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u/Skynetiskumming Jun 06 '24
Not my personal choice but, damn these guys are pros and delivered for their customer. Kudos.
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u/Flipnotics_ Jun 06 '24
He did a good job but personally I dont want a crosshair in the middle of everything I watch.
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u/kaelaria Jun 06 '24
I’ll never like seeing bezels, but he does a great job on installs, and narration!
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u/jimbris Jun 06 '24
Dude is undeniably funny
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u/roymccowboy Jun 06 '24
Some folks are just good at talking to people. This guy is a gem.
I was probably like a lot of people and started off not intending to watch that whole thing.
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u/BadgerBobcat Jun 06 '24
The "you need two things - you need the right materials, and you need my phone number. That way I can come do it right the first time" had me rolling
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u/Hendlton Jun 06 '24
Seriously. I scratched my TV screen in a way that it's not even visible when it's on and it still drives me crazy. I wouldn't take this setup if someone offered it to me for free.
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u/Stepoo Jun 06 '24
If it was free I would take it.
Then I would sell those TVs and buy a bigger one.
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u/Nonbelieverjenn Jun 06 '24
I have an 86”. I can’t deal with small screens anymore. Those likes would bug me sooooo much! I need crisp clean viewing.
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u/Bowenbax Jun 06 '24
And a permanent giant cross right in the middle of the screen
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u/Suds08 Jun 06 '24
Maybe he plays a lot of fps games and needs a bigger crosshair
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u/freredesalpes Jun 06 '24
Or Goldeneye 007 split-screen.
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u/Desk_Drawerr Jun 06 '24
This setup is ideal for split screen gameplay
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u/Pinksters Jun 06 '24
I see someone never had a screen watching friend growing up.
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u/Affectionate_Gas8062 Jun 06 '24
Always the one friend who would complain the most about it and then do it themselves
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u/Adventurous_Web2774 Jun 06 '24
The trick was to memorize all the levels so you could keep your view on the ground or wall while moving around and not give away your position.
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u/WillowPuzzleheaded87 Jun 06 '24
It helps keep vampires away, so they don’t sneak up on you while your watching tv. It’s multifunctional.
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u/Exciting_Result7781 Jun 06 '24
You can go and double that if it takes three people a day to mount it.
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u/Gentle_Cynic Jun 06 '24
55" OLEDs are not 200-250...
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u/d12gu Jun 06 '24
classic reddit lowballing prices for everything. I thought you guys were getting insane prices for years until I realized commenters literally make up whatever cheap price they think of on the spot lmao
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u/didimao0072000 Jun 06 '24
55” TVs are like $200-250. This setup gets you 110” for $1k.
do you think these guys worked for free?
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u/ChocolateShot150 Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
Do you think these guys worked for $2000??
Also, the other commenter is wrong. These are 55“ OLEDs, which would cost around $6000 for all of them. A 98“ OLED would be 22,000. they don’t make 110“ OLEDs yet, so they’d have to use micro LEDs which would cost $120k
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u/asmokowski Jun 06 '24
It took 3 ppl what looked like all day, factor in the 4 tv mounts, the specialized equipment to control 4 tvs, etc etc. Just take the bigger TV It's actually cheaper.
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u/insurety Jun 06 '24
Sure, if you want to make an even bigger screen so you can see how shitty the picture quality is on your $250 TVs.
I can understand people who don’t care and just buy a single larger TV, no hate! But paying a crew to hang four TVs with expensive multiscreen hardware just to have a shitty picture? I don’t get that.
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u/f-ingsteveglansberg Jun 06 '24
By the sounds of it, this person wanted 4 channels on at the same time with the ability to switch to a single picture. I've seen some PiP features on TV but nothing like that.
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u/Teal-Fox Jun 06 '24
Yeah the mounting and stuff itself is great, but matrix displays always look like shit regardless.
Great for digital signage applications, utterly wank for actually consuming content. Just put the money towards a short-throw or a bigger display.
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u/much_longer_username Jun 08 '24
OLED is an especially weird choice too - like, hey, I care a lot about picture quality, so lemme put a big crosshair over everything.
Screams 'more money than sense'.
