WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.160 televisions used to cost nearly 10,000 today bucks 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.440 and you'd get a tiny little screen in a giant cabinet 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.880 but today you can get a perfectly Cromulent TV for just $30. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.880 Okay, it's not exactly a cinema in your home 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.040 but we bought this from Best Buy for $35. 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:24.600 So why would you spend more? Well, if you pony up $300, you'll get something 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:28.080 larger, sleeker and high definitioner. 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:31.680 Is this the sweet spot? If you're not a cinephile probably 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:35.960 but if you spend three thousands of dollars 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.200 like we used to on TVs, you could get a state of the art 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 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:49.720 with very poor eyesight. But what if you could spend three 10 thousands of dollars? 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? 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.880 Is it worth it or is this little guy good enough? 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. 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. 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. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.840 This open box 32 inch Insignia NS32F201NA23. 00:01:27.320 --> 00:01:30.880 Okay, sure. It's only in fair condition 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.160 and it sports just a 1280 by 720p resolution 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:37.160 but it comes with a short open box warranty. 00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:40.400 The display itself actually looks pretty good. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:45.080 And come on guys, 35 bucks is 35 bucks. Who needs the full high definition 00:01:45.080 --> 00:01:51.040 when the screen is this small? You probably, even at just 32 inches, guess the PPI. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.280 It's like 45 PPI. 45. 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, 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:05.200 normally you would pay a lot more for this thing. 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.640 On Black Friday promo, it was more like $70, 00:02:08.640 --> 00:02:14.840 which is about twice what we paid for it. And the value proposition gets pretty questionable 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:21.040 at that point. Let's give it a shot. You know, the remote, it feels okay. 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:24.280 It's better than the Samsung remote we'll try later. 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:28.600 Wow. You can really see those dark areas in the corners. 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:33.440 I don't think that's a defect, sir. I think that's just the TV. 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:38.160 For being a 720p display, the text looks crisper than I expected though. 00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:41.280 Smaller than I expected. Yeah, it's tiny. 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. 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:48.960 What button am I supposed to press? Okay, I actually can't tell from here. 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.960 Oh, it is. It's the home button. Why does it have to do this? 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. 00:02:57.160 --> 00:03:00.840 It's not the worst smart TV platform. In five gigahertz Wi-Fi, 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.320 show me anything else for $35 that has five gigahertz support. 00:03:04.320 --> 00:03:08.680 My eyes are starting to dry out. Just looking at this for this long. 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. 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:18.280 All of the ads, it works. Okay, but what's this show called? 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.160 Okay, no, from the thumbnail. I know that it is. Only because I recognize. 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:26.800 As much fun as we're having, making fun of the fire TV experience though, 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.120 we want consistency as we're evaluating all our different TV sets. 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, 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.720 which all things considered not that bad and does have an optical jack, 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:42.280 which if I was running a TV like this, I would 100% want a soundbar 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:46.360 and that would be extremely handy. Oh, I hadn't even thought of the speaker quality. 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.160 Uh-oh, input. I forgot about this. Yeah, there's no input button. 00:03:50.160 --> 00:03:53.760 Ridiculous. I expect that on a Samsung TV. 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. 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.800 Let's go to that spot we like to watch. These are better than I expected. 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.760 Harsh, but clear. If you had a child and sat them in front of this TV 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:12.040 and turned the speakers on, they would be stoked. They would not care. 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. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.640 So it is, so it is. Like dude, it's kind of fine. 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:23.040 That's not terrible viewing angles. No, I'm downright impressed. 