Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “My Pixel 3 Display Problem? Ask MKBHD V33!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here, welcome back to another two by one video and to another q, a asking phd number 33.. We do this once a month and it is october, it’s not over. Yet it’s a very busy tech tober, but we’re in it. We asked you guys what you wanted to know on twitter and you had plenty of questions of course, so these are the best of those all right, so thoughts on apple screwing, the oneplus event, okay, this was kind of funny, depending on how you look at it, But also kind of unfortunate, it’s a symptom of this busy techtober season. So oneplus made it very clear that they’re going to be announcing their oneplus 6t in new york in an event in the morning on october 30th, then apple big company, but i’m sure they’ve been planning their event for a while too they’ve also made an announcement for An october event they’re going to have an event also in new york, also in the morning also on october 30th, so naturally oneplus a smaller company kind of bent to that and moved their event to the 29th. It’S not just that they don’t want to be overshadowed by apple, i’m sure that’s like on their mind, but also a lot of people covering tech, a lot of journalists, a lot of youtubers people like me, we’re gon na go to both we’re gon na go to Oneplus event and we’re gon na go to apple’s event, and if a lot of people are going to both, they have to pick oneplus didn’t want people to not be able to go to their event. That was a big part of it, so they moved their event forward a day to the 29th.
So now it’s gon na be the 29th one plus the 30th apple. I don’t think they did it on purpose or anything. I think they both were planning their event. Uh a long time ago, but it’s just kind of unfortunate that there’s just not enough days left in october. How was the jre the joe rogan experience? That was a fun podcast? If you guys haven’t seen that i did go on the joe rogan podcast uh, we shot that yesterday, the video is live, i’ll drop, a link with a like button. If you want to watch it, if you watch it back, it’s like two and a half hours and we talked about a lot of stuff. A lot of tech included. Some other topics included as well so uh, but it was fun. Joe knows actually probably more about tech than people give him credit for i’m not a case person yeah. You don’t have any cases huh. No, i don’t do cases yeah, but you switch phones. So often, even if you drop them, that’s what people say pop a sim card out.
I still take good care of my phones. People are like. Oh, you get a new phone every two weeks. You might be right, but i still take really good care of my phone. Oh someone asked how was your streamies experience that was also pretty fun so uh for those who don’t know. I recently attended the streamy awards in la and beverly hills and we actually won a streamy award for the science or education category that was incredible: marquis brownlee, [ Applause ].
Now i didn’t really push for this. I completely did not expect to win, but when the cameras and the lights hit – and they said that i won the category – that was pretty amazing um. I think there should be a tech category, though, like i’m not trying to hate or anything and i’m not an expert on award shows, but on youtube, there’s, definitely a distinguished tech community and also a distinguished science and education community and a lot of the other channels.
In that category, who i love by the way were nominated for those those science and tech and education reasons, and i think, a separate science and tech category specifically consumer tech would deserve its own category too. Nonetheless, though, i’m very grateful for all of your support and i’m that’s the only reason that we won that award. So i’m really happy about that, but overall the experience was fun. The show if you watched it, was very interesting uh and i hope to be back uh john good old, john four lakers, the og says he saw my pixel 3 screen issues and he says he’s had a bootloop issue with his do. I still recommend the device. So i’ll actually show you what mine looks like this is my pixel 3 xl right now and if you’ll notice uh, it has a stripe, a pink stripe straight down the middle, a full brightness stripe of dead pixels completely in the center of the display. So that’s pretty strange, i feel, like i’ve, had bad luck with phones this year.
I looked it up. If you look up a pink stripe down the phone’s display issue, it’s something: that’s happened in the past with other phones, often samsung phones or phones with samsung panels. This is a samsung panel and uh there’s no real guaranteed fix for it. It’S just kind of a thing that happens it sucks now. I can’t use this phone anymore and i’ll have to get a new one and it’s probably gon na be replaced super soon.
But that’s that’s terrible! It’S a quality control issue. It’S not gon na happen to everyone’s. In fact, it’s probably gon na happen to almost no other phones, hopefully anyway, but like i said i feel like i’ve had bad luck. I might have remembered uh – or you might remember a couple days or weeks ago, my razer phone too straight out the box was completely unresponsive. I had to wipe it and start over from the bootloader to get it to actually work again to my screen touches which again, that’s super rare right like if this starts happening to a lot of people’s phones.
Then yeah i’ll stop recommending it and it does seem like pixel’s, had a lot of weird things happen to it. Lately that are unfortunate, but uh. I still feel the same way about it. Oh, this is a really sad question.
