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hey everybody carl here from Abt and in this video we're going to be talking about some
new tech news that's uh that's come up recently probably the biggest story that we had from today
is uh is sony buying bungie this is right on the tail of microsoft buying activision blizzard now
microsoft paid almost 70 billion dollars for activision blizzard while sony got a relatively
good steal at 3.6 billion for bungie now i was actually thinking about purchasing that myself i
didn't want to go over 3 billion so i just kind of let sony have it so you're welcome but now the big
thing for for bungie is they if you're a gamer you know that they sort of made halo and that's a huge
franchise on xbox now at the time they were with xbox exclusively or with microsoft exclusively
then they joined up with activision blizzard later and then they separated and now they're each
working for separate companies now the big thing some people might be a little worried because
bungie was is an independent game maker and if sony takes them over now people might be thinking
you know they're they're only going to make games for ps5 which according to what's out there right
now that doesn't seem to be the case they're going to remain a cross-platform type of brand so you
can expect to have games from bungie on both the playstation xbox who knows potentially pc and even
other platforms so we'll have to see where that goes from there but uh it's it's it's big news
especially for all you gamers out there so what do you guys think is sony actually going to to stick
to their word and let them remain independent game makers or are they going to kind of force them
to only make games for the ps5 make sure you let us know in the comments section we want to hear
back from you guys next we've got uh some more sony news at least a little bit of sony news
new tvs we got a chance to to keep a good eye on ces 2022. so the big news out of ces was these qd
oled tvs if you followed ces i'm sure you saw news articles about these and it's basically
using a quantum dot layer to enhance the picture this is going to allow for brighter pictures on
an oled more colorful pictures and that was the the brightness was really kind of the achilles
heel of oled tvs that and and the potential for for image retention but getting a brighter oled
is going to open up a lot of doors and people i think are going to react very favorably to it
assuming that that technology is uh the brightness of it doesn't increase any kind of risk of
a burning image but only time will tell as far as that's concerned because we don't really have any
examples to look at here in person yet but they're going to come at a higher cost they're not going
to be quite as many models available and you still have technology like mini led qled micro led that
are going to be available so is it worth going to a qd oled tv is that picture going to be good
enough to pay that premium over what you would pay for a technology that really is already sort of
embedded in in what we already know so let us know about that too is is this something you're
going to be an early adopter on or are you going to stick with what you know kind of save the money
go with one of the other technologies that's that's already sort of established finally is
the google pixel 6a stuff has started to leak out about this and it's pretty exciting i actually i
owned a google pixel 2 years ago i loved it i switched over to an iphone because of my wife
but uh what have i done it's been fine but i missed the pixel i missed the format i missed the
that just that that experience of using that phone and they've gotten just better and
better as the as the series has gone on now the pixel 6 has had some issues it's had some bugs
regarding wi-fi intermittently dropping out and bluetooth not hooking up right
and even some even some audio issues and things so there's been little little hiccups with it and
they've been good about coming out with patches for it but each patch sort of seems to create
a new problem to solve so the pixel 6a could potentially be cutting some features out that
maybe make it a little bit better maybe maybe negates some of those flaws that were in the pixel
six we'll only we'll find out once it's available uh because it's it's not here for us to test out
yet but we'll have to see with all the issues of the pixel six are you a little nervous about the
6a are they going to be able to work those bugs out so they give you a a lower priced phone with
a good-looking camera and with enough features to make you want to get it or are you are you a
5a owner did you buy the 5a do you like the 5a and if so would you upgrade to the 6a or are you going
to wait till something better comes out or do you have an iphone like like me i would potentially
switch over to something like this because i like that interface so much but let us know that down
in the comments too we want to hear if you guys are willing to switch from an iphone to the 6a or
even willing to switch from from iphone to google finally we wanted to address some of the questions
that we get in our comments section for our other videos because sometimes we don't have a chance
to to get to all those so we wanted to sort of try and address them here so the first question is uh
the samsung q800a versus the jbl bar 9.1 which is worth it i would say they're both worth it the jbl
bar 9.1 comes with everything you need right out of the box there's no additional purchases that
need to be made you've got your surround speakers for behind and you've got the main soundbar
subwoofer the q800a is a 3.1.2 channel system right out of the box so you have your sound bar
and you have your subwoofer you don't get those surround speakers in the box you can purchase them
separately if you want to but that's an additional it's an additional order you're going to have to
make however the jbl bar 9.1 is about 400 more than the q800a so is it worth spending a little uh
a little extra to get that jbl versus the samsung and having to also add those extra
surround speakers maybe it's just for ease of use with having everything in in the one box is good
you do also have the option to if you're going to spend that extra 400 and go up to that jbl bar 9.1
you could also go to the samsung q950a which is a very similar setup where you get those
surround speakers but those surround speakers need to be plugged in all the time the jbl bar
9.1 the advantage there those surround speakers are battery operated so they don't need to plug
in if you don't want them to the other the other thing that samsung has over jbl is q symphony so
if you have a q symphony television from samsung and you hook it up to the q800a you're going to be
able to take advantage of that q symphony feature which just makes things sound a little bit fuller
now on that topic is our next question or a lot of people state my q symphony feature isn't working
and a lot of times what we've found to to be the cause of that is you're trying to connect your
soundbar to the tv with bluetooth that feature doesn't work when you're using bluetooth you have
to be plugged in with an optical cable or an hdmi cable so make sure if you're having trouble with
that and you're watching this video that might be something you want to try to sort of take care of
that problem and then finally with the with the big game coming up the football game i think you
know which one i'm talking about it's the uh what are the best settings to watch sports on on my tv
it's a very personal thing for me i like to turn the motion settings off on my tvs because i find
sports just look a little more natural that way with a little bit of the blur that you get
when the motion features are turned off and then i like to turn off the ambient light
sensors and my tv occasionally it flickers back and forth between bright and dark and it's just a
little distracting it's not the end of the world but if you're looking for the best experience
i would recommend probably turning that feature off if you don't like having that little bit of a
flicker when the lighting changes in the room not a big deal something to check out the other thing
too is maybe try putting it in the different preset modes i i generally leave mine in cinema
mode there's tvs out there that have an isf calibrated mode for lightrooms and dark rooms
any kind of cinema style mode is going to look good in my opinion other people might uh might not
share that same one but that's what i've found to look the best what what do you guys think what do
you guys turn your tvs to when you're watching sports make sure you let us know that in the
comments too so that's all we have for today thank you guys for watching we appreciate it make sure
you leave any questions or comments down in the comment section and we'll see in the next one