1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 televisions used to cost nearly 10,000 today bucks 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,440 and you'd get a tiny little screen in a giant cabinet 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:12,880 but today you can get a perfectly Cromulent TV for just $30. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,880 Okay, it's not exactly a cinema in your home 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,040 but we bought this from Best Buy for $35. 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,600 So why would you spend more? Well, if you pony up $300, you'll get something 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,080 larger, sleeker and high definitioner. 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,680 Is this the sweet spot? If you're not a cinephile probably 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,960 but if you spend three thousands of dollars 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,200 like we used to on TVs, you could get a state of the art 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,520 OLED panel that makes everything we've looked at so far look like it was designed for line of sight humans 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,720 with very poor eyesight. But what if you could spend three 10 thousands of dollars? 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,320 How much more TV do you really get when you spend car money on a television set? 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,880 Is it worth it or is this little guy good enough? 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,760 After all, even this is practically science fiction technology compared to what your parents grew up with. 16 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:08,680 I mean, look how clear the picture is. Hey, I can even make out this segue to our sponsor. 17 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,840 Let's kick things off with the best deals that I've gotten in a long time. 18 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,840 This open box 32 inch Insignia NS32F201NA23. 19 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:30,880 Okay, sure. It's only in fair condition 20 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,160 and it sports just a 1280 by 720p resolution 21 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,160 but it comes with a short open box warranty. 22 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,400 The display itself actually looks pretty good. 23 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,080 And come on guys, 35 bucks is 35 bucks. Who needs the full high definition 24 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:51,040 when the screen is this small? You probably, even at just 32 inches, guess the PPI. 25 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,280 It's like 45 PPI. 45. 26 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:01,760 That is small PPI. And the worst part is that because this was an open box deal, 27 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,200 normally you would pay a lot more for this thing. 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,640 On Black Friday promo, it was more like $70, 29 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:14,840 which is about twice what we paid for it. And the value proposition gets pretty questionable 30 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:21,040 at that point. Let's give it a shot. You know, the remote, it feels okay. 31 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,280 It's better than the Samsung remote we'll try later. 32 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,600 Wow. You can really see those dark areas in the corners. 33 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,440 I don't think that's a defect, sir. I think that's just the TV. 34 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,160 For being a 720p display, the text looks crisper than I expected though. 35 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,280 Smaller than I expected. Yeah, it's tiny. 36 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,760 But growing up, I would have been stoked for a TV like this. We've already run into a problem. 37 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,960 What button am I supposed to press? Okay, I actually can't tell from here. 38 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Oh, it is. It's the home button. Why does it have to do this? 39 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:57,160 We turned the TV on with it. This is a fire TV. Yeah, you're getting fire TV built in. 40 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,840 It's not the worst smart TV platform. In five gigahertz Wi-Fi, 41 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,320 show me anything else for $35 that has five gigahertz support. 42 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,680 My eyes are starting to dry out. Just looking at this for this long. 43 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,960 Full. Yeah, let's go with, just not installing any of your bullshit is not an option. 44 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,280 All of the ads, it works. Okay, but what's this show called? 45 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:23,160 Okay, no, from the thumbnail. I know that it is. Only because I recognize. 46 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,800 As much fun as we're having, making fun of the fire TV experience though, 47 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,120 we want consistency as we're evaluating all our different TV sets. 48 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,520 So we're going to switch over to an NVIDIA Shield really quick here. It's got three inputs though, 49 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,720 which all things considered not that bad and does have an optical jack, 50 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,280 which if I was running a TV like this, I would 100% want a soundbar 51 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,360 and that would be extremely handy. Oh, I hadn't even thought of the speaker quality. 52 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,160 Uh-oh, input. I forgot about this. Yeah, there's no input button. 53 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,760 Ridiculous. I expect that on a Samsung TV. 54 00:03:53,760 --> 00:04:00,400 Frustrated with seeing the same ads on repeat. Well, that's how their TV is $35 open box. 55 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,800 Let's go to that spot we like to watch. These are better than I expected. 