WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 For years, I've dreamed of gaming on a massive LED video wall, 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.000 but getting your hands on a new one ain't that easy or cheap. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.000 But what about this discount video wall from Craigslist? 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:23.000 Yeah, I couldn't help myself. Logistics went out this morning and just returned with this palette of rigging material 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:28.000 and these four crates that apparently contain over 30 connecting video wall panels. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:33.000 Guys, this is some peak high-risk high reward because on the one hand, 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:40.000 there's no support, no warranty, and no return policy on an $11,000 purchase. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:45.000 But on the other hand, hear me out. Giant customizable video wall? 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.000 It's actually even cooler than you thought and set it up in any aspect ratio you want 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 and you can even configure it to be curved. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.000 I can't wait to see how this all fits together and how freaking awesome 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.000 or less awesome it looks once it's built. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.000 I bet we could even use it to show off our sponsor. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.000 Okay, so you want to start with the panel? I think we should start with the boxes because it includes this box too, I'm pretty sure. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.000 Okay, perfect. He's the one who's read the documentation, so I'm kind of following along. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000 I've barely read the documentation. I read it a little bit. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.000 You read it a little bit? I read it a little bit. Okay. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.000 Oh yeah, so this is like... What the heck? I think this is the control box, that's fine. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.000 What kind of box is this? It comes off on both ends? Yeah, because it holds it, because there's ports on both sides. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.000 So look, we've got a bunch of DVI, VGA, HDMI 1.3, I want to say, 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:47.000 and a bunch of Ethernet, I think it's gigabit. And then on the other side, all the control buttons. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:52.000 Cool. This seems simple enough. You power it on here and if everything goes wrong, you escape. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.000 Yeah. What do you think of when you think of VGA and DVI? 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.000 I think this is pretty old. HDMI 1.3. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.000 Hey, hey, hey, it also has DisplayPort? 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:05.000 Huh? It does. It does. 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:09.000 It's actually only a few years old. The documentation specifies like 2020 or 2021. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:15.000 And a bigger concern is that LED video world technology has come a long way since then. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:21.000 And even when this was new, I don't know that Nova Star is a leader in the field. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:26.000 Sure, sure. Yeah, copyright 2020 ZN Nova Star Tech. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:31.000 This one is for the all-in-one controller. So this is our VX4S-N. 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.000 So this is our controller, not the panels. To be clear, though, I am still freaking stoked. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:42.000 Oh yeah. That's super cool. Apparently, both the HDMI and the DisplayPort can do up to 4K 60Hz. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.000 That's not 4K. You saw the 3840 and got excited. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.000 Oh, 3840 by 650 too. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.000 Yeah. But you know, if it's really big and it's far away? 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.000 All right, let's check out the panels. Should I open this one first? 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.000 Yeah, let's do the blue box first. Have you noticed how disgust? 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.000 Like, I don't mind filth. But like, all I was doing was like touching the top of the box. