Giant home cinema displays like this one have existed for longer than you would probably think and I've wanted one from the
Moment I laid eyes on them, but there's one
Teen seed problem. How much does it cost? Can you say honestly speaking that nobody needs a TV?
That's anywhere from 146 inches to 292 inches. There's a lot. There's a lot of people asking me how much it costs
Now let's talk about the hidden cost
You understand that this display starts at around
$360,000 right and I was like yes, I am aware of this starts
in fairness Samsung's the wall has come down a little bit since then but
This technology is still well beyond the means of the non billionaire class
Or is it what if I didn't need the wall? What if I could find a wall?
That does pretty much the same thing for a hundred thirty thousand dollars off
Like the Costco classic a wall sales pitch for their 4k micro ledc series
Sounds too good to be true like the wall It's using chip on board technology to achieve sub one millimeter pixel pitch like the wall
It offers over a thousand knits of peak brightness and like the wall
It can manage OLED level blacks because black is just off
Unlike the wall though it comes at a fraction of the price while being larger managing higher sustained brightness and this one blew my mind
It's IP 65 rated like I could spray a hose at this thing while it's on
That actually kind of makes sense for a technology that's often used in digital signage outdoors
But still when a wall agreed to send us one of these things I could hardly contain my excitement
But now I've got a bit of a problem. How the heck are we supposed to mount these?
How about with a giant plywood backboard and a little help from some old friends some of which own a display
And also our sponsor Why don't we start with a look inside the boxes sure unlike last time we bought an LED video wall on craigslist we've got
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Packing lists and documentation, which is going to be pretty exciting. Wow quick start guide
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Remember we thought they were just kind of a rando brand turns out they're one of the leaders in the space
We just are not video wall people and had never heard of them. Sorry Nova Star
That should be in here of this big box for something that's never meant to be seen. She's kind of gorgeous
This thing can do four by four by four RGB. So no more chroma subsampling. Oh sick
I'm pretty sure it's gonna cap out at 60 Hertz, but it can do proper 4k sick and we can do whatever
Configuration we want. So if you want multi view if you just want one giant screen. What about HDR?
Yes, it'll do up to HDR 10 plus. What about latency for gaming?
It's supposedly way better than the one we've got so well, you know 60 Hertz will feel it right, but it should be like a proper
Gaming experience. Oh, dude. Yeah, kind of want to take a closer look at the back though
I couldn't help noticing all these HDMI's are 1.3 and 1. Oh, there it is
HDMI 2.0. Okay Not 2.1. That's fine though. We can do 4k 60. No problem. No problem. This is cool
The HDMI modules are actually modular
So that's our HDMI 2.0 board and then I guess
With the same bandwidth that you can do one HDMI 2.0
They can do a whack ton of 1.3 and 1.4 and these are RJ45 connectors, right?
So these go out to our actual LED modules Yeah, we should able to do up to 26 million pixels over RJ45
The last big thing is Genlock which is used to synchronize with other devices. All right
What else is in here? This is heavier than I expected it to be. Yeah mounting hardware tools. What is all this?
I just told you it's like we got some power cords. I got a whole kit, dude
I got like a suction cup. I got ESD safe gloves. I got a maintenance tool magnet adjustment tool
Oh, you know what that suction cups for you can hot-swap these
Shut up. Yeah, so if one panel breaks or you know, you get a dead pixel or something
You can hot-swap just that one panel. That's right. No the suction cup. I did know that I just it's just crazy
Yeah, when they sent us it we they sent us everything they didn't cheap out
We've got all of the spare parts that would normally come with this We've got all of the mounting hardware that would normally come with this
You can do it yourself and they say it takes about two people two hours. That's probably a professional time
But 90% of their customers just have them come out and install it
Yeah, makes sense considering, you know, you're spending already like 86 87 thousand dollars on your giant video wall
What's another like four grand to have a couple people come out and build it for you speak of the devil?