56 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,760 Harsh, but clear. If you had a child and sat them in front of this TV 57 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,040 and turned the speakers on, they would be stoked. They would not care. 58 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,000 Is it TN? It doesn't seem like it. No, I'm pretty sure this is VA. 59 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,640 So it is, so it is. Like dude, it's kind of fine. 60 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,040 That's not terrible viewing angles. No, I'm downright impressed. 61 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,200 And for only $35, open box fair. 62 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,640 It's normally 70 bucks on sale. And the distance you're at is about the same size. 63 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,040 It is funny how almost the exact same size it is. 64 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,400 And your speakers are probably better. Plus this is OLED. You know, just because it doesn't get 65 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,160 over like 300 nits of brightness, that doesn't mean it's not bright enough. 66 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:50,240 No, it's very usable. Do you want to know what the color accuracy is? I'm going to guess Delta E average of 13. 67 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,240 In standard mode, yes. But it has a film mode. No. 68 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,960 Yeah, it's got a film mode. Shut up. And in the film mode, it gets an average of six 69 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,920 with a max of like 12. That's not bad. That's not bad. Like it's not amazing. 70 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,920 The only real downside to this TV, aside from like size and pixel density, the latency. 71 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,080 Even with game mode on, it's still bad. It measures at like seven milliseconds 72 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,960 over the theoretical perfect. Even that's not that bad compared to- 73 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,280 Okay, it's not as bad. Not that long ago. I could game with an extra seven milliseconds of latency. 74 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:22,880 In summary, no, it's not amazing, but it's amazingly better than I expected. 75 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:27,920 Even at the non-open box price, making it perfect for something like a dentist office 76 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,100 or a guest or a kid's room. Who I would say it's not for though, 77 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:36,080 is someone who is struggling with affordability and looking for a primary display. 78 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,960 For those folks, I really do think you'd be better off just holding the phone 79 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,720 that you probably already have until something pops up on a local buy nothing group 80 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:52,560 or if you could pick up something like a used monitor. Full HD units tend to go for about this price 81 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,760 or in some cases even cheaper if you pick one up secondhand 82 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,000 and they're not that much smaller. They are smaller. 83 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,620 Okay, they are smaller, but this is a classic like boots theory of economic situation 84 00:06:03,620 --> 00:06:07,720 where spending money on low quality crap is gonna cost you more in the long run. 85 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:12,640 And even though this thing looks fine today, I have serious doubts about how long it'll last. 86 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:18,480 Yeah, any of our TVs, we're not gonna be doing long-term testing. So nothing is necessarily a recommendation. 87 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,640 Did you lift it? Oh yeah, it weighs like nothing at all. 88 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,080 Nothing at all. You're sure this is 720p, right? 89 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,640 Like it's not bad. That's what it's advertised as. Now let's see what happens when we decouple our budget 90 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,320 and pick up the 55R4C5. 91 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,880 This is nuts. I mean, if you told teenage me 92 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,880 that he could buy a 55 inch 4K TV for $300, 93 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,600 he would have immediately dropped his discman, shattered his hybrid theory CD 94 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:55,160 and sprinted to the local future shop. I mean, sure, it's a pretty basic LCD panel 95 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,440 with pretty basic LED edge lighting. 96 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:05,520 So don't expect a great HDR experience, but we have not only tripled our total screen area, 97 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,960 we have also jumped to a whopping 80 pixels per inch, 98 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,360 which is gonna result in a much sharper image. We're also getting one of the better smart TV implementations 99 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,000 with Roku built in, which is a bit of a hot take 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,880 now that it's clear how much of your data they're stealing. Yeah, but everyone's stealing your data. 101 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:27,480 Yes, and unlike TizenOS, which also advertises to you on top of stealing your data, 102 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,200 at least Roku is somewhat pleasant to navigate. Hold for five seconds. 103 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,160 Now that is clear instructions. Yeah, TV much bigger. 104 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,520 Is it doing a good process? Hey, oh! Now this is a TV that I could get 105 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,840 behind spending $300 on. Oh, did we just give Roku a pass 106 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,880 for being like kind of awful? I forgot about this part. 107 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,220 You cannot use this TV without an account. Roku, go fuck yourself. 108 00:07:52,220 --> 00:07:55,300 Also, doesn't have a source button. 109 00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:01,640 Is there a home button though? No input button. Yeah, that is annoying. No, we can't seem to reach you at Roku sucks. 