I Turned My Garage Into a Home Theater

there are a couple of major trend lines that we can follow in my life one is that as my kids get older they're getting louder and more annoying meaning that I'm gonna need a quiet place to just go and spend time just with myself where they can't bother me number two is that the transportation industry is changing to the point where we're not going to need personal vehicles anymore once autonomous cars take over the world so we're gonna get right out ahead of both of those trend lines and sponsored by LG I am gonna be converting one of the base of my two-car garage into a home theater setup and because I'm a cheapskate we're going to be doing it as cheaply as possible [Music] few things make me feel more suburban than cleaning out my garage right tight don't worry this is not used my kids aren't even in diapers anymore though paintball gear I haven't touched in years next thing I just want to make the space like a little bit more livable right now it looks very garage II and cobwebby you know stuff like that thankfully for that there's the Dyson beaten on just kidding guys so I probably fill up the reservoir on that thing like four times vacuuming this place out now under normal circumstances for a job this small you would just break out the brush and roller but I treated myself to an airless sprayer recently so we're gonna spray it this may be a mistake it's been a while since I've used this thing so this could be interesting the most important thing when you're painting though is always to wear the proper attire Ltd Starcom actually I've really shouldn't wear this out when I'm straight no one ever talks about this but guys this is what happens to every shirt that you bring home for someone from your vacation they don't care about your vacation oh it's been a while so let's start with the most critical parts that we're very likely to see in the finished project here just kidding let's go at the top of it now normally I would mock anyone who suggests just lay it on thick and do it in one coat but we're in a bit of a hurry here so we're just gonna lay it on thick and do it in one coat okay no problem so for anyone who is wondering if it was worth it to set up the sprayer the answer is Oh hard to say is that even an improvement was that even like worthwhile because it's hard to tell if this yeah that does look better doesn't it let's bring in the TV so this oh my goodness it's 120 pounds is LG's newest 2019 nano cell and this is the biggest TV that I will have ever had in my house it is 86 inches and even LG knows that this thing is a two-hander if you know what I mean okay so are you actually reading the instructions for a chain I mean this thing is so big and so heavy we might actually need to read the instructions right on packet well it looks like it's one of it's obviously one of the boxes that you take off over the top okay but it also says that you should open this first grab the manual look at the manual oh alright there's a picture of a guy holding a square I think he's reading I mean there's so much box look at this you have to like walk around it you have to travel have we reached a practical limit to how big TVs can be before people cannot transport them into their homes this one also has a feature that LG calls nano accuracy which is all about keeping the colors looking the same regardless of how wide your viewing angle is and actually you know it's funny you'd you would think that we wouldn't need that in a room this size but with a TV this size sitting dead center you could be looking at the top corner of it from a 15 degree angle especially if we have to get closer to it than you normally would because this is a huge TV and not not that big of a roof yeah spaced AV the TV from space you know what I actually think I remember why they put them in these if they're being shipped by container if you end up in the top container you can actually get a lot of Sun and a lot of heat so they roast the TV like a potato no no the shiny sides on the outside James I hope that's not how you roast your chicken because we've been eating a lot of raw chicken dude so the instructions say we need a table to set it up fortunately we've also got furniture for this setup here I think we have a coffee table and this thing's so big though it's it's gonna just dwarf the coffee we can make it work so I figured since we have this as our backdrop yeah I thought I would double down on the old wood and go for a complete like 90s aesthetic with this furniture and by 90s I mean it was old in the 90s I'm into old wood hit it I haven't actually seen all the furniture yet so oh wow so you want this to look like someone's man cave full of the cast-off furniture they picked up on Craigslist for free 30 years ago I want it to be like the basement in that 70s show I mean the thing is 86 inches you know sounds like 30% more than 65 inches but it's not it is a lot bigger is this even wide enough did we check this before we went on for the stand got it okay it's only about two inches different all right very sure this is not the right way to do this okay here we go that's some good screwin Thanks thought you'd like it do you want some depth of field some depth of field you want to be able to walk but to behind and do the cables easily oh no cuz we get this up in the door sup now yes and one two three hooks oh thanks Andy this is a three-person job setting up this TV I'm trying to use my forearm against the panel so it's not too much pressure in a small area oh my goodness is this stand gonna fit on this thing like is it deep Oh Chloe already hitting the roof sit on there barely whoa that is a lot of TV it actually looks so thin relative to how wide it is yeah even though it's not thin at all I'm okay to be I'm not saying it's unreasonable like it's got full array local dimming so I understand like it has to be a little bit thicker you get that contrast but like it's not thin by today's standards yeah compared to like LG oh yeah James do we have any other equipment that we're planning to hook up to this thing or what it's a sound bar right I don't know where we're gonna put it right this stands really big well the TV is really big and naturally this is like not just some pin or little sound bar it's dolby atmos 570 what's the biggest baddest one they made yeah perfect that's all right cool I mean it's cool but it's like can we put