll 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:33.360 squirrel fort what else can you do I am now using that 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:37.800 computer and look there's my storage which definitely totally works but 00:11:35.880 --> 00:11:41.700 definitely probably causes problems like Wendell said see this is what oh you 00:11:40.019 --> 00:11:45.180 should always listen to Wendell just always listen to Wendell and then your 00:11:43.079 --> 00:11:50.399 life will be good oh the webcam seems not happy uh I'll figure it out I'll 00:11:48.660 --> 00:11:56.100 figure it out give it a sec and once the drivers are already Arnold 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:58.079 yeah of course it immediately Works what 00:11:56.100 --> 00:12:02.399 freaking love it and it's completely seamless with the keyboard and mouse 00:11:59.700 --> 00:12:07.680 because oh did I even mention this not all of his products are just kvms so 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:11.100 he's got a wide wide range of different devices depending on how much you want 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:17.279 to spend you don't have to get the 700 Cadillac version there's just dual PC 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:19.079 ones like this single monitor two PC uh 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:23.040 here's one that's single monitor two PC with a 10 gig Uplink that's why it's 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:27.540 USBC and he even has one that doesn't support a display at all oh yeah it just 00:12:25.620 --> 00:12:33.600 supports Mouse roaming between the machines in Hardware so we've done that 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:39.360 before in software but in software in Hardware yeah you do need a fully hid 00:12:36.959 --> 00:12:42.899 compatible Mouse so some fancy gaming mice might break it sure but like a 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.860 normie Dell Mouse of this one will probably work fine yep that's kind of 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:50.760 nuts and the other really cool one is the USB power delivery one oh yeah so 00:12:48.959 --> 00:12:54.540 it'll charge the connected devices if you want to switch between your laptop 00:12:52.079 --> 00:12:58.019 and your iPad yeah and have mouse keyboard input for both of them I mean 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.860 he even makes one with four monitor support you can do four computer four 00:12:59.820 --> 00:13:08.040 monitor which is that's like the 1200 one how big is it large it's tall it's 00:13:05.339 --> 00:13:11.820 in charge basically any setup you can imagine I think that one is built to 00:13:10.019 --> 00:13:15.720 order because there's no photos of it and it's just like if you want this 00:13:13.079 --> 00:13:19.980 please email Wendell at what no internet 00:13:18.060 --> 00:13:22.860 yeah this one's not plugged in I just I just switched computers again you just 00:13:21.420 --> 00:13:27.180 didn't even notice me doing it because I was like boom boom boom boom boom 00:13:25.019 --> 00:13:30.779 computer switch let's go anyway the one that I'm playing games on is this one so 00:13:28.800 --> 00:13:35.220 this is the use case for this right if you've got a render or code compile 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:38.339 running on something else or maybe one of your machines is just a server that 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:42.240 you have a GUI on for some reason because you're weak like me and you just 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:46.320 want to be able to check on it once in a while I really want this because I have like 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:51.360 my little router box I'm going to build and my Nas and I have them sitting side by side I want to be able to switch 00:13:49.139 --> 00:13:57.300 between them so let's just check all that switching around I just want to see 00:13:54.060 --> 00:13:58.200 is HDR still working can I enable it 00:13:57.300 --> 00:14:04.620 here enable HDR in my game yes that 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.700 definitely worked this is so cool I mean 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:09.959 it's the kind of thing where realistically if you don't need it 00:14:07.680 --> 00:14:14.220 that's fine you can just spend the rest of your life pretending that these 00:14:11.459 --> 00:14:20.040 things don't exist that kvn means kernel virtual machine I mean you're not wrong 00:14:17.700 --> 00:14:25.620 but if you're a Discerning multi-box user and you don't happen to have 00:14:22.860 --> 00:14:29.820 um the world's largest desk to hold all two of your monitors for every one of 00:14:27.180 --> 00:14:34.440 your four systems this is an absolutely incredible solution and level one tax 00:14:32.339 --> 00:14:39.480 has a sick product portfolio that covers basically all the bases now and they're 00:14:36.839 --> 00:14:43.920 even working on DisplayPort 2.0 and Thunderbolt in the future Thunderbolt 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:47.459 KVM I actually didn't even know well he was saying that the Intel Thunderbolt 