110 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,680 Please activate in the next 30 minutes. Wait, oh, shit. 111 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,960 What? I had to select stupid apps on my phone. 112 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,280 Whoa! CBC gem, let's go. 113 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,240 Set up complete. Was there a minimum amount that you had to select as well? 114 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,760 No, could select zero. But maximizing fun factor. 115 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,760 Okay, this is just joking around. Oh, I thought you were pointing at how many apps are on it. 116 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,960 That's why they didn't have to have me select any. They preloaded 44 on my behalf. 117 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,600 Back didn't go back to home. Oh, that is stupid. Why does it just go back? 118 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,920 Because it's Apple logic. Wherever I just came from. 119 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,080 Take me there, take me there. That's why it's called the back button. 120 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,200 I thought it was because baby got it. That's... Like the last set, we've got three HDMI's, 121 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:51,280 one with EARC, as well as optical audio, but we actually lose the three and a half millimeter jack. 122 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,560 We get a coax jack, an Ethernet port, and a Type-C USB port. 123 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:59,800 Why is it so damn hard to just find the input? 124 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,880 They don't want you to use anything but the TV. 125 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,400 TV input? It's so buried too. Why is it down here? 126 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,520 HDMI mode? No, just, I just, I want to use it. What's the rocket ship button? 127 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,080 Quick launch. Hold to change this shortcut. Change it to an input button. 128 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,240 I'm going to try. You got to be kidding me. 129 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,040 You can change it so it goes to the Roku channel though. 130 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:28,000 Okay, home. Maybe it's down here somewhere. Oh my God, it's below the fold on the home screen. 131 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,280 That is some passive aggressive level bulls***. I just want you to use the TV. 132 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:39,880 Okay, so movie is just warmer. Wow, this is actually pretty well configured out of the box. 133 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:44,040 Not bad anti-glare. Not great. That's not amazing, but like, it's totally usable. 134 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,280 Oh, very usable. I think we just didn't notice the anti-glare coating 135 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,280 on the previous TV because of how small it was. 136 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,760 This is a wild take. Hold on. Was the last one brighter? 137 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,920 Because I think it was. This one, no. 138 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,240 And the gamma handling is like, bad. 139 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:07,920 The problem with having all of these like, dynamic contrast enhancer and other settings like that 140 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,080 is it's not going to look amazing until you find the right setting for it. 141 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,880 I mean, it's only on like low. I know, but turn it up to high. 142 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,120 You're going to get less color accuracy, but it'll probably be a brighter image 143 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,200 that most people are going to prefer. Oh, hold on. We're in dark HDR. 144 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,440 Which is the most accurate, I will say. 145 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:30,120 The bright one looks horrible. It's standards like a little pop here. 146 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,800 But everything in the back is crushed. It's all crushed. This is not supposed to look like this. 147 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,680 There's no full array local dimming. There wasn't full array local dimming on the last one. 148 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:43,880 I know, but it also wasn't trying to do HDR at all. But my point of comparison is a $30 TV that make, 149 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,400 look how bad that looks. The entire right side of the frame is just black. 150 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,600 Maybe don't use HDR on a TV that's not meant for HDR. 151 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,480 I didn't advertise it as HDR. I know. Oh, display when available. 152 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,080 Oh, okay, sure. Okay, I can turn off HDR. 153 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,720 I would take this over the last image. I would too. 100%, not even close. 154 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,840 This is why you don't get an HDR TV that just says HDR 155 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,120 and then play HDR content on it. You need full array local dimming. 156 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:16,400 Full array local dimming, which is only going to come in mini LED or OLED. 157 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,680 Cause micro LED is not out yet. Well, not in consumer space. At a price that anyone cares about. 158 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:25,840 Definitely not at $300. Look how much better this is though. It really is like everything in the background, 159 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,120 you can still make it out. And it's just because the whole thing is kind of lifted. 160 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,000 Yeah, I'd rather watch this. How are the speakers though? 161 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,360 I don't think they're even better than the last one. Not really, no. But like, they're both okay. 162 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:46,200 You can really tell what they've tuned for. Like right in the vocal range, peak! 163 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,640 Yeah. Everything else, don't worry about it. How is the Labs results? 