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I could not be more excited to experience alongside you guys today the first 8k consumer television the Q 900 R series from Samsung it has a whopping 33 million pixels now to be clear we've seen 8k displays before but only on the desktop at sizes that are so small that you couldn't possibly hope to get any benefit from it this this promises to be different so in today's video sponsored by Samsung we're going to be going through the experience of 8k on a 65 inch TV and also experiencing some of the pitfalls of being such an early adopter of such bleeding-edge technology Wow it's Rick it's a flip boy look at that I don't think I've seen a TV this thick in quite some time I wonder if that has something to do with they can do like the flush mount oh that's so cool yeah they've got the legs just right in here so if you like mounted you don't have to worry about losing interesting you know what I wonder is if it has to do with the powerful backlight that you need to generate what is it like 3,000 is on this thing so something a lot of people don't know is that the tighter you make the matrix of your LCD the harder it is to beam light through it because the more of the actual screen area is covered by you know opaque things like wires so I would guess they need one heck of a backlight to get that kind of brightness okay now what I guess is lifted up yeah we probably should read how to do it but uh well it's too late for that now the ship has sailed you put your left TV in you put your left TV yeah put your left TV yeah so idea of multiple spots that you can put it just like here oh yeah how about that all right where do you want to go let's go with the wide stance that's what I was doing oh yes do you ever just think that you probably should have read the instructions do you ever think that you as the writer for this video probably should have read the instructions did it it needs a screw doesn't it it definitely needs a screw but it also probably should just like go in uh-huh - where are those screws ah well there we go there's your problem oh that's a heavy one connect us the manual a now we've got it Wow you can really tell this thing needs cooling though and if the number of heat pipes that I can see through the back of this grill at the rear of the TV is anything to go by it takes some serious power I wonder how close they were to just like strapping a fan on the back you know I gotta say as someone who cares more about performance and features then like dents in this I'm actually pleased as punch that we're getting a TV that's like you know what all the brightness all the resolution yeah I'm pretty excited to see the 3,000 minutes that'll be the brightest display I've ever seen for sure unless you count like those displays that like Vegas well yeah okay so our power for the whole beast comes in here and then all your inputs including networking audio right USB all this stuff over here is all routed through this single cable along with power up to the TV it's no secret that I love it I've said that a lot of times and I don't love it any less today than I did before oh let's just turn it on did you notice that the screen is relatively matte oh yeah like it's not that glossy apparently Samsung has like the best anti reflective filters in the business yeah because we have like filming lights behind the TV and it's actually shocking how little of it gets reflected through like especially the like there's an LED or a light that's through that window if you sit where I am you see it oh wow yeah and then like look at how bright it is directly like that is a shockingly small amount of light reflected back at us part of what Samsung has done that special on this TV is they're using a VA panel but one with a different configuration so you don't get that same color shift at an extreme angle so it's kind of IPS like in that respect but it also just has this really sharp VA like contrast and then of course the the matte screen that it's really good so I've actually watched this clip quite a few times as a like a demo clip and it actually looks really good bear you mind of course that this is just for Kay's and just like the lines and even like the hairs and stuff are really good of course what we really want to do is jump to 8k resolution so let's fire up the Nvidia control panel and see what happens because remember this is an HDMI 2.0 connection so it's not even showing up in the drop down here we're gonna have to create ourselves a custom res here oh it just worked it just worked well that was easy okay so let's have a look at this puppy so this is a three hour 50 second clip that's three minutes and 50 seconds and it's nine big yeah the actual ones like a hundred and five gigs so theoretically this is basically as high definition as it gets because this is shot on one of our red 8k cameras and it's output at 8k resolution now I will say the bitrate could be higher because you can also see some like pretty brutal artifacting info that's brutal compression we can't try like a red file if you want to but hey that sounds pretty good Oh our poor computer that's right I forgot about that yeah we don't have ten giggle I mean even ignoring that our poor CPU is a hundred percent Wow Hey sure I guess Wow look at this it looks like it's my desktop background