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inside this crate

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is the me tv lux transparent edition a

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10-year anniversary product from xiaomi that is only available in china and that

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they are not seeding to the media presumably because

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it's really stupid i mean who out there was thinking gee

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if only my tv was transparent so i could see all the

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things behind it instead of the content on the screen

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it's priced at a whopping 7 200 us

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dollars and i bought it

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so that i can share with you guys just how bad it is

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customer focused and wants to help you save money by getting you to pay only

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for the mobile data you use

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i gotta say i'm really excited about this thing there was shockingly little

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information available about it online at least on english websites anyway so

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full disclosure here guys i don't even know what resolution it is

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seven thousand dollar 55 inch tv here folks uh hey matthias can i borrow you

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for a minute i gotta get the crate off this big waste

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of money

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hey andy you around andy you are my

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chinese translator help me please like always believe the good things were

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about to happen yeah i mean if i just if i knew someone

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just blew seven grand us on something this stupid i'd think they need a pep

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talk too i think i've identified a small problem andy which one is the phone

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yeah exactly uh

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is there io oh hey there you go thanks brandon

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i couldn't see that from here hi hello it's the world's most fun

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coveted barrier transparent tv

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please don't break oh this is a lot of pressure

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no i'm good i got this oh so much static

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ah it shocked me

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jerk oh should be careful with it sorry

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ow this thing is so trippy now this isn't

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even the first time i've seen a transparent OLED tv that was back in

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korea when i was allowed to travel still when i went to lg's headquarters and

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while i suspect that this is an lg panel

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because who the hell else is making

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transparent OLED displays if i recall correctly though it has been

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a while this seems quite a bit more clear i

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don't think this is the same generation of technology that that one was now on a

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normal OLED or a more traditional tv you would have like a reflective or opaque

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back layer that even if you popped the you know the back off of the chassis

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would not allow you to see through the pixels themselves but here every

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component of the pixel stack has been designed to be as see-through as

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possible so the only thing you can really see and you can see them if you

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get close is actually the the wiring like the connective wiring between

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the self-emissive organic leds

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i think that's about 10 pixels right there so that would make

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that about 100 i think it's 1080p because if that's about 100

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there's no way that's 4 000. did i just spend 7 grand on a 1080p

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display we've got 120 hertz support and what's funny is in

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the press release they actually talk about the gaming experience on it

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like you would want to do that we've got a second with e-arc support

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e-arc means that it has at least some subset of the HDMI 2.1 specification

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supported third HDMI then we've got a couple of usb2

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usb2 ports really optical avn so you i

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don't think it came with the adapter but you could put a composite or component

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or whatever that would be probably composite network and then an antenna

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port says 220 volt right there and their

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voltage is like 100 to 240.

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i don't tr well okay i'm trusting you

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but then why wouldn't they just put that on the product we're gonna do it

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you ready hey there it is that's definitely 1080p

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man check out these pixels look at the size

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of these pixels oh

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well i guess you can probably still see the size of the pixels they're like

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kind of huge they're huge pixels good thing we have

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andy okay so i pressed these buttons but what does it do

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yeah like just have the remote closer to this thing and hold those two

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buttons together and wait until you hear a bit

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hello

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it didn't beep lies

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is it normal when setting up a xiaomi product for me to install their app

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thing and for it to try and install three gigs worth of other random crap on

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my phone uh oh that's uh like third party app store

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i get it their app is on this app store

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so i had to get this app store first okay so why don't we try again

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okay so that's why it gave me a whole app store okay we're taking the tour

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yeah uh but the tour guide doesn't speak english so if you could uh uh uh

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settings configuration menu no this is actually mine uh

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just like my my HDMI input and stuff you

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know um tv

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recommendation or yeah um vip porn

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very important porn okay

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look at that streaming to you all the way from china

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just standing here i honestly kind of forgot it was a

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see-through tv and that's what i was supposed to be looking at in a darker

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scene i can see right through it but

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this and that's probably because we have

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those lights behind the tv yeah without that man

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that's kind of cool isn't it okay uh enough of exploring the ocean that's i'm

