 Do you need to send high quality video with extremely low latency over great distances? Well with this you can. This is the DJI transmission combo, and with it you can wirelessly send a video signal up to six flippin kilometers. Oh, and monitor it. That's right, you could operate a camera from over three miles away. We can work from home now! Yeah! At least that's what DJI says, and I sure hope it works because they sponsored this video. So if it doesn't work, this is going to be really really awkward. I haven't had a chance to play with this yet, so I am really excited to see it in action. Fundamentally, it's pretty straightforward. Your video input goes here, either via HDMI or SDI, and then with these antennas it goes wirelessly flippin six kilometers away. Now my first question is how does DJI address little details like walls and roofs? What's that six kilometers based on? It's six kilometers free line. Okay, got it. Pretty much line of sight. Because the thing is, unlike a lot of DJI's cameras, this thing isn't going to be 300 meters up in the air, so there could be obstacles. Hot air balloon, that's it. Now that's a niche use case if I ever heard one. On that subject, the fact that the TX3 video transmitter doesn't need to be strapped to a drone is a big part of how DJI is getting so much performance out of it. They had already gotten to the point where they needed to develop their own silicon in order to achieve both their quality and their latency goals. They actually wouldn't tell us much about their silicon. Other than that, if they strap a whole bunch of cooling and power to it, you can get some really amazing performance out of it. Oh, also, we're going to strap on a couple of other things. These antennas, pretty okay. These antennas, pretty extra okay. Okay, what kind of range do we get out of the regular antennas? I was in Bill Corner and the camera was set up over there and I run into the rear door and, you know, the signal didn't cut off. So, concrete wall, metal door, good. But we're still going to go high gain just for the sake of pushing it to the limits. Yeah. These are hilarious. I would have thought they were the antenna already at this point in the process. Now, just a second here. Do I actually need the extensions or can I just put the high gain antennas straight onto the device? I think I do both. I guess they're both options. Okay, what I suspect is that the video transmitter, you wouldn't want this hanging off of it if it's on a camera? No. Okay, let's not do that. We definitely prefer to have like the smaller antenna. Yeah, let's do the smaller paddle shaped ones. This is my monitor then. This plugs into my station, wherever it is that I'm set up with my remote controls of Zoom or, you know, my gimbal or whatever the case may be. And then this straps to my camera. So you want to control your camera, you need this. Oh, okay. There's more pieces. Yeah, more pieces. Ronin 4D Handgrips Combo. I'll share one impression so far. None of this feels cheap. It's got that reassuring, we didn't have to worry about flight time on a drone weight to it, you know? And it's filming gear, so nothing is really that cheap. Clearly, this is not everything. Where does this clip to? So clip on the side of this. Ah. Just solid in and locked. Joy-con to the camera. Not bad. Yeah. Okay, feels solid. I could play Switch from so far away. I can play racing game, you know. Okay, now what? We have this, the RS3 Pro and the RS3. So I guess we'll go with the Pro. We're just gonna go with the Pro, yeah. This is a new gimbal so that we can actually strap this thing to it because you just said it doesn't fit with the RS2 then, right? It fits with the Ring because the Ring is not from DJI, it's from Delta. Oh, okay. So that's their ecosystem. But it's the gimbal. It's the gimbal that we're replacing it. Got it, okay. This is our current solution. We basically just hang this on the back of the car and tissue cards and you have full of focus control and you have the wireless transmission thing here. Right. And you just monitor it with your phone. But the problem is Wi-Fi base, you know, sometimes signal cut and particularly around here where we have a lot of 2.4 and 5 GHz interference. Are you gonna mount this thing? I want to play with it. Yeah, I will. Dennis, quit talking, Eddie. Mount the camera. I desire a Nintendo. Now, you're probably wondering why the first thing that we're doing is playing a retro video game as opposed to hooking it up to a camera or something like that. And the answer to that is that this is a game that I have personally played a lot and I have a good feel for when it's running with really low latency. So I'm gonna try and play it on here. Frame rate is definitely a touch lower. Looks very favorable even in next to a very good display. There is a bit of noise in it. You can see a little bit of blocking, but that is pretty clean. Seriously though, I am playing on a wireless display right now. Now, obviously this isn't, you know, an end game level or anything like that. But I am able to time my jumps pretty much perfectly. Whoops. Pretty much. Oh, this is cool. You might have noticed there's menu buttons and like arrow keys and stuff like that here. That's not actually to control this device. That's all through the hamburger menu down here. This is to control the device that you are connected to, like a Sony camera, for example. What's beneficial with the SD card slot is you can load custom lot in there. So let's say if you're shooting log and those kind of like great type of video format, then you can view the thing in Rec.709 or BT.2020 if you prefer to. It's actually surprisingly usable. It's on top of being emulated too. I know, right? I do have one frame of run ahead, so it's like pretty ideal. But okay, if I can nail the 50 then. Woo! Hey, I'm getting one for gaming. Well, okay, let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is really the best way to tell though. Looking at them right next to each other. Alex, you said you know what the claimed latency on this is, right? Yep. Can I guess? Sure. I am gonna say 20 milliseconds. 