poor Windows just has no idea what to do with this resolution five hundred percent scaling Lee here's our Start menu I wonder if the TV is scaling it or something though yeah Oh interesting we are now on the latest driver so we're gonna bump it to 4k yeah that's looking pretty for ke we're gonna go color Oh are there actual options now there are yeah okay so maybe this will help so hold on in 7680 by 4320 yeah test it okay does that look native nope okay but that's fine because we're not in the fourth input so go ahead and chuck it on the fourth input and let's see if it works this time no signal okay all right Netflix it is a shot like this with the Penguins you can really appreciate the finer detail and I will say compared to the early days of 4k upsampling even with the birds flying in different directions here actually one of the shots of the birds from the original planet earth was like my classic yeah why upscaling shouldn't be a thing examples while they're flapping you can see they're handling it just way better it's almost like TVs has undergone you know ten generations of processing upgrades since then okay so where we left off yesterday we were having a pretty decent 4k to 8k upsampled experience but we weren't able to get true 8k working however yeah we were talking to the guys at our kings and we should be able to get real full-blown Z's 8k on the go and 4k 1:20 really yeah massive shout out to those guys however apparently there's a bit of a process won't you walk us through this so the first thing we have to do is when we plug in a device we have to go through the setup wizard no skipping it correct yeah otherwise whatever reason on input for it just doesn't work so then you need to do signal plus enable that cool that this is something we're just not gonna worry about that yeah let's just proceed then yep okay so then you need to do the custom resolution utility and hit reset all right but don't actually use the custom resolution utility don't try to do it in the Nvidia driver it's a bad time just this reset all feature then we go to display settings advanced display settings display it after properties list all modes oh now we have all of these guys here big old list in there now that seems to work best if you do 8k 29 Hertz first yeah and hit apply that looks pretty sure yeah so that's really carry really okay well graduate ready look it's pretty funky so then you want to just go list all modes again and go to 8k 30 okay whatever reason if you go to that first sometimes the system just stops working I don't know why but it's a thing and there we go we have full-blown Z's 8k 34 to 0 so you're not getting the full color everything you're not getting the full color depth you're not getting HDR but for better or for worse you are driving 33 million pixels 30 times a second through your display if you're into that sort of thing and I have to say it looks pretty damn good it looks really sharp like that text is just like it's something else for a display of this size 4k is effective to about 3.8 feet so that's about right here so aku can do 2 feet before you see pixels so that's like here all right so this is it this is our first 8k playback experience on our 8k TV with 8k footage it's sharp beautiful shot Brandon by the way okay so just for fun before we play games can I do what I had wanted to do before it set to 100% okay thanks okay that's pretty comical this is so ridiculous all right look how much I have to move my mouse just to get it across the screen one two but it should still be sharp damn and it is the system works okay so why don't we do something different this time we'll fire up so you skyline's yeah this is like such a great example it's like you can really make out the peep walking around on the street oh yeah from this vantage point like in that park right there so next up is Forza so dynamic render quality ultra 76 80 by 4320 that's a crazy number to look at 30fps all right let's see this it's gonna benchmark like there's rain like it looks like water droplets yeah like it's pretty easily like the best graphics I think I've ever seen the sharpness is crazy like even without anti-aliasing enabled you can see this license plate is a perfect example normally of the staircase effect as it tilts back and forth but it's just crystal clear and we actually managed 30fps hey now the actual frame times there was definitely some stutter in there so my friends are you going to be gaming in triple-a titles with smooth 60fps experience at 8k anytime soon probably not but is a K at a TV size an absolutely eyeball poppin experience the answer is definitely yes and sometime in the next year or two you may even get a chance to experience it once Samsung sends out the upgraded boxes with HDMI 2.1 and japan broadcast the 2020 Olympics in a cane so there you go that's the way forward for 8k so thanks for watching guys thanks to Samsung for sponsoring this video and letting us have this very early look at the 8k experience if you guys dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description because let's face it you are that person who wants to be the first one with an 8k panel on the block regardless of whether you could hook anything up to it also linked in the video description is our merch store which has cool shorts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join