- Destroying my kitchen, taking this 55 inch OLED TV off of the wall and replacing it with
a 65 inch NanoCell, whatever that is, TV.
Moving the LED strip from this TV to the new one and creating a little gaming center, right
here in the kitchen.
These are all things that we're going to be doing in today's video.
My name's Alex, this is TechFlow, let's do this!
So, I know the question on the tech savvy people's heads straight away is going to be:
Alex, why are you..?
(Metallic object falls) Why are you replacing an OLED TV with a non-OLED TV?
Aren't you just going backwards in technology?
And I do totally take your point...
Actually, before I take this TV off the wall, there's like loads of stuff behind it that
I need to take out, like a Nintendo Wii and stuff.
(Squeak)
So, there's going to be loads of stuff that...
Falls down I think.
Are we good?
Okay, we're good.
We're good.
The reason that I'm replacing this huge, lovely big OLED LG panel with a different NanoCell TV
is, well, there's a few reasons: Number one, the NanoCell TV that I've got to put here
and replace is ten inches bigger than this - I wanted a bigger TV.
The other issue is that, as much as I love OLED, I also don't like it at the same time
and this video will explain exactly why that is, after this little sequence.
So, our new TV is out of the garage and right here, but I'm not going to unbox it right
now because I'm going to focus on the LG CV7, the older model of TV that I have,
whilst I am taking this LIFX strip off the back which, by the way, isn't long enough
to go around the new TV, so we're going to have to put an extension module on it.
So, this TV; OLED.
Alex, why are you replacing it?
And obviously, I've already mentioned that I want a bit of a bigger TV but the fact is;
this TV is an OLED, which, in people's heads, gives you, well, better blacks which is much
nicer for watching videos.
But I don't know if you guys have noticed this, my kitchen is kind of light and airy.
Right here, there's like three huge windows and that is the problem with OLED.
And sometimes, with an OLED TV, the blacks are that black and the darks are that dark
that the image is genuinely quite dark.
And when you've got loads of light pouring in with big, natural windows here bringing
all the natural light in and you've got a really dark picture on the TV, those two things don't
really go together and I find myself sat here in the day time not really being able to see
what's on the screen.
I'm having to squint.
At night it's absolutely fine - this thing is awesome.
But in the day time, in this room, you can't really use it all well.
Okay, so this is LG's newest offering.
The LG SM90 NanoCell TV.
Now, as we're all aware, this isn't an OLED TV.
This is a NanoCell TV.
So, why is NanoCell good for what I want?
And that's what this is all about - what I want in my kitchen.
Certain TVs are good for certain types of things.
So the NanoCell tech in this TV is essentially just a marketing scheme or marketing tactic
for, sort of, improved viewing angles, improved contrast and improved colour.
That's essentially all it is.
Now, a lot of these improvements that LG are dubbing NanoCell were, again, back in the
day, what OLED was so good for if you think about it.
Improved viewing angles, deeper blacks (meaning better contrast) and LG are saying: Well,
we're doing it here but with an IPS 4K HDR panel that's got full LED array back lighting.
So this thing should be, again, light enough or, sorry, bright enough for my kitchen, as
well as providing me, and this is the most important one, a lower millisecond in response
time compared to our last OLED which means, yes, we can crack out some games in 4K HDR on here.
On 65 inches, in the kitchen.
This is going to be awesome!
Okay guys, so here we go.
Because of the extra size of this TV too, I'm going to have to install an extra Z strip
from LIFX because the original strip that went around the last TV obviously isn't going
to be long enough to go around this one.
So that is our next order of business - installing LEDs to the back of a TV.
I swear I've done a video about installing LEDs to the back of a TV and it's got over
a million views.
So let's do a mini re-cap of that right now.
But the 2019 version.
(Clicks fingers)
Okay, this thing is absolutely huge.
Woah, this thing is absolutely huge.
Let's hope I can...
- [Camera man] You're on. - Am I on?
- Yeah. - Come on.
Okay, I think...
We're on.
Oh my God, that is absolutely massive.
What?
I quite like it though because it's the same length as the unit - that is huge!
Huge, mate!
Okay.
So these are essentially all of the cables that I've already got run for the TV that
was here before and obviously they'll still work with this TV.
We've got a single HDMI cable.
Now, I wish I'd run two.
If you are ever running HDMI cables to a TV, always run two because it's better than one.
