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Amazon seems to be making their own products for just about every category under the sun, but are they any good? Come find out if their new Fire TV Omni Series is worth your hard-earned cash when looking for your next home theater upgrade.
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0:00 Intro
1:05 Fire TV 75" Omni
3:45 Color Accuracy
5:25 FALD
6:12 Linus Watches TV
7:57 Gaming
10:40 Should You Buy It?
12:37 Outro - Věda a technologie
We misspoke about the IR emitter. It's meant to blast a signal out to compatible devices like set-top boxes, soundbars, receivers, etc. This lets you voice control them all through Alexa so you can do a number of tasks hands-free like changing volume, power on/off, or set up full routines so a single voice command turns on the entire home theater system.
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What do u expect from a guy who watches tv in Normal colour temp n vivid mode instead of warm/warm2/expert/movie.
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@@tahsin28 did you even watch the whole video
I’ve milked 14 no… NO!! 15 baby snakes.
Who wants a milking?
Amazon Basics will be selling prebuilt PC’s before long.
Considering how bad prebuilts from companies like dell are, that might actually not change much
Comes prepared with viruses
Give it 5 years.
They already do
*shudders*
given Amazon's skill at creating user hostile UIs, I can't imagine having to use a TV that they made.
still no dark mode on one of the most popular shopping apps btw
I tried it and it's actually not that bad. Yeah, the UI could use some work, but the most important thing is that we are all the universe experiencing itself. All separation is illusion. We are simultaneously the most remarkable and important things in the universe, and yet our limited lifetimes make our experiences both precious and meaningless. Nothing matters and everything matters. Just be kind to yourselves and each other.
@@jeremyphillips3087 Please stop smoking mid sentence.
@@Pumciusz lol
@@jeremyphillips3087 Be kind to everyone else by not baiting them into reading your introductory New Age message.
Amazon creates a TV sourced from other manufacturers, overprices it and makes it worse. What a surprise.
Sound on par with Amazon.
Do you not listen to the first 30 seconds dude…damn. Its a good amount less. Probably won’t read this as you can’t read.
@@richardroberson9277 make up your mind, am I listening or reading? My brain must not work as well as yours to shill for Amazon's shit product ripoffs.
@@NRay7882 ooga booga tv cost less not more. maybe subtitles would help your ass. 900
And they’ll sell a billion of them at HALF OFF NOW!!! prices undercutting their own customers (sellers).
As an owner of the exact same TV, The "Game" mode came via an OTA update some time last month. I returned one of the TVs due to the same issue. There was also one problem where the power LED used to blink continuously and wont just shut up!
Best bit the technicians from TCL came for the service.
Do yourself a solid and get a Sony 91J
We have tcls at my work and the leds are constantly blinking. I think it’s some form of “notification” light.
@@LarsonChristopher isnt it several times more expensive?
@@LarsonChristopher F off, the Sony costs more than twice as much. They aren't in the same class.
@@samiraperi467 I also have a Sony ( an older model) with Android tv and Cromecast build in - i love it, SOny is not cheap, yes , but you actually getting a nice tv.
The requirement that you must be signed into a amazon account to even use the television is reason enough to avoid it.
and that it comes with both a camera and microphone... why would anyone want to take another step closer to 1984
And i thought roku dropping you into the oobe setup on connecting to the internet was bad.
This is so absurd I thought it was a meme, but nobody’s laughing… Bleak future ahead of us.
I mean why would you buy an Amazon tv if you dont link your account to it lmao. Like buying a cellphone and not using a sim card
Are you sure it's a requirement or is that an assumption? Linus signed in but it could just be that the prime video is not available without doing so, or the "smart" features aren't available.
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I wonder if Bezos actually practices his super-villain maniacal laugh, or if it just comes naturally?
Pretty sure he is using a Micro-LED TV and not this shit
He literally looks like the Kevin Spacey Lex Luthor from the 2006 Superman Returns movie.
"What's next, a Kirkland Signature gaming PC?"
Be careful Linus, that might just happen, given what we've seen from Walmart. Though i suspect a Costco built PC will be *slightly* better quality.
Unironically would buy a Kirkland signature PC. If I can get something at Costco, I'm getting it there.
@@shepjohnson2372 dad ?
Is there any Kirkland product that isn’t great?
Funnily enough, Kirkland makes leather jackets apparently. Lol... I'd be embarrassed to say that I got a leather coat from Kirkland, the same company that makes my peanut butter.
My leather jacket is thankfully not from Costco, I got it second hand from someone and is Luis Alvear brand.
@@shepjohnson2372 Oh definitely, I don't know how good it will be but it would probably be okay for the price. Would likely be loaded to the brim with bloatware, but that's nothing a simple reinstall can't fix.
