For most people, the first thing to consider when buying a TV is the size, because you have to consider where to put it, the study, the bedroom or the living room? Wall or TV table? Followed by the brand, price, configuration, function, material and design.
At present, most of the mainstream TVs in the market are pushing 4K TVs, and the difference in the brand price among different manufacturers of the same size is also obvious. As the emergence of the new generation of smart TVs, it has brought more and more vitality and freshness to the traditional TV industry. As an ordinary citizen, I naturally hope to purchase a durable, affordable, feature-rich smart TV. Of course, after-sales service is very important.
As a member of the new generation of TV teams, the micro whale is first placed on the post-sales service (as shown in the figure below). After the sale is in place, users may be able to pay attention and consider. But how is the product quality? How is performance?
This product is a micro-whale TV 43-inch smart TV WTV43K1 (hereinafter referred to as micro-whale 43). This article does not disassemble, only from the perspective of pure play for deep experience.
How to configure?
Micro Whale 43 software uses a WUI custom interface (64-bit YunOS), compatible with Android 5.0, and the corresponding Android version 5.0.2. For the system, personal needs are as long as you can install the software yourself and run it smoothly. My TV is my master.
The hardware uses the MStar 6A828 (Quaint-Core 1.4GHz Cortex A53), and the 6A828 is the first ARM 64bit V8 architecture 4K smart TV chip launched by MStar in the TV industry. The 4K video decoding capability can reach 60 frames per second. With the GPU, the Mali-450 MP (4+2 core), which can provide 2K and 4K image quality and is also common on mobile phones, is inferior to Adreno 405 in performance.
The memory is 1.5G DDR3, slightly smaller; the actual free space of 8G eMMC is 4843.4MB, and it is recommended to use it with an external storage device.
How is the design? How is the work?
For the new generation of products, we are the first to focus on its work, compared to the traditional TV industry manufacturing experience, the relatively small number of process manufacturing.
The micro whale 43 uses the LGD IPS hard screen. The advantages of such screens are high viewing angle, fast response, accurate color reproduction, and stable images. The disadvantages are low light transmittance and light leakage. The common mainstream backlight sources currently used are LED backlight sources. According to the arrangement of backlight sources, direct and sub-input methods can be adopted. The micro-whale 43 uses a side-entry type, which allows the screen to have an ultra-thin thickness as well as advantages. Energy saving.
The TV frame is divided into three sides of the black and the bottom rose gold color, the color is not dull monotonous.
The frame is made of a plastic material with a brushed effect of approximately 17mm. It has a wooden feel and is non-slip. The bottom rose gold frame is also made of plastic material, matching the color of the base.
The back is made of an all-black matte material, and the common top heat vent design is embedded in the top-down position. Dust and dust that are avoided to a certain extent fall directly into the interior of the camera body.
The central part is designed with a standard VESA hole (200200mm) to meet the user's wall-mounting requirements.
The design of the L-shaped external interface design is somewhat unaccustomed to the audio and video cable. External interfaces include SPDIF, wired network jack, and AV input interface (RCA Lotus interface) to meet audio, network, and set-top box, DVD and other video input requirements.
HDMI ARC (audio return function), UART and TV antenna input, these ports have some features.
HDMI ARC simply means that you can use a HDMI input cable to output digital audio to the amplifier in the reverse direction for decoding. If there is no optical output interface, to decode DTS or Dolby, you can only rely on HDMI ARC function. As for the UART interface, it is generally required for the UART interface of the Android Smart TV serial port to upgrade and print information. It can also be used for Debug, but most people may not use it, but if it is possible to manually flash it is still necessary for some players. The antenna input interface takes care of users who are still using analog signals.
The other side provides audio output interface, HDMI interface and two USB3.0 interfaces, to meet the needs of external audio, external storage devices. The biggest significance of USB3.0 is that it can play large local 4K videos smoothly when connected to external storage.
At the bottom right corner of the bottom is designed with five navigation keys. Occasionally, if the remote control cannot be used, it can be used instead. The key response is sensitive, but the operation is inconvenient.
The thickness of the bottom is obviously greater than the thickness of the top, which may be related to the two stereo box type 8W speakers on the left and right sides of the bottom, support DOLBY, DTS audio double decoding, embedded Dolby ATMOS, sound effects behind the experience.
There is only one physical button at the bottom, which is the power switch. The left side is the base jack.
