Andy is such a great resource when it comes to Chinese only crap like this TV. His ability to read Chinese, and knowledge of tech in China adds a lot to the video.
It doesn't seem like he necessarily has special knowledge of Chinese tech. But he can read the Chinese on the Chinese sources he can be aware of to get the info quickly. Even with translation tools, most westerners would have no idea where to look to get the right info.
Turning off the "store" function reduces the brightness because, when displayed in a store, odds are it's set up in a very large room with industrial lighting. The "store" illumination setting allows it to look brighter under such conditions.
I think the reason why they were making fun of that being the only setting that changed was that usually store mode is like a demo mode that plays demo material to demonstrate all the features of the TV. Not just a brightness setting. Sure. It probably also would dim the TV because it wouldn't need to be as bright. But it wouldn't only be a brightness setting.
Not even a joke, he just realized the fact that was already established and repeated multiple times throughout the video. It just randomly went off in his head. Absolutely relatable.
Did you see the episode where this became a thing? I laughed out loud and ever since then, they put "owns a monitor" under his name, every time, even if its not a monitor/TV video. lolololol
I personally think these TVs are advertising TVs and the smoo in the TV is UV damage to the anti-glare coating and the huge gap from the panel to the front glass is for anti-fogging.
If its got composite, that slot is probably CableCard. It was meant to make Cableboxes unncessary by having a common decoder module in the TVs with a decryption keycard.
Andy is the star in this, giving the live translation of everything. Yay for multilingualism! Linus and Plouffe are perfect foils for one another in this, you guys kept me laughing the whole time. Great video, and more ammunition for the "buyer beware".
I ran into this exact issue of Chinese inches being longer when I was trying to have a suit made while in China. I converted my measurements that were in inches into centimeters but we had a problem with the right ones, so I re-measured with a Chinese tape measure that had centimeters and "inches" and all of the measurements were different. It was one of the most confusing moments of my life so thank you for making me realize I'm not crazy.
Chinese BS explanation because they hate our government great same thing with the hats and the t-shirts that don't fit right yeah okay they do that because they hate our government remember that it's not us that you hate is our government same way you hate your own governments just like every other country at this point except for Poland
This unit looks a lot like a industrial TV I installed in a car factory a while ago. These types of TV's have crap image quality, but they are designed to have the least ammount of problems with burn in and image retention possible and to be sturdy as hell. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a repurposed leftover model or something like that.
Thank you for reading the comments, LTT team. Considering how open Linus has been on WAN show for proudly ignoring TH-cam comments, I am pleasantly surprised.
I'm sorry but the shield does support TH-cam HDR, I use it all the time, my TV shows the big HDR thing every single time and it bothers the heck out of me
I live in china and got scammed by this too, Bought a 100" tv, confirmed with them it's british inches, ended up getting a 60" tv, thankfully got a refund.
@@Smurtehmurph there are scam companies everywhere these days. Although there are some extra laughs with the bad translations, you can find equally bad products on Amazon and other retailers. I've generally been able to tell when the product page doesn't make sense though.
It's actually so rare and so good to have someone who speaks foreign language pertinent to the device/topic at hand. The bonus context you get is great!
@@knoblauchhusten well to be fair, the word color also holds the alternate meaning of 'variant', the same way you can use the word flavor to mean the same thing. Of course that's probably not why AliExpress uses the word
They're basically selling whatever crap they have, advertising whatever crap they want, and offering partial and full refunds to see if it works and if they can get rid of some of that crap.
Aliexpress has some of the best deals, it's still the china market I like the most. You just have to have brains and not believe everything advertised. And if it seems too cheap to be true. It's too cheap to be true.
I love the genuine reactions linus has toward the staff he works with, genuine "are you okay?" as an immediate response, tv persona or not, is difficult to fake if not staged, and i seriously doubt any of it was staged, i genuinely believe linus cares.
This video is the exact reason why I don't have on aliexpress or etsy, I also got tired of being abused by streaming services, so made my own home NAS from my old H110 Pro BTC+ mobo, I currently have 117TBs of network storage and expanding.
That dirty glass could be because it's actually plexi, or because it's fogging internally, or because it was never cleaned before assembly... or all of the above 😅
@@LinusTechTips This seems used panels for commercial use, like stores or restaurants. And the dirt is possibly due to expose to bad condition, including sun
15:50 Back in the 70s and 80s, someone always had to stand next to the television with the antenna and align it so that you could get a reasonably good picture.
That appears to be a commercial TV, based on the extreme bezel, handles, metal back. It all looks commercial rated, what we purchased for AV use in buildings and trade shows
This needs a teardown, it almost looks like theres a TV inside that oversized TV casing. Plus noting all the weird branding, who else is wondering what the internal branding actually is. engineering brain demands answers
You can buy one, then just dispute it as misleading lmfao. (at the very least your cc company will def side with you) and they wont be paying for return shipping. I guarantee it.
There are entire factory estates in China, usually old outdated facilities with shops that buy up "B" grade components: mostly QC rejects from major OEMs and use those parts to make "B" grade devices like this TV. They aren't even targeted at the western market. Most end-up in Africa and the Middle East. You see them in cheap regional appliance stores in places like Pakistan, Myanmar, Laos.
