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The 100in gaming experience behind me looks like it's running on a TV, and

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it's got a lot in common with a TV. It's running at 4K 60 Hz. It's got support

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for HDR. It's got crazy thin bezels, and

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only sits about this far off the freaking wall. But it's not a TV. Okay,

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so what is it then? If it was a projector, surely the fact that I'm

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standing right here in front of it would mean that there'd be a shadow behind me,

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right? Not so much. The magic is in this

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box right here. This is an ultra short throw projector with a bespoke ambient

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light rejecting screen that makes it so it achieves nearly TV levels of

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brightness. And there's almost no way to get in the way of the image. Well,

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unless you stand right here. But how the heck does that work? And how am I going

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Now, I figured out that this wasn't a TV real fast because TVs don't come in

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boxes like this or like this. And they definitely don't come with not one but

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two sets of white gloves. Dr. tech is in

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the building. Apparently, there are very specific instructions.

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I have the instructions. Do you want to use them?

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Um, no. I kind of want to just learn as we go. Epson calls this a laser projection TV,

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which sounds like two different things and sort of is two different things, but

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they've meshed them into one. And now, what's really cool about this setup is

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it's not you buy a projector, you figure out the screen yourself, or you buy a

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screen, you figure out the projector. It is two pieces that you buy and they come

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together as a kit and they're specifically tailored to be used

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together, designed for each other, engineered for each other to provide

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supposedly an experience that is better or the same as a TV with a projector.

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Here's the thing. When we started this video, I thought their claims were

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almost definitely bull. And we haven't reached the point in the video where

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we've shot the intro yet. So, I kind of still think there's a real solid chance

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that this is bull. No projector, regardless of how many

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thousands of lumens it has, is able to match the experience of a TV in a lit

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room. Except this projector comes with an ambient light rejecting screen

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specifically tailored for it. Have I said that enough times yet?

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Oh, sweet. This thing has Android TV. Oh, wow. That's that's freaking awesome. One of the key

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things you need to keep in mind when you're setting this up is because they're paired together, it's very

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important that you get the geometry exact, and that's why this cardboard

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thing exists. It's actually like a jig for lining it up. Oh god. I find it very

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hard to believe that this isn't Epson propaganda. Wow, look at it go. Laser

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aperture. Got some science. Got 3D. Got that

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technology. Ah, you don't want to run it with the

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plastic on. That's a tech tip. Oh, this

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is cool. You know how projectors always have speakers on them and it's the

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stupidest thing ever because the projector is behind you where you

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wouldn't want speakers? This projector goes in front of you because it's like a

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crazy short throw one. So, the speakers actually point at you. Uh, got your

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network, got dual HDMI. Uh, one of them is ARC. It doesn't specify if it's ERC.

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I would kind of hope so in a modern product, but USB audio out serial for

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control. Oh, yeah. '90s kids will get this. You got your front inputs, right?

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Oh, right. I forgot. Jake's really young know

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TVs used to have inputs at the front. Okay. RCA is on the front.

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Yeah, that's right. You got the composite on the front. Got another USB

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and then controls, focus, and that looks

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like an intake fan. An honest question, why would anyone turn focus to anything

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other than the maximum amount of focus?

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This is unlike anything we have ever covered. I mean, even just look at the

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aesthetics of it. What is up with this blue, orange, and black grill? Like,

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what what house is this supposed to match? I love everything about it. From

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its retro front inputs to its speakers

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on a projector that are pointed in the right direction to whatever this panel

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on the side is that looks like it comes off. It's got a filtered intake.

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Wow, there's a lot of cooling in this thing. Kind of makes sense. You got a

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4,000 lu laser freaking projector. Okay, so we need to measure that this

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thing needs to be 17 in from the front. Okay, I mean, you could probably find

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furniture that's this wide for no apparent reason to put in your living

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room. This is some serious business. Extruded aluminum here, boys. Look at

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that shaft. I thought you said it was propaganda.

