Inside this truck is the HighSense 116UX, a 116in monster of a TV. But it's
more than just a one-trick pony, boasting 8,000 nits of peak brightness
and the world's very first RGB miniLEDD
backlight. That's right. Instead of a
white backlight with color filters, Highense is using thousands of zones of
RGB backlighting to dramatically boost
color volumes to a never-before-seen 95%
of the BT 2020 color space. I can't wait
to be the first person to unbox this thing. But I'm gonna have to wait a
little bit because while the TV tech has
improved a lot in the two years since I unboxed my 115inch TCL, the process for
moving these things hasn't improved at all. This is going to be a challenge.
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the video description. As much as we're kind of memeing on how hard these things
are to move, it's only about 20% in ACT.
The shipping weight of this TV is over 300 lb. Almost 400. So, if you're
French, I hope you can also read English or Spanish because two people probably
not enough. Anywh who, this seems like as good a place as any for the unboxing
in front of for scale a 75in TV.
Let's start with the straps. But before we even get this open, can I just say,
hey, maybe they could have made it lighter if they didn't keep trying to
pack more and more tech into these giant TVs.
>> No, I'm talking 4K,
165 Hz native refresh rate, G-Sync, AMD
Freync Pro, Premium, whatever the crap they call it now. >> Auto low latency mode, all the goodness.
Woo! Oh, we put the ugly side facing the camera. Oh yeah, we totally did. This
has got all the good stuff. IMAX enhanced opera national deer.
>> What? >> DVLET. Yeah, it's an audio company. >> Oh, >> so it's tuned.
>> 6.2.2 audio. Although I say this every time,
but it bears repeating. If you are buying a TV like this, my god, do not
use the onboard sound. We'll try them. You might also want to get an extended
warranty on it. 2 years more than some TVs, but uh considering the cost of it.
>> Do you know how much it costs? >> No. Highense hasn't actually told me. I just assumed it's really high. It's
$25,000 on sale from 30,000 depending on
where you get it. >> What a deal. >> What a savings. >> You can save more on this TV than most
people spend on their TV. You can fit so much savings in here.
>> That's how deals work. You're just saving money. >> You'd be crazy not to buy it.
>> How does it come apart? Should we be worried about some of the like holes
bashed in the side of the box? Not even a little. My god, this foam. This is
like the densest foam I think I've ever seen in my life. And I think this
cardboard screen protector might be better built than some IKEA furniture.
Check this out, Lou. Dude, look at my new table, bro. New dining
room table right there. Oh, it comes with handles.
>> Yes. Wait, are these the good ones, though? Or are these the ones that are going to dig into our hands? No. No.
>> Oh, they're the dig in our hands. >> Hell yeah. That's the good stuff. That's
Is it? >> No, it's terrible. >> Oh, yeah. It's terrible. It's going to dig like it did last time. For
comparison, here are the handles that TCL provides for their 115 in. And you
get two per side that screw in so you can lift it like this. High sense, this
is a better system. >> Or just fix the handle. >> Oh, what?
>> High sense was way ahead of us. >> Why? >> Boom.
>> It's like 2 lb or something. I think kill, man.
>> This is to defend your TV, man. I don't
even get to use my screwdriver from lttstore.com to put these in. Now might
be a good time. All the I/IO is like right next to your face. >> Oh yeah, right. Oh, what? Oh, only three
HDMIs. >> That's because Have you found it yet? >> Shut up. Does it have DP in?
>> Yes. >> Where? Uh, it's through USBC. So, it's so it's DP Alt, but yes, it has DP.
>> No way. >> It's I think it's the only TV or like one of very few TVs that have display
port built in. >> That is so cool. >> I know. I didn't tell you about it cuz
Yeah, it's sick. >> Oh, >> you found it. >> It's here. >> Yo, >> what the heck? Why would they put it on
the side of the TV? So it's easy to plug a laptop in or something.
>> So they're thinking like in a professional environment. >> Yeah. Like it's at a presentation and
someone needs to walk up make it easy for someone. >> Okay. Here's a nice thing though. All of
the HDMIs support full 4K 165 Hz though.
The only question now is did they spring for more than 100 megabit LAN?
