 There are a couple of major trend lines that we can follow in my life. One is that as my kids get older they're getting louder and more annoying, meaning that I'm gonna need a quiet place to just go and spend time just with myself where they can't bother me. Number two is that the transportation industry is changing to the point where we're not gonna need personal vehicles anymore once autonomous cars take over the world. So we're gonna get right out ahead of both of those trend lines and sponsored by LG, I am gonna be converting one of the base of my two-car garage into a home theater setup. And because I'm a cheapskate, we're gonna be doing it as cheaply as possible. So, let's get right into it. These things make me feel more suburban than cleaning out my garage. Don't worry, this is not used. My kids aren't even in diapers anymore though. Paintball gear I haven't touched in years. Next thing, I just want to make the space like a little bit more livable. Right now it looks very very garage-y and cobweb-y, you know, stuff like that. Thankfully for that, there's the Dyson V-t- no, I'm just kidding guys. I'd probably fill up the reservoir on that thing like four times vacuuming this place out. Now under normal circumstances for a job this small you would just break out the brush and roller, but I treated myself to an airless sprayer recently. So we are gonna spray it. This may be a mistake. It's been a while since I've used this thing so this could be interesting. Most important thing when you're painting though is always to wear the proper attire. LTDstore.com. Actually, I really shouldn't wear this. I don't want to destroy it. No one ever talks about this, but guys, this is what happens to every shirt that you bring home for someone from your vacation. They don't care about your vacation. Well, it's been a while. So let's start with the most critical parts that we're very likely to see in the finished project here. Just kidding. Let's go with the top of this. Now normally I would mock anyone who suggests just lay it on thick and do it in one coat, but we're in a bit of a hurry here. So we're just gonna lay it on thick and do it in one coat. Okay. No problem. So for anyone who was wondering if it was worth it to set up the sprayer, the answer is... hard to say. Is that even an improvement? Was that even like worthwhile? Because it's hard to tell if we don't take this off. Yeah, that does look better doesn't it? Let's bring in the TV. So this, oh my goodness. It's 120 pounds. Is LG's newest 2019 Nanocell and this is the biggest TV that I will have ever had in my house. It is 86 inches and even LG knows that this thing is a two-hander. If you know what I mean. Okay, so are you actually reading the instructions for a change? I mean this thing is so big and so heavy we might actually need to read the instructions right on packet. Well, it looks like it's one of the it's obviously one of the boxes that you take off over the top. Okay, but it also says that you should open this first. Grab the manual. Look at the manual. Oh, alright. There's a picture of a guy holding a square. I think he's reading. I mean... There's so much box. Look at this. You have to like walk around it. You have to travel. Have we reached a practical limit to how big TVs can be before people cannot transport them into their homes? This one also has a feature that LG calls nano accuracy, which is all about keeping the colors looking the same regardless of how wide your viewing angle is and actually, you know, it's funny you you would think that we wouldn't need that in a roomless size, but with a TV this size sitting dead center you could be looking at the top corner of it from a 15 degree angle. Especially if we have to get closer to it than you normally would because this is a huge TV and not not that big of a room. Yeah. Space TV. The TV from space. You know what? I actually think I remember why they put them in these. If they're being shipped by container, if you end up in the top container, you can actually get a lot of sun and a lot of heat. So they roast the TV like a potato. No, no, the shiny sides on the outside, James. Oh. I hope that's not how you roast your chicken because you've been eating a lot of raw chicken, dude. So the instructions say we need a table to set it up. Fortunately, we've also got furniture for this setup here. I think we have a coffee table and this thing's so big though. It's it's gonna just dwarf the coffee table. We can make it work. So I figured since we have this as our backdrop, I thought I would double down on the old wood and go for a complete like 90s aesthetic with this furniture. And by 90s, I mean it was old in the 90s. I'm into old wood. Hit it! I haven't actually seen all the furniture yet. So, uh, oh wow. So you want this to look like someone's man cave full of the cast-off furniture they picked up on Craigslist for free 30 years ago. I want it to be like the basement in that 70s show. I mean the thing is 86 inches, you know sounds like 30% more than 65 inches, but it's not. It is a lot bigger. Is this even wide enough? Did we check this before we- It's wide enough for the stand. Got it? Okay. It's only about two inches different. All right, very sure this is not the right way to do this. Okay, here we go. Got some good screwing. Thanks. Thought you'd like it. Do you want some depth of field? Some depth of field? You want to be able to walk behind and do the cables easily? Oh, no, cuz we can just open the door. Science! What's up now? Yes! And one two three, oops. Oh, thanks Andy. This is a three-person job setting up this TV. I'm trying to use my forearm against the panel so it's not too much pressure in a small area. Oh my goodness, is this stand gonna fit on this thing? Like is it deep enough? Look how close we are to hitting the roof. Can you just put it on there? Barely. Whoa. That is a lot of TV. It actually looks so thin relative to how wide it is. Yeah, even though it's not thin at all. I'm okay to be- I'm not saying it's unreasonable, like it's got full array local dimming, so I understand like it has to be a little bit thicker you get that contrast, but like it's not thin by today's standards. Yeah, compared to like- Like an LG OLED. Yeah. Uh, James, do we have any other equipment that we're planning to hook up to this thing or what? It's a soundbar. Right. I don't know where we're gonna put it. Right. This stand's really big. Well, the TV's really big. And naturally this is like not just some pin or little soundbar. It's Dolby Atmos 570 watt. The biggest, baddest one they make. Yeah, perfect. That's- All right, cool. I mean, it's