(clattering) (laughing)
- Last time we showed you guys a kick-proof TV
it was a purpose built one
with a kick-proof screen protector
built into the front of it.
But, unfortunately the image quality wasn't that great.
Thankfully, we are back at it again.
This time,
(grunts)
with a kick-proof screen protector
that can be installed on any 55 inch TV.
Now...
Here's the thing.
A screen protector is generally designed
to prevent incidental scuffs and scratches,
like when you've got your phone and your keys
in the same pocket at the same time
because you're some sort of monster.
But, it is also possible
for a screen protector
to have some impact resistance.
dbrand's Prism series, for example,
has excellent impact resistance
as we have tested ourselves.
Now, I'm not saying the screen protector in here
is anything like a dbrand Prism,
I'm just saying that it's not impossible
that having an impact spreading layer in the front
could help prevent the glass in the front
or the LCD panel behind it
from being cracked
if it were struck by something.
As for my confidence level in all this,
well...
To give you some idea, guys,
I went out of my way to choose the cheapest 55 inch display
in our entire studio,
because I don't think it's gonna live
to the end of this video.
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Unfortunately our resident expert Chinese translator, Andy,
is in self-isolation right now,
so we're gonna have to settle for our second-stringer.
- So this one is...
- See, this is what I'm talking about.
I want Andy back.
- LCD.
LCD shell.
Shell.
Protect your shell.
Protect your TV screen shell.
- Okay.
Does it say what it's made of or anything like that?
- No.
Just to be careful.
Put this side up.
- What does that mean?
- I have no idea.
- The sun shines outside your house.
- Maybe solar powered.
(laughs)
- I actually have very little idea what to expect.
I mean, this is definitely not something I expected.
Er...
Oh, boy.
Um.
Did we buy a two pack?
Did it say anything about two pack on the packaging?
Like that he's still alive?
I crack myself up.
I think this is two matching sets
of mounting hardware.
But it's like an elastic band.
Some plastic things here.
What are these?
I assumed this QR code
would be a link to a manual or something.
Unfortunately, it seems to be just
a link to download WeChat.
Honestly, it doesn't seem like a screen protector at all.
Just seems like a normal piece of glass.
(knocks)
This is really not what I expected at all.
Okay.
How on earth are you expected to install this?
Oh wow, it's huge.
So it's not just the size of the panel itself,
it's the size of the entire front of the TV.
Interesting.
Let's start with what we know for sure,
and then we can eliminate possibilities that way.
This has to go here.
There's just no way it goes anywhere else.
The thing I really don't understand is
why does it only attach on the one side here?
And of course, I'm short some mounting hardware.
There can't be only three of these.
There's only two options.
There has to be either two of something
to go with the straps.
Or four of something.
So there's two...
Why are there three of those?
There's only three of the clear screws in this one too.
How could you possibly have two of everything else
and three clear screws?
Unless they just know they're crappy
and they expect it to break or something?
What is even going on here?
Wait, wait.
The clear ones
must be because it's meant to go on the front of the glass.
So maybe there's three holes.
So one,
two.
A revelation from my camera operator!
You have to scan the QR code
in WeChat.
Wait, what is this?
This isn't helpful.
Okay, here we go.
So from the chat I just go to their profile,
and then moments,
and in here
there's a guide.
Oh wow, thank you.
What easy to find, most excellent
wonderful instructions these are.
I think there's just an extra washer just for lols.
Ah!
Well why didn't I think of that?
Look, ladies and gentlemen.
It's very straight forward.
You take the clear screw,
you put the plastic washer on it,
you stick it through the hole like that.
Then, you take another plastic washer,
you put it on the back of there,
and then you screw that into
the front of the bracket.
How intuitive.
And secure.
Oh my goodness, I just noticed...
It's directional.
One end of this bracket is longer than the other.
I've got to turn it around.
You know, hanging the entire weight of this glass panel
off this elastic strap
doesn't seem that great.
Actually no, now that I think of it,
a lot of the weight's
hanging off of these brackets at the top.
Held in place by a clear plastic bolt.
Okay, here it goes.
So we've got our brackets on the top.
We've got our straps on the bottom.
Okay.
So it hangs off the TV a little something like that.
All right, all right.
All right, I'm with you so far.
Come round back here.
I managed to get this right.
The long bolts are to secure the glass against the TV.
Ooh, if you have a super thin TV
it actually might not be long enough.
I don't think,
no offense,
if you're putting something like this on your TV
that you have a super thin high-end TV though.
And here it is, the coup de grace,
in the video they put it on just here,
they just hang it off the back of the bolt.
But we're gonna go one step better.
We're gonna put it on the inside there,
so it at least has a harder time slipping off.
So do you want to rage out at it?
- Yeah.
- Let's do a controller throw, shall we?
- Controller throw, okay.
- Ooh, yeah, don't get Covid.
We gotta sanitize after.
But, yeah.
Anyway, okay.
Go a little bit wider.
But wait, hold on.
I actually have very little faith
that this is gonna work.
We should both be wearing eye protection, one sec.
Here's some splooge.
Just put that on the glasses, there you go.
- Oh, okay.
I haven't left my house in two weeks,
so I don't really know all these procedures yet.
All I know is wear the mask.
- Okay.
Show me your gamer rage.
That controller means nothing to me.
It's a Nyko Bluetooth controller.
- Okay. - Yeah.
(glass shatters)
(Luke laughs)
(mumbles)
- It did save the TV.
Oh yeah, that's...
Wait.
- [Luke] No, that looks like--
- [Linus] Is that where you hit it?
- [Luke] I don't know.
- I mean, there's some nicks in the TV.
Yeah, all right.
It's a lot better than if you had thrown it
directly at the TV.
I mean, based on how much of that kinetic energy
turned into shattered glass,
I would say the controller probably survived.
- [Luke] Yeah, all the plastic is cracked, the housing.
- You're back on set for literally five minutes
and you manage to shower me in shards of glass.
(Luke laughs)
- And we destroyed a controller.
Everything makes sense.
- Thanks, Luke.
- No worries. - All right.
- Air bump.
Oh, nice. - See ya.
Is this glass still settling?
Can you hear the little sounds it's making?
Sorry, I don't have much experience with tempered glass.
Maybe that's perfectly normal.
But the larger pieces are still just cracking.
I haven't reviewed the clip yet,
but based on what I can observe
about how there's actually multiple
significant scratches in the display,
I think that where the controller struck it
actually doesn't have much to do with
where the shards of glass exploded outwards
and put scratches in the screen.
So it seems to me
that the damage was probably more from
the screen protector exploding
than actually from the direct impact
of the controller.
Although one certainly caused the other.
Recommended?
I'ma give it a big no on this one.
Bad mounting mechanism,
bad instructions,
and in the event that something actually goes wrong,
it sort of goes from bad to worse.
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Thanks for watching, guys.
If you enjoyed this video,
maybe check out the real deal.
The kick-proof TV that had a built-in
non-glass
screen protector.
Yeah.
That is just...
Regular old glass.