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:52.440 chipset is kind of a piece of crap in that it will be very difficult oh okay 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:57.720 so maybe yeah I guess my only question at this point is why did it take a 00:14:54.839 --> 00:15:01.199 YouTuber to create this product I mean there's literally hundreds of KVM 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:05.519 switches on the market uh well it's actually very simple in the beginning it 00:15:03.180 --> 00:15:09.180 was this is the situation I have I have a lot of computers and I want to switch 00:15:07.139 --> 00:15:13.980 between multiple sets of displays and computers easily why is this so hard I 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:19.560 mean it turned out that there were actually a lot of good reasons why it was hard that I didn't understand I had 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:25.500 to do a lot of homework to understand USB and DisplayPort and new USB and 00:15:22.740 --> 00:15:30.240 other USB look I tried eight or nine different kvms over the years and I 00:15:27.899 --> 00:15:35.100 couldn't find a single one that did everything well so my first thought was 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:40.800 to modify an existing product all right and only build my uh my own matter of 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:46.019 Last Resort because ain't nobody wants to do that so for both USB and display 00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:50.459 switching you really need purpose-built integrated circuits or ICS to do that 00:15:48.660 --> 00:15:54.360 I'm not going to Fab my own ICS obviously and those are different chips 00:15:51.959 --> 00:15:58.800 companies like Texas Instruments and nxp make what are called reference designs 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:04.380 for things like display switching you know USB spec literally has a section in 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:10.260 it to dynamically map USB devices between different host computers for a 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:14.760 KVM type use case so why don't we just Implement that in the spec well 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:18.839 yeah that's that's actually what doesn't work if you exactly rigidly follow the 00:16:18.060 --> 00:16:24.360 spec and it's actually the same just same story when we're talking about 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:25.800 DisplayPort DisplayPort switching it's a 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:30.839 little problematic that's why the design philosophy of the KVM has shifted from 00:16:27.779 --> 00:16:32.639 trying to emulate a monitor and you know 00:16:30.839 --> 00:16:37.019 do all that stuff to just Plumbing different connections to the displays 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:41.639 the KVM tries to be invisible now and operate purely as a switcher as a matter 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:46.380 of design philosophy one of the biggest hurdles with fast and reliable display 00:16:43.500 --> 00:16:51.839 switching in a KVM top context is actually copyright copyright yeah it's 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:57.360 actually a huge annoying mess copyright expansion maximalists require encryption 00:16:54.600 --> 00:17:02.699 hdcp between your GPU and your display because you're a filthy pirate and you 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:07.199 might steal those ones and zeros those interests in copyright have inserted 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:11.400 themselves into display standards committees to the extent that this kind 00:17:09.179 --> 00:17:16.740 of a KVM type use case is not even considered and even given a KVM that 00:17:15.360 --> 00:17:22.799 works you're going to have to juggle multiple sets of encryption Keys between different computer often that's not done 00:17:20.040 --> 00:17:28.740 well it is an awful lot of unnecessary human suffering that ultimately doesn't 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:30.240 do anything to stop media piracy when I 00:17:28.740 --> 00:17:36.059 started this I never would have guessed that so many problems with this stem 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:38.460 from this hdcp mechanism 00:17:36.059 --> 00:17:43.559 fortunately I was able to learn a lot about that and a lot how about you know 00:17:40.620 --> 00:17:47.460 USB works or it doesn't work and all the edge cases with USB and I built an 00:17:45.360 --> 00:17:51.360 amazing relationship with an ace team in Taiwan that helped me understand that 00:17:49.860 --> 00:17:56.640 taught me a lot and we worked together on stuff so the hardware design of the 00:17:54.299 --> 00:18:01.260 KVM it's already modular there's multiple boards inside this KVM and each 00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:05.340 board only does one thing it's a separation of concerns we in software 00:18:03.299 --> 00:18:10.140 like that so if you want three DisplayPort you've got three DisplayPort 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:14.940 boards plus a USB board in the bottom and if I have to go off