Now that you mention it, what if it's just a normal smart tv (still a 100 inch smart tv) with a heavy duty case/frame to make it "kick proof". That could explain the scuffing, as that's probably on the inside of the glass. I bet if you remove all the screws along the back perimeter, you might be able to remove that front glass and clean the inside. Or even keep it off to not have that glare from the case..... 5:40 THAT'S EXACTLY IT! Looking closer, they just put a smart tv in a case! This would also explain why it's so front heavy, as the aluminum frame would be very light. You can also see at 7:46 that there's a cover over the back part of the tv, which is normally the sturdiest part because of all the computer stuff. This might just be a smart tv that was made for the western market and got that frame put on it by this not-Samsung company and they're reselling it! THIS IS A FLIPPING RESALE! I mean... Benefit of the doubt, spending $2500 on a 100 inch smart tv still isn't that bad. Even the cheapest one I found after a quick google search is over 2 grand, and nothing even close to 150 inches. If they remove the glass plate to get rid of the glare and find a way to get a better internet connection with it (maybe through ethernet), I'd say they got their money's worth. If the sound's bad, that might just be because of the metal frame distorting it. Nothing a sound system couldn't fix. It might even be an actual Samsung smart tv in there.
@@Dw7freak If it is a metal and glass frame, that would explain the need for an external antenna as well. The signals don't pass through the metal as well as plastic so they need an antenna to make it work better.
"there wouldn't be a listing for it if nobody ever bought one" I'm here to tell you that the listing costs nothing and even one sucker makes it all worth it. "WE GOT ONE!!!!" ~That company when Linux ordered the big TV.
Also that's why u pay with credit card, even if seller denied u refund/partialy refund u can go to bank and make chargeback, that's make 2x2 fight (you and bank vs seller and AE)
I'm sure that is one of those burner/disposable accounts, so it doesn't matter if it doesn't get any sales as long as they get one at their other accounts.
@@Varadiio actually they will likely require you to ship it back at your expense before you are refunded, which most people can't afford to do. the average consumer is screwed here.
Imagine hitting rock bottom watching some gnarly shit on the hub on your $2500 TCL knockoff, and then it fades to black so you're just left staring at yourself in 8k like 22:00
Reminds me of the “he hit me with the stun!” Video the guy was recording his TV and it goes black for like 2 seconds and it’s a super reflective panel as well and you see this guy just filming in his underwear 😂😂😂
The part where Andy was reading internet arguments over which of the other companies is/isn't TCL, is similar to people confusing Denon (Nippon Denki Onkyō KK | "Japan Electric Sound Co.") and Onkyo (Osaka Denki Onkyō KK)
20:50 Plouffe seems to have this backwards. "8-bit with dithering" is better than just 8-bit and necessary for HDR if you have a bandwidth constrained connection. The dithering in question is temporal dithering between 8-bit values to simulate a 10-bit colour depth.
As the TV MAN a professional TV Antenna And Wall Mount installer... ( I did my first tv wall mount in Australia about 32 yeas ago, and designed and wrote a booklet about wall mounting, basically used as the standard around the world today), I can already guess what the tv is, as I have seen a a few of these imports. Also I paused and wrote this at the 4:10 mark. You aren't supposed to lift the box up over the tv, but the have brass coloured staples down long one corner, see your left side. You undo these, and the box pulls apart. sometime in one whole piece, sometimes, 2 pieces stapled at each corner. TV MAN. Australia.
Never use Chinese tape measures. It's not that they use a different measure, but they use no measure at all 😂In China they DGAF about making things right. Even the metric ones can be inaccurate.
Although the wrong size it was actually a TV and not a box of lead painted garden gnomes. It didn't catch on fire, it powered up, and kind of worked - sort of, if you don't mind a display that's just a step or two above an etch-a-sketch. That's pretty good for something from an Ali Express / Temu type of place.
"A lot of TVs have a 'store' setting because it will go through demo footage and stuff. Here the store setting is to juice the brightness" That's actually almost always what the Store Mode is on TVs. People call it "torch mode" because it just makes the TV as bright as possible to look good in a lit showroom. Any demo footage you see in a showroom TV comes from an attached source of some kind. Not from a special mode on the TV.
Knock off of knock offs is a very prevalent thing in China, it's insane, trying to find out where they all come from is like finding the start of a Mandelbrot.
My favorite thing about 三星 is that it's also the name of a region in Taiwan that does farm things, and I don't know if it's machine translation (probably), but there are so many things marketed as "made with Samsung onions!" 三星 spring onions are hella good though.
The tape measurer picture is a great example of why you start measuring at 1 inch instead of the end of the tape. It's not that one had a shorter inch, it's that the first quarter inch was missing on one because of bad manufacturing. No two tape measures are the same when starting from the end of the tape.
I am just sad watching this video! This TV is just a waste of plane resources. Thank you for shedding some light to this issue. What a waste of... Everything.
I usually don't like reviews of bad products because it gives recognition to something that doesn't deserve to have any... but the tragic comedy in this video is too good!
@@TheAdatto That's interesting, but definitely not the norm, it's also just two HDMIs with 4k 144hz, the rest are HDMI 2.0. As for it not being the norm, you can check out the U8 and U7 series to see that Hisense makes the eARC port one of the two HDMI 2.1 ports usually, same as Sony with their latest TVs including the flagship Bravia 9 and A95L. TCL has actually changed course recently and has begun putting the eARC port on a regular HDMI 2.0 port after the 2022 lineup released but before then they also put eARC on the 2.1 ports. This is the most baffling to me considering that AVRs have had HDMI 2.1 inputs for quite some time now, and soundbars have just recently begun including hdmi 2.1 inputs as well.
