Strength Newcomer Proposes Micro Whale 55-inch True 4K Real Experience

With the development of the times, television has become the entertainment center in most of the current families, and even some families have 2-3 televisions. The existence of television has not only brought entertainment to us, but it has also sometimes served as a companionship to accompany us through loneliness. From black-and-white television to color, television from cathode-ray tubes TV to LED LCD TVs, from ordinary old TVs to modern smart TVs, TVs have experienced more than 100 years of development and have generally entered everybody’s life.


Today's smart TVs are also accompanied by technological developments. In addition to changes in body shape, they may also support technologies such as 3D, 4K, voice, WiFi, voice, and games. It must be said that smart TVs nowadays are more and more like a big pad. What programs have it all, and they can also play games and K songs. So the dazzling brand TV and technology on the market will make us provocative at the time of purchase. How can we pick one? Good and suitable for your TV, will share with you the experience of my TV shopping today.


The TVs that I have used are not too much. The brands that have been used carefully include Panda, TCL, Skyworth, Sony, Samsung, Sharp, and a small whale that has recently started. In recent years, whether it is Sony, Samsung, Sharp international big TV, or a new brand of micro-whale, gave me the deepest feeling that the difference between the international big-name TV and domestic TV is decreasing, the price is much different, domestic brands The price is getting higher and higher. Individuals are mainly interested in the selection of television: workmanship, shape design, screen quality, sound effects, ease of operation and system use, etc. Today we will take a look at the recent network of micro whale WTV55K1 is worth selling attention.


Microwhale WTV55K1 TV was released in Shanghai on August 13 this year. It sold more than 27,000 single-item products during the Double 11 period, exceeded 100 million in sales, and became the champion of 55-inch Internet TV. This TV uses a 55-inch LG original IPS hard screen, built-in HiFi audio, using the latest 64-bit processor, clocked at 1.4GHz, supports Bluetooth 4.1 + EDR low power, supports USB3.0, 2G running memory 8G storage space , And fully support H.265 10bit hard decoding, using YunOS 64-bit customized version of the system. At the same time, Chinese culture, Alibaba, Tencent, and the Central People's Broadcasting Station will intensify cooperation with micro-whales in terms of capital, policy, technology, content, and services to jointly build this smart TV. The 55-inch True 4K TV produced some expectations.


Microwhale WTV55K1 is basically the same as the packaging used in most TVs. The outer packaging adopts a thicker, environmentally friendly paper box, and the interior uses foam to fix it. But unlike the TVs I bought before, I did a little different in terms of fixed protection. The micro whale seems to do better than other brands in terms of screen protection. In addition to the foam around it, the micro whale is also used on the side of the screen. A protective pad to prevent damage to the screen during transportation. In terms of accessories, the Micro Whale WTV55K1 is equipped with a remote controller, two metal tripods, a pair of 7 batteries, a double L cable and five screws. All accessories except the tripod are placed in the accessory box. It feels more concise.


Do not know if you have noticed our daily use of remote control, the current market is divided into two types, one is a remote control with fewer buttons, one is a remote control button up to dozens, while in the remote control technology Most are divided into infrared and Bluetooth types. In terms of individual usage habits, perhaps the remote controller with fewer buttons is more popular with us, and more buttons are more and more disgusted by current users. In fact, for buttons with more remote controls, we still use the most volume, channel, menu, reverse, and other buttons, and many other buttons are idle or useless state, but also make people feel very complicated, not suitable Modern aesthetic concept.


As a newcomer and as an internet brand, the microwhale WTV55K1's remote controller has abandoned the traditional and complex multi-keyboard design. In response to market and user habits, it has used a 12-button Bluetooth remote control. From the buttons and panel structure of the remote control, the Whale WTV55K1 has one more voice button and two noise-reducing microphone holes than other brands' minimalist remote controls. The increase of the buttons and microphone holes seems to indicate this. Remote controls are not as simple as traditional remote controls.


Relying on the Bluetooth 4.1+ EDR low-power technology, the Whale WTV55K1 remote controller uses a Bluetooth connection, and the remote controller connected to the traditional infrared is more stable and less likely to be blocked by objects, so the corresponding time during the use of keys It is timely, while the keyway is moderately responsive. What this remote control has to say is its voice function, which is also a major feature of this TV - the voice search function. In the connected state, the relevant commands are issued by pressing the microphone button on the remote control and then aligning the microphone hole. For example, “how is the weather in Chongqing tomorrow?” and “I need to look at Need for Speed” and so on. After receiving relevant instructions, they can present related content, which greatly reduces our search time.