60 to 100 actually. No way, that's 100 milliseconds. No way that's 60. Oh, but they're also talking about- Is that total though? That's total and that's like from your camera. Okay, now to be clear when I said 20, I meant 20 more. So given that like a typical even gaming display is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 40. At any rate, that's really impressive. Something to note if you're trying to compare DJI's solution to one of the others on the market is that you'll see companies advertise zero latency for these kinds of wireless video transmission solutions. That is literally not real. That is impossible. So yeah, 8200 milliseconds. It's a noticeable amount of latency. But it's really good. I can see now that we're a little bit farther away, the data rate is going down. So instead of being around 32 or at around 22 megs. Oh shoot. To be able to mount this underneath the rolling gimbal, you just install this thing. Now you can just slot it in. And then- Make sense. You took the battery off, Andy. Yeah, because you have power from the gimbals. Who needs battery, right? And what's cool about the RS3 gimbal is you turn it on, automatically unlock every axis. Ooh, that's nice. Like this is so good. Like, right? You turn it off, automatically lock everything. So it's not going to be like during transportation, it's not going to break your gimbal. And it's not going to fire your motor as well. So. Big problem. Okay. Best feature ever. Hey, see this? 69% battery. Nice. Oh, nice. That's sick. Now you have full control. Hey, check it out. Look, it's Dan. Why you do this, Andy? Okay. No. Oi. What's the maximum speed? Wow, you can really haul. Hi, Alex. Hello. Before we do a long range test, we're going to walk around our office a little bit. But there's a really important tool for us to look at first. This is their channel selector. So you can do this manually, but I'd recommend leaving it on auto. What it does is it will scan all the nearby channels and then jump around to whichever one is best. And particularly in an environment like this, where we have 11 access points, over 140 Wi-Fi connected devices and a total of 300 computers on our network at this time, there is a ridiculous amount of interference and it causes us legitimate problems in our production. Like, say for example, with our wireless lavalier microphones, that's why we have to wear these backups that record locally. So Andy, you're going to take the camera and shoot Alex? Yes, but... Okay. You have to control the camera. Okay, Linus, try and track me while you're over wherever you are. Oh, what's it trying to do? Oh, the gimbal wanted to go that way. Oh, we lost our connection. We're through a lot of walls right now, boys. The large penis concrete wall to 105 killed it. What about now? We're back on short circuit. Oh, there we go. Yeah, I've got you. Okay, bye. As a first time gimbal operator, this is actually surprisingly not that hard to deal with. Okay, he's going into the bedroom set. It would be nice if Alex had any light on. Oh, oh, oh, there we go. Something Alex said I should mention is that DJI tuned their... They said, can you nod? Oh. He's nodding. Yeah. Nice. Something Alex said I should point out is that DJI tuned their compression to not drop frames, to not increase latency. So they'll drop bit rate. They'll drop the actual image quality, but you will always have an image. That's the idea behind it. I can't tell how Andy's holding it a lot of the time. So it's like, yeah, he's like going through a door. So I'm pulling it up at the ceiling. What is going on? Linus is behind the camera. No, he's not. He is. Are we on a video right now? Yeah. Livestream, actually. Oh, he's firing you through the camera right now. Yeah, I bet he is. You're a liar, Golden. You're a liar. Get out of here. Hey, boys. Hello. Hello, Linus. I see you. I lost gimbal control a little while ago, though. So that's why I'm just looking up and to the left all the time. I see. Do we have any idea what happened there? Gimbal lock is unbalanced. Motors and sleep mode. Well, there's your problem. Quality is flipping amazing, though. Like, what? So it shouldn't have any signal cutoff issue for car shoots. Yeah, it's crazy. But it even looks so good, even though I know the bit rate's not that high, because it says right on it that it's, you know, a fifth of what it was before. Look at this, though. Like, fricking what? And yeah, we're right next to it, but it was still usable even when we were, like, a solid hundred meters away through at least five walls. And you know what is the crazy part? The price. I'm guessing I don't want to see it yet. Just for the transmitter piece? Yeah, transmitter piece and plus the monitor. The monitor, the seven inch monitor we have for our Ursa's, that was like 1800 bucks. I don't know. Why don't you just tell me? 2499. 