But one of these cables goes in to, well, the under-stairs cupboard, so you can plug
things in to this TV.
It's the only way that you can really connect to it.
And then we've got an optical cable.
This will plug in to the TV and it feeds down to these KEF speakers - so you can use the
2.1 KEF set up with whatever is plugged in to the TV.
And then we've got a CAT 6 ethernet cable - this goes in to a switch that's also in
the under-stairs cupboard and that then will give this wired ethernet back wall for all
of the smart connected applications.
We've got power for the TV which we need to plug in.
We've got power for the LED strips which we need to plug in.
We've got power from the Chromecast 4K that's also on the back of this, that we need to plug in.
But it's on the wall and it hasn't fallen off yet, so touch wood, this is going to go well.
So these are both of the remotes.
We've got old here and new.
Funny little things to know: On here we have an Amazon logo, whereas on the new remote,
we have a Prime Video logo.
They've gotten rid of these sort of useless buttons at the bottom.
I've never even used these.
They've replaced them with a play, pause and a movies button.
So I've got some setting up to do as far as Netflix piping in and piping in my Prime Video membership details.
However, what I thought we could do is try some HDR 4K gaming.
Now, instantly this TV, as you guys can see, is so much brighter compared to the last one.
It's displaying the sort of fake picture frames, if you like, whilst saying "not programmed"
and just from these images alone, I can tell that this is going to be a much more pleasant
experience when trying to watch this in the middle of the day when the sun is beating
down in the garden.
Now, I would go ahead and plug a PC in to this, but seeing as this is a TV, I think
a games console is more fitting.
I've got an Xbox One X here that's capable of doing some 4K HDR gaming, so let's plug
this in here, get it fired up and have a little session on the new 65 inch.
So, Xbox One X all plugged in.
Now, as you can see, I've tried to launch Gears of War 4 and it's come up saying "Advanced Video Features."
It looks like your TV supports advanced video features.
What it's meaning here is HDR.
Different bits and bobs like that.
So we're going to go ahead and click "enable" in the settings.
So, "instant game response is launched" is what the TV came up with as a pop-up when
I changed the setting.
Now, what have I actually done here?
I've enabled 120 hertz which is essentially 120 frames a second from the Xbox on to this
TV and as you can see, it's displaying absolutely fine which is what makes this thing so good
for gaming, like, that is - think about that for a second - this is a 65 inch TV, not a
computer monitor, and we've got 120 hertz.
Now, that's not at 4K though, I have to say.
We can only get 60 hertz at 4K which is still more than adequate and I would prefer, actually,
to game in 4K, in a lounge environment, than the trade off of refresh rate.
So I'm going to flick this back to 4K now.
So, with essentially all of these absolutely awesome features ticked, I think we're ready to go.
By no means is this a full on review of this television.
I mean, I don't really know why a TV by itself would warrant its own full review.
I mean, at the end of the day, a TV is a TV.
This was more of a fun video of just installing it and putting LEDs on the back of it and
literally just installing a 65 inch gaming monster in my kitchen.
But what makes this gaming monster, that I am claiming it to be and what is plastered
all over the website?
Well it's the NanoCell tech.
The fact that this uses an IPS panel means that you've got fast response times - around
15 milliseconds compared to the almost 25 to 30 over on OLED.
And one thing that you've noticed as I'm playing this game, I'm simply not having to squint
my eyes to actually see what is going on, on the TV.
It's very, very bright.
Even with our bright filming lights on in here, it's still not a problem whatsoever.
This would have been just a no-no on the previous model.
So you guys are thinking: Alex, why do they call this the NanoCell TV?
What is actually the tech behind that?
And essentially, it's just a nano coating that goes over the IPS panel of this screen
and essentially gives you those deeper, richer blacks, the better viewing angles, the brighter
contrast (especially for a room like this).
So there you are - this is the new 2019 NanoCell TV installed in the kitchen.
Now, this is by no means a video of me bashing OLED.
I absolutely loved that OLED TV.
In fact, the blacks on it, I'm missing them already - like, I actually am.
However, this, for me, is better.
I'd rather sacrifice the blacks and have it so I can actually see the screen and at the
same time, play games at 10 bit, 4K HDR at 60 FPS.
So for now guys, my name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow, we've been installing and
we'll see you guys in the next one.
Adios.