- This is my living room
and it's basically a tech nerd's dream.
Giant OLED TV, Valve Index VR gaming setup
with full body tracking, high performance gaming PC,
game consoles...
- Six consoles!
- Enough controllers to choke a horse,
but it's missing one key thing: looks.
So, today, with the help of LG, who sponsored this video
and sent over their GX Gallery 77 inch OLED TV,
we're gonna be giving my living room something
that it hasn't had in 10 years, a clean, new look.
Starting with those couches.
(funky upbeat music)
I cannot believe how much of a difference it makes
going from dark to light flooring,
and now that it's in, we can move on to the important stuff.
This is the new GX Gallery design LG OLED
in the 77 inch size,
and it's gonna take up pretty much
this whole recessed area here.
It's completely flush mount with no external processing box,
so it's actually gonna sit really nicely in this enclosure
and we're not gonna have the big bulky speakers
and everything kind of overflowing,
and looking weird anymore.
Many of the benefits of the GX
are ones that I already enjoyed with my last generation C9.
It uses OLED technology,
which means that every pixel is self-illuminating,
so you've got perfect black levels,
vibrant colors, all that good stuff.
It's 4K so, obviously, the picture is super sharp,
even though this is a gigantic 77 inch display.
It features HDMI 2.1, which means high refresh rate gaming.
Not to mention with G-SYNC compatibility
at up to 4K resolution and eARK,
which means higher resolution, higher quality audio
to something like an external soundbar,
and, of course, the design is super thin and modern.
Actually, more so one this one,
I'm used to to seeing these TVs
have either a bulge down at the bottom
or an external soundbar unit that contains the processing,
like we saw on their first generation SIGNATURE series.
But this one is just uniformly pretty thin,
and one of the reasons they took this approach
is there are actually four different ways to mount the GX.
The way we're going with today
is using the included wall mount
and running cable through the wall with a conduit.
But, if you're not feeling confident
in cutting holes in your wall,
you can use a raceway cable concealer to hide the cables.
If you do wanna get the true flush mount with no gaps,
you'll need to use a recessed box that goes into the wall,
but that one will require professional installation.
The last two ways to install
are using a standard VESA 300 by 300 wall mount,
just make sure it's rated to handle the TV's weight,
and, finally, if you're not able
to mount the GX to the wall,
you can buy their display stand
and have it sit where you want it.
Though, I can't say I see the point of going with the GX
if you're gonna do it that way.
Even LG's magic remote, with it's air mouse controls,
handy shortcut keys, and multi-device control capabilities
is mostly carried over from last time.
So, what it really comes down to
is the new Alpha 9 Gen 3 processor.
The processor power is everything,
from the "hey, LG" voice control
to the snappiness of the interface,
but the biggest one is improvements
to its ability to AI upscale lower resolution content
to the native 4K resolution of this panel,
and intelligently select which sound profile
it should be in, depending on the type of content.
For example, amplifying voices
when there's a bunch of background noise
in whatever it is that you're viewing.
(plastic crinkling)
I guess it would have been a lot smarter
to peel it after it's already on the wall.
(plastic crinkles)
(sighs)
Hey, so, which wall mount was I supposed to use for this?
I don't see one that comes with it, there's no...
Come to think of it, I don't see any accessories.
I don't even see the...
Oh, dang it, I've done this before, yup, there it is.
It has some other features,
like virtual support for Dolby Atmos,
sports alert, which will give you updates on up to 20 teams,
even while you're watching other content,
and improved motions moving,
but since I'm gonna be using a higher-end soundbar
than the integrated speakers and I don't watch sports,
those ones aren't nearly
as big a deal to me as Dolby Vision IQ,
which automatically adjust picture settings
depending on ambient light and content,
and, this is a really big one for me,
filmmaker mode, which is a mode you can put the TV in
where it will just strip out
any image quality altering filters, or anything like that,
and just display the content as color accurately
and as true to the original filmmakers vision as possible.
- I'm just putting the sides
on the entertainment unit right now.
What do you think of the color, Andy?
- [Andy] It looks good.
- Yeah? Okay, cool.
I was a little worried when I first saw it.
Be gentle, that's not gentle.
- I'm gentle. (Yvonne sighs)
- Let's eyeball it,
come down a little bit. - You need to center it.
- Yeah, okay, that's fine, but come down a little bit.
- You're higher than me.
- No, I am not higher than you.
- Andy, who's higher? - Andy?
- [Andy] Yvonne is higher.
- Really? - Yeah!
- [Andy] Yeah. - Okay,
how about now? - [Andy] That's good.
Yeah, that's good. - Fine.
- [Andy] I think.
- I was actually really worried if all of your stuff
was gonna fit in here, like your receiver.
- We're not using the receiver anymore.
