We Turned LG’s WALLPAPER TV into a WINDOW!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,200 words · ~6 min read
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how does one go from an idea what if we could use the lg signature
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series OLED wallpaper tv to make a
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window to anywhere to the realization of one of the coolest
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projects that we've ever done
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well in my case you ask your wife to do it
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no one externally seems to have any idea what Yvonne actually does here but
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coordinating random design and construction projects including our most
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recent setup grade has been a much larger part of her role than anyone
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including her probably expected and that's not always an easy thing to deal
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with Linus asked me to help with this project and gave me zero instructions
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for what to do and how to film this or
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anything beyond make it cool and modern and have
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a window but like the window's a tv i confess i was pretty hands off on this
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one but let's face it if i was in charge we all know how it would end up looking
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so Yvonne brought in carpenter and super
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nice guy george to lend us his woodworking expertise and after much
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debate the decision was made that in order to make the tv as easy to remove
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as possible what we were going to do was attach it
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to an mdf backing with the factory mount
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then slide the whole thing into a hollowed-out cavity using the window
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casing to hold it in so step one
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go get the tv from the a-roll set we mangled the flat magnetic wall mount
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a little bit by over tightening it last time but we managed to stretch it out on
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our mdf getting it nice and flat well that is to say george managed to stretch
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it out on the mdf my attempt to screw it on was so crooked we had to completely
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redo it then we mounted the tv to it not
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entirely without mishap traced the outline to get the exact
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dimensions for our window and finally cut it out with a circular saw
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a table saw might have been a bit better but with a steady hand this should do
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the trick throughout this process Yvonne was
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working on the design aspects of the office upgrade removing the mouse wall
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clock and Linus media group sign and puttying over the incredible amount of
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damage that the construction glue did to the drywall
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next step cut out the hole
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there is a little bit of room for error here because we'll be adding a frame to
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make the window effect more convincing but
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if our drywall cutout isn't truly square
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we'll end up covering part of the screen in the corners
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so if there was ever a time for measure twice cut once this is it
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next some angle grinder tips from george
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followed by twisting out the rest of the metal studs before measuring cutting and
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adding wood framing on all four sides to
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friction mount the tv's backing so much for that work that we just did
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filling in this wall a few weeks ago now
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everything up until now has been done sort of on faith that it's going to work
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if the mdf backing or the hole in the wall haven't been cut perfectly or the
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flat ribbon cable on the back of the tv doesn't line up with our pass-through
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hole to carry it down to the hidden speaker bar below we could be looking at
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hours of cleanup
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oh perfect fit and it's good now obviously we wouldn't
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trust just friction on the back plate to hold the tv in place i mean come on what
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is this channel where we drop things you need the 100 silent edition which
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plugged in it's more like a a porta
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so the next step was to create a frame for the tv that's meant to be both
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aesthetic giving our recessed tv a more
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window like appearance and functional
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since it's foam backed so it can sit right up snug against the glass and it
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fits much tighter to hold the whole thing in
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after a few test fits it got a coat of black paint
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better to do that now rather than risk getting paint on the tv while cutting
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around its fine details now it's time to put the tv on its mdf
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carrier for the last time some duct tape pull tabs here should
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help us get the panel out in the future if we ever decide to tear the window out
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and relocate while mounting the tv we needed to be
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extra careful with the fragile flat ribbon cable a task made especially
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difficult by the extension that we planned to use to hide the speaker bar
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away under the built-in desk time now
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then for some putty touch-ups and a final fitting of the black frame and
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then you can rotate there we go yeah that works too this is actually when i
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saw it for the first time and i immediately wondered
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how exactly we were going to hook up the speaker bar which also happens to have
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all of the inputs and outputs for the w
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series OLED but i was assured there was a plan for
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cutting out some of the drywall and fishing it out they just apparently
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needed someone with really really small fingers to actually do it yes it's
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through there moment of truth time having survived a
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drop some bending and the last couple of days
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in a construction zone would the tv still work
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yes now the second goal of this project was
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to make the workspace match the hyper-modern design of having a super
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thin tv as your window so it was time then for a custom built-in desk with a
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purpose-built holder for the speaker bar underneath
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with a little bit of trial and error we managed to deal with the awkward length
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extension giving us a completely clean
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look without restricting our access to io
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here's how i kind of envision using the new setup
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a couple shelves some cable pass-throughs and some paint and we're
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getting pretty close to finished but
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between paint drying times and waiting for a few small items not least of which
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is some sexy brandon footage to play in the window brandon
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sexy footage getting the knot cool we're out of stuff that we can do for right
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now so stay tuned for part three which is going to be the glammed up tour of
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the finished ultimate productivity setup
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so thanks for watching guys and thanks to lg for sponsoring this video if you
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