Their chocolate chip cookies are amazing, so I guess I should expect the same if they started building PCs.
"Why does it have so many 5 star reviews ?"
Because Amazon star system is broken.
4 stars means "works slightly worse than expected", and 5 is "work as or slightly better than expected"
You can only know if a product is terribly bad with this system. If it has 4 to 5 star average, then it lands somewhere between "it works" and "it's a revolution", but there is no way to tell
On UK Amazon there is no description for the stars. It is simply 1 to 5.
These days, I just ignore the star rating completely and skip right to reading the 3-star reviews first and see if I can notice any consistency in the complaints.
@@arnox4554 That's exactly what I do. Run through the low star reviews, ignore one offs and look for patterns that would be a deal breaker. It's a much better way to use the reviews.
@@130rne The ones are usually idiots who complain about the delivery service, or some other idiocy, or they don't leave a comment at all.
Twos and threes are more valid. But often I end up discounting them because of one thing or another.
Amazon routinely bans bad reviews. And many of the sellers put up fake reviews. If you're buying something on Amazon, look at the bad reviews first.
I'm so glad Linus is so honest. Keeps these companies on their toes
@ladawg81 1.1 million people watched this video.
Even if only .5% of the viewers were dissuaded from buying this TV by Linus directly, that is still 5,500 consumers, and $5.5m dollars that Amazon will not make.
I think you underestimate how many people come to LTT for purchase advice, and how much clout he has in the tech world.
For a 75", $1100 isn't crazy, but also with what the TV comes with, It definitely belongs closer to $800 or $900. Which I'd imagine that might be what Amazon does after getting all the first buyers out of the way. Once the sales drop lower, they'll probably drop the price a bit more to keep selling it. Or at least that sounds logical in my head.
800 is the max I'm paying for this type of TV.
Yeah, or an item with no reviews and only 7 purchases. Do you want to be guinea pig for others or find something else. I was on their review program but was never offered anything I would actually use.
agreed
I see this going the same way as their Fire Phone.
Legitimately in the same class as the $600 Walmart Vizios.
Linus can you call out Nvidia for adding ads to the shield UI?
No ads was a reason why many of us paid the extra money for the shield.
Apple tv master race
@@joeykeilholz925 Apple tv slave race
@@joeykeilholz925 Shield is significantly better.
@@joeykeilholz925 Apple TV beta race. It's a foot race, and all the competitors are lacking athletic ability. They are stumbling over each other's pear shaped bodies. It's a mess.
Master race? Don't make me laugh.
So my dyslexia kicked in and I thought the title said Amazon basics has a TV show... not gonna lie I'm a tad disappointed... that would be hysterical.
I read it the same way the first time as well, wtf
It's nice to have voice control for when you lose the remote. It's also great for accessibility. If you have difficulty handling a remote or if you drop your remote and can't physically get it.
My parents just bought 4 of these. 2 big ones and 2 middle sized. 75" and 55". The main reason is that they just bought a new house, my dad is slowly converting the entire thing into a smart house via Alexa. That's one of those Amazon specific features that you were talking about. He has smart switches/outlets/lightbulbs in nearly every room that can turn on and off via Alexa voice control. Also, he has a smart doorknob on the utility room since it is outside, it also reports to Alexa. Combined with his 2 ring doorbells and the security cameras that he's going to set up, he's going to have full view and control of the exterior of his house and full control on the interior as well. Another thing he did was run full home ethernet to each room in the house. All of the TVs are on it as well as his office equipment and all of his security cameras as well. They are power-over-ethernet. Needless to say, it is pretty cool to walk around the house and tell Alexa to do things.
I really don't like that youtube went through with the "no amount of dislikes" thing... damn... really hope they switch it back!
its pissed me off for years that the dislike button does literally nothing on comments, now it's true for videos too
@@bmxscape yeah it's just there to exist, heck you can't even see how much dislikes you've gotten in comments itself
Hey! I'd just like to tell ya that there are extensions for both Chrome and Firefox that add the dislike functionality back
@@FluffMongo I'm sure Google's going to block them from operating sooner or later though.
And now finding legit tutorials is going to be a hassel. Atleast CZcams implement a system where misleading videos that has tons of dislikes are harder to find
When Linus was talking about the weird picture settings menu, I instantly remembered TCL from my TV sales manager days. They have a weird issue where if you're watching something and press the video settings button you get very limited settings unless you go into the settings menu then video settings and get all the options. Lo and behold, TCL.
That is EXACTLY how LG sets work!!
You either use All Settings or Speaker to switch to a Bluetooth headset from TV Speaker since Speaker + Bluetooth is designed for Bluetooth Speakers and not headsets. Everything else is useless including the Gaming menu since you can not change any settings in it.
