Overkill Office Upgrade - Big Screen TV & Dolby Atmos Speakerbar Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,315 words · ~6 min read
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so as some of you probably know already luke only appears in our videos in
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cameos now that was it no that's all the luke you
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get to okay gotta come over here and nick
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has gotten a promotion from junior assistant to linda sebastian
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to senior assistant to lionel sebastian you want a card that says that
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why the hell are you in my office so he also got an office as part of his new
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coo title but other than being money green which was
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by special request from nick light this place
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like kind of sucks so we're going to be giving it the
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executive treatment not blinds
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blinds are expensive tech hardware tech hardware that we
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already had lying around you're getting a tv
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oh that's actually pretty cool yeah what do you think i was coming in here for i
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don't know i thought you're just gonna come in here crap all over how bad my office was and leave that was a
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possibility
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step number one i don't think anyone's convinced we do
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hard work here um
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well we're putting a tv in here with a dolby sound bar okay because this
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video is sponsored by dolby and they wanted us to experience first hand how
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much better a sound bar is with dolby atmos than your built-in tv speakers oh so you
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didn't like just wake up today and go like i want to do a nice thing for like
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my best employee no well let's get rid of this because i
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don't use paper anymore really 2017. you're done with the filing
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cabinet yeah at what point do you cross the line
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between taking a couple of extra napkins and stealing from chipotle
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what the hell how much chipotle do you eat
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we should move the desk over here yeah and then instead of these like
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chairs like why don't you just buy me a couch
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a couch yeah a couch you know what this
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couch is actually really low i think we might be okay with the tv height can you
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show me where you're planning
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did you jack a couple more of these hoodies okay i knew you were going to
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bring that up i literally have them here because at some point someone was
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visiting the office and they wanted merch
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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah numbers well you know my mother just uh
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numbers numbers numbers numbers not higher you know i think that
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the commenters are right clearly you're out of ideas i think the
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commenters are right you know what you're the worst therapist of all time
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oh i think i disassembled this wrong i think you're supposed to like
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oh there it is he dropped the remote i just dropped it
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oh boy hey
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huh this is me helping
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look at me moving the styrofoam this is the what uh ht st 5000 and the
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big stick here is supposed to be high res audio
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and then uh high res high dep yeah high res audio
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it's got HDR support and then dolby 7.1.2
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so seven is that it's supposed to let you
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hear positionally where sound is coming from around you and then with atmos
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you're supposed to even be able to tell if something's coming from like on top of you
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and then the whole thing runs off the sound bar i have to confess
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i have never used a sound bar before
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i was one of those hopeless people who actually
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well i shouldn't say bought speaker stands but i made speaker stands out of
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like a threaded rod and well my dad helped me with this so
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that's why it was made out of a threaded rod with um like a
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like a like a wheelbarrow tire at the bottom
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and then just like a nut on either side to hold it still
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and then i literally zap strapped satellite speakers behind me for my
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gaming setup like back when i was in high school okay in my defense i don't
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think they had speaker bars then yeah you are old now we can have the tv
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and the atmos speaker going off power squid or we could just have them both
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plugging into a wall outlet like normal people yeah well because there's two
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things you got me we need the power squid
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there's a plug for the sub one and there's a plug for the soundbar
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see i knew setup's pretty
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simple just a toss link cable from the sound bar to the tv for if you're
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running like the native netflix app on the tv uh then we go HDMI
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into the soundbar from whatever sources
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and then HDMI out from the sound bar to the tv
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so give me one sec and you should be able to fire it up
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with your computer as a source okay i hooked that up first
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sure this looks awesome
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like just this whole setup here pretty darn sweet
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have to admit i was like being a dick at first because
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i thought you were just gonna be like here's your cool setup and now it's
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getting taken away but like if i actually get to keep this this is dope
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okay oh please wait
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okay we're following the instructions thank
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you hey you just messaged the workshop i did
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yeah what the heck how did this unlock
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are you ready to experience dolby atmos for the first time let's do it do we
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want to shut the door or not sure let's just bother people who
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cares let's do the helicopter uh helicopter takeoff isn't that a plane
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yeah a 747 is a plane not a helicopter thank you
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that is a lot more convincing than i was
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expecting it's pretty trippy actually did you close your eyes
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no okay try try it with your eyes closed it's it's it's pretty trippy
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that is
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there is very much an overhead nature to the sound
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see that's behind us for sure
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not that into the movie it sounds good
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very obvious who is where far more directional than
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i would have expected looking at
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the looking at the bar and there's tons of content i mean 4k
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blu-rays um both netflix and voodoo have
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started to stream their latest movies and tv shows and atmos so i mean i guess
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honestly that that pretty much wraps up the video the whole idea here was for
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um i mean me really but nick got to come
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along for the ride uh was for for us to experience dolby atmos for the first
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time with not um an overkill you know
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multi-thousand dollar setup so this sound bar by the time you're spending a
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few grand on a tv for another 1500 for this particular model is not completely
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outlandish and
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i was really really surprised
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at the directionality of the sound especially the overhead experience this
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particular sound bar is the sony htst st5000 but there are a ton of dolby
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atmos equipped sound bars from other names like samsung lg yamaha
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pretty much you name it and they're available at a ton of different price points
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so you can learn more about pricing and availability at the link in the video
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description and a huge shout out to dolby for sponsoring this video and a
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thank you to you guys for watching i hope it was entertaining
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um yeah we don't let nick come on camera for that reason most of the time