This TINY TV Costs $20,000 - Flanders Scientific XMP550 

Tiny 55 inch TV, you just called me poor in tech language.

Me watching this on a 1080 LCD non-HDR Display: Ah yes, I can see the difference

6:12 Linus: "Dirt's not orange!" Aussies: "You've never been to Australia have you mate?"

I sold high end television for years and even been taught by Lucasfilm and certified in THX technologies, just gonna say this is one of the best done videos I have ever seen ever to show the differences and why such an expensive television is worth it. Excellent job folks you did absolutely stellar work here

Ok either shaved linus is AI or they are REALLY ahead with these videos schedule.

6:12 "Dirt's not orange" Lives in Australia, looks out window towards dirt. Yup, it sure is orange, with a tinge of red too.

Guy in my team used to work for a company that made display port KVMs for studios, they were basically display and audio pipelines implemented on FPGA. the amount of work that goes on to NOT add ‘corrections’ and have ‘what you see is what you get’ is wild.

I only just started watching this video and instantly noticed it was in HDR. Thank you LTT and keep up the good work!

I'm scared for the moment beard-less linus escapes hibernation... the end times are near

The attention to detail in this video is incredible, from the HDR display to the purposely dimmed website captures. Truly top-notch production!

This video made me question if I had a dead pixel on my monitor... Every time the camera went to Linus and Brandon, there was a single white dot on the screen in the exact same place every time.

I just want to take a moment to appreciate the LTT team for dealing with YT's wack processing and making sure these videos are available in 4k and everything else it is seriously so nice

Did anyone else panic and thought they had a dead pixel whenever Linus and Brandon are both on the screen?

When he said “the Samsung is more pleasing to my eye” I think it summed a lot of this up really well. For nearly everyone, and nearly all content, how it’s “supposed” to look matters far less than if looks the way the watcher wants.

I love how these days a 55" tv is 'tiny'

i love this new method of throwing linus in a part of the scene to fill in the viewer with more info and tidbits, idk if it was cause you guys left it out of the script or not but that is very smooth and i wouldnt know if thats fixing a mistake or just a bit either way, loving the progress keep things like this up guys good work

Pulling from the labs crew for more in-depth details is incredible! The added insight the labs members have on more specific/niche tech is a critical touch

I always appreciate the videos where they show us differences in screens and audio quality and I'm watching on my 8 year old computer monitor with built in 3w speakers.

The phrase "memory colors" immediately hit in a way that helped me understand why "reference" footage versus various display processing magic. If you're looking at something for which you have no frame of reference, it could look like anything at all and you will just accept it. If you're looking at something that your brain has an immediate reference for, differences stand out. But, as with all content, color matching is only as good as the palette designed by the color editor. Whatever was filmed by the camera will never be seen by the end user regardless of display; it goes through myriad filters and adjustments that (presumably) have taken into consideration it will be played back on a variety of displays.

the white pixel at 8:21 - 8:25 freaked me out, i just got new monitors and i was scared that i already got a dead pixel

MOM: Beard-less Linus isn't real. He can't hurt you❤ Beard-less Linus:HETZNER！！！

7:25 Right after he says "picking at" there is a cut. My heart sank for a split second as I thought I had dead pixels. Right side of Brandon's Hair and way off to the right of Linus' head lol

That 1 white pixel when on Brandon and Linus scene make me think i have a frozen pixel on my display -.-

I hope this does well because I absolutely love comparisons of high grade enterprise/mastering/EXTREMELY non consumer devices to consumer devices and in a lot of cases, the gap is closing. So it's always super interesting.

I love it when you review pro gear. I'm a 20+ year broadcast video engineer. I always love having the Sony OLED Trimasters, but these Flanders Sci monitors are looking good too. Also a note colorist Cullen Kelly recommends the LG C3 43" as a budget option for a reference monitor. (You still need to professionally calibrate it.)

Bearded Linus and not Bearded Linus in the same video? Amazing!

HDR is amazing and i am all there for it! Thanks for uploading this in HDR.

I have a 65” OLED LG G3, it’s been an eye opener from my old Non HDR LCD Panasonic 55”

I find it funny that for Linus a 55 inch TV is "tiny"

LTT has done many display videos in the past, and I'm happy to say this is the first (in my memory of watching LTT) that matches HDTVTest in terms of technical level.