it now tell me was your idea to mount the sound bar to the front of this my idea is really stupid okay like really usable okay you grab this end yeah go over there yeah pull out your dryer I'm calling for your heart I will humor you but we're not doing this no that's terrible I mean it's on there this is a very cool feature Wow but I got to say it feels a little out of place in the garage no I'm at work last enough to dry just wait I should help the joint speaking of classing up the joint why don't we go ahead and roll out the welcome rug hear this this is not the it's not at all inspiring I think it might be smaller than the TV one two row it's pretty small that's but we need something like wall hangings and like we got to class it up another notch or two okay well I brought some artworks so okay so if I have this way off the wall like that is that cheating like a frickin Sauron is like Saruman whatever okay I have some nails so we just put nails on the wall and mount some mounts and pictures it's not like the walls not full holes any nail if you don't want to ruin the wall we could put screws in this wall for all I care the height has been chosen that's great all right Saruman draggy boy the fiercest stop well it ain't perfect but given our budgetary constraints and our refusal to use a tape measure yeah so something we haven't actually made a point of clarifying up until this point in the video is that part of the deal here is we're doing all this on a shoestring budget think about it you want to build the ultimate garage home theater setup you don't want to spend a bunch of money furnishing your garage you want to spend that money on like the best possible AV setup so our total cost for all this furniture is what oh well that was 50 Canadian that table was 30 and the rod was 70 everything else is free yeah I figured even if none of us are really into sports ball it's a man cave little league sports 12 my dude the only baseball dad's watch this couch stinks in the listing it was inside a house and actually looked purple but then when I got there is like yeah it's outside and it had been raining so with that said you know I still think our setup here is representative of what you could get if you just if you have a little bit more time to vet your Craig sellers there is a lot of free couches on there actually the pillow doesn't even smell that bad all right fine Philip there's the only one do we have like a place to put the lamp or have we not really gotten that far okay hold on hold on oh wow we got an end table for free no this was 30 bucks okay all right for to really feel like a 90s kind of your parents friend's house an ashtray that is exactly the ashtray that was in every yeah every 90s living room so James I can live with the wall but I really don't think we can leave the floor like this here help me roll this up we paid $70 for this used IKEA carpet yeah that's kind of brutal actually no take-backs how did I spend $70 on this this thing sucks okay this totally is not gonna go with the room but I think it's better than having what we had and I don't think my wife will notice it missing from the living room this is modern modern if I've got some modern LEGO pieces in it so it just popped up asking us about Google assistance so this thing has Google assistant it has health it's also got airplay to which was pretty sweet so all the latest Smart TV features from just gonna go ahead update the firmware and then we're pretty close to ready to rock actually okay so I think that's it it's so big this is like the equivalent of sitting in a theater like the distance up wise this is crazy pizza's here oh hold on hold on no no wait I got this okay you've opened the Odyssey garage door [Music] come on in sup we're just watching movie yeah get in the garage dude thank you yeah you take that yeah yeah good night alright take care okay should we fire up something with HDR yeah crank the sound sure though White's pretty bright hey you know what's really nice about good foolery local dimming is you actually get black bars instead of gray glowy bluey bars from sitting here those black bars are as black as the sound bar yeah I love the amount of detail in this movie just the way that the pieces have fingerprints on them and stuff I'd only get some pizza we haven't actually eaten any pizza yet now we want to play some games but we need to wait for this xbox update but that's fine because it actually gives me an opportunity to talk about some of the cool features this TV has for gaming so because it's equipped with HDMI 2.1 that means you've gotten variable refresh rate support not just for Xboxes but also devices that support HDMI VR are so what's cool is all for the HDMI ports will go okay hey this is a latency sensitive application boom low latency mode pretty freakin awesome and they claim about 15 to 16 milliseconds of input lag which is these nuts down to one frame pretty awesome it is amazing how noticeable it is when you're looking at 1080p content on a screen this big we definitely should have brought an Xbox 1x I can't get over how big the screen is dude you should rent out this garage we've got that mini fridge just get a hot plate in here it's a sick setup Wow oh he's on fire that's cool it's freaking awesome so that's it for a couple hundred bucks if we factor in that we you know borrowed art from the office and we would have had to obtain like some posters and cheap frames I am blown away by how usable this is and the cool thing is because we're in a garage which is inherently full of clutter we actually don't end up with a lot of the audio echoing that you might normally deal with with an open room with a concrete floor so massive shout out to LG for hooking us up with of course the tech aspect of this which was obviously more than a couple hundred bucks and of course monstering this video thanks to you guys for watching and I think that pretty much wraps it you know this turned out so good I think I might I might just not leave you actually look like a homeless person watch my couch I'm not homeless I live here now

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 2,507,392

Rating: 4.8505273 out of 5

Keywords: tv, smart, projector, home theatre, hi-fi, soundbar, man cave, den, budget, cheap, couch, console, paint, garage, basement

Id: X5nKGl0yCpY

Length: 15min 8sec (908 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 27 2019