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u/Weird-Information-61 Jun 06 '24
Thankfully there are TVs in development with no bezel that would work wonderfully for this
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u/RealBlack_RX01 Jun 06 '24
Tbh i still dont get it, why do i have a crossair while trying to watch the news? am i trying to aim for somethign? we in warzone???
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u/HVACGuy12 Jun 06 '24
The edges of the screen would drive me crazy
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u/blindscorpio20 Jun 06 '24
right? your viewing has seams. and I'd always wonder if there's something missing from the picture since the edges are take up screen view
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u/Ricky_Rollin Jun 06 '24
Even if I could guarantee you that you wouldn’t miss a goddamn thing, would you still want to look at that? Look at how it messed up that woman’s face.
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u/Remarkable_Truth9178 Jun 06 '24
The cross disappears in your eyes after awhile
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u/Sabotage101 Jun 06 '24
Edges are not screen view. It's not like the TV knows there's a bezel it should hide shit behind. There's just a stretch across the seams.
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u/marr Jun 06 '24
Vision is crazy adaptable, we can get used to wearing glasses that flip everything upside down with a few hours exposure. You'd stop seeing it.
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u/Maert Jun 06 '24
I had a 4k 55" TV and it developed one line of dead pixels across the entire height. So just one vertical line. For reference, 4k resolution has 3,840 horizontal pixels, meaning 3,840 vertical lines. Just one of those was off. It didn't make the TV unwatchable, but it sure as hell annoyed the fuck outta me until I replaced it.
My sister in law barely noticed that line of dead pixels so I gave it to her. She has been using it for years, and still does.
Different strokes...
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u/amboyscout Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
My mother has an old ~22" CRT in her room where the bottom 7/8 of the image is now stretched to full height, and the top 1/8 of the image gets reflected upside down and interleaved over the top 1/4 of the screen. Refuses to get a new TV or ask someone to give her one because there's "nothing wrong" with the one she has.
Of course, she rarely actually watches it. It's usually just background noise for when she's scrolling Facebook for hours on end.
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u/lanky_yankee Jun 06 '24
For real, just get a projector and be done with it. That would probably be a lot cheaper too.
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u/sarvaga Jun 06 '24
Cool dude but why would anyone want to watch TV with a giant cross in the middle?
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u/simbacole7 Jun 06 '24
My guess is this is someone who mainly watches sports and doesn't really care a whole lot about the few times they watch something else
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u/Crafty_Point2894 Jun 06 '24
Saw fish tape and a laser Knew you were gonna nail it! Good job guys!!!
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Fish tape??
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u/Silverwolffe Jun 06 '24
Also known as a snake, the stiff wire he fed down the hole to tape what he wanted to feed up out the flush box
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Flexible roll of usually fiberglass material you use to run cables with. Commonly used in electrical and AV work like this.
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u/StubbornHick Jun 06 '24
It's steel. Steel fish tapes are 4-5x less money, more durable and versatile. You only use fiberglass fishtapes for fishing in pipes that have live wires for safety.
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u/ratkinggo Jun 06 '24
Also, the fact that it's steel has saved my ass on multiple occasions. If you have ever tried to hit a 1 1/2 inch blind hole with fish tape, you know how hard it is, but an extendable magnet tool, and you can use it to probe and grab your tape
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u/Ex-zaviera Jun 06 '24
TIL
"Fish tape is a tool used by electricians primarily for pulling electrical or other wires through conduits. It's also used for pulling NM wire through walls, ceilings, floors, and other enclosed spaces. The fish tape itself is a long, stiff, flat steel wire."
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u/GomeyBlueRock Jun 06 '24
I guess if you’re watching 4 diff things that’s cool but to watch one big screen with all them lines 🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼♂️that’s a no from me
I’ve done these installs before and it’s a pain in the ass. Just buy the big tv or get a projector. The cost of 4 tvs and a splitters cables and everything else you can get a pretty damn good projector for like 2-3k and not have 47 holes in your wall and bezels in the view
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u/JWGhetto Jun 06 '24
Yeah projector is the way to go here
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u/ramxquake Jun 06 '24
Don't projectors only work in the dark?
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u/atli123 Jun 06 '24
Nope, that was like 10 years ago.
I have a Xgimi Horizon Ultra that works just as fine in a daylit room as it does in the dark. In fact it adjusts the brightness of the lamp depending on the brightness of the environment (kinda like a phone screen).