cool, but it's like, where do we put it? Now, tell me, was your idea to mount the soundbar to the front of this? My idea is really stupid. Okay. It's not like really usable. Okay, you grab this end. Yeah. And go over there. Yeah. Pull out your drawer. I'm not pulling out my drawer. Pull out your drawer. I will humor you, but we're not doing this. No, that's terrible. I mean, it's on there. This is a very cool feature. Wow. But I gotta say it feels a little out of place in the garage. No, man, we're classing up the joint. Just wait. Classing up the joint? Speaking of classing up the joint, why don't we go ahead and roll out the welcome rug here? This is not the- It's not awe-inspiring. I think it might be smaller than the TV. One, two, roll. Oh. It's pretty small. Why is that small? We need some wall hangings and we gotta class it up at another notch or two. Okay. Well, I brought some artworks. So- Okay. So if I have this way off the wall like that, is that cheating? Like if freaking Saarman is like- Saarman. Whatever. Okay. I have some nails. Should we just put nails on the wall and mount some pictures? It's not like the wall's not full holes anyway. Nails? You don't want to ruin the wall. We could put screws in this wall for all I care. The height has been chosen. That's great. All right, Saarman. Draggy boy. The fiercest- No, no, stop. Well, it ain't perfect, but given our budgetary constraints- And our refusal to use a tape measure. Yeah. It's not bad. So something we haven't actually made a point of clarifying up until this point in the video is that part of the deal here is we're doing all this on a shoestring budget. Think about it. You want to build the ultimate garage home theater setup. You don't want to spend a bunch of money furnishing your garage. You want to spend that money on like the best possible AV setup. So our total cost for all this furniture is what? Well, that was 50 Canadian. That table was 30 and the rug was 70. Everything else was free. Oh, this is pretty cool. Yeah. I figured even if none of us are really into sports ball, it's a man cave. Little league sports ball, mind you. The only baseball, us dads watch. This couch stinks. In the listing, it was inside a house and actually looked purple. But then when I got there, it was like, yeah, it's outside and it had been raining. With that said, you know, I still think our setup here is representative of what you could get if you just, if you have a little bit more time to vet your Craigslist sellers. There was a lot of free couches on there. Actually, the pillow doesn't even smell that bad. All right, fine. Pillow. There's only one. Do we have like a place to put the lamp or had we not really gotten that far? Okay, hold on, hold on. Oh, wow. We got an end table for free? No, this was 30 bucks. Oh, okay. All right. For it to really feel like a 90s, kind of your parents, friends house, an ashtray. Okay. That is exactly the ashtray that was in every, yeah, every 90s living room. So James, I can live with the wall, but I really don't think we can leave the floor like this. Here, help me roll this up. We paid $70 for this used Ikea carpet. Yeah, that's kind of brutal actually. No take backs. How did I spend $70 on this? This thing sucks. Okay. Okay. This totally is not going to go with the room, but- I think it's better than having what we had. And I don't think my wife will notice it missing from the living room. This is modern. Modern-ish. Got some modern Lego pieces in it. So it just popped up asking us about Google Assistant. So this thing has Google Assistant, it has a Seles. It's also got AirPlay 2, which is pretty sweet. So all the latest smart TV features. We're just going to go ahead and update the firmware and then we're pretty close to ready to rock actually. Okay. So I think that's it. It's so big. This is like the equivalent of sitting in a theater. Like the distance-wise. This is crazy. Pizza's here. Oh, hold on. Hold on. No, no, wait. I got this. Okay. Open the Odyssey garage door. Come on in. What's up? We're just watching a movie. Yeah. Get in the garage, dude. Thank you. You take that. Yeah. I figured that was happening. Have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you very much. Have a good night. All right. Take care. Okay. Should we fire up something with HDR? Yeah. And crank the sound. Sure. The white's pretty bright, hey? You know what's really nice about good Follaret local dimming is you actually get black bars instead of gray, glowy, bluey bars. From sitting here, those black bars are as black as the sound bars. Yeah. I love the amount of detail in this movie. Just the way that the pieces have fingerprints on them and stuff. I want to eat some pizza. We haven't actually eaten any pizza yet. Now we want to play some games, but we need to wait for this Xbox update, but that's fine because it actually gives me an opportunity to talk about some of the cool features this TV has for gaming. So because it's equipped with HDMI 2.1, that means you've got variable refresh rate support, not just for Xboxes, but also devices that support HDMI VRR. So what's cool is all four of the HDMI ports will go, okay, hey, this is a latency sensitive application. Boom. Low latency mode. Pretty freaking awesome. And they claim about 15 to 16 milliseconds of input lag, which is, I mean, that's down to one frame. Pretty awesome. It is amazing how noticeable it is when you're looking at 1080p content on a screen this big. We definitely should have brought an Xbox One X. I can't get over how big this screen is. Dude, you should rent out this garage. We got that mini fridge. Just get a hot plate in here. It's a sick setup. Wow. Oh, he's on fire. He's on fire. Wow. Oh, he's on fire. That's cool. Yeah, that looks awesome. That looks freaking awesome. So that's it for a couple hundred bucks. If we factor in that we, you know, borrowed art from the office and we would have had to obtain like some posters and cheap frames, I am blown away by how usable this is. And the cool thing is because we're in a garage, which is inherently full of clutter, we actually don't end up with a lot of the audio echoing that you might normally deal with with an open room with a concrete floor. So massive shout out to LG for hooking us up with, of course, the tech aspect of this, which was obviously more than a couple hundred bucks. And of course, sponsoring this video, thanks to you guys for watching. And I think that pretty much wraps it. You know, this turned out so good. I think I might, I might just not leave. You actually look like a homeless person. On my couch. I'm not homeless. I live here now.