As an Internet TV, not only relying on the remote control for TV remote control, but also specifically designed a small whale assistant app, through the assistant can achieve remote control TV, on-demand video, install applications, shooting mobile phone shooting photos, but also Talk to your friends while watching TV and intercept the TV screen to share with others. The overall interface of this TV assistant is very simple. It is mainly divided into three sections: remote control, application, and screencasting. The layout is also very clear. The difference is that the APP is not designed as a remote control style, but is the direction of the remote control. The keys and confirmation keys are used to perform the operations of up and down, confirmation, volume adjustment, and screen capture through the middle operation area, and the screen projection is relatively complicated.


The phone's photo is projected onto the Whale WTV55K1

The tiny whale WTV55K1 is also equipped with a pair of herringbone feet, which uses a high heel style design for the tripod. The fore frame uses a silver plating technology to create a high-gloss texture. The rear tripod uses a champagne gold matte process to form a metal matte texture and mix and match. Cross-border forms a unique metal fashion. Rubber mats are also used under the feet to ensure the stability of the TV on the TV cabinet. This high-gloss metal stand also adds a lot to the entire TV, making the TV more stylish and textured in the living room.


As the rooms of major cities have been rising year by year, everyone’s houses have become smaller and smaller, and space utilization is an element that most people are considering. Therefore, TV thickness has become an important reference direction for everyone to buy TV. After the actual experience, the micro whale's TV is very well controlled in terms of thickness, giving people the impression that it is an ultra-narrow border TV. The specific introduction can be seen below.


Bottom structure (can be intuitively seen HiFi audio on both sides)

In order to ensure that everyone can have a good sound quality while watching TV, the Little Whale WTV55K1 engineers are also taking great pains to put the HiFi sound into the TV through the double-sided balanced bass boost patented technology and the treble diffusion technology. The use of these two patented technologies solves the contradiction between the sound quality and the volume of the sound, allowing the simple design beauty and the Hi-Fi sound to coexist harmoniously. At the same time, Li Qingcheng is responsible for the tuning, so we have a good Enjoy music. Considering that music enthusiasts may not have built-in audio to satisfy their pursuit of sound effects, this TV also incorporates Dolby audio technology and corresponding hardware output interfaces, which can be combined with independent sound systems to achieve cinematic sound effects.


For a TV with an independent sound system, the micro whale is handled very accurately at the bottom. The thickness is also taken into consideration when ensuring the ability to place the sound. The thickest distance at the bottom of the test is only 7.1 cm. My domestic 32-inch TV set (without an independent HiFi stereo) and the Sharp 960a (with independent built-in stereo as a micro whale) must be a lot thinner. However, in addition to the fact that the TV feels thinner at the bottom, the thickness of the entire body is also quite good, with the top thickness measuring 1.92 cm.


Top thickness measurement


Looking from the side, I think this TV I think most people will be attracted by her body. From the bottom up, it gives people the impression that it is bumpy, like a graceful girl, haggling away. Back to the topic, although this TV uses a separate built-in stereo, it has a very good overall thickness control and occupies little space. Compared with the Sharp 960a (more than 1W original price), the TV is better and more refined.


A good TV can also be seen through the back panel. The back panel can reflect the level of craftsmanship on the one hand. From the back panel of the Micro Whale WTV55K1, the layout is very clear and simple. The lower left corner is the cable jack, the lower right corner is the TV-related interface and an easily overlooked TV 5-dimensional navigation bar. The upper part is the long cooling hole of the TV, and the middle is the brand logo of the micro whale. In addition to the slightly protruding bottom sound position, the entire panel feels very flat, and it can be analyzed that the internal structure is definitely standardized.


As with most smart TVs, all interfaces are arranged on the left side (facing the screen) lined up in an "L" shape, and most of the current media interfaces are set up on the interface, with a total of two USB 3.0 Interface, a USB2.0 interface, an SD card slot, three HDMI HD data interfaces, a UART jack, AV input jack, an RJ45 network interface, and an SPDIF jack. The interface settings are enough to meet our daily needs, and the USB3.0 interface allows the Whale WTV55K1 to have super high speed when accessing external data, and also provides data transmission guarantee for watching the 4K source in the hard disk. .