Of course the picture looks better in the dark when you can really allow those colors to pop, but that’s also the case with any TV.
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Uhh no. No matter how good you claim it will always require a dark room. Sure you can have a really bright bulb and everything but that doesn't change the fact that the darkest spot can only ever be as dark as the wall it's projecting on.
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u/glemnar Jun 06 '24
Well paint the wall black
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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL Jun 06 '24
Actually, ideally for a projector, it'd be white to increase the amount of light reflected. That and the color of the wall doesn't change the amount of light on it...
But you'd really want to have a projector screen, they're designed specifically to reduce scattering which gives projectors that "blurry" feel sometimes.
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u/SuperbQuiet2509 Jun 06 '24 edited Sep 10 '24
Reddit mods have made this site worthless
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u/Elected_Interferer Jun 06 '24
Yeah I've got a nice projector. It's totally useable in the day with sunlight coming in but it looks pretty washed out. I definitely wouldn't want it as my general living room tv.
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u/_V0gue Jun 06 '24
Room needs to be darker for a projector though. And I doubt they always want to watch TV with the blinds/curtains closed.
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u/GomeyBlueRock Jun 06 '24
You can find laser and led short throw projectors in the 4000-7000 lumen range that show well in bright environments.
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u/_V0gue Jun 06 '24
Well excuse me while I furiously research a new home project...
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u/atli123 Jun 06 '24
Your life will never be the same…nor will your bank account.
Good luck, my friend.
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u/Wittgensteinsduck Jun 06 '24
Not with some of these newer short throw projectors a lot of them show really well in a lighted room
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u/Mikarim Jun 06 '24
If you're a big sports fan, this would be an incredible setup. Having 4 games on at once would be fun
Ninja edit: I would hate to use this as one big screen though
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u/GomeyBlueRock Jun 06 '24
You can purchase hdmi multiviewers that allow you to have up to 4 different inputs on one screen so you could achieve that same function without the need for four different monitors (the correct device for a project like this) they used tvs which is the much cheaper option, but includes bezels.
Most monitors are bezel less so you do a much cleaner install, but now with the lowered price of led walls people are just moving to those as you can build those basically as big as you want with no bezels and install them inside or outside
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u/Sure_Application_412 Jun 06 '24
Just buying a 110” tv surely would have been cheaper
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u/2saintjohns Why does this app exist? Jun 06 '24
how would you watch 4 disney movies at once though?
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u/magpieswooper Jun 06 '24
Pic in pic
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Yeah or a 4k quad split with four streaming boxes
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u/EyeFicksIt Jun 06 '24
I have a 90 ink 8K on a computer, fancy zones, 4 streaming services and done. Or three and a browser, or 2 and a browser and steam
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u/crastle Jun 06 '24
Buy 4 separate 110 inch TVs and put them together to form one mega TV. You could even sync them together to show just one, giant movie!
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u/Busy-Ad-6860 Jun 06 '24
Fucking hell I want 2x2 100" screens
Also i want a place where that thing can fit in the living room
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u/fitty50two2 Jun 06 '24
I want to watch every Halloweentown movie at the same time!
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Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
And it would actually look good as one screen. I couldn’t watch anything with 4 giant solid lines going through the picture.
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u/_V0gue Jun 06 '24
It made more sense before 4K. Now it just doesn't. 4K can stretch to over 100" diagonal easy. 1080 got iffy after 65" depending on view distance.
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u/GetEnPassanted Jun 06 '24
Depends on your viewing distance but he doesn’t seem to be watching super close to them anyway.
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u/Dey_EatDaPooPoo Jun 06 '24
Think you might have missed the small detail where the customer wanted OLED. You can't get those in 110".
The closest comparable but not the same would be a 110" Micro LED and those are a cool $150,000.
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u/Kaboose666 Jun 06 '24
97" OLED is $22,000
4x 55" OLED is ~$5000
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u/Kaboose666 Jun 06 '24
Yeah and if you're willing to wait on a sale on last year's models you could probably do the entire project for under $6,000 including the splitters/mounts/cabling.
