WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 This flashlight claims to output 1.3 million lumens. 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:09.200 And this, this is my new gaming monitor. 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:16.720 Hmm, jealous? Don't be. 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:20.520 This monitor only works for a few minutes at a time, 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:24.160 would likely damage your eyes if it worked any longer than that. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.420 And because of its backlight here, it carries a non-zero risk of burning your house down. 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:34.820 The things we do for science are not just for science. 00:00:34.820 --> 00:00:41.100 You see, the latest trend in display manufacturing is towards brighter and brighter monitors and TVs. 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:46.900 But just like the previous fads, like making them thinner and pumping up the resolution, 00:00:46.900 --> 00:00:51.060 there's a point where more is not necessarily better. 00:00:51.060 --> 00:00:57.500 And what better way to demonstrate this than to reach that point and keep on sailing. 00:00:57.500 --> 00:01:04.740 We started out with a regular old gaming monitor and turned it into the brightest one the world has ever seen. 00:01:04.740 --> 00:01:07.820 We expected to have a lot of fun. And we did. 00:01:07.820 --> 00:01:11.100 But what we didn't expect was the discoveries we made along the way. 00:01:11.100 --> 00:01:15.220 So let's begin our journey to Luminosity 00:01:15.220 --> 00:01:19.100 by very carefully tearing down an LCD monitor. 00:01:20.100 --> 00:01:23.100 Right after this segue, to our sponsor. 00:01:33.100 --> 00:01:36.460 Okay, that's a joke. It was already cut in half. 00:01:36.460 --> 00:01:39.700 The point is that inside a modern LCD display, 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:42.700 there's a lot going on. But for our purposes, 00:01:42.700 --> 00:01:48.380 we only need to understand four main parts today. Starting with what sits closest to us, 00:01:48.380 --> 00:01:52.460 the liquid crystals, the LCs of our LCD. 00:01:52.460 --> 00:01:55.900 These sit sandwiched between two polarizing filters 00:01:55.900 --> 00:02:00.900 that are configured to prevent any light from passing through. You can actually see the same principle at work 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:04.660 with a variable ND filter like this one for a camera. 00:02:04.660 --> 00:02:07.820 In this configuration, we can see through it just fine. 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:11.380 And in this one, it blocks pretty much all the light 00:02:11.380 --> 00:02:15.380 and turns black. So wait, if these are configured 00:02:15.380 --> 00:02:18.980 to keep light from passing through, how does any get through? 00:02:18.980 --> 00:02:22.700 Well, you need a third layer. In between the two polarizers, 00:02:22.700 --> 00:02:26.020 a layer that can control polarization electronically. 00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:30.020 That is your liquid crystals. As voltage gets applied to them, 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:35.260 they rotate the polarization of light, enabling an image to pass through. 00:02:35.260 --> 00:02:40.020 Things can quickly get more complicated with different types of LCD panels, 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:43.660 but the same principle applies from an original iPhone 00:02:43.700 --> 00:02:47.180 all the way to a brand new 100 inch LED TV. 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:53.980 Light passes through the display stack and is filtered by the LCD layer to create the final image. 00:02:53.980 --> 00:02:57.860 But where does that light come from? Well, you've got options. 00:02:57.860 --> 00:03:02.020 On older or cheaper LCDs, there can be a material that is placed 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:06.700 behind the liquid crystals that's designed to reflect ambient light 00:03:06.700 --> 00:03:09.820 back toward the user. Some of you might remember the struggle 00:03:09.820 --> 00:03:13.700 of trying to catch a streetlight while you played with your Game Boy in the backseat. 