>> On the spec page. It literally just says
Ethernet LAN. So I would guess no, but it's got Wi-Fi 6E. Rounding out the IO,
we have USB 2, USB 3, serial for home automation controls, as well as a
headphone jack and AV in. Wow, it still
has spitif, too. >> It's got everything you need. >> I assume we want to check this out in
the theater room. That's where it's going to be. This is the part to make sure you're rolling cuz if we drop it,
that's content, baby. >> 1 2 3 ho.
>> You know, >> my god, this is doable. All you need is
to mix three people. In French, they call it a manual.
>> No, Reese, you're definitely helping. >> Yeah, Reese, you're helping. I definitely felt it when you stopped.
>> Oh boy. >> Oh, the leg. The leg. It's good.
>> Yep. Yep. It's all good. One, two, three, and down.
>> Damn, that's a big TV. >> Yeah, >> I'm on my tiptoes.
>> It's up to my mouth. >> One of my issues with the TCL is if
there's any light in the room, you get this kind of rainbow star effect. I bet
you can see it really well in the camera. That was because of the micro
lens arrays that they're using. If I recall correctly, >> High Sense claims that they have a
really sophisticated anti-glare coating on this. Uh, we have the screen
protector on now, so I guess we might as well move it. Energy Guide off the
charts. Don't even worry about it. >> Do you know how much power this uses?
>> I'm going to say 450 W. >> Oh my god, you're so far off. It's like
800 watts.
It's like almost a portable air conditioner level of electricity just
for the TV. Good thing I have AC in this room. >> Yeah, the panel's probably going to get
hot >> sometimes. It has to run in the winter because you get like 10 people packed in
here. That's about 1,000 watts. >> I've got a 5090 in there in that Falcon
Northwest frag box plus the TV. >> You got like thousands of watts in this
little room.
>> The rainbow effect is actually quite pronounced on it. You can still see it
100%, but if you try to like look at both of these at the same time, that
still looks like a perfect reflection almost. This is a lot more diffuse.
>> Realistically, this is a light control room. >> Oh, yeah. It's fine. Oh, it has
instructions on how to uh take it all apart. We did it correctly,
>> dude. It's on. There's no way we can ignore this. >> Oh, >> let's go.
>> Oh, yeah. You already powered on. Okay, sick. Do you understand why I was
incredibly excited about this TV, but why I thought you might still keep the
TCL? There's a fair bit of bloom. >> There's a fair bit of bloom. Do you want
to guess how many dimming zones are on this TV? >> Oh my god.
>> Take a guess. >> You've got to be kidding me. >> It's not a bad number. It's not. There
are thousands. >> Oh my god. It's not like 3,000, is it?
>> It's like 3500. >> That's not a lot of zones for a TV this
big. >> It's way better dead on. Like when I was over here, you can see the bloom.
>> Oh yeah, I can see. >> Oh, it's real. I'm sure it's very pronounced on camera. Yeah, the
anti-glare though. >> Yeah, it's pretty good now that we've got the peel off and now that we're
looking at it dead on. Yeah, I can't see either of us like at all. And it's a
pretty black screen, >> dude. It's so big.
>> Not much dirty screen effect on this big gray screen.
>> Yeah, not too bad. >> Uniformity. >> Not perfect, but it's never going to be
perfect. And it's really hard to nail it on a gigantic display like this.
>> We haven't tested it yet, so we'll know more later. But yeah, it looks pretty
good for now. You're moving it and everything like you're going to keep this TV.
>> There is a strong probability that I'm going to be keeping this TV. Yes.
>> You think so? >> I want to see the color, man. I 95% of BT 2020 if they can do it with I mean,
you know, if it gets to 8,000 nits and with the new RGB mini LED,
>> it's possible. >> Yeah, buddy.
>> That's pretty good already. >> The way that that shawn orange light at
us, right? That's not white light through an orange filter. That is orange
ass light. >> Yeah, that was >> that was good.
>> The yellow dress, dude. Even all the like sewing on her dress, like the
yellows on it, >> just pause. >> It really does.
