I Transformed my Parent’s Living Room - ft World’s Biggest TV (Hisense)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Apple TV 4K, Echo Show, Highense, Natuzi
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Amazon Alexa
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Auro Frame, Future Automation, Highense
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Apple TV 4K, Highense

Notable quotes from "I Transformed my Parent’s Living Room - ft World’s Biggest TV (Hisense)"

• Going to need to buy a smart home system to bring them all together. So, we can go for a mini Echo Show 5, Echo Show 8, Echo Show 10, or we just completely make it disappear and go for like an Echo Dot.

  about Echo Show · at 1:14

• Easier to make in massive sizes. So, I found literally the largest TV in the world from Highense. And this is RGB mini LED and it is also now on its way.

  about Highense · at 3:06

• But then finally from a company called Natuzi, we found that perfect balance.

  about Natuzi · at 4:11

• This is all the more reason to get something like an Amazon Alexa device.

  about Amazon Alexa · at 7:40

• They look good and I don't trust anyone else to move them. And then this is an Auro frame. Mom and dad both love sticking up photos of us. But if I'm being brutal, it was…

  about Auro Frame · at 10:10

• Floating. We spent over $1,000 just on this ridiculous hydraulic mount from Future Automation just because we will inevitably decide we want to go back in later to upgrade bits. And then on this wall, just a TV, just a run-of-the-mill.

  about Future Automation · at 14:12

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

Companies & orgs

• Highense — Company · 3 mentions · first at 3:10
• Natuzi — Company · 1 mention · first at 4:13
• Future Automation — Company · 1 mention · first at 14:16
• Elago — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

• Apple TV 4K — Product · 2 mentions · first at 3:15
  Okay, so that and then an Apple TV 4K box just because that is the slickest TV user interface you can get right now.
• Echo Show — Product · 1 mention · first at 1:17
• Amazon Alexa — Product · 1 mention · first at 7:41
• Auro Frame — Product · 1 mention · first at 10:14

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 This is my parents living room and it needs some work. This is the room where everything in this house happens. This is the lounging area. It's the cinema room. It's the place where we sometimes eat. It's the board game room. It's the mobile office. Exactly. So, I want to see just how much we can transform this space using both nextgen tech, but also just smart thinking. The very first thing that pops into my mind here is light. Literally, step one of trying to make any TV look good is to control the light. I mean, just look at this TV right now. Like all I can see is reflection. And that's partly these curtains. Like they're not the most efficient way to block out light. Plus they're just so droopy. They take up so much space and they have this I just don't like them. How attached are you to them?

0:43 Not very now. Not after what you've said. Okay. So I'm thinking we swap these out for something a lot simpler, but also something that's a lot more flush to the wall. But honestly, the biggest crime in this room is this archway. because it means if you're sitting on this couch and you're looking at the screen, you're getting direct 100% glare from here. So, a set of blinds mounted just above that arch that come down. I want these curtains to be completely automatic. I want the blinds to be completely automatic. But because they're two different things, they're going to have to be two different systems. So, we're going to need to buy a smart home system to bring them all together. So, we can go for a mini Echo Show 5, Echo Show 8, Echo Show 10, or we just completely make it disappear and go for like an Echo Dot.

1:25 Dot is better than a blob. They're all blobs. The TV itself is I mean, it's solid. It's an 85 in Samsung LED screen, but it's from 2015. If we really want to make this feel like a top-end cinema, then this has got to be bigger. It's got to be smarter. No one should be navigating interfaces like this in 2025 with a remote that honestly feels like it has a 30% hit rate when you press things. That plus it's probably about time I got rid of these Switch controllers. That one's my fault. Mom, what was your first impression when you came in and saw these?

1:57 Uh, I thought that's different. Nothing surprises me anymore. I'm quite comfortable with it now, to be honest.

