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 Ivon 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 next weo. Their anniversary sale is on right now, and you can get the Aurora Pro projector plus a

100 in frenel screen all in a massively discounted bundle. Check it out at the link in the description 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, you want, you 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 tuby. Who watches tuby? 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. [Music] 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 1 12 in or greater so I think high sense is probably doing all right. Hey the handles are integrated o 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 IO. It's got four HDMI, two of which can do up to 4K 144Hz with a supported input. It's got a couple USB ports, coax, hardwired LAN, SPIDF, 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 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 plop. 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/TV too high. 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. It's great for soundbars. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, if you want to put your soundbar right underneath the TV. 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're 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 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 10 plus. It's got HDR 10 HLG. It's got basically every HDR standard under the sun. W. It's like dazzling. Yeah, look at the

like star in the top right. This is wild. I can't wait to see proper actual footage and not just a render. This is with YouTube compression. Yeah, this just initial impressions here. It's funny because I'm actually getting a 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, 'cause 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 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 AIS? 'Cause 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. Go to your right. Hey, see, it's not so bad. That was the easiest part of this entire. 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 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 [Music] 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 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 of this brightness. It can make things bright without turning them white. [Laughter] Wo, holy crap balls, that transition. Yeah, that was good. You're going to keep the other TV now, like come on, 10,000 nits. It's twice the brightness and it's got

over twice the amount of dimming zones, and the quantum dot means the viewing angles are just like perfect. The other one's quantum dot. Oh, okay, fair enough. All right, they're both quantum dot, but the difference in dimming zones, huge. I don't think I've ever seen that scene look that good. I've seen it look that good, but not like, not this big, 'cause I'd argue that like a cutie OLED, like right in front of you, like if I got really close, or even like a new LG G4 or something, it's going to look slightly better than that. Nope, you're not wrong, but at this scale, like that was an experience. Wow, the colors all still really pop too, like all the little reds and greens on their shoulders. Oh yeah, there's something about a brighter display that really makes the image look true to life instead of like you're watching it on a screen. And we're not even looking at something with a lot of specular highlights or anything like that, but I feel like I'm looking at a

cloudy overcast day, you know, as opposed to watching a movie about a cloudy overcast day. I know we're in your theater room, yeah, but I feel like I'm at the movies. Oh yeah, a screen this big is game-changing for immersion, and there is no doubt in my mind this is a better-looking screen than the one that it's sitting in front of. Yep, and that was already really nice. Yeah, this SC looks great. You can see all the Viking horns and helmets in the back, even though it's super dark. Oh my god, did you see the glint on the shoulder plate there? Even in a dark scene like this. Yeah, the leather looks so leathery. Mhm, the metal looks so metally. Things are vibrant, yeah, but not, they're not, they're overselling it. No, oh the on, I know, I saw the same thing, I saw the little sparkles on that. Oh man, yeah, holy sh, does this ever look good, dude. Oh my god, dude, this looks so good. The high sense might have to be the one. Yeah, no, I

told you the high sense was going to be the one. I didn't think so. I thought I was going to keep the bigger one. 10,000 nits and 40,000 dimming zones. I know, dude. I can't find the dimming zones. It's really good. It looks so good. Like, look at the black bars. They're black. I know they're black. I know. Did we at any point mention the model number of this TV? I don't think so. It's the 110 ux. Hey, we can go up to 144 without an AMD card now. Okay, but will it stay? That's the real question. Okay, we got it working. Turn on HDR. Let's see if we get 10 bit. Okay, wow. Here we freaking go. We're going to test the latency later to see if High sense's new chip actually can power something like this and not add a bunch of extra latency. But, uh, I think I can tell you the answer. It's good. It feels really good. Really, dude. Gone completely dead are the days of terrible.