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 Oh, dude. They're caked in dust. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.000 Why don't we start with the blue one then? Yeah, this one's different. 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:15.000 This has, what, six panels it looks like? And then all the cables. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.000 Whoa, buddy. Yeah, look at all these guys. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:22.000 I've opened one of these boxes and looked inside to see the panels and get the manual. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.000 That's about it. So I actually haven't even looked at all this stuff. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.000 I didn't open the blue box. I don't know what those little control boards are for. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.000 Is this an Ethernet to XLR? What is it? 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.000 Is it just an extra XLR cable? A super duper locking Ethernet. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.000 Wow, that's wild. Does this look like one of them got hot and like melted a bit? 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.000 Oh, it kind of does, eh? Yeah, I'm sure it's fine. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.000 Maybe there's just like a single LED on the end that doesn't work. It's okay. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.000 Any idea like how much power this thing dropped? No, absolutely not. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:53.000 I know basically next to nothing about these, you went and bought something and then dumped it in my lap and said, 00:03:53.000 --> 00:04:01.000 Hey, let's make a video. And so here we are. I had like an hour to read through some of the manuals because there's like six manuals because there's a manual for the control box. 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.000 There's a manual for the displays. And I think there's a third one or maybe it's just specs. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 Well, I'm having a great time so far. Oh, yeah. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.000 This is great. How heavy is it? How bad is it, Ben? 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.000 It's not super heavy, but if it were to fall off something, 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 I wouldn't trust that to hold it. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 Wow. That is not the tightest pixel pitch. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.000 I'll check the manual, but I think it's something like 568 by 328 for the LED array. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.000 Oh, does this just have the specs for a whole bunch of different products? 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.000 It's a bunch of different ones. Yeah, hold on. There's more of these. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.000 Okay. User manual for this guy. Here's what they're for. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.000 Indoor concert, award ceremony, celebration meetings, etc. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.000 LTT screwdriver for scale. Hey, I figured out one thing though. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.000 What? We're waiting on the back of each one of the panels. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:52.000 How much does it... 120 watts each. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:57.000 Hey, we can do up to 4K if we use Ethernet in. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.000 Well, I mean, 2160. We're short like 80 pixels or so. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.000 Yeah. 2160. What's up with that? 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.000 I don't know. That's what Ethernet can do because most of this is actually being set up through Ethernet. 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.000 What do you think? Oh, yeah. No, it's Ethernet into the panels. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.000 Yeah. There it is. There's your... 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:20.000 Yeah. So the DVI and the VGA and the HDMI and all that, that's all for like our source and external 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.000 monitor to like monitor everything from. Got it. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:30.240 Stuff like that. Your computer hooking up to it. If we want to be technically correct, the best kind of correct, it's using, you know, 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.000 twisted pair, cabling and an RJ45 connector. Yeah. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.000 Bottom row to dead pixel. Yeah. 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:41.500 Yeah, that's kind of a downer, especially when your pixels are like this big. 