Hey guys, this is Austin.
I'm standing here in my home theater setup.
So a few months ago you might remember
we did a video going all over how we built this,
including the massive 120-inch LG projector behind me.
With a 120-inch screen, we're pushing our ProBeam
to its absolute limit.
Now, it definitely will work, however,
as with any projector, the larger the display area
that you're projecting on the less
light you have to spread across it.
So that on top of the fact that this is going
to be only 1080 means that it's time for an upgrade.
That's where this comes in, the LG CineBeam Laser 4K,
and, of course, huge shout out to LG
for sponsoring our setup yet again.
So one of the cool things about this is
that not only is it going to give us a full 4K resolution,
but also can go all the way up to a 150-inch screen,
more than enough power to handle our 120-inch display.
One of the main criticisms you guys had
of our last setup had to do with audio.
So right now we're using the SJ9 Sound Bar.
Don't get me wrong, it actually does sound pretty good,
especially considering how small it is,
but for a full home theater setup we need
to up the game just a little bit.
What's cool about this guy is
that it's in a very unusual shape.
It's definitely not going to come cheap,
but what you're getting here is something
that's going to be pretty portable
if you wanna actually move it around.
So I'm actually curious, I was able to take a look
at this guy at CES ah, there you go.
So if you wanna walk around with it,
not only does it have the built-in handle,
but it also has a power cable built in, I think, right?
Oh, yeah, look at that.
So the power cable just winds out,
so you don't even need to worry about anything.
If you wanna take this on like a,
I don't know, what do you do?
Go outside to a pool party or something?
So what's interesting about this guy is
that it actually is going to be in a really unique shape and
that's because they actually completely reoriented it
compared to most standard laser projectors.
I say standard as if laser projectors are all
over the place, but basically what they've done
is they flipped the entire thing up on its side.
So what you're actually doing is you're going
to be shooting everything off of this mirror
so everything can be much more compact,
and you're also going to be getting something
that is going to be handheld, somewhat.
I'm a little afraid that it's going
to be too tall for this setup.
We may actually have to move everything back.
- [Ken] Oh, that's depressing.
- Okay, so, it turns out that this projector
not exactly short-throw like the other one
or not as we expected, so.
- [Wes] It don't work right.
- It won't fill the screen like we thought.
- [Austin] The room's too small.
- The room's way too small, buy a bigger house.
- [Austin] Is this really the solution?
- [Wes] I think so.
- Yeah, this is, yeah, this is pretty comfortable.
- So it is day two and we have a little bit
of a better plan than yesterday.
So as opposed to doing the entire setup at my house
instead we're going to be doing it here at the office
where, you know, we have a room
that's larger than seven-feet wide.
So unlike with a ultra short-throw projector,
the CineBeam actually needs some space
to be able to give you the full size.
So technically we could have it a couple feet away,
but then the screen size would be like this big.
To actually get a full 100, 120, or even 150 inches,
you need to have this thing several feet away.
So, with that, I think it's time
to repurpose our old set, which we actually,
if you guys remember, this is where we used
to shoot all of our videos, and get ourselves a
proper office home theater setup that's
actually functional unlike what we did yesterday.
- So we just got the projector screen up,
we lowered the screen itself,
and I think the placement looks pretty good right now.
We have this console table
that we've had from our old setup.
We're gonna use it to hold all of our components.
- Okay, so, the AC is not currently working.
It's over 90 degrees in the office and yet work continues.
- [Austin] So what are we doing as far as audio goes?
- Okay, so basically we have a 5.1 setup right now.
So we have this Yamaha receiver.
It'll take all of our speakers, our subwoofer.
We got basically all Klipsch
just to kind of match everything.
And we also have this thing that'll hook up to our PC.
So it is a desktop DAC and headphone amp.
Really, what's interesting about this is that it comes
with a Blu-ray player, which is really weird.
I've never seen something like this before.
- [Austin] The real answer here is that you
picked a bunch of stuff that you want
for your own set up, you're gonna steal as soon
as this video's over, right? - Shh.
- One of the nice things about the CineBeam is
that we do have multiple options of setting it up.
So what I think I'm going to do is put it behind me here
on this table and just shoot across the couch,
but if you want to get a little bit more of a compact setup,
instead of using it with a mirror like this
you can actually just swivel the whole thing
out of the way and using the included stand
just adjust it and kinda angle it just about the way
you wanna look at it on the display.
One of the things I'm excited for is this Corsair Lapboard.
So we actually have a full wireless mechanical keyboard
with this weird trackball mouse.
This is actually really cool though.
So the whole thing is gonna be padded on the bottom.
So it's really meant more for actual gaming
than any kind of home theater use,
but the nice thing is you do still have a full-size
keyboard so you can pretty much do whatever you want.
The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the trackball mouse
just 'cause it's weird, but I think,
especially considering that I don't wanna have to be moving
all around here, it's a little bit easier to use.
So this is just the first version of this setup.
So right now we're going to be using
the latest Intel Skull Canyon NUC to power everything.
Now, with Radeon graphics inside we're gonna have more
than enough power to, of course, handle any kind
of 4K projection that we want,
but, importantly, it also is going to be capable
of some gaming, 'cause it's not exactly going
to be a dedicated gaming setup with a full projector,
but it is possible, and this PC will run everything
we need in a nice small package.
It is finally time to test the setup.
So the projector is fully up and running.
You can see it actually looks pretty decent
even though it is very bright in the room right now.
So the only thing left to do is
to press play and hope that everything works.
So a great test is going to be watching one
of our very first 4K HDR videos right off of YouTube.
Oh, man, it's so good. (video playing in background)
So I've watched this video I don't know how many times,
but I've actually never watched it
at full 4K HDR on a projector, oh, man.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Yup. (laughing)
Dude, this is so great.
I'm so happy with this right now.
Dude, it looks so good, especially considering it's 4K.
So we've got a pretty large screen here.
It'll go up to 150 inches, but right now we've got it
at around 120 inches with this display.
But, I mean, it is so sharp even when you
get right up close to it.
And something that's really surprising
to me is how bright it is.
So, I mean, it is not dark in here at all.
We've got the windows, we've got the top light,
and yet you can still see it is super, super bright.
This is great.
So, of course, if you guys wanna check out any
of this stuff the link will be in the description,
but if you excuse me, I'm gonna go
watch some videos on our super-cool new setup.
I'm just gonna crank the volume now.