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Look at that lens. To help you identify drill hole locations for the wall

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brackets, Epson has created a guide image that you can project onto the

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wall. Oh, wow. That's handy. It's a good thing we built a computer for that.

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I found the baggie of tensioning springs as well as what appears to be the wall

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brackets that Jake is going to need. I love how they assume that anyone nerdy

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enough to buy this product is going to have a friend to help them set it up. You say that like we're friends.

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Well, I pay you to hang out with me. It's a friendship of sorts.

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Did you read the instructions at all or you just yell? No, I'm just going for it, dog. I mean,

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it's pretty straightforward. Basically, you just got the frames. You put the L

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brackets in between them. What if there was some other we had to do before then?

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Well, then I haven't done it clearly. Hold on a second.

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Oh, yeah. What are these puppies for? Sorry.

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Thought for a second that this was a wireless HDMI thing. Yeah,

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but it says streaming media player. I think this is like the Android TV

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dongle. It comes with two remotes. No.

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Come on, Epson. What? They both have YouTube, Netflix,

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and Google Play buttons. But the remote that like came in the general packaging,

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like separate from that, has more smart

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functionality and a Google button. Wow. This is not like screens I've seen

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before. Oh, no. Wow. It's Oh, no. It's

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It's gray. It's gray. Okay. Just about blew my mind. The first time I heard

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about dark projector screens to get better black levels, I was like, "What?

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Well, how do you, you know, how do you use it if it's not like how do you get

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white if it's not white? But apparently you can project white onto gray or

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something. Now I just have to put in a thousand of these little spring things

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that are all barrel of monkeys attached to each other. Yep, I did it wrong.

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You're supposed to do the corners first, then center the long sides, then center

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the short sides. Holy holy crap, David,

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are you ready to have your mind freaking blown? Yeah.

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Watch the color of the screen. Wo.

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Wo. What? What?

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Can you see it? Yeah. Okay. What color is the screen?

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Whitish. Off gray. Wow. Black. That's

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crazy. So cool. Now, I have experienced an

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ambient light rejecting screen before, but not like this. Normally, the way

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that they're designed is to minimize sort of off-axis incidental light

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bouncing back to the viewer. This is like channeled basically. Like looking

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at it like this, it's just like black, white, black, white, black, white. I

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redid all the springs to get it aligned well enough that I can actually stick

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through the screws for the black frame. And we realized that it's still not

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perfectly aligned because there's these adjustment screw thread holes for how

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far it sits off the wall and we can't get at one of them without kind of

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bending the screen back a little bit. It's It is real finicky to get the whole

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thing aligned perfectly. Oh god. That corner and that corner are

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both rippled as hell. Yeah, we got to take the frame off again and stretch it.

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Basically, what happened is uh I think we don't have enough tension from the

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bottom here. Oh, okay. That did not make it better. This is a lot of work for it to not be

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good. I really hope it's good, too. I mean, if it's good, it has the potential to be

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like mindblowing because it's like a hundred inches for what? Four and a half

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grand and super bright. Supposedly. Supposedly.

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Look how good my gloves fit.

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Oh. Oh, real mature Jake. Blur.

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Just blur all of him. It's all offensive. Holy crap. That really does

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look a lot better. Wow.

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Oh, sorry. Paint job. Oh, no. It looks a

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lot better than I expected. To be clear, this is not the brightest TV by any

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stretch of the imagination, but it doesn't look like you could convince me

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it's not a projector, too. It's also pretty bright in here. Oh, yeah. That's true. We've got like

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studio lights firing at it right now. I mean, if you had like a regular

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projector, it wouldn't look this good. I was cleaning up some of the packaging

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and I came across these two little tools. I don't know exactly what they're

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for, but they kind of look like they would be for stretching the screen, which would have been really useful.

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Oops. I'm starting to realize how much I probably should have read the manual.

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Is it working? Maybe. Oh,

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wow. That alignment. You nailed it. I just yoloed it. I removed the box and

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I just wentoop tilt the the focus and bada ba boom. Here we are. So, we're It

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is plain HDR10, but there's like a an

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adjustment slider and it defaults to eight and we set it to five.