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.200 And for only $35, open box fair. 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. 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:34.040 It is funny how almost the exact same size it is. 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 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:43.160 over like 300 nits of brightness, that doesn't mean it's not bright enough. 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. 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.240 In standard mode, yes. But it has a film mode. No. 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 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. 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:05.920 The only real downside to this TV, aside from like size and pixel density, the latency. 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.080 Even with game mode on, it's still bad. It measures at like seven milliseconds 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:13.960 over the theoretical perfect. Even that's not that bad compared to- 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. 00:05:18.280 --> 00:05:22.880 In summary, no, it's not amazing, but it's amazingly better than I expected. 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:27.920 Even at the non-open box price, making it perfect for something like a dentist office 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, 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:36.080 is someone who is struggling with affordability and looking for a primary display. 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:40.960 For those folks, I really do think you'd be better off just holding the phone 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:45.720 that you probably already have until something pops up on a local buy nothing group 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 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.760 or in some cases even cheaper if you pick one up secondhand 00:05:55.760 --> 00:05:59.000 and they're not that much smaller. They are smaller. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.620 Okay, they are smaller, but this is a classic like boots theory of economic situation 00:06:03.620 --> 00:06:07.720 where spending money on low quality crap is gonna cost you more in the long run. 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. 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. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.640 Did you lift it? Oh yeah, it weighs like nothing at all. 00:06:22.640 --> 00:06:26.080 Nothing at all. You're sure this is 720p, right? 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 00:06:31.640 --> 00:06:35.320 and pick up the 55R4C5. 00:06:35.320 --> 00:06:39.880 This is nuts. I mean, if you told teenage me 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:44.880 that he could buy a 55 inch 4K TV for $300, 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.600 he would have immediately dropped his discman, shattered his hybrid theory CD 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 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:58.440 with pretty basic LED edge lighting. 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, 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:08.960 we have also jumped to a whopping 80 pixels per inch, 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 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.000 with Roku built in, which is a bit of a hot take 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. 00:07:21.880 --> 00:07:27.480 Yes, and unlike TizenOS, which also advertises to you on top of stealing your data, 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:31.200 at least Roku is somewhat pleasant to navigate. Hold for five seconds. 00:07:31.200 --> 00:07:35.160 Now that is clear instructions. Yeah, TV much bigger. 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 00:07:40.520 --> 00:07:44.840 behind spending $300 on. Oh, did we just give Roku a pass 00:07:44.840 --> 00:07:47.880 for being like kind of awful? I forgot about this part. 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:52.220 You cannot use this TV without an account. Roku, go fuck yourself. 00:07:52.220 --> 00:07:55.300 Also, doesn't have a source button. 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. 00:08:01.640 --> 00:08:05.680 Please activate in the next 30 minutes. Wait, oh, shit. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:08.960 What? I had to select stupid apps on my phone. 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:12.280 Whoa! CBC gem, let's go. 00:08:13.960 --> 00:08:17.240 Set up complete. Was there a minimum amount that you had to select as well? 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:21.760 No, could select zero. But maximizing fun factor. 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. 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. 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? 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.920 Because it's Apple logic. Wherever I just came from. 00:08:37.920 --> 00:08:41.080 Take me there, take me there. That's why it's called the back button. 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, 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. 00:08:51.280 --> 00:08:56.560 We get a coax jack, an Ethernet port, and a Type-C USB port. 00:08:56.560 --> 00:08:59.800 Why is it so damn hard to just find the input? 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:02.880 They don't want you to use anything but the TV. 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:06.400 TV input? It's so buried too. Why is it down here? 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? 00:09:10.520 --> 00:09:14.080 Quick launch. Hold to change this shortcut. Change it to an input button. 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.240 I'm going to try. You got to be kidding me. 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:20.040 You can change it so it goes to the Roku channel though. 