A "small" note on that privacy part with the microphone kill switch at 11:25 :
If a "physical switch" creates a software-popup, it ist most likely NOT a physical switch. Instead, it is likely just a slideable soft-button. The state of the button is read by the software, which then can act differently depending on the state of that switch. So you are still relying on the software not to spy on you, once you flip that switch.
But once you buy a TV from Amazon, you are pretty much lost anyway in that regard.
It may be a software switch but a software pop has absolutely no indication if it is or not.
Operating systems are designed to monitor what devices are physically connected. Plug or unplug any cable from any device and the software knows.
That doesn't mean the mic isn't phisically disconnected, entirely the data line or the power.
You can read that and display on screen.
Computers are capable of detecting open circuits, which is what would happen if it was a physical switch
The software probably saw that that the microphone was disconnected to show that popup
wtf is this shitty logic lol. If you physically unplug your webcam from your PC, windows is entirely capable of having a pop-up saying the webcam was disconnected
Does Linus have a list of good options for large 'dumb' TVs? I'd rather save my money by not having any apps or home screen features. I'd like a TV that just... displays the incoming video signal. lol
Yeah it’s kind of frustrating only having “smart” TVs on the market
Well hopefully more BFGs will be hitting the market soon
I have a similar question for Linus.
(It's actually the same question).
No, Linus only caters and considers rich Americans because they really do not live in the real world. They can afford all the tech they want so obviously the whole world can.
You can actually expect to spend MORE money if you want a dumb tv. Devices get cheaper because they can harvest user data and said data be sold to various data brokers, offsetting the loss any device might be sold at with more tech.
To these companies we're all just labrat monkeys with money. We give them money for a product then they make us run the hamster wheel to sell that data off to the highest bidder if you ever choose to connect it to the internet and not block telemetry. It's a sad state of affairs.
Haven't watched the video yet, but I work at Best Buy and the Amazon TVs seriously concern me. They are hands down the lightest TVs we sell. I literally can pick the 50 inch model (box and all) with one hand *just gripping it from the top.* Weight doesn't necessarily correlate perfectly to quality, but I can't imagine one of these TVs would last very long.
I’m pre-watch too - I can’t imagine they’re any good
maybe you've had some sweet gains bro.
I kid, that is concerning for two reasons first is as you mentioned the durability isn't going to be great but secondly how many people are going to use the included legs with the TV and how easy it would be for a kid or a pet to knock it over and injure themselves on it.
That would be horrible if it didn't last very long and you had to buy another one sooner than expected. $$$
I have a Roku branded tv that feels like it's made of paper--it's comical how light it is.
Onn is just as bad about the weight. They also have like 0 packing materials, unlike Samsung which tend to be in the biggest boxes.
Smart TVs, where you pay thousands of dollars only to have the top half of your hub menu to be just ads.
And godawful amounts of tracking and telemetry gathering.
It's why I have no interest in "smart" TVs and just connect whatever I want to them. Whatever is built in will be obsolete within a couple of years and just dropped by the manufacturer as if it never existed, so save the trouble and just get a "dumb" TV instead. Which are annoyingly hard to find now...
In my Samsung, there's no thing such as ads (except CZcams)
@@nickryan3417 you cannot find a dumb TV, unless it is small, nowadays.
@@chronology556 I know, it's a bit annoying really.
Linus doing an amazing review. Seriously Amazon couldn’t have passed this to a more amazing tech influencer.
When I saw this last week during the black friday sales, I still choose TCL for the kid's TV. I actually like the Fire stick as a cheap add-on to a plain old TV or monitor, but to have it (poorly) replace baseline TV functionality is a huge fail. Amazon's house brand would have to be significantly cheaper for me to put up with that crap, and TCL is already crazy affordable at the low end so good luck with that.
I have both a fire stick and a Roku and I find the Roku much easier to use and much more aesthetically pleasing
Linus makes a good point. Anyone can rate anything whatever score they want. The problem is a lot of people either aren't objective in their reviewing (like in games, acknowledging problems is something most don't do), or they just don't have the background/technical knowledge to be accurate in a review. There's nothing WRONG with liking something, if you haven't seen or had anything better. But I think it's rather naive not to listen to someone with the proper knowledge who can tell you what the faults are, so that in your next upgrade, you know what to look for to get an improvement
You are right but for people who use Fire Sticks, this is what they see when they press the power button anyways. This TV probably is a decent value for the target audience, not people who are rolling with 30k in home theatre in their unfinished basement.
@@Squiesh I mean, on the brightness and colors side. Those are measurably awful. It's like people who buy 300 USD gaming headsets. You can get measurably better headphones for a third of the price. Yet people think they sound amazing because they have never used anything better, and either they know the brand, or some X streamer recommended it without knowing about audio
@@Katoptrys No you're right, I was scrolling comments before that part.
btw wanna buy a lighty used pair of virtuosos?