gaming experiences on large format displays. Even modern projectors are pretty good these days, but these large format TVs, man, just leave them in the dust. And you know what? The mouse is your worst-case scenario for them. There's a little bit, yeah, open like paint or something. You bet I'm way ahead of you, brother. You can actually see it adjusting. It's not as bright. See the cursor brightness goes down, especially as it makes its way into the zone. But the bloom is negligible. I'd like to see them manage this better, sure, but that's probably a setting. In fact, I think it reset a bunch of the settings. Now that we're in-game, the auto-dimming stuff, yeah, I bet we can tune this. What's fast backlight control? Oh, improve the speed at which the backlight follows. Not available at high refresh rate. That's okay. I wonder if that's hurting performance a little bit then. I think that's something that could be improved. You can also really see that the overall brightness goes down when I have a much larger window. Yeah, but they're not

advertising 10,000 nits full screen. No, to be fair, it's not to the point where I would consider it to be a problem. No, this is a very pleasant brightness to use, even when I have a full. Oh, that was big screen. That's pretty DM. Shrink it again. That's pretty DM. Shrink it again. Yeah, yeah, okay. How often are you going to use this as a computer, though? 'Cause it's not. It's not going to do that in games. Almost never. Almost exclusively. It gets used with the Nvidia Shield. Yeah, dude, this looks really good. Dude, this looks really good. That looks freaking awesome. A, how was that not a headshot? You're using a sniper rifle. It should have just killed him, shouldn't it? No, I mean, I would have thought so. How the hell am I not hitting anything? 'Cause you're not playing at 360 HZ on an OLED. Yeah, that must be the problem. This would be absolutely perfect for something like Smash as well, or like four-player split-screen Mario Kart. Oh, dude, we've done it. It's awesome. Yeah, and

this one's just that but better, even better. This is an amazing display, dude. I don't think you need the 5 in diagonally that you've got with the TCL. I think it's worth switching to this one, 100%. She's real good. It's really good. Damn, that's right. I play, take that Bots. That's right. I know how to kill the Bots. It's very usable. Oh, this is more than usable. This is good. I don't think I'd ever complain if I showed up to someone's house and this is the display I was playing on. No, you'd be such a dick if you did. Oh yeah, the real question is we've got it set up here. Are you going to leave it here? The accounting is complicated. I bought the TCL, fair enough, whereas Hisense was nice enough to send this to the company for review, and it's a $20,000 unit. So you know, thank you Hisense. Yeah, I'm not going to complain. I get to play Counter-Strike on it. It's

pretty sick. Now the question is, are we subjectively good judges of TV performance, or is the lab going to prove us wrong? Let's find out. Brightness on the high 110 ux was all over the place depending on how we tested it, but in SDR stand mode, we measured a staggering peak of over 24,000 nits in a 2% window. That peak is very short-lived, but it's there. And if we set it to HDR standard, it peaked closer to 17,000 and then slowly dropped off with different results depending on if we had Dynamic tone mapping on or off. As for color gamut, because we were so amazed with how bright it got, we were really hoping to see 90 plus % coverage of the BT2020 color space. Well, unfortunately, that's not the case, and despite the high peak brightness and Quantum dots, we measured a top end of just under 83%. Still respectable, but not what we were hoping for. Kind of like our color accuracy in SDR filmmaker mode, we

measured an average of 4.7 and a max of 8.7 Delta E2000. That's pretty good for a giant VA panel with HDR. Though with tone mapping disabled and testing with DE ITP, we got an average of almost 22 and a max of nearly 57. That's not amazing, but it looked pretty good when we were watching content on it. Maybe we were just too star-struck by how bright it got, not sure. Last but not least, latency in 144 Hz game mode. We measured 5.7 milliseconds. That's 2.2 milliseconds higher than the theoretical perfect for end-to-end click-to-photon latency. We got an average of 20.1 milliseconds. It's not OLED, and I can't recommend this TV if you're trying to win your next Counter-Strike or Valorant match, but come on, it's huge. Even if the accounting is simple, this isn't an easy decision. They're both great. This has the edge when it comes to the best possible picture quality.

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