The installation of the TV base is fixed by screws. The material is made of metal painted and sprayed. There is a non-slip mat on the bottom foot and the weight is light.
The installation of the TV base is more convenient, and the irregular appearance design has a fool-proof effect, and there is no need to worry about plugging in or inserting wrong.
There are five screws used to fix (why not create six), one spare, with a hex wrench. The screws do not match the washers, and there is a bit of concern that using too much force will cause some damage.
Installation is relatively simple and one person can complete it. Although it is a plastic stand, it is relatively stable and it is not easy to slide on glass or marble table tops.
Detect the screen first, if there is a bright spot, there is a light leakage problem. There is no bright spot, but there is a slight leak in the four corners of the screen. The color in the center of the screen is slightly brighter than the surrounding area.
The source content is less than the content resources of the newer application store (don't care)
The system adopted is a deeply customized wui compatible with Android 5.0. The waterfall flow scrolling interface is adopted, the slide switching is smooth, and the layout of the icons is concise and clear. The whole can be divided into: "signal source" used to preview the signal source content screen and switching.
Sources include ATV (analog signal), DTV (digital signal), HDMI and AV (RCA, Lotus connector).
Microwhale 43 automatically detects new input sources and automatically switches to a new input source.
Some programs have a slight explosion during the viewing process, which may be related to the quality of the signal source.
"My TV" for viewing account information, viewing history and other functions, facilitates management of usage records and application or system setting related content.
Today's hot news stories, movies, movies, animation and other exciting recommendations are updated every day.
The classification of content such as film and television music is very concise. One thing to emphasize here is that there is a separate “traditional†section. Although this demand was previously raised during offline communication by a certain television manufacturer, it was the first time in the past two or three years that it had seen an independent "traditional" section in the television system and could be directly watched.
This category may not seem obvious to most people and is not practical, but it is indeed a very useful welfare for middle-aged and elderly people who like to watch operas (such as parents and fathers) because it is compared to the set-top boxes that they bought. For those complicated operations, it is more convenient to select and use them directly on the TV, eliminating the trouble of turning on the TV and turning on the set-top box, switching to the set-top box, and selecting a specific APP for related search. At the same time, the category of operas is also classified. Very comprehensive and detailed, even the square dance has included.
Movies and TV shows are rich in film sources, but they are still incomplete. Some of the classic and popular movies and TV series have TVB, Taiwanese and American dramas, classic domestic productions such as "The Kangxi Dynasty's Uncut Version", "Dai Zhaimen", classic films such as the American "Arhat Series". Some newer movies and TV series can also be found, such as "Yue Yue Chuan" "Marshal" "Rogue" "Mission Impossible 5" and so on.
Featured American TV dramas include "Big Bang of Life", "Shen Dong Dun" and "The Flash", but currently there are only 105 games in total, like "The Tyrant" and "The Game of Power" are not included. Some of the American dramas were not updated in a timely manner, such as Hip-Hop Empire and House of Cards. We hope that we can complete and promote some of the popular American dramas as soon as possible, and we can transfer to other platforms with resources to guide users to watch.
For the movie, it is not included comprehensively. Take Matt Damon as an example, it has not been included in the "Bureaucracy". At least some of the most popular characters in the moment must be included.
It is also worth mentioning that 4K video is covered in video resources, there are TV shows and movies, but the number is still limited. 4K resources can be said to be a weakness in all current video platforms. How to provide more and better high-quality 4K resources as soon as possible relates to the development of future platforms, and also relates to the addition of users. After all, the development and popularization of 4K is A trend.
Drag and drop playback with an actual bandwidth of 100MB, taking fast-forward and fast rewind for 22-30 minutes as an example. Whether it is a wired or wireless connection (2.4GHz/5GHz), the buffer can be normally completed within 3 seconds to play the movie normally.
Compared with some professional application markets, the software and games in the application store are not very rich in content resources and are not rich. For the application market less content, in fact, it does not matter, after all, allows you to install the software.
In general, video resources can be seen, but the content still needs to be continuously updated, both old and new resources are needed. Users of the Micro Whale WTV43K1 TV can refer to the tutorial: Installation of Micro Whale WTV43K1 Installation Sofa Manager to implement third-party application extensions.
Real 4K or fake 4K?
If the market is big, there will be a mixed bag. As soon as the bird is big, there is a forest. Fake 4K TV comes from some years ago some TVs were equipped with a 4K screen but the built-in chip did not have 4K video playback capability or the decoding format was not complete; the other was an RGBW TV screen with the same number of sub-pixels as 4K, except The brightness of other colors than white is reduced and the color development is not uniform. All these have brought frustration and discomfort to our end users.