164 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,880 Not awful. We're getting a little over 200 nits in SDR, 165 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,840 about 320 in HDR. And that lack of brightness, 166 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,280 even compared to our $35, $70 TV, you really see it. 167 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,560 Yeah. Our color accuracy is not bad, both in SDR and HDR. 168 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:06,840 And our latency is similar to the last TV. 169 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,680 At 60 Hertz, we're getting 5.2 milliseconds over our theoretical perfect. 170 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:15,280 Very usable. Something to note by the way, is we made these purchases before Black Friday. 171 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:21,200 So these aren't even necessarily the best deals you can find. We saw a similar TCL for as little as $170 172 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,360 as a door buster sale, which is flipping wild. 173 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,760 As for our TV, okay. It's 10 times the price, 174 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:32,640 but you are getting nine times the pixels. And in my humble opinion, 175 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,360 other benefits that I think clock it in at over 10 times the enjoyment. 176 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,600 Yeah, as much as certain things weren't that much better. Yeah, the speakers, wow. 177 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,280 But the size and resolution alone. Without question, 178 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,680 this is the bang for the buck Goldilocks right here. 179 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:53,080 Of course, that doesn't make it absolute cinema either. 180 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,840 What happens if we 10x our budget again? 181 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,720 Whoa, that bigger TV. Damn, what a glorious beast you are. 182 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,200 The Samsung S85F 83 inch. 183 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:11,080 We're calling this our $3,000 TV, but we got an absolute steal of a deal on it. 184 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,800 And so can you. Just like how a savvy shopper avoids buying an iPhone 185 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,360 in August, savvy TV buyers can follow the industry's 186 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,840 predictable cycle to get amazing deals. See, the new models usually get announced in January, 187 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,520 then they land in the spring or the summer. That means that when fall rolls around, 188 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,160 the discounts come out to play and you can often get something that hasn't even been replaced yet 189 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,600 for significantly less money. Because of this, 190 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,960 we got an 83 inch OLED for under our budget 191 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,960 at just $2,500 US dollars. And it's packed with all kinds of features 192 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:50,240 that you would expect on a high-end freaking, giant freaking OLED like four HDMI ports. 193 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:55,240 It's worth noting, by the way, that as good as this thing is, it did have a pretty serious challenger. 194 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,760 Yeah, the LG C5 also had an 83 inch model for sale, 195 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:03,680 but it was $3,200. So it's over our budget, but according to ratings, 196 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:07,760 I mean, it's the better TV. Well, before we say that, why don't we fire this up? 197 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:13,200 Sure. Wow, this thing is a monster. We did get the S85 instead of the 95, 198 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,720 so it's not quite the top-end model. Well, yeah, but like, 199 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,400 I know, yeah. But it's also just regular OLED. Samsung can't make a QT OLED in this size yet. 200 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,760 Thank you for choosing smart things. Did I choose smart things, 201 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,760 or did I have smart things jammed down my throat? 202 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,280 Why is it so trendy to put so few freaking buttons on your remote? 203 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,560 Does this not have an input button either? No, it doesn't. 204 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,240 Neither does my S95V at home. They- 205 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,280 So offensive. You go to the home menu, and then you go to connected devices, 206 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,520 and then you go from there. Just charged on solar, though. 207 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,640 Yeah, and it's got USB-C on the bottom, too. Okay, so I open this app. 208 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,600 Oh, my God. Location, the fuck you need my location for? 209 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,160 Does it want you to tap that button on the remote? Oh, wait. 210 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,680 Did I not have to do any of this? I can just click to the right. 211 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,480 Whoa, and then go hello? Oh, my, okay. 212 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,480 I got dark pattern. That's wild. 213 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,880 It happens for the best of us. The right navigation button, 214 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:17,400 being how to advance through the menus, is not how that works on any interface 215 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,760 in the history of computing. This is the confirm button. 216 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,840 These buttons are navigation buttons. Right means forward and go. 217 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,880 No. The left to right, it- Not in Japan. 218 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,240 Let's start. All right. Connect to Wi-Fi. This is pretty standard. 219 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,920 This is fine. And thank you for the QWERTY keyboard. Okay, enjoy a wide range of smart features. 