2:04 Okay, I think that says it all. But when you're buying a TV, there are a lot of tricks out there. There's QLED, there's QED, and they're all basically designed to sound like they're OLED, but they're not OLED. There are only really two gold standard TV technologies you can feasibly buy. OLED is one of them. And in OLED, every single pixel emits its own light. So, you can have some pixels that are super bright right next to other pixels that are completely off without that light bleeding into those off pixels, which is what gives this tech the really high contrast that it's known for. The other option though is RGB miniLEDD where instead of each pixel lighting itself, you've got an unlit panel of pixels with an LED backlight sitting behind it. That gives you more space to make that light and therefore the screen brighter than OLED. And while usually the downside of this backlight is that it lights everything, so you

2:54 don't get that really high contrast. With RGB miniLEDD, that light is actually made up of thousands of tiny red, green, and blue LEDs, which still lets you have that control in very small zones like OLED. Also, this tech is easier to make in massive sizes. So, I found literally the largest TV in the world from Highense. And this is RGB mini LED and it is also now on its way. Okay, so that and then an Apple TV 4K box just because that is the slickest TV user interface you can get right now. What if we got a media wall to go around the TV?

3:26 I like the idea of that. Could either go completely clean like that where the whole point of the media wall is just to draw attention to the TV.

3:31 I think that makes the TV look even bigger. Okay, sofas. These things are on their last legs. Some of them actually don't have legs. It

3:40 wasn't my fault. How did that actually happen? Think on it. Now, it was at this point that I bit off more than I could chew with this video. trying to find sofas and seating that I thought were minimal and clean, that mom also thought fit into the Victorian aesthetic of the home and had just the right balance of comfort but also support to be able to get up from them easily was a challenge that took us three entire months to overcome.

4:08 Oh, nice. Not really. But then finally from a company called Natuzi, we found that perfect balance. We're not done though cuz I've got some beef with these chandeliers. They're quite distracting. They introduce a lot of glare and they are like directly in your ey line when you're trying to watch TV. Sorry, Mom.

4:26 Room for improvement. If you go into a proper cinema, you'll notice that all the lighting is indirect because it stays out of your ey line. There's just so much action happening in that light that I think it draws a lot of attention away from the screen when you're trying to focus on it.

4:39 Lucas is now just watching TV all the time. Forget about talking to each other.

4:46 Like, dislike, love. I like the fact that again it's diffused lighting is what we want, isn't it?

4:50 Is that too modern? It's also very nice. You like the idea hypothetically of a ring?

4:54 I think that could look quite good. In terms of speakers, everything here is Sonos. And so I'm kind of in two minds about whether we just refresh what's here. This is early second generation products. Like the speakers here are from 2011 or we completely revamp it and go down like the hi-fi route. So right now there is one Sonos Play 3, two Sonos Play 3s. Where is that even firing? And then hidden inside of here, which I actually think is one of the best features of this living room, is one of the oldest sound bars and then a Sonos subwoofer. Mom, what on earth is this cable management?

5:26 It wasn't my doing. Actually, people have come along and uh put more kit in there because there's nowhere else to put it.

5:32 Wait, are you talking about me? I'm not behind this. I don't want to do this room anymore.

5:37 It needs that magic touch of yours. It needs a flame. That's what it needs. Do you know what? I'm looking at it right now and I actually really do value the wireless simplicity of the songs. The new generation of them sound really good. They all wirelessly pair with each other and because they're active speakers, you don't need to mess around with an amp. They just need a power source. Right, we need to talk.

5:58 Do we need to talk again? Why is there a mirror here? Brings light into the house.

6:02 When was the last time someone actually looked at themselves in this mirror? Only when I'm cleaning it,

6:08 which is once a week. We should just probably get a squarer one. Yeah. I actually think I have a better place for this.

6:13 Yeah. In the bin. I have two more of those if you want. Yes, please. Where? I won.

6:17 You won this competition? Yeah. Should we hold a competition for someone else? I think I'll give it to charity.

6:22 This table is packed to the brim with board games on the inside, but the lid of it is so heavy. When was the last time this was opened?

6:29 I think you opened it about October time last year. It's very nice table that never gets used because of the impracticality of it. What if as part of the media wall, there's actually shelves built in.

6:41 So, if we're going to swap that, we have to swap all the side tables to match as well. But we need to have a coffee table somewhere here that you can leave your drinks. The massage chair

6:50 has now become Milo's chair. He's absolutely destroyed it. This is the love he's showing you.