@@Squiesh Lol, no worries.
Also nah, I've got a new pair of Sony IER-M9, they're about my 3rd favorite after Susvaras and og Orpheus (and I can afford neither)
@@Katoptrys I looked up the first one and it has a comma in the price but also a hard-earned Crinacle S- 1★, well done!
Linus: "The only question to answer before millions of you rush to buy one is..."
At the same time:
Linus: "Does it totally suck?"
Me: "Is it worth it? ... Eh, close enough."
No way is it close enough lol. There's much better TV's for the same price. Terrible deal
@@Driftwood420 i think he meant that he predicted what linus would say and it didn't come out right but was close enough
Ngl. I was expecting a segue like: "who's our sponsor?"
It’s a shit tv. Get a Sony and enjoy for 10 years.
I just noticed that some of the spambot posts are copying other people's posts (like this post), presumably to make them look more legit. Very clever. Too bad youtube can't figure out how to ban them.
You definitely can look at content while adjusting it. You have to hold down the home button till the menu pops up
Game mode boosting dark parts are good for competitive games, but I think that should either be a standalone setting or there should be a competitive game mode and a scenic game mode
Amazon's going to end up being a webstore full of only Amazon products that they've ripped off.
At least primeday might finally be interesting.
it's just rebranding, it's no different from what costco, walmart, safeway, etc do with their inhouse brands.
Good, hopefully it will force their competitors to make better, more affordable products. Competition is a good thing.
Amazon City soon
and americans will keep shopping there, while complaining jeff doesn't pay taxes, or pay his workers properly.
I’d like to see a comparison or scale when talking about colour accuracy and brightness. Similar to how you do your benchmarks. Would give us an idea of what is good at a certain price or technology
Also, what an extremely glossy surface, I can perfectly see through the reflection on the screen, even over bright content
Will you be doing a holiday TV buying guide this year? I’d love to see one! Need a new bedroom TV.
One thing I would love tv reviews to include (and this goes for ANYBODY reviewing a tv) is if you can set the tv to turn on and go right to an input or to go to the last input. I do not want a TV where I have to select an option on the TV's remote before I transition to the remote for the device I want to use (Cable box, Fire Stick, Xbox, etc....). This would also be good for people like me who use HDMI switchers because we have too many devices hooked up. My current TV has my sound bar on HDMI1 and on HDMI 2 is the switch with three consoles, BluRay player, wireless HDMI adapter and Fire Cube so I have no interest in ever touching the TV's remote unless it is to change a menu option.
Also would be nice to know how long it takes to start up. Every TV I ever owned started really quickly, like 'if they had had splash screens (they didn't) you wouldn't have had time to see them'' quickly, but my mother's current one has a noticeable delay before the brand splash screen comes up, and takes most of a minute between hitting the power button and actually showing whatever input it's getting. And that's from standby, not actually 'off'. That's kind of relevant when watching live... anything.
I don't use my inputs a lot so this may be inaccurate, but my Sony A8H will open whatever app was open when I shut the tv off. It runs Google tv so I'm not sure if that's a Google tv feature or a Sony feature.
My TCL goes back to the input it was last on, even when cold booting (i.e. not waking from standby)
What about hdmi CEC? TV can startup with console
The Samsung I have defaults to last input.
You know what I want? A modern TV with all of the HDR and other high image quality goodies that *isn't a smart TV.* But apparently wanting a functional appliance that isn't some IOT web connected "lets spy on you and *serve you more ads* " monstrosity means I am an out of touch tech boomer.
Basically what you have to do is buy a smart TV, and then never hook it up directly to the internet. Any internet connected thing would be via external device, such as a roku, apple tv, fireTV stick etc. etc... That's if the TV allows you to complete setup without connecting in the first place.
@@brycedunlap That's why I just use a home theater pc and a projector. The only real downside is the latency when it comes to gaming, but other than that I find that a decent projector ticks most of the boxes I would want out of a nice big screen.
Since I do most of my gaming on a gaming PC in another room anyways, I don't have many latency issues to worry about, but gaming with a projector you notice the stacked input lag of controllers, the projector, and the game; which all might be minor on their own, but are fairly noticeable on things like fighting games.
It's a great option for movies and tv however.
@@Atticore This is exactly what I do. I already have a laptop, and I got a projector for $130 (admittedly not the best projector, but it's better than just watching movies on my laptop screen). Why would I spend $300 on a big screen that I can't easily pack up? (I'm in the military and live in the barracks)
I guess you could use a monitor for that. But they're still only like 43 inch and cost like $2000. And their HDR still isn't quite as good as the good TV's.