220 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,280 Can you just sit next? Can you skip? I can. Okay. 221 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,640 But then it just prompts me to sign in. Later. Later. Oh. 222 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,000 It gave us a later option. Even this. Do it later. Do all this stuff later. 223 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,160 This is kind of cool. Yeah, this is neat. You have the volume structure. 224 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,160 Yeah, I'll enable that now. Turned up our brightness. It knows we're in a bright room. 225 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,440 Hey, this is nice. You can use your smart remote to control your screen 226 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,120 and connected devices. Just picked up everything. Yeah. Explore your favorite content quickly 227 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:06,440 and easily. A bunch of Christmas movies. Like Die Hard. We're actually not that inundated with ads. 228 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,520 I mean, these are all ads. It is literally all ads though. 229 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,280 I know, but they're like- They're all ads. I mean, they're like movies I might want to watch. 230 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,760 Picture clarity off. Wow. That was actually very simple to do 231 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,560 within this little quick menu here. Live translate. That's interesting. 232 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:24,000 What is the difference between AI optimized and AI customization? 233 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,480 It's the mode that best suits your viewing environment. What the heck? 234 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,840 I don't know. You know what? AI optimized there. Sure. 235 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:36,320 Panel care. This is their first OLED. And while they don't burn in to nearly anywhere close 236 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:41,720 to like plasmas or early OLEDs, you should still probably enable all of the panel health. 237 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:47,160 This is something that has driven me crazy about HDR TVs since the advent of HDR TVs. 238 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:51,480 Why is this grayed out? It's grayed out because there's no HDR content active. 239 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,680 Yeah. So what? Let me change the settings. Let me just set it up. 240 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:00,120 I have to choose a film for it. Go to connected devices. Go to R and video shield. 241 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,580 I'm on it. It should power it on too. Yeah, there it goes. There we go. 242 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:08,200 CEC baby. Shout out $20 versus $20,000 projector. 243 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,920 That video's coming soon too. $200,000 projector? $200,000. 244 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,080 $200,000. He found a whole higher gear than you. 245 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:19,880 Are you going to take that? I can't find a 300. Actually, Neil, what? We probably could find a $300,000 TV. 246 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,000 Next time. We got a micro LED. Subscribe for all of that nonsense. 247 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,400 Where are all my picture modes that aren't AI optimized? I don't understand what's happening right now. 248 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,560 I don't know either. You, the motion smoothing is back on. 249 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:36,800 Why can't I turn film mode on? Where the hell is my filmmaker mode? 250 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,200 Is it because I enabled AI optimization during setup? 251 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,880 I'm factory resetting it. I'm going to not tell it do AI things this time. 252 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:48,160 Okay. I should 100% be able to change a setting like that 253 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,200 after the fact though, and it should be obvious. I'm so pissed off at this point. 254 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,360 Hey, what was that before? 255 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:02,520 So don't use AI, whatever, I don't know, but now we can actually change our picture modes properly. 256 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,200 Okay. Which we should have been able to do. Now that we're finally here, 257 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,200 this is far and away the best looking image we've seen. 258 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,840 Yeah. It's incredible that we had to go through that much hassle 259 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,440 in order to get here. But that could have been user error during TV setup. 260 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:23,000 Look how bright this thing gets though. Yeah. In SDR, it definitely doesn't get very bright, 261 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,080 but in HDR. But that's normal. That's fine. 262 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:30,800 It's not supposed to. That's fine. I like a popped out like tone mapped SDR actually. 263 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,920 Yeah. But it's not supposed to, but in HDR. 264 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,320 It's good. We're getting over 800 nits, which isn't as much as the flagship. 265 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,480 We're not cracking a thousand, but like. On an OLED. Isn't that for me? 266 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,480 And now we're getting full array local dimming per pixel. Show me those fireworks. 267 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,960 Ah, that looks good. Another thing completely ignoring the image quality 268 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,480 is this is packed with features that we didn't have on our previous sets. 269 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:58,360 120 Hertz 4K, variable refresh rate, auto low latency mode, very low latency. 270 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:01,800 I would assume I haven't seen the lab's test results. It's an OLED. 271 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,320 And I'll tell you right now, it's pretty good. All right. 