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Uhhuh. Which is a little bit brighter. It's a lot better

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than any other projector, anything else I've seen for a projector.

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And look at it. Looks pretty damn crisp. Like, we were a little concerned that

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right on the fringe edges, it's not quite as sharp. Mhm.

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But in something like this, you don't notice it at all. And it looks pretty good everywhere else.

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Blacks are not that black, though. We do still have a light on though.

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Yeah. Lights up there and those Windows over there. This is not light

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controlled. I would say that even under non ideal lighting conditions, this is

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as good as a few generations ago TV.

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But in terms of HDR, I don't think the

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black levels are deep enough to get that contrast that you need. At least not

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with ambient light. But look at that. When it's a scene that's pretty lit.

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Yeah, it looks really good. You could convince me that this is like

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a pre- really good local dimming TV.

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Like, it's pretty crisp. I can't believe how good it looks to me. Even from over

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here, as long as it's not lit right above it, it's pretty damn good.

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All right, now shut it all off. Shut everything off. Kill the lights.

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Okay, here we go. This is the experience. This is pretty freaking awesome. so

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freaking good. When you consider how much a, you know,

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100 in TV costs. This has compromises. It's takes a lot

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longer to set up. No, the blacks are not as black. And the HDR experience, it's

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not like a new top-of-the-line OLED or anything like that. But what does an 88

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in OLED cost? 30 grand. Maybe not quite. I want to

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play with that setting. Wo, that looks way better. As difficult

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as the setup is compared to just plonking a TV onto your console though,

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compared to other projectors we've dealt with, it is basically plugandplay.

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Yeah, it's nice that they actually put some thought into how somebody is going

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to set this up if they're doing it themselves. I mean, that's something that drives me so crazy is every time I

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go on a manufacturer's website when they have some remember that stupid trash can

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shaped projector, right, that was just like sitting on a coffee table, right?

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In all the promotional imagery and I'm looking at it going, "Who the hell would

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have that on their coffee table? Where do the HDMI cables go from a coffee

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table?" It's wireless, bro. No, nobody. It needs power, Jake. It

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needs power. Nobody has power in the middle of the floor of their living

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room. Whereas this is actually something you could sensibly, reasonably deploy.

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That's the difference. If you want the screen size, it is a legitimate

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option. See, if it's not HDR content, I'm not too worried about the black levels.

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Yeah, it looks really good, man. That is pretty freaking impressive.

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But the viewing angles are great. Yeah, that looks awesome. Like with how

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bright that is, you could easily convince me that that is a TV from here.

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That actually doesn't even look that much worse. Game color mode. Uh yeah, I

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noticed it doesn't look as good. Oh, there's no 120 Hz. Even if you go

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down to 1920 x Well, I don't think it's might be pixel

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shift. When we're at the desktop and we're looking at text, it's a lot easier to

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tell that Yeah, it's a projector. It's not that sharp. Like, it's not crisp

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like an OLED. I don't want to do this, dude. You're going to get wrecked. You

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know what? Laty not bad. Oh, wait. There's grenades in this game.

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How do you throw a grenade? Middle click, I think. Oh, yeah. There it goes.

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When using the projector speakers, they suck. Oh, yeah. They're bad. They're real bad,

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boys. All I know is this thing looks great. Latency is pretty good. It's

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still 60 Hz, so yeah. Yeah, it's not OLED like, but the like pixel response

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times good. There's no blur, which I guess makes sense. It is a laser

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projector. You know what? I like it. I like it enough to think this is really

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amazing cool tech and enjoy using it, but I don't know if I like it enough to

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recommend spending four grand or $45,000. I don't know.

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I mean, I'd rather have this than almost any other projector setup that I've

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seen. In terms of how practical it is to set up, it's pretty easy to set up. I mean, if

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you follow the instructions, please and follow Yeah, please use the instructions. It's

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really not It looks really good. I still don't think it's a TV replacement.

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No, no, not at all. At least not an OLED TV replacement. Big

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