Unboxing a GIANT The 110-Inch Hisense UX Championship Edition

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So, I tend to live my life by the mantra "Go  big or go home," and we are definitely doing   that this year. You have already seen us unbox  some absolutely massive TVs on the channel, and   we've got another doozy for you today. Today, we  are going to dig into the Hisense 110-inch UX TV.   I feel like we've got a little bit of experience  going for us here, but no doubt this is going to   be a little bit of a challenge. You know, we're  a little space constrained, but we just want to   take you through the entire process so that you  know what it would be like if you had this done   at your home. Of course, I would highly suggest  that you have professionals take care of that,  

and I believe that's actually included with the  purchase of the TV. Not for us, though. Actually,   to be clear, I think Hisense would have paid to  have it set up, but then we wouldn't get the whole   unboxing experience for you guys, right? So that's  why I've pulled in my friends. We've got Zeke,   Chris, Peter, and Greg in the house to get this  TV unboxed. Huge thanks to those guys; there's   no way we could do this without them all here.  So, without further ado, let's dig into this.

[Music] Oh, that's right! The price has not been  announced. That's one of the benefits of being   a reviewer—you get this stuff before everybody  else. One of the cons, if you will, is that you   don't always necessarily know what the thing is  going to cost. We do expect it to be somewhere   between $10,000 and $20,000, which is... that's  a huge range, right? It's going to be expensive.  

But if you compare what this thing can do with  a large-format projection screen and a projector   that could get maybe half as bright as this thing  could, you're spending that much money anyway. So, looking at the box, it's a very large  box, obviously, but you'll notice it says   "Championship Edition." If you were unaware,  Hisense is partnered up with the NBA—they are   the official TV of the NBA. And I have been told  that, along with the purchase of the 110-inch UX,   you also get a whole bunch of really fun  NBA swag. What all that entails, I'm not  

entirely sure. Hisense is sending that to me, and  hopefully, I'll be able to show you that as part   of the review. But you do get a lot of perks  if you spend such big bucks on a TV like this. Alright, I'm going to start removing clips, and  we're just going to see what happens. Alright,   so typically these gigantic TVs tend to open  like a gigantic book. We saw that with the  

previous model that we worked with. Not sure  that's going to be the case with this guy,   so we're kind of figuring it out  as we go along, which, honestly,   I think is like half the fun, right? So, there's  a strip of tape back here that I almost missed. This did arrive on a pallet, by the way, and it  took about three guys to get it into the studio,   but they did a great job with that. Like I said,  

professional installation, I believe, is going  to be included with the purchase of this TV. Alright, so I feel like this box is just going  to fall to pieces on us. Alright, time for some   help to step in. I think, you know what, where do  we want to put this box? Let's just roll and get   these outside onto the patio if we can. Big reveal  of the foam! Wow, that is some heavy foam. Part of  

it is because we've got gigantic legs, and here,  let's do a quick check to make sure these will   actually fit on our entertainment cabinet. I think  they will. Come check this out. It is just barely   going to fit, but it is going to fit. It's going  to fit well—we'll have about a quarter of an inch. Bag of goodies! Got Hisense's remote—exactly  the same as the U7N, actually. It’s kind of a   brushed metal look, but it's actually plastic.  Just throwing some stuff on the floor. Yeah,  

we'll figure this stuff out later. A couple of  AAA batteries. Let’s get these big cardboard   pieces out, and I think we’ll just shove these  off to the side for now, so they are handy. Side foam—you know, so far this is a lot  like most of the TVs that we unbox here;   it's just at a bigger scale. This little symbol  indicates to me that we probably want to cut this   box apart, which makes a lot of sense, 'cause I  don't think we'd want to lift it out of there,   right? Let's—actually, Greg, will you help me  move this out into the room just a little bit,   please? That should be fine right there, hopefully  not too far. What do you think? Should I look at   the instructions, or are we good just kind of like  winging it? Yeah, this is the front of the TV. Oh,   you know what I bet we're supposed to do?  Slide it out of the box. Now, maybe I should  