@LzysGraphics it would be logical to have the eARC be the best part. I was suprised that it wasn't on the Hisense Championship Edition. Maybe the arc part tskes too much bandwidth?
This came up with something sketchy the other week too that the head IT guy shot down. They need to have a segregated network that is setup up purposefully to allow them to hook up dodgy stuff and get internet connectivity. Even if it's just a wireless router with a VPN connection, this isn't an insurmountable technical challenge.
07:50 I remember in Norway back before TV companies started using their TV Boxes/Modem/whatever that there used to be a card slotted into the TV itself, this card is what gave the TV the ability to have channels with content on it, and the slot for the card looks very similar - if not identical - to that. Basically, without the card inserted into the slot, you wouldn't be able to watch TV, it would essentially just be a super-sized monitor for you to use with your VHS/DVD/BluRay player, PC, or anything else you'd use to connect with the TV.
@@pareklund It appears that was what I was describing, yes. I'm Norwegian, and don't even know the Norwegian name for that thing, so I couldn't do anything but do my best describing what it was xD
LG is the way to go I've found, a good balance of everything and amazing image quality. Also all of my HDMI's support both ARC and 4K 120FPS so perhaps go with LG if you haven't seen many TV's with both high speed and ARC in a single line. You can even toggle them through the menus
I want a full video on how you would potentially return these and the dangers of buying from marketplaces without strong consumer protections. Amazon used to be safe, and now they actively hide the return button and make you attempt to negotiate with scammers
My theory about the "150-inch" figure is that it's half the perimeter of the TV. If it's 108" corner to corner and is 16:9, the sum of the width and height is 147", or about 150".
21:26 I think this is the hardest I've ever laughed at an LTT video, but I couldn't possibly come close to Plouffe, man sounded like he was about to have an asthma attack. 🤣
13:00 Every store mode juices the brightness to some degree. This is to compensate for the higher than average lightening in a store compared to a home.
I just checked out the Hisense 110UX video, it's reflections are almost as bad even with an image on screen. Most people also don't have studio lights in their living room. Even with the fact it is the wrong size, it's not that bad for 1/8 the price.
"She's trapped behind the glass!", this one had me uncontrollably laughing! 😂 Even when I rewatched it. TH-cam defaulted to 1080p, I had to change it to 2160p to make sure I was getting the best experience.
Not surprised at all, I ordered 3 times from Aliexpress, 1 was fine, 1 never turned up and 1 was a $2 rubber "Frozen" kids toy instead of a $35 battery bank. I started a dispute for the 2 bad deals and they shut my account
At 7:50 that decryption thing you said is most likely, at least on the tv’s I have around my house and probably Europe is an CI or Common Interface card slot, basically your broadcaster would give you these for accessing channels that you need to subscribe extra on top of the selection you have, example is HBO channels are encrypted where I live so that could be what slot is for but prove me wrong
That is correct, in most countries you need a CI module and a decription card, to even watch the TV channels from your country. In the good old days you could watch German, Austrian and Swiss TV near lake constance when it was terrestrial analogue, from the day it got digital Swiss TV was gone, they are on 13° East, while German and Austrian satellite TV is on 19.2° East, terrestrial is a joke you only get public TV and freenet, to watch freenet channels your TV needs to be connected to the internet, it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. If you tune the TV to a freenet channel, all it receives is a URL to load a webstream.
This is what is called an unbreakable tv, we imported a ton of them, they are dirt cheap, and sell extremely quick, most probably they are a reseller and the tv maybe manufactured by JPE.
inches are the same size everywhere. The inch is a standardized unit of measurement based on the Imperial and US customary systems, where 1 inch is always equal to exactly 2.54 centimeters. This international standardization means an inch is the same length worldwide, no matter which country you’re in
Wacom tablets are nice but requires some training before you are able to use them well. I guess some people aren't able to really learn to use them. Now it's a decade since I last looked at them, or so it feels. But I think they had started to make pads with an integrated screen as a surface, making it possible to "work directly" on the picture you are editing. This is a way to simplify eye to hand coordination, but I have no idea how well it works. It also would be a lot like working on a large iPad, which might be a better alternative. Never tried to use an iPad to edit digital graphics, but then I'm far from being decent at painting or drawing. Adjusting color temps and exposure, perhaps adding a filter or two is the limit of my capability, so do treat this as third hand info. I never used them a lot and only knew people who did.
I own lots of tablets, and I've even built a diy 21" Cintiq tablet (on my channel) combining a Wacom sensor and an LCD.. Beware non-wacom brands. Wacom has the only robust pen tech. All others are plagued with jitter and interference , especially the combination graphics tablets with an LCD. Many reviewers do not even know how to check for the jitter, but if you search, you will find informed reviewers pointing it out in all models except Wacom.
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To be fair it's a bit colder in Canada, that's why it's less inches than usual.
Underrated comment 😂
@@jkiems no, it was a stupid comment -- thought he was being clever, but he wasn't
@@firstname4337underrated hater for no reason energy
Definitely a funny comment, who tf are you the commenting police @@firstname4337
Im dead🤣🤣
Andy is such a great resource when it comes to Chinese only crap like this TV. His ability to read Chinese, and knowledge of tech in China adds a lot to the video.
Ik W employee unlike Zach from CCC
Gotta love Andy. He's great!
Agreed!