Here's our spare parts for power supplies and receiving cards on the subject of power though
I was floored when I found out how little power this thing uses for context the one behind me
We have to drag I think it's four circuits over it in order to power it up
And it caused major problems at the last whale land when we didn't account for the power in our floor plan
This new one. What does it work out to? It's like 65 watts per meter squared. That's crazy
This is another major advantage over the wall at least back when I did research on it when Samsung
Required you to have a dedicated air conditioner unit in the room
Just to account for the extra heat from the wall
They do recommend that as well in their specs when you're planning stuff out
But I don't think it's a 10,000 BTU air conditioner
I've been at connection plates more gloves than suction cups That makes sense because they would assume you'd have two to three technicians putting it together and realistically, you know
You get some gloves dirty. You don't want to keep using those you should probably switch your gloves every time later
Yeah, every time otherwise three kids love this. It's just called thick connection
Bolts for days tire iron a bunch of RJ45 a cabinet data cable 340 millimeter
USB thumb drive these are just wall mounting brackets because you can do it yourself hub board
How dare they assume what type of content I'm gonna watch on this I
Think that's it for this one because these are all just mounting brackets long
So in classic Linus and plufon boxing video walls fashion we picked the least interesting box
100 wait the card was in there. Oh, that's true. That's the Novostar video. Well, I sir
Yeah, you're right ready for round two. Yeah, this should be our
Panels is our cob 0.9 millimeter C series. Oh, that's not what I was expecting. This must be the back
Yeah, you can see all the electronics on it though because instead of putting little diodes and doing it, you know as SMD
This is just all the electronics and then the pixels are all on the front. All right. Let's crack this open
Why would you open it like that dude? She's heavy. Yeah, I believe it. Look at all the electronics on it
She's dense really dense. Wow
You can barely make out the individual pixels when we contrast that with our old video wall, which to be clear
We love and use very regularly all hands quarterly meetings whale land
It's just that this is a completely different class of product
This damage in the corner here is actually kind of convenient because you can see where one of the old square LED modules
Became desoldered and fell off. These new ones use a completely different approach
Instead of using SMD or surface mounted device
Which has the LED the electronics and the wiring all packaged together and soldered on this new panel from AWOL
uses flip chip chip on board or cob with these guys the LEDs are attached
Directly to the substrate and the chip is well. It's on the board
Basically, what that means is you can pack way more tiny little lights into the same amount of space
That's what makes these micro LED rather than regular LED or mini LED
Our pixel pitch here is just point nine millimeter bang bang
I know yeah, I got it also despite our new video wall having way more pixels than our old one
It actually uses significantly less power and generates way less heat
What's in this box? The last thing I think we're gonna need before we can go any further. Oh, it's the back piece. Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, here we go. These are the cabinets
Conveniently in a less square shape this time, which will make it a little bit easier for us to build a more
Cinematic display aspect ratio. They're all numbered. So before they send this off
They'll configure everything for us and then when you assemble it. So that's why you know if you are doing it yourself
It's really easy. You just do it in the exact order that they've got everything labeled
Oh, that's super convenient actually alignment for the modules is done with magnets
And it just pops on like that. You just do it seven more times times 36
I'm actually not done talking about this whole flip chip chip on board thing though
There's a huge number of benefits one that we didn't even talk about before is that see how black
This is compared to the old one just like any other display
The blackest black you can have is the black that it is when it's off and when your LEDs are this big
That's not very black. So our contrast should be way better. Yeah, also
Reliability man, we saw that one that was knocked off the corner there that that one's full of the bottom
God, yes, these should be much more resilient. I wouldn't go out of your way to try to you know, ding them or anything
But there's an encapsulant. Yes, not a coating. It's an encapsulant. Yes
Wow really grabs onto it. You want to do some I don't I don't I don't want to this is your video wall and
So it was very expensive. You've already got the gloves on I want to just see it turned on
You sure you don't want to see me turned on because this video wall is really
I'm gonna have to wait a couple hours before it's built to see that Yeah, I'll have to take off this wonderful Floatplane hoodie exclusive to Floatplane members album g.gg slash Floatplane
How many pixels is this he said 640 by 360? Wow?
So that's about 220,000 or something. Let me see if I had just over
230,400 that's per cabinet not per panel so multiply by 36 and we've got a 4k display. That's crazy
There you go. They have a little bit of play so you can kind of get them like exactly perfect
Yeah, realistically, you know as long as you're direct on and there's content playing
I don't think we're even gonna see these seams It is kind of the last hurdle for micro led to figure out is how to
Fully eliminate the seams because even when I've seen them at CES they look crazy impressive when you're dead on
Then you go to the side and you can start to see them a little bit, you know
Time to do it again. I'm kind of glad that we had the pros come out to set it up
Oh, yeah, I mean, I'm sure we could have figured it out
Just full disclosure. They absolutely showed us how to do this once before Linus tried to do this himself
That's why you know, it's going so smoothly. Hey
Listen, I could have figured it out and shout out Joel from AWOL. I had the quick start guide
One panel one panel out of 36. Should we go see how they're doing in there?
