 PC gaming from the couch. In many ways, it's the holy grail, but it takes a few special ingredients to make it work. Bringing your computer into the living room, well, that's easy enough. And these days, there are plenty of powerful, small form factor machines that look perfectly at home in your entertainment unit. Then there's the wireless controls. Well, fortunately cordless peripherals have made huge performance and battery gains in recent years. And now they fit nicely inside these cushioned lap boards. Sorry, couch wood. And then finally, there's the TV, which is probably 4K and definitely bigger than your gaming monitor, but usually only 60 Hertz and bound to suffer from dog slow input lag. So yeah, the TV is basically always the weakest link when it comes to living room PC gaming setups. Or is it? This right here is the HP Omen X Imperium 65, the first production BFGD or big format gaming display to reach our studio. But could it possibly be worth the diaper filling price of $5,000? The Lee and Lee 011D has just been given a facelift by Razer. Now compatible with Razer chroma devices, it also comes with customizable underglow powered by Razer Synapse 3. Click the link below to get a chance to win one for yourself. If you found yourself salivating over our review of the 4K 144 Hertz ASUS PG27UQ gaming monitor last summer, then the TLDR is this. This puppy here is just about as ballin' as that $2,000 panty butter was, but at over four times the surface area. It's pretty much the TV we have always wanted. Like I am already trying to figure out how to get this video done as quickly as I possibly can so that I can just take it home and play games on it by myself in a dark room for all time. Why you might ask? Well, because the Imperium 65, like all BFGDs right now, is guaranteed to have a laundry list of vital stats, including 4K resolution, G-Sync Ultimate, which means not only G-Sync, but also HDR, a 120 Hertz native refresh rate, ultra low input lag, and as a total bonus, a built-in Nvidia Shield TV. I mean, I already have one of those, but like, hey, values value, and those things are worth like 180 bucks on their own. So then, let's go through each of these points in finer detail, starting with appropriately resolution. It's 3840 by 2160 UHD, so you can get inside of two feet from this thing before you start seeing the individual pixels. Now it's thick by modern TV standards, but that's for good reason. It uses a direct rather than edge LED backlight with full array local dimming across 384 zones, which means they're just under five square inches each, and they managed to sustain brightness on this thing of 750 nits with peak brightness of 1000 nits, earning this puppy the DisplayHDR 1000 certification. Along with that, of course, comes great colors. So it's an 8-bit plus FRC panel, but in our tests, it achieved over 94% of the DCI-P3 color space, and it's got professional grade color accuracy right out of the box. Also, while they are by no means OLED level, the blacks are pretty deep because it uses a VA panel. So if you have black bars on your content, it's not nearly as distracting as it might be on an IPS type display. With that said, for strictly movie watching, the Imperium 65 was never gonna be a great value. So let's talk gaming. Now this is far from the only TV with a 120 hertz refresh rate, but the difference is that it's real. Like the actual screen refreshes at full 4K resolution, 120 times per second. No dropping down to 1080p, no frame interpolation BS, and it can actually even be overclocked to 144 hertz by exposing the option through the on-screen display. We were able to get a stable overclock with no problems, and the experience is just buttery smooth. It's got all the modern G-Sync features, like support for window mode and Fast Sync, V-Sync, and No Sync options for if you somehow get FPS higher than the display's maximum refresh rate, which would take some serious hardware at 4K res at this point in time. One of the biggest drags about gaming on a conventional TV, though, is something that you won't find on the spec sheet, input lag. That little delay between moving the mouse and seeing the action on the screen. Now there are plenty of TVs out there with input lag around the 50, 60, or even 70 millisecond mark, which is pretty bad since 30 milliseconds is what would be considered noticeable. As for this unit, honestly, it feels like a gaming monitor. Now we measured lag times of about 30 to 35 milliseconds, but keep in mind that our manner of measuring now measures the delay of the entire chain, from mouse to PC to game engine to display electronics to pixel response times. So the display lag is lower than our measurements show. Now we do have some tools on the way that should help us get more accurate results, and I plan on doing a follow-up video where I actually bring one of these puppies home and decide for good what's going to live in my living room. But for now, let me just say it this way. This TV feels responsive AF. But everything we've said so far is gonna be the same for all of the Nvidia BFGDs that are coming out. What makes HPs offering different? To be frank, not a lot. It's mostly just down to the physical design, which in my opinion is kind of a mixed bag. One of my favorite things about this display is the little light bar that they put by the IO. Isn't that awesome? You just wave your hands and it lights up. This might seem trivial, but it can be really hard to plug in a cable, especially with your TV mounted tightly against the wall. And like trying to hold your phone as a flashlight in your mouth rarely improves the situation. Speaking of wall mounting, this set is also interesting because it comes with a sound bar and offers two different ways of standing it up. The first way is to attach these beefy matte black legs to the TV. And then according to the frustratingly brief instructions, just kind