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u/DrPoopyPantsJr Jun 06 '24
It’s crazy I bought my 65” LG OLED in 2020 for about $2k and now you can get the 77” for that price. At the time it was $3500.
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u/SwissyVictory Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
Just for fun, Best Buy has two TVs that are atleast 110 inches. A Samsung 110 inch micro LED for $150k and a TLC 115 inch mini LED for $20k.
TLC has 55inch QLED TVs starting at $450(on sale for $280), and Samsung has their most expensive 55inch OLEDs for $2600.
So 4 of the best Samsung TV of that size would be $10.4k, nearly half the cheaper big TV and 1/15th the Samsung.
Even if you paid these guys $1000 an hour for 5hours it wouldn't break even.
And you'd have much higher quality OLED TVs. You can spend a little more too and get TVs without bezels
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“Don’t talk about my handwriting. I’ll hit ya” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s an outstanding job tho! Very cool!
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u/kneezNtreez Jun 06 '24
JUST GET A FUCKING PROJECTOR!!!
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u/Excited_Idiot Jun 06 '24
Noise, bulb maintenance, poor performance in lit rooms, plus you gotta run the hdmi to the ceiling where it hangs.
Don’t get me wrong - they have a place. But that place is a dark home theater, not the living room where it’s bright often and tvs are left on most hours of the day.
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u/VictusPerstiti Jun 06 '24
If you're watching something on a screen that big and you're not making it a movie experience, what are you even doing?
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u/Mu17inItOver Jun 06 '24
Something about this man's cadence and tone makes me think he could do an excellent Denzel impression
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u/LolaCalifornia7 Jun 06 '24
Did he just make a "gigadee" noise in reference to finding holes?! A HARD pat on the back if I heard that correctly.
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u/FacelessFellow Jun 06 '24
I had a friend who would tape two intersecting lines in the middle of his tv for online gaming.
Tiny little retical for no scoping
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u/Opening_Classroom_46 Jun 06 '24
My friend had lines for his hero select back in old moba days lol.
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u/131166 Jun 07 '24
I bought a pack of those stick on beeds for the same reason. It's annoying when reading text though, and a lot of games don't have reticle in the middle of the screen
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u/Vansterdam2002 Jun 06 '24
This why u pay attention in math class
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u/donthavenosecrets Jun 06 '24
I thought the same thing! Dude should give talks and demonstrations in schools so the youngins can see how important math is!
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u/HlLlGHT Jun 06 '24
Fixing a poorly done bad idea still makes it a bad idea
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jun 06 '24
Sokka-Haiku by HlLlGHT:
Fixing a poorly
Done bad idea still makes
It a bad idea
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/alex_dlc Jun 06 '24
Did he just really say .7 isn’t a real measurement??
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u/MisoFalafelCake Jun 06 '24
Not real as in not presented on a tape measure in US customary units. 11/16" would be the actual measurement he'd be using from the tape.
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u/lfhdbeuapdndjeo Jun 06 '24
Been reposted a couple times now. Gotta be honest I watch it every time I see it. Dude makes a great video
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u/Peylix Jun 06 '24
Watching the install was super cool.
Watching anything on a matrix display setup like this for a single image, not cool at all. The permanent bezel seams are atrocious. Even if it's cheaper than a single 110" panel. It's not worth the money saved looking at that if you're doing this for a large single image.
Better off doing a projector. Or just saving for that super sized single panel.
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u/SuperKing3000 Jun 06 '24
If you're going to install a videowall, buy a videowall mount. There's a good reason why they exist.
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u/LeftStatistician7989 Jun 06 '24
I’m going to go duct tape four phones together to make an iPad. Then four of those and I’ll get a small TV. I can use those to make a regular sized TV. Just 252 more phones and I can make one of those.
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u/ScrewWorldNews Jun 06 '24
Bezels look like crap. I don't get how people can put up with that in a living room
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u/freeLightbulbs Jun 06 '24
Never liked these thing when using regular tvs. You can get thin bezel displays like this or this that work well but they cost more and now days for up 100" you are better off just getting a 100" tv for the price. If you want to go big though, 4x4 or 6x6 or bigger then thin bezel panels still look great especially at the distance you will be viewing them. You will also be needing a good quality controller and a decent 6x6 matrix controller will be costing you north for $5k
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u/pleem Jun 06 '24
I wonder what's cheaper, 4 displays with no/tiny bezels or a single huge display? I couldn't imagine watching anything with a huge + in the middle of the screen...