Gold-plated interface, feel very texture


Micro Whale WTV55K1 uses a very narrow frame design, only 6.8mm on the side of the screen discarded the heavy feeling of traditional TV, giving the impression that the entire TV screen is bigger and thinner, but also makes the picture of the entire TV more prominent. Focus our attention on the TV screen and ignore the black metal frame. In the dark state, this black metal frame is like a screen, and this seemingly simple black frame has its own side.


The Whale WTV55K1 frame uses aviation-grade aluminum. In order to make the entire TV look better, a golden trim is designed around the perimeter of the screen. This gold trimming is done after cutting with the diamond trimming process and then immersed in twenty processes to keep the colors longer. In order to reflect the metal effect of the entire frame, a nanometer-sized crystal sand pearl hits the surface of the aviation aluminum material at a high speed, and then it is polished through 20000+ high-speed diamonds to let the metal shine the diamond light, and then undergoes three anodizing processes to treat aluminum. Alloy frame brings superior texture.



Diamond cutting process and coloring process processed metal trimming


This little whale WTV55K1 gave me a feeling from the whole look, it needs us to slowly taste, only the people who know how to taste this TV feel that his frame is not as simple as our eyes can see. Just like the letter "WHALEY" in the middle of the screen's bottom frame, perhaps everyone will be able to glance through the logo as if I were a simple gold logo. If you look closely, you will find that this logo is displayed in 3D, and Each letter has lines that are real to the touch, which also makes the TV show itself as having a taste.


Subtitles in the middle of the lower border make the TV more stylish


In fact, for ordinary people who do not understand the technology, they will not look at what technology the manufacturer uses to process it. Instead, they will intuitively see whether the TV will be good-looking at home, how the picture quality will be, and the content of the program. How do you feel like the actual experience. For this TV, he borrowed a number of mobile phone processing technology to the TV. He wanted to give everyone a stylish, beautiful TV. Although the gold trimming may sometimes be ignored by us, the cool phantom black and The screen seems to blend into one, brings the visual experience without borders and the large screen experience at the time of viewing, which makes people put it down.


The Whale WTV55K1 uses a 64-bit Yun OS operating system under the Alibaba Group, a smart device operating system product of the Alibaba Group that integrates Alibaba's cloud data storage, cloud computing services, and intelligence. Equipment operating systems and other technical achievements in many fields. The main interface adopts a waterfall UI. The experience of waterfall UI is similar to our browsing habits on computers and mobile phones. Therefore, everyone can use it easily.


The first time you turn on your phone, you need to set up the TV remote control, network, and account settings. Follow the system prompts to complete the settings for each step. Microwhale WTV55K1 not only supports wired connection in the network, but also supports WiFi connection. The Micro Whale WTV55K1 supports the 802.11 b/g/n/ac protocol and can use 2.5 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi, allowing us to have a smooth network during use. In terms of signal reception, although there is no evaluation using software, it is intuitive to feel that the signal reception and stability are relatively good. For the interval of two walls of wireless signals, TV broadcast is still very smooth. (To illustrate, all the screenshots in this article were taken with a camera and TV assistants were not used to make screenshots, only to allow everyone to better see the TV display.)


Because the micro whale WTV55K1 uses a Bluetooth remote control, we need to match with the TV, and then connect to the network, and finally the micro whale account login. Unlike many televisions, it is necessary to log into the account when using a micro-whale TV, because only after logging in to the account can you receive a two-year film and television membership to enjoy the relevant rights of the member. In the login account, we need to scan the surface of the mobile phone interface, and then open the web page to complete the binding of the account and the device. The annual membership price of 199 yuan is also relatively cheaper, and much cheaper than our local cable TV. The key is that only some of the television sources can be watched only by members, such as some 4K sources, fashion movies, etc.


Scan code login account


One of the highlights of the software whale WTV55K1 is its innovative UI interface. The entire UI interface seems to be similar to our common smart TVs and TV boxes, but it is very different. Similarly, part of the interface uses a modular combination of interfaces, such as the classification interface; and the essential difference is that this TV uses a waterfall UI, like watching a webpage can be the entire TV panel, content, from Go to the next page to finish. The entire UI can be divided into two sections. The left section is a large category. It is the entire UI category. It has: search, sources, my TV, wonderful recommendations, categories, applications, and settings. There are several major categories. It is a detailed enumeration of the left classification. This kind of big classification shows us the feasibility of quickly entering a certain section or browsing slowly. The humanization is very good.


