Oh my god. This is real. I actually didn't think I was going to be able to
move it at all. I thought I had my end game TV with my
65-in Sony Bravia QD OLED. When QD OLEDs
were first coming out, I was like, "Damn, these are amazing." But now,
and maybe it's cuz I work with Linus, I really am looking at that 65-in TV
thinking, "This thing is puny. I need a large format display, like a freaking
98-in 20,000 dimming zone 10,000 nit mini LED
TV." This TV is hyped for a reason. It's
$10,000, which is insane, but it's not insane.
This is actually going to take you like more than 1 week for your garbage
collection service to to get this. You're going to be out there for half an hour cutting this up. Okay, before
we get to the actual epic panel over there, let's look at what else is in
here. If I can even lift this out.
Oh my god.
This is a heavy piece of metal. You could like
seriously kill some kind of minimalist architect man with this thing. This is
crazy. Boom. Try getting a reservation
at Dorsia now, you son of a
There's also a bag with a remote that
seems like it doesn't have enough metal for $10,000 and some mysterious little
grill things that will
find out about later. Hey, don't look at that. Also comes with a obviously
detachable power cable, which I love to see. Damn, this thing better be long.
With a TV this big, your outlet can be like 4 ft away
and the TV's still in front of it. Oh yeah, this is pretty long. It's nice.
I'm going to say this is 8 ft long.
All right, I'll I'll lift and you scoot. Scoot. Scoot better. Scoot faster.
>> [laughter] >> Mine didn't Mine didn't have that.
Two pegs, [music] three screws, and one remaining screw and one
remaining peg hole that seemed to be inaccessible.
I don't know what they're for. Maybe we'll find out.
No promises. >> [snorts]
>> All right, with the second foot on, the our first mystery is solved. These
things are shrouds for those feet. You know what? Maybe
this hole is for running cables down
into the hole and out the back so your cables run near the feet. That's the
only explanation I can think of cuz it just otherwise looks unfinished. Okay, 1
2 3. Oh god. Ready?
Coco. Oh, look at that sloppy peel.
Someone's peeled this before.
That was an assault on the senses. I really like the industrial design of
this. There are a lot of TVs that are thin these days, especially with OLEDs,
but a lot of them only have a thin panel and then they have some kind of like junk in the trunk bumping out of the
bottom, some kind of base. This thing is consistently the same width. It's got to
be maybe even under an inch. Uh how
stable does it feel? It's not super stable. I wouldn't let your 5-year-old
body check this thing, but you also don't want the feet to be so
super wide, so it's probably a good compromise there. The bronze is really
nice, so I think it was a good kind of premium [music] look to go with while being acceptable
in lots of different spaces. The back has squares kind of reminiscent of what
you see on the back of Sonys and it's got these really nice and stylish
enhanced ultra bass drivers back here.
You'll never see them, but they look really nice. And then a note about the
wall mount, it's actually higher on the TV than a lot of
wall mount placements. So if you were to put this on a wall mount that exists in
your house already, this TV might sit
lower than your current TV. It might look weird. You might have to move your
wall mount. The power AC in is over here. The rest of the IO is way over
there. Um but on the way,
you have all these little clippy guys, which appear to be for cable management,
so you can just route everything anywhere you want along that, which is
really nice. Teleporting over here, we have the IO
and it's slightly more beefy than a normal TV with four HDMI 2.1
>> [music] >> ports that are each capable of 4K 144 Hz
120. One of them is the eARC port. Now,
you also have LAN. We don't know if that's any faster than normal. It's usually 100 100. And then a USB 2.0
port, uh another one of those at the bottom, a
little boomer knob, and an optical audio
out, which is not a boomer port because it's uh you know, sometimes cool to get
a vintage uh stereo receiver and sometimes they
still use Toslink. I've done it. I'm not a boomer. And there's one more sneaky
USB port right here on the side, which is a little more accessible, which I
appreciate. It's a damn fine-looking TV,
but it probably looks better turned on, which we'll do right after this message
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per second copy of Ari Aster's Midsommar, I do want to take a moment to
talk with this remote and how disappointing it is that it's not bronze
to color match the TV. But I will say to its credit, I love this little wheel.
It's amazing. It is so tactile. Earlier I was typing in a keyboard and I was
just racing around. It's It's awesome. All right, how bright is this thing
going to get? As it's easing on, I'm waiting for it to stop and it just keeps going and getting
brighter and brighter. Jesus.
