1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,960 Imagine this, you're at the store, and there it is. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,360 The biggest TV you've ever seen. You need to have it. 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:13,360 Okay, that's fine. 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,560 You'd rather go home and talk to your wife and kids anyway, 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:24,480 but then you notice the open box section. Woo, is that nearly a hundred inches of TV goodness 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,600 for just 1500 bucks? Take my money. 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:35,200 But on the way home, you start to wonder, what sacrifices had to be made to get a TV this big, 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:40,680 this cheap? I mean, surely it can't be 4K with support for HDR. 9 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,680 Oh, well, there's no way it supports high refresh rate. 10 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,800 Oh, okay, does that too? I mean, but there's no way that it has a segway to, 11 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,320 to our sponsor, really? If, like us, you find an open box TCL98S550GH, 12 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,480 the first complication is going to be getting it home. 13 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,960 This particular open box model wasn't available for delivery, 14 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:07,800 so we had to pick it up ourselves. 15 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,120 And TVs this big? They're heavy. But hey, we got it here. 16 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,900 Time to unbox it. Now, Adam and I are seasoned pros 17 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:21,800 at unboxing giant TVs now, so I'm sure this is gonna go very smoothly. 18 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:27,240 Were you really cutting toward my face? Seasoned pros, we don't have to worry about safety. 19 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,440 We're so good at it. Hey, this one comes with legs. 20 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,200 He mentions that because the 115-inch one that I bought didn't. 21 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,160 Okay, we managed to open it backwards, unfortunately. 22 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:45,360 Ah, okay. All right, I guess we're looking at the IO first. 23 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:50,840 Here's something that's a little confusing to me, though. What is it about a 100-inch TV 24 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:58,720 that allows it to be packaged relatively normally, but the 115-inch TV, which is only this much bigger, 25 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,880 had to come in a crate. I guess part of it is that the other one was thick. 26 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,920 She's a dronky boy. Yeah, this is like half of the weight, I think, of your TV, 27 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,560 but it looks very similar in terms of the ID. 28 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,720 Yeah, it even has the square pattern and then also ultra-base. 29 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,440 Your TV can also work as a project mat. 30 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,040 Like, are these one centimeter by one centimeter? It kind of looks like it. They're closed. 31 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:28,080 You could cut fabric patterns. I need to know now. 32 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:35,000 For the IO, we got four HDMI ports. The top one is 4K 144 hertz, 33 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,000 which is weird because didn't the front of the box say 120? Useless, useless. 34 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,800 The squares are exactly one centimeter by one centimeter, 35 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:49,240 but then the gaps in between. Just throw the whole thing out of whack. 36 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:55,320 Well, I'm glad you figured out that mystery. Yeah, so we're not really sure what the deal is with that. 37 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,800 The input's 144 hertz, but the panel says native 120. 38 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,520 Maybe it's overclockable. I guess we'll find out. As for the rest of it, it's pretty usual, 39 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,800 but it's weird to see a composite input on a modern TV still, so that's nice. 40 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:13,120 One other unusual thing that I was about to point out before I realized that the back of the TV does this 41 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,200 was the Vesa Bolt pattern. It's 500 millimeters by 600 millimeters, 42 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,480 so it's not square. And because this thing is heavy, what I would strongly recommend doing 43 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,440 is something similar to what you guys saw me do in the cleanest living room makeover, 44 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,120 where I put a big piece of wood, just like a flat piece of plywood, 45 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,360 screw that into the studs, and screw the mount for the TV into that. 46 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,920 Since we're not doing any of that today, we need to put the feet on. 47 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,080 How do we do that? They said refer to the manual. 