Yeah, welcome to our new and improved theater room We put some acoustic dampening in here now, so it sounds way better than it did last time we were in here
It's also got a sound system now It's just the old one from the employee lounge not an at-most system or anything
but this room is meant to be kind of a proper room for us to show off just
Crazy display and sound technology in the future still got some more work to do on the acoustic treatment
But it's way better than it was before and this is where a wall is going
Only one small issue. How are we gonna mount this? Someone must know the answer to that. I made one for you
Yeah I helped I forgot what number it was so you might have to take the things off and find out
Yeah, I'm gonna just put it all back in the Oh
Exactly like helping dad
Okay, all right Linus, you know, we're done. I'm ready. We built it. I'm ready. Ow, not there. There you go
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my goodness. It's warm in here. Yeah from the excitement or both. Ow. There you go. Holy
Oh my god, it's so sharp. Holy
Now I've experienced this Before when you look at the panels close, right? Yeah, like the pixels like this small
Yeah, and it's mostly black. Yeah, and there's like a weird effect with micro led where you step back past a threshold
And it goes away. It goes away a hundred percent. I haven't noticed a seam yet. Oh, yeah, they're really hard to find you guys
freaking Killed it because my job is to look at it and find everything that's wrong with it
and like I've spent so many years on the show floor like being like, yeah, micro led is pretty cool, but like
You can tell from the seams between the pixels
Now i'm not off axis yet. You've got to be like right beside it
Oh Wow, that's really seamless the mat too. Yeah, like we've got potlights in here. Oh, yeah, the glare is like non-existent
We haven't even turned off the potlights yet
Like okay, like to be clear right like a thousand and change nits peak brightness is not that competitive with the brightest
You know qled's these days, right? but like
In a light controlled room Dude, it's
Lots And don't forget that it's going to do all of that
Sustained because each panel Right able to output that much brightness instead of it being limited
It's way better than I expected the hookup put out a video yesterday on a 157 inch from a wall
And he said he measured almost 90 to bt 2020
Wow This is the point where I can't find the seams anymore. That is
Crazy. Yeah, you're right around eight feet there. I would never
Want to be this close to a screen this size
well Okay, never some big word
I could think it's some pretty immersive content that I would never want to be closer than this
Tell me something the 60 hertz limitation. Is that the controller or the panel?
That's the panel. That's the panel the panel 60 hertz. Okay. Okay. Well, I'm sure you guys will have an xgen thing at some point
We are in production to the old 120 hertz and then I
Do you have a trade-in program? This is insane, dude for movie watching
Like if I had unlimited budget, it's immersive
That's one word for it. Yeah Okay, we gotta we gotta check out some content
We gotta play some games and we haven't heard the speakers in this room yet with the sound treatment. Oh, dude. Okay. Okay. Okay. We gotta
Okay
I want to steal it Oh my god, it's so bright the bright scenes like oh by the way, this is actually not even at 1200 nits right now
What at 100% it's 800 nits, but you can basically juice it even more
Um Through the software dude, this might be all I would need right. I have dreamed
of large format micro led like
Becoming accessible basically since the first time I saw the sony cletus display and like yes 80 grand installed is still
Not reasonable. We're like 90 but still but here's the thing guys the f***ing trajectory
The trajectory That's what it's all about seeing the alignment this good. Oh, I'm not even blowing smoke up there. No, no, no 100%
Absolutely, I think this is the best alignment. I've seen on a micro led. Okay. I keep kind of catch one there kind of
I would never notice that if I wasn't trying to find it. No. Oh my god. It looks so good