Seriously! That’s why the monitor market is still so fresh to me - because it’s about the quality and complexity of the display as an extension to the device, rather than trying to be a device itself. But the convenience provided to the average consumer means that these “smart” trends will only get worse.
1:20 Very considerate to not say Alexa but to spell it!
I just got that TCL QLED as a 55" a few days ago. Nice to see you mention it in a positive light lol. Though, I got the Google/Android version rather than the Roku version. I'm assuming the main difference is just some of the OS/interface, but that the screen quality is the same.
2:35 actually it's an IR Emitter, I suppose for alexa to control other IR devices such as a soundbar
Repeater
Labeled like that but it looks like any other receiver i saw
I love it when Linus say Alexa A-L-E-X-A so it wony freak out my Alexa
Yeah
I was confused why he said it like that because I don't own Alexa, but that's pretty damn considerate of him!
The ir port is for an emitter/blaster. It's not a receiver. The included cable can be run to a cabinet or remote area to control other equipment.
Your Vizio M class review is what sold me on it. Bought it a month after the short circuit review and have been in bliss since. Going from a Samsung that was 1.5x more expensive, the Vizio is in a class of its own. Love you guys!!!
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Just another step toward Amazon becoming a real life Buy 'n' Large
At least Buy 'n' Large gave us intergalactic cruisers.
@@arnox4554 And obnoxious spam bots like up top. Apparently.
@C A L I N A• •👇 Ratio
My family had an Amazon Fire TV. They're terrible. After a power outage, or turning on in a long time, the TV would take almost an entire minute to turn on. And once it finally did, it would immediately show you all the Amazon apps and features... You know, instead of automatically switching to the one and only input that you have plugged-in.
There were a bunch of other issues, too, like not being able to use your TV if your remote needed to be updated, and the fact that the picture adjust settings were buried through several different menus - And then partly covered the screen so you can't even see the adjustments you're making.
It was very bad...
LG does have ads but you can scroll away from them. Same for the Shield. Roku just puts a box on the right side for s "suggested" movie.
8:00 Linus reaches the gaming section of the video 🤣
OMG the tone of his voice during "Oh *I guess I get* to try that now?" 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤
They have been selling the amazonbasics tv in India for the past 2 years i think. I bought one a few months back. Was a very competitive buy around 450$ i think. 50" 4k TV.
I think the small dew drop item is an IR Transmitter and not a receiver to control a cable tv box
Linus saying "A-l-e-x-a" to not trigger peoples wakewords, while meanwhile I'm living dangerously watching LTT videos with my wakeword set to "computer" 🙃
lol
@@tennojinesoberi Any Star Trek. TNG especially.
I've been using a 42' Fire TV for a few years now, and can't really say anything good about it. The main frustration is just the software. I find it constantly updating itself, restarting the TV, having huge lag spikes in the home screen... I literally only ever want to just see HDMI 1, but the software on my Fire TV does a really good job of making that as hard as possible
Thanks for the heads up
The Lag Spikes may be inadequate cooling. My parents and I used to use a Fire TV Stick with our Vizio M55, and it would just be stupid unresponsive after like, 20 or 30 minutes of use. Turns out, the TV was heating up and cooking the Fire Stick. So, after a year of beating our head against a wall. We just... stopped using the Fire Stick and went to Vizio's TV OS once it had all of the features of the Fire Stick we needed. Oh, and the Fire Stick we were using, wasn't even 4K Capable. So, we got a fidelity upgrade just from not using it.
If you only use the HDMI anyway can't you just disconnect it from the LAN/WiFi (no more updates or work for the CPU to spike on)
That's what I did with my JVC TV then I added a smart switch to turn it off (now it's offline it turns on and goes straight to hdmi)
@@Skiptrac3 well then, at least you'll be able to say the Fire TV stick almost lives up to its name lol.
@@Skiptrac3 that is very interesting. My Vizio usually heats up too especially during the summer. Dont have a firestick but that makes sense that it would cook it.
Just spoke about this with coworkers. Maybe Amazon getting into tech and then department of defense when they get good. Specifically for Black Friday type deals
A lot of TVs I've seen have the game mode built into picture profiles.. I think its common of mid to low price range TVs
AmazonBasics is becoming the no name brand from our childhood
The TV that got a problem every time u wanna try something ' new'
I thought Amazon as a whole already represents that
Apparently people aren't aware that 'house brands' existed before Amazon Basics, and I guess think the actual "No Name" brand we have here in Canada should be illegal or something.
I was 99.999 precent sure this was a TCL. Just makes sense considering everything they do together already
Why not 100%?
I like the 5 series and the 6 looks nice despite having issues with dead pixels.