00:03:13.700 --> 00:03:16.980 Or you might not know what a Game Boy is and that's totally okay too. 00:03:16.980 --> 00:03:20.660 I'm not old. The point is that more modern displays 00:03:20.660 --> 00:03:25.900 typically remove that reflective layer in favor of a light that is behind the screen. 00:03:25.900 --> 00:03:30.340 But not all back lights are created equal. They've undergone a massive evolution 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:34.820 from the early days of using bulky, power-hungry fluorescent tubes 00:03:34.820 --> 00:03:39.340 to highly efficient LEDs to, well, this. 00:03:39.460 --> 00:03:44.460 It's glorious, you guys. You've outdone yourselves. 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:49.820 And it's also really dumb. And frankly, a lot more primitive than modern TVs. 00:03:49.820 --> 00:03:52.900 But it is built using similar principles. 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:57.860 As you can see here, most modern back lights use LED lights, which makes sense. 00:03:57.860 --> 00:04:00.980 They're small, they're energy efficient, and they're cheap. 00:04:00.980 --> 00:04:06.380 And those LEDs are either distributed along the edges of the display, like this one, 00:04:06.380 --> 00:04:11.380 or more ideally along the entire surface behind the panel. 00:04:11.460 --> 00:04:16.860 Not only does that produce more even luminance, but modern back lights can alter the brightness 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:20.460 of individual LEDs or at least groups of LEDs 00:04:20.460 --> 00:04:23.620 to selectively dim or brighten parts of the screen 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:28.660 to achieve the best possible image. Now we're saving our deeper dive into dimming zones 00:04:28.660 --> 00:04:32.020 and backlight control for our next attempt. Next attempt at this. 00:04:32.020 --> 00:04:34.740 Oh yeah! Apparently. 00:04:35.100 --> 00:04:38.980 For now, we're gonna move on to what LEDs we're using today. 00:04:38.980 --> 00:04:43.740 We tested about 10 different varieties with the aim of finding something that balanced cost, 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:50.220 quality, and size. And we ended up going with the Cree CX-B3590. 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:57.460 Its compact square shape and high light output made the approximately $28 per unit price pretty attractive. 00:04:58.420 --> 00:05:03.420 There are some compromises, but look at it go! 00:05:04.340 --> 00:05:08.260 My goodness, how is it so flipping bright? 00:05:09.260 --> 00:05:14.100 Well, I'll tell you a secret. This isn't just one LED. 00:05:14.100 --> 00:05:17.220 In fact, if you look much, much closer, 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:22.220 you can see it's actually an array of over 150 LEDs. 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:26.500 Cobb LEDs like this one or chip on board LEDs 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:30.700 simply means that multiple LEDs are mounted to one substrate. 00:05:30.700 --> 00:05:38.300 And while that makes wiring them up dead simple, each one still requires an array's worth of power. 00:05:38.300 --> 00:05:42.820 So that's right, each one of our individual cobs here 00:05:42.820 --> 00:05:48.540 is gonna draw, sorry, is this right? More than five times the original power consumption 00:05:48.540 --> 00:05:51.780 of the monitor? It could draw more if we wanted it. 00:05:51.780 --> 00:05:56.340 Each one of these? Yeah. Huh, how many do we have? 00:05:56.340 --> 00:06:00.500 40! That's like 3,500 watts. 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:04.620 Ah, I see why there's so many power supplies rigged up to the chassis now. 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:06.020 And five different breakers. 00:06:08.220 --> 00:06:12.860 We could have bought a single expensive 3,500 watt unit to power everything, 00:06:12.860 --> 00:06:17.740 but we liked the flexibility, not to mention the cost savings of splitting the load 00:06:17.740 --> 00:06:21.220 between 10, 350 watt mean well power supplies. 