have read the instructions. Well, you know what?  If we aren’t going to have to lay it face down,   then that's not a problem. We can actually  afford to slide it forward a bit. Here we go. It’s a partial reveal, just to tease! Strip this  down a little. Yeah, man, you think you're going   to get used to it, but you just... you never  do. Okay, so what it's telling us to do is pull   each side piece of foam out, which is going to  expose the place where we can put the legs. So,  

the center piece of foam is going to keep it  elevated enough that we can put the feet on.   Pulling the side pieces of foam out will  expose both mounting locations. So, yeah,   depending on how wide your media stand is,  you can put the legs in two different places,   so it can go on a narrower media stand. I am  going to measure before we do anything else,  

though. So, the total width of  this TV is—it’s almost 100 inches,   and I know for a fact that this guy right  here is less than that. Yeah, we got 80   or 79. We'll measure between the mounting  locations before we make a final decision. Alright, okay. Alright, so it's too much. Yeah,  we gotta go with the inside mounting location.   Alright, so we don't have great light back  here—y'all will have to forgive us for that—but,   oh, so there are different heights that you can  do. Okay, you know what? I'm doing whatever that  

height is because I can get this done right now.  One, two—Greg, would you be willing to grab the   other leg for me, please? There we go. That's  better. Gotta make sure I'm getting it at the   same height as the other one, which, eyeballing  it, appears to be this. So, I could make this be   a little bit more low-slung, but for the sake  of simplicity, I'm just going to go with this   mounting location. Just know that if you wanted  it to sit right down on your media cabinet with   no space at all, you can, or if you want to get  a little more height out of it to afford room for   a soundbar—I'm sure Hisense would like to sell  you one of those as well—that is also possible. Alright, solid-feeling legs, so surprisingly,  we're about ready to lift this onto the BDI   cabinet. There's just one problem—there's  already a Hisense TV there. But since there is,  

let's do a little comparison to see what this  TV looks like relative to a 65-inch TV. Okay,   so I figured we'd take a close look at the back of  the TV now, because I don't know when we're going   to be back here again. As I mentioned before, we  do have two handles on each side. These can be   easily removed—it’s just a Phillips head screw.  So, if you're going to wall-mount this thing—and   yes, you can wall-mount it—you'd remove the  handles, obviously. But these things are   absolutely essential just for getting the TV out  of the box, let alone for the rest of the setup.

As we move in towards the middle, we see we  have some—we’re going to call them subwoofers,   but we use that term loosely. Obviously,  these are fairly small drivers,   but we have a total of four transducers  here. This handles all of the bass for   the television. There's supposed to be a  pretty advanced speaker system built into   this. I'm noticing that there are vent holes  at the top of the TV for up-firing speakers,  

so it's going to try and do some kind of Dolby  Atmos thing for us. We'll evaluate how well   it does in the actual review. Just wanted to  mention that without these bass transducers,   this TV is going to sound kind of empty, hollow,  maybe even a little thin and tiny. You don't want   that out of a 110-inch TV—it needs to sound as  big as it looks, so this was absolutely essential. And then, on the far side of the TV, we have  our input bay. We're going to take a closer   look at that during the review. For now, I just  wanted to point out that it does allow a really  

good amount of space. Since it is a thicker TV,  we've got a nice deep pocket here for the inputs,   which means that you can use fairly stout  HDMI cables if you need or want to and not   worry about there being enough room for  them. Although I will say that if you   do a flush-mount job on this TV, getting  access to these is not going to be easy.