As we all know, the real impact on image quality is the wide color gamut, and the wider the color gamut, the more color display becomes. However, as an ordinary user, no professional instrument may not be easily discerned. We can distinguish through several simple steps.
1. From the official configuration parameters to distinguish, the first is 4K chip to support 2K, 4K picture quality, support H.265 decoding.
2. Download real 4K video sources (such as roast duck, SONY 4K, etc.) on the network, and use 4K special detection pictures for actual playback testing. Observe the fluency and picture quality of 4K videos and the display effect of 4K pictures.
From the previous description of the configuration, the micro whale 43 satisfies the first one. For the second article, we first examine how many supported video formats there are, 25 fully supported formats, and only 3 are incompletely supported, and 2 are not supported. In terms of quantity, decoding capabilities have performed very well.
Look at what formats are not fully supported and what formats are not supported. For webm and wmv, two formats that are not often downloaded for viewing, it doesn't matter. It is a pity that there are two kinds of mp4 formats that are not fully supported. But if you only play Caton not too serious, you can still stand it.
Local and online 4K video playback without stress
The 4K video selects 4K short films and a 4K movie (26.5G).
"SONY 4K" code rate 17.9Mbps frame rate 23.974
"Beauty eat roast duck" code rate 15Mbps, frame rate 29.97fps
"Beauty eat roast duck" rate 30Mbps, frame rate 29.97fps. The first time I saw the makeup and white spots on her face.
"Vienna 4K Video" Rate 14.3Mbps Frame Rate 25fps
4K American Cities Rate 19.5Mbps Frame Rate 23.8fps
X-Men 4K video, smooth playback, drag and play is also very timely, there is no obvious delay.
SLR video display effect when playing.
Through the actual playback of the selected different types of videos, the Micro Whale 43 has no pressure on playing 4K HD video, and it is better for the details, in terms of the color, the change of light and darkness in different scenes, smooth transition and naturalness.
Video playback effect please check the video in HD mode
Web version http://v.qq.com/page/c/w/2/c0182cajgw2.html
4K picture display
First look at the display results of some professional test images, SLR camera effects and actual display results will be different.
The following figure shows the actual screenshot of the micro whale 43 screen.
Photographs of actual effect photographs, tiny texts are somewhat ambiguous in recognition, but lines and squares can be clearly identified.
When displaying the 4K TV color performance and visual angle test chart, it is basically distributed by triangles, the color reproduction is very accurate, the color changes naturally, and the transition is gentle.
In addition to the green sphere, the sphere has no obvious band-like shape, and the green sphere has a color band.
For the tone level restoration test chart,
The black-and-white layers are distinct, and the gradient in the spherical image feels natural. There is no parallelism.
253 at the best level is not obvious, 251 is visible.
The darkest part of the hierarchy 8 is visible.
There is no parallelism in the grayscale display.
To compare the display effect between the TV picture and the original picture (the difference between the SLR shooting effect and the actual display effect).
Through the comparison of a dozen 4K images, the microwhale 43 can clearly display the distant objects in the picture. The color reproduction is excellent, but the details of the nearby objects are slightly weaker, but it does not affect the overall display effect.
Microwhale 43 supports a viewing angle of 178 degrees, but in real life, it is rarely viewed at this angle.
Performance testing
Since it comes to configuration, performance still has to be tested. The software uses the common Lu Master and An Bunny rabbits to perform performance tests and averages five consecutive tests.
The micro whale 43 is not as good as a mobile phone or tablet in terms of scores. The performance of the game is general, but in terms of overall performance, as a TV, it can meet the needs of daily use.
APP installation experience is simple and free to install
Micro whale 43 can be manually installed APP, download and install from the application market, can also be installed remotely. Of course, the most important thing is that you can install it directly from a USB flash drive. Users of the Micro Whale WTV43K1 TV can refer to the tutorial: Installation of Micro Whale WTV43K1 Installation Sofa Manager to implement third-party application extensions.
Smart TV finally uses 5GHz
With the popularity of AC dual-frequency routers, more and more devices are starting to support 5GHz. Whether it is a mobile phone, a tablet, or a box, the advantage of the Micro Whale 43 in wireless connection is that it has a smart TV supporting 5GHz.