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:44.500 We've got the mid-row here. Top row. Top row. 00:05:44.500 --> 00:05:47.500 And that's bottom row. What is this supposed to... Oh. 00:05:47.500 --> 00:05:52.100 Those are just six extra panels and all the cables, I guess. That makes sense. Why wouldn't they have used the extra ones to fix the dead pixels? 00:05:52.100 --> 00:05:55.100 I don't know. Okay. Cool. 00:05:55.100 --> 00:05:59.500 Okay. I think it's just panels in the rest of these boxes. Let's see how many we've actually got. 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:02.500 10. 10 in that one. Okay. 00:06:02.500 --> 00:06:05.500 So it's probably 10, 20, 30. And then there's what? 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:08.500 Six here? Yeah. Okay. 00:06:08.500 --> 00:06:11.500 So 36 panels. Well, that precludes doing a 16 by 9 setup. Those are... 00:06:11.500 --> 00:06:14.500 Those are A8S. Thank you. These are, I believe... 00:06:14.500 --> 00:06:17.500 Why an asshole? 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:20.500 Those are A8S, he says. They're the receiving cards. 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:23.500 They're the receiving cards. Okay. What's a receiving card? 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:29.060 Adopting the exclusive LED image booster technology of NovaStar, it can precisely calibrate 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:33.500 the color gamut and grayscale of the screen and improve the grayscale by 64 times. 00:06:33.500 --> 00:06:38.780 Okay. So this is effectively doing the job of what like a scaler would do on a display, except 00:06:38.780 --> 00:06:45.380 not doing the scaling or the input, almost like an OSD module that you're interfacing 00:06:45.380 --> 00:06:48.380 with. Yep. That's 10 in each one. 00:06:48.380 --> 00:06:52.380 You can fit so many displays in this bad boy. 00:06:52.380 --> 00:06:59.540 This video is like 10% actually looking at the video wall, 90% him trolling me for this 00:06:59.540 --> 00:07:02.780 irresponsible purchase. Who is this bad boy? 00:07:02.780 --> 00:07:05.780 Oh! Power supply or something? Power distribution unit. 00:07:05.780 --> 00:07:08.940 Oh. This is like what we have at the LAN. 00:07:08.940 --> 00:07:14.740 This breaks out your big fat 30 amp, 240 volt to a whole bunch of individual plugs and then 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:17.780 just has breakers on it for safety. We're not done yet though. 00:07:17.780 --> 00:07:20.780 Oh, what's in the box? Oh! Whoa! 00:07:20.780 --> 00:07:25.780 Not the bottom of the box, that's for sure. 00:07:25.780 --> 00:07:28.780 Yeah. Oh! What is it? 00:07:28.780 --> 00:07:35.420 Replacement parts. So if you needed to replace the interface plugs on one of the wall panels, it comes with 00:07:35.420 --> 00:07:38.900 a little replacement board. Power supply. Oh! 00:07:38.900 --> 00:07:41.900 These are power supplies. Oh, okay. The Megmeat switching power supply. 00:07:41.900 --> 00:07:45.660 Oh, that's where the unit, that's where that went. With which I have great familiarity. 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:48.740 They actually give you quite a bit of spare parts, eh? 00:07:48.740 --> 00:07:52.660 Knowing the way that companies like this work, that's probably in place of a warranty. 00:07:52.660 --> 00:07:59.260 Just like back when I'd order containers of products from China, it would be, okay, yeah, 00:07:59.260 --> 00:08:04.380 warranty, too hard. Tell you what, we'll just ship you 1% more things. 00:08:04.380 --> 00:08:07.380 Sure. 400 cases. And you get an extra 10 or 10. 00:08:07.380 --> 00:08:10.380 This should be 440. 440 or 404. Yeah. 00:08:10.380 --> 00:08:13.740 The LEDs can be preserved for one year. What? 00:08:13.740 --> 00:08:16.740 Open one of these. Come on. We've got lots of extras. 00:08:16.740 --> 00:08:19.740 Open one. I think they're a quarter. Oh! 00:08:19.740 --> 00:08:22.740 Maybe. Yeah. So each of these, you can actually see the scene. 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:29.740 Each of these I think is four. So this is almost certainly then a quarter of one of those panels and you get five extras. 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:32.580 So we might be able to fix our dead pixels. Yeah. 00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:36.620 One of the things that I learned back when I was exploring, possibly getting a video 00:08:36.620 --> 00:08:42.620 wall in the first place, is that the way that they wear out, they have much the same issue 00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:46.140 of older OLED displays where they wear out very unevenly. 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:51.180 Yeah. When you have a failure and you pop a new panel or partial panel in. 00:08:51.180 --> 00:08:54.180 Patchy brightness. Nice. Nice. 00:08:54.180 --> 00:09:00.260 And color, too. Well, apparently with the controller, we can adjust that. We can fix that allegedly just based off of the instructions. 