And as long as I'm looking at it, I'm  seeing the, uh, RG6 connection there. Um,   that would be an ATSC 3.0 tuner, as you would  find in just about all of Hisense's ULED TVs. So,   now that we've got the feet on, let's go  ahead and get it out of the foam. Oh gosh,   going the wrong direction.  Sorry, guys. And... go, yeah. Oh dude, are you all right? Did you bruise  yourself? So, one thing we noticed—if you're   listening, Hisense—um, I understand why you have  the vertical orientation on the handles here,   and I think that's fine for up top, but, you know,  we hurt ourselves a little bit lifting this just   now. It would really help if this handle  was actually in the horizontal position as   opposed to vertical. I think I said horizontal  earlier—what I meant was vertical is fine up  

top, but horizontal would be better down at the  bottom. Um, otherwise, yeah, you're putting a lot   of pressure just on your index finger there.  Anyway, if you set this up yourself, be very— [Laughter] —careful. So, let's just kind  of hang here for a second, Peter. I mean,  

if we align this with the top of the TV,  you can very clearly see that it is, uh,   so much smaller. We'll go ahead and put it down  now, and yeah, this TV is not quite four times the   size of a 65-inch TV. Obviously, you would need a  130-inch diagonal screen to do that, but, uh, it   is well larger than a 65-inch TV. And for anyone  out there thinking right now, "Who needs a TV this   big? There's no way that, uh, this is not going to  be overwhelming in the average-sized living room,"   I'm here to tell you it's not as overwhelming  as you think. And, as a matter of fact, you get   used to it faster than you might think. Is it a  bit of an eyesore from a decor perspective? Uh,   yeah, I think so. Like, if you just put this in  the main living room, and this is the first thing  

that people see when they walk into your house,  it can be a bit much. But, instead of getting a   projector and a screen for your dedicated home  theater or your den or any purpose-built room   for entertainment and watching TV, this works out  great. Oh, okay, yeah. I mean, let's just get it   up onto the cabinet in the first place. Careful,  there you go. Holy crap, I'm going to need to   get the, um, stool to get all the plastic off. I  didn't think about that—we probably should have   stripped all the plastic off of this thing before  we got it up there, but I was so excited just to   get it into place that I kind of forgot about  that. So, um, yeah, I'm going to grab the step   stool, and we're going to peel all the plastic  off of this and, uh, try and get some ASMR in   there for you too. It looks insane on my cabinet.  It does look insane on this cabinet—crazy, dude.

Alright, so the energy guide sticker says that  we're looking at $176 estimated yearly energy   cost. That is based on this thing being  in ECO mode, and you already know it's   not going to be in ECO mode. The ECO mode caps  the brightness, so we're going to go ahead and,   uh, turn this thing up to torch level. Although,  let's be honest, if you're buying this TV, you're   probably not hurting to pay your electric bill—I  don't know, I don't know what that life is like. That's one layer.

Dear planet, we're sorry. Yeah, the  side-firing speakers on this thing are— —crazy. I actually think they went through a  few different design iterations for these, uh,   side speakers. Um, they definitely wanted the  space to have, like, a proper speaker system,  

but they didn't want to go like Sony  did years ago, where you actually had a   strip of speakers on the edges of the TV, and I  think this is a pretty good compromise. I mean,   it's kind of a "you're screwed if you do, you're  screwed if you don't," right? Some people might   complain that the speakers make everything more  bulky, uh, but you know that if this thing wasn't   outfitted with, like, a really serious audio  system, people would be clowning it for that.   That's why I'm always talking about, like, design  compromises—like, you can't have everything. Um,  

so you really have to just decide what's the most  important. Alright, this is my favorite part—like,   we got all the, the little film off,  this is the big one. We ready? Okay. [Applause] What do you think? I think it's pretty good.  I'm actually setting a bad example—you could   suffocate [Music] yourself. Hi, we're just  unboxing TVs today. Here we go. TV looks good. Um,  