6:54 Thank you, Milo. This is my old computer, which is plugged into nothing right now. Problem that so many people have in this room. No one can find a charger. So, I want to get chargers mounted like a little charging station people can just snap their phones on. Your phone just snaps on and it's the fastest charging you can do right now.

7:10 That's really good in every room to be honest, isn't it? Not just living room, but Yeah.

7:14 Okay. One at a time. Well, fantastic. I love it. The other thing I wanted to do was get some smart lighting just to give it a bit of magic. If we worked with the person with the media wall, we could actually get them to bake those lights into it in a way that like feels like it's made for it. It's almost getting too cool for me to imagine. They have these floor lamps that look like this. The nice thing is you'd get glow in the room.

7:35 Diffused lighting, very warm lighting. It'll give a very relaxed sort of feel at night.

7:40 This is all the more reason to get something like an Amazon Alexa device. If we're going to do that, we might as well also just get Go smart bulbs for all the different bulbs. So, the bulbs in the chandeliers, the bulbs in the sidelights, and anything else that might be here.

7:53 I've never designed a room in in an hour. Yeah, mom. An hour. That's all this took. After months of pre-prep, the time had finally come to execute. I want to be able to have this one single great moment where we reveal the finished space to them. So, we scheduled everything to happen within the span of a week while we fenced the room off to avoid any peeking. We ripped apart pretty much everything that was there. I had to say a very painful goodbye to my giant Switch Joycons. Lot of good memories with those. But then, on the bright side, nothing made me happier than never having to see these remnants of a sofa again. And then it was just time to build. incredibly satisfying to see this media wall come together. And also, I thought I knew how big a 116in TV was. Turns out I didn't. Okay, we've just done the finishing touches. And by that, I mean about 6 hours of intense cable management. My parents are coming

8:44 home very soon, so let me quickly show you what we got. I've been wanting to do that for so long. I'm so excited for them to see this. Okay, so the curtains, they might not look like much. No, I take that back. I actually love them compared to the droopy frumpy things we had before that I could not wait to donate to extended family. But what we've done is fitted them on a motorized rail from a smart home company called SI which means all I have to do is give them a little tug and when I finish they register that as their command to close. And what I absolutely love about this is when the two sides meet they cover that entire side of the room. So instead of being distracted by the thousands of intricate patterns and shapes and covings and bits of window, you can just pretend that the entire thing doesn't exist, which brings your attention into the room. But let's keep them open for now, which again is

9:32 just a little pull the other way. I got two 25 Wireless Belcon chargers. I was really keen on ones that can fold, so you can use the magnets if you've got an iPhone or a Google Pixel phone these days and then you can lay them flat for phones that don't have the magnets. The other thing was just finding chargers that are fast because it is an absolute pain to have to leave your phone stuck somewhere for 30 minutes only to come back and see you have 5% extra battery because of it. That's surprisingly common with wireless chargers, especially ones where your phone isn't directly snapping into position. These ones though should charge 50% in 30 minutes. Oh, and then classicage.

10:07 I stuck them down with little sticky tabs underneath because I know where they look good and I don't trust anyone else to move them. And then this is an Auro frame. Mom and dad both love sticking up photos of us. But if I'm being brutal, it was starting to look a little like a crime investigation board in the old room. So, this is basically a mini Samsung Frame TV. They can have all the photos they want, they get one frame. It's actually the best implementation of the digital frame concept I've seen, though, cuz you can just add as many photos as you want to a Google Photos album, and anytime you update the album, it'll update the frame. So, I did what any good son would do, filled it with photos of me. And then like the Samsung Frame, it's got a little ambient light sensor to turn itself off when the room's dark. And now is a pretty good time to go dark because just like we originally planned, we got

10:51 mom's Echo Blob over here. And this has control over everything in the room. So if one evening my parents decided they just want to sit down and lock in to some Downtown Abbey, then they just have to say three words, Alexa, movie mode.