00:09:00.260 --> 00:09:03.340 Sure. Oh, wow. Bloody. 00:09:03.340 --> 00:09:06.340 Super cool. Are there two? Oh, you might have twice as many. 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:09.340 Oh. Yeah. I think they're double stacked. 00:09:09.340 --> 00:09:12.340 Oh! So that's not that bad. Okay. 00:09:12.340 --> 00:09:17.540 So you have 10 replacement quarter panels and that one is completely missing a thing. 00:09:17.540 --> 00:09:22.860 Awesome. If I recall correctly, we do have a 240 volt over here somewhere. 00:09:22.860 --> 00:09:26.260 There's various kinds. Oh, you're right. Hold on. 00:09:26.260 --> 00:09:29.260 Before we do, can we bend this a little? Well, yeah. 00:09:29.260 --> 00:09:32.700 This is my bottom teeth. 00:09:32.700 --> 00:09:38.540 But hold on a second. If the output is just 120 volt anyway, then we could just run extension cords from all 00:09:38.540 --> 00:09:41.740 over the warehouse and just not care about any of this. All right. 00:09:41.740 --> 00:09:45.980 Well, let's get one lit up. So we'll light one up with an extension cable and see how that goes. 00:09:45.980 --> 00:09:49.180 Okay. So let's just start plugging things in, I guess. I don't know. 00:09:49.180 --> 00:09:55.500 There's a wiring diagram that we're just going to have to follow. 00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:58.500 I'm thinking output one. Okay. 00:09:59.260 --> 00:10:04.220 Cool. Now I'm thinking plug this into a panel. 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:07.220 That's sure. Yeah. That sounds right. 00:10:07.220 --> 00:10:10.740 And then did you get a power cord for the panel? Nope. What do they take? 00:10:10.740 --> 00:10:16.300 They take these blue fat boys, I think, or rather, I think one of them is the power 00:10:16.300 --> 00:10:20.220 ring and one of them is the power out and I think they're color coded, but I don't know which is which. 00:10:20.220 --> 00:10:23.780 This thing is huge, but I mean, I guess you're just going to plug one of them out to power 00:10:23.780 --> 00:10:28.380 and then the rest are daisy chain. Yeah. Well, at least a row of them would probably be daisy chain. 00:10:28.380 --> 00:10:32.100 Yeah. Oh, but did it just turn on on its own? I don't know. 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:35.100 There's a green. Yeah. Okay. 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:39.060 Still flashing. Oh, we probably have to turn the controllers on. That's probably true. 00:10:39.060 --> 00:10:43.060 Yep. Hey, one of our inputs lit up. Do you have an input plugged in? 00:10:43.060 --> 00:10:46.660 Well, you've got this Ethernet. Nope. That's an output. 00:10:46.660 --> 00:10:49.660 Okay. Cool. Okay. 00:10:49.660 --> 00:10:53.180 Do we have a source? Did we just use a laptop? Oh, yeah, bud. 00:10:53.180 --> 00:10:56.860 Okay. Oh, it did something. Yeah, it did something on my laptop too. 00:10:56.860 --> 00:11:01.140 We detected the source. Ooh, screen settings. 00:11:01.140 --> 00:11:04.140 Cabinet row, quantity. Oh, whoa. Hello. 00:11:04.140 --> 00:11:07.140 Hey. I went to extend. Dude. 00:11:07.140 --> 00:11:10.980 I don't know if the resolution is right, but it's displaying something. 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:13.980 Yeah. Look at that. It's... 00:11:13.980 --> 00:11:22.460 It's 1226 p.m. Not very bright. So whatever port we're plugged into is the bottom right. 00:11:22.460 --> 00:11:26.220 Yeah. So we've landmarked it now. Okay. 00:11:26.380 --> 00:11:32.940 We can configure what it's expecting in terms of the width and the height in this controller 00:11:32.940 --> 00:11:39.220 software right here. Yeah. And then we just have to make sure that however we daisy chain it is, however, it's expecting 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:43.180 that to go. It's going to take some foresight and planning and probably... 00:11:43.180 --> 00:11:46.180 Things we're not in on for. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 00:11:46.180 --> 00:11:49.180 So much. We totally think of things before we... That's what people think when they see this. 00:11:49.180 --> 00:11:52.680 So now what? So now what? Well, we have 36. 00:11:52.680 --> 00:11:55.680 All right. What do you want to do? What do you want to do? 00:11:55.680 --> 00:11:59.000 I want to do like a regular 16 by 9 configuration. 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:02.640 Okay. And then we just watch some regular content on it. 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:05.640 We can game on it. We should be able to. We should be able to plug a computer in. 00:12:05.640 --> 00:12:08.920 How would we do 16 by 9 though? We don't have to use all 36 panels. 00:12:08.920 --> 00:12:11.920 Yeah. This is really not a lot of panels. What the heck are we doing with this? 