@@BenHunke nah I love andy's broken bed (thanks linus)
It doesn't seem like he necessarily has special knowledge of Chinese tech. But he can read the Chinese on the Chinese sources he can be aware of to get the info quickly. Even with translation tools, most westerners would have no idea where to look to get the right info.
Turning off the "store" function reduces the brightness because, when displayed in a store, odds are it's set up in a very large room with industrial lighting. The "store" illumination setting allows it to look brighter under such conditions.
Precisely. I'm a bit shocked that as a "tech channel" they aren't aware of this.
They are... theyre just hooing you werent😅😅@veganbutcherhackepeter
I think the reason why they were making fun of that being the only setting that changed was that usually store mode is like a demo mode that plays demo material to demonstrate all the features of the TV. Not just a brightness setting. Sure. It probably also would dim the TV because it wouldn't need to be as bright. But it wouldn't only be a brightness setting.
21:49 Plouffe almost dying at his own joke was peak comedy. Almost fell off my chair.
Not even a joke, he just realized the fact that was already established and repeated multiple times throughout the video. It just randomly went off in his head. Absolutely relatable.
I cried laughing and Linus looked like his soul left him in fairness mine would too at that price 😂
had me hyperventilating
@@selim_ct he's really putting salt in the wound 🤣
I really want (someone) to make a mashup with the old Broadcasters logo and Plouffe's laugh.
I love how Plouffe became the resident " Owns a Monitor" Guy.
that joke is NEVER stopping for him
Owns a monitor.. or a few XD
“This is my Alienware-(Elon Musk’s child’s name)”
I liked Plouffe the resident "keyboard guy" better.
Did you see the episode where this became a thing? I laughed out loud and ever since then, they put "owns a monitor" under his name, every time, even if its not a monitor/TV video. lolololol
I personally think these TVs are advertising TVs and the smoo in the TV is UV damage to the anti-glare coating and the huge gap from the panel to the front glass is for anti-fogging.
21:25 - that is pure joy.
Pure Schadenfreude
I haven't laughed this hard at an LTT video in as long as I can remember.
I laughed so hard with him.
"Not my money." Explains it all lol.
That was great. I'm still giggling in fact.
21:26
you can see the exact moment Linus figures out why he is laughing his ass off, and its at his expense. 🤣🤣
The way his face just DROPS
@@lifeofentropy It was messed up, but dang if I wasn't cracking up at it 🤣
it's just like that scene in The Simpsons - "Watch this, Lis. You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half."
If its got composite, that slot is probably CableCard. It was meant to make Cableboxes unncessary by having a common decoder module in the TVs with a decryption keycard.
Plouffe breaking into your house to laugh at your displays is a new fear
I will have nightmares from that from now on.
ESPECIALLY when it's the worst value "LCD factory special" currently on the market.
I imagine the laugh is identical to his crack up from 21:27 to 22:00 lmao 😂
Next week on Linus Tech Tips: "I bought a jumbotron off Temu for my living room"
Do it Linus do it do it lol
do it
Do it
Dew eet
“I bought the Las Vegas Dome to play video games in my yard, is it worth it?”
Andy is the star in this, giving the live translation of everything. Yay for multilingualism! Linus and Plouffe are perfect foils for one another in this, you guys kept me laughing the whole time. Great video, and more ammunition for the "buyer beware".
It was the most i laughed in a long time
21:12 idk if I’ve ever seen such a genuine laugh from anyone on the LTT crew
I ran into this exact issue of Chinese inches being longer when I was trying to have a suit made while in China. I converted my measurements that were in inches into centimeters but we had a problem with the right ones, so I re-measured with a Chinese tape measure that had centimeters and "inches" and all of the measurements were different. It was one of the most confusing moments of my life so thank you for making me realize I'm not crazy.
your first mistake was trying to get a custom suit from china
Chinese BS explanation because they hate our government great same thing with the hats and the t-shirts that don't fit right yeah okay they do that because they hate our government remember that it's not us that you hate is our government same way you hate your own governments just like every other country at this point except for Poland
@revemb4653 I live in China. They do really good and quite cheap custom tailored suits here.
@@revemb4653 he didn't say from aliexpress 💀
So are centimeters still the same or is there also a "Chinese centimeter"?
23:45 Those are the `Frequently Unanswered Questions`, or FUQs
Which is accurate because they dont give any
pronounced "Faq u's" xD
24:28 shout out to Andy for bringing the Chinese inch gag full circle at the end 😂
I don't know if that was in their script, but that was top tier writing lmao
I would also not trust cm (centimetre) measurements in this case. It might be also a different unit like cm for China measure.
Never heard about it,but the inches is pretty confused, like I ordered a pizza before and it's smaller coz it's English inch.@@expierreiment
Have you seen the video of 3 chineese construction workers opening their measureing tapes and all 3 having diffrent sizes inches? 😂😂😂
How do I find this
I haven’t but sounds hilarious lol
Yep. its pretty funny and explains china pretty well.
Wow... that is the joke? Lmao. I thought it was some innuendo because asians stereotypically have short yknow what i mean 😏
Now I want to buy some Aliexpress tape measures just to mess with people... 😈
21:27 isn't the most contagious laughter from Nicholas also the best as in: "you just basically threw away $2500 hahaha" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This unit looks a lot like a industrial TV I installed in a car factory a while ago. These types of TV's have crap image quality, but they are designed to have the least ammount of problems with burn in and image retention possible and to be sturdy as hell. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a repurposed leftover model or something like that.
That makes sense, this isn't for entertainment, this is something you would find in a stadium or convention center really high up, or at an airport
Still lying about the size though.