For everyday users, a $250 option is more than enough. Understanding the high-end tech and appreciating its justification is a journey on its own.

This brought back memories of reviewing video output on a studio monitor. It was an old Sony CRT model, and only a grade 2 device, but the quality that it picked up and showed was tremendous. It was well worth it compared to any other display we tried by comparison, and that's before all the useful features such as a proper visual overscan display, colour masking and anything else available was used.

The camera filming Brandon and Linus show a white stuck pixel located mostly in the hairs of Brandon. Anyone noticed ?

This reminds me of when I was working a job at the Sony Store in the Galleria Mall in Dallas TX circa 2007, when Sony released the XEL-1: the world's first OLED Television. The screen was tiny, at only 11 inches diagonal, and it cost $2,500. Crazy how far we've come since then!

The LG OLED is a pretty standard “client” monitor alongside a colorist’s Flanders (or equivalent) just for anyone curious. Of course, proper pipeline, and paying a tech to professionally calibrate it still apply.

Love this and would love to see more content focused on SDI/Professional broadcasting and filmmaking equipment!

10:45 TCL is actually one of the few mass-market TV OEMs which is vertically integrated, including in the chips. This is quite impressive as they have budget-friendly offerings. Hence, I typically assume that they see it as not a part of their core business. Which is especially strange, given that the chip is something which can make or break a TV. Moreover, Samsung has a branch which designs and manufacturers chips.

Calling Hassan a “creator” is a big stretch

I remember back in the early days of FSI (mid 2000's) when they came by our shop to demo their first monitors. At the time they were more the less expensive version of the higher end monitors (like sony, dolby, etc). They brought a klein color sensor as well. It was an interesting demo, but hard to beat our CRTs at the time (blacks especially of course, we had large widescreen sony CRTs BVM-D32 I think.) Fun to see them rise to the top!

Awesome video! Was really interesting to see the difference between the TV's

Those reference displays are the reason directors shot movies in pitch black conditions and a regular person cannot see shit as a result. Even the highest-end, expensive TV under optimal viewing conditions will not allow you to see all the details of scene. Movie directors do live in a fantasy land.

Surgical monitors are very similar and they are fantastic monitors. Even going back to CRTs, these "broadcast" and medical monitors are far superior to what the normal person would get at home.

Tech monitor info series brings me so much happiness

Thank you for making this video in hdr

Flanders Scientific who happened to be in the neighborhood huh? So not only does he pray for God now, he also makes reference TVs

Bro that Mad Max still @ 11:26 is too dope. Screen cap that and send it to ya boy😂

I have tried a lot of different OLED TV's. By far, my favorite TV i have seen is the one i own. The LG C2 (and hopefully soon the C3). Not only is it amazing for watching movies, but gaming in 4K 120fps with gsync on my 4070 ti super / 7800x3d PC build really takes advantage of what the LG C2 has to offer. I went with the 42" and got it open box, but brand new, for $700. From PC, to PS5, to watching movies and shows, i truly belive it is the best tv you can get for its cost.

This is the most relatable LTT video to date.

Finally a great HDR showcase, LTT finally shot many of their videos in HDR, and they upload them in HDR, which is now becoming increasingly widespread in smartphones, tablets, oled monitors and TVs

Thanks for the HDR upload, I haven't seen much content in HDR on youtube. Gandalf's scene was kind of like a flashbang in a good way if that makes sense.

crazy and great job with later editing!

I watched it because it was in HDR, wish more videos were because it is always a treat :)

Seeing Hetzner Ads on LTT while being Hetzner customer since years, both in our company as well as for my private stuff. Feels good to have such a great, local sponsor on this channel.

Currently running 2x LG 27GL83A-B 27" QHD IPS 1ms NVIDIA G-SYNC. Interesting video.

Another HDR video. Thank you so much! Do it more, please!

can we appreciate how they setup the video sections to make people who skip the ad get talked to personally lmao

Glad to see the E251 and E171 BVMs getting a quick shout out in the end. They remain the absolute best SDR HD (and, with some qualifications, SD) displays ever. If only these Flanders monitors had BFI for motion clarity on 60fps content they'd be seriously compelling. The HX3110 does have it as an option if you buy a license for it.