@@prateekpanwar646 because only the sith deal in absolutes
I have one of their small Fire TVs in my OTR truck. Great when I’m able to use mobile hotspot on my iPhone or decent Wi-Fi.
I love the Kirkland comparison. Lol good stuff!
The game mode thing is another giveaway that it's TCL. I had the exact same frustration until I found out about game mode on my TCL.
One thing I like about my TCL is it doesn't suck as a smart TV. It's very responsive, probably because they let Roku handle that stuff. I'd expect this might be similar given the Fire Stick is well established.
Game mode is really weird on the C1 with my NVidia Shield, it seem you can change nothing, if you wanted to, and not and all as shown in his videos. I also notice that they ever explain any of the audio settings.
Game mode doesn’t work on ps5 :(
The thing I love more than honesty is brutal honesty.
The only FireTv I get people to buy at BBY (weird channel sensors?) is the Toshiba C350, but they're all the same manufacturer.
I believe Hisense makes all FireTVs, that being Toshiba, Insignia, Hisense, and Pioneer outside of the Omni lineup.
TCL having parts in there still doesn't surprise me.
I would like to see you go over the Hisense TVs in the same range, especially the u6g and u7g.
I wonder if the cable tester could also send a test signal to TV's on known good cables to verify compatibility claims of ports on cheaper tv's like these
Amazon made a scuffed streaming platform so they made a scuffed tv to watch it on
Amazon put their TVs on sale by ~20% for Black Friday, so I don't think there were any alternatives in the same price bracket at that time. The sale is over now.
Ya know I was about to get one of these for prime day (Amazon Omni Series 55" ) for 112$ tho I missed the sale and was kicking myself for it but honestly glad I did...
I already have a 4 series 2021 TCL and it seems like the act same TV but with android amazon OS instead of roku...
Instead I was able to buy a TCL QLED 5 series 2021 for 199$ and while I spend a bit more that seems like an actual upgrade from my old TV...
Did they upgrade their camera again? Or just get better lighting?
Linus @ 6:14 looks INCREDIBLY well defined, like "4K movie" sharp. Wonder if maybe CZcams improved their compression or something, because it looks far better than usual
Probably lighting
For when you want to buy a TCL but with Fire Stick instead of Roku
I think I’ve seen the entire How to train your dragons movie just from Linus reviewing TVs and I love it
Great honest video! Please do more!!!
Hey... someone just told me they bought a gaming PC at Costco with a 3080. But can we be surprised about an Amazon TV being a garbage experience?
Just because it had a 3080 in it doesn't mean it was anywhere near at a reasonable price.
@@arnox4554 Don't know what that has to do with my comment. Just thought it was interesting that Costco is selling gaming PC's, in relation to him talking about a Kirkland branded gaming PC. I had no idea they were, and maybe other people don't. For the record, the person claimed they got it for $1,900.
@@TheGameBench They have been for a while but a VERY limited selection, but usually a 3075, even a 3065 is not common there.
Was scrolling Basics and found a good deal on a Amazon Prime Security Forces insurance pack. It came with a free curfew extension. Now I can stay out a bit later without being harassed about my departure time via drone. 5 out of 5 stars for my favorite corpo private police force. These privileges are so cheap and convenient.
2084 be like:
Yeah, I got am Amazon basics cable HDMI 2.0 cable a couple years ago and now DolbyVision is not an option on my C1. I do not think you need HDMI 2.1 to support DolbyVision. Both NVidia (Shield Gamers Edition with GForce Now) and LG claim it should be available to enable. Anyhow, I ordered a NON amazon 2.1 cable to replace it. It will arrive soon and hopefully solve the problem.
I had a 55” 4KTCL for a bit over 3 years, I bought it dirt cheap at Target. My only complaint was the black levels and response time. Overall though for what I paid it served it’s purpose and plus some.
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I have to say the Omni-series is honestly a good tv for it’s price and still beats other TVs even near that price range in all important keys for a good tv
We should all just not buy amazon branded stuff, its good to see them failing but unfortunately this fail is competing against other large companies, if only they would fail when they try to push out small companies with imitation products...
This is true. But I would be less bothered supporting a company without a history of abusing employees.
Amazon doesn't push out small companies with imitation products. That's been debunked. Every small company that claims Amazon stole their product were just flippers, not inventors. They were buying cheap white-label goods somewhere like Alibaba, slapping their logo on it, then reselling it on Amazon. There's nothing wrong with Amazon doing the same thing and undercutting them.
Idk why you call this tv a fail I been using the 55 inch Omni for about week now and I m have 0 complaints about it
$1099 for a 75 inch? WHAT? I paid less than that for my LG like 2-3 years ago and I guarantee it's a better TV.