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:14.920 Yeah. What do you think about it like that? We could do 8 by 4. 00:12:14.920 --> 00:12:17.920 Okay. That would be a 2 by 1. And then we have 4 spare panels. 00:12:17.920 --> 00:12:21.400 At 4 high, this would be a considerable size display. Okay. 00:12:21.400 --> 00:12:24.400 8 by 4 it is. Let me write that down. 8 by 4 it is. 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:29.820 Let me write that down. How far back do I have to go from this thing before it stops looking like butt cheeks? 00:12:29.820 --> 00:12:34.680 This is the worst screen door effect I've ever seen in my life. 00:12:34.680 --> 00:12:38.080 Oh my God. I can still see the pixels. 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:42.840 It's still not a perfect like gradient. I mean yeah, but you're the kind of person who owns a display so. 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:47.340 No. Yeah. It's bad. 00:12:47.340 --> 00:12:52.400 He never lasts this hard except when I waste money. 00:12:52.400 --> 00:12:55.400 This is stupid as f**k. 00:12:55.400 --> 00:12:58.400 What the f**k are we going to do with it? 00:12:58.400 --> 00:13:07.960 It looks terrible. It's like 1440p like it's not even 4k. 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:17.600 You've got about 14 pixels per inch or something and maybe 25. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.920 He's not done yet. What resolution will that actually be? 00:13:20.920 --> 00:13:24.440 I have no idea. Let's check. So what are these? 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.440 They're 250 by 250? That seems about right. Something like that. 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:34.120 That's 10. So my 20 ppi was probably pretty close. 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:37.240 Wait no it's way lower than 250 by 250. 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:42.040 What is it? Dude the highest one on here is 96 by 96. 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:47.040 Yeah actually no no no you know what? 00:13:47.040 --> 00:13:50.320 This is going to be way more than 64 because this is this is 10. 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.960 That's 10? It's probably 128 then. So 10? 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:58.080 Like if that's 10. 20, D, 170, about 180 something I think. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:02.760 You know what? The 96 by 96 ploof is the panels. 00:14:02.760 --> 00:14:07.040 Alright because they're quartered. Why don't we try and figure out the truss a little bit? 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:10.480 What I don't know is if the truss is modular. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:15.000 I have no idea. I've never used truss at like once in my life. 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:19.000 Those look like the feet. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:24.680 Pixelate this, pixelate this editor because it's feet. 00:14:24.680 --> 00:14:28.040 We kind of have to decide where we're putting this now because I feel like once it's down 00:14:28.040 --> 00:14:31.040 it's staying down. Because it's going to be huge. All hands meetings. 00:14:31.040 --> 00:14:35.240 Oh you could. We have one coming up. Look how small that TV is there. 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.240 That's a tiny TV. That's a tiny TV? Yeah. 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:43.800 It's going to look awful. We're going to have like the announcements and shit on it and it's going to look so bad. 00:14:43.800 --> 00:14:47.360 I think it's going to be okay. I'm going to be the contrarian here. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:53.080 I think it's going to be alright. I'm going to be honest with you. I have no idea if I got a good deal on this or not. 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:56.960 You didn't look up the price? I don't even know how much they cost new. That's great. 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:00.360 In answer to your question, yes. These do extend. Okay. 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:05.560 And they have numbers and standards, 15 cm, 20 cm, oh centimeters, okay, sure. 00:15:05.560 --> 00:15:09.080 Why don't we mount a panel to one of the back pieces? 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.680 Okay. After this you're going to be in love with truss. You're going to want to put truss everywhere. 00:15:12.680 --> 00:15:16.400 Clearly this goes here. That seems right. 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:19.400 And then there's a bunch of hardware in here. 16 pieces. 00:15:19.400 --> 00:15:22.400 So there's 16 of these and they look like the bolts that would fit in there. 00:15:22.400 --> 00:15:25.400 Oh, does that go underneath? Oh. 00:15:25.400 --> 00:15:28.680 Dude, you're not doing up more bolts, are you? 00:15:28.680 --> 00:15:33.080 There's so much more hardware. I think this is spacers. 