48 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,520 Smart. First, get a table that's bigger than the TV. 49 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,200 Where the hell am I supposed to get that? 50 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Soft cushion surface. What is this, look at this hypothetical 51 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,280 soft cushion thing that exists. 52 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,840 Who has a giant cushioned table? Where are we gonna put this? 53 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:07,080 Here's the thing, this video really was inspired by us just stumbling across this open box TV 54 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,920 at what seemed like an unbelievable price at the time. 55 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,840 So it doesn't have the little protective soft covering on the screen. 56 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,960 We don't really have a way of laying it down. I have an idea. 57 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,920 Here we go. Oh, she's heavy. 58 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,520 Yeah. Damn, boy. 59 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:31,320 Okay. Now I've done this trick a lot of times, 60 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,480 where the air cushion that forms between the TV and the ground keeps it from hitting very hard. 61 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,960 So we can just let her, I'm kidding. You were gonna let me do it. 62 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,960 I wanted to see what would happen. You were gonna let me do it. It would have been cool. 63 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,760 Why would you do that? Content. 64 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,600 All right. That's not so bad. 65 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,960 I'm on. Oh my gosh. 66 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:03,160 It fits. What was the TV, but what's the size of this? 67 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,800 Is that a 65? I think that's a 65 inch behind it. 68 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,400 That was a 65 inch TV. 69 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,520 It's gone. Sitting on a pretty normal height couch. 70 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,000 This belongs on R slash TV too high. Do you think we're also maybe 71 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,600 we're just like a little close to it? Sure, sure. 72 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,960 Still way too high. I didn't really think about it in the theater 73 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,440 because it has theater seating in it. In fact, it has tiered theater seating. 74 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,520 So you're really aiming for an optimal middle ground 75 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,920 between the front and the rear row. But if I was putting something like this in my living room, 76 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,160 I would only want it like eight inches above the floor. 20 centimeters above the floor. 77 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,880 Right out of the gate, Google TV is standard on all of TCL's TVs, 78 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,280 at least here in North America. Mine doesn't, which will make it really easy for Adam 79 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:56,800 to turn off the gross motion smoothing. Yeah, it's pretty bad right now. 80 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,800 You know, every once in a while I'll go, 81 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,360 yeah, maybe it's, you know, not that bad. When I haven't looked at it in a while, 82 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,080 like I'll say to myself, maybe I wouldn't notice if I went into someone's house 83 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:12,000 and they had motion smoothing on. And then I get a new TV and I'm like, ew. 84 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,760 When I first was testing this, even the boot logo had like motion artifacts. 85 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,400 And I was like, what, turn it off immediately. It was so bad. 86 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,560 Whoa, is that a display? You have a monitor. 87 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,720 I do. Several in fact. 88 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,680 I love the hoodie you're wearing today. It's so appropriate. 89 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,760 It's huge. It's not very bright. It goes up to a max of 500 nits. 90 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:40,200 We got 498. This ends up looking kind of flat overall though, 91 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,360 which I'm surprised by because in the past, 92 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,760 the larger the display, the greater the volume of light it's throwing at you, 93 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,360 even if the peak brightness isn't as high and it can really help with immersion. 