I just... I want to turn it on so bad. In just  a second, you're going to see this TV turned on,   um, but we're going to take a quick pause and  try to get this room put back together. I'll   see you in a second. And I'm curious about that  because, I mean, if you compare it to, to the 65,   this is, you know, um, this is, I think,  kind of the standard for their anti-glare,   and we're getting none of that on this TV. Um, and  I got to wonder why. Like, even if you figure it's   going into a dedicated room where you can control  the light, I don't know, maybe they feel like   it is so powerfully bright that it's not going  to matter that it doesn't have anti-glare. Um,  

but that is definitely going to be something  we have to talk about in the review for sure.   Alright, plugging it in, and if, uh, experience  holds true, this thing is going to come right   on. There we go. Now we've got some setup to do,  but, uh, while this is starting to boot up... oh,   full-on NBA Championship Edition! Wow,  they built that into the, uh, firmware,   huh? That's impressive. You only really see that  when you, like, do your first boot-up, so it's  

not like you're going to see that every time  you turn on your TV, but that's kind of clever,   right? We're going to compare the 65 to the 110 in  a moment, but I suspect that remote would actually   end up operating both TVs, so we're just going to  hold off on powering up the 65 for a minute. Um,   and for your convenience, we're going to do, uh,  a little bit of time-lapse on this thing for you.   Boom! The old man—what are you trying to tell me?  Alright, let's plug in the 65. Already though,   look at the difference in the color saturation  and the brightness. Um, I mean, yeah, even if   you get down at an angle, like, the 110 is so much  better. And actually, also, you can tell that the  

gloss—the gloss adds luster, yeah, um, to this  too. Boy, I really got them synced up, but like,   yeah, there's way more contrast in the UX. Now,  keep in mind, this is the U7, so there's an 8   above this that would be closer to the UX, but  like, there is a very clear difference between the   two. Crazy that the shop link is lingering so much  longer here. Oh, you know what? Got money? No,   no, no—you—that's hilarious. I think it's  stuck. Well, also, this thing's in ECO mode,   so you haven't seen anything yet, so at least the  color temperature should be similar between the— —two. Oh my gosh, look at the difference in  the intensity on the yellows. Yeah, well,  

I'll break it in, but I'm not—I'm  not excited about this sound. Okay,   so we can't get out of here until I do some  first impressions, uh, so let's do that now.   It's huge. We knew that already. Uh, I like the  glossy screen to a certain point—it's going to  

make it a nightmare to shoot in here. Um, but  I am a little bit concerned about how it's   going to work in rooms where you've got natural  light. I mean, this is a very big mirror, guys,   so I'm a little bit concerned about that. Uh,  first impressions of the sound: for such, uh,   an elaborate speaker system, I was hoping for  a little bit more, to be honest with you. Now,   I am going to break it in—uh, speakers  do need breaking in, that is a fact—so   I'm going to give it a good run, and then we'll  re-evaluate after that. But if you get this TV,   get it out of the box, and you're thinking, "Boy,  for so many speakers and all this other stuff, I   was expecting more sound," so was I. But we still  need to play with some settings, break them in,  

and again, let's wait for the review until we  settle on something final there. In terms of   the picture quality? Well, I mean, I don't have  to tell you that it's absolutely blowing away,   uh, the 65-inch U7. It's a much more advanced TV.  It's a more advanced, uh, processor, more advanced   backlighting. It is capable of getting silly  bright, for sure—I can't wait to measure it and   see just how bright it gets. Uh, but the contrast  so far looks fantastic, and we know that Hisense,   uh, does great black levels, right? Um, we do  want to check out the blooming and the halo, Um, but if any Hisense TV is going  to mitigate that, it'll be the UX,   so we'll be taking a really close look at that.  Uh, can't say much about the color yet. I did  

notice in one of the reels that we watched  that the reds were a little bit juiced up,   so we might have to do some adjustment on this  TV. We'll say, if you buy this TV and you're   spending that much money, you might want to  think about getting a professional calibration,   honestly. Uh, but again, we'll test  it, we'll see how it turns out. Um, 100% solid build quality, though it is  heavy. Um, but it's made of quality components,   at least from the exterior, right? Uh, and so I  have a good degree of confidence that this TV is   great time to do it because you will not want to  miss that video. Subscribing makes sure that you  

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