11:05 Okay. And a whole bunch of things will happen. So the Sony rails up there, for example, those are Wi-Fi connected. So they will start to close. We got a blind over here which is also sumpy. So well I guess I'll see you in the next shot. And because every single light in the room is a smart light from GOI, those start to dim and animate like a fire. I knew I wanted to go with GOI here months ago because you get really fine control with their lights and also their light strips are sick. They just got so many LEDs packed really close together so you can't see the individual bright spots like you can with the patchier ones we got at our house. So, I thought those were going to be my favorite, but then since I ordered them, Goi actually asked to sponsor this video and sent out two more things that I think might be even cooler. First is the uplighter. So, the company has a bunch of different floor

11:51 lamps, but this is one lamp that has three different lighting zones. So, the bottom can be a warm white. You can just set the middle to fireplacey colors for vibes, or I can set the upper section to project that fire onto the ceiling. Then, the second thing is the goi sparkle lights that I've got around the tree. All you do is scan them with your phone and each light uses the phone's camera to figure out where it is on the tree, which is important because that makes it so easy now to just pop onto the app and select an effect you want.

12:17 So, this one is ribbon or this one is carnival. And can you see how they're animating seamlessly across the whole tree or I can just use the AI lighting bot and say Valentine's Day. Would you like me to apply it? Okay. Look at the tree. Look at the TV. So that effect is applying to every single bulb, strip, and lamp in this room. And all of it in both of these rooms can then be turned off and on from one switch from the app. Link below for a very special deal on GOI stuff.

12:46 Is that them? What's this, guys? Sorry, we're going to be 5 minutes. Oh my god. Okay, so there's a very obvious elephant in the room that we should probably address now. The media wall. Now, this wall is something that I originally thought was a bit of an extra, but when I look at the whole room now, I think it might be the single most transformational ingredient. So, it's partly the storage. This one cabinet that's only really taking up what would otherwise be dead space anyways, is holding every board game, or at least every one that we wanted to keep from that ridiculous table that we used to have in the corner. We've built a tiny little charging station in there for accessories and remotes. And we've got that while keeping three spare cabinets, which I'm a little nervous about cuz I feel like I'm going to come back and find more photo frames inside. The wall is partly for sound quality because all

13:33 of this paneling is acoustic paneling. It's got a felt layer designed to lightly absorb sound waves that would otherwise get reflected directly off this wall and muddy the sound a little bit. And then as well as the practical, it's also just the ambiance. Like the outer frame lets us sneak in an extra four of those GOI light strips. The fireplace is probably not going to fool anyone into thinking it's a real fire, but it kind of feels like one with this vent at the top actually kicking out a lot of heat. And it's allowed us to get these slats going behind the TV, which almost makes the screen look like it's floating, which is particularly amusing given that it took four grown men to raise it about an inch when we were deciding where to place it. Although, to be fair, incredibly, it kind of is floating. We spent over $1,000 just on this ridiculous hydraulic mount from Future Automation just because we will

14:18 inevitably decide we want to go back in later to upgrade bits. And then on this wall, just a TV, just a run-of-the-mill 116in Highense UXQ. Here's an iPhone 17 Pro for reference. And apart from the very obvious, there's a couple of reasons why I think this is particularly great for the room. One, because while we have worked very hard to reduce reflections, ultimately this is a living room with windows that is going to be used during the day, it is not a blacked out cinema. Thankfully, this is where Miniledd shines, literally. So, if you've been keeping track of phones over the last few years, you will know the absolute brightest screens that money can buy are between 3 to 4,000 nits. This like the sun goes up to 8,000 thanks to the RGB miniLEDD tech that Highense uses. And I was originally worried, oh, a screen that's large enough to live inside of, maybe the color accuracy will be a bit off, which

15:14 is not. All it's done is just ruined all the TVs for me. And also, this isn't actually completely smooth. There is a microscopic etching on the surface, which means instead of a flat panel that would be reflecting the majority of the light back at you, this is doing a lot of scattering. Normal people would call this anti-reflective. And the other thing is because we now have a screen that's half the size of the Times Square billboard that my parents will inevitably use to watch my 240p quality baby videos on, you need upscaling, which the massively improved chip and AI engine inside of here is handling rather well, I might add. Plus, it's got a 165 Hz refresh rate, just in case mom decides to become a professional Counterstrike 2 player. And then connected to that is an Apple TV 4K.