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. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:33.280 That is some passive aggressive level bulls***. I just want you to use the TV. 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. 00:09:39.880 --> 00:09:44.040 Not bad anti-glare. Not great. That's not amazing, but like, it's totally usable. 00:09:44.040 --> 00:09:47.280 Oh, very usable. I think we just didn't notice the anti-glare coating 00:09:47.280 --> 00:09:51.280 on the previous TV because of how small it was. 00:09:51.280 --> 00:09:54.760 This is a wild take. Hold on. Was the last one brighter? 00:09:54.760 --> 00:09:57.920 Because I think it was. This one, no. 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:01.240 And the gamma handling is like, bad. 00:10:01.280 --> 00:10:07.920 The problem with having all of these like, dynamic contrast enhancer and other settings like that 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:12.080 is it's not going to look amazing until you find the right setting for it. 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:15.880 I mean, it's only on like low. I know, but turn it up to high. 00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:19.120 You're going to get less color accuracy, but it'll probably be a brighter image 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.200 that most people are going to prefer. Oh, hold on. We're in dark HDR. 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.440 Which is the most accurate, I will say. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:30.120 The bright one looks horrible. It's standards like a little pop here. 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. 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. 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, 00:10:43.880 --> 00:10:48.400 look how bad that looks. The entire right side of the frame is just black. 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:51.600 Maybe don't use HDR on a TV that's not meant for HDR. 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.480 I didn't advertise it as HDR. I know. Oh, display when available. 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:58.080 Oh, okay, sure. Okay, I can turn off HDR. 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:04.720 I would take this over the last image. I would too. 100%, not even close. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.840 This is why you don't get an HDR TV that just says HDR 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:12.120 and then play HDR content on it. You need full array local dimming. 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:16.400 Full array local dimming, which is only going to come in mini LED or OLED. 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. 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, 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. 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.000 Yeah, I'd rather watch this. How are the speakers though? 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. 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:46.200 You can really tell what they've tuned for. Like right in the vocal range, peak! 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.640 Yeah. Everything else, don't worry about it. How is the Labs results? 00:11:49.640 --> 00:11:52.880 Not awful. We're getting a little over 200 nits in SDR, 00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:56.840 about 320 in HDR. And that lack of brightness, 00:11:56.880 --> 00:12:00.280 even compared to our $35, $70 TV, you really see it. 00:12:00.280 --> 00:12:03.560 Yeah. Our color accuracy is not bad, both in SDR and HDR. 00:12:03.560 --> 00:12:06.840 And our latency is similar to the last TV. 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.680 At 60 Hertz, we're getting 5.2 milliseconds over our theoretical perfect. 00:12:10.680 --> 00:12:15.280 Very usable. Something to note by the way, is we made these purchases before Black Friday. 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 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.360 as a door buster sale, which is flipping wild. 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.760 As for our TV, okay. It's 10 times the price, 00:12:27.760 --> 00:12:32.640 but you are getting nine times the pixels. And in my humble opinion, 00:12:32.640 --> 00:12:37.360 other benefits that I think clock it in at over 10 times the enjoyment. 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.600 Yeah, as much as certain things weren't that much better. Yeah, the speakers, wow. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.280 But the size and resolution alone. Without question, 00:12:45.280 --> 00:12:48.680 this is the bang for the buck Goldilocks right here. 00:12:48.680 --> 00:12:53.080 Of course, that doesn't make it absolute cinema either. 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.840 What happens if we 10x our budget again? 00:12:56.840 --> 00:13:01.720 Whoa, that bigger TV. Damn, what a glorious beast you are. 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.200 The Samsung S85F 83 inch. 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. 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.800 And so can you. Just like how a savvy shopper avoids buying an iPhone 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:18.360 in August, savvy TV buyers can follow the industry's 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:23.840 predictable cycle to get amazing deals. See, the new models usually get announced in January, 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.520 then they land in the spring or the summer. That means that when fall rolls around, 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 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:35.600 for significantly less money. Because of this, 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.960 we got an 83 inch OLED for under our budget 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:43.960 at just $2,500 US dollars. And it's packed with all kinds of features 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.240 that you would expect on a high-end freaking, giant freaking OLED like four HDMI ports. 