94 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,840 I still think it looks pretty okay 95 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:59,280 for how giant of a TV this is. And it's not OLED. How much does this cost you? 96 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:04,680 1500 bucks. A comparison is the thief of joy. 97 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:10,400 If we had another TV right here, I'd be like, oh yeah, this thing sucks. But like as is just walking into this room. 98 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,000 That's a big TV. That looks pretty good. It's a big TV and it's fun watching it. 99 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,880 I mean, it sucks. The Plex is loading right now, but. Yeah, I don't think it has the fastest Wi-Fi card. 100 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,840 But in the time since we bought that open box, the new gen one has come out. 101 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,920 So you can get a brand new one from TCL this size. 102 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:31,040 That's two grand. How much better is the brand new one? Is it brighter? It seems to be pretty darn close, but maybe better. 103 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,600 They say surprisingly little about anything, 104 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,560 but they're flagship TVs. Of course, because TCL is not like a big flagship brand 105 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,880 like Sony is. So what are they gonna advertise? Don't tell him that. Wow, there's nothing wrong with buying TCL. 106 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,040 They don't know that. I had a TCL TV in my home for a long time. 107 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,600 They're the TV of the NFL. Fake. 108 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,240 Like the colors look okay. I don't know if they're correct, 109 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:00,320 but like it's colorful. They look pretty okay. And I think the measurements had it at a Delta E 110 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,600 of about four and a half. What? On average. 111 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,040 In the movie mode, vivid mode gets awful. Well, of course. 112 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,400 Yeah, don't turn on vivid mode. If you care about the artist's intent. And everything, no matter what, trends a little blue. 113 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,280 Sure, sure. It's wild how much, like how far that's come 114 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,680 in just the last four years. If we were looking at this TV five years ago, three years ago. 115 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,560 Oh, it would be over $10,000. And it would be terrible. 116 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,280 Now, how many local dimming zones does it have? Did we count them? 117 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,120 Does it have local dimming? Cause this, the contrast does not look great. 118 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,720 It looks like a boat. In fact, I don't know if it has local dimming zones. 119 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,040 Is this just a VA panel with pretty okay contrast? We counted one local dimming zone. 120 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:51,080 The brightness is okay, but a part of why it doesn't pop off the screen 121 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,720 is that to appreciate the peaks, you gotta have the valleys. 122 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,000 Credit to their anti-glare though. This is a very demanding environment for that 123 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,520 with studio lights all over the place. It's not bad. 124 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:07,520 I've got like a pretty good string of lights in my field of vision at least, like right there. 125 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:12,240 But other than that, it's fine. And that's a pretty small, like when you consider how big the TV is, 126 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,120 that's a pretty small portion of the TV. If one of my friends bought this thing for $1,500 127 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,560 and I walked into their house and this is their TV, I'd be like, that's a sick TV. 128 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:24,480 One thing that is kind of disappointing, 129 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,760 but also understandable is the black uniformity. 130 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,160 Yeah, like you can see patches of whiteness. 131 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,640 Oh yeah, there's like a big triangle here. 132 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,880 You're only really gonna notice that though in those big panning shots. 133 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,360 When we got it dark enough to test, it was very noticeable. 134 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:47,120 Oh, it's super noticeable. There's a hot spot like right up the left side. Because you don't have local dimming, 135 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,360 you're relying on that diffusion layer to absolutely perfectly spread out the light 136 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,320 from the backlight. Though 2TCL's credit, they didn't go edge lit, 137 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,800 which ratings found recently does not really have any picture quality advantages, 138 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,000 but can lead to premature death. So even though it doesn't have local dimming zones, 139 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,600 it is direct backlit, which I would say is a good thing. 140 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,000 Yeah, I've seen that too when one part of the light fails 141 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:18,080 and then it's just dimmed like that one part of the monitor and TV. So I found a listing for an open box S95B that's $1,600. 