after how much work it was to install the world's largest TV in my theater room, I never thought that less than a year later I'd be replacing it.

Oh no. I got, I got, I got, um, especially with something that is technically smaller, if you can believe that. Oh, okay.

She's down, she's down, she's good. I just want to do the traditional Yvonne for scale. Am I an average sized person? I don't know, somewhere in the world.

But here we are now. I think it's time, old friend. You know, we've had some really good times over the last year, but the truth is, I found someone new, someone brighter, slimmer, younger, someone with double the number of local dimming zones.

L is please, I'm still sexy. I know TV, but I only have one theater room. [Music] Well, with that out of the way, let's get to work installing the new one with some help from our sponsor, NextWeo.

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Today, where are you taking this? I am not sure yet. Are we putting it in the theater room? Are you putting it right here?

Here's the thing, it's 5 in diagonally smaller than what I already have, and when it comes to immersion, size isn't everything, but as we discussed recently in that video on the 98 in TCL, it's a lot, it's a lot.

There's the sheer volume of light thrown, there's the immersiveness. However, on paper, this thing is so much better than the old TV that losing 5 in could be worth it.

So how about this? We unbox it on the carpet here, we have a look at it, we have a look at that and we decide if it's worth moving.

I don't want to move it out of the box, but okay, maybe they thought of that, maybe like TCL they have carry handles included.

Is that for your TV screws into the side and you carry it? You can do other things with it too if you want. Yeah, well it's not a flared base, so be careful with it.

Why does everyone who works here know that with a normal TV you would lift the box off the top, but ceilings are a thing.

So I think the way this is going to go is it's just going to kind of, oh my God, this is terrifying.

This is, oh, that's scary. Attention accessories above, dude. You could build a house out of this kind of cardboard. Look at this, keep it for your cats.

You're doing okay with that box over there? Yeah, I'm just trying to move it. Should we get these big thick cardboard pieces off first?

Then, um, I'm feeling like they've got attention accessories above there because they kind of want you to take the foam off.

Yeah, okay, just a vibe. I'm getting a vibe. Here's another improvement over the TCL, it actually comes with mounting feet.

That one is wall mount only out of the box. Dude, this thing's as dangerous as that gun. Like, oh, hey look, he found instructions.

Yeah, you know, it might just fit on your current cabinet there, dude. It's this close to the ceiling already. We haven't even put it on a thing yet. I think it's too wide anyway.

Look at this, it shows four people. There we don't have four people. No, we don't. Cool, I don't.

know what it is, but with these giant TVs, I kind of expect them to come with a bigger remote. Pretty big remote, that's true.

Pretty okay selection of included buttons. I don't mind anything, but Tubi? Who watches Tubi? What are those? Look, are these little IO covers or something? Yeah.

Okay, well, we'll put those aside for now. It looks like it does allegedly come with some kind of handle, and the TV itself is only 240 lb.

5 lb foot man. Even this foam, like, has substance to it. You know, these ones come off next. Yeah, I took one from the other side already.

And then it looks like we got to take the side cardboard off. All right, that was easy. Woo! I mean, anything this big is going to have a little bit of flex, but, uh, it's a little scary.

Here's the front energy guide. Energy cost off the charts, though. In fairness, the comparison range is TVs that are 69 to 112 in or greater, so I think Hisense is probably doing all right.

Hey, the handles are integrated. Oh, how handy is that? Wow. This does not feel as solid as the TCL one. Maybe tighten. Since we're back here, we can talk about the audio.

Yeah, 4.2.2, two subwoofers, dang. Though, just like we mentioned with the 115in TV, if you are spending this much on a display and you aren't at least buying a decent soundbar system, yeah, what are you doing?

Do we know how much this thing costs yet?

So 20,000 for the special edition. Still don't know how much the regular one is, but probably at least like 15 grand or something.

I doubt it would be half. No, it's not. It'll be like 18 or 19 exactly, or 20, the special edition might just be how the heck are we supposed to attach the feet to this thing?

