LG Wallpaper TV Window Project COMPLETE – Linus Office Tour
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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at long last the final update to the
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wallpaper tv window saga is here i've
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come up with a couple of really fun ways to take advantage of the features we saw
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in our previous videos including its 4k resolution spectacular image quality
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integrated dolby sound bar and HDR support and i'm rolling the whole thing
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into something people have been asking about for quite some time so step into
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my office we are going for a little tour sponsored by lg
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almost everything in here has a story behind it the textured wall on the left
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as you come in is not wallpaper which is what most people assume it's actually
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made up entirely of painted motherboards
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and it's not just for looks see you can hang stuff off the little i o ports as
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for my desk that hasn't changed much the custom pc that was built into it was
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designed to my spec with a 10 core extreme edition processor a 1.2 terabyte
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Intel pci express SSD and ASUS workstation board with 10 gigabit
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networking 64 gigs of Corsair dominator special edition memory 24 terabytes of
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local storage a totally overkill water cooling system from uk and an lg 38 uc
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99 38 inch 75 hertz ultra wide monitor
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with a c910 webcam and a razer siren pro for video calls and
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some pretty boring peripherals they're actually so old they're not even they're
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not even RGB
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i'm using a Corsair raptor m45 because it's one of the only mice that doesn't
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agitate my wrist and as for my g7 10 plus
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honestly nothing else would feel quite right this baby has seen me through
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literally hundreds of thousands of words
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of LTT script material including the ones you're listening to right now and i
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have no intention of replacing it until it fails this wall here is where i keep
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all the sentimental stuff that i've acquired over the years i've got the
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world's creepiest renditions of han solo and
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leia organa with mine and my wife's head swapped onto
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them a broken threadripper 1950x CPU uh
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framed badminton jersey an entire
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silicon wafer of quantum processors that
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was really cool that was from when we checked out d-wave and finally one of
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those chinese money cats that uh my wife got me as sort of a joke when we moved
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into this building and then he's wearing this super weird thing that this javello
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company sent they were like oh check it out you could do
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engraved pendants with your face on it and i was like wow who would want to do
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that bringing us finally to the big change now the original plan
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here for the wallpaper tv window was to just basically leave the room the way
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that it was and put the tv on the wall
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but as you can see we actually ended up reconfiguring this entire side of the
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room to make it significantly more functional so we added some shelving up
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on the top left i can use that to store ongoing projects or things like the
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extra modular cables for my test bench power supply we added some shelves over
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on the right which are have ended up being mostly
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decorative they're not really big enough to put anything that useful on and we
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added this built-in desk so it's the
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right height for me as it is which means i no longer need to have one of our more
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expensive up desks in here we've got a pass-through power that's backed up by a
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ups as well as pass through usb power for whatever i might be running on the
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bench surface right here and use case number one for the wallpaper tv
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is so right now i'm testing this external
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GPU box and there you go i'm just using
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it as a secondary display for the laptop
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right here so i've got two HDMI cables that are coming up through the bottom of
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the desk one of them comes up through here for a test bench and the other one
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comes up over here for a laptop so i can just sit here and use these uh throwa
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video up there if i want to have it playing in the background while i'm working or whatever the case may be use
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case number two is probably the most obvious one so using an additional pc
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just a little low power consumption one plugged into yet another HDMI input in
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the speaker bar that's below the desk here we can use a combination of stock
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video footage from online and our own
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clips like the one that's running behind me to change the environment in the room
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more than you would probably think so whether it's the
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serengeti or whether it's a view out over the water in downtown vancouver or
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if i'm in a bad mood whatever goes better with that this use case is
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probably the most wow factor one for when people come into the room because
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the image quality on this thing is just breathtaking which isn't to say that
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it's necessarily the one that's most fun for me okay
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so let's pull this off and check
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this out
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wait this was just working this right here is the new tech studio
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monitor app and with
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this i can replace the functionality of the
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fifty dollar piece of glass that i could have put here
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with exactly the same experience for the value price of only eight thousand
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dollars for the tv plus a whole bunch of
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other gear what is he doing
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yes my friends i can see exactly what i would have seen if we had just put a
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window here or thanks to the wonders of uh
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modern battery banks with ac outputs
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networking and uh i don't know tripods
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i can see anything i want anywhere with a network connection this thing actually
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does go wireless but i've found that the wired connection is
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a little more reliable go figure right
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oh i just dropped the battery out of the camera
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is that good no that's not good
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don't mind me employees i am just
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putting this camera here pay no attention to the camera it will
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not be used for surveillance don't think of it as a camera think of
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it as a window of opportunity
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check it out they don't suspect a thing my totally discreet tripod setup
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gives me a window into the goings-on
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of the LMG headquarters neat huh
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well whatever i like it so thanks to lg for sponsoring this
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project thanks to you guys for patiently waiting for all the parts to come out if
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cool shirts like this one as well as our community forum