Something like this would be great for an airport or restaurant menu display
18:00 it's not the TV, it's the Shield that doesn't support HDR via TH-cam
For how many times I've seen the Shield used in their videos, I'm surprised this was never caught in the last 4-5 years that they've been using one.
Ahhh never knew this! Thank you -LS
@@SapoMalo1967 goddamnit, I didn’t know this either….now I know why HDR is missing
Thank you for reading the comments, LTT team. Considering how open Linus has been on WAN show for proudly ignoring TH-cam comments, I am pleasantly surprised.
I'm sorry but the shield does support TH-cam HDR, I use it all the time, my TV shows the big HDR thing every single time and it bothers the heck out of me
Bruh 11:01
Do you want me to connect it to the network
"NOT REALLY"
😂
I live in china and got scammed by this too, Bought a 100" tv, confirmed with them it's british inches, ended up getting a 60" tv, thankfully got a refund.
其实这个可以退一赔三
@@dn_nb 我在淘宝上买的，然后因为商家跟我说‘100寸’ 然后多少cm，可是我没看清楚cm就等于65寸的电视，当时退款很麻烦， 骗子太多了，以后就直接买了小米的电视
@@Smurtehmurph there are scam companies everywhere these days. Although there are some extra laughs with the bad translations, you can find equally bad products on Amazon and other retailers. I've generally been able to tell when the product page doesn't make sense though.
@@OmniUni Not everywhere. Maybe everywhere in China. But there is not a universal online scamming going on.
@@oysteinsoreide4323there are plenty of scams on Amazon and Ebay in the UK, almost every tech listing contains scams
21:33 the way the smile instantly disappeared from Linus's face is comedy gold 😂😂😂
Good eyes 😂😂😂😂
It's actually so rare and so good to have someone who speaks foreign language pertinent to the device/topic at hand. The bonus context you get is great!
2:06 Color: 150 inches
@@knoblauchhusten well to be fair, the word color also holds the alternate meaning of 'variant', the same way you can use the word flavor to mean the same thing. Of course that's probably not why AliExpress uses the word
@shivershajj7044 nope, that's not a proper use of the word color, that's just due to lazy web design.
Whenever someone asks you for your favorite color ask back: Do you want the answer in chinese or canadian inches?
😂😂😂😂😂@@Culpride
@@shivershajj7044 ok, what flavor does 150 inches taste like?
They're basically selling whatever crap they have, advertising whatever crap they want, and offering partial and full refunds to see if it works and if they can get rid of some of that crap.
chyna in a nut shell, the worlds biggest enemy..
I guarantee they get them so cheap that if at least 1 person keeps the TV, it pays for the 3 that send them back.
Aliexpress has some of the best deals, it's still the china market I like the most. You just have to have brains and not believe everything advertised. And if it seems too cheap to be true. It's too cheap to be true.
@@costafilh0 "Chinese Business Practices - Volume 1"...
I love the genuine reactions linus has toward the staff he works with, genuine "are you okay?" as an immediate response, tv persona or not, is difficult to fake if not staged, and i seriously doubt any of it was staged, i genuinely believe linus cares.
Next week: we got hacked by our chinese TV.
Then we have another video of Linus running around naked in his house.
The cackling at 21:45 was so good
This video is the exact reason why I don't have on aliexpress or etsy, I also got tired of being abused by streaming services, so made my own home NAS from my old H110 Pro BTC+ mobo, I currently have 117TBs of network storage and expanding.
That dirty glass could be because it's actually plexi, or because it's fogging internally, or because it was never cleaned before assembly... or all of the above 😅
No its glass. Just dirty.
@@LinusTechTips I think you should try to remove it and see if it gets any better xd
@@LinusTechTips Remove it!!!
I bet contrast will be much better.
@@joolibreakingmore well after this they won't be able to return it for sure
@@LinusTechTips This seems used panels for commercial use, like stores or restaurants. And the dirt is possibly due to expose to bad condition, including sun
Lol, the 3rd and 4th Chinese characters under "SIANSING" (三星) visible at 8:31 are literally how "Samsung" is transliterated into Mandarin
i just learned a new word, thank you
siansing, obviously is a knock off.... It is not even the right hanyupinyin nor sounds like 三星
Transliterated? @@ULTR4_DEV
This is wrong in Mandarin, and Cantonese is at least a little closer, but at least close. 三星 (saam1 sing1 | san1 xing1)
You didnt get to 9:30?
15:50 Back in the 70s and 80s, someone always had to stand next to the television with the antenna and align it so that you could get a reasonably good picture.
11:12 "WHO ARE YOU?"
1 sec later: "I accept your terms"
That made me chuckle lol
That appears to be a commercial TV, based on the extreme bezel, handles, metal back. It all looks commercial rated, what we purchased for AV use in buildings and trade shows
Well they should probably advertise it that way.
But imagine you had something this reflective in a public space with lots of lights?
It's just a trash tv made from samsungs garbage
That'd explain why it can be used as a mirror when.. either on or off. :D
On the other hand it also comes with all the consumer app stuff...
19:21 it was all worth it. We had a blast experiencing your exuberance.
21:27 A lot of shows or movies have a character that is a stand-in for the viewer. I feel like that is Plouffe in the LTT cinematic universe.
This needs a teardown, it almost looks like theres a TV inside that oversized TV casing. Plus noting all the weird branding, who else is wondering what the internal branding actually is. engineering brain demands answers
You can buy one, then just dispute it as misleading lmfao. (at the very least your cc company will def side with you) and they wont be paying for return shipping. I guarantee it.