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.800 It's spacers. You can't just butt these together. Oh, these guys. 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:39.800 Oh, sure. Sure. Sure. 00:15:39.800 --> 00:15:42.800 Sure. Sure. Sure. 00:15:42.800 --> 00:15:45.800 Sure. Sure. Sure. 00:15:45.800 --> 00:15:49.400 Sure. If we can figure out how it goes on here. Sure. 00:15:49.400 --> 00:15:55.480 You don't have to remember which way it was up to you. So here's the things you were talking about. Yeah, those are the things I was talking about that they can lock into the other panels and 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:59.200 why not. As for how it attaches to the truss. Mm-hmm. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.200 Wait. It's got to be the clamps. These go on a round thing. 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.200 They unpin. Okay. Okay. 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.200 And these go on here. Okay. I'm following so far. 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.600 Yes. That's as far as I've gotten. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.800 Maybe we can tell from what looks like it's had threads run through it. 00:16:15.800 --> 00:16:24.120 I'm thinking. Okay. We just got to look closer at this, I think. 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.280 I'm 100% now that these just bolt through the pipes into these. 00:16:27.280 --> 00:16:30.280 Yeah. No, totally. I think that's correct. 00:16:30.280 --> 00:16:33.280 We just don't have those screws. Yeah. Do we have it? 00:16:33.280 --> 00:16:36.280 Oh. Oh. Hey, look at that. 00:16:36.280 --> 00:16:42.480 That doesn't show panels going on though. How it goes together. But it does show that we have the feet facing completely the wrong way and this whole thing 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.680 would have come down like that if we had done it. We definitely did it wrong. 00:16:45.680 --> 00:16:52.480 Okay. Well, you've got to go film a ShortCircuit. I'll look up some videos and look into this and see if we can figure out, one, how to 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:58.320 attach the displays and two, we'll let the Verilys get the truss set up properly. 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.320 And then if we have to go buy some bolts from Canadian Tire or something, we'll go buy a 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:05.320 bunch of bolts. Okay. All right. Okay. 00:17:05.320 --> 00:17:09.040 See you later. I just came back from lunch. Jamie and David helped me figure out what was going on. 00:17:09.040 --> 00:17:14.920 Jamie, please tell the people what you did. I did what Plouffe was unwilling to do and read the manual. 00:17:15.320 --> 00:17:22.200 So let's use one of these things and go through two panels and then lock it in place. 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.800 That's literally it. So we're going to build out the rest of the truss and then we'll put some panels on. 00:17:27.800 --> 00:17:28.300 Yeah. 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:51.840 Okay, we've got our truss set up. 00:17:51.840 --> 00:17:55.560 Now what we're pretty sure we do to get these panels attached is you flip back this little 00:17:55.560 --> 00:18:03.880 corner lock piece. You get the panels together and then once they're together and they've got this locking mechanism 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:09.520 in place, you then clamp them down to the rest of the truss and like, I didn't really 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:36.760 trust a single clamp, but they're on there pretty good. 00:18:36.760 --> 00:18:40.200 Big moment. Three, two, one. 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:43.320 Wait, what? We've only done one row so far. 00:18:43.320 --> 00:18:47.800 Okay. I was going to say, I can't be all of them, right? 00:18:47.800 --> 00:18:51.120 You know what? I actually kind of like it. It's not bad, eh? 00:18:51.120 --> 00:18:54.960 Yeah. And it's not at full brightness right now either. No. 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:57.960 It can go brighter. Yeah. Oh, I found some dead pixels. 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.280 This is probably some. Okay. How far back do I have to go for that? 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:04.440 Oh my God. Pretty, pretty far back. 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:11.840 It's eight by one right now. Not a great aspect ratio. We're not 100% sure still, but we do still think it's about 200 by 200 for the pixel 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:17.720 count. But how far back do I have to go for it to look like a somewhat serviceable image? 