The ULTRA Budget PS5 Setup...

hi my name's Gary. No, that's not true. I'm just  trying to hide my identity because I'm ashamed of my terrible impulse control. For example, I  spent most of my budget on this fancy PS5 and doing terrible things to it with a bunch  of crap off of AliExpress... but now I need a living room setup to go around it and  considering that it's been Black Friday for the last 17 years, instead of buying a bunch of  used stuff like I probably should, I decided to buy the cheapest thing in every category

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n the video description so apparently this is everything  I bought which I find difficult to believe considering that there's supposed to be multiple  pieces of furniture in this box not including the tea so um I'm not sure how they fit it all in here  but I guess we'll find out soon enough now I'm going to start with this box cuz it's the only one  I can imagine them possibly stuffing a TV bench in wait a minute this is like the  the couch thing where's the TV bench does that mean it's in here

it very  much wasn't now I'm assuming the TV bench definitely isn't in here so I I  probably forgot to bring it give me a second okay okay that makes a lot of sense there  was a box missing wow it's a good thing we have that super flimsy foam in here so that it didn't  damage our beautiful counter top oh they forgot to also put thin vinyl on the bottom of the panels  but I guess you only look at the top right uh it's so dirty it's a good thing no one spent a whole  bunch of time vacuuming in pre

paration for this video like what is this material even it just  keeps rematerializing I can't get rid of it ooh I don't think having weightbearing  metel plastic in a TV bench is a grain idea wow that is some quality right there  and then I think the middle one goes on like that sturdy and all of this Primo quality can  be had for as little as7 Canadian dollars on Black Friday which for what this is I feel  like is still too much especially considering that there are several used options in my

area  that include a TV for almost half as much which on the note of TV now the TV I got is this  32 in high sense thing which despite being a smart TV so it can do our taxes for us or  whatever has a couple of pretty big problems with it for our PS5 gaming setup the first  is that it's got a max resolution of 720p I didn't know they even still made 720p TVs and  it makes it a better pairing for like a PS3 than a PS5 and despite bragging on the Box  about having 120 motion rate this is still a 6

0 HZ TV it can't actually show 120 frames a  second it can just kind of guess the frames in between and then just completely ruin the  motion rendering but let's open it up and have a look maybe it's way better than its specs  suggest so in here we get a remote and two little footies oh yeah that's looking good oh no way  it's still got analog video in which honestly kind of makes this a viable option if you have  like a PS2 lying around that you want to use cuz you'd be able to plug it straight

into your  TV other than that we've just got some TV holes cool and this beauty that's more reflective  than a teenager's acne riddled forehead cost about $160 Canadian dollars which is really not very  much for a TV for audio duties I got this too 1 two channel sound bar that cost a whopping 55  Canadian dollars accessory wise we get a little wallwart this Savage dual RCA to 3.5mm cable  the thinnest optical cable I have ever seen we also get a remote for it so our remote clutter is  building

up nicely and finally we get a couple of screws with Fisher plugs so we can mount it to  a wall if we need to oh it's actually sturdier feeling than I was expecting ooh you can see  the drivers through the grill so I think how this works is that we have a single driver uh for  each Channel and then that is a passive Radiator on the back we've got USB Optical and Orcs which  is pretty complete you can plug a bunch of stuff into this it's even got physical buttons on the  side for when you lose th

e remote and then it's got little rubber footies as well so that it  doesn't move around on the table uh but that doesn't take into account that the table is the  one doing the moving around having not heard it yet surprisingly this seems the most promising  thing so far which became doubly true when I saw the next thing next we need some comfy  seating for our gaming setup so I bought the cheapest thing resembling a lounge chair I guess  ah whoa It's So staticy um I I think you kind of oh you c

an sit on that I guess there's I I  don't think there's anything else really to say about it this magnificent piece of seating  equipment cost $62 Canadian dollars which again somehow feels like way too much money for it and  finally I got a bunch of miscellaneous gaming related accessories like this neon Sunset I  think these are real hot right now and it's got a very promising looking wall mount I  got some gaming thumb sticks so that are thumbs can game a bit better I guess and then  what is

a gaming setup without RGB so I got this star projector to give us some nice gaming  Ambiance wow it's it's even got a speaker in it which is terrifying I hope that it doesn't make  a bunch of noise to distract us from our gaming but with that I can't contain my urge to game  anymore so let's set it all up so we can get going wow that's a terrible implementation  that clearly should have been a straight cable um I I think that's as straight as we can  get the sunset they didn't take into account

