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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so our second video here at the razor suite is also one where I look at the future as a little bit cloudy but I definitely believe in the premise here this is the forge TV it's got a Qualcomm 805 quad core processor it's got an Adreno 420 GPU so you can expect your frame rates to be high it's got Gigabit Ethernet HDMI out USB it's got wireless AC it's got bluetooth connectivity it actually supports Wi-Fi controllers as well and it comes in at $99 but this isn't the first time we've seen an Android based gaming console and what is raised are going to bring to the table that they think is going to make this compete with well any other Android device that you can plug into your TV whether it's from a small you know company that you've never heard of before or whether it's from someone like in video with their shield line of tablets and gaming devices well number one is going to be the price $99.99 is going to be pretty appealing for something with these kinds of specs where you're at the point where you can run pretty much any Android game extremely smoothly even at 1080p 60fps number two is going to be of course the ecosystem raisers never one to release just one product they want you to buy like this and then they want you to buy the controller for it and the you know the keyboard and mouse thing that goes along with it and these I'll start with this one because it's actually really cool this is called the turret and it's a keyboard mouse combo that comes with a little dock maybe that's where it got the turret name and the idea is to address the problem that any PC gamers who also want to enjoy content on their big screen tend to have which is how on earth do I control a game like civilization if I'm going to play on my TV we've seen solutions in the past like the couch master is one that we actually reviewed that I kind of went yeah this works really well but it's extremely bulky and you're not going to be you know I'm pressing your lady friend that you bring over by having one of those next to your TV this is a little bit more elegant so instead of having a huge cushion that sits across your lap the keyboard itself for the turret on full folds into a mousepad and then the mouse itself is actually very thoughtfully designed so it's got its gets slippy pads all around the outside so that even if you're right at the very edge of that mousepad it is still functional until the mouse is hanging more than about 1/4 to 1/3 off the edge of the pad making the mousepad effectively much larger than it actually looks it's nice little touches like that but I appreciate from Razer the cost for this one I actually don't know what's that one going to run you 149 I'm guessing 129 all right well they impressed me because the overall build quality vac chewy feels very very solid now this one is where they kind of got away from me a little bit this is their new controller actually very very beautiful piece of hardware I mean we've come to expect this razer doesn't exactly do the whole you know 1999 controller thing so you've got those whatever they call them hyper response buttons I call them hair trigger buttons we can call them whatever they want they have a really nice tactile feel to them you've got Android buttons built in for Android navigation it is intended to be used with the forge TV but this one is going to come at a bit of a price so this is an $80 controller but this comes with their streaming software that's going to be built into cortex so now instead of being locked into well we shouldn't say locked into because there are other solutions but instead of being locked into in videos game stream you are going to be able to use razors poor tech software in order to stream games from your PC so they've actually got it running right now and while I can't say the latency is very impressive they tell me that behind the scenes most of the work that goes into something like this is actually really on the codecs side they're not using h.264 they're not using h.265 they're actually using a proprietary codec that they believe in the long term is going to give them better latency and better image quality compared to other solutions also this is another cool thing it's sided well I don't know depending on how you look at it oh I unplugged this fortunately wait what I thought it was running oh no it must not because this doesn't have an HDMI out running to it okay well whatever there was a green light on it now there isn't um good news the lights back on and I cannot finish up that thought where I left off so the good news is that you are going to be able to use third-party controllers whether they're blue 2 or Wi-Fi direct which is great because you know if you want to be that guy who has the one nice controller for himself and then like the crummy controllers for all of his buddies then hey you can be that guy but the bad news is that if you want to take advantage of their end-to-end latency optimizations you are going to benefit from the firmware upgrades and tweaks that Razer is putting into their own controller for the best most low latency possible experience in line with that sort of open attitude whole thing that they've got going on in their suite today is that unlike nvidia game stream or even limelight for that matter you are not going to be locked into an Nvidia graphics card to run this so AMD Radeon owners rejoice that is to say as long as they improve the latency a fair bit over what they're doing now because I'm gonna I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to like be that guy who shows how far off we are right now although the beta doesn't even start for another couple of months and they've got what was it 10 million users you guys are rolling out the beta to to to test this out for you guys anyone with cortex ultimately 10 million current users so hopefully that gives them a little bit of feedback and helps them turn this thing into something that totally kicks ass I do believe in game streaming I do believe in Android as the next gaming platform so whether I believe that Razer is going to be the one to to crack that egg or it's going to be someone else I'm glad they're throwing their hat into the ring because this is a very beautiful little piece of hardware they actually had the same team that worked on blade do this so it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that I think it's the bee's knees alright guys thanks for checking out video number two here in the Razer suite don't miss any of our CES content and remember our trip to the show this year was powered by phantom glass visit store phantom glass for what is in my mind the best screen protecting option you can get for your smartphone is Gorilla Glass which means it's nice and clear it's got that nice feel unlike those plastic ones it 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