Yeah, so that magnet tool they use they use it to adjust the magnets ever so slightly
So you're not even pushing the like panel around on its own You're moving the magnets so that it stays nice and aligned some Windows HDR HDR stuff is a little
Touchy and if you switch inputs it gets a little upset for you know a couple seconds. Yeah, okay
So basically projector things anyway 100 which is what they're competing with anyway exactly and this crushes like any projector
Oh my god, disclaimer. We do have a 27 000 lumen projector sitting on the other side of this wall that sure
Sure Any is a big word but
Any projector I've ever seen I'm with you there. There you go. The next time a paul brother gets his job broken like
This would be the ultimate Place to watch it
Their professional installations are typically even better than this because you know, we do things a little jank sometimes
Like you can see all the cables coming out the side there. I didn't even notice them
So wonder struck. I know I just want to make it clear to the audience that like when they do it for someone professionally
They do it very very well check out the website We'll show some of the shots of their professional installs not their fault
But everything else is just beautiful. The mat's crazy. There's a potlight right there
I should be getting wicked glare and rainbow effect and whatever
It's not even the blackest black that I've ever seen when I'm looking at it
But the matte effect. Yeah the lack of glare just wow
How's the HDR handling though? It looks a little off. It's been
Good depending on like the format and the system we're using
Um, some movies actually look great and I know that with uh halo specifically
Yeah, you know how normally like 50 right in the middle looks good. Yeah, we had to crank that to 100
But as soon as we did it fixed it like and it looks great that way
This is probably the worst. I've seen just Windows HDR
In general like, you know how washed out it looks Yeah, as long as you get the right game with the right settings dialed in it looks solid because yeah, this looks
This looks desaturated for sure like didn't canto. No no incanto look great. So it's in this weird
I don't know if it's uh the content or um the receiver because we're also passing through the receiver as well
Oh in the cinematic aspect ratio Oh
You can actually set this to 21 by 9 if you want. He did a few pre configurations for us. He's got like a
2 by 2 grid a 21 by 9 And then a full screen what will happen if I tell it to
Transcode now it pops. Yeah. Okay. So this is just something we got to figure out
Sure what it is about the content or the chain because like this is 1080p
So it looks like poo poo on such a large screen, but the color and now we're getting those specular highlights
I wonder if this is something where we can just tell the controller manually. This is HDR 10
We literally just got all this stuff working. So there's probably some kinks to be worked out
But like even this looks amazing like this is sdr though. I know sdr, but like it's still handling it so incredibly
One does not simply acquire a 162 inch
TV Except when we do
I've never seen this look this good the size man Every time we go to a new size we go
Maybe this is the limit to how much we could possibly need. I know and then we see the bigger one and we're like, nah
We were wrong. We were wrong. Oh my god. Are you ready?
Jesus. Sorry. Sorry. All right. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go
I can feel the fucking heat of his breath dude
Going to the movie theater is ruined for me now
And for how most movies are mastered it's enough bright. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah
Wow Okay, gaming. All right. I can feel the heat off of it
But barely so to be clear a wall is not the only one who's using these flip chip chip onboard panels
um, but I haven't experienced them yet and
The efficiency is incredible. It's so thin even just a few short years ago
we had professional like mini led backlit uh monitors that were that thick like
This is weird. Do you notice kind of like when you flick your eyes back and forth? Yes. Okay. Do you know what that is?
