- Inside this crate (drill whirring) is the Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition, a 10-year anniversary product from Xiaomi, that is only available in China, and that they are not ceding to the media, presumably because it's really stupid. I mean, who out there was thinking, "Gee, if only my TV was transparent so I could see all the things behind it, instead of the content on the screen." It's priced at a whopping $7,200, and I bought it, so that I can share with
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for the mobile data you use. (upbeat music) I gotta say, I'm really
excited about this thing. There was shockingly little information available about it online, at least on English websites anyway. So, full disclosure here, guys. I don't even know what resolution it is. $7,000, 55-inch TV here, folks. Hey, Mathias, can I borrow you for a minute? I gotta get the crate off
this big waste of money. (Linus hoots) Hey, Andy, you around? Andy, you are my Chinese translator. Help me, please. Like always believe the good
thing will about to happen. - Yeah, I mean, if I just if I knew someone just
blew seven grand U.S. on something this stupid, I'd think they need a pep talk, too. I think I've identified
a small problem, Andy. - Which way's the front? - Yeah, exactly. - [Brandon] The IO is... - Is there IO. Oh, hey, there you go. Thanks, Brandon. I couldn't see that from here. - Hi. - Hello. It's the world's most fun COVID barrier. Transparent TV. Please don't break. Oh, this is a lot of pressure. - [David] Do you want me to hold it? - No, I'm good. I got this. Oh, so much static. (plastic crinkling) Ah, it shocked me! Jerk! Oh, should be careful with it, sorry. Ow (laughs)! This thing is so trippy. Now, this isn't even the first time I've seen a transparent OLED TV. That was back in Korea when I
was allowed to travel still, when I went to LG's headquarters. And while I suspect that
this is an LG panel, because who the hell else is making transparent OLED displays? If I recall correctly, though it has been a while, this seems quite a bit more clear. I don't think this is the
same generation of technology that that one was. Now on a normal OLED, or
a more traditional TV, you would have like a
reflective or opaque back layer, that even if you popped the, you know, the back off of the chassis, would not allow you to see
through the pixels themselves, but here, every component
of the pixel stack has been designed to be as
see-through as possible. So the only thing you can really see, and you can see them if you get close, is actually the wiring,
like the connective wiring between the self-emissive, organic LEDs. I think that's about
10 pixels, right there. So that would make, .5 at about 100. I think it's 1080P. Because if that's about 100, there's no way that's 4,000. Did I just spend seven
grand on a 1080P display? We've got 120 hertz support, and what's funny is in the press release, they actually talk about
the gaming experience on it. Like you would wanna do that. We've got a second with eARC support. eARC means that has at least some subset of the HDMI 2.1 specification supported, a third HDMI, then we've
got a couple of USB 2. (blows raspberry) USB 2 ports, really? Optical Avnet, I don't think it came with the adapter, but you could put a composite or component or whatever that would
be, probably composite. Network and then an antenna port. Says 220 volt right there.
- [Andy] I googled, and their voltage is like 100 to 240. - I don't trust, well, okay, I'm trusting you, but then why wouldn't they
just put that on the product? We're gonna do it. You ready? Hey, there it is. That's definitely 1080P, man. Ooh! Check out these pixels, look
at the size of these pixels. Oh! I guess you can probably still
see the size of the pixels. They're like kind of
huge. They're huge pixels. Good thing we have Andy. Okay, so I pressed these
buttons, but what does it do? - [Andy] Yeah, like just have the remote, closer to this thing and hold
those two buttons together. And wait until you hear a beep. - Hello! - [Andy] Pairing. - It didn't beep, lies. - [Andy] Beep. - Is it normal when
setting up a Xiaomi product for me to install their app thing and for it to try and
install three gigs worth of other random crap on my phone? - Oh, that's like third party app store. - I get it, their app
is on this app store. So I had to get this app store first. Okay, so why don't we try again? Oh, okay. So that's why they gave
me a whole app store. Okay, we're taking the tour, but the tour guide doesn't speak English, so if you could... Settings, configuration manual. - No, this is actually my. It just say my. My HDMI input and stuff, you know. - TV. - Recommendation or, yeah. VIP!
- Porn. - Very important porn. (laughs) - Okay, look at that, streaming to you all the way from China. Just standing here, I honestly kind of forgot
it was a see-through TV and that's what I was
supposed to be looking at. In a darker scene, I can see right through it, but... - [Andy] And that's because-
- This? - [Andy] And that's probably because we have those
lights behind the TV. - Yeah, without that, man. That's kinda cool, isn't it? Okay, enough of exploring the ocean. That's, I'm too wet now. I was too excited. So, is there a language option? - [Andy] Yeah, language.