2500 bucks. For the entire combo that you can just monitor stuff from six kilometers away. That's amazing. They have a USD price, then they have a Canada USD price, but also a Canada Canadian dollars price. The RS3 combo is like a way better price in Canada. Hey, thanks DJI. Canada never gets better pricing on anything. I see all the Americans complaining about gas prices. I'm like, oh, have you seen ours? We're like almost nine dollar per gallon for like the cheapest gas. We get way better prices on Korean cars. But we don't have to go anywhere anymore. Yeah. I mean, I guess it's time for us to do a range test, hey? Yeah. Now before we go crazy and just send the truck off into the sunset and see how far this thing can transmit, we want to do something a little bit more reasonable. This is our setup for shooting car videos. We have the Hydra Alien. It's a awesome thing. We can set the whole thing up in about 30 minutes. And down below we have the RS3 with our camera. The only problem is, when we've been shooting car videos, we've had trouble transmitting video from here to the passenger seat. I don't think it's going to be a problem now, but we're going to test it out. Now we have the driver, Nicholas, and I'm in the car controlling the gimbal. You can also get this module, which has SDI and HDMI and also a DC in. So you don't have to use the DJI battery if you don't want to. You can use V-mount, gold mount, however battery you like. I got to say the zoom control on this new system is a lot smoother than the previous one. Oh my God, this is so smooth. How does it feel, Andy? It feels so smooth. The driven eye system, we can't really do like smooth zoom, unless we really try to. But like this one, like a smooth zoom, just easy like here. And I haven't really got any signal cutoff issue right now. Because of the signal cutoff issue, I used to have to sit in the rear seat. Now I don't have to. I can just be on the side of like Nicholas, then we can communicate better. We can do crazy or fancier movement, you know. All right, three, two, one, accelerate into us. Perfect. Yeah, every control of this thing is more refined compared to our old system. Like I don't feel any latency, to be honest. Are you making line as buy one? I mean, if we can't really keep them, then let's buy one. Three, two, one, coming back. Three, two, one, come back. It's very responsive. Like I won't say the last shot was the best shot, but like I was trying to save the shot. I can totally do that. You got a branch like underneath your car. So when you don't have a parking camera, then you can just mount a system like that. So problem solved. The $10,000 backup cam. Yes. Okay, now it's a real test. We're going to have our interior camera plugged into this. And then we're going to replace the antenna with the longer boy and probably just tape it on the back side of the truck. The reason why we're taping the antenna outside of the truck, because this thing is a big metal box and we don't really want to have any sort of interference from metal things. I think that's the best solution. And since we have the extension cord, why not just use them? And cable in there. Success. If this works, I'm going to be absolutely shocked. Honestly. Let's hope. I really hope so. Six kilometers. Let's go. While discussing the best way to get a really long range shot. One of the main things that DJI said is to go somewhere that has very little like Wi-Fi or cell interference. We're right beside a wireless Wi-Fi dish. That's what like 10 gigabit. It's the best we've got. I'm sorry guys. These antennas probably also supposed to go super high in the air. I don't know, we can just get Artie to hold them up or something. Sorry. Wait, sorry. Do you still see us? No. How far did we drove? Less than half a kilometer. Yeah, I'm on the edge of the roof and it's essentially line of sight and it's just not working at all. Oh no, DJI. Oh, there it is. Well, it just came back. That's not good though. That's 10 meters. I think now the plan is we just go to the field. If it doesn't work, we're screwed. Also signal right now guys. It's gone. It like immediately f*** the bed. You only got like a hundred meters. Okay, what about now? Now you guys should have like a derived line of sight. I can see you going along, but I can't see you on the screen. Yeah, I think this is a we need to call DJI and figure out what's on the go. Okay. Yeah, let's go to the office. I'll call DJI this evening. Oh, last time it was not a success. Things are looking up. This is the first beautiful day in Vancouver of 2022 and we get to spend it on the beach. What could be better? We have new firmware on our transmitter and our receiver antennas up nice and high. The transmitter antennas also up nice and high. Andy has just the most sus setup ever. He's going to rip around on an e-scooter, but we should have line of sight for over six kilometers. We did some testing with the new firmware in our old location. We were able to get about two, two and a half kilometers of transmitting. We weren't quite happy with that. There's just too many like farms and trees in the way for us to get super far. Today though, I think we can do it. All right, let me show you my setup. So I'm the antenna man right now and I have the antenna mounted over there and I have a backpack and I have power here and the GoPro in front of my chest is connected to the receiver. So Alex over there can, you know, monitor it from six kilometers away. Hopefully I believe. See you guys later. Ah, snake. Oh, did he actually leave? The camera isn't quite set up. It's my bad. One thing we mentioned before but didn't really show is just how freaking bright this screen is. It is as bright as it can be outside in the direct sun and I can see it perfectly. Like I could even do like, you know, exposure and color balancing and stuff. It's so vivid right here. Oh, it was our first little bit of blockiness there. He is in some trees over there. This will probably be one