>> Not in an awful unnatural way. Oh my god,
>> I forgot about the camera flash. >> And unlike an OLED, it does it full
screen. Good lord, >> the blues on her earrings are actually
really nice. I guess that's what you get when you've got a pure blue part of your
backlight. I guess we didn't really get into much detail about what the RGB
backlight means, but essentially more
color saturation, more color volume because they can tune the color of the
light that is shining through the LCD layer right from the very back instead
of having to filter it or quantum dot
transform it. >> There's a lot of processing that goes into that. why they need the new
processor cuz they're color mixing each individual mini LED right as the content
changes which is a lot to do but it's doing a good job of it so far
>> dude it's working >> I did catch a little bit of bloom around
her arm there I did I was looking for it >> some of these two these uh little bit
>> yeah it's only you know we're looking for it >> but what's interesting is that the bloom
has color >> oh it kind of does and it looks more like a glow around some of the things
which isn't >> it's not terrible but Like when it's
black on white or or white on black, it's not. Oh well. Okay, it works here
cuz of the sea. Oh my god. I think this is the best I've
ever seen this scene look. One thing I really appreciated about the TCL was
that like an OLED, the local dimming is so many zones that when you have a
letter boxed film like this, you really don't see any glow. I mostly don't see
any glow. >> Yeah, it's pretty close. It's also not black black though in
motion when I'm actually sitting enjoying a movie.
>> I don't think it's enough to notice. >> No, for most people, but
>> I can notice. >> You're not most people. >> No, I'm not.
>> There's always going to be trade-offs. And while this might not necessarily perform the best in a a more washed out,
contrasty, atmospheric movie like Alien
or Aliens for that matter, where it will perform well is something really bright.
And I love animated films. Let's throw Mario at it. Oh my god.
The gold, dude. The gold. >> Even the glinting on the metal as the
bullet bills turn to shoot at her. It was pretty good. >> The gold though.
>> The tie. It's really >> gold is really hard to do. Yeah,
>> there's no question. >> You're keeping this. >> The color is not close, dude.
>> It's not. Look at those dude.
>> Dude, the pink light. >> It's fantastic. >> See, that's where it's at its best. When
glowing objects have a color, they get saturation the likes of which I I just
don't think I've ever seen before. >> We've still got to test to see if it actually does 95% BT2020. That's a lot.
It might be lower than that. We don't know. That's a claim. I think I think it
hits a,000 bits. I think that's safe to
say. >> Okay, this seems like a good opportunity for us to try out the speakers.
>> 6.2.2 too.
Look, it's not it's not your sound system.
>> It's not a subwoofer, >> but like that was pretty good for TV
speakers. All right, it's missing all the bass.
>> Get a real audio setup. >> Yeah. God, this scene is so cool.
>> I know. I really don't see any blue. Like when you know it's midday and it's
a regular scene, it's going to stand out to you. The few times it stands out to
you, but literally no one else in the room is even going to notice. >> You know what stands out to me here
>> is they're not overcooking anything. Like we've talked a fair amount about
how oh it looks so red, it looks so yellow, it looks so green, but this
looks like it's supposed to look. They're not overcooking it. >> No, it does. But I mean, we're in
filmmaker mode, so I would I would expect that. >> I wish I could take that for granted.
It's subtle. We can very clearly make out the difference between the leather
jacket and the camo. >> Oh yeah. >> Right. But you can tell it's a dusty ass
day in LA, which is exactly what it is. >> The trees still look green, but they
look normal plant green. They don't look unnaturally vibrant or anything.
>> That's what your display should do. It should leave it up to the artist's
intent. This looks great. Skin tones great.
>> Okay, now can we game on it? >> This thing better have low lag cuz I
want to really enjoy gaming on it. >> It's got auto low latency mode. And one
thing I actually don't know if you mentioned yet, it does 165 hertz.
>> Oh, did you? >> Native 165. That's right. Instant game
response. >> Auto on. Always on. Freeync premium. Oh,
yeah. On high refresh rate mode. >> Let's go. Oh my god.
HDR is not even on. Turn. Click it on. Windows HDR may look poo poo on the
desktop, but looks real good in game. Why do I ever
game anywhere other than in here? I don't know. I will say this is one this
is one of the times where I want 8K. Like this still looks amazing. Don't get
me wrong, but like the screen is so freaking big that I would actually like
a resolution bump at this point. >> How's the motion performance?
>> It's okay. >> It seems okay. >> It's okay. Don't forget that like this
is still a VA panel. Like it's miniLEDD,
but oh my god, it looks incredible though
once you stop looking about at the motion.
like do an explosion or something. >> Oh.
>> Oh my god. Everyone having all legendary weapons is not quite the fun that I was
hoping it would be. >> Especially when they're getting bazookas and you're getting a gravity hammer.