I don't know if any one mentioned it, but @ 9:47 to 9:49, the Tree Bark seen on the XMP550 was MUCH clearer than the S95B. It was more noticeable around the top backside of his head,but the Grain definition depth is cleaner on this monitor. The difference to me was like night and day. Now i look again in still shot,the jaw area too shows lighter and more detail too. I am also viewing this @ 4K 30FPS on you tube on a ASUS PG32UQR 4K. Looks Amazing ! I've been hoping for Monitors to reach this level of Accuracy, per say to the Human Eye, without TOO much extravagance ! This Monitor comes close, you have to start somewhere ! It will only get better. That will be the eye poppers! Would I like to have it,YES. Can I afford it? NO ! Uncle left me at the bottom of the Hand-Out Line with Peas every Month ! 😓 Something like the XMP550 @ $20K is completely not within any possible reach on my budget. Even if it was $5K. FPGA's are nothing new,they are just creeping into this space now. They use this sort of tech in Engineering Procs so they can re-program them all the time on the Fly,so to speak. Another reason that makes FPGAs more expensive,more to it than that though. And they are faster than a cpu driven unit. Like everything,there are good and bad. Now if we can get some MORE NEW Mixes into the different screen technologies into the fray to help push us into in next Frontier,instead of same old same old. Looking at BATTERIES !! Don't get me started. I will end that note here. 😎

I feel like this is one video where having the main version be an emulated HDR -> SDR one and then a separate true HDR one would've been well worth it. I'm just using an affordable ultrawide and even the things that aren't pointed out are just mostly invisible on my monitor, because while it has very accurate colors it does not do darkness very well

at 7:29 that one pixel in the guys hair scared the crap out of me i thought my monitor had a dead one lol

Was extra enjoyable to watch this HDR video on my Aorus FO48U with HDR on. Super rare on RU-vid. 😊

This is a great video! Only thing is I wish that instead of the LG they could've used the Sony A95L to also compare the very best TV in the market

Finally something I can watch my VHS on.

The dead pixels on the camera sensor at 5:52 and 7:30 had me thinking my brand new (as of today) monitor had a dead pixel. (to the far right, a little above halfway up the frame)

I'm watching this video on my 250 USD MVA monitor from 2013 and I can confirm that I'm very satisfied by all these color differences and brightness halos on these 20000 USD TVs :)

Now do a blind test where you cover up every tv's stand and borders and then let's see if you can tell which one is the $20,000 one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

was NOT expecting an LTT video in HDR

I was watching this on a decent office monitor. Then i went and watched again on my S23 Ultra and there is a significant difference in everything. I knew there was gonna be a huge difference, but i rarely watch HDR content and it always amazes me when i do.

This makes me miss my old 60" plasma lol... back in 2013 I bought a Panasonic plasma, that was pretty much the end of the road for that display type, but I always loved watching films on it. The processing it did to the signal was pretty low, the dynamic range wasn't huge, but just something about the way the plasma produced the tones was so good to me. Now I have a 65" oled from Sony, I upgraded it in 2020 when we got a PS5 (I wanted something that could do HDR and 120fps), but the truth is the viewing angle is so much worse, the blacks even with strong local dimming are... not very even, and the processing this new TV does to everything is just mind numbing. Heck even switching from a Bluray to netflix requires changing the settings and often times Netflix has somehow entered a deal with Sony to not let you change many of the settings. I still have a media PC so I can bypasss Netflix's tom foolery that way, but I miss just having a TV with base settings and a solid screen. That being said this new TV is 4k, uses less energy, stays waaaay cooler which is nice since I live in Florida... but yeah. It's hard to understate just what a quality display can do in person.

i still have my old eizo monitor that came with the smoke suite back in the day, still today holds up

You really need to like start testing a lot more TVs from cheap to mid to expensive because it would definitely help a lot of people to select their TVs of what’s good and what’s bad

“Do you wanna experience true level!? We’ll do you?!” 🤣🤣

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

All you gotta do is dial back the contrast and saturation a bit and bump up the brightness a notch or two and there you go.