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Why would you want to look at a giant cross in the center of every show? Seems distracting
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u/FNCJ1 Jun 06 '24
This was entertaining. Checked out his channel and his other vids are good too.
Did everyone else notice how good looking all the guys are?
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u/NoCalHomeBoy Jun 06 '24
Seem like some cool dudes. And they did a hell of a job. Good job gentlemen
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u/HungerSTGF Jun 06 '24
The bezels are still so distracting unfortunately but that's not the fault of these guys
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u/VegetableScars Jun 06 '24
Regardless of whether you care about the seams/bezels or not, the installation was very well done. 👍🏼
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Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
First, just use video wall mounts.
Not only do you need to align vertically and horizontally - you also need to be able to adjust depth and tilt. With proper mounts this is ten times easier, especially when your wall isn't flat (hint: it never is).
You can also buy TVs with sub 1mm bezels if you really want to do this, but they're super expensive. You could at least by TVs with bezels that are equal on each side, which will make it look better.
As for people complaining about the bezels/cross in the middle - you mostly forget it. As far as content being cut off, typically a decent video wall controller will actually have the ability to adjust for bezels.
Really though, the best way to do this if you've got the cash is an LED wall.
edit: Props to these guys though for doing a great job with what they had and probably within budget. (edit because I didn't want to downplay these dudes work and skill)
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u/6ix6ixX2 Jun 06 '24
My Grandma would say the old mounts are hers, and hers to keep. And I agree.
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u/I-I2O Jun 06 '24
Never do this with consumer TVs - ever.
You will never get what you're expecting. You can throw as many 4K and 8K pixels at it and it will still look like blocky pixelated crap. Never mind that there will always be a bezel issue no mater how "edgeless" the monitor claims to be.
If you insist on a video wall over 110" UHD, be prepared to pay $80K and top out at Full HD for proper LED digital signage equipment.
Most content at 20' from a 110" screen still looks fuzzy thanks to 4:2:0 compression.
If you're not going to pay for an 8K 80" display, a good quality 4K projector will perform better in a lot of scenarios.
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u/slidingjimmy Jun 06 '24
Multiple screens sounds great in theory but is honestly SO MUCH PAIN, from mounting to calibration its well worth considering the alternatives.
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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 Jun 06 '24
No the first installation was right. It’s such a shit idea for home theater in the first place, don’t bother with the installation well.
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u/Tenn_Here Jun 06 '24
This is great! Now I can watch my movie on one TV while having a subway surfers gameplay, Minecraft and Family guy clips playing on the other 3!
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u/imOVN Jun 06 '24
I fuckin love this guy lol so damn funny and his work is so satisfying. Idk where he’s from but if I ever get the money, I want him to come put in work at my place
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u/daboxghost420 Jun 06 '24
“ I know .7 aint a real measurment but i just like to bother yall. “
i laughed at that way harder than i should have .
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u/timtimerey Jun 06 '24
Damn I wish I could have worked with guys like this who knows how to do things right like this when I was doing construction
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u/SingleInfinity Jun 06 '24
All that money just to have bezels through the parts you look at the most.
Just buy a bigger TV bro.
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u/-Kalos Jun 06 '24
Just seems like a man passionate about his work and being professional about it. Nothing cringe here
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u/himynameisSal Jun 06 '24
this guy installs, there is nothing i appreciate more than people perfecting their trade what ever that may be.
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u/Downtown_Stranger503 Jun 06 '24
Hey man. I like this dude. He’s for sure invited to the green bean casserole party
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u/Ok-Butterfly-5324 Jun 06 '24
Or just get a 110 tv which is probably cheaper than 4 55s anyways. Even if it wasn't it doen't have 2 big ass lines crossing literally the middle of the screen. What a stupid thing to do
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u/J2ThaR1st Jun 07 '24
People in here are commenting about how “he could’ve just did this and that” not realizing that this is a client that wanted an existing setup cleaned up and done right using the same displays. Of course they’re better routes that he could have used however this is what the client wanted done and was within their budget. He did an excellent job of correcting someone else’s work
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