@linus should eat the cost and open it up! Video will make the Mula back 😅
There are entire factory estates in China, usually old outdated facilities with shops that buy up "B" grade components: mostly QC rejects from major OEMs and use those parts to make "B" grade devices like this TV. They aren't even targeted at the western market. Most end-up in Africa and the Middle East. You see them in cheap regional appliance stores in places like Pakistan, Myanmar, Laos.
Now that you mention it, what if it's just a normal smart tv (still a 100 inch smart tv) with a heavy duty case/frame to make it "kick proof". That could explain the scuffing, as that's probably on the inside of the glass. I bet if you remove all the screws along the back perimeter, you might be able to remove that front glass and clean the inside. Or even keep it off to not have that glare from the case.....
5:40 THAT'S EXACTLY IT! Looking closer, they just put a smart tv in a case! This would also explain why it's so front heavy, as the aluminum frame would be very light. You can also see at 7:46 that there's a cover over the back part of the tv, which is normally the sturdiest part because of all the computer stuff. This might just be a smart tv that was made for the western market and got that frame put on it by this not-Samsung company and they're reselling it! THIS IS A FLIPPING RESALE!
I mean... Benefit of the doubt, spending $2500 on a 100 inch smart tv still isn't that bad. Even the cheapest one I found after a quick google search is over 2 grand, and nothing even close to 150 inches. If they remove the glass plate to get rid of the glare and find a way to get a better internet connection with it (maybe through ethernet), I'd say they got their money's worth. If the sound's bad, that might just be because of the metal frame distorting it. Nothing a sound system couldn't fix. It might even be an actual Samsung smart tv in there.
@@Dw7freak If it is a metal and glass frame, that would explain the need for an external antenna as well. The signals don't pass through the metal as well as plastic so they need an antenna to make it work better.
The empty slot is most probably OPS Card slot using which you can run a Windows PC, mostly used in Interactive Displays
"there wouldn't be a listing for it if nobody ever bought one" I'm here to tell you that the listing costs nothing and even one sucker makes it all worth it. "WE GOT ONE!!!!" ~That company when Linux ordered the big TV.
Also that's why u pay with credit card, even if seller denied u refund/partialy refund u can go to bank and make chargeback, that's make 2x2 fight (you and bank vs seller and AE)
I'm sure that is one of those burner/disposable accounts, so it doesn't matter if it doesn't get any sales as long as they get one at their other accounts.
@@mateuszzimon8216 I have to assume AE has escrow time, too, so the seller has no say and AE just hands their money back to CC.
@@Varadiio actually they will likely require you to ship it back at your expense before you are refunded, which most people can't afford to do. the average consumer is screwed here.
@@mannyhoolin4662 Not always, but sometimes. Also if u make charge back use word scam, not dispute That way u don't need send item back
24:29 squarespace jumpscare
AAHHH!!!
Finally, the Riley jumpscare that we waited for since the halloween TechLinked video.
😂😂
@@IAmAscii jumpsquare
14:26 "Access to your data" that look says it all😂😂😂😂
Imagine hitting rock bottom watching some gnarly shit on the hub on your $2500 TCL knockoff, and then it fades to black so you're just left staring at yourself in 8k like 22:00
That's some post-nut clarity right there. Just staring at yourself after you've done the deed, thinking about what your life has come to.
Why would you seek out bad code on Github?
Reminds me of the “he hit me with the stun!” Video the guy was recording his TV and it goes black for like 2 seconds and it’s a super reflective panel as well and you see this guy just filming in his underwear 😂😂😂
*feet up in the air
The part where Andy was reading internet arguments over which of the other companies is/isn't TCL, is similar to people confusing Denon (Nippon Denki Onkyō KK | "Japan Electric Sound Co.") and Onkyo (Osaka Denki Onkyō KK)
Dude this was good fun to watch.
Plouffe laughing so hard at Linus' expense. It's a vibe.
Great content!
20:50 Plouffe seems to have this backwards. "8-bit with dithering" is better than just 8-bit and necessary for HDR if you have a bandwidth constrained connection. The dithering in question is temporal dithering between 8-bit values to simulate a 10-bit colour depth.
He's just upset it's not 10-bit in 2024
I went to look up the company that owned this tv brand and found out that the company had gone out of business this year in September
So you are telling me you work for the company and do not want to get the refund claim from LTT? :D
Torson they showed fhe seller isnt the compony that mde rhe rb
@@demonic_myst4503 what
😂samting
As the TV MAN a professional TV Antenna And Wall Mount installer... ( I did my first tv wall mount in Australia about 32 yeas ago, and designed and wrote a booklet about wall mounting, basically used as the standard around the world today), I can already guess what the tv is, as I have seen a a few of these imports. Also I paused and wrote this at the 4:10 mark.
You aren't supposed to lift the box up over the tv, but the have brass coloured staples down long one corner, see your left side. You undo these, and the box pulls apart. sometime in one whole piece, sometimes, 2 pieces stapled at each corner.
TV MAN. Australia.
This explains so much with those Chinese tape measures always been off by some amount
Never use Chinese tape measures. It's not that they use a different measure, but they use no measure at all 😂In China they DGAF about making things right. Even the metric ones can be inaccurate.
I think that’s another thing just cheap
Plouffe laughing at Linus's expense just represents everything I love about this channel.