That's a great question. We'll answer that after we take a look at the I/O.

It's got four HDMI, two of which can do up to 4K 144 Hertz with a supported input.

It's got a couple USB ports, coax, hardwired LAN, spiff, and this is interesting. It's still got an AV in, though it doesn't come with a little adapter.

Wa dude, these speakers are trippy. Oh, there's speakers on the side. That's why it's angled out like that, too.

That's actually kind of exciting because it's been years since I've seen a TV that has proper front-facing speakers. This this might have okay sounding speakers.

There's more up here. These might be height. Yep. Oh, these might also be cooling vents, so we'll see. Oh, fair enough.

Wait, I think I found the cooling. We've got four vent spots at the back, two at the bottom and two at the top, and if these are for cooling, it's for very good reason because this thing is rated at a staggering 10,000 nits peak brightness.

To put that in context, the TV we're replacing was already 5,000 nits peak brightness and was among the brightest sets on the market.

This thing is going to throw a spectacular amount of light, and it's about more than just brightness. A big part of the reason that many modern TVs struggle with the BT2020 color space is that while they might be able to make that green, they can't make that green with greater luminance.

They don't have the color volume. With that said, just because this has great color volume doesn't mean it has great color.

accuracy we're going to be testing that later. For now, I want to figure out how to get some bloody feet on it, and I think these two pieces of foam on the side need to come out.

You ready? I think she might tip. Plof. Okay, dude, they thought of this. I think there's enough clearance in the bottom to put the feet on it.

I don't know, they're pretty tall. No, no, they go like this here.

Oh, I wonder if those other covers are just extras then. Wait, no, I see it. Oh, there's another set. So if you have a narrow console, you can put it in the middle.

Middle, you can put the feet scary close together. It can still fit on here.

Dude, this screen's going to go all the way to the ceiling. I'm going to front page r/TVTooHigh. Let's mount them on the edges and we'll put it on the floor.

That's cool. There's two different heights. They're only about an inch apart, so I don't imagine it's making that much difference by the time your TV is this big, but hey, it's there.

Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, if you want to put your soundbar right underneath the TV, where do you, where do you get a screwdriver like that?

LTT store. This thing is freaking huge. I know that shouldn't surprise me anymore, but like TVs have jumped the shark. Okay, we going to try and do this thing.

Yeah, so we're going to what, lift it up and then put it back here. Oh, the fo, the foam out.

Oh, that's the okay, put it down, put it down, put it down. Okay. Oh, my hands. Yeah, my oh my god, that was terrible.

I've got it, I've got the TV. Yeah, give it a push. There you go. Wow, big moment. That's bright. It's pretty bright.

10,000 the palm of my hand. Good Lord, even these thumbnails look incredible. I don't think I've ever seen a bigger thumbnail in my life.

That thumbnail is like the size of the TV that's upstairs in my house. Dolby Vision 12K, let's go.

This does have Dolby Vision, it's got HDR t10 plus, it's got HDR 10, HLG, it's got basically every HDR standard under the sun.

Wow, it's like dazzling. Yeah, look at the like star in the top right. This is wild.

I can't wait to see like proper actual footage and not just a render. This is with YouTube compression. Yeah, this just initial impressions here. It's funny because I I'm actually getting a bit of uh bit of screen door not a time like it looks really good but we're too close, we are way too close.

We're way too close. Those clouds, we haven't even taken the peel off this thing yet. No, that's true. We haven't taken the peel off.

I would love to see this using the Wi-Fi 6E with something that's not just YouTube because we're getting a lot of compression, like you can see in the lot of banding.

Yeah, a lot of banding. Still, it still looks dazzling. The saturation is crazy.

I also want to get it in filmmaker mode and see if we are just being a little bit Best Buy affected here.

Yep, we're in HDR energy saving. Yeah, local dimming, we're probably going to want high. Yep, even set to low.

it still looks fine, though. It's so bright. I'm going to go fast. Backlight control on high peak brightness, you know.

