Poundland Technology Special: Viido Returns | Ashens
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
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Poundland's fascinating and surprisingly wide-ranging range of electronic goods, Viido, is still producing new products every so often. And they've got other tech-o-items with different branding too. Let us cast an eye, and an ear, and possibly even a lung over them.
We've got a Bluetooth speaker, headphones, microphones and a keyboard. Are they any good? Watch and find out out! That's how videos work!
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It's comforting to know that I can randomly come back to watching Ashens again almost two years later and see that nothing has changed
Same here its been less time for me, but yeah he hasn't been recommended in ages😂
Besides audio, his first vids, and recent vids are the same feel.
Replace "two years" with 16.
His hairline changed.
I mean he still has that sofa... I'm surprised it hasn't "evolved" and left him for all the toxic and questionable stuff he has had on it!
My favourite part of Ashens is that I had to double check if the video was 8 hours or 8 years old his consistency is incredible.
Keepin it real dawg
Did I already see this one?
If he ever replaces that couch, the world might implode
Imagine having an entire home theater system from Poundland 😂
Me: I feel seen.
It would be utter crap.
Ooof the sound
I'd die
It would be a movie lover personal hell
This couch has really become one of life's most comforting constants, hasn't it?
Mmmmm brown velour.
It's why I'm here
Wait till It burns down in the horrible fire. Just a little prediction I got ;)
@@gilflannigan3910 Okay psychic.
We really need this to be an Ashens-Dankpods crossover. Wade has already admitted to being a huge fan, the groundwork is there!
The Maraca Cracker would love to eat some Viido.
0-3 Dingus Onions
"The Worst Laptop" video from him is definitely the biggest giveaway lol
All my dream collabs are intercontinental.
Yes please, especially since Dank has said Not to Three Sad Onions on several occasions 😂
I’m an American that went to London for the first time in September. There was a Poundland down the block from my hotel in Brixton. I went because of your videos (and I got a completely useable HDMI cable to hijack my hotel TV)!
I'm from South Africa and when I visited London, "see Poundland" was on my to-do list!
Same here from Finland!
Poundland is probably still around because of Ashens
And you got a hotel in Brixton why you mad guy
I bought a traffic cone hat from there once 12 years ago, it was great.
I have been conditioned now to when I see cheap headphones on screen, I just assume they're about to be plugged into an amp and play Scarlet Fire until they literally light themselves on fire.
Ah yes, I see you also watch Dankpods, a person of good taste.
Ah I see you are a man of culture as well.
I was waiting for the freakish ears on a stand
a being of culture I see
What you're hearing on those microphones is the LEDs interfering with the actual microphone. I recognize that space-alien communication from when I got my high-gain guitar pickups too close to my LED keyboard, and it made that sound but with a lot more distortion. Unshielded cabling "picks it up" as well, since the slight "bzzt bzzt" of LEDs being powered on can actually produce a lot of audio interference.
i was thinking that too, but thay doesnt explain the noise difference in different devices.
i think its also picking up interference from the computer itsef as well
@@jesuschrist711 different computers deal with electric noise differently. Even if the machines are supposedly completely identical (in components and specs and so on) there will always be a slight difference in their noise levels. Even plugging a computer into a different outlet can change how much audible noise you get
@@jesuschrist711 oh yeah, it'll be picking up all kinds of interference. If I plug my headphones into the analogue jack instead of the USB, I get a low level of noise. More if I've got a Bluetooth adaptor nearby. My wah pedal can pick up radio stations. That microphone is probably just *completely* unshielded, so although most of the noise is coming from its own internals, it'll be picking up a fair amount from the environment, too. If he surrounded it with foil and did another test we could isolate the noise from the microphone itself.
Covering it with foil won't do anything other than turn it into a stronger antenna.@@RaunienTheFirst
@@BenjaminGoose how? You're not wiring up the foil to the mic. Aluminium foil very effectively stops electromagnetic radiation. You can make your WiFi signal stronger but more directional by placing some foil in the direction you don't want the signal to go. I have lined my wallet with foil and it successfully stops contactless communications with my card until I open my wallet. Surrounding the device with foil will block incoming electrical noise from any source that isn't directly wired up to it. You're essentially putting it in a makeshift Faraday cage.
Ashens is unchangeable and eternal a source of stability and comfort in troubled times like the rising sun
Not sure if this is 6am or a revolution in Japan
Perhaps its a revolution at 6am?
