Portable Monitors. Any good? 

I was confused I didn’t see the Ol’ Mate Senny’s Huh Duh Six-Hungo’s

@@drcarrot415 I also missed the obligatory "Can you believe, no one bought this!?" in Mat's conclusion!

Anyone knows the name to this track? So weird listening to it here haha

@@itxofficial8281 I’m so hyped for the collab, lol. Dank pods occasionally comments on Mat’s videos and I hope some day it finally happens

@@drcarrot415 Yup, I noticed that too!! As a long-term Patreon supporter of Techmoan and a fairly recent Patron of Dankpods, I feel like a collab between these 2 is just meant to be. They got so many common interests, and sometimes their themes even coincidentally overlap.

Dankpods is a great channel!

Dude gets around and that channel of his isn’t even that old

Pretty sure Techmoan used that song first

That's what I was thinking lmao, I hope so :)

The name "Dankpods" immediately gave the vibe of a mildewy washing machine basin.

I learn, I learn. I get better!

qué?

I am from Barcelona!

"Eez difficult."

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1 Grit will improve that sound.

That would've been the best crossover since Robert Dunn of Aging Wheels crashed a Technology Connections video.

Freakish ears on a stand

Their styles would not gel at all

IKR, I'm like... hey, I know that tune!

omg yes

Ah... the freakish ears on a stand and the Hur due six hundgeos by old mate senn.

@@badi1220 senny boies

come down to see if anyone else noticed

I think it's great if this is used for audio comparison more widely across RU-vid! If you hear it a lot, you can build up a good baseline, compare it with something played directly through a high quality setup and overall just have a good benchmark / get a good feeling for it.

I thought that he would show a still image of Fawlty Towers when he said that.

@@diecarro79 my thoughts exactly

"Manuel" is the proper word for this... in French! ;)

Wall-E

That isn't even close to what Chinese comrades do to Russian language if they aren't wise enough to hire even a half-bad Russian proofreader (although recently I encountered a perfect user manual for a flashlight from AliExpress, in four languages: my native Russian, my almost native (32 years out of 40) English, and also German, and Japanese (of the latter two I have some vague idea) - and not only it is written and edited by a very good editor, it is also designed rather sensibly, considering all the intricacies of proper Russian typography (and that, among everything else I do for living or as a hobby, is my field of expertise for more than 20 years). I found NOTHING to complain about except some really minor stuff that would be forgivable even in an originally Russian manual for an original Russian and Russian-made product or device. Also, for Chinese, all Latin, Cyrillic, Amharic, Arabic, etc. symbols look pretty much like Chinese writing looks to us Westerners, and an average Chinese can hardly tell a from e, let alone i from L (so those NOKLA phones, - one of which has a place in Shenzhen Museum, one of many very fine tourist attractions of that great city, - were probably not only an evasion of trademark lawsuits, but also a product of such nonchalance). More pepper to your salt: ten years ago at Shenzhen Zoo, tiger and lion territory, they had posters with sayings and proverbs about tigers and lions. In Simplified Chinese, of course, but also in pinyin (transliteration - that could have been modern Chinese writing if a relevant decision would have been taken during the Cultural Revolution, like it happened in Vietnam during French occupation, or in Turkey after the Republican revolution of 1923, when Turkey abandoned the old Arabic-based Osman writing). What's the reason to have posters in pinyin, I wondered, as pinyin is a thing much less relevant for an average Chinese (especially Chinese kids) than Latin script or even English for an average Russian at, say, Novosibirsk or Perm zoo? The answer, in all seriousness, was that “it's for foreigners, they use Latin script, so they should understand what's written there”. So, even in the fourth most important (after Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou) Chinese city, at a major tourist attraction (Shenzhen Zoo is excellent, you have my word, and I've seen many a zoo), the designer had very little clue that not all foreigners can read any Latin. Probably the difference between transliteration and translation got, well, lost in translation...

No, is hamster!

@@fredbloggs5902 Que?

I know, nothing. I come from Barcelona.

Yes but don’t mention the war.

I see what you did there 😂..

huh duh six hungeos eh

*FRANK*

these deserve the 1 grit

...Na-no.

AAA my pkcell!

Releasing the audiobook on odd media. 8-track would be amazing.

The book should have a slide out powered coffee mug warmer in the sleeve.

@@AMacProOwner Please, any tape medium but 8 track. That's the one tape format I have zero nostalgia for.

@@AMacProOwner No, if there was an audiobook it should be on DCC, Minidisc, reel-to-reel and type 4 metal compact cassette tapes.

@@RCAvhstape Haha. It's more a joke since 8-track wouldn't make any sense whatsoever for an audiobook.

This ^ I noticed the Amazon listing had an HDR logo on the screen in the picture. I was thinking just what you said.

My chromecast does this as well. Reds turn brown on the home screen when hdr isn't set up properly

The joys of edid

Yeah if the white point and black point aren't set correctly, it will be very washed out.

