LG’s OLED Wallpaper TV – Can we use it as a WINDOW?? Pt.1
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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hey so we remodeled our warehouse organization vlog definitely incoming so
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you guys can pulverize the like button if you're stoked on that but
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that is not the subject of today's video today's video is all about how the
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window in my office that we just remodeled and decorated got
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moved to here
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leaving me with no window and the super high tech solution that
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i'm going to use to fix the problem
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okay so we had to make a choice replace the window that used to be for
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looking out over my empire with a window
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for looking out into part of a stairwell part of an office space and part of the
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middle of a wall or rip it out and dry all over it
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leaving me with only tragically a window out into the bench den now
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obviously since you're already watching footage of it we went with dry walling
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over it so that's done now but as you can see they didn't actually
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paint over it to get it to blend in because
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while a plain wall would have been fine
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we had a much cooler idea one that some members of our Floatplane community
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totally clued into during our exclusive office update videos over the last eight
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weeks what if we could use the lg signature series
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OLED wallpaper tv that we first saw at
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ces to kind of have a window here
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to anywhere it's less than four millimeters thin so
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Yvonne actually came up with a few different concepts uh one that's more of
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a meeting place so the idea is that like
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you could be sitting here chilling discussing something while
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giraffes are like nearby and then two of them that are
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more like workspaces where it could be used as a window
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or a backdrop or just to watch videos
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play games or whatever although i'm going to need
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i'm going to need some blinds for my office so no one can see that i'm just
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totally wasting time in here so to evaluate its utility for our
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purposes tyler set the tv up on a sacrificial wall here that's actually
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going to be torn down as part of some ongoing set construction over the next
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couple of months all of the electronics for the tv are in
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a separate speaker bar unit so the way it mounts is actually by screwing a big
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flat piece onto the wall then there are
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these little washers at the top that jut
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out a bit to support the weight and then the tv is held flat against the wall
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my magnets oh i just pulled it off oh there you go
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okay first things first though i need to figure out why it's not actually sitting
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flat right now okay so is it not lifting up there we go oh man
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that is so trippy
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look at this thing okay so tyler
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if i hold it it's crazy how light it is
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i got it yeah so
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well if we if we were to screw this in does that look better
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okay so we need to screw this in
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okay that's definitely flat these ones are good
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so uh how do you line this up
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are you on so we're both on
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all right and now
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now it's flat awesome that was a relatively simple fix
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perfect look at that
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okay beautiful fingerprints removed let's
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fire it up okay
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so now all we need is some stuff to hook up to it and let's get this party
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started first things first i will need a gaming capable test bench
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titan xp baby that's the thing about reorganizing is
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you don't know where anything is and ah
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silva
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and the last ah there we go our ultra hd blu-ray player
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HDMI cable of choice
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xbox one s we
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okay so all the i o power
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this ribbon up to the tv that i'm kind of yanking on pretty hard here
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Ethernet uh usb and then HDMI
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is all along this little bottom unit here
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pretty cool so there
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that wants to go right there
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okay so this thing really doesn't match our color scheme we got going on here
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maybe we can kind of uh i don't know what cooling is going to be like but i
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mean realistically come on as an xbox i'm not going to play games on it
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so hopefully it'll stay cool enough to play
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back blu-rays and then we're good
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okay let's switch to that input
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remote hasn't changed since the last lg signature that's not necessarily a
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problem though i actually really like the air pointy
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doodad thing that we got going on here no keyboard detector what
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it is kind of amazing how much of a difference it makes to the
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look when there's no bottom bezel at all
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and when we install it as the as a window we're actually gonna hide the ribbon
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cable so it's just gonna be
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floating there i don't even know if i'm going to be able to play back these red raw files
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here this is not good news yeah without the uh the playback bar
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i could kind of buy that
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you know what i think we're gonna have to do though
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this is funny i'm gonna have to get brandon to shoot
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at a higher frame rate i think to make it a bit more believable
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60 FPS 8k footage baby you know it's times like
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this i really hate that we have to upload our videos to youtube where they
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get compressed to hell because honestly this looks amazing and
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the bitrate isn't even that high like we export it
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i mean it's high enough that my Wi-Fi connection is causing it to buffer but
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look at this honestly this is worth just pausing on
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to admire it so that's 8k footage off
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one of the world's best cameras on arguably the world's best tv
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look at the detail in the water and look you can like see brandon's face shooting
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the video so if there was any doubt that we
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actually shot this tomb raider very high
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running at 4k 60 FPS
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that's gorgeous
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okay so last order of business
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let's fire up a 4k HDR blu-ray okay hdcp handshake
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with the xbox one s is running perfectly and i think we're basically green lit on
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this project everything that i expected to be good about it is good about it i
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mean none of this is really that surprising i'm already running an lg
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outlet at home but uh stay tuned for part two because we have
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still haven't watched it yet though