15:57 They've been apparently just about to launch a new one for like the last 3 months. But there comes a point where you'll have to accept they're going to announce it the week post this video. But even this, compared to that sticky old Samsung TV remote, is going to be such an upgrade to how slick it feels to navigate Netflix and Disney Plus. They've never even had proper voice control before. So just being able to say K-pop Demon Hunters, for example, and seeing the results come up, I think it's going to blow their mind. And another little orange touch, this room became legendary for its ability to just make TV remotes disappear into thin air.

16:30 So I got a case for the Apple TV remote from Elago. And it allows you to put an Air Tag inside of it, which means So we shove that under there. And I'm standing here. Then this is going to very literally lead me to the exact spot where the remote is. It's so parent friendly. Clearly, I'm so scarred by this. I've implemented a second layer of security. This is something I've done with all my remotes back home, too. two magnets on the back of the remote and two magnets where I want that remote to belong. And it creates a natural magnetic resting space for it. If they actually lose the thing now, I'm taking away their one permitted photo frame. We got two of these mini drinks tables and I just love them. They're like a more flexy version of a coffee table. But the key thing with all of this stuff is making sure that it preserves the sight lines to the TV. Everything is low and out the way, which is also why we got

17:17 this much slimmer chandelier and then tucked it so close to the ceiling. It's all about the immersion of the video, but also the audio. So, speaker-wise, I put each of the small Sonos speakers in the corners, and they are specifically targeted at where my parents will sit, just to make sure that we're professionally jump scaring them in surround sound. But I love this. I love when companies get the little details right, like how you can route the cables through the stands so you don't have them dangling. The subwoofer is down here cuz bass notes are not super directional like high notes, so you can just bury it out of the way. But those are all supplemental. The primary sound source in this setup is the soundbar underneath the screen. It's very loud.

17:54 But the coolest thing for me about this is as part of this set, you also get these headphones. So let's say mom and dad are watching TV one evening. This happens a lot. Mom falls asleep, dad wants to carry on. Dad would just hold down the button on the side of these headphones for like 5 seconds and that transfers the audio source to the headphones so that he can just carry on. I've never seen this concept executed as smoothly as it is here. You know, it's only just dawned on me. Combination of all the different things we've done means that this is the first time I've ever watching a TV in this room with absolutely zero visible reflections on it. We've actually done it. These are incredible, too. And every single one of these is also its own electric recliner.

18:36 Come to think of it, this might not help the sleeping problem. It's a little bit surreal cuz I've kind of built up an association in my mind of these sofas being consistently one big sit away from collapsing. feels liberating to not have that everpresent threat. And then these two individual chairs rotate, which I think is so important because it means you can have conversation mode, but then when you're done with conversation, TV mode. Okay, time has come. Think we're ready.

19:05 My heart is racing now. I just want you to really clearly visualize what the room used to look like before.

19:10 The table at the front next to the sofa on the left. A lot of tables. Yep. Game Boy.

19:14 Oh, no. Not a Game Boy, Dad. The switch. Three, two, one. Take them off. Oh my god.

19:25 Oh, holy moly. Oh, that is totally totally different. What's the first thing your eyes are drawn to?

19:34 The TV. That's the biggest single panel TV in the world. Wow. This room has never looked this clean before.

19:42 We've banned all photo frames apart from one. Just that one. But it's a smart photo frame.

19:46 We've got to watch more TV now. There's buttons towards the front. Nope. Mom's Okay. This is different levels of technical proficiency. Alexa, daytime mode.

19:57 No way. Don't have to get up from the sofa now. That's it. Thank you so much, Aron. Honestly, it's just most beautiful thing I've seen.

20:06 It looks amazing. Good job. Amazing job. Looks amazing.

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "I Transformed my Parent’s Living Room - ft World’s Biggest TV (Hisense)"?

In order: 0:00 Apple TV 4K, Echo Show, Highense, Natuzi; 5:00 Amazon Alexa; 10:00 Auro Frame, Future Automation, Highense; 15:00 Apple TV 4K, Highense.

What is mentioned in this Mrwhosetheboss episode?

8 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Highense, Apple TV 4K, Echo Show, Natuzi, Amazon Alexa, Auro Frame. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "I Transformed my Parent’s Living Room - ft World’s Biggest TV (Hisense)"?

The episode runs 20 min; the transcript is about 4,355 words in 58 timestamped sections.

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