Ashens is soothing to the soul
Perfect microphone for when you find yourself stuck inside an 80's computer game
Theory: the microphone design was fine, until the marketing department insisted that LEDs be added.
Sound Theory ; D
I liked your joke dw
@@lPsychoMaxlmao
I was thinking that too but it could be the usb signals interfering too It kinda sounded similar to cellphone interference Its a digital sounding interference
I had a old pc that i pluged a pair of ear bud headphones into the line out jack I had to have the volume on the pc and the media player turned down as low as they could go so I could listen to it because the line out jack had a lot of power there was a lot of digital interference in the background when you scrolled through a web page I could hear the digital noise the cpu was making
Didnt you know? Adding the RGB makes it faster and gamer'ish.
I've been watching Ashens since I was 13...I'm 25 with a kid and he still has that couch. Bless you king Ashen
Why on earth did you get a kid?
@@Okurka.On sale at Poundland.
It's not even his couch, it's at his dad's house
Ahh 25 and you have a baby goat nicceeeee or did you mean child not kid?
A third ashens movie?
One based around horror?
Blessed time
The brown couch and cheap poundland tat, name a more iconic duo!
Chef excellence and shitting your insides out
Wooden desk and green ipad case
Your mom and me.
The irony that the keyboard from PoundLand doesn't have a pound symbol 😂
I need my ashens uploads before bedtime
Same here
You sleep couple times a month?
@@Fuck_handles You don't?
Ask your mom if you can stay up longer.
Always a treat to see Ashens making Poundland reviews like 10 years ago.
Ashens is such a national treasure.
Feels like I’ve been watching Ashens my whole life
So glad that he clarified the "but textured" comment. The upper class Victorian lady who lives inside of me nearly choked on her watercress sandwich!
Honestly, after that surprise we got with that cheap mic made out of plastic straw plastic that actually sounded pretty good, I'm not taking anything from granted anymore.
Hearing Ashens's voice through that gaming mic was so damn nostalgic I expected him to start talking about killer shrews or some terrible old game I'd never heard of.
P.S. That ending with the sofa turning red was absolutely brilliant stuff! Quite striking and rather haunting in its simplicity.
We had a Poundland open up in my town very recently- wasn't too impressed with the cheap tech they had for sale, but the cleaning supplies and kitchenware were actually fantastic.
@@WiseAcres-qk3ik Very true- a cable is a cable and they did have a very good selection of stuff like that- also lots of naff 'gaming' headsets, keyboards and the like which I wouldn't touch with a barge pole though.
That's how I feel about Daiso, a similar chain from Japan which has many locations in the US. Most of it isn't great, but their storage and cleaning stuff is amazing.
+15 years and the brown sofa never dissapoints amazing!!
bro i started watching you when i was 8 and im 19 now your videos always make me so happy
I see the brown sofa, I breathe a sigh of relief because all is well on this Earth.
If you open the standalone microphones and remove the LEDs I'm 100% sure the background noise will be gone.
This has happened to me and some friends of mine with similar headphones and microphones before.
Looking forward to the Halloween specials and the Christmas advent calendar 😜
I will never get bored of reviews of cheap crap on a brown sofa. Thanks Ashens.
I bet that keyboard was part of a case, probably for the earlier gen iPads (32-bit). When the iPads changed form factor (and would no longer fit the ubiquitous and copious number of cases in back catalog) they ripped the keyboards out (since it's just bluetooth) and sold them separately.
Could be some truth, the firmware has the ability to switch between Android, iOS and Windows modes.
If someone had a massive train set and wanted to do the public announcements on the platforms then the last microphone would be quite good. 🤔
Nothing makes you feel older than when you remember Ashens videos where "For a pound you could get much worse I suppose" explained a better bluetooth keyboard 7 years ago than "For 8 pounds you probably won't find anything else" explaining a crappier keyboard today.
Oooo sparkly budget technology!
Oooh, I missed those kind of videos :D
Those microphones might come in handy if your ever planning to make a stop motion version on War Of The Worlds. 🤣
Ashens and avgn are my comfort UA-camrs with videos I’ve been watching for a decade + now
ive been watching ashens since his guest appearance on the cooptional podcast and i love that he hasnt changed at all and its still a banger vid every time
I love that he singlehandedly created the "disembodied hands" UA-cam format mimicked by such legends as Big Clive, Atomic Shrimp and Dankpods.