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. 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.760 Yeah, the LG C5 also had an 83 inch model for sale, 00:13:58.760 --> 00:14:03.680 but it was $3,200. So it's over our budget, but according to ratings, 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? 00:14:07.760 --> 00:14:13.200 Sure. Wow, this thing is a monster. We did get the S85 instead of the 95, 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.720 so it's not quite the top-end model. Well, yeah, but like, 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. 00:14:22.400 --> 00:14:26.760 Thank you for choosing smart things. Did I choose smart things, 00:14:26.760 --> 00:14:29.760 or did I have smart things jammed down my throat? 00:14:29.760 --> 00:14:33.280 Why is it so trendy to put so few freaking buttons on your remote? 00:14:33.280 --> 00:14:36.560 Does this not have an input button either? No, it doesn't. 00:14:36.560 --> 00:14:40.240 Neither does my S95V at home. They- 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:44.280 So offensive. You go to the home menu, and then you go to connected devices, 00:14:44.280 --> 00:14:47.520 and then you go from there. Just charged on solar, though. 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. 00:14:50.640 --> 00:14:54.600 Oh, my God. Location, the fuck you need my location for? 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.160 Does it want you to tap that button on the remote? Oh, wait. 00:14:58.160 --> 00:15:01.680 Did I not have to do any of this? I can just click to the right. 00:15:01.680 --> 00:15:05.480 Whoa, and then go hello? Oh, my, okay. 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.480 I got dark pattern. That's wild. 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.880 It happens for the best of us. The right navigation button, 00:15:11.880 --> 00:15:17.400 being how to advance through the menus, is not how that works on any interface 00:15:17.400 --> 00:15:20.760 in the history of computing. This is the confirm button. 00:15:20.760 --> 00:15:25.840 These buttons are navigation buttons. Right means forward and go. 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:29.880 No. The left to right, it- Not in Japan. 00:15:29.880 --> 00:15:33.240 Let's start. All right. Connect to Wi-Fi. This is pretty standard. 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. 00:15:37.920 --> 00:15:41.280 Can you just sit next? Can you skip? I can. Okay. 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:44.640 But then it just prompts me to sign in. Later. Later. Oh. 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:48.000 It gave us a later option. Even this. Do it later. Do all this stuff later. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.160 This is kind of cool. Yeah, this is neat. You have the volume structure. 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. 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:57.440 Hey, this is nice. You can use your smart remote to control your screen 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:01.120 and connected devices. Just picked up everything. Yeah. Explore your favorite content quickly 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. 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.520 I mean, these are all ads. It is literally all ads though. 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. 00:16:13.280 --> 00:16:16.760 Picture clarity off. Wow. That was actually very simple to do 00:16:16.760 --> 00:16:20.560 within this little quick menu here. Live translate. That's interesting. 00:16:20.560 --> 00:16:24.000 What is the difference between AI optimized and AI customization? 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.480 It's the mode that best suits your viewing environment. What the heck? 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:30.840 I don't know. You know what? AI optimized there. Sure. 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 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:41.720 to like plasmas or early OLEDs, you should still probably enable all of the panel health. 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. 00:16:47.160 --> 00:16:51.480 Why is this grayed out? It's grayed out because there's no HDR content active. 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:55.680 Yeah. So what? Let me change the settings. Let me just set it up. 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. 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. 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:08.200 CEC baby. Shout out $20 versus $20,000 projector. 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.920 That video's coming soon too. $200,000 projector? $200,000. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.080 $200,000. He found a whole higher gear than you. 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. 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.000 Next time. We got a micro LED. Subscribe for all of that nonsense. 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. 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.560 I don't know either. You, the motion smoothing is back on. 00:17:31.560 --> 00:17:36.800 Why can't I turn film mode on? Where the hell is my filmmaker mode? 00:17:36.800 --> 00:17:40.200 Is it because I enabled AI optimization during setup? 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. 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:48.160 Okay. I should 100% be able to change a setting like that 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. 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.360 Hey, what was that before? 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. 00:18:02.520 --> 00:18:06.200 Okay. Which we should have been able to do. Now that we're finally here, 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.200 this is far and away the best looking image we've seen. 