00:06:21.220 --> 00:06:25.180 We'll have a link to these as well as everything else we used in the video description. 00:06:25.180 --> 00:06:31.020 Now it's time to talk about cooling. Although LEDs are significantly more power efficient 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:36.140 than incandescent lights, they still waste about half of the power they draw as heat, 00:06:36.140 --> 00:06:41.500 meaning that our new gaming monitor here is gonna throw off something like 1,700 watts 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:46.380 of thermal energy. That is more than the limit for a residential electric space heater 00:06:46.380 --> 00:06:49.820 here in North America. Thankfully, another advantage of cobs 00:06:49.820 --> 00:06:53.220 is that they're designed to be cooled from the backside. 00:06:53.220 --> 00:06:56.380 Fun fact, by the way, our original plan was to thermal goop 00:06:56.380 --> 00:06:59.500 each of these to a CPU cooler to keep our design time down, 00:06:59.540 --> 00:07:03.020 but then we realized we would need 40 CPU coolers. 00:07:03.020 --> 00:07:09.300 So instead, our resident maker extraordinaire Justin designed this absolutely gorgeous custom water block 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:13.580 at a aluminum and acrylic that uses our industrial chiller here 00:07:13.580 --> 00:07:17.740 to pump coolant at a chilly 16 degrees Celsius. 00:07:17.740 --> 00:07:24.220 Now the flow path is not optimized, but it does seem to be sufficient for moving heat away 00:07:24.220 --> 00:07:28.700 from the back of our cobs here. What it doesn't do is overcome 00:07:28.700 --> 00:07:34.900 one gigantic design oversight. See, our cobs go back here, right? 00:07:34.900 --> 00:07:38.660 And then our display goes at the front of our shroud here. 00:07:38.660 --> 00:07:42.660 But the thing is that other 1,700 watts of light energy, 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:45.980 well, it's gonna hit something and turn into thermal energy. 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:50.060 And when you've got reflective mylar glued all over the inside 00:07:50.060 --> 00:07:53.980 of your 3D printed shroud, it's like a hot pocket 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:56.780 and not the delicious kind. 00:07:57.780 --> 00:08:04.940 I like to describe it as the easy bake oven from hell. That's why our next iteration added some server fans 00:08:04.940 --> 00:08:09.620 and venting at the cost of some light bleed, but we found out that still wasn't cool enough, 00:08:09.620 --> 00:08:14.900 which is where this box fan came in. Yeah, it's kind of jank, but remember guys, 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:18.620 this is just a proof of concept for now. What are those doing here? 00:08:18.620 --> 00:08:22.060 The box fan wasn't good enough. And so we have these fans. 00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:26.020 Oh my God. Go to LMG.GG slash Floatplane. 00:08:26.020 --> 00:08:31.260 If you guys wanna hear David and Justin talk a little bit more about what we learned that could help us execute 00:08:31.260 --> 00:08:36.540 on our original idea, which was to build the world's brightest TV. 00:08:36.540 --> 00:08:39.860 One idea they had was to modify the layers of diffusion 00:08:39.860 --> 00:08:42.900 next time rather than just reusing the original ones 00:08:42.900 --> 00:08:46.580 like we did with this one, but enough Dipper Jabber. 00:08:46.580 --> 00:08:49.860 Do I finally get to see it? Yep, it's time. 00:08:51.300 --> 00:08:55.340 They've been working on this in secret. Like I'm only finding out about all this crap now. 00:08:55.340 --> 00:08:58.860 Do we have a fire extinguisher on hand? We, that's what we need. 00:08:58.860 --> 00:09:02.100 Okay, good. They made me do the entire shoot today 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:05.860 without even being allowed to turn it on yet. Like they showed me the lights, 00:09:05.860 --> 00:09:09.060 but that's why the intro doesn't have the actual monitor on it or anything 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:12.660 because they're like, oh, Linus isn't allowed to see it until the moment when you can see it. 00:09:12.660 --> 00:09:15.180 Oh yeah, to put on this. Oh. 00:09:16.900 --> 00:09:21.460 Really? Yeah, you need it. Even for one, when we were testing, 00:09:21.460 --> 00:09:25.460 we made sure that we all had welding goggles because one second of exposure 00:09:25.460 --> 00:09:28.580 and you're seeing those lights for the next 20 minutes. 