Also worth trying is Manuel color space 0-255 (Full RGB) because the laptop can be detecting it as HDTV instead of monitor (blame HDMI), it may even have such setting in the onboard menu.

I'm pretty sure it is a misprint and meant 5 milliseconds.

Whoooooosh

At a horse track I worked at we had an adapted LED advertising billboard used for video where the fps were a bit slow.

And then it literally says 3ms response right below it. So it's wrong...twice

Indeed. Even that being a typo, 5ms is still horrendous and you can clearly see the ghosting/motion blur in this video.

Qué?

@@arthurvasey So?

It's a tiny Manuel that pops out and helps with the setup.

Actually that reminded me of was it one of the Space Quest games where a shuttle had "Manuel Auxveride" (manual override) as a virtual character for emergencies.

@@pev_ That's hilarious!

:’) This is a royalty free song so hopefully not. But you never know with RU-vid.

Ol' Mate Senny

hur dur six hungeo

Weird ears on a stick

Freakish ears on a stand

And it's almost the same price

Well the dock is basically just a USB-C to HDMI adapter with charging input.

It's not really a trick if it replicates exactly what the same thing as the Switch dock is doing. But yes, it is still interesting none the less.

I’m not sure - I haven’t been following their videos, sorry. I was just playing one of my old videos that I knew contained a RU-vid audio library recording.

@@Techmoan ah, he uses the exact same audio track to quickly test and demonstrate frequency responses etc. of headphones - it's a good coincidence then that smelled like a homage, in one direction or another!

@@vitaminjuk It's a good track. Some of the others from the same artist use drum brushes throughout which might give the impression that there's tape hiss present.

I was waiting for the freaky ears

Whats the name of the song?

Que?

There's too much butter on those trays.

@@Siarawaszympanemjest yes sir

@@Siarawaszympanemjest Uno dos tres

"Hyouu arrrre a heedious... or-rang-oo-tang!"

Death Ray Manta SE

Death Ray Manta

Thanks for asking. I noticed that as well. Lost hours/days/weeks etc to GW in Project Gotham Racing 2.

I never played Geometry Wars but that looked awesome, so also thanks for asking

Dankmoan or Techpods?

@@TheNugettinage I'll take Dankmoan but only if i can't have moanpods

My laptop is a beast! Something like these portable displays or even the 4K Sony Xperia Pro (which would also be my phone, which still doesn't justify its $2000+ price) would be doable compared to my chunck large display 7lb gaming laptop. Still I'd probably rather use my legal right to copy a DVD and play that on my phone. To be fair I don't watch many Hollywood style movies and usually just watch free video content off YT (like these videos) anyway so I'd ultimately have no use for this today. Still its neat to know niche devices like these exist and that ultralow TDP is very sexy (to a weird guy who is more focused on efficiency than raw power)!

Too much screentime for you. Turn that off and get to sleep! 😡

would be handy if of it was dustproof and had it water proof rating also for places you wouldn't want to take, use or put into? :-)

@@VariantAEC yeah, a home media server and ripping your discs is a great way to go. You can watch it on any of your devices, and move between them without losing your place. A lesser-used feature allows you to rip high bitrate larger files and then if your wifi or mobile data or CPU is too flaky for that bandwidth it can re-encode the video in real time up to the maximum your device can support. So it’ll look a lot better than regular streaming too. (This applies for pretty much all the home media servers, Plex, Emby, or other FOSS alternatives.)

Ever try one of those 20 some dollar projectors?

Que?

21 yo old me is going crazy for those.

I was once offered either a portable vcd player or a psp as a kid for my birthday, glad I chose the latter...

My 42 yo self is going crazy wishing I'd had something like this when I was a kid to use with the PS/2 286 I had... :P

Shithouse, most definitely.

I still wish there was something like a DexBook. Just a laptop shell to insert your phone into.

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep There is one: the SuperBook.

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep There's been a few of them over the years. All the way back to the Lumia 950 and 950XL, which ran WIndows 10 mobile/phone and had Continuum, which was basically Dex before Dex.

He was my favorite character to use in Mario Party 4.

nah pull out the 1grit

Hd6hungos not 650s

HD600's

Old mate Senny

Or any portable Pi setup. Battery power. Car computer. Etc.

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 well sure, but the 400 needs it more than most of the rest of them do, in my estimation.

They’re also used a lot by repair technicians.My friend does a lot of house calls and uses one.

Do you have a recommendation for a good one?

Especially when you can carry your setup around with as few cables as possible. As with using Thunderbolt.

Yep I use a travel monitor with my sffpc

Makes sense, just like those portable roll-out keyboards and tiny mice

Great observation! Makes a ton of sense.