272 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:10,400 And how's the color accuracy? Also quite good. Both in SDR and in HDR. 273 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,680 That makes sense. Yeah. It's OLED. Oh, we haven't listened to the speakers yet. 274 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:20,200 Oh, I'm here for you. They're not that much better than the 55 inch TV. 275 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,600 In terms of clarity, I would agree with you. 276 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,800 But they manage that clarity across a greater range. 277 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,680 Sure. If all you care about is you want to hear the news anchor 278 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:35,200 on Fox or CNN or whichever only source of news 279 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,920 you choose to consume, then any of them is gonna achieve it pretty much the same. 280 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,360 But if I was going to watch a musical, I would prefer to watch it on these speakers 281 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:47,560 or having spent this much money. Yeah. 282 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,440 I would spend the rest of my $500 on a nice sound bar 283 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:57,680 or a surround sound setup or a delightful RGB sweater from LTTstore.com. 284 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,600 Would you love having 10 times more to spend on your TV? I would love that. 285 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,360 Then why don't we go take a look at our last display? It's so big, we couldn't transport it here. 286 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:10,840 So we gotta go to the lab. Here we are. 287 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,080 And here is the Hisense 116UX. 288 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:20,080 This puppy is pair bragging rights at 10 times the price 289 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,440 and nearly twice the area of the 83 inch TV 290 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,520 that we just looked at. Five times the cost for two times the size. 291 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:33,280 Yes, sir. See, this bad boy gets hit with a double whammy 292 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:38,200 of price boosters. First, it uses a brand new emerging backlight technology 293 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,760 called RGB mini LED. Instead of white lights or blue ones, 294 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,280 the backlights on this TV are multicolored for the widest color gamut 295 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,840 that we have ever measured in the lab. You can see it in action in this Hisense factory tour 296 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:56,360 that we're gonna have linked down below. The second whammy is mother glass. 297 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,640 Now some of you may be familiar with this. Give yourself a cookie. 298 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:06,680 But for everyone else, every smaller TV comes from a giant sheet of what's called mother glass. 299 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,680 That mother glass gets cut down into the smaller panels. 300 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:15,120 Now, as mother glass sizes have gone up with each generation of TV production, 301 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:18,760 so have the sizes of the displays that you can cut out of it. 302 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:24,160 But the prices for the top sizes in each generation remain very high 303 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,720 because they could have taken that single sheet and they could have cut it up into a whole bunch 304 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,880 of 55 inch or 65 inch TVs. 305 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:37,440 Also, when you're cutting smaller pieces out, it's a lot easier to salvage usable displays 306 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,520 out of an imperfect sheet. Say you had a bad spot here. 307 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,640 Well, you just make one of these and one of these and one of these. 308 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,680 No big deal. When you're making one giant TV, 309 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,720 well, the entire sheet has to basically be perfect 310 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,800 which just doesn't happen very often even under the best conditions. 311 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:00,840 I've heard that the yields are so poor on these that even large multinational brands 312 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:05,320 will make dozens or at most hundreds of these signature flagship products. 313 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,880 So they gotta make sure that the juice is gonna be worth the squeeze. 314 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,280 And then you gotta decide if your wallet can take the squeeze. 315 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,440 And also your back because moving and installing something this big 316 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,680 is a major hassle and it only has three HDMI ports. 317 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,240 But that's actually cool because its last input is a USB-C port 318 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:29,120 that handles DisplayPort in. Also, those HDMIs will do up to 165 Hertz at four. 319 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:33,680 Okay, let's give it a shot. We have literally done this before 320 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:40,360 and yet it still stuns. The small white setup is just so bright. 321 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,760 Dazzling. Welcome to our new theater room, by the way. We built this in the lab 322 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,800 so we don't have to always drag things to and from my house. 323 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,400 How bright is this thing again? Almost 7,000 nits. 324 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,320 That's wild. It'll even do 5,000 nits in SDR. 325 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,280 So you end up with a very HDR-like effect even on your older content. 326 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,320 Oh, wait, this is already set up for the last time. Forget the setup, whatever. 