20 minutes? 00:09:28.580 --> 00:09:32.380 It's pretty bad. Is it dangerous? I don't know if it's dangerous. 00:09:32.380 --> 00:09:35.900 It's all fun and games until you get crap or I've burned into your eyes. Yeah. 00:09:39.820 --> 00:09:42.860 Oh my God, even the seepage around it. 00:09:44.300 --> 00:09:47.660 Whoa. This plastic 00:09:48.660 --> 00:09:51.820 is see through. 00:09:51.820 --> 00:09:55.780 Oh, I can see. Yeah, I can see it. I don't know what's wrong with Linus. 00:09:55.780 --> 00:10:00.060 It's so hot. It's getting hot in here. 00:10:00.060 --> 00:10:03.060 Do we have the flare? Can we check how hot they're getting? Yeah, we do have the flare. 00:10:03.060 --> 00:10:06.500 This is flipping crazy, you guys. Is the chiller even on though? 00:10:06.500 --> 00:10:11.620 Oh. Uh, here we go. 00:10:13.060 --> 00:10:16.540 Oh my God. Okay, so hold on, they're at about 19 now. 00:10:16.540 --> 00:10:22.180 Okay. Oh, okay. They're going up 30, 35, 50. 00:10:22.180 --> 00:10:25.380 Oh my God. I can't even see the display once the light is showing. 00:10:25.380 --> 00:10:29.300 Something is smoking. We're gonna have to turn it off. Really? Cause they're not, they're not hot. 00:10:29.300 --> 00:10:32.340 Something's cooking. They're all under 50. 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:35.620 Every single one of them. Are you sure it's not just flux? 00:10:35.620 --> 00:10:39.820 I'm gonna grab some ISO and wipe it down. Sure. But like none of the wires are getting hot. 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:43.020 Yeah, it's gotta be flux, you guys. These are, they're not hot. Okay. 00:10:43.020 --> 00:10:45.740 I say we, I say- Let's see how hot we can push it. We go for gold. 00:10:46.740 --> 00:10:49.980 You guys dare me to look into it? They said I don't have any more shoots 00:10:49.980 --> 00:10:53.940 for the rest of the day. So like whatever. It's like what, I need to drive home or what? 00:10:53.940 --> 00:10:57.060 135 degrees Celsius. 00:10:57.060 --> 00:11:01.660 Oh. Is like the max- Dude, dude, we're good. 00:11:01.660 --> 00:11:03.820 Here we go. Here we go, here we go. 00:11:05.540 --> 00:11:08.860 Like my skin is at 38 degrees. 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:12.180 Like the light turns into thermal energy 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:17.100 when it hits something, right? So things that it shines at are hot. 00:11:17.100 --> 00:11:22.340 But the LEDs themselves, they're still at about 60 on the hottest ones. 00:11:23.300 --> 00:11:27.340 Okay, it's starting to smoke up real good now. Cut it. Okay, okay. 00:11:28.620 --> 00:11:32.020 Are we gonna put the shroud on? For you, anything. 00:11:32.020 --> 00:11:36.620 Before we do that, how about some speeds and feeds? Like how bright is our backlight 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:43.940 before we put the LCD in front of it? Well, each CX-B3590 puts out around 12,000 lumens, 00:11:43.940 --> 00:11:49.060 which means we're sitting at just shy of half a million lumens total. 00:11:49.060 --> 00:11:55.980 3.426 lumens is one nit, meaning that our backlight is rated at 140,105 nits. 00:11:59.400 --> 00:12:02.580 For context, the brightest TVs on the market 00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:06.540 are around 10,000 nits. Of course, that's all theoretical. 00:12:06.540 --> 00:12:09.780 We don't have a tool that can measure anything that bright. 00:12:09.780 --> 00:12:14.020 So we're not even gonna try to measure the brightness until we've put our LCD on it. 00:12:14.020 --> 00:12:18.140 And I think this goes this way, huh? The scaler and power supply for the monitor, 00:12:18.140 --> 00:12:21.820 you can see it's just kind of like taped to the bottom of it. 00:12:24.340 --> 00:12:28.420 Can you give me something? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 00:12:28.420 --> 00:12:32.660 Yeah, it's out, put it. You okay? It's out, put it, we're good. 00:12:32.660 --> 00:12:36.700 Thank you for that. I should legitimately not be sitting here. 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:43.580 Whoa, it's the cart gonna move. Oh my God, the cart moves. 00:12:43.580 --> 00:12:47.500 Yeah, that's why we have the commuter backpack here today. 00:12:47.500 --> 00:12:52.660 It's to hold it. Oh my God, okay, yeah, fine. 00:12:52.660 --> 00:12:58.020 I'll talk about it. We put a sandbag in the long-awaited LTT commuter backpack, 00:12:58.020 --> 00:13:01.540 which is available now on LTTstore.com. 00:13:01.540 --> 00:13:05.100 We took the best features of our original LTT backpack, 00:13:05.140 --> 00:13:09.060 and we put them in a smaller, sleeker, more stylish package. 00:13:09.060 --> 00:13:13.420 It's got a reinforced dual-layer bottom, a convenient tech compartment that folds out 00:13:13.420 --> 00:13:17.740 for quick access to your laptop and tablet, and it's built with a durable, water-resistant, 00:13:17.740 --> 00:13:21.780 reprieve canvas that is made of recycled water bottles. It's the backpack that's built 00:13:21.780 --> 00:13:26.220 to support your day every day, and you can grab this fantastic 20-liter bag 00:13:26.220 --> 00:13:29.820 for $149.99 at LTTstore.com. 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:33.700 I was joking with the guys, like this right here is the difference 00:13:33.740 --> 00:13:36.980 between us and Mr. Who's the Boss. 00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:40.020 Like his biggest iPhone in the world or whatever, 00:13:40.020 --> 00:13:43.260 it was so clean, so sleek, man. 00:13:43.260 --> 00:13:46.340 Love the collab with the IY Perks. 00:13:46.340 --> 00:13:51.500 This is like this peak LTT. 00:13:51.500 --> 00:13:57.460 Okay, here we go. It's my first time getting to, oh my God. 00:13:59.060 --> 00:14:02.780 You guys, it's actually kind of awesome. Yeah. 00:14:02.780 --> 00:14:06.300 Right? I was expecting it to suck. 00:14:06.300 --> 00:14:10.260 It's like direct sunlight is shining off of these rocks. 00:14:11.700 --> 00:14:15.540 Dude, it's actually awesome. Did you know it was gonna be awesome? 00:14:17.020 --> 00:14:21.140 Holy shit. This isn't even HDR content yet. 00:14:21.140 --> 00:14:25.060 Obviously, the LCDs, even in their black state, 00:14:25.060 --> 00:14:28.620 cannot properly block all the light, right? 00:14:29.060 --> 00:14:31.940 So you don't get the same kind of contrast. 00:14:34.540 --> 00:14:38.780 But it's like the sun is the sun. Holy shit. 00:14:38.780 --> 00:14:43.060 All right, we got death. Oh God, turn it up. Oh no, it's dying. 00:14:43.060 --> 00:14:46.260 Did we kill it? Wait, no, it's healing again. It'll be fine. 00:14:46.260 --> 00:14:50.220 We just gotta cut it off before it gets too bad. It'll come back. It's good. That blew my mind. 00:14:50.220 --> 00:14:55.140 I mean, I remember having this conversation. This was with you, Andrew, at CES this year. 00:14:55.140 --> 00:15:00.900 Oh yeah. Remember when we were on the bus? Oh yeah. We were talking about what is the practical limit 00:15:00.900 --> 00:15:04.460 of how many nits we need to have in a display 00:15:04.460 --> 00:15:08.460 for it to really match the real world. And I remember us talking about it 00:15:08.460 --> 00:15:12.460 because we had actually just seen that high-sense TV there 00:15:12.460 --> 00:15:16.980 and we were like, wow, 10,000 nits, that's wild. But then we were watching the light 00:15:16.980 --> 00:15:22.700 glinting off of one of the hotels in Vegas and we were like, that is so much brighter 00:15:22.700 --> 00:15:26.420 than that TV that we just saw. How many nits do you think that was? 00:15:26.420 --> 00:15:31.620 And we were kind of having this conversation. Andrew, I think this is it. 00:15:31.620 --> 00:15:36.820 I think this is the answer. I think we actually need this level of brightness 00:15:36.820 --> 00:15:40.020 to really replicate what it feels like 00:15:40.020 --> 00:15:42.820 to look at the sun reflecting off of something. 00:15:43.780 --> 00:15:47.040 TV manufacturers, I was wrong. 