the weight of the the cable on the side they just  have to ruin the product somehow don't they oh and another problem is that it comes with USB  power but it didn't come with a wall wart neither did the The Starry Night Thing so um I'm going to  have to cheat a little bit with the RGB and use my own that thing is so dumb oh my word Cable Management situation is definitely  not great so I'm just going to kind of do that first things first I do want to try out this seat  cuz I think this is the b

est part of our setup it does actually hold you up which is more than  I was expecting uh but I I'm very much sitting on the floor next before we turn the TV on I  want to see what the lights do uh so I think I'm going to turn off my lights so that we give  it the maximum ability to to impress us oh ah why why did that turn this one on oh okay there  we go that one actually looks quite nice I mean if it was straight it would look it would look  a lot better but um yeah it's it's got a nice soft

glow to it and then this does does that  let's sit back and Marvel at it I was clearly impressed oh maybe I need to turn the other light  off but even with no other lights on in the room I felt like I could get more out of the starry  night so I moved its position to behind me which made a pretty big difference okay so with it on  the table behind it it does look a lot better you can see that we've got some some Galaxy action  happening it's quite a nice Ambiance for some gaming I'm really excit

ed to try out our  new gaming setup I don't know if any of this is going to look okay I've had to make  it really dark in here because the the TV is wildly reflective I have to be very careful  with where I put lights it's a reasonable remote you've got a whole bunch of shortcuts  to various Smart TV things you might want to do it's not turning on I think the Soundbar is  yeah the Soundbar is very much in the way so I can't use this much and after spending ages in  this very comfortable position

setting up the TV we're going to game with it in standard  settings first wow my arm's getting tired I was ready for some gaming w the TV's black levels  are really good I think this is a VA panel which if you've watched any of my videos you'll know  that means I'm probably going to have a real bad time gaming on it oh yeah no oh no ooh this is  like headache inducing stuff Happening Here the soundar I don't think makes any base at all  like nothing under 200 HZ is being produced by it uh but l

ike it's it's relatively  clean sound like I I think compared to the TV so that's cool you know it's it's better than  the TV for 55 Canadian dollars although in all fairness it's kind of like being more pleasant  than having the Bubonic plague that's not really a high bar to clear the TV on the other hand has  quite vibrant colors and deep black levels which I think would make it pretty good for TV watching  if you're far enough away from it measurement wise the TV does better than I was expect

ing I guess  although there are a couple of issues with it like the color accuracy gets a bit wonky when it's not  displaying Shades of Gray and its Max brightness is really not very good partially because  anywhere above 50% brightness the TV just reduces the contrast for some reason it doesn't get any  brighter the image just gets all flat and terrible looking and that combined with its shockingly  reflective finish means you can basically just use this TV in a cave on the Dark Side of the  Mo

on but I'd argue that gaming is where it's the least comfortable ooh that input lag and motion  rendering motion blur zero no way that that is what it looks like with no motion blur on oh oh  no yeah I then turned on instant game response mode which made a big difference to the input lag  that has significantly improved the input lag I can actually feel that but in all of the modes  any movement just feels like the TV's throwing placenta in your eyes I just realized there are  little pads on the

joysticks and I feel like if anything they are uncomfortable because they lift  your finger higher off the controller than you're used to and then it just feels like you're gaming  on a mountain yo modern gaming man all you do is wait for crap to update a 12 gig update and while  waiting for the fourth update of the day like a real professional I decided to update you on the  ergonomics of the chair the chair is fine it it really feels like you're just sitting on the floor  but something is sup

porting your lower back that's pretty much the only difference between it being  there and not so after my chair rambling I decided to play some disco alysian while waiting for gt7  to finish downloading and aside from apparently the game making me real frowny the gaming  experience was fine although I will say when it comes to like mumbly speech that Soundbar really  struggles with intelligibility In fairness I find that's a very difficult thing for audio gear to do  well especially at lower vo

lumes so I can't be too hard on it in that case uh and again with gt7 I  just kept thinking like it's difficult for me to be very critical of like the TV and the Soundbar  because if you're shopping in this price point it's because you just need a TV or a soundbar  you're looking for something purely functional and at the end of the day TV is better than not  TV if it's a thing that you can play games on you can have fun with it it may not be an OLED  TV TV but it's not like we're choosing betwe

en this or an OLED we're choosing between this and  not having a TV but at this price point if used is at all an option for you that is the way to go  the furniture on the other hand is a great example of how a cheap thing can be terrible value for  money you get so little for what you pay for I just I don't know why anybody would buy furniture  off of Amazon you're way better off just wandering the streets in your local city looking for stuff  people left out on their sidewalk because if you go

on to Amazon to buy stuff that's what you're  getting is that is that what you want that's not good it really isn't which brings me to the  end of the video thank you for watching if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel for more  videos like this one and until the next video bye-bye