(Linus gasps) - No, yes! Yes, confirmed! Wait, did it work? - [Andy] Yeah, it says like
some sort third-party app might not support English. - Oh, oh.
- [Andy] But other than that, you have English here. - We English now, boys. Yes! They've got captive portal
support, that's cool. I mean, Xiaomi does have TVs. So it shouldn't be that surprising that they've like got a TV OS
that's reasonably fleshed out. Even if it's on a super weird TV today. So this has an always on display option with different styles. What are these? Oh, that's pretty, very cool. So if the idea was to use it
as an impressive art piece, and you're like, you know, fancy pants home where
$7,000 on an art is like, whatevs, no big deal, I guess. Then you can do like this or whatever. - It just feels like I
could catch the thing. Oh my God!
- No way! Nice. Okay, MEMC would be motion
compensation probably, right? - [Andy] I'm not sure. This is English. - Local contrast. Why would it have like
a local dimming setting on an OLED? Okay, can do your own white balance, tune your color. Pixel adjustment on, cool, okay. Let's plug something in. That was so weird. So last time it said active
signal resolution 4K, desktop resolution, 1920 by 1080. What's weird though is it
still kind of looks like crap. Also, we've got a dead pixel. Dang it! Right in the middle of my Chrome icon. You say you won't buy one. That's it, that's the
deal breaker for you? The one dead pixel, not
the $7,000 see through? - [Andy] Okay, if I pay seven grand. - It looks like you were right, Andy. I think only one of the
inputs supports 120 hertz, which is super weird in this day and age, like 120 hertz, 1080P. It's like nothing anymore. It's kind of tedious switching inputs. Like where's this, the lag input switch button? I guess the expectation is you're gonna do most of
your consumption streaming, like is that the norm? Input lag, honestly feels
better on this input as well, already, but I still don't
see a 120-hertz option. Let's try doing it as a custom resolution. Let's just break it. I've seen displays get
pretty F'ed up for like days from doing this. Curiously, it seems to be doing some kind of weird chroma
sub-sampling nonsense. It doesn't look quite as sharp. You got like kind of a green fringing on these windows and stuff. Got another day disappointing
update for you, Brandon. Check this out. You can configure the display mode, and the game mode does in
fact improve the input lag. So that feels, that feels pretty darn good. Unfortunately, if I
don't want warm colors, it changes me to user mode, and it's mushy input, again. Why? Then making matters worse, this is super annoying, I have another dead pixel! Do you know how much each
of these pixels costs? If you spent seven grand
on a stupid, clear TV, you'd want all the pixels to work too. Viewing angles are surprisingly decent. It does turn a little bit bluey greeny once you get to kind of an extreme angle, but as long as you're within reason, I'd say it's pretty darn good. Let's play some video games, shall we? One benefit of the hockey puck approach is that the built-in speaker's actually not terrible for a TV. - [Andy] They say they
support Dolby Atmos. - Yep. - [Andy] Well, I don't think
this thing support HDR. They didn't mention-
- Really? - [And] At least they didn't
mention it on the spec sheet. - It's pretty rough for anyone who is stupid enough to buy it, anyway. I think we've got a few
more stuck pixels up here. Oh, those are sloppy. It otherwise looks great. We put a black surface behind it. So just like some black
kind of velvety cloth. And like, I can't even tell it's clear. I mean, it's not much of a feature when like the feature is that
you can't see the feature, but, oh, hi, Andy.
- Hi. - Oh, Laura don't fall. Is she swimming. (laughs) Going for a
little front crawl here. Conceivably, you could game on it. I don't know that I would
have it in my press release if I was Xiaomi, but there you go. Let's try something more cinematic. Even at 1080P at this size, I wouldn't expect that
much screen door effect, but probably as part of
trying to make the screen as transparent as possible, they actually want the
pixels to be smaller. So you're gonna get more of like a noticeable grid in between them. Yeah, this is not a great experience, which kind of raises the question, what is the point of this? Who does buy something like this? And the answer, believe it or not, is
pretty straight forward. Commercial enterprises. I mean imagine if LTTStore.com, had a display like that in the window. Wouldn't you want to buy it? Look at that water bottle. You can see right through
the marketing materials. Pretty cool, right? So bottom line, even if it doesn't make
any sense for consumers, if I was a high-end hotel or
banquet hall or a law firm, and I wanted something really
eye catching in my lobby to make potential customers think that I was pretty swanky, something like this could
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was a good video i like the part where linus is stuck in the tv because i want him to be stuck inside me