Although the wrong size it was actually a TV and not a box of lead painted garden gnomes. It didn't catch on fire, it powered up, and kind of worked - sort of, if you don't mind a display that's just a step or two above an etch-a-sketch. That's pretty good for something from an Ali Express / Temu type of place.
Appreciate Andy's insight as the Chinese Culture and Language Specialist.
Please keep us updated on the dispute!
"A lot of TVs have a 'store' setting because it will go through demo footage and stuff. Here the store setting is to juice the brightness"
That's actually almost always what the Store Mode is on TVs.
People call it "torch mode" because it just makes the TV as bright as possible to look good in a lit showroom.
Any demo footage you see in a showroom TV comes from an attached source of some kind. Not from a special mode on the TV.
This is easily one the best videos of the year. I almost choked on my coffee a couple times 🤣
21:28 is such a mood. Sometimes we wanna laugh at Linus.
Ploufe just 100% did it and did NOT hold back :D Mad funny tho ^^
Knock off of knock offs is a very prevalent thing in China, it's insane, trying to find out where they all come from is like finding the start of a Mandelbrot.
My favorite thing about 三星 is that it's also the name of a region in Taiwan that does farm things, and I don't know if it's machine translation (probably), but there are so many things marketed as "made with Samsung onions!"
三星 spring onions are hella good though.
With the grubby marks on the inner window... it may have been made on farm land.
isn't that "Sanyang"
20:58 "ACTIVATE WINDOWS" - Says Microsoft with the DPI Setting all the way up....🤣
On purpose, they did a video on it.
@@voltare2amstereo i know... I know ;)
The tape measurer picture is a great example of why you start measuring at 1 inch instead of the end of the tape. It's not that one had a shorter inch, it's that the first quarter inch was missing on one because of bad manufacturing. No two tape measures are the same when starting from the end of the tape.
21:26 best Plouffe joke of the year by far
best Plouffe joke of the year SO FAR
I am just sad watching this video!
This TV is just a waste of plane resources.
Thank you for shedding some light to this issue.
What a waste of... Everything.
Girl - How big is it ?
Guy- it depends it’s bigger in Asia and average in west 😊
21:25 best part period, you can see he is having a blast!
I usually don't like reviews of bad products because it gives recognition to something that doesn't deserve to have any... but the tragic comedy in this video is too good!
What comedy?
@@funbucket09 ''imagine doing that...'' ... then realising it was actually done then and there. and the laughing your aff off
Welcome back! Haven't seen LTT on my feed for yonks!
TCL, Sony, Hisense usually have ARC as one of the highest bandwidth HDMI ports.
Well his laat video of the 110' hisense says otherwise. Hdmi 1 arc port was 60hz 4k. Rest was 144hz 4k
@@TheAdatto That's interesting, but definitely not the norm, it's also just two HDMIs with 4k 144hz, the rest are HDMI 2.0. As for it not being the norm, you can check out the U8 and U7 series to see that Hisense makes the eARC port one of the two HDMI 2.1 ports usually, same as Sony with their latest TVs including the flagship Bravia 9 and A95L. TCL has actually changed course recently and has begun putting the eARC port on a regular HDMI 2.0 port after the 2022 lineup released but before then they also put eARC on the 2.1 ports. This is the most baffling to me considering that AVRs have had HDMI 2.1 inputs for quite some time now, and soundbars have just recently begun including hdmi 2.1 inputs as well.
@LzysGraphics it would be logical to have the eARC be the best part. I was suprised that it wasn't on the Hisense Championship Edition. Maybe the arc part tskes too much bandwidth?
Some sound bars don't have pass through so eARC on the best port can be a risky move.
i own a hisense uled and the earc is not a 4k144hz port like hdmi 3 and 4.
lmao how many huge tv's is this man gonna have in his arsenal of tech 💀
gonna need them all for the lan center, like for real.
Not in enough needs more 😄😎
Takes "video wall" to a whole new level.
He still needs The Wall from Samsung or the 114” Micro LED tv, so until then…
He only has a month left of he wants to give one to every employee at the Christmas raffle.
Maybe it’s a Canadian thing, but the way Linus was saying composite had me cracking up 😂😂
21:30 Plouffe went full TotalBiscuit Twitch LUL emote there XD
RIP
"Do you want to connect it to the network?"
"NOT REALLY!" 😂
This came up with something sketchy the other week too that the head IT guy shot down. They need to have a segregated network that is setup up purposefully to allow them to hook up dodgy stuff and get internet connectivity. Even if it's just a wireless router with a VPN connection, this isn't an insurmountable technical challenge.
@@ryanpaaz or they can just hotspot via cell, which they did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Linus and Plouffe review hot garbage" is my favourite category of LTT videos!
07:50 I remember in Norway back before TV companies started using their TV Boxes/Modem/whatever that there used to be a card slotted into the TV itself, this card is what gave the TV the ability to have channels with content on it, and the slot for the card looks very similar - if not identical - to that. Basically, without the card inserted into the slot, you wouldn't be able to watch TV, it would essentially just be a super-sized monitor for you to use with your VHS/DVD/BluRay player, PC, or anything else you'd use to connect with the TV.
@@John-19k20 in Romania we still use Ci cards for digital (HD and 4k) channels
@@John-19k20 isn't it just for the CA module?
@@pareklund It appears that was what I was describing, yes. I'm Norwegian, and don't even know the Norwegian name for that thing, so I couldn't do anything but do my best describing what it was xD
4:42 Technically that could be used as a remote... to turn the TV off... once.