of the more challenging areas because there is just a lot of crap. Once he gets a bit further, I think it's gonna come back a bit. Oh, yep. There we go. He came out past those trees and our signal quality just improved so much. Hello Alex. Do you still see me? Yeah, it's actually even stronger than it was before. Oh, wow. I was like slightly worried because like on that side there's like a bunch of trees. Yeah, the trees call is causing some problems, but it's like really working right now. All right, two kilometers confirmed and she's working great. Should have brought binoculars or something. Pretty soon I should be able to see him just way off in the distance over there. Okay, I'm gonna turn on airplane mode. Right there I had a text come in and it got all blocky for a second and now that that stopped it's beautiful again. He has to be over three kilometers now and it's coming down almost as well as it was when he was like right over there. That's incredible. When you have line of sight with this thing across an open space, holy Frig, she does work. Alex is probably like over in that area, but I see nothing. Do you still see me? Oh, yeah, it's working great like incredibly clear at the moment. You see in front of me there are like much of trees. I'm gonna go into the forest and then we'll see. I'll hope the best. Oh wait, how good is the range for the radio? I don't know. We might run out of radio range before we run out of DJI transmitter range. Andy is way over there. See, can I point? No, I can't. It's pretty freaking far away. Tree! Should have brought some snacks. My antenna is too high. I'm hitting trees. Signal quality is dropping now that he's in that big bit of trees. It is holding though. He's at least three kilometers away right now, probably more. Oh, I might have lost it. He's back! He came out through the trees. Oh my God, he's so far away. Just past three and a half kilometers. Our radios don't work anymore. He's gonna run out of battery life on that GoPro though. My guess is that every time that it blocks out, Andy's phone is probably doing something. Your GoPro is at 1%. She's about to die. Swamping back. It's back. I see it. Oh man. Andy just completely chopped a cyclist on his little scooter. That must be embarrassing. Video quality at this point, not the best, but at the same time, it's very usable. Like if we had a Ronin at the moment and I needed to control it, I could. Probably over four and a half kilometers away at this point. Okay, he just went up on some buildings. Is that the Delta Heritage Park? Hello Andy. Delta Heritage Air Park. All right, 5.2 kilometers confirmed. Holy crap. I'm gonna keep going. Let's see how far this thing can go. Yeah, it's getting real blocky. She's struggling. Yeah, so the next spot that you're going to come across is a little pony spot and that is 6.9 kilometers away from where I am right now. Nice. 6.9. Let's go. The fact this is working though. I have dozens of pixels at the moment, but I'm pretty sure that he's arriving at Pony Pals' therapeutic riding spot. If I'm calling you, is the signal dropping off? Yeah, it's not quite working, but at the same time, it's like barely working anyway when we weren't having a call. Actually, I wonder if I go to the channels and I switch it to something just completely different while we're on the phone. Here's what I'm trying out, DFS. Basically, the DJI transmission is able to use radio frequencies that are reserved for things like small planes, emergency services, helicopters, and so on. Because these frequencies are reserved, there can be way less interference on them. Now, the general public is allowed to use these frequencies, but if you want to, you need to listen to them for one minute and if no traffic is detected, you are good to go. Can this help us out? Channel 17 looks pretty good. Oh, wow, it came back. Oh, wow. Damn. We hit 6.9. I think we can call it there. That is friggin' impressive. That's nice. Yeah, very nice. Holy frig. All right. I can't believe it, honestly. I did not think this would work. Nice. Let's head back to the studio then. Yep. Well, Andy's on his way back. I just want to shill our water bottles for a second. This thing's been in direct sunlight for over an hour and I'm guessing this is still just nice and cold. Oh, yeah. It's under 10 degrees right now. Beautiful. Ow. High five. That was a nice one. One final thing we want to show off is broadcast mode. So we have Anthony here, our talent. He's getting filmed and we have one screen that's able to control stuff in the camera and then we have two more that are just for broadcasting. This is purely just a video feed. However, instead of broadcast mode, I think most of the time it's going to be overbearing client mode. So let's go to the other room. One second. Hello, Anthony. What's up? Can you thank DJI for sponsoring this video? Well thanks DJI for sponsoring this video. Brandon, can you change the focus a bit? I don't think it's quite right. This is the exposure to you, please. Okay, it's starting to look pretty good. Anthony, can you give us another sponsor read? Thanks to DJI for sponsoring this video. Brandon, you screwed up the focus again. Okay, one second. Can we do this? Wait, you want me to do it again? Yes, but I want to feel it in the loins. Right now you're just kind of saying it. I get it. I get it. Okay. Thanks to DJI for sponsoring this video. Oh, beautiful. That's a cut. Thanks. Oh, beautiful. Are you rolling? I want to play a third person video game. Oh man, this game has really good camera controls. This is really trippy. Look I'm playing a third person video game. Oh, Andy, you all right? I'm okay.