Is this configuration of the Whale W65L TV suitable for daily use?

In previous interviews, the micro whale said that this year's strategic goal is full coverage of the mainstream TV size. After releasing 43-, 50-, 55-, and 78-inch products in succession, 65-inch W65L is now officially introduced.


4K RGB screen + HiFi speakers are rare in previous products, but the MStar 6A828 CPU and Mali 450 GPU that are still used in the processor are not the flagship configuration. Can this configuration meet daily use?

Exterior

In terms of appearance, this product is similar to the product introduced in the first half of this year, with a narrow frame + ultra-thin body design. The thinnest part is only 9.9mm thick.

The TV frame is also very narrow, less than the diameter of a dollar coin.

The gray anodized aluminum frame technology, gray is more versatile, unlike the two years of local gold, brain powder and other bad street color, into the home decoration instead of coordination.

At the bottom of the front is a small whale LOGO, and then below is the indicator light.

It is worth noting that this time, the micro-whale has designed the sound at the bottom, and cooperated with the area of ​​the rear main board, leaving room for the sound cavity.

The back design is also very traditional, with the design of the lower motherboard chip that is now mainstream with the price.

The lower left is the power connector.

The lower right is the interface area, which includes two USB 3.0, two HDMI 2.0, antenna, AV, audio, network ports and less commonly used UART. Although the interface is not rich, it can basically meet daily use.

On the right side of the interface are five navigation buttons that can be used without a remote control.

However, the wall slot is not visible on the back, so this product should not be supported for hanging on the wall. There are two bases in the accessories.

Quality

The 65-inch micro-whale TV uses a Samsung RGB 4K screen with a viewing angle of 178 degrees, a brightness of 300 nit, and a color gamut of 68% NTSC.

We use Professor Qian's test chart to evaluate the performance of this screen.






In terms of sharpness, whether in English or Chinese characters, or in thin lines, the performance is very clear, and there will be no case where the details of some pseudo 4K products are lumped together.


In terms of gray levels, even 1 and 2 can be distinguished with the naked eye. The dark part can reach 4, the bright part can reach 254, the contrast performance is outstanding. In this session, we still brought a lot of surprises. The PLGP technology light guide plate used by the micro whale is indeed effective.

Although the performance in the last part was gratifying, there was a big problem in color reproduction.

First of all, there was a large reduction in the transition between green and yellow, green, and blue, and there was a shift in the reduction of red to darker areas. In particular, you can see the red ball on the right side, and the waistband that should have been smooth transition appears in a black “waistband”. It is not yet clear whether the problem of color reproduction is due to the engineering machine.

system

The system is still based on the WUI developed by Yun OS, and it is still familiar after booting.

The feature of WUI is to weaken the difference between the App and the content function. The things that TV wants to accomplish can all be done in the first screen waterfall.

The first screen is a signal source. Switching to wired signals, HDMI, etc. are all done here.

The second screen is a commonly used function. Movies that haven't been watched normally can be found directly here. This section is also used to display personal information, as well as common shortcut settings.

The third screen is the recommended content, and the system will recommend movies, television dramas, variety shows, news, entertainment, music, and the like according to recent hotspots and user-on-demand habits.

The fourth screen is similar to the third screen and is based on geographical location, recent hot list and other content.

The fifth screen is classified on-demand content, where you can find movies, TV shows, etc. directly.

The sixth screen is the application store. Common TV application games can be downloaded. However, since most people use TVs, they do not use them here. The micro whale does not work on this.

The last screen quick setting does not have to say.

content

In addition to the Chinese culture of the parent company, the microwhales currently access both Tencent and Mango, with the advantages of movies, variety shows, and TVB content. As far as the actual experience is concerned, mainstream cinema content immediately lands on the micro-whale TV after the film is dropped. The micro-whales contracting the new Chinese songs also perform well in the variety show.

In terms of sports, it has the rights to broadcast on the Internet in the Super League, the World Club Cup, the Football Association Cup, the China College Football League, the Bundesliga, the Champions League, the Premier League, and the CBA.

It is worth mentioning that this VR area, the micro whale not only can not VR strategy in the near future, in addition to launch their own hardware products, in the public end also announced that it will launch more VR content in the full range of products.

At present, in addition to a few concerted variety shows, the SNH48, the microwhales will also broadcast live panoramas of concerts, ball games, etc. Use the remote control to move up, down, left, and right to switch between viewing angles. However, the current content is not very rich.

Experience

This product also inherited the micro-whale TV voice function, tested speech recognition rate is relatively high, but also supports a certain degree of semantic search.

The color reproduction explained in the picture quality has a large deviation, but it will not be noticed in actual viewing. In fact, if you do not put two monitors together, most people cannot see the difference. Therefore, the color reproduction drift does not have such a big influence on the actual viewing use.

In terms of configuration, the 65-inch micro-whale TV only uses the MStar 6A828 CPU and Mali 450 GPU, 2GB RAM+8GB ROM, which is basically a non-flagship configuration a year ago. Will it be smooth to use?

Through the team's optimization of the WUI, Caton's situation will not occur in daily use. In the casual game test, there will be no dropped frames. However, large-scale 3D games are a bit more difficult to run.

In the 4K source playback link, H.265 60fps hard decoding is supported, the playback content is smooth, and the status of Caton will not appear when it is dragged back and forth. However, in video playback, it is found that fast motion is not as smooth as slow motion, and the effect is somewhat similar to dropped frames.

After the query found that this product does not support the MEMC motion compensation chip, and finally the effect is reflected in the action film, ball game lens when the rapid rotation, will be slightly not smooth.

to sum up

The price of the integrated official website product 5698 is not eye-catching in the price-fighting TV industry. However, competitors at the same level are also at one level. As far as content is concerned, micro-whales have been scooping up exclusive things, and they have also seen some fineness in this respect, but they still cannot be separated from their opponents.

If you want to buy a 65-inch TV for daily use, not a professional or a nitpicking request for picture quality, then this product is still a good choice. Its advantage lies in the ease of use of the system, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in the Chinese culture of content origin.

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