Idk if you guys have kogan in canada but i got myself the cheapest QLED 4k Dolby vision, smart tv i could find, has a matte finish too which is handy for my bright room. They always have sales so i got my 50" for 630AUD+50AUD shipping and am pretty happy with it. I set it to movie mode obviously and there are some quirks with it like PC mode being the only way to get rid of 16:9 overscan and Game mode "sometimes" disabling sharpening. But im super happy with it. Would be cool to see you guys do a review of 1 since its hard to do latency tests and such plus nowhere seems to do indepth reviews of them. I was thinking of investing in an x-rite to fine tune it, 1st new tv i ever got my other 2 are like 10 year old 1080p LCDs. The reviews are super mixed to negative so maybe i just got lucky. But really happy 😬
The inlay video inside the TV at 2:58 looks straight out of some old web TV series.
As a rule of thumb if it's electronic never buy bargain or off brands. You'll avoid setting yourself up for failure.
If it's plastic modeled, or non electric, buy bargain Everytime.
But Samsung is happy to fill up your expensive TV with ads
@@leonidas14775 not mine. Goodbye troll.
This is true. Specifically when it comes to medicine, by law they all have to meet the same FDA standards. Also I have a samsung TV and there's no ad's. I did disable the share info and kept my info private. Comes turned on by default. Perhaps that's why I don't get ad's.
Amazing idea of labelling all the IO ports
@C A L I N A• •👇 lol no
the thing i don't like about these tvs is the remote. granted it's better than the fire tv remote (it adds buttons for guide and inputs) but the tv actually responds to remote commands the remote doesn't have on it, such as numbers. I set up my fire tv to be controlled by a harmony remote, and you can automate switching display modes.
This practice is decades old.
My grandpa told me of when Sears had its own in-store brand of electronics. TVs, radios, tape players.
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Good color accuracy in Movie mode for SDR content and acceptable input lag only in game mode? Even without Nicholas's postscript insert I'd suspect this is a TCL TV at its heart. That's pretty much exactly the verdict you guys had for their TVs back in the budget TV round-up / price challenge video with James last year.
I bought a 43" 4k TCL Roku TV last year, primarily to use as my PC monitor. For the sub-$200 it cost at the time, it's perfectly fine. The 43" Omni TV is listed for $400 right now; I think that's a bit much for what it has to offer. At the very least, it shouldn't throw ads in your face like a $20 Fire tablet.
I mean you can buy the series 4 which is cheaper than the Omni, only Omni has is the free hands alexa. I myself bought one for my room since I didn't have a TV before and I would watch everything on my monitor.
Would it be possible to have something explaining why it is that different TV modes function so differently? It seems like it should be obvious that you want less latency and better color accuracy on any setting, doesn't make sense to me that manufacturers are picking and choosing which mode gets which feature when presumably you'd just want all of them at the same time, especially on a 4 figure TV
@GH0STST4RSCR34M Yeah, but even non crappy TVs have some issues, just not this extreme.
The post-processing done on the image in other modes adds a lot of latency to the signal. Also TV's are _supposed_ to be meeting power consumption limits for environmental certification, they usually can't do that if their default picture mode pushes the panel to it's limit in terms of responsiveness. So only those who know to switch it to game mode for games will get the low latency. Those watching content don't care about latency as long as the picture and the sound are in sync.
You finally updated your Calman! Yay!
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Just wanted to let you know, the closed captions for your sponsor read say t-mobile, not ting mobile.
I own a fire tv for the bedroom and I do appreciate that it doesn't get too bright.
However, comparing to my living-room screen, the differences, both in quality and brightness, are so dominant that you really start to wonder how you're being "OK" with the amazon tv.
How good is it? I ordered one to just watch shit in my TV instead of my PC, but idk how I feel about it now, I kinda feel like canceling the order
@@sejpuV If you literally only care about watching stuff, then it should more than satisfy your needs. People buy "fully loaded" firesticks with apps that let them watch any movie or tv show they want for free. You can turn your TV into that as well if you just take 10 to 15 minutes out of your day to look up how to download that stuff. That is, if you're interested in that sort of stuff. I honestly can't even tell you the last time I paid to watch, well, anything.
@@sejpuV well i have a very cheap 55inch model for 300 bucks from black friday 2020.
It's a typical cheap screen, colors are nothing to compare to a proper OLED display. But I don't feel like I wasted my money.
I got a BIG SCREEN with inbuilt FireTV that's very light-weight (so perfectly wall mounted) that is not bright (which is a requirement for the bedroom). Because as awesome as my OLED is, my GF would get blinded on bright scenes in a dark bedroom.
Like Linus said, however, there might be more quality screens out there for a similar price - this, however, requires a lot of knowledge and finding those things isn't something that just "anyone" (outside of the tech industry) can easily find.