Look at that sun up there. I'm tempted to crank it up, but one thing to note is
that adjusting the brightness of this TV does
mess with [music] the color accuracy of the TV cuz it affects the the gamma
tracking. So if you're going to calibrate this or get dialed in, you
kind of want to set your brightness first and do any color stuff after that.
But Jesus, looks great. Even >> [music] >> just these stills display. Okay, here we
go. Look at that. Wow. All those little I feel like I'm looking at like a snow
globe or something. These little lights There's so much contrast in here.
It really looks like I'm just looking with my eyes and at at 98 in sure is
immersive. Oh no. No, motion smoothing is on. This is not
24 frames per second. No, stop. And this
shot here is actually going to be useful now that we turned smooth motion off
because as you can see, it's like slightly more jittery now. Now, as
someone who runs an OLED at home, this kind of shot can be challenging. Maybe
not that one cuz it has a lot of stuff in the foreground, but a landscape pan
on an OLED looks really really jittery
and juddery. So just to say, you know,
someone in this price point is probably going to be comparing to an OLED, so it
is good to highlight the the kind of downsides or shortcomings of OLEDs where
they do exist. Nature cinema,
which apparently is 48 Hz, which would double the 24 uh frames per second that
movies are typically shot in and bring it up to a Gemini Man 48 Hz. That is way
smoother. That is way less judder. It doesn't look too icky in this
kind of regular movie scene. Maybe Maybe 48 Maybe that's something to think
about. One thing to note though, it It says nature cinema here, but a lot of
people talking about this online call it natural cinema, so
it's possible we're not in the right mode or they changed the name or people
are just wrong or this is a typo. I don't I don't know. Okay, here we are in Infinity War. Holy
cow, the Tesseract is blinding. The colors do look off. I think the reds are
a little cooked, so I'm going to see what we can see if we go into a more
color accurate mode. Labs did the gamut
of testing here and they found that the HDR Filmmaker Mode was the most
accurate. So let's [music] go there. Man, there are some like just random
specular highlights. Like there was a beam of light that just came in and it's
not something I don't think I've ever noticed before when when watching this, but it really caught my eye on this TV.
This TV does have an ambient light sensor and a lot of people turn those
modes off because they don't want their TV to be dimmer in any circumstance, but
with this TV, you probably want to keep it on. I'm sure if you had a fully
light-controlled room and you made it black, it would actually sear your eyes
to have this on, especially if you were watching YouTube and someone pulled up
like a white web page, blast you. This
TV truly does have more than 20,000 dimming zones, which are not very large
on a TV of this size. They should be about under a centimeter. So let's see
if we can get a sense of that by going to YouTube and putting on a local dimming test [music] video.
The black levels look really good in the corners where there are no
white elements at all. It's really quite
black. There are lights on in here right now,
so I'm not going to go as far as to say they're OLED level inky black, but they
look really black. Now, as for the lights around the white, I do see some
some glare around the white. However, there is always going to be some amount
of glare. Just called veiling glare. It's like an artifact of the way our
eyes work. But, it's even that's minimal. Now, what I want to do is go to
the side a little bit. I want to get off-axis. Cuz sometimes uh full-array
local dimming displays can look really bad off-axis, but
this is fine. It's not really getting accentuated at all. This test it's a is
exposing some more issues. I can see the trailing edge of this moving block is
almost like flickery. It looks like there's a glare around it
that is kind of at least two widths of the block wide in
all directions. But, it really seems like the trailing edges seem to glow more [music] than the
leading edges. But, still all told we're talking about,
you know, a size less than your fist that's illuminated at all.
There was a second there where suddenly it went really black. It's I
think what happened was that we switched from that little block going around to this bar. And in that transition there
was a moment where there was no white object on the screen. And in that moment
the whole screen went really inky black. So, this seems like
there's some kind of limitation where some banks of lights have to be on to at
least some minimum value if there's just anything any value
uh needed from them. And then when that wasn't the case it just they all turned
off. And man, if they could do that more often, uh that'd be great. There are
things that you can see in a side-by-side. If we had this next to an
OLED we might be able to discern a material difference in how black the
blacks are. But, you don't have side-by-sides in real life. You have one display in your
room. And for all intents and purposes, this is black as tar, [music] man. Like,
it's really, really black. This is a great experience. All right, boys and
girls. We got the brightness set up to 90. Peak brightness, which was set to
off, is now on high. Let's see if this
blows our socks off. Oh my god. Okay, here we go. Woo. Oh my god. I'm looking
in a cauldron. That was an actual absolute forge.
