Internet TV was highly competitive in 2015. Major brands used the 4K HD concept to launch new products. As an emerging brand, Microwhale launched two products, the Micro Whale WTV55K1 TV and WTV43K1 TV in less than half a year, and has a good sales performance. The newly launched Micro Whale WTV43K1 is located in the bedroom HDTV. Vulgar strength, let us experience it together.
Appearance design, law-abiding, suitable for bedroom placement
Today's high-definition televisions have the same appearance. In addition to curved TVs, they are generally similar, the panels are as thin as possible, and the borders are as narrow as possible. This is also true of micro-whales. The ultra-narrow frame design makes the overall shape very slim, and the visual effect is very good. The weight of only 11.3kg, very much matching the style of the modern family.
Its on-off button is located on the right side of the bottom and is concealed when it is laid flat. The side of the button is the insertion hole of the base support foot.
In the middle is the eye-catching whale LOGO. The entire bottom border is champagne, and the other border is black. Unfortunately, it is not a metal material, but a plastic material, using a second injection of nano spray metal paint.
High-gloss steam and fine brushed texture technology are applied to the frame process, and the corners are arc-shaped and look very refined. The thickness of the panel is about 1.8CM, slightly smaller than the diameter of the five-cornered coin
The base bracket adopts a reversed V-shaped design. The material and color match with the body. The entire TV-like shape looks very light, but it is a little thin when placed in the living room. At present, the mainstream size of TVs in the market is between 42 å‹ and 55 ,. The best viewing distance for the whale WTV43K1 should be about 2.7 meters, which is suitable for placing the bedroom.
The backboard is one-piece, with no raised areas, which is also suitable for hanging on the wall. The lower right corner is a five-way button that can be used instead of the remote control. The design is also easy to touch at the corners.
The socket of the backplane is hidden. All the interfaces are centralized in the L-shaped slot on the right. The horizontal arrangement includes: SPDIF, network interface, AV input, HDMI, UART, and wireless input interface. The vertical side of the audio output, HDMI, two USB3.0 interface, these are usually used to interface, easy to insert in the side. The design of the interface should be user-friendly. The only downside is that these interfaces are recessed and difficult to insert and pull. If the wiring is hard, it is difficult to bend.
The heat dissipation hole on the back panel is also a very important part. The micro whale is a row of horizontal uniform heat dissipation grille and is designed in the groove, which not only ensures the heat dissipation but also considers the overall appearance of the TV.
Two remote controls, voice control, bonus package
The remote control is a TV standard, the remote control of the Mini Whale is a minimalist button design, rounded shape, very comfortable grip, sensitive keys, this is a Bluetooth remote control, you can avoid the perspective of the infrared remote control and the obstruction of obstacles in the room any The angle can be controlled.
Remote control with voice control function, hold down the voice button to speak, the system will automatically search for the desired video, but also voice commands to play or forward and backward, voice recognition capability is still very strong, as long as the standard Mandarin, generally can correctly identify.
In addition to the physical remote control, the Micro Whale also develops a dedicated remote control app that can be directly controlled by a mobile phone, which is what many smart devices are now doing. The author is not optimistic about mobile phone remote control smart devices, because too cumbersome, but also need to connect to the same WiFi. However, this app for the micro-whale is still more practical. For example, the screen capture function can be realized without the aid of outside tools.
Along with the TV, there is also a 2016 Festival “Whale†Hi-Gift Pack. The package includes HDMI cable, remote control case and mobile phone cover. It is also very intimate.
Panel performance, vivid quality, resolution needs to be improved
The micro whale adopts the LG original imported 4K screen, with a resolution of and 8.29 million pixels. This is an IPS hard screen with an ultra-wide viewing angle of 178 degrees. Through a variety of processing technologies, it should be said that the picture quality is realistic and exquisite. At the same time, we should also know that this is a RGBW 4K LCD panel, not a micro whale 55-inch RGB true 4K panel, which is also understandable in the price-winning market.