Do you think phone companies that have done away with the headphone jack will ever bring it back? No, i don’t think it’s gon na it’s like a floppy drive, not that it’s the same age but like once, people have just gotten on board with getting rid of a port. It usually doesn’t come back. We often have a lot of rumors and leaks about flagship phones, but we cannot say the same about tablets or computers like the upcoming ipad pro. What are your expectations about the apple event? Considering the few details we have by now, it’s a good question, but i think that’s actually discounting how much has leaked about these new ipads.
We actually kind of also already know what to expect with the new ipad: the new specs, the new a12, the new display, the smaller bezels, the face id that works in portrait or landscape. All these things are coming to ipad pro. You can read articles about it. It hasn’t leaked like people having a physical ipad in their hands, there’s no unboxings online of it before it’s come out, but we kind of know what to expect i’ll leave a really good article below that links to like pretty much everything we’re going to see at This october event, why do you only talk about phones, saying quality tech videos as your tagline uh? It’S just kind of all. That’S been coming out over the past few weeks. I keep using this hashtag tectober to refer to all the stuff. That’S coming out in like september october november, but mostly this month, uh, which is just a whole lot of new phones and things coming out right before the holiday season. So you get your stocking stuffers and you get your new stuff um.
But we’ve done all kinds of other videos before this holiday season push. We started a series all about cars, not that long ago, called autofocus and a whole bunch of stuff about cameras. We’Ve done a whole bunch of stuff about other tech, but yeah this. This particular time of year, if you look back at the last couple videos, it’s a lot of fun.
Okay, here’s a good one and maybe you guys can play along. You can pick between two different things for your device: super power, 30 days of battery life or free one gigabit internet connection, 24. 7.. Choose only one go ahead and write yours. I already know a minus. It’S pretty easy, i’m picking the free super fast incredible internet, because i already have a solution to the first battery problem, which is just i charge my phone every day. But there is no solution to bad wi-fi, bad internet there’s dead spots around new jersey and new york. There’S bad airplane, wi-fi that i just dealt with last night, so to always have the the phone superpower of always having lightning fast internet videos, never buffer. Nothing ever lags or stutters as far as streaming. That’S uh, that’s where i’m gon na go all right. So what convinced you to go to the two to one aspect: ratio for your videos and why not 60 frames per second. So that’s two different questions on the 60 frames.
A second i’m i’m not a big fan like i, i’ve tried other frame rates for videos. I’Ve tried 24 frames per second to me, 24 frames per second on the screens that you’re watching that are all calibrated towards multiples of 30 things look choppy pans, look choppy smooth motion, looks choppy, 24fps looks bad to me and then 60fps looks too smooth. Now i can say there are some advantages to being smooth as far as showing animations and stuff, but for that i prefer slow-mo, so i’m pretty much 30 fps for life. But then why did i switch to this two to one aspect? Ratio? Honestly, it’s just a little bit more fun.
Hear me out, like i’m fully aware that on on tvs and laptops, and most people’s phones and computers, uh you’re you’re 16×9, like you’re, used to watching 16×9 videos with minimal or no black bars. That is true, but then i decided to give it a shot. I can blame some of the guys in the studio for making me give it a shot, but i gave it a shot. I can blame jon a little bit for that too um, but it turns out on this particular camera.
I’M using it has some mathematical advantages. The monstro 8k sensor that i shoot with in this red camera. When i shoot in 16×9, it crops in a little bit when i shoot in two to one, i’m actually getting more width to this gigantic sensor, and it just looks better. It’S just. It just looks better to me and a motif on the channel for a very long time. As far as me, talking to the camera and a lot of shots has been wide angle: shallow depth of field. It’S very personal, i’m right here next to the camera uh, but i can be even closer to the camera when it’s this wide and uh, it’s just more fun to play with framing with other stuff in the left and right of me and when you do top Downs and you do all sorts of other stuff – you might have seen that last pixel 3 video has a lot of really interesting shots that look different from a 16×9 shot so without diving into all the nerdy gritty details of two to one, basically we’re just having Fun with it we’re playing with it. I think i like it for now.
Hopefully you can deal with the little extra black bars for the extra little phone we get to have all right. I’M gon na end it at that a lot of good questions for october, but also a lot of videos upcoming in these last couple days and it’ll bleed into november 2 and there’s a lot of stuff happening. But thank you for your questions.
Thank you for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the very next article peace. .