What the out-of-the-box settings are not far off. Yeah, I haven't had to change pretty much anything, though we haven't gotten to clarity yet.

Personally, I'm not a warm guy, I'm a standard guy. Sorry, sorry, I'm basic. Dynamic Color Enhancer, blah, blah, blah.

You can turn this stuff on if you want and it probably looks good to the eye, but out of the box it's off, which it should be.

What I want to know is if any of that like motion smoothing stuff is motion enhancement.

It's off by default. No, this is not that bad. I do not like black frame insertion. I know a lot of purists like it, but I can't stand the flicker.

It's got a color tuner, Calman service. I mean, what? Obviously you're going to want to calibrate a TV of this caliber.

Yeah, yeah, dude, that was pretty good. That's pretty clean. I want to watch a movie, okay? And I don't know if I can do it here.

Actually, there's one quick thing I want to see before we go, because vibrant color and dazzling brightness is one thing, but without contrast, it just doesn't land.

How is this going to handle this OLED demo footage? It's pretty good. It's not getting to pure black.

I'm having a real... right, I can make out a tiny bit of glow if I'm this close. Yeah, 40,000 plus dimming zones.

It's hard to tell how much of it is caused by a little bit of glow around bright objects on the TV and how much of it is caused by the veiling glare in the eye, which gives you a little bit of glow around bright objects just from your eye, that is really good.

And we've got the studio lights on, too. Oh dude, how are the viewing angles even off axis, because that's where a lot of full array local dimming will fall on its face.

It'll look great head on, but once you get off axis, it doesn't look it.

It's still really good. I couldn't get this close to it when I was at CES. Try this be speakers?

No. Let's try the speakers. Let's try them in the theater. Okay, yeah, let's go. Hey, no problem, Robert. Well, this is the easy part.

Uh, go, go to your right. Hey, see, it's not so bad. That was the easiest part of this entire. We we be professional TV installers.

Absolutely not. Easy, easy, easy. Hey Adam, how you doing? Good. That's a big TV. Now that we have it in front of that one, it doesn't look as big.

That big. It's still it it's pretty big, but when we had it next to the 75 in that was in the rec room, enormous.

I bet that thing looked like a TV for mice. Here's the question to have in your mind.

Sure, because realistically, these are in a pretty similar price bracket. Yeah, as we watch content here, would you accept the 5 in smaller screen for the better performance?

Let's watch. I don't think there's any question. Let's watch, let's watch. Fine, this is it.

Hand it off to me halfway through. Oh, it's just a little bit cleaner, a little bit brighter. I swear we're going to actually watch something.

but first let's hear these speakers. It's okay, yeah. Louder doesn't necessarily mean better. I'd say it's up there with like kind of a basic soundbar, but you bought a $20,000 TV, not a $20,000 sound system.

So let's pivot away from the TV speakers and let's actually watch some content here.

Do that again. Wow, that like hurt my eyes. That's a lot of light. Wow, it's pretty good. We're not losing any of those like tree details in the back or like the shadows in there.

Yeah, look at this, it's actually pretty good. Even in the low lights of her hair, I can make out individual hairs.

It's bright, but it isn't white. Oh my God, look at that flash, that's wild. The amount of detail you can see in there and all the colors and everything just look pristine because of the quantum dots.

That was probably what was helping so much with the viewing angles earlier as well.

It's a quantum dot mini LED. I am blown away by how much detail there is in the shadow of all the observers and in the like the camera flash itself.

Yeah, that was wild. I don't think I've ever had that much brightness just thrown at me at once.

That was full field, that was the whole screen. It probably wasn't 10,000 nits. It does that in, you know, like a 2% window or whatever.

We'll get some speeds and feeds after we've actually measured it up for you guys later.

Yeah, this too, though, the yellowness, yeah, of this brightness, it can make things bright without turning them white. [Laughter] Woah, holy crap balls, that transition, yeah, that was good.

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