142 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:23,140 That's a great deal. So this is a generation old, but QD OLED panel, 143 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:27,820 really nice TV. It's too bad it looks like the child of that one. 144 00:10:27,820 --> 00:10:32,500 Yeah. Even with the not amazing ambient light rejection 145 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:37,620 of QD OLED, it's a lot better. Dude, look where you can see both of them. 146 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:41,300 I know. But remember, QD OLED has that kind of purple haze 147 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:45,860 compared to W OLED. So this is even as good as this can look at Moodoo, 148 00:10:45,860 --> 00:10:49,360 the sun, the color volume. That's the thing. 149 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,180 Is anything that has to do with full array local dimming is just gonna lose. 150 00:10:53,180 --> 00:10:59,100 The one that really stands out to me is the richness of these tones here. 151 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:03,860 Yeah. This has no saturation. This looks like I took some like cheesecloth 152 00:11:03,860 --> 00:11:07,300 and I put it all over the front of the screen. I'm looking through a veil. 153 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:10,300 And all the shadows have actual depth to them. 154 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:14,740 You don't lose anything in the image. Whereas with this, it doesn't even get that dark. 155 00:11:14,740 --> 00:11:17,980 It's not crushing any blacks or anything because it's not even getting black. 156 00:11:17,980 --> 00:11:21,380 Look at how much more realistic the sky looks. That looks like blue. 157 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:24,660 That looks real. Especially with the like leaves and stuff. 158 00:11:24,660 --> 00:11:28,980 Yeah. But big, big TV. 159 00:11:28,980 --> 00:11:32,300 Big TV. Okay. But let's talk about gaming 160 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:36,700 because you've kind of left me waiting here. I gotta say, this doesn't feel that bad. 161 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:41,220 No, it looks like it's 120 Hertz. I don't even mean that. I just mean the latency. 162 00:11:41,220 --> 00:11:44,340 Yeah. How do we set it to 144 though? 163 00:11:44,340 --> 00:11:47,780 I don't know actually. I'm not gonna lie. It's really confusing. 164 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:53,060 Do they advertise it? Yeah. They call it game accelerator 240. 165 00:11:53,060 --> 00:11:57,100 I'm pretty sure it's just a backlight strobe. Oh. 166 00:11:57,100 --> 00:12:01,460 What? What do you mean 240? No, I'm talking about the 144 Hertz. Yeah, I don't know how they get that. 167 00:12:01,460 --> 00:12:03,580 Can you stop messing with it? 168 00:12:04,860 --> 00:12:08,200 So what do you think? Where am I supposed to go? Up here. What do you mean? 169 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,540 Ah! Ah! What? Wow. 170 00:12:11,540 --> 00:12:14,880 Dude, this level is scary. Scary? Yeah. You know what though? 171 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,220 This feels great. Try it. Sorry, it's funny. No, it's fine. 172 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:23,820 Nice. Nice. Nice. Ah, you got needle to did. 173 00:12:23,820 --> 00:12:27,180 It was really nice up until when it wasn't nice. Yeah, it feels totally fine. 174 00:12:27,180 --> 00:12:32,300 Feels completely responsive. I could game whatever game you want to game on this TV. 175 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,300 And it would feel okay, way better than LCDs 176 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:41,340 that came out in the early 2000s. Felt awful. I think overall, I think it's totally fine. 177 00:12:41,340 --> 00:12:44,700 Yeah, I guess it's, I'm like, who is it? I guess it's for old people and bars. 178 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:48,740 Frat house. Yeah, actually if you walked into the frat house. 179 00:12:48,740 --> 00:12:52,260 If they can spring for a $15 for frat house, it's still a bit much. 180 00:12:52,260 --> 00:12:55,620 You and 15 of your friends pitching a hundred bucks. 181 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:59,460 Right? You bring this bad boy in. Play smash on it? 182 00:12:59,460 --> 00:13:03,180 Eight player smash? Yeah. No problem at all. 183 00:13:03,180 --> 00:13:09,300 I have no idea what the long-term quality of it is gonna be like. Obviously this is not, by any means, a bad TV. 184 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:13,100 No. No. And like, I would recommend it to somebody 185 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:16,780 if they were in the market for a really big TV and had a very low budget. 186 00:13:17,780 --> 00:13:21,140 That was their goal? Yes. Yeah. Big TV, cheap. 187 00:13:21,140 --> 00:13:25,140 It's mind-boggling. And we'll link to it in the description and everything like that. 188 00:13:25,140 --> 00:13:29,180 As well as some other good TVs that you can check out if you don't have the space for 98 inches. 189 00:13:29,180 --> 00:13:32,620 Whoa. Okay, I just found something that's cheaper than this. 190 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:35,660 What? And bigger. Cheaper and bigger? 191 00:13:35,660 --> 00:13:39,700 That's right. That's right. Wait, we're gonna make a video about that, right? 192 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:44,980 Oh, oh yeah. Oh my goodness. Segway to our sponsor. 193 00:13:44,980 --> 00:13:49,700 Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, check out another video on an impressive $1,500 display. 194 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,140 The reflective LCD display that the sun shines on it 195 00:13:53,140 --> 00:13:55,820 and it is a beautiful thing. It's not very good. 196 00:13:56,740 --> 00:13:57,580 It's cool.