- Oh, thank goodness, that worked out (laughs)
- Well, that's where this comes in.
Now, the next thing we need to figure out,
TV height, is the soundbar.
I know a lot of people
are gonna give me a hard time about this,
but when you're deciding between discreet speakers
for every channel and a soundbar,
there's more to it than just necessarily
the audio quality and the directionality,
and I've actually been pretty impressed
with the last couple of high end soundbars that I've tried,
so I have pretty high hopes for the SN11RG from LG here.
It's a 7.1.4 setup but, because of the setup of my room,
like I don't really have anywhere to put rear speakers
by the time I'm sitting a comfortable distance
from a TV that large.
So, funny story then, I'm not even actually planning
to use the included wireless surround speakers
that come with this thing.
Just the soundbar itself and the subwoofer.
I wanna at least give it a shot,
because, compared to the old setup,
I'm expecting much better directionality,
because this is a Dolby Atmos soundbar
with AI room measuring technology,
so it should, theoretically,
by bouncing sound off the ceiling and off the walls,
should sound a lot more directional.
I find it very hard to believe
that this tiny little bracket holds up that gigantic TV.
- [Yvonne] Those are pretty hefty anchors though.
- That's a bummer, my stud is right there and right there,
so if we were willing to have it not quite centered
in this alcove, hey!
- [Yvonne] Yeah?
- Are we will to have it not quite centered in the alcove?
- [Yvonne] How close is it?
- Not that close, it'd be like, this far off.
- [Yvonne] That'd be weird.
- Yeah, I don't even know if it would fit.
What I can do, is I can create a mounting plate, by-
- [Yvonne] But then it's not gonna be
flush against the wall.
- No, it won't be quite flush, but the TVs so flat.
- Stud. - Hang on,
let me make sure it works. (Yvonne sighs)
It's not working.
(drilling whirring)
There, huh, I could hang off that!
- [Yvonne] Please don't. (Linus groans)
You're gonna break my entertainment unit (laughs).
- Well, would you not be entertained?
- Ready? (paper rips)
- Ugh, wait, what, what, what! No, I didn't-
- I just asked you, but you put your head through,
so I assumed you meant yes. - I was just messing around!
(Yvonne laughs) What if we ever took it down
and what if we move and we wanted to mount the TV again?
- You are not keeping this piece of paper until we move
and need to mount the TV again.
- Yes, I am, it's just paper. - No, you're not,
it's garbage! (paper crumpling)
- Stop, no, no, for real, no really.
Okay, can I have a Philips head bit?
- Yeah, that one I know. - The cross.
- [Yvonne] I know that one!
- It's fine, I can just hold this thing here forever.
(drilling whirring)
Okay, that is a solid mount, I wanna put a hole in the wall
to run the cables down the wall,
so we've got a completely clean mount.
- Shouldn't we just- - But I-
- Do that now? - Wanna see it.
- [Narrator] A few moments later.
- Okay, it's in. (Linus sighs)
So, you wanna do that again, eh?
- (laughs) Hey, that was pretty smooth,
now that we got technique down.
Doesn't look level. - It's crooked,
how did that happen?
Do we need the instructions, where are the instructions?
- We don't need instructions.
- [Yvonne] Our wall's just not even.
- Ah, well, now we know.
- It's a little high.
- We can lower it, aren't you glad we're doing this test?
- Okay, we're gonna cut the hole this time,
we're not doing this a third time.
- Yeah, 100%. - Okay.
- Okay. - So, how many inches
do we need to come down, two?
- Let's try not to sever an optical cable
while we're doing this.
Just to be clear, neither I nor LG,
recommends running cables without the proper recessed box.
If you wanna run the cables in the wall,
it's really better to just have a professional come in
and do it for you.
This is a tough decision, one of the ideas that I had,
to make this as clean as possible,
was to move my VR gaming rig upstairs.
Kind of like what I experimented with
in whole house, one PC.
So we've got a bunch more display port couplers,
so we could have both of these
optical display port cables running through the wall,
and to just a little wall plate.
You plug the VR headset into the wall plate.
I don't have a ton of confidence that a display port
over that distance is gonna behave nicely,
and there are advantages to having the PC right there
if you wanna just plug something in or whatever.
If we want all the cables pre-plugged into the TV
before we mount it, that means I'm gonna have to
salvage some cables from the old setup.
To save some time later,
I'm actually plugging in every cable I'm gonna need now,
and then all I need to do is label them on the other end.
So this is HDMI connection number one,
and it'll be easy to make sure everything's plugged in
to the right port on the TV without pulling it out
and trying to look under it like that.
- Okay, that's good.
Down, nope, oh, yep, in, in.
- That's it? - Yep, you're good.
- Oh, that was so much easier a second time around.
There's a lot of cable here, ladies and gentlemen.