Yeah, David Gauthier noticed it as well when he came in
Um, it's like yeah, if you flick them back and forth really quick or if you blink sometimes, yeah, it happens
I'm not sure. Blinking is okay for me as long as I don't reposition my eyeball. Oh, yeah, sure
It's not terrible. It is no worse than the rainbow effects that I would get from a DLP projector
Sure, is how I would Explain it that controller makes some noise though. Hey
Yeah, I would want this in like a cooled
Separated cabinet or I'd want it in another room for sure
But hey, it's rack mountable. Yeah. I yeah, it's rack mountable So like if I was able to move this home, which I'm not saying I will
But if I was able to I could easily just chuck this in the rack and then run what? Yeah, just run
Oh god, does all of this Ethernet need to go to the display? Yeah
Do you see the giant bundle of Ethernet cables coming out the side there? I do. Okay. I could figure that out
Look at this. This is freaking daylight. I mean here. Look at these guys way back there
The tv is the only light in this room right now. Yeah in this dark room
You know what? I am not noticing a problem with latency with latency
Yeah, it seems okay so far whereas the other video wall our old yes tech, you know beautiful display, but yes tech more
Like no tech. No. No. No, they're great. We just have an old panel. You got nothing. You got nothing. Oh, you got nothing
You got out split the D. Oh The motion is perfect. Yeah, right it like the p-word is a big word
But one of the reasons other than that I just really like this game and excellent rectangle is super cool
And you should go check out tape to tape other than that one of the reasons I really like to use this is a dark jersey on the white ice
Gives me a really good opportunity to have a look at what the pixel response times are like, uh
Perfect. You're in my way. I'm just I'm sorry. I'm looking I'm evaluating like definitely being at 60 Hertz means that
We're at 60 Hertz. Yeah, but you heard the man. He's trying to make uh, they're trying to work on 120 Hertz already
I'm looking at his jersey the in motion clarity
Is not going to be great. We're still at 60 Hertz
And I also wonder if there might be a little bit of like
Smoothing or something that it's doing. I don't know one difference. I've noticed though while playing this instead of watching a movie
I'm not seeing that like flickering stuff. We were talking about earlier. You just want me blinking
No, no, no, you're too cool. You're two goals ahead. I'm gonna lose. I don't care
Andrew just said you can't hear him because he's not on you know, I'm mic'd up but like we were watching the movie at 24
Right, so I wonder if it's just not like pull down. Yeah, I wonder if it's just not syncing up perfectly
Whereas this looks like great. This looks incredible, right?
Oh Geez, this is an absolute what?
Okay Ignore everything I'm doing right now because it's basically all wrong
Latency is not a problem. This looks
Spectacular like it's just 60 Hertz stuff. It's not, you know, bad screen tearing
I just want to sit in here and watch movies and play games. This is incredible
One benefit of this that it would be easy to overlook is that because it's so much larger than I want at home
I could go Cinematic and still have a giant display. So I want to try that. This is how I want to play this game now, right?
Because it's so it's such a like gorgeous like cinematic looking game. Yeah, this aspect ratio just
Yeah, there it is. I'm really digging the ultra wide. I can't even see the top
Maybe the bottom a little just because the reflection of the light off the floor, but like it's just black. It's just black
We've also got cyberpunk on here. Yeah, okay last game cyberpunk because I want to I want to feel you need to try the first person
For sure. All right, so it's pretty good So if you do happen to get one of these
And You're playing some games and the HDR doesn't look quite right. Definitely go in
This is one of the few times where I've actually really had to tweak in-game HDR settings to make it look proper
You're definitely going to want to do that. But now that we dialed it in like this looks great. This looks incredible
How's the most movement? It's a little floaty. Sure not enough that I would notice with a controller
Yeah, but definitely enough that I can notice with a keyboard and mouse and it's not just 60 hertz here
It's not bad though. It's usable. I can't believe we have this now. I am so
Watching olympic hockey on this now. Let's talk about maintenance back when I was considering splurging on a the wall and then
milking it for content to justify it I was actually put off of it by a professional installer who contacted me and said hey, man on installation day
They look amazing, but over time the panels tend to die
Well a wall like many vendors who supply these video walls fought of that
We already showed that they provided some extras and they also provide all the equipment that you need to swap out a panel
To be clear their panels are rated on the website at over a hundred thousand hours. So theoretically
I actually did notice a green stuck pixel here for like
A couple minutes and then it went away. So if it were to come back at any point
theoretically, it's as simple as
Figuring out how this works and doing what I'm about to do. We have extras in case I drop one, right? I think so
You know what? Let's see how it goes Here's one
So is it like a valve is it? I don't know why
That's trippy. Hey, all right, and then we just
Swapping a panel so easy I could do it. Hey, sir, uh, we appear to have found a hole in your display
There's your problem. There's your problem right there. Let's get that sorted out for you there, bud
Thanks a wall for bringing this over like wow. Did you guys ever do an incredible job?
Yeah, they didn't sponsor the video But they did provide the display and we are going to be getting
So much flipping use out of this thing, man. Where is it going to live permanently now?
I think it's probably going to stay here, right? It's gotta be just fit so well
And that's going to make this so much of a better set like any time
Dude, I'm talking about some new 69 dgpu. We're in front of this thing like this is a gorgeous room now
And it's all about this centerpiece. That's one thing I could see is the production team's dealing it
Yeah, using it as like a virtual production background. Yeah, the sky's the limits man. Yeah
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