He's like the Led Zeppelin to their Porcupine Tree.
@peterclarke7240 Since you've mentioned him, I would like Big Clive to take a look at that gaming mic and see if he can figure out why it squeals
Seriously, my heart lifts when I see a new vid from you Ashens sir 👍
15 years later and I still love this channel 😂
So your 15? Go home child
So what kind of horror is an Ashen’s horror? Attack Of The Poundland Toblerones?
According to what he said on twitch, it will be a Folk-Horror Film based on the east-Anglian legend of Black Shuck.
Attack of the one eyed sofa.
All the production cost for those microphones went towards the visual design.
Those Viido products are probably like an earphone i bought for cheap,it sounded amazing, until they broke and that was when i found out the electronics were glued with hot glue
I had expensive Monster headphones and they did the same thing
@@keroberos2781 usually it's silicone or hot glue, no conductivity and it's really good at what it does. Cheap stuff usually just has a much sloppier application job lmao
@@mekallow It came off in a month and the earphones stopped working lol
It's an honor knowing that I shop in the same branch of Poundland as Stuart
where
My first pair of wireless earphones were the Viido ones because you gave them such a good reception.
That microphone could be a chance for a new collab with bigclive.
You could get to the bottom with the interference and provide a solution on how to fix it for any other customers who bought it.
The first thing I would do is to remove the led's.
These poundland technology videos are probably my favorite videos you make
Ashens Advent Calendar videos leave the chat
Ah yes, the 1:26am upload. Classic.
Thanks to these reviews, I picked up the Viido Wireless earbuds way back when. Absolutely bloody brilliant, the review was bang on. £10 very well spent.
As much as Ashens might joke about in his review videos, basically everything he reviews is cheap and accessible to a lot of people which can really help those who can’t spend the money for top brands. I really appreciate the type of videos you make Ashens ❤
Those wireless earbuds that you recommended in the last video are an absolute godsend, I've bought a couple of them since i heard about about them from you and they are great quality and a secret hidden gem among a company that generally releases rubbish products.
I did the same thing!! They're fantastic, aren't they!
That tablet keyboard has been coming with loads of magnetic tablet cases for about 5 years in an Amerocan layout
I was totally expecting a dankpods style monologue with the microphone.
I am so happy you are still doing this after all these years. The tat isn't gonna review itself, thank you Ashens!
A lil late night watch before lectures in the morning 😌
This feels like a DankPods episode with the brown couch instead of the green IPad.
Also Stuart instead of Wade… etc.
I have a similar bluetooth keyboard to that (from Amazon though) and it's AMAZING. I don't think the battery has EVER died on it. Mine is magnetic so it attaches right to the case.
01:09 The Polish text lists these not as Premium Headphones, but as Wireless Headphones. Which of course is interesting because it then goes on to say they have a 3.5mm jack
I know why they have that little keyboard for so cheap! Those were originally designed to slot into a specialized carrying case for specific tablets. If I'm right the keyboard should have a couple of magnets underneath which were used to lock it into the case. I'm guessing supply outpaced demand on the cases so the manufacturer salvaged the keyboards and sold them in bulk to poundland, The model I had for my Windows 8 tablet did the job and the battery life was impressive. I guess it's not horrible that it's finding its way to an end user now as opposed to immediately being shipped to the landfill.
These "premium" headphones apparently translate to "bezprzewodowe" in Polish and "inalámbrico" in Spanish, which actually means "wireless". So we've been lied to in three languages
If that keyboard was decorated to look like a ZX Spectrum, I'd buy several.
12:33 the leds are making all that sound lol wtf how did they forgot to shield the mic from the led power
I love this. Im having a rough week, and i came back to an old comfort, watching some bloke review weird tat he found at his local Singular Unit of Currency store. ive been coming back to this for a decade now.
Excellent reviews, love these videos!
Yes ashens, please make a horror film. With an 80's rubber suit alien or monster
'Bout time we saw another Poundland vid! Its been a while! Nice one, Ashens!
I was literally just thinking that you were due to upload soon!
i just rewatched the last poundland tech video and bam new video up
Ashens for bed time yay
listening to this video with my B&M bluetooth headphones. bloody lovely.