script and do my 00:18:12.059 --> 00:18:17.460 own thing I can do my own thing and so as I put in the work and learned 00:18:16.080 --> 00:18:22.020 everything way back in the DisplayPort 1.2 days testing a whole bunch of 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:27.360 devices I learned that there was a lot that was really to do with you know the 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:31.740 specific functionality around the USB spec I mean a lot of the USB devices 00:18:29.520 --> 00:18:35.400 themselves don't follow spec remember how I mentioned USB has a thing in it 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:39.059 for dynamically mapping devices to host computers well virtually no USB 00:18:37.679 --> 00:18:43.380 peripheral maker even tests for that take for example the Logitech unifying 00:18:41.520 --> 00:18:48.900 receiver this thing is common as rocks and sticks and it actually supports an 8 00:18:46.500 --> 00:18:52.440 byte USB protocol and a 20 Baht USB protocol the 20 USB protocol is better 00:18:50.760 --> 00:18:56.820 in every way you can do cooler stuff but for old Legacy compatibility you need 00:18:54.539 --> 00:19:00.480 that 8 byte protocol so if you've got a KVM and you're switching between a host 00:18:58.980 --> 00:19:04.919 that's doing 8 byte and another host that's doing 20 byte you're gonna have 00:19:02.820 --> 00:19:08.220 to handle that and that's complicated so how do you handle that well very 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:12.960 carefully it turns out so through my collaboration and software because it 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:16.500 turns out I'm decent at that we can do something a little bit more pragmatic 00:19:14.520 --> 00:19:20.820 rather than actually follow spec to the letter buggy Logitech wireless receivers 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:26.400 and universal audio video Codec that means driverless even Corsair K65 00:19:23.460 --> 00:19:29.220 keyboards and whatever kind of crazy USB peripherals you've got can work I 00:19:27.840 --> 00:19:33.780 actually have two different kinds of USB ports on the KVM the USB 3 ports are 00:19:31.020 --> 00:19:38.520 hard switch and the the USB head ports are more of that Dynamic device mapping 00:19:35.700 --> 00:19:43.620 thing uh sometimes we can't fix it in the KVM this behind me here that's the 00:19:40.500 --> 00:19:45.299 Samsung G9 Neo it loves to not work it 00:19:43.620 --> 00:19:49.260 works reasonably okay with the KVM we sell only because I found bugs in 00:19:47.580 --> 00:19:53.039 Samsung's DisplayPort firmware and I opened a ticket with Samsung and I 00:19:51.419 --> 00:19:57.419 relentlessly harassed them for about three months yeah three months to get a 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:03.000 new firmware and finally they sent me one 1008 and newer which now largely 00:20:00.299 --> 00:20:06.299 works with the KVM the main reason that I've become known for kvms is that I'm 00:20:04.919 --> 00:20:10.799 willing to chase things down like that to try to understand to try to go down a 00:20:08.520 --> 00:20:16.080 rabbit hole of pain and human suffering and try to figure out someone else's 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:20.640 bugs bugs that if we strictly stick to the spec they would never get fixed I 00:20:19.140 --> 00:20:24.960 still read every single trouble ticket that comes in and internalize it up here 00:20:22.380 --> 00:20:28.559 that's the secret of the success someone that's willing to put all that in their 00:20:26.220 --> 00:20:33.000 brain buying a KVM for me means that I'm gonna put the money back into more and 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:37.500 better products and to try to understand the problems and 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:41.400 fix it and through that I found some amazing connections 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:47.760 our customers include game development companies Fortune 500s nuclear Labs even 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:51.720 hospitals for radiology displays hospitals need kvms too yeah it turns 00:20:50.220 --> 00:20:55.380 out that if you've got a fancy Radiology display you don't want to buy a bunch of 00:20:53.580 --> 00:21:00.539 those you want to just switch between devices and hey we can do it and all of 00:20:58.020 --> 00:21:04.679 that is why I love these things so darn much Wendell is one of the only other 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:09.480 people that I've ever met whose product creation process basically goes yeah 00:21:07.500 --> 00:21:13.799 this exists but it's not quite perfect enough for me and cost be damned I 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:18.360 really do think that I could make it a little bit better the only question this 00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:22.980 all raises then is why is it so darn expensive look this level of debugging 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:28.919 and Engineering it takes a lot of time and effort from a surprisingly large 00:21:25.380 --> 00:21:31.620 team even just buying quality 10 gigabit 00:21:28.919 --> 00:21:36.480 USB chipsets that actually work is a huge