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.840 Probably past the tripod. You know what, dude? 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:25.040 With scaling, it'll be a lot better too. This is going to be pretty cool. 00:19:25.040 --> 00:19:29.000 I think so too. Like it's genuinely pretty cool. 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.640 Might have been not. 100%. I'm very on board now. 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:38.040 I think especially once we go three more rows high, it's going to be a very legit screen. 00:19:38.040 --> 00:19:41.800 This could be cool for like Smash or. Whale land. Whale land. 00:19:41.800 --> 00:19:44.800 Yeah. Imagine like a Smash tournament on something like this. It'd be sick. 00:19:44.800 --> 00:19:49.760 Well, it might not be responsive enough. Let's see what the latency is like. Let's get the rest of it built and then let's game and watch content on it. 00:19:49.760 --> 00:20:02.040 Yeah. Sounds good. Holy crap. 00:20:02.040 --> 00:20:05.880 It's glorious. Yeah. It looks way better from back here. 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:08.880 Dude. Oh. Oh. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:15.600 Wow. Doom Dark Ages could be better. 00:20:15.600 --> 00:20:19.040 I agree with you about the whole glory kill thing. That kind of sucks. 00:20:19.040 --> 00:20:23.760 But the wall. Dude. This is awesome. 00:20:23.760 --> 00:20:27.720 It's, it's not without its flaws. 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:31.560 Nope. I can see some of the scenes. There's some obviously dead pixels. 00:20:31.560 --> 00:20:36.000 Yep. But the overall experience is way better than I expected. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.320 I, yeah, I, you know, fully expected to kind of poo poo this thing, but it's been pretty 00:20:40.320 --> 00:20:43.560 sick and we're only at 75% brightness right now. 00:20:43.560 --> 00:20:48.240 Really? And this is with all of our like lights and stuff, one pointing directly at it. 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:53.680 Yeah. So we could crank it up a little bit. I'm not saying it's going to get like, you know, like 200 nits brighter, but yeah, it'll 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:58.000 get better than this. And also the weird jitteriness, that's just the mouse being used on like a sofa. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:02.200 That's not the screen tearing weirdly or anything like that. That's just, it's weird. 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:05.640 This is awesome. I noticed we're running a pretty mid GPU. 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.640 Are we really getting performance on the table? Nah. 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:12.240 This is less than 720p. No. Yeah. 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.240 We'll check. No. It doesn't look like less than 720. 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.560 Look at the text on the bottom there. For that shirt. Nope. 00:21:18.560 --> 00:21:22.680 That's more pixels than 720p. Oh, you're right. 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:30.240 You just got um, actually, we have way more pixels, sort of, um, a few more pixels. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:34.080 Not many more. Some more. The screen quality, you know what it reminds me of? 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:37.160 It reminds me of like old rear projection TVs. Yeah. 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:44.600 It's not super bright. It's probably a scale thing. I was so much smaller because I was a child when rear projection TVs were a thing. 00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:47.880 So they looked huge to me and I'm bigger now and the TV is bigger. 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.240 So I think it's all just kind of scaled up. Here, I'm going to turn the brightness up. 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:56.560 That's a good idea. Dooms a little bit of a dark game. You might say it's a dark age. 00:21:56.560 --> 00:21:59.560 All right. 00:21:59.560 --> 00:22:02.560 That's a hundred. It does look brighter. 00:22:02.560 --> 00:22:05.960 It is brighter. Yeah. The contrast is actually not bad. 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:09.940 It's not great, but it's not terrible. It's not terrible. 00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:16.640 That's a big advantage of LED walls or of the upcoming micro LED technology that hopefully 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:20.480 will someday make its way into consumer sales. I don't think that's ever happening. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:24.320 Is that like OLEDs, they are a self-emissive display. 00:22:24.320 --> 00:22:29.560 So there is no backlight that's shining through a black pixel, so to speak. 