All right, this is perfect, I can start to mount things
to the back of the console and cable manage,
I've made the difficult decision
to leave the optical cables in the wall,
but, actually, still have everything here for now.
In the future, I might explore adding an optical HDMI,
and maybe having a receiver upstairs,
and the computer upstairs, and stuff like that,
but for now I just wanna get everything cleaned up
and then I can experiment with the down the line.
We're going straight to just hot glue.
You can at least improve your chances of it sticking
by scuffing up the back a little bit,
before you put it on.
(sword clattering)
- Oops, ugh, well, at least it was sheathed, right?
- I want the VR headset to be tucked in here
when it's not in use, okay.
All right, it's a little...
We need to go here, ugh!
Totally painless, love it!
I love it when startup wizards work.
- No, it goes inside or on the shelf.
(drawer slams)
(remote clatters)
(laughs) I didn't mean to do that.
I'm moving our ugly cat tree back in place.
Linus won't get rid of it.
- [Linus] I won't what? - Get rid of it.
- [Linus] The cat loves it. - Is she, oh (laughs).
She did not care at all that I moved that.
- She would care if you got rid of it.
Between my remotes and trackers,
I've got a lot of VR junk to charge,
so this little 10-port charger doodad
is gonna sit down here with the VR stuff.
Just kind of...
(chuckles) It's not particularly tidy looking,
but at least it's hidden away.
Ow, my arm is stuck, I hate cable management.
It is absolutely crazy how much less cabling
and how much less stuff there is,
now that we don't have the receiver,
and I still have five total HDMI inputs, it's not bad.
I still don't know how it sounds though.
Before we can test it, I wanna do
their AI room calibration thing.
For best results, run it in a quiet state, okay.
(bird calling)
(electricity whomping)
(stream bubbling) (bird calling)
Okay, well now that's set up.
Can I put the sword back up?
- [Yvonne] No, the mantle was just painted
and, also, I don't know if we're putting the sword back.
- Finalization time, the actual AV setup is done.
That looks so slick, like, honestly.
- I put the two chairs in,
I think it actually looks better with just one chair,
but it comes in sets and I'm just gonna clean up,
vacuum, put knickknacks up, I think we're almost there.
- I hate these chairs, aw,
these aren't even comfortable, they're horrible.
Here's the debate, Yvonne says my Laz-e-boy is ugly,
I say her stupid blue chair is uncomfortable.
Let's let the viewers decide, okay?
Ugly gray Laz-e-boy or that thing?
(loudly groaning) Oh yeah, put up the feet, oh yeah.
- But mine, which are gonna match the wall,
and they're gonna match the accent pillows
that are gonna go there, it's gonna look really nice.
- This is the kind of seating you have
when you want your guests to leave.
You can't sit on a couch when it has junk all over it.
- Well, it's pretty, and yes you can, you just adjust them.
- That, see, that's what I'm talking about.
Just, (grumbles) adjust it.
- Well, once you adjust it once you're good, see?
- Here's an adjustment.
- No, that's...
- Here, your pillows can go over there.
- What are you doing, you're mean.
- I call it honest.
Before I fire up a game, I wanna flip on HDR.
Hey, you.
(girl sniffles)
- Are you sad? - Yeah.
- Would you like a pillow to hug?
- Yeah, please. - Yeah,
does that make you feel better?
- (mumbles) Yeah.
- Yeah? - What, oh, the pillow, ugh.
What do you think of the new setup there?
- Cool.
- Ah, I'm trying to find my friend
right now in the game, okay.
- [Linus's Daughter] Which friend?
- His name is Jonah and we were exploring together.
I'm gonna fire up one of
my favorite looking movies on Blu-ray,
so this is "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World."
- Oh hey, it's really nice to finally...
(Hiccup screaming)
- It took a full day to get everything plunked into place,
and there's still some finishing touches,
like these transition strips are mostly missing
and this ones not even attached,
and you probably noticed some choppiness
in the frame rate when I was playing "Tomb Raider."
That's 'cause this is, probably,
at about 45, 50 degrees in here, it's really, really hot,
I gotta add ventilation, but it's mostly set up.
I'm surprised at how good the soundbar sounds,
and I'm not surprised, but the TV looks freaking awesome.
It's the same OLED technology
that I've loved for the last...
Wow, I mean, my daily driver's been OLED
at home for years now, but in a new form factor
that gives you absolutely zero distractions whatsoever,
especially when you take the time
to put it in a setup like this one.
(sweeping music)
- [Linus's Daughter] That's too loud.
- Oh, sorry, too loud.
So, thanks again to LG for sponsoring this video,
and thanks to you guys for watching it,
if you enjoyed this video, maybe check out the video
where I upgraded my old cabinet with cooling.
It's a pretty simple mod but definitely one
that's worthwhile if you have hot components
that are in an enclosed space.