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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're taking a look at my new television the Samsung 6500 from the sixth series of their new LEDs and I went ahead and took it out of the box I took the liberty because I didn't want to have to make you guys suffer watching me trying to remove the beast from the cardboard I've also gone ahead and installed a custom LED ambient light system I'll show you more about that towards the end of the video so don't go leaving now why did I pick this TV well a couple of reasons first and foremost the super slim bezel I had limited space where I wanted to mount it and most 55 inch TVs would not have fit seriously the difference is significant it's also really slim that you can see like it infringes already on my trim and the doorway so any other 55 inch that I really looked at was was just a little bit too wide because of those bezels being more significant but you know that's not the only reason I'm happy about this TV for other reasons too I think the Smart Hub system that Samsung has here is one of the best on the market the first thing we're gonna look at is the YouTube app here and let me tell you something the video quality blew me away like I totally did not expect to see video quality like this up on a 55 inch TV I expected you know was gonna be kind of pixelated etc no not at all now one of the only drawbacks is you know searching you know using text input that you get it like sort of search around via your d-pad on your regular remote control that's not too much fun to do within the app but there are ways around it Samsung manufactures a QWERTY remote which is pretty cool and you know I might pick that up you can buy it for 99 bucks it's included with the 7000 series but not this one or you can use your smartphone via a samsung app for Android or iPhone to control text input and other remote functions I'll show you that in a second because I have installed it on my phone and it is a big improvement but the video quality I mean the video quality is unreal in YouTube it sits it's a really awesome experience next we're gonna look at Netflix and Netflix it's sort of the same on a lot of these devices it's pretty much installed on everything these days and you know it's it's a standard experience it's pretty quick for a Netflix app but again one of the one of the drawbacks is if you end up using the stock remote you're gonna be putting in text left right and center on this TV with all these smart functions it's gonna be a headache so you're definitely gonna want to look at one of those alternatives that I mentioned the next thing we're gonna talk about is your video this is a strange application that Samsung pre installs it allows you to look through a selection of movies and it sort of feels like you're gonna be able to watch them but then when you click on them you can't really do very much except like rate them and share the fact that you rated rated them on Twitter and Facebook kind of weird but anyway I guess I guess it doesn't hurt maybe some people are into that I'm not sure that name for me though so the next thing we're gonna talk about is the Samsung App Store now as you guys know everybody's got their own app store these days and your TV has apps in it now too and you got everything on here from videos to games to sports lifestyle so on and so forth this will help you customize your experience you can basically lay out your front page on your television however you want with whichever you know apps you want so the next thing to look at is this search feature this is one of my favorite features and what it does is it allows you to have a search of all the different connections that you've got coming into your Smart TV so YouTube Facebook so on and so forth and when you get results you can actually click on those results and it'll take you right to the page where those results exist so this is especially useful for YouTube because if you're looking for a YouTube video you can actually be a little quicker going that route than going into the YouTube app because the YouTube app reloads a standard video that's obviously not what you're looking for and that preload takes extra time so you're gonna want to go that way if you know what you're looking for this is called social TV now if I had cable hooked up to the left you would see a cable image instead got that garbled noise and it allows you to look at your Twitter stream your Facebook stream and also use Google Talk while watching TV that's pretty cool but I ain't going near cable I don't need it so I probably won't end up using that now this is one of the drawbacks as far as I'm concerned you get a super basic remote with a TV that ain't super basic and I mean I can't fault it it does what old remotes did but on a TV that's this sophisticated you really expect something more substantial and that QWERTY remote that Samsung manufactures would have been real nice to have it included instead of paying 99 bucks but you can go this route here and most of us have one of these in our pocket it's a smart phone of course mine is Android but an iPhone will work as well and you can download this app from Samsung that gives you a lot more control than the regular remote and it'll let you scroll through the different functions here there's a couple of different ways to interface with it you've also got this touch sensitive interface which you basically use the touchscreen to navigate around now there's also this smart input method which basically allows you to have a QWERTY keyboard for input and as I mentioned before that it's a huge improvement when you're using all those apps that require text entry for search functions etc now you can also select any app from the main page right on here without having to you know move around with the d-pad which can take forever so a really cool feature now another another mini drawback is that this TV uses breakout cables I wish it didn't but to be so slim you have to expect it it uses breakout cable for composite and for component now another feature on here which it's totally useful is the ability to hook up a USB device either a thumb drive or a card reader and just bring your media files over here and it'll play them back natively you can bring MOV zem cavies AV eyes whatever you please this is one of my unboxings in an MOV format I also brought over the dark night on MKV and it played back beautifully so a really cool feature you can either do over USB or also over your network via AllShare this is one of my favorite apps that's pre-installed it's the BBC app and since I don't watch much cable it's a good way to get a little bit of news yes you can game on as well let's see what I can do here in Gears of War let me see if I can click Y real quick on this guy yes I can there you go a beauty beautiful kill there but if you're gonna play games on this on this television I have to tell you you must use game mode without game mode installed or turned on I should say you're gonna have an input lag of almost 100 milliseconds or more with game mode on you're gonna take that down to about 34 milliseconds on the newest firmware so a huge improvement I can't notice it at that rate so listen if you buy this TV don't be afraid just find the game mode it's in the general settings now let's talk about my cool LED lighting system now you can have it stall on any color you want and stay there or you can have a transition through the different colors like this and I just installed it I've always wanted to do something like this ever since I saw Philips Ambilight system from a long time ago and basically what this does is if you're looking at your screen for a long time in a dark room it sort of allows for a better transition between the darkness of the wall and the brightness of the screen so it's supposed to reduce strain a little bit but it also looks badass so this is the nerve center this is where all the gear hangs out behind the wall there's some shelves in there and yes I know cables are going everywhere I'm gonna clean that up but right now I'm gonna show you how it all operates I put a little plate on the wall to bring all the cables through I pre ran everything through here and I'll give you a better look at my LED system this controller here will allow you to pick a very specific color you can get real specific with how they mix and it'll also allow you to put it on the rotator like I had on when I showed you earlier and you can also power it off from here so real cool but I don't have to use that to power it off because I have this special surge protector with a master and a bunch of slave ports so I got my leds plugged in the slaves when the master goes off the television the LEDs go off too so it just just goes on and off with my TV real cool I ran some USB extenders so I don't have to get behind the TV to plug in USB devices and I've also got the skype HD camera this was included in a bundle with the TV and I'm gonna be unboxing that real soon on the channel so stick around for that I'll do a test and tell you about the quality and I also got the 3d starter kit with two active 3d glasses and the for Shrek 3d blu-rays so real cool I'm gonna unbox that to do a test let you guys know what that's all about as well so as you guys can tell I'm real excited about my new TV here I really enjoy playing with it I haven't had a TV this big before and you know it's really immersive for gaming movies everything you can throw at it and that super slim bezel means you're just looking at picture that's it so anyway guys if you liked this content then hopefully you can click that like and favorite button as it does help me out a bunch and if you haven't checked out the channel yet then please go ahead and do so I got a lot more content over there and otherwise until next time thanks for watching and I'll see you around later