of slide the sound bar underneath, I guess. Now it's kind of inconsequential, but this method felt kind of weird because we weren't actually attaching the sound bar to the TV, even though they come together in the box. So then if you wanna do that, then you use method number two, where you don't use the legs and instead you mount these brackets to the sound bar first and then everything to the bottom of the display, which by the way, takes forever because you can't just lay the display down on the table like the instructions say, because the bloody sound bar is thicker than the display, meaning that you will cross thread the screws, which you can barely turn because the Allen key doesn't fit. Anyway, look, it doesn't matter. We got it done, but if all that sounded like it's not worth the hassle, then mission accomplished, I guess, because don't set it up this way unless you're going to wall mount it because it's tippy to the point of being very dangerous. Like this thing is puppy crushingly heavy. On the subject of wall mounting though, that works great and I was very pleased to see a standard face amount with no curvature and no nonsense, but don't expect to get that sexy flush mount look because this TV, as I alluded to before, is really thick. And then again, the sound bar makes it jut out even more than it absolutely has to. You know what? The sound bar, overall, it's just kind of a contentious issue for me. So on the one hand, it is nice that a $5,000 TV comes with speakers that are at least halfway decent, though to be clear, not amazing. But on the other hand, I mean, isn't it fair to assume that most people who are on the market for a $5,000 display also have money for decent speakers? So I guess that's a tidy transition into the Imperium 65's weak points. And the first one is a real doozy, screen uniformity. The edges and particularly the corners have this sepia-toned, gramazatic, almost dirty look to them when you're looking at white or a bright background. Now in fairness, I wouldn't notice it in a game where I'm typically pretty focused on the crosshair right in front of me. But once you see it, it's hard to unsee it if you're doing something like web browsing or really anything that's light colored. Also, there's some pretty noticeable vertical banding going on. And these things contributed to, while using it, just this feeling of having bought an oversized gaming monitor versus a premium television. And it gets worse. One of the biggest improvements to TVs in the last few years has been their nearly perfect off-axis viewing experience, at least to a degree, pun intended. And the BFGD falls well short of what I would consider to be acceptable for a large living room viewing experience where someone, like even on a couch like the one I'm sitting here on right now, someone is gonna end up either off on the side or on a beanbag chair over there, and they are not gonna have as good an experience. Both color and contrast are affected, but it's the banding and the halos around bright objects because of the local dimming that are truly distracting. Now, they get better if you turn the local dimming off, but that's not what I wanna do when I'm gaming or watching a movie in HDR on my $5,000 display. And finally, keep in mind that, like anything using DisplayPort 1.4, running 4K at 144 hertz comes with the trade-off of Chroma 422 subsampling rather than 444, which we discussed in more detail in our PG27U Q review. Also, the screen takes a good 10 to 12 seconds to turn on. Woof. And when it comes to HDR support, the Imperium does not support Dolby Vision instead only offering HDR 10, which HP somehow thinks can be appropriately described as one of the most ambitious HDR standards. Yeah, okay. In conclusion, this display is kick-ass, and I really, really wanna play with it, and then clean it and tuck it in at night. The thing is that I already have it. It's here, and HP sent it to me to review. So then, yeah, if you're a billionaire, you should go get one right now for your dedicated gaming salon. But I just have a harder time recommending this to anyone for whom $5,000 is a stretch. And here are the reasons. Number one, while I've been referring to it as a TV, it isn't, strictly speaking, a TV. It's actually missing some TV features, like, for example, a TV tuner. I don't personally consider that a big deal because I don't remember when the last time anyone used their TV's onboard tuner was, but it's an important enough a distinction that HP sent us an irate email because we kept calling it a TV, and they were like, no, it's a display. So fine, I'm mentioning it. There you go. Two, it's really tough to push AAA games past about 70 FPS at 4K. And the thing is, if you're not gonna game at either 4K or 120 hertz, or more specifically, both of them, then you might as well save yourself some cash with a FreeSync 120 hertz 1080p TV. Then, perhaps most importantly, three. Within the next year, we're gonna see a lot of the gaming features that make the Imperium so great start to appear in mainstream TVs. Sets with HDMI 2.1 are due out this year. That means 4K, 120 hertz, and again, with FreeSync support. So then, as long as they have low input lag, and a fair number of TVs out there do now, they'll probably offer up a very similar gaming experience compared to the BFGD, but they could be as much as a few thousand dollars cheaper. So this was an amazing product concept that addressed a huge gap in the market when Nvidia unveiled it at CES 2018. Now, it is a bit of a tougher sell. Do you ever wonder what your car is trying to tell you when the check engine light turns on? Well, an OBD2 scanner can help, but it can be complicated to use as it can produce hard to decipher codes. Well, Fixed offers you a better solution overall with its included OBD2 sensor and smartphone app for Android or iOS devices. 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