A NEW BLOODY ASHENS VIDEO!! ❤❤❤ I am gonna get high and crack open a bag of some nice confectionary. Hell, I'm even going to treat myself to a can of pop. Sometimes, my dull, monotone life ain't so bad. New Ashens content is definitely up there with listening to Jethro Tull while mucking about in my shop, or watching old reruns of Top Gear. Or women, they are great too, and they smell nice.
Woooooo I was just re watching your poundland tech videos and you upload one!
If we don't get some kind of 'War of the Worlds' parody with all those LED mics, I will be severely disappoint.
The microphones look like a bad rendition of the Martian ships from the 1953 version of War of the Worlds. The LEDs should be permanently green though. Still they make better space ships than microphones.
i have been here for a solid ten years and im go glad to see that its the same content i fell in love with all those years ago
I have a few of those exact keyboards at my work. They were supplied with folio cases for some Samsung tablets we have. The keyboard was held into the case via some magnets. The case itself had a notch that allowed the tablet to stand in landscape mode.
Man I was confused in the first couple minutes because I thought I was watching Dankpods but then I realized no it's the other old tech and tat nerd that I follow lol. Definitely a surreal experience where when you were talking about the headphone's sound, I was expecting you to pull out the ear stand to let us experience the sound firsthand and play Scarlet Fire through the phones. X'D My brain completely glitched, sorry about that lol.
"a fitting punishment" ...its been donkeys years since I heard that.
I had one of those exact keyboards for my tablet.
I'm pretty sure the bottom is magnetised, so it attaches to case (At least mine is) it's also designed to be left in the case when you fold it up
That first set of headphones was MONO as well judging by the plug, I don't even remember the last time I saw one of those
I think the background noise on the mic is Wi-Fi interference so it would be interesting to try them in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere, exactly where everyone goes to play offline games & talk to themselves, either that or a 1990’s LAN party!
Hey Ashens! Love your videos, just wanted to point out that in the spanish part of the first headphones box it says Auriculares Inalambricos, which means that these should be wireless lmao.
CHeers from Argentina mate!
I am still using the Viido Retro speaker since watching your last poundland video.. It a good sounding mono speaker.
The microphone reminded me of the war of the worlds alien ships .
I was just wanting the videos you referenced in the beginning so that's wild lol
Anyone else really want to see a BigClive teardown of one of those microphones?
One moment please...
I did previously pick up those vido Bluetooth earbuds (the small black ones) based on your previous tech vid. They're pretty decent. A couple of downsides I noticed is that they can take a while to connect to bluetooth. And the microphone isn't fantastic for calls. As a cheap set of going to and from work ear buds they do the job and have been used almost daily for well over a year now. The battery still holds up on them and I get a minimum of 3 days of use (using them roughly for 4 hours a day) without the need to recharge them
I have the same and mine connect in about 5-15 seconds- my old headphones took around 10 minutes, if they connected at all.
I needed a new ashens Poundland video more then you could ever imagine
I recognize that mic. Was sold in the US at a store called Five Below with branding from a professional Fortnite player called "Bugha". They sold for $10 I believe. They were definitely going for the kid gamer demographic. Some of the other accessories sold with that branding were at least decent though. I guess it's just luck of the draw on this stuff.
5:35 Ashens discovers that decibel is a logarithmic unit.
The intro reminded me of that comedy sketch of people being scared of technology
God the poundland tech specials, the first ones were something like a decade ago
Yay, Viido returns!
Awesome video!!!
I like how the tablet keyboard at 7:00 is intended for use with tablets (presumably Android/Apple mostly) and it has a Win key.
for Windows phones? Since it's bluetooth it should be usable with anything, though
I come here year after year and I’m never disappointed.
i checked your channel a hour ago and now 49 min later i get a notification you uploaded. Im watching you... i know you were waiting till i clicked off.
I'd buy one for 8 pounds, but that's because super cheap bluetooth speakers can be a lot of fun. I used to take one and hide it in drawers and electrical panels and air ducts at work. Surprise random Rick Roll!
‘Never gonna give that up!’
That keyboard is an incredibly common cheap design that's resold by many ISVs. I have one which refuses to stay paired, and you have to remember to turn it off or else the battery runs down overnight. More trouble than it's worth, IMO.
If Ashens is making a werewolf movie I will be so excited! 🤩
I've been rewatching BARSHENS everyday since April god I miss BARSHENS
That gaming mic had a news bulletin from the 60s to share
Oh, I've missed you so, Ashens!