Even if it was good, would you want AmazonBasics branding on your TV?
AMAZON
since I don't buy products for the brand name, why not
Yes but i find it difficult seeing how not only the hardware isn't the best but the software is bloated with garbage. Unfortunately Amazon is not the only one
@UCPhQ7YegOta3UtUfPKmYrvg I eat Chicks 😳
Plouffe: one of our new hires in Logistics...
I presume that means Dan disassembled the television and it now receives broadcasts from Alpha Centuri.
We just recently (last month) started to sell these tvs now at Best Buy, but never bigger than 55”
So before watching I'm wondering how integrated Amazon Alexa is in this thing?
I miss just "basic" tv's with simple inputs without any smart features...
It is in the damn C1 and you can not remove it. Only disable it.
Kirkland signature gaming pc is definitely in the future
Kirkland signature makes pretty good stuff, at least the stuff I’ve gotten
Linus, do you offer consulting services for companies to help make their products better? That would be interesting.
A little mistake
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The caption should be
"But being able to take advantage of ER "
It is IR
I love when they ripe marketing apart. I would really like to see a “dumb” TV round up or recommendation list. Not a fan of “Smart” emplimentions.
Companies refuse to accept the fact that there's a ton of people tired of smart TVs. They'd rather subsidize the TV with ads
@@joeykeilholz925 Yeah, the money they make off the ads is quite a lot. I suspect a decent amount of the reason why insanely cheap TV's aren't absolute garbage now is because the ads reduces the price they can sell them for.
@@lobsterbark It's a shame, sad times these are
smart or not it doesnt matter much these days, its a 20 dollar addon that most companies swallow the cost for for the marketing part. Just get a smart tv with a factory implementation, not a roku/fire stick one, they tend to only pop up when you specifically press the button for em, instead of being intrusive
Honestly its best to just ignore the smart TV part of smart TVs unless it forces you to use it, I often forget my TV is smart at all
I’m not hating on Amazon, but I don’t like the fact that they simply rip off small businesses products (not this product), sell at a lower price and make money while leaving the small business redundant. Knowing this fact isn’t going to stop anyone from buy or protesting against Amazon yet knowing this is a bit frustrating.
Straight from assembly line to landfill
misreading the title as "Amazon Basics has a TV show. Seriously." gave me very different expectations
The question that remains: How much has Nvidia already earned by mining for itself?
Every year, I get to laugh harder and harder at people with "smart tv's" as they get bombarded with more and more adds.
If you have to get a new tv, set it up without wifi if you can, or disconnect immediately after set up then use your own box
I use to work for Philips and their TVs where also contracted out. There is only a few oem manufacturers e.g. TCL being one and the other brands just buy the parts and make their own TV and marketing.
But 300 nits is what most base TVs put out. Same thing happened with a Hi-Sense, the settings take up half the screen and if you're trying to look at the picture to help you calibrate it's a PITA
"IR Receiver out" It says next to the port clearly labelled "IR EMITTER out".. come on guys lol
It's not for "being able to point your remote not exactly at the TV" it's four OUTPUTTING IR signals to control other devices with Alexa. It's a great feature that you guys totally misrepresented despite it being written directly above the port what it actually does
cry more lmao. the tv still sucks with or without this feature. totally moot point
@@jojivlogs_4255 the tv is otherwise dogshit, but as reviewers, they should talk about all the features and what they actually do.
@@jojivlogs_4255 They're a trusted tech source. It's literally their job to research the specs and features and present them in an entertaining way. This is why LMG exists. Script writers, editors, Linus himself, loads of people should have caught that one. The quality of the TV is irrelevant. The fact that the TV sucks, now THERE is the moot point.
@@ChrisWolf1 how is a qualitative conclusion about the product a moot point? a lot of people watch these videos to have an idea of what to buy. actual braindead opinion
@jojivlogs_ reading is hard for you I guess eh? Scroll up, slow down, and try again.
2:44 it's an IR emitter, not a receiver. It's designed to control other devices, not for controlling the TV.
It actually does both friend. Linus explained only half it's function admittedly. But he wasn't wrong.
I recently helped a friend buy a new budget TV. I ended up pointing him to a Best Buy (Insignia) Fire TV. A month in and I am advising him to return it and get a ROKU TV. He's had the sound stop working numerous times and the only fix is to reboot Fire TV. Problem is, Fire TV has no reboot menu item so reboot means unplug.
I serviced Samsung TVs back in 2019 and early 2020. The inside of that unit is basically identical to the low end models Samsung sells/sold.
Like, I don't just mean cables and layout. The main pcb and power/vss board are very similar, as are the back of the panel and the speakers.
I have a heavy suspicion that either Samsung is involved in this, or they source low end components from the same place as TCL.