00:15:48.100 --> 00:15:51.580 We are nowhere near the end of the brightness war, 00:15:51.580 --> 00:15:56.260 of the practical benefits of more. Now we, no, no, but we would never want 00:15:56.260 --> 00:16:00.460 to see the entire display at that level of brightness. 00:16:00.460 --> 00:16:05.500 That would be painful. But what we need is outstanding backlight 00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:08.780 and filter layer control so that you can have 00:16:08.780 --> 00:16:11.860 just pinpricks of that level of brightness 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:16.660 to give you the sparkle and dazzle of light reflecting off of metal 00:16:16.660 --> 00:16:23.660 or off of the peaks of the waves on the water. Like I, okay, did you guys know that this was this awesome? 00:16:23.660 --> 00:16:26.700 We knew it was awesome, but we didn't expect this nice of a reaction. 00:16:26.700 --> 00:16:29.820 Dude, this needs to be a thing. 00:16:31.100 --> 00:16:35.860 I was completely wrong. I thought this was stupid. 00:16:35.860 --> 00:16:40.140 Oh, oh dude, we get to try a game? We're gaming? Yeah, let's play some Alice Week 2. 00:16:40.140 --> 00:16:43.340 Oh my God, see, that's the thing 00:16:43.340 --> 00:16:46.500 is if you're in a dark room and there's a bright light source like that, 00:16:46.500 --> 00:16:51.860 it will dazzle you. Now our content would need to be mastered differently 00:16:51.860 --> 00:16:56.260 to account for this level of brightness being available to it. 00:16:56.260 --> 00:17:00.260 Like otherwise everything's just gonna be blown out and too bright, 00:17:00.260 --> 00:17:04.940 which is kind of what we're looking like in the game. But with it done properly, 00:17:04.940 --> 00:17:09.300 with the dark parts of the scene, as dark as they're supposed to be, 00:17:09.300 --> 00:17:14.540 light sources would be dazzling and it wouldn't be like when the game artificially 00:17:14.540 --> 00:17:20.620 has you walk into a bright space and then you just like see your eyes adjust to it. 00:17:20.620 --> 00:17:25.540 Your actual eyes would adjust to the capabilities of the display. 00:17:25.540 --> 00:17:31.620 And I gotta say, this level of brightness makes the lighting, 00:17:31.620 --> 00:17:34.900 even though the lighting engine didn't change, 00:17:34.900 --> 00:17:38.460 it makes it feel more natural and true to life 00:17:38.460 --> 00:17:41.860 because when you're close to something like that, it is blinding. 00:17:41.860 --> 00:17:45.100 And when it's farther away, it's not. 00:17:45.100 --> 00:17:49.440 Till your eyes, not to the in-game camera. 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.720 That's the difference. They're gonna have to completely change 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.040 the way they handle it. Cause you can see when something is like too close 00:17:58.080 --> 00:18:00.120 and when you go, oh no, it's dying again. 00:18:02.040 --> 00:18:06.280 Wait. Oh my God. Here's what we're gonna do. 00:18:06.280 --> 00:18:12.760 If we had a glass layer and then we ran water through it 00:18:12.760 --> 00:18:17.200 and then we had a glass layer and then we sealed it, 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:21.480 we could actually have a water tank behind the panel. 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:25.560 As long as the water is not creating ripples or anything, it's just solid flow. 00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:31.320 It shouldn't as long as there's no bubbles. So maybe we could cool the TV panel that way. 00:18:34.320 --> 00:18:37.720 Oh, chill there. Chill there and the box could work. 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:43.480 Okay, we've got ideas boys. World's brightest TV, it's going to happen. 00:18:44.760 --> 00:18:48.360 Oh my God, look at it. It's glorious. 00:18:48.360 --> 00:18:52.160 It's like the difference between looking through a window 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.720 and looking at a monitor. Like it shocked me when I watched crab rave 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.600 for the first time, like in that first little scene when they're coming out of the cave into the bright light. 