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:12.840 Yeah. It's incredible that we had to go through that much hassle 00:18:12.840 --> 00:18:16.440 in order to get here. But that could have been user error during TV setup. 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, 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.080 but in HDR. But that's normal. That's fine. 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. 00:18:30.800 --> 00:18:33.920 Yeah. But it's not supposed to, but in HDR. 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. 00:18:37.320 --> 00:18:40.480 We're not cracking a thousand, but like. On an OLED. Isn't that for me? 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:44.480 And now we're getting full array local dimming per pixel. Show me those fireworks. 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.960 Ah, that looks good. Another thing completely ignoring the image quality 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.480 is this is packed with features that we didn't have on our previous sets. 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:58.360 120 Hertz 4K, variable refresh rate, auto low latency mode, very low latency. 00:18:58.360 --> 00:19:01.800 I would assume I haven't seen the lab's test results. It's an OLED. 00:19:01.800 --> 00:19:05.320 And I'll tell you right now, it's pretty good. All right. 00:19:05.320 --> 00:19:10.400 And how's the color accuracy? Also quite good. Both in SDR and in HDR. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:14.680 That makes sense. Yeah. It's OLED. Oh, we haven't listened to the speakers yet. 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. 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:23.600 In terms of clarity, I would agree with you. 00:19:23.600 --> 00:19:26.800 But they manage that clarity across a greater range. 00:19:26.800 --> 00:19:30.680 Sure. If all you care about is you want to hear the news anchor 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:35.200 on Fox or CNN or whichever only source of news 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.920 you choose to consume, then any of them is gonna achieve it pretty much the same. 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 00:19:44.360 --> 00:19:47.560 or having spent this much money. Yeah. 00:19:47.560 --> 00:19:51.440 I would spend the rest of my $500 on a nice sound bar 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:57.680 or a surround sound setup or a delightful RGB sweater from LTTstore.com. 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.600 Would you love having 10 times more to spend on your TV? I would love that. 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. 00:20:06.360 --> 00:20:10.840 So we gotta go to the lab. Here we are. 00:20:10.840 --> 00:20:15.080 And here is the Hisense 116UX. 00:20:15.080 --> 00:20:20.080 This puppy is pair bragging rights at 10 times the price 00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:23.440 and nearly twice the area of the 83 inch TV 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:28.520 that we just looked at. Five times the cost for two times the size. 00:20:28.520 --> 00:20:33.280 Yes, sir. See, this bad boy gets hit with a double whammy 00:20:33.280 --> 00:20:38.200 of price boosters. First, it uses a brand new emerging backlight technology 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:42.760 called RGB mini LED. Instead of white lights or blue ones, 00:20:42.760 --> 00:20:47.280 the backlights on this TV are multicolored for the widest color gamut 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 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:56.360 that we're gonna have linked down below. The second whammy is mother glass. 00:20:56.360 --> 00:20:59.640 Now some of you may be familiar with this. Give yourself a cookie. 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. 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.680 That mother glass gets cut down into the smaller panels. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:15.120 Now, as mother glass sizes have gone up with each generation of TV production, 00:21:15.120 --> 00:21:18.760 so have the sizes of the displays that you can cut out of it. 00:21:18.760 --> 00:21:24.160 But the prices for the top sizes in each generation remain very high 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 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:31.880 of 55 inch or 65 inch TVs. 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 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.520 out of an imperfect sheet. Say you had a bad spot here. 00:21:40.520 --> 00:21:44.640 Well, you just make one of these and one of these and one of these. 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.680 No big deal. When you're making one giant TV, 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.720 well, the entire sheet has to basically be perfect 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:55.800 which just doesn't happen very often even under the best conditions. 00:21:55.800 --> 00:22:00.840 I've heard that the yields are so poor on these that even large multinational brands 00:22:00.840 --> 00:22:05.320 will make dozens or at most hundreds of these signature flagship products. 00:22:05.320 --> 00:22:08.880 So they gotta make sure that the juice is gonna be worth the squeeze. 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:12.280 And then you gotta decide if your wallet can take the squeeze. 00:22:12.280 --> 00:22:15.440 And also your back because moving and installing something this big 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.680 is a major hassle and it only has three HDMI ports. 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:23.240 But that's actually cool because its last input is a USB-C port 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:29.120 that handles DisplayPort in. Also, those HDMIs will do up to 165 Hertz at four. 00:22:29.120 --> 00:22:33.680 Okay, let's give it a shot. We have literally done this before 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:40.360 and yet it still stuns. The small white setup is just so bright. 