00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:35.920 Instead, your black is dictated by how dark the empty space on the panel is around the 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:41.000 emitting LED. So the darker we can get this room, the more contrast we can get out of our display. 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.840 In fact, can we lose that one as well? Wow. 00:22:45.840 --> 00:22:50.800 Dude. Okay, this is pretty cool. 00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:55.320 The only problem with this is that it doesn't exist in a vacuum. 00:22:55.320 --> 00:22:59.920 This is super cool and honestly, I don't even feel like it was a bad deal. 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:03.880 I paid less for my TV at home. This is bigger. 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.920 We're at 179 inches diagonally. 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:08.920 That is bigger. That's huge. 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:15.600 But yeah, in terms of like literally everything else, your TV at home is better and it doesn't 00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:20.960 need truss. The not needing truss is a major factor, however, the installation of my TV at home is a little 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:26.120 specialized. But for me, the bigger thing, the bigger difference is that my TV at home is 4K. 00:23:26.120 --> 00:23:30.040 If I want a more immersive image like this, I could just sit closer to it. 00:23:30.040 --> 00:23:36.080 100%. Whereas this one, yeah, I could sit closer, but I don't really want to. 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:43.360 David found some of the retina information for me. Guess the PPI of your display, of your video wall in this configuration. 00:23:43.360 --> 00:23:47.240 Uh, 15. It's single digit. 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:58.200 No. It's 9.68 PPI and you'd need an average distance of 355 inches, like 30 feet away. 00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:01.720 It's pretty far. It looks not bad. No, it's pretty good. 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:08.440 And you know what? It's not amazing, but if we were playing a single player game or something, this would 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.600 be totally fine. I could, I could play like an RPG on this thing and it'd be all right. 00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:15.120 I'm willing to bet this is 75 to 80 milliseconds. 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:20.880 There would be no reason for me to have this over a 65 inch TV, but I do think we'll have 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:26.560 uses for it. Okay. I think we can use it for training and based on how good it looks from that distance, 00:24:26.560 --> 00:24:29.920 this is going to be freaking awesome for the stage at Whaleland. 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:35.600 Oh yeah, it'd be really cool. Even like four player Mario Kart, cause each quadrant is like a 65 inch TV. 00:24:35.600 --> 00:24:39.200 Not exactly. I'm just like, look at it and eyeballing it, but like, you know, that's like, that's 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:45.880 a whole TV right there. I think the latency is honestly too crappy for us to play real games on it. 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:50.360 So we have those Epson projectors that I'd probably rather use for that, but if we were 00:24:50.360 --> 00:24:56.760 like playing stage games or announcing winners, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, or if we had like, 00:24:56.760 --> 00:25:00.400 we wanted to have like an exhibition match or something on the big screen, this is the 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:06.680 one I'd wanted. Yeah. Or even if like, let's say you did a big, you know, WAN Show again, like a live WAN Show. 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.160 This could be the second screen that's for like the audience that's too far away to see 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.160 you guys. That'd be so cool. Okay, fine. 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:16.400 There's a lot of uses for it. I don't think you've wasted your money. 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:21.200 Yes. Yeah. And if I did, I could get it back from our sponsor. 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.840 If you guys enjoyed this video, why not go check out the last time I installed a giant 00:25:25.840 --> 00:25:32.080 TV at my house. And it turns out that having the modular like this is a major advantage in terms of portability. 00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:35.080 Yeah, that was a big TV. It was big. 00:25:35.080 --> 00:25:38.080 I sense has a new one coming. It's even bigger.