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too wet now too excited sir is there is there a

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language option language no yes

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yes confirm wait did it work yeah it says like some third-party app might not

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support english but other than that you have english

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here we english now boys yes

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they've got captive portal support that's cool i mean xiaomi does have tvs

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so it shouldn't be that surprising that they've like got a tv os that's

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reasonably fleshed out even if it's on a super weird tv today so this has an

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always-on display option with different styles what are these oh

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that's pretty cool so if the idea was to use it as an impressive art piece in

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your like you know fancy pants home where seven

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thousand dollars on an art is like whatevs no big deal i guess

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and you could do like this or whatever it just feels like i could catch the

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thing oh my god no way

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nice okay um

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memc would be motion compensation probably right

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i'm not sure this is english local contrast why would

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it have like a local dimming setting on an OLED

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okay you can do your own white balance tune your color

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pixel adjustment on cool okay

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let's plug something in that was so weird so last time it said

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active signal resolution 4k desktop resolution 1920x1080.

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what's weird though is it still kind of looks like crap also we got a dead pixel

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dang it right in the middle of my chrome

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icon you say you won't buy one that's it

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that's the deal breaker for you the one dead pixel not the seven thousand

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dollars see-through if i pay seven grand it looks like you were right andy i

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think only one of the input supports 120 hertz which is super weird in this day

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and age like 120 hertz 1080p it's like

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nothing anymore it's kind of tedious switching inputs

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like where's this the leg input switch button i guess the expectation is you're going

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to do most of your content consumption streaming like is that the norm input

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lag honestly feels better on this input as well already but i still don't see a

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120 hertz option let's try uh let's try doing it as a

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custom resolution not just break it

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i've seen this place get pretty effed up for like days from doing this

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curiously it seems to be doing some kind of weird chroma sub sampling nonsense it

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doesn't look quite as sharp you can you got like kind of a green fringing on

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these Windows and stuff got another disappointing update for you brandon

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check this out you can configure the display mode and the game mode does in

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fact improve the input leg so that feels

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that feels pretty darn good unfortunately if i don't want warm

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colors it changes me to user mode

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and it's mushy input again why

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then making matters worse this is super annoying i have another

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dead pixel do you know how much each of these

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pixels costs if you spent seven grand on a stupid clear tv you'd want all the

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pixels to work too viewing angles are surprisingly decent

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it does turn a little bit bluey greeny once you get to kind of an extreme angle

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but as long as you're within reason

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i'd say it's pretty darn good let's play some video games shall we one benefit of

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the hockey puck approach is that the built-in speaker is actually not

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terrible for a tv they say they support dolby atomos yeah

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but i don't think this thing support HDR the animation

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at least they didn't mention on the spec sheet it's pretty rough for anyone who'd

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be stupid enough to buy it anyway i think we've got a few more stuck pixels

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up here oh those are sloppy

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it otherwise looks great we put a black surface behind it so just like some

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black kind of uh velvety cloth

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and like i can't even tell it's clear

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i mean it's not much of a feature when like the feature is that you can't see

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the feature but oh hi andy

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oh lara don't fall is she swimming

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going for a little front crawl here

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conceivably you could game on it i don't know that i would have it in my

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press release if i was xiaomi but there you go let's try something more

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cinematic even at 1080p at this size i

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wouldn't expect that much screen door effect but

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probably as part of trying to make the screen as transparent as possible they

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actually want the pixels to be smaller so you're going to get more of

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like a noticeable grid in between them

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yeah this is not a great experience which

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kind of raises the question what is the point of this

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who does buy something like this and the answer

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believe it or not is pretty straightforward

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commercial enterprises i mean imagine if

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lttstore.com had a display like that in the window

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wouldn't you want to buy it look at that water bottle

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you can see right through the marketing materials pretty cool right

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so bottom line even if it doesn't make any sense for consumers if i was a

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high-end hotel or banquet hall or law

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firm and i wanted something really eye-catching in my lobby to make

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potential customers think that i was pretty swanky something like this could

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potentially make sense even if it does come with a few bugs

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