inside this crate
is the me tv lux transparent edition a
10-year anniversary product from xiaomi that is only available in china and that
they are not seeding to the media presumably because
it's really stupid i mean who out there was thinking gee
if only my tv was transparent so i could see all the
things behind it instead of the content on the screen
it's priced at a whopping 7 200 us
dollars and i bought it
so that i can share with you guys just how bad it is
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i gotta say i'm really excited about this thing there was shockingly little
information available about it online at least on english websites anyway so
full disclosure here guys i don't even know what resolution it is
seven thousand dollar 55 inch tv here folks uh hey matthias can i borrow you
for a minute i gotta get the crate off this big waste
of money
hey andy you around andy you are my
chinese translator help me please like always believe the good things were
about to happen yeah i mean if i just if i knew someone
just blew seven grand us on something this stupid i'd think they need a pep
talk too i think i've identified a small problem andy which one is the phone
yeah exactly uh
is there io oh hey there you go thanks brandon
i couldn't see that from here hi hello it's the world's most fun
coveted barrier transparent tv
please don't break oh this is a lot of pressure
no i'm good i got this oh so much static
ah it shocked me
jerk oh should be careful with it sorry
ow this thing is so trippy now this isn't
even the first time i've seen a transparent OLED tv that was back in
korea when i was allowed to travel still when i went to lg's headquarters and
while i suspect that this is an lg panel
because who the hell else is making
transparent OLED displays if i recall correctly though it has been
a while this seems quite a bit more clear i
don't think this is the same generation of technology that that one was now on a
normal OLED or a more traditional tv you would have like a reflective or opaque
back layer that even if you popped the you know the back off of the chassis
would not allow you to see through the pixels themselves but here every
component of the pixel stack has been designed to be as see-through as
possible so the only thing you can really see and you can see them if you
get close is actually the the wiring like the connective wiring between
the self-emissive organic leds
i think that's about 10 pixels right there so that would make
that about 100 i think it's 1080p because if that's about 100
there's no way that's 4 000. did i just spend 7 grand on a 1080p
display we've got 120 hertz support and what's funny is in
the press release they actually talk about the gaming experience on it
like you would want to do that we've got a second with e-arc support
e-arc means that it has at least some subset of the HDMI 2.1 specification
supported third HDMI then we've got a couple of usb2
usb2 ports really optical avn so you i
don't think it came with the adapter but you could put a composite or component
or whatever that would be probably composite network and then an antenna
port says 220 volt right there and their
voltage is like 100 to 240.
i don't tr well okay i'm trusting you
but then why wouldn't they just put that on the product we're gonna do it
you ready hey there it is that's definitely 1080p
man check out these pixels look at the size
of these pixels oh
well i guess you can probably still see the size of the pixels they're like
kind of huge they're huge pixels good thing we have
andy okay so i pressed these buttons but what does it do
yeah like just have the remote closer to this thing and hold those two
buttons together and wait until you hear a bit
hello
it didn't beep lies
is it normal when setting up a xiaomi product for me to install their app
thing and for it to try and install three gigs worth of other random crap on
my phone uh oh that's uh like third party app store
i get it their app is on this app store
so i had to get this app store first okay so why don't we try again
okay so that's why it gave me a whole app store okay we're taking the tour
yeah uh but the tour guide doesn't speak english so if you could uh uh uh
settings configuration menu no this is actually mine uh
just like my my HDMI input and stuff you
know um tv
recommendation or yeah um vip porn
very important porn okay
look at that streaming to you all the way from china
just standing here i honestly kind of forgot it was a
see-through tv and that's what i was supposed to be looking at in a darker
scene i can see right through it but
this and that's probably because we have
those lights behind the tv yeah without that man
that's kind of cool isn't it okay uh enough of exploring the ocean that's i'm
too wet now too excited sir is there is there a
language option language no yes
yes confirm wait did it work yeah it says like some third-party app might not
support english but other than that you have english
here we english now boys yes
they've got captive portal support that's cool i mean xiaomi does have tvs
so it shouldn't be that surprising that they've like got a tv os that's
reasonably fleshed out even if it's on a super weird tv today so this has an
always-on display option with different styles what are these oh
that's pretty cool so if the idea was to use it as an impressive art piece in
your like you know fancy pants home where seven
thousand dollars on an art is like whatevs no big deal i guess
and you could do like this or whatever it just feels like i could catch the
thing oh my god no way
nice okay um
memc would be motion compensation probably right
i'm not sure this is english local contrast why would
it have like a local dimming setting on an OLED
okay you can do your own white balance tune your color
pixel adjustment on cool okay
let's plug something in that was so weird so last time it said
active signal resolution 4k desktop resolution 1920x1080.
what's weird though is it still kind of looks like crap also we got a dead pixel
dang it right in the middle of my chrome
icon you say you won't buy one that's it
that's the deal breaker for you the one dead pixel not the seven thousand
dollars see-through if i pay seven grand it looks like you were right andy i
think only one of the input supports 120 hertz which is super weird in this day
and age like 120 hertz 1080p it's like
nothing anymore it's kind of tedious switching inputs
like where's this the leg input switch button i guess the expectation is you're going
to do most of your content consumption streaming like is that the norm input
lag honestly feels better on this input as well already but i still don't see a
120 hertz option let's try uh let's try doing it as a
custom resolution not just break it
i've seen this place get pretty effed up for like days from doing this
curiously it seems to be doing some kind of weird chroma sub sampling nonsense it
doesn't look quite as sharp you can you got like kind of a green fringing on
these Windows and stuff got another disappointing update for you brandon
check this out you can configure the display mode and the game mode does in
fact improve the input leg so that feels
that feels pretty darn good unfortunately if i don't want warm
colors it changes me to user mode
and it's mushy input again why
then making matters worse this is super annoying i have another
dead pixel do you know how much each of these
pixels costs if you spent seven grand on a stupid clear tv you'd want all the
pixels to work too viewing angles are surprisingly decent
it does turn a little bit bluey greeny once you get to kind of an extreme angle
but as long as you're within reason
i'd say it's pretty darn good let's play some video games shall we one benefit of
the hockey puck approach is that the built-in speaker is actually not
terrible for a tv they say they support dolby atomos yeah
but i don't think this thing support HDR the animation
at least they didn't mention on the spec sheet it's pretty rough for anyone who'd
be stupid enough to buy it anyway i think we've got a few more stuck pixels
up here oh those are sloppy
it otherwise looks great we put a black surface behind it so just like some
black kind of uh velvety cloth
and like i can't even tell it's clear
i mean it's not much of a feature when like the feature is that you can't see
the feature but oh hi andy
oh lara don't fall is she swimming
going for a little front crawl here
conceivably you could game on it i don't know that i would have it in my
press release if i was xiaomi but there you go let's try something more
cinematic even at 1080p at this size i
wouldn't expect that much screen door effect but
probably as part of trying to make the screen as transparent as possible they
actually want the pixels to be smaller so you're going to get more of
like a noticeable grid in between them
yeah this is not a great experience which
kind of raises the question what is the point of this
who does buy something like this and the answer
believe it or not is pretty straightforward
commercial enterprises i mean imagine if
lttstore.com had a display like that in the window
wouldn't you want to buy it look at that water bottle
you can see right through the marketing materials pretty cool right
so bottom line even if it doesn't make any sense for consumers if i was a
high-end hotel or banquet hall or law
firm and i wanted something really eye-catching in my lobby to make
potential customers think that i was pretty swanky something like this could
potentially make sense even if it does come with a few bugs
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