pain not to mention we are compared 00:21:34.679 --> 00:21:41.220 to basically every other KVM vendor operating at a very tiny scale although 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:45.299 these things are almost hand crafted which means the costs are way higher 00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:48.900 even with higher costs customer expectations are sometimes impossible to 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:54.179 meet you'd be surprised how many people expect to plug in a single Thunderbolt 4 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:59.280 cable to their gaming laptop and be able to run three 4K 144hz monitors on the 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:04.320 other side of that I'm sorry the math is that just not on your side 40 gigabit 00:22:01.620 --> 00:22:09.240 Thunderbolt 4 is pitiful in a world with 144hz monitors it can barely do one 00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:14.100 maybe not even and that's why even pedestrian USBC docs 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:21.780 from the likes of Dell and HP like what you get with a business class machine they now have dual USBC connections and 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:25.260 that's why the only way I can deal with that in the KVM is by having two or 00:22:23.580 --> 00:22:29.340 three separate connections so I could do something like this this 00:22:27.419 --> 00:22:33.840 is an upcoming model this one does 120 watt USBC power delivery but also has 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:38.280 two extra monitor inputs that are full fat DisplayPort 1.4 as far as I know 00:22:36.299 --> 00:22:42.059 this is a globally unique product but even with all of that effort you know 00:22:40.620 --> 00:22:47.159 it's not perfect there are going to be edge cases there's going to be stuff that I run into but hey you're willing 00:22:45.600 --> 00:22:51.840 to work with me and spend some money I'll do what I can to try to figure it 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:55.260 out or connect the dots or put it together because that's just how we roll 00:22:53.159 --> 00:22:59.820 level one it all I mean it leads to KVM adjacent products things like the Edie 00:22:57.600 --> 00:23:04.620 ID feeder this is the 8K version of that that we've been working on for a while 00:23:01.080 --> 00:23:07.200 uh LTT reached out unwittingly because 00:23:04.620 --> 00:23:10.679 they needed an eight-way HDMI thing and it's like well uh it's going to take 00:23:09.299 --> 00:23:16.140 some customization in order to be able to do that but we can do that and this 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:22.679 was used at LTX because it's not exactly a KVM it's KVM adjacent but that's just 00:23:19.320 --> 00:23:25.260 because the cool stuff I love solving 00:23:22.679 --> 00:23:29.039 problems okay fair enough but I could think of one thing you don't have an 00:23:27.059 --> 00:23:34.980 answer for Mr Wendell smartypants I know I know it's our sponsor right 00:23:31.380 --> 00:23:36.720 Corsair building PCS is really fun but 00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:40.200 it's easy to finish up and realize you've somehow created a spaghetti 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:44.820 inspired cable art piece I mean your mom would be super proud but you might want 00:23:42.419 --> 00:23:49.140 to also consider Corsair's IQ link ecosystem it helps reduce clutter inside 00:23:47.159 --> 00:23:53.520 your PC with one standardized cable connecting everything you can even chain 00:23:51.539 --> 00:23:57.840 devices together using that same simple connector all leading to a single IQ 00:23:55.919 --> 00:24:02.340 link system Hub that can be magnetically attached to your PC case each of the 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:06.539 hub's two ports can handle up to seven connected devices which helps reduce 00:24:04.260 --> 00:24:10.380 cabling complexity and with a range of products in the ecosystem like fans 00:24:08.280 --> 00:24:15.059 coolers and power supplies building a fully connected PC is a breeze oh and of 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:18.780 course you can customize the RGB lighting of all your Corsair devices 00:24:16.620 --> 00:24:24.720 with their IQ software check out Corsair's IQ link smart ecosystem at the 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:25.860 link pun intended down below if you guys 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:29.340 enjoyed this video you might enjoy seeing a potential use case for these 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:34.320 things where I have a Central Computer in one place and then fiber optic 00:24:31.380 --> 00:24:37.080 running to different kind of stations where I can sit and use it throughout my 00:24:36.179 --> 00:24:42.539 house is that really a cost-saving measure by the time you buy one of these and a 00:24:40.740 --> 00:24:45.840 bunch of fiber optic whatever I would say if you wanted to buy a bunch of 00:24:43.919 --> 00:24:51.919 baller monitors this could actually save me money yeah yeah yeah but mostly it's 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.919 just really cool and awesome