6:03 if you use filmmaker mode on Samsung TV you are basically watching content through lightly applied sepia filter so it doesn't surprise me that you would complain about color accuracy

Please more hdr videos! I did not know how nice it looks on my phone

The dead pixel or like... improper response of the camera that was recording Linus and Brandon was super distracting at times! Thought my monitor popped a mini-led at first, because it's not on every shot. Very interesting, and makes me wonder how many other videos it is in where it hid in the brighter scenes

This actually makes me want to buy this TV. The trees in the first scene just look so realistic. This also made me realize when I dont like LG TVs, their picture is always too cool looking where the warmer samsung looks better to me

From about 6:15 there's a dead pixel on your camera or some other anomaly when facing both you guys, i panicked thinking my 2 week old qled was imperfect but it's definitely there.

More pro video content!! Please!! I love it!! I'd love to know ypur take on Mac colorspace and display gamma issues!

That dead pixel on one of your cameras is very noticeable. It had me worried thinking my TV had a dead pixel.

So hard to appreciate through a notfilmmaker grade monitor, though youTube video compression.

These are intended for preview of movies to tune the color balances for the theatrical release. That is a very exclusive market and in no small part is why they are so expensive.

not connecting to the internet is what makes it stands out for me, most tvs now want you to connect to the internet so badly while also being horrible in every way.

That segway was one of your best ones 😂

I assume the Flanders arrived for review after being perfectly calibrating using $15k worth of colorimeters and Spectroradiometers. Can the same be said for the Samsung and the LG? unless they were all calibrated using the same gear and software, isn't this test sorta a waste of time to compare? I work in professional content creation and filmmaker mode out of the box isn't anything I would rely on. We run the monitor through calman studio with proper gear. Everyone can drool over Flanders, but perhaps its not the screen that's so beautiful, but instead the perfect calibration you are seeing. Years ago, rumor on the street was that their XM series OLEDs were $17k screens that were using THE SAME internal LG panels, but Flanders threw on some SDI ports , added internal LUT processing, added easy colorspace switching , but it in a custom branded chassis, and jacked the price from $3000 (consumer LG) to $17,000. So before everyone starts getting too excited about these Flanders, we should be asking once again where they are getting these panels internally. I can only assume they are getting the same panels as what Sony is using in their QDOLEDs. So if that's true, you are drooling over a Sony A95L with some bells and whistles on it, and most importantly a PROPER STUDIO LEVEL CALIBRATION. EDIT: As I get further into this video I now see Flanders is touting a tetrahedral LUT ....the C2 and G2 LGs started doing this too. good grief. You need to redo this shoot but calibrate the damn LG professionally. You guys may be getting tricked. I have a feeling a $4000 LG G3 (G4 will for sure be a better option) that is properly calibrated will be almost identical to this Flanders. AND THEN, if you see a difference between them still, who is to say that the LG OLED isn't more accurate than the Flanders. Are you saying just because it has a larger price tag, its more accurate? With that theory, if Kia charged $90k for a suv, does that price automatically make it better quality than a Mercedes?

I like how at the 7:30 mark they display a white pixel in the upper left middle of the screen. Literally thought I had a bad pixel there for a second!

I’m still rocking a Panasonic VT plasma. No need to change.

I would have loved to see a comparison between the reference monitor and a calibrated samsung and lg. I wonder if there are differences beyond the color accuracy. Obviously the brightness reproduction is also a distinct difference.

What are these guys using to stream the content to each TV? HDR video looks great btw.

That speck of dust on the camera lens (the camera recording the guys) that made me think I had a dead pixel !

This is a random question, but I noticed you didn't do any noise reduction processing at 11:38, but you did at 11:00, and it looks fantastic. A little soft, but overall, very nice. Is this just the built-in NR, or is it a plug-in?

eheheh, good to see you finally saw a professional production monitor!

Dang, the EOTF error on the LG G2 is quite poor at the low end. I wonder if that's straight up quantisation error or if there's something wonky with their temporal dithering.

The HDR of these videos are looking better and better

With the S95C's DeltaE of 1.5, I'd really like to see a comparison between that, the reference monitor, and the A95L which is supposed to handle highlights better. I think that'd be a much more interesting comparison.

Would there be an option to test apple tv calibration on regular TV compared to this expensive one? I wonder if there's any difference at all.

Linus is a great performer and speaker, possessing the ability to inspire belief and radiate a positive vibe in front of the camera. I never felt deceived.

I have a pair of mems laser projectors that can hit those very narrow wavelengths for color volume but they are not anywhere close to bright enough unless the screen is the size of a postage stamp

Thanks!