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AT&T ZTE SPro 2 Smart Video Projector Demo & Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the ZTE SPro 2 Smart Projector, as carried by AT&T, and finds it's a very slick portable projector and mobile hotspot, but with some definite constraints that users want to learn prior to investing $400-$500 on the unit.
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hi dave taylor here and this time i want
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to talk about this device this and yeah
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it's plugged in
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this is really pretty slick this is the
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zte
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s pro 2. now who came up with the name i
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don't know but this is a combination
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projector
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and cellular base station wi-fi base
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station not exactly sure what the terms
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are but
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this device you can pick up from att.com
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or your local at t store and it gives
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you a 200 lumen projector
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and the ability to connect up to 10
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computers simultaneously to the unit
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which actually lives on the at t
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cellular network so pretty slick this is
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like having your own portable base
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station anywhere you go now i'm kind of
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working in the dark here let me go a
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little further into the dark to show you
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how the projection system works alright
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so i know i'm in the dark but the
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important thing is you can see i'm
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projecting just onto a piece of white
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paper you can project up to a 10 foot
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image so this is plenty big enough to
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spread across a big wall in a hotel room
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or something the downside is that a
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hundred lumens it's or i'm sorry at 200
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lumens plugged in 100 lumens not plugged
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in it's not super bright but let me show
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you real quick a little bit of what's
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going on here let's see if i go to the
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screen
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no let's try there
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there we go this is what the interface
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looks like on the device itself and as
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you can see we can go off of this screen
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and it has the ability to do things like
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work with a built-in micro sd card so
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not the like sd card but the little tiny
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one that like goes into a cell phone
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kind of tricky to work with those but if
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you can put some movies on that for
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example and it also has 16 gig of
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internal storage
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you can also plug in via hdmi and that's
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what i'm doing earlier so this is just
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my
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hp windows 10 laptop and it's chugging
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along
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i'm sorry no it's windows 8.
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so many versions of windows now so
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windows 8 hdmi plugged into the
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projector and i can switch to it by just
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going to hdmi
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and pretty nice obviously things like
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whoops
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like netflix looks real good
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and
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makes it really nice for you to be able
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to watch movies again in a hotel room or
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presentations it's really kind of more
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businessy sort of thing uh see
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you can also work with miracast if you
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have that capability that's actually a
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smartphone thing pretty much on the
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android side but not from every android
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phone vendor
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so make sure you have miracast before
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you go down that road it also works as a
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hotspot
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don't look at the password just in case
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it's only going to help you if you
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actually are within a few feet of me and
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i turn it on but again it can support 10
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devices that's pretty cool
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and if i unplug it
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you'll see the brightness goes down but
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the good news is that this actually then
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makes it really portable and in
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particular
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if you're working off of media that
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you've already stored or you're whoops
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working with mirrorcast or something i
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don't need anything plugged in now i
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have a completely standalone device
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let's there we go
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no signal that's fine we can handle that
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message but now we have this device and
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it's pretty darn small and i'm actually
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projecting on my ceiling you can't see
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that but that's okay
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and let's see
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uh it's a really easy interface to work
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with because it's just running stock
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android with obviously its own menu
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system in front
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let me turn that off let me turn some
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lights on and i'll tell you more about
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it hang on that's a bit better so it's a
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720p projector so it's not 1080p but
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it's not bad as you saw the images are
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pretty crisp and
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you know brightness wise 200 lumens when
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plugged in isn't great but if you're in
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a pretty dark space it actually can work
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pretty well i haven't tried it with the
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full 10 foot span of the image i have a
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feeling that's not a lot of brightness
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at something that large
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but again if you want to just have
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something where you're just pushing it
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onto a
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curtain onto a white wall
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if you're i'm not sure this would be the
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optimal one for the side of a house or a
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barn but i guess you could try it out on
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a dark night
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let's see it has a 6 300 milliamp hour
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battery built in so it's a fairly hefty
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device and this gives it two and a half
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hours of projection time just off the
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battery or 16 hours of connectivity if
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you want to just use it as a base unit
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and the screen itself and everything you
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can see there it's on but the screen
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itself will turn it off momentarily and
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the device stays on until you remember
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to turn it off
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powered by android up to 10 devices can
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connect simultaneously i'm just sort of
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looking down my list of important
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features
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16 gig internal memory you can also plug
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in other devices let me zoom in on the
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back here can you see that there's all
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sorts of stuff going on there
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um
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i will say that i don't really like how
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you connect the micro sd cards and stuff
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because it has a little carrier and so
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you have to use one of those little pin
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devices that you would to switch
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like a sim card on a cell phone a little
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bit awkward i think they could have done
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that slightly differently
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how much does it run so here's here's
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the thing this is a 500 device so it's
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499 bucks with no contract from at t and
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you can use it without cellular if you
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really just want to use it as a
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projector then you can do that however
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if you just want a projector there are
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other options in the market i would
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encourage you to check out
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if you do want to use this and have it
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be on cellular and give you that
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connectivity then you need a data plan
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so for a two-year contract you can add
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it to your existing att
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data plan and everything for 10 bucks a
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month and then it drops it down to 3.99
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but that's two years contract if you
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want to have this be the only device you
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have on a t
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probably that's not your best solution
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that's going to run you about 50 bucks
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for 5 gig a month and that's 50 bucks
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plus the cost of the device so if you're
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going down that road you might actually
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look at some other options however if
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you just have an att plan and you want
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to add a projector and connectivity
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device this could be really good for
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little startups that want to be able to
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go in and say we don't need to worry
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about your projector we've got our own
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and just popped this little baby out
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can be pretty slick and i would
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definitely encourage you to check it out
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go ahead and get a demo of it at an att
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store if you can because i think it's
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really important for you to understand
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what 200 lumens plugged in 100 lumens
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not plugged in what that looks like in
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different environments if you're going
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into a venture capitalist's office and
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they don't really like closing curtains
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this thing's going to be barely legible
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so
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this is dave taylor this is the ztes pro
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2. you can learn more at att.com
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and i'll catch you if i'm not watching a
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movie that is i'll catch you in my next
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video
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you
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