Woah. The Oh my god. This is just as bright for me
as it is for Gandalf. Wow. Hohoho. Man, that is so immersive. It's
amazing. Now, they claim that this display can actually cover a 100% of the
BT.2020 color space, which is a huge color
space. And that would be a huge achievement. Just a couple of years ago,
we weren't even talking about the BT.2020 color space. We were always talking about P3.
>> [music] >> And then displays were covering 73% of it. And that was really great. Then they
started covering over 90% of it. And that was insane. Now, they're saying
these guys are claiming 100% coverage. Now, we did not measure that.
We measured 91% coverage of it, which is still amazing. It's still
plenty. I wouldn't be mad. I That could still be your end game
display. However, we have to point out that we didn't we [music] didn't test
their claim. Maybe there's a different mode or setup or a different way of
testing that can get to 100%, but
we can only tell you what we experienced. Speaking of things we measured, out of the box in SDR in vivid
mode, we measured up to 9,293 [music]
nits in a 5% window. In a 1% window at
5,646 nits. Which is just insane. [music] In
filmmaker mode it is a lot dimmer. Measuring 333 nits in a 1% patch. For
color accuracy in filmmaker mode in SDR,
we measured an average delta E of 0.95,
which is great. That's a color errors the human eye can't discern. But, that's
the average. The max value was was three, which is a little higher and
someone might be able to notice that a color is off, but it's
it's still very good. Now, let's talk about HDR where there actually several
modes. >> [music] >> The brightest one we measured was HDR
IMAX mode where we measured almost 11,000 nits at a 5% patch. There's also
HDR standard, HDR filmmaker mode, and Dolby Vision. This, you know, this is a
mini LED TV. So, it's not going to have the pixel
response times that are >> [music] >> just instant like OLEDs have. I guess
you could make the argument that it's kind of better for gaming in terms of
lifetime of your television set. It's not going to have any burn-in issues. At
least nowhere near the degree that OLED has. Although that, in my experience,
hasn't really been a problem. And I think it's getting better with OLEDs all
the time. But, that's the beauty of these large format TVs. It's we're
getting towards the size of a projector with the
picture quality and >> [music] >> response times and just all the benefits
of TVs. It actually looks really photorealistic right now with how bright
some of these highlights are. >> [music] >> You actually don't see super dark blacks
really anywhere in the scene. And you wouldn't in real life either because
there's just enough light like ambient light being put out
by these >> [music] >> big billboards and stuff. And they all have different color temperatures as
well. And you got the reflections off the ground. It just looks awesome. If
you're someone who's thinking a 98-in TV that sounds so so stupid, it would be
awful to watch. Your mind might be changeable. At this
viewing distance, I'm sitting about as far from this thing as I sit from my
65-in TV at home, but there's just something about especially in the gaming
use case, the peripheral edge of the screen is kind of
in my peripheral vision and it just sucks you right into the [music] game.
This TV does have 120 W of speakers in it. There's like 12 speakers and three
subwoofers, which is kind of crazy. But, what it would be
even crazier is if you actually used any of those. If you spent $10,000 on a TV
but didn't have a great speaker setup.
Uh that'd be weird. Shame on you. But, one thing that's cool about this TV is it
has Dolby FlexConnect, which is new to
me. But, apparently you have the capability here to do the processing for
surround sound that you would normally do in your AVR just in the TV itself.
So, you can plug in a number of speakers or powered speakers that don't need
amplification into this TV. The TV will do the processing for the surround
sound. That's pretty cool. It's potentially more user-friendly than, you know, AVRs
can be intimidating to some folks. But, I will say this is kind of an enthusiast TV. So,
eh This TV is awesome. I want it.
The thing is it's $10,000
which is a lot. A like really a lot. You
can get the previous model to this thing, which is quite a step down for,
you know, three to five thousand dollars. So, does that mean that the price of this is going to come down in a
short amount of time? I don't really think so [music] cuz it's like kind of their new node. But, maybe. But, what is
clear is that these large format TVs are becoming more and more of a thing. They
are the most growthy part of the TV market right now. So, I do expect the
prices to continue to come down. And I pray to [music] goodness that one of
them is in my future for my home. Oh, so thanks for watching, guys. If you liked
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Is it for you? Is it for billionaires only? Are these going to come down in
price anytime soon so us mere mortals can enjoy it?
What do you think?