I mean yes, but no. The LCD panels are manufactured by a component company and sold to integrators. Integrators include people who make TVs, monitors, laptops, HMIs...sometimes the manufacturer and integrator are the same company, but usually not. Of course the integrators can ask for special changes and stuff, but they aren't usually redesigning the component from scratch. For reasons I hope are obvious, the vast majority of these screens are 16:9. It's what most people want, so it's far and away what is most available in monitor/TV appropriate sizes. As far as actual size of the screen, the component manufacturers make standard sizes and they are only going to make something different if the client pays enough for it. It's easier as an integrator to pick a standard panel size and design for that rather than pay extra for something weird. So, there isn't really any need for an "overstock" theory. Somebody says "I want to manufacturer a small television", so they go to a LCD panel manufacturer and say "what sizes you got?". Then they design the TV around those sizes. No conspiracy.

@@nintendoeats Agreed. It's much cheaper and more profitable to slap a common display/driver board/backlight board combo together, add your input sourcing/decoding, power supplies, and any other features from readily-available off-the-shelf boards. As an added plus, a device can be sold as "Assembled from [whatever regulatory authority]-Compliant Parts," meaning it can _kinda-sorta_ pass those regulations without the expense and testing required of a wholly-new device.

I wish these companies would get back to making 16:10 ratio displays.

@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Funny you should mention it! I had written a sentence about the death of 16:10, but I decided it was distracting from my point. I too prefer 16:10. I kind of want to move to 1440p, but I have three 16:10 monitors and I'd rather not give that up.

The dock is really just a pass-through, and as long as you can use an adapter that will deliver enough power, you can get it to output. BUT BEWARE! Do some quick research on third-party docks, and you'll find that using anything other than Nintendo's own dock can risk bricking your Switch, and losing any save data that's not backed up with the Nintendo Switch Online service! Basically, Nintendo had the bright idea to make the Switch request really wonky power levels that do not follow USB-C standards. And non-Nintendo power cables or docks that aren't developed specifically for Switch with a certain capacitor or something like that can overload the console and kill it. TL:DR - For your console's safety, don't dock your Switch with anything other than an official Nintendo dock!

I wouldn't trust him. You might as well ask the cat.

@@TheRip72 Manuel knows nothing.

The dank pods testing song

The "freakish ears on a stand" or "some people use it for ASMR"

He’s from Barcelona.

"I know nothing!"

I can speak English. I learn it from a book! 🦌

I've used a similar monitor with the pi400 and a powerbank to use it in living room and it worked great. I don't have the skills or desire to try coupling it all together laptop fashion but technically it would work fine.

@@jjk-9 bang for buck, these are great devices. When my all in one pc (used as a plex media server) packs up, I will buy a pi and set that up as a low power server

I have a somewhat similar screen that I keep around as a ‘just in case’ device for the headless PCs and pi’s I have around the house. I don’t use it often, but when I do use it, it’s a total lifesaver.

I don't get it 🤔

@@k1ngN0rk In the original video he’s playing at 08:28 (shown 4 months ago, ‘Sony Bluetooth camera mic’) he manages to upset the dog in the garden of the house on the left. Sorry, it’s just my warped sense of humour.

I also think it's been attached or folded wrong.

Agree looks like it’s upside down .

Kinda what im working on as i found this.

doesn't the iMac do that

The 2021 iMac (M1) also has downfiring speakers, though... So... Yeah, I guess it doesn't always have to go from decent to miserable... More like the speakers in this screen were miserable to begin with.

@@NonsensicalSpudz yeah, but the iMac doesn't have the speakers directly on the table

@@LorenzoLeonardini ahh true

No, because it uses cheap crappy speakers. You can have really good speakers and face them down and it would sound really good.

5:15 DankPods collaboration confirmed? Would be great to see you guys review the same tech with your different styles 😁

since the early days of the Switch users reported that it was possible to use a USB-C hub to bypass the dock. However few (cheap) hub models bricked some Switch'es so I guess even people aware of it don't wanna try. IIRC it may have been fixed by Nintendo in a FW update though.

@@20cent I don't think Nintendo have fixed it, and I don't think they can. It happens because the Switch doesn't correctly comply to the USB Power Delivery protocol, and some external devices cannot handle the frequent and unpredictable changes in wattage that the Switch asks for, which damages the Switch. I don't think that's something that can be changed without a hardware redesign.

Also, mine came with a rubbish little stand, but has 4 screw holes for a wall mount on the back, so I made my own case/stand out of a second hand annual cut down to size then stickerbombed and covered with clear vinyl. I'm quite proud of that

How about 10 years ago?!?

@@Journeyman.71 10 years ago was 2011, which was right when i moved to east coast USA...i had a really good laptop at the time, and the ipad was created in 2010. Back then i probably would have thought "oh, that's cool", doubtful it would have completely blown people away though

@@Journeyman.71 same difference lol

@@Journeyman.71 10 years ago we would've been like: "okay, it's an iPad but without the computer parts. Or, a really slim computer monitor. Fine, but what's this ovular plug type?"

ok

@@memmoman stfu

@@memmoman n_wordd

@@memmoman i give you midlefinger my friend

@@memmoman fakiou_my_nword