>> The motion performance is not bad enough to be distracting, but it's not good
enough for me to look at and go, "Oh, yeah. Wow, this is amazing." >> Do do a quick do like some flicks and
stuff. >> Yeah, it's Oh, you can like see the pixels changing. Like I don't I want
that instantaneous response time.
Ah, >> like it's still good enough. >> Yeah, it's not bad enough that I can
blame it for how I'm playing right now. >> 100%. >> Thanks. Now it's time to play a real
game. Ooh, there's some risky stuff happening
here. This is almost too big for this game.
>> Ooh, these pixel response times might not be as okay as I thought. No issues
with latency here, though. >> No, this is totally fine.
>> I honestly don't think the auto HDR looks as good as just running this game
in SDR, though. Oh, let's go. Playing
from down low. It's kind of incredible how quiet this computer is.
>> It really is. >> Falcon did an amazing job. Help did his own case and uh
>> Yeah, it looks really good. Fits fits in the cabinet great and everything. Yeah. >> Woo. Okay, so this doesn't have HDR yet.
That's actually coming out in a future update. >> Oh, so this is just the SDR to HDR
converter. >> This is just the SDR to HDR convers. >> No, it looks really good in this. The
motion is really killing me. But we'll
just go to a really nice scenic area and just kind of look around. Oh, I didn't
even check settings. >> Yeah, it looks uh not that high.
>> Set to ultra. >> This is ultra. >> VSync's on. Gamma correction.
>> I'll get that DLSS off. >> Oh, yeah. Convolution performance
transformer. And it's I was wondering why it looks so bad. I thought it was
just the motion quality, but no. >> Kind of poo poo. >> Oh, that's a lot better. That's more
like it. That's so much better. Oh my god. >> Dude, it looked like I had Vaseline on my TV.
>> Oh, I know. I thought it was just the bad MPRT, but no, it looked pretty good.
But yeah, this looks like stunning. The
motion performance definitely didn't bother me as much once we adjusted the
game settings. >> Once we fixed the game settings, it wasn't as bad. Turned off VSYNC and
everything. I still notice it. I love this TV for watching movies. And as much
as the 165 Hz is incredible, and I love that it's got DisplayPort, I'm still
not sold on gaming on it. I think you've got the like 500 Hz monitor, I would
probably for first person shooters, >> no question.
>> I'd probably play on that still. Like as long as you're not in a first person
scenario, it probably looks fine. It probably looks really good even.
>> 3,000 zones is not a lot of zones. >> It's not, man. Like, yeah, it's 3500,
but like that's why when I saw the specs, like I was incredibly excited for
this. And then I watched Vincent's video on it and I was like, "Oh, I don't know
if he's actually going to want to keep this anymore." >> I still do.
>> I believe it. Especially cuz this is your theater room. It's meant for movies. This seems fine.
>> Yeah. >> I like zero motion issues. Like now that I'm just kind of moving around in a 2D
environment with a sidescroller. >> Once you're on a controller too,
>> way better. >> It's just not as noticeable. And this
art style also lends itself pretty well to hiding any kinds of small issues.
>> It really does. >> Ah, and I'm dead.
>> Nice. Looks great though. Can't blame my TV. Last thing I want to do, check for
dead pixels.
Takes a while to check on a TV this big. Yet another champagne problem, but a
problem nonetheless. Do you want to help me check? >> The amount of mini LEDs in here is
something like 20,000. >> Dude, I think we've got a perfect I
wouldn't put it past high sense to >> check this before they sent it, though.
In summary, we don't have all the measurements from it yet. No,
>> but we did take some time and have John from Labs come and test the color gamut
as well as the brightness. So, we'll have those results here. And I think
we're going to have to do a follow-up video. I need a new wall mount.
>> You want to keep it? >> Okay. >> And we might as well run the gamut of
tests, pun intended, if we're going to do that. >> What are we going to do with the old TV
>> Christmas party? >> Oh my god. Elijah's going to try to win it and get the crane to his
>> Okay. >> Are you going to go for it? >> No. Soldier can't fit it. And I'm like
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the last time we looked at High Sense's largest ever TV, which was their 110 in
last year. >> Yeah, >> this is better. >> Oh, yeah. >> Almost every way.
>> 6 in is a big difference. >> But that one had 20,000 dimming zones.
>> I know, man. I'm telling you, I would have kept that one. >> It was smaller. M.