you've got questions I've got answers
fun fact I totally rip that off from an old Radio Shack slogan that's going back a ways
do y'all remember that also fun fact I used to work at Radio Shack those were
times welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Denison here with the second installment of you ask
because many of you have asked a lot of questions and while I do my best to reply there is just
not enough time to get to all of them but some of your questions are really good and commonly asked
as well so I figured let's answer questions in a video might help some folks out and have fun doing
it so keep an eye out on Digital Trends socials for posts we put out asking for your questions
and hit me up and if your question doesn't get answered this week maybe I'll get to it next
week and regardless feel free to keep posting your question the more I see it the more likely
I am to get to it I'll just I'll do my best okay with that out of the way let's get to our first
question which comes from at @dragosmoldovan990 who writes I'm in Europe and the AV landscape is
kind of different here any chance for you to get a look at Philips OLED TVs for instance I know
they're not available in the States but we simply have no good information sources here yeah so I
wanted to answer this question because I know that Philips TVs and Panasonic TVs in particular are of
high interest because they tend to be really high performers and I know a lot of folks would like
to see how I would rank them against all the TVs that I do review unfortunately as many of you know
Panasonic and Philips TVs at least the premium Philips TVs available in the UK and Europe are
not available in the U.S there was a time when I was asking the UK PR teams for these brands if
they might consider sending those TVs for me but as you can imagine that's of significant expense
to them and they can see that the majority of our audience is here in the U.S so it's hard for them
to justify that expense likewise it would be impossible for me to justify the expense of
importing those TVs so I could review them here the cost would be too substantial and that goes
for TVs and other markets too like Australia and India where I know a lot of you watching right now
happen to live now if we could arrange for me to travel to those places for a week and I did
those reviews in those regions that might be something but that would have to be a viewer
or brand sponsored thing because I don't think I can convince Digital Trends to just fly me
all over the world for doing TV reviews I will say though that I'm thinking of going back to
IFA in Berlin because I miss checking out the AV scene in at least that part of Europe because I
do know it is a bit different there and I like it next up is another international slash regional
question and folks I get this one all the time and I totally understand why @joshuamansill9394
writes you've talked about doing a video about this before but why does Hisense and TCL
release very different TVs with the same very similar model number in the US versus Europe
and Oceania so you're right I have talked about doing a video on this and I'm still planning on
doing it I'm using your question as an opportunity to ask folks to be a little patient with me here
as you've seen we're in the middle of moving so I've had to put some investigating on hold I will
give you a little bit of a nugget though here the Hisense U8 and U7 Series TVs that we get in
the U.S are so good because reviewers like me have been on Hisense about improving this tweaking that
and the powers that be among them Hisense USA president David gold they pressed Hisense
corporate to get those improvements for U.S models betting that getting good reviews would help sell
the TVs and that bet paid off the story is similar for TCL which got amazing traction on the early 6
Series TVs among reviewers and they leaned into that hard and got sales success from it so they
leaned in even harder now I can understand if the numbers show that those moves seem to work for
the U.S market but don't necessarily provide a return on investment in other regions I don't know
that is the case but I throw that theory out there because while I could understand that what I do
not understand is why you would use the same model number in different regions but not offer the same
performance for that model number that part right there is the bit I have not gotten to the bottom
of yet and I'm just a couple of phone calls away from getting the answers I need so stay tuned I
will do that video this year probably in October honestly so hold me to that I'll do my absolute
best this next one is not for me personally but I'm going to get the answer for you at @lordtardar4639
writes just what is going on with AMD in the laptop sector and why aren't we seeing any Zen 4
based laptops not to be confused with Zen 3 and Zen 3 plus processors that were just rebranded
to 7XXX series halfway through the year except in just a handful of mainly gaming laptops
um so I don't know but I know someone who does so I asked Jacob Roach who you have seen plenty of
times on the channel and his first response was oh this is a whole thing which instantly made
me chuckle because I could just hear him saying it anyway he followed up with this response if
you're unfamiliar AMD completely changed its naming scheme for its mobile processors with
Ryzen 7000. now the architecture it uses is noted by the third number in the product for example a
theoretical Ryzen 5 7510 would be using the Zen one architecture despite the fact that it comes
from the Ryzen 7000 series which for the record is supposed to use Zen four that first number
that most people associate with the generation of the processor now refers to the year it was
released it's confusing and even more confusing when you consider this only applies to mobile
processors anyway to answer your question more directly it's hard to say exactly why we haven't
seen more Zen 4 processors in non-gaming laptops there are a few like the Acer Swift Edge 16 and
Asus Zenbook S 13 both with the Ryzen 7 7840U but most non-gaming laptops are stuck on Zen 3
I suspect this just comes down to market share and positioning AMD is focusing its most powerful
newest hotness on the area where it has more dominance gaming laptops Intel still holds the
vast majority of the laptop market outside of gaming and the laptop Market overall so we may
not see a ton of Zen 4 chips outside of gaming laptops definitely keep an eye out for the rest
of the year though now that all the flagship chips are out AMD has been slowly working its way down
to the more power efficient chips in its lineup yeah uh wow so glad glad I asked Jacob on that
one thank you Jake for coming through and hey if you all would like to see Jake doing a QA
series like this let us know in the comments and we'll see if we can make that happen next up and I
think this will be the last one for today I wanted to keep this one shorter but let me actually ask
you do you like shorter more frequent You Asked videos or longer slightly less frequent ones let me know
in the comments I have so many asks I know why am I so needy honestly I just want to deliver what
you guys like okay two more questions actually uh both on the same topic though phantabus asks do
you do professional calibrations I'm in Oregon and would like to get my TV calibrated well the short
answer is no I do not do professional calibrations I'm sorry I wish I could help you out the reasons
I don't do professional calibrations deserves a deeper explanation which let me ask you another
question if we did a live stream q a session every month would y'all be into that hit this video with
a like if yes but but the reason I don't do professional calibrations boils down to time
and money I am slammed all week long and on the weekends I'm completely booked with gigs I'm a
professional trumpet player for those of you who didn't know but in addition to the lack of time
there's also a significant cost involved with the equipment needed for a professional calibration
and while Digital Trends owns the equipment I need to do my job as a reviewer I do not own the
equipment needed for me to do my own calibration business anyway this question leads us nicely to
the next one which comes from Lottasks430 . I may have made that one up because I couldn't
find the most recent question that was posted around this but I get this question all the time
and it's important I answer it anyway the question usually goes something like can you recommend a TV
calibrator in my area so I do not personally have a database of professional calibrators across the
U.S but honestly I'm thinking of creating one now what I suggest you do is go to the Imaging Science
Foundation website and click on the dealers tab I'll put a link down in the description
so you can get there easily there you can put in your city and state and find dealers in your area
that probably offer calibration services honestly I wish there was a slightly more refined way of
finding ISF certified calibrators across the U.S and maybe I'll work with the ISF to sort
of retool their site to make it a little bit easier but that's where I would start at the
Imaging Science Foundation website click on the dealers tab you can also try going to the AVS
forum and posting a request for help finding a calibrator in your area somebody in there
probably knows someone in your general area and can get you pointed in the right direction okay
so that's it for you asked episode two thanks for all your questions thanks for watching
I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like