Wireless screencast is fun but doesn't support iPhone yet
Wireless projection as a common function of the current mobile phone, more and more used by people, more convenient to share mobile or computer content, eliminating the need to connect a variety of lines.
Taking an Android phone as an example, Samsung S5 is a screen sharing function, and ASUS mobile phone is a Playto function, which is used immediately.
Although the use of Android connection is very convenient, iPhone 5c and 5s (IOS9.2) seem to be powerless, because it can not properly connect to the micro whale 43 for picture playback, music can choose the micro whale 43 but there is no sound on the TV, need the manufacturer to check the problem .
iTunes for Windows can play audio files on a normal wireless screen.
Computers in the same local area network and Win7 and above can directly use the “Play to Device†function. If you feel that the function is not enough, you can use other third-party software, such as airpin or Mirrorop.
Successful screen-casting effect display screen
Bluetooth 4.1 connection performance outstanding
The micro whale 43 uses Bluetooth 4.1 (BLE). The advantage is that: For high compatibility with Bluetooth devices, such as Bluetooth controllers, Bluetooth speakers, and Bluetooth headsets, the speed of search and matching is very fast. . Excellent performance in connection success rate and performance, the Bluetooth device can complete the pairing connection within 2 seconds after powering on. However, in order not to affect the fluency of the system, it is recommended not to connect multiple Bluetooth devices at the same time.
Excellent sound quality for everyday use
The hardware configuration of a TV is the basis, and the performance of sound quality can be seen as sublimation. Excellent visual quality brings visually intuitive stimulation. The realistic and shocking sound quality has a natural advantage in atmosphere rendering, contrasting, and so on, allowing viewers to quickly integrate into the TV picture. The excellent performance of both visual and auditing can bring the ultimate experience.
When the volume is up to 50, the sound will have a slight tremolo.
The bass performance is very good. Taking "Troublesome Cities" as an example, the opening low-level instruments can also be excellently restored and displayed, smoothing and soothing nature; taking "losing the innocence without guilty" as an example, the performance of the mid-range part has no pressure. A-Lin's voice can be better demonstrated; in the treble part, "Rolling in the deep", for example, feels that the treble has a suppressed feeling. It may be related to the EQ motion compensation technology adopted by the Micro Whale 43.
The overall sound quality performance is also OK, if not too strict demand, the sound quality can meet the needs of daily use.
Please refer to the second half of the video.
In-depth experience of voice remote control
The remote controller of the Micro Whale 43 is a Bluetooth remote control and needs to be used with a dry battery.
Less buttons, full functionality.
As a bluetooth remote controller supporting voice search and voice control, the MicroWhale 43 has high recognition accuracy and responsiveness. Just press and hold the voice key to speak, then release it.
In addition to finding movies, voice controls can also launch already installed applications.
External mobile storage device or set up a small server
The micro whale 43's 4G free space installation game is also stretched. If it is not practical to place high-definition video, a 2G/3G video is basically a copy, a look, or delete, not to mention those tens of G 4K videos. Microwhale 43 is compatible with some mainstream NAS devices and supports DLNA and SAMBA protocols. The advantages of mobile storage devices are power saving, high portability, and relatively low cost.
At present, some brands of routers support SAMBA protocols such as ASUS, Youku Route Po, etc. It is easy to build small servers with USB hard disks. However, building NAS is also more convenient now, but the cost is relatively high. It is recommended to bring your own mobile hard disk, 3.5-inch 1TB is now relatively cheap, buy a hard disk box can be directly assembled.
Experience summary
Summarize some problems encountered in use,
1. TV without 3D function, no VGA connector
2. The actual available storage space is small, and the built-in 8G is actually available at about 4G.
3. For iPhone, Airplay can not be used normally. I hope it can be resolved as soon as possible.
4. In an environment where the network is normal and the network speed is good, occasionally video resources cannot be played.
5. There is no HDMI cable in the TV package, but the included gift package includes the HDMI cable.
6. The 199-member member has the feeling of bundled sales and is not useful for some people.
As a 40-inch 4K TV with 2098 yuan, the sound quality and 4K screen display effect is good. Although with the YunOS, but from the hardware configuration and actual performance, the overall performance to meet their own needs, in the current market, similar products are more cost-effective TV. It is not only suitable for young people, but it is more convenient for content search and use. In particular, the resources for opera and square dancing are also suitable for middle and old people. If you want to give your parents a chance to change TV, Microwhale 43 may be a good choice.