00:22:40.360 --> 00:22:43.760 Dazzling. Welcome to our new theater room, by the way. We built this in the lab 00:22:43.760 --> 00:22:46.800 so we don't have to always drag things to and from my house. 00:22:46.800 --> 00:22:50.400 How bright is this thing again? Almost 7,000 nits. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:54.320 That's wild. It'll even do 5,000 nits in SDR. 00:22:54.320 --> 00:22:58.280 So you end up with a very HDR-like effect even on your older content. 00:22:58.280 --> 00:23:02.320 Oh, wait, this is already set up for the last time. Forget the setup, whatever. 00:23:02.320 --> 00:23:04.200 At what point? Whoa! 00:23:06.540 --> 00:23:10.320 At what point is it too much? I've talked about this before. 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. 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. 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? 00:23:26.360 --> 00:23:29.800 Does it have an input button? Yes. 00:23:29.800 --> 00:23:33.160 Oh. 30 grand. That's what it takes to buy an input button. 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:39.000 Also, shout-out high-sense, they have proper on and off for universal remotes 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.040 instead of just power toggle, which can be important 00:23:42.040 --> 00:23:46.120 for getting everything aligned in there, shutting down and turning off. 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:51.200 Ah, menu, thank you. Apply to all sources, thank you. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:54.480 Oh, we decided we liked the dynamic color enhancer on this one, didn't we? 00:23:54.480 --> 00:24:01.860 I think so. Lower medium, yeah, not on high. It's only 30,000 dollars. 00:24:01.860 --> 00:24:04.900 Oh, another big thing. I believe this one supports Dolby Vision. 00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:07.940 Yeah. That's a big point we didn't mention last time, 00:24:07.940 --> 00:24:11.580 is Samsung is still stuck with HDR 10 and 10 plus. 00:24:11.580 --> 00:24:16.580 They do not support Dolby Vision, whereas high-sense has seen fit to implement both. 00:24:16.580 --> 00:24:19.580 And that's not just on their $30,000 sets. 00:24:19.580 --> 00:24:22.620 Samsung's got to get it together on that, man. This is the first TV 00:24:22.620 --> 00:24:26.260 that 4K content looks not quite sharp. I was thinking that too, 00:24:26.260 --> 00:24:30.260 because the PPI, we are looking at. Oh. 00:24:30.260 --> 00:24:36.620 It's lower, isn't it? This is lower than the 32-inch 720p TV. 00:24:36.620 --> 00:24:40.780 We are getting just about 38 PPI or pixels per inch. 00:24:40.780 --> 00:24:45.060 Nice. It definitely looks low-res, even though it's not. 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. 00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:51.460 God, it's beautiful. Yeah, the color is just incredible. 00:24:51.460 --> 00:24:55.260 The brightness. Because it's not just the color range. 00:24:55.260 --> 00:25:00.740 It's the color volume. You need brightness to really make HDR content 00:25:00.740 --> 00:25:03.740 pop off the screen, and this has it in spades. 00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:07.300 This isn't even like that crazy bright of a mastered film either. No. 00:25:07.300 --> 00:25:11.100 But it's still. TV gets so bright still. And it's pretty darn accurate. 00:25:11.100 --> 00:25:14.220 Oh. The streamers, they look so good. Yeah, I know. 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, 00:25:18.860 --> 00:25:24.780 realistically, it still looks really good, especially compared to just about any other TV. 00:25:24.780 --> 00:25:28.620 It just happened to be next to one that had way more dimming zones. 00:25:28.620 --> 00:25:31.700 But I can see the local boxes and the hair there. 00:25:31.700 --> 00:25:34.140 The next generation of this. Oh, yeah. 00:25:37.140 --> 00:25:40.660 This is the closest to looking at actual fireworks 00:25:40.660 --> 00:25:44.460 that we've been. We didn't quite measure the 95% to BT 2020 they claimed, 00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:48.260 but I think we hit like 92 or 93%. It was 93 in change or something. 00:25:48.260 --> 00:25:52.580 It was really close. It does have other downsides though. 00:25:52.580 --> 00:25:57.900 While the input latency is very good, the pixel response times are not. 00:25:57.900 --> 00:26:01.620 So gaming on this set can be a little smeary looking, 00:26:01.620 --> 00:26:05.100 especially when you've got high contrast action on the screen. 00:26:05.100 --> 00:26:08.660 I was pretty disappointed in that. With that said though, 00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:10.540 the speakers are a strong point. 00:26:13.540 --> 00:26:17.380 Damn. There's still TV speakers, 00:26:17.420 --> 00:26:20.540 but they're way better than all the other TVs we tried. 00:26:20.540 --> 00:26:23.260 Yes. But at this budget, 00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:27.340 you should get standalone speakers. So yeah. I mean, at this point, 00:26:27.340 --> 00:26:30.460 I feel like I'm talking to literally several people. 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, 00:26:35.420 --> 00:26:38.700 OLED mother glass has also been getting bigger over the years. 00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:43.700 And LG now has a 97 inch G5 for about $25,000. 00:26:44.660 --> 00:26:48.820 It is smaller. And when a regular TV that size can be had 00:26:48.820 --> 00:26:52.780 for just a few thousand dollars, it's kind of a hard sell. 00:26:52.780 --> 00:26:55.820 But that one is probably the largest display on the market 00:26:55.820 --> 00:26:59.500 that manages truly peak flagship image quality 00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:02.700 for the discerning cinephile. If you're keen on that 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. 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. 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.