327 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,200 At what point? Whoa! 328 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:10,320 At what point is it too much? I've talked about this before. 329 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:15,080 I don't think it can be too much until we reach the point where it looks like real life. 330 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:20,040 You know, if you're on the bus and the sun catches the glass on a skyscraper. 331 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:26,360 It can be eye-searing. It can be very bright. I want bright to look bright, not white, you know? 332 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:29,800 Does it have an input button? Yes. 333 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,160 Oh. 30 grand. That's what it takes to buy an input button. 334 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:39,000 Also, shout-out high-sense, they have proper on and off for universal remotes 335 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,040 instead of just power toggle, which can be important 336 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,120 for getting everything aligned in there, shutting down and turning off. 337 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:51,200 Ah, menu, thank you. Apply to all sources, thank you. 338 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,480 Oh, we decided we liked the dynamic color enhancer on this one, didn't we? 339 00:23:54,480 --> 00:24:01,860 I think so. Lower medium, yeah, not on high. It's only 30,000 dollars. 340 00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:04,900 Oh, another big thing. I believe this one supports Dolby Vision. 341 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,940 Yeah. That's a big point we didn't mention last time, 342 00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:11,580 is Samsung is still stuck with HDR 10 and 10 plus. 343 00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:16,580 They do not support Dolby Vision, whereas high-sense has seen fit to implement both. 344 00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:19,580 And that's not just on their $30,000 sets. 345 00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:22,620 Samsung's got to get it together on that, man. This is the first TV 346 00:24:22,620 --> 00:24:26,260 that 4K content looks not quite sharp. I was thinking that too, 347 00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:30,260 because the PPI, we are looking at. Oh. 348 00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:36,620 It's lower, isn't it? This is lower than the 32-inch 720p TV. 349 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:40,780 We are getting just about 38 PPI or pixels per inch. 350 00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:45,060 Nice. It definitely looks low-res, even though it's not. 351 00:24:45,060 --> 00:24:48,420 But that's our fault, that's not the TVs. Yeah, we're just sitting too close. Way too close. 352 00:24:48,420 --> 00:24:51,460 God, it's beautiful. Yeah, the color is just incredible. 353 00:24:51,460 --> 00:24:55,260 The brightness. Because it's not just the color range. 354 00:24:55,260 --> 00:25:00,740 It's the color volume. You need brightness to really make HDR content 355 00:25:00,740 --> 00:25:03,740 pop off the screen, and this has it in spades. 356 00:25:03,740 --> 00:25:07,300 This isn't even like that crazy bright of a mastered film either. No. 357 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:11,100 But it's still. TV gets so bright still. And it's pretty darn accurate. 358 00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:14,220 Oh. The streamers, they look so good. Yeah, I know. 359 00:25:14,220 --> 00:25:18,860 And as much as we might have complained because there's only like 3,500 local living zones, 360 00:25:18,860 --> 00:25:24,780 realistically, it still looks really good, especially compared to just about any other TV. 361 00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:28,620 It just happened to be next to one that had way more dimming zones. 362 00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:31,700 But I can see the local boxes and the hair there. 363 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:34,140 The next generation of this. Oh, yeah. 364 00:25:37,140 --> 00:25:40,660 This is the closest to looking at actual fireworks 365 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:44,460 that we've been. We didn't quite measure the 95% to BT 2020 they claimed, 366 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:48,260 but I think we hit like 92 or 93%. It was 93 in change or something. 367 00:25:48,260 --> 00:25:52,580 It was really close. It does have other downsides though. 368 00:25:52,580 --> 00:25:57,900 While the input latency is very good, the pixel response times are not. 369 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:01,620 So gaming on this set can be a little smeary looking, 370 00:26:01,620 --> 00:26:05,100 especially when you've got high contrast action on the screen. 371 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:08,660 I was pretty disappointed in that. With that said though, 372 00:26:08,660 --> 00:26:10,540 the speakers are a strong point. 373 00:26:13,540 --> 00:26:17,380 Damn. There's still TV speakers, 374 00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:20,540 but they're way better than all the other TVs we tried. 375 00:26:20,540 --> 00:26:23,260 Yes. But at this budget, 376 00:26:24,220 --> 00:26:27,340 you should get standalone speakers. So yeah. I mean, at this point, 377 00:26:27,340 --> 00:26:30,460 I feel like I'm talking to literally several people. 378 00:26:30,460 --> 00:26:35,420 But if you have this kind of budget and if you are looking at your various options, 379 00:26:35,420 --> 00:26:38,700 OLED mother glass has also been getting bigger over the years. 380 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:43,700 And LG now has a 97 inch G5 for about $25,000. 381 00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:48,820 It is smaller. And when a regular TV that size can be had 382 00:26:48,820 --> 00:26:52,780 for just a few thousand dollars, it's kind of a hard sell. 383 00:26:52,780 --> 00:26:55,820 But that one is probably the largest display on the market 384 00:26:55,820 --> 00:26:59,500 that manages truly peak flagship image quality 385 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,700 for the discerning cinephile. If you're keen on that 386 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:07,140 or any of the TVs that we showed off or talked about today, we're gonna have them all linked down below. 387 00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:11,900 And if you wanna spend some money on today's sponsor, well, you're gonna have to wait for me to segue to them. 388 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:18,580 Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, make sure to check out the $50 versus $50,000 computer video.