00:18:59.600 --> 00:19:02.640 And like it shocked me. It's like, wow, it's like you're looking out of a cave 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.720 into direct sunlight. Crab rave has no right to look that good. 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:09.160 No, not at all. I've never tried Counter-Strike with a controller. 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:13.080 So I have no idea. Oh, you just want me to flashbang myself. 00:19:14.080 --> 00:19:17.480 Oh my God, the sun. Okay, here we go. 00:19:18.560 --> 00:19:20.240 Oh no. Oh! 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:27.520 Wow, this really is just like looking into direct sunlight. 00:19:27.520 --> 00:19:31.320 It's too much. I need sunglasses. 00:19:31.320 --> 00:19:35.880 Where's my, there's a sunglass pouch in the commuter bag. 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:39.200 Oh, that's more like it. Oh, no biggie. 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.280 It's just sunny today. That's not a problem with my setup. 00:19:43.280 --> 00:19:46.760 That's just an equipment problem. Scale issue. 00:19:46.760 --> 00:19:48.920 I just need my sunglasses. 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.200 See, no biggie. 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.920 Oh my God. Oh! 00:19:59.080 --> 00:20:03.280 Oh, it's so bright. Oh, there she goes. Oh, she's dying. 00:20:03.280 --> 00:20:06.480 She's dying. Dude, I'm adjusting. 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:10.080 This looks great. Oh, really? It looks so good. 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:13.560 We've talked about this in the past, but one of the key elements 00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:19.400 of a display's color capabilities is actually its luminance capabilities. 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:26.320 That's why we can have monitors today that have 100% coverage of whatever color gamut, 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:31.760 but they don't look like real life because they don't have enough luminance 00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:36.280 to create the full three-dimensional color volume 00:20:36.280 --> 00:20:37.440 that we can see. 00:20:40.760 --> 00:20:44.160 I unadjusted for a second there and that was pretty rough. 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.080 Ah! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 00:20:50.560 --> 00:20:54.080 Ah, ha, ha, ha. All right, let's do it. 00:20:54.080 --> 00:20:55.640 Let's find out how bright she is. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.200 It's about 26,000 hits. We did it! 00:21:02.360 --> 00:21:06.160 We made the world's brightest gaming monitor. Ow! 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.240 Oh my God. Great job, guys. Let's go! 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:16.080 Let's go! The power of the sun in my arms! 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:19.640 In conclusion, the brightest commercially available monitor 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.800 that we could find was about 5,000 nits, 00:21:22.800 --> 00:21:28.760 and the brightest we've ever measured on a display was an outlier hotspot of 20,000 nits 00:21:28.760 --> 00:21:32.000 on the 110-inch ULED from Hisense. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:37.560 We beat them all, and I think we can do even better. 00:21:37.560 --> 00:21:41.600 Anyway, enough of that for now, though. I'm gonna go lie down in a dark room for a bit. 00:21:41.600 --> 00:21:45.960 My eyes are dying, and I'm dying to tell you about our sponsor. 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:50.960 If you guys want us to make the next version of this, maybe a TV next time, give this video a thumbs up, 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:55.600 and if you love janky solutions to ridiculous problems, why don't you watch the one where Alex and I 00:21:55.600 --> 00:21:58.640 attach a car turbocharger to a laptop? 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:03.600 It was somehow more dumb than this, yet brilliant in its own way.