Judging from the color performance of the screen, each color is saturated, rich in sense of hierarchy, and smooth and smooth edges. From the perspective of the spherical image, the 21st-order gray scales can be easily identified, and the color transitions on the gradient map are still relatively soft.
In the restoration of tone levels, the gray scales are basically legible, and there are no jumping and binning phenomena. It is only in the darkest areas that there is a slight degree of parallelism. This is an acceptable range.
Use 4K TV resolution test chart to detect, line boundary and color to meet the requirements, in the 4K color block structure is clear and precise, in the text requirements, the smallest five-line character is not recognized, the micro-whale WTV43K1 from the ideal resolution Still some distance.
Due to the use of LG hard screen, light leakage is unavoidable. In the all black environment, there is light leakage at the edge of the screen. The national standard is less than 4 cd/m2. The micro whale should meet the standard, but it does not affect the normal viewing effect.
After the smear test, from the trajectory of the white cube, there are still some residual images, which will have an impact on us when watching the motion picture.
System interface, scientific fluency, humane service
The micro-whale developed its own wui system based on the Android system, and the dedicated TV system can provide deeper services. The columns are divided into signal sources, my TV, wonderful recommendations, classifications and applications. According to the frequency of use and the need for scientific classification, you can quickly find your own needs.
The whale YUNOS's home page uses a waterfall flow design. It is scrolled up and down. It is different from the more horizontal scrolling. It is not used to the first time, and it is very convenient to adapt. Win8-style tile-style block design, block size is divided by the importance of the column, visually easier to find easily.
The micro whale system is only pre-loaded with a few applications (the first row of applications on the graph), leaving more space for everyone to use, and the streamlined system also brings faster and smoother speeds. It took 15 seconds to perform at a faster speed than some Internet TVs. It performed very well.
Automatically switching the signal source is the author experienced a very user-friendly application, as long as the boot access to external video sources, such as set-top boxes, it will immediately go to the set-top box player interface, without manual use of remote control and then switch, smart TV need to do so .
Microwhale TV also provides a variety of scenarios, such as standard mode, movie mode, sports mode, game mode, etc. Each mode sets different brightness, sharpness, contrast, saturation, etc., to provide the best for a variety of specific scenes Comfortable viewing conditions, and in the selection mode is a built-in animation to observe the picture in real time.
Video resources, rich in content, free viewing of micro-whale members
Microwhale TV also has advantages in content provision, and it has a large amount of fine content. Its resources are based on Chinese culture, the Central Bank, Tencent, and other leading players. It possesses content resources such as Time Warner, Oriental DreamWorks, Star Media, and TVB. We bring a rich visual feast.
The TV itself contains a membership fee of 199 yuan a year for micro-whales. With this qualification, we can watch legitimate movies without restrictions and watch the latest and hottest movies for free.
TV's built-in resources include movies, TV dramas, variety shows, children's movies, animations, dramas, etc., which can meet all the needs of family members and save the inconvenience of installing third-party resources.
Micro Whale WTV43K1 uses a 64-bit processor Cortex A53 4-core 1.4GHz, 8G flash memory, 1.5G memory, the performance is relatively strong. Running points can not explain any problems. The following is a group of 4K HD pictures and videos of the screen shot. We only look at the actual playback results.
The micro whale's superior decoding capability enables smooth playback of H.265-encoded 4K sources and 1080P videos. Testing with different high-definition videos, the decoding is normal and plays smoothly. Both the character's picture and the details of various props are very detailed. Clear, the overall picture is quite good.
We are more concerned with the performance of 4K TVs when they are playing dynamically. Sports and game shows are sports interfaces. From tennis and football scenes, we can see that the overall picture is natural and there is no blurring at the edges. The game can also test the performance of hardware and software. From the trial speed boat, the game is very smooth, no stagnation, control through the Bluetooth connection handle, large screen game is very enjoyable.
Experience summary