LG is the way to go I've found, a good balance of everything and amazing image quality.
Also all of my HDMI's support both ARC and 4K 120FPS so perhaps go with LG if you haven't seen many TV's with both high speed and ARC in a single line. You can even toggle them through the menus
3:16
Fell like a champ 😂
I want a full video on how you would potentially return these and the dangers of buying from marketplaces without strong consumer protections. Amazon used to be safe, and now they actively hide the return button and make you attempt to negotiate with scammers
Setting up a return on Amazon is incredibly easy. Aliexpress isn't too hard either.
10:33 the fun just keeps getting better
1:01 No wonder Yvonne doesn't agree with Linus
My theory about the "150-inch" figure is that it's half the perimeter of the TV. If it's 108" corner to corner and is 16:9, the sum of the width and height is 147", or about 150".
It's 150 inches if you use non-euclidean measurements
It's 150", and then some, if you count both TVs ;).
My theory is it's a scam. :D
First LTT video suggestion in months, and this was a fun one
21:26 I think this is the hardest I've ever laughed at an LTT video, but I couldn't possibly come close to Plouffe, man sounded like he was about to have an asthma attack. 🤣
13:00 Every store mode juices the brightness to some degree. This is to compensate for the higher than average lightening in a store compared to a home.
This was definitely a very entertaining episode. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Linus is collecting these massive tv's the way Thanos collected stones
Please do a follow up on the dispute/return process!
I just checked out the Hisense 110UX video, it's reflections are almost as bad even with an image on screen. Most people also don't have studio lights in their living room. Even with the fact it is the wrong size, it's not that bad for 1/8 the price.
Plouffe's joke had me in tears too
"She's trapped behind the glass!", this one had me uncontrollably laughing! 😂
Even when I rewatched it.
TH-cam defaulted to 1080p, I had to change it to 2160p to make sure I was getting the best experience.
22:11 reflections…..YES PLEASE. New safety feature built into tv for seeing BEHIND THEM.
Best funny video ever!
The kinda tv you wanna have in your room straight across the door. Parents got no chance lol
That guy in Scream drunkenly yelling "Behind you... Behind YOU!" at the TV would've finally been aware of what was going on behind him.
Not surprised at all, I ordered 3 times from Aliexpress, 1 was fine, 1 never turned up and 1 was a $2 rubber "Frozen" kids toy instead of a $35 battery bank. I started a dispute for the 2 bad deals and they shut my account
At 7:50 that decryption thing you said is most likely, at least on the tv’s I have around my house and probably Europe is an CI or Common Interface card slot, basically your broadcaster would give you these for accessing channels that you need to subscribe extra on top of the selection you have, example is HBO channels are encrypted where I live so that could be what slot is for but prove me wrong
That is correct, in most countries you need a CI module and a decription card, to even watch the TV channels from your country. In the good old days you could watch German, Austrian and Swiss TV near lake constance when it was terrestrial analogue, from the day it got digital Swiss TV was gone, they are on 13° East, while German and Austrian satellite TV is on 19.2° East, terrestrial is a joke you only get public TV and freenet, to watch freenet channels your TV needs to be connected to the internet, it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. If you tune the TV to a freenet channel, all it receives is a URL to load a webstream.
12:50 not a TV, a mirror
Dude acted like he never downloaded an app for a tv
Wait but what about "returning" it?? Id really like to know what happens when you try to claim this.
This is what is called an unbreakable tv, we imported a ton of them, they are dirt cheap, and sell extremely quick, most probably they are a reseller and the tv maybe manufactured by JPE.
inches are the same size everywhere. The inch is a standardized unit of measurement based on the Imperial and US customary systems, where 1 inch is always equal to exactly 2.54 centimeters. This international standardization means an inch is the same length worldwide, no matter which country you’re in
at 4:00 i'm gonna say plouf is right... i think it's got some kind of color or high refresh mode or low input latency mode related to gaming
4:36 they took a note from apple, it's $600 for the tv, and $2,000 if you want the handles included.😂
Even funnier, that wood packaging material is not ISPM15 compliant, so kudos to you, you might have import forest plant pests to Canada.
Can you please do videos on Wacom tablets? A lot of artists want to know if they are worth it.
They did a comparison with iPad pro for macaddress and it was interesting
Wacom tablets are nice but requires some training before you are able to use them well. I guess some people aren't able to really learn to use them. Now it's a decade since I last looked at them, or so it feels. But I think they had started to make pads with an integrated screen as a surface, making it possible to "work directly" on the picture you are editing. This is a way to simplify eye to hand coordination, but I have no idea how well it works. It also would be a lot like working on a large iPad, which might be a better alternative. Never tried to use an iPad to edit digital graphics, but then I'm far from being decent at painting or drawing. Adjusting color temps and exposure, perhaps adding a filter or two is the limit of my capability, so do treat this as third hand info. I never used them a lot and only knew people who did.
I own lots of tablets, and I've even built a diy 21" Cintiq tablet (on my channel) combining a Wacom sensor and an LCD..
Beware non-wacom brands. Wacom has the only robust pen tech. All others are plagued with jitter and interference , especially the combination graphics tablets with an LCD.
Many reviewers do not even know how to check for the jitter, but if you search, you will find informed reviewers pointing it out in all models except Wacom.
They are. What else would you use? The Chinese huion? Artists don't use pads for real work.
@@vadym8713 video name pls?