Although the Whale WTV55K1 uses the Yun OS operating system, it is very open in terms of application installation. In addition to installing TV applications through the system's application store, it can also be accessed through the TV assistant, U disk, or under the same LAN. The exclusive website completes the installation of the application software. Perhaps a feature of this TV may be overlooked. The feature is that the TV automatically adjusts the volume late in the evening so as not to disturb other people's rest. Another feature is a custom shortcut bar that can be accessed by us. The application is customized to a shortcut bar, and future access directly from the shortcut bar without having to enter my application selection.


At present, many smart TVs (including TV boxes) on the market, as we use the frequency and background applications will occupy our memory, causing the system to appear stuck. The Whale WTV55K1 uses 2G of running memory and 8G of storage space. This configuration seems to surpass many smart TV boxes. It also allows one-click cleanup of background applications, freeing up more memory and making the TV run smoothly.


Easily run games downloaded from the app store


As the first 55-inch 4K TV of the Micro Whale, in order to give everyone a comfortable sound experience, in addition to double-sided balanced bass enhancement patented technology, Yuanbao basin treble diffusion technology and built-in Dolby audio technology, also selected a dedicated music Li Jian has debugged this TV speaker. It must be said that the engineers' efforts in the R&D process and the debugging of the professionals have given this TV a relatively balanced sound quality.


Audition experience experience: In the low-frequency voice is full and can not feel the dive, the buzzing sound after each drum is endless, there is the kind of impulse to want to follow the rhythm with the swing. In the mid-frequency aspect, through the audition for vocal songs, the clarity of the female voice makes one feel the gentleness and delicateness of a woman, and the madness of a male voice. In terms of high frequencies, through the audition of the piano's sound, as if his inner heart moves quickly with each finger of the master, the tri-band is relatively balanced overall, but for the enthusiasts it may still need some outside. The speaker is better.
As a movie, for the sound effects of gunshots and blasting, we will not feel too boring, and we will not feel too harsh for the complex environment of the film and other scenes. Overall, the sound of this TV can meet our daily home use, because most families do not have soundproof rooms. To tell the truth, before a friend saw this TV, he said that the difference between domestically produced TVs and big-name TVs lies in the quality and sound effects. After watching them, he told me that this TV was among the domestic brands he had seen. The best sound effect.


As an Internet smart TV, our users are more concerned about its content resources. Microwhale WTV55K1 will not worry us about television resources because it depends on Chinese culture, Alibaba, Tencent, and Central People's Broadcasting. Radio, so we have current Tencent videos and some exclusive video resources in terms of film and television resources. We also have time-honored Warner, Oriental DreamWorks, Star Media, TVB, Premier League and other David as premium content resources, while for the more popular video resources Only members can perform the viewing.


In order to make everyone's viewing more comfortable, we can set the corresponding viewing mode with us to watch the film source, and create a corresponding quality and sound experience for us. Because some of the radio and television documents stipulate that the micro whale WTV55K1 does not have built-in related live broadcast software or live broadcast sources, it instead provides corresponding on-demand spots, such as: good sound area, TV strong files, variety hot hits and other hot zones, and even rare The documentary resources of the BBC channel have been inhaled, and are also available for many domestic hits.


Doraemon: Come with me


Challenger League real shot

For the current experience this week, whether it is on-demand Blu-ray source or on-demand 4K film source, my 20M optical fiber network conditions, the entire smooth viewing, and there has been no Caton, for fast forward retreat Video resources can also be quickly loaded and played. Of course, for the 4K film source, we only need to receive membership before we can perform on-demand, otherwise it is not possible to watch, and members will be in the news notification or on-demand member film and television will pop up the relevant receiving interface.

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It also made me more pleasantly surprised by its special TV screensavers, relying on the internal installation of shrimp music, coupled with multiple high-definition photos, resulting in most of the current smart TV does not have a beautiful music screensaver. Of course, the screen-protected music can also be turned on, off, and cut. You can use our remote control to press the UP button to turn on the music, turn it down, and cut it to the left and right. It is also fun to play.


The combination of music and beauty makes TV very fashionable


Maybe many of my friends are still more concerned with video decoding, because a TV is better or worse out of the network TV on-demand broadcast, there is also a more important is the local video playback, support for H.265 10bit hard decoding (support includes MPEG , MPEG4, H.263, H.264, H.265 and other video encoding type and FLV, MOV, AVI, MKV, MP4 and other mainstream video package format) micro whale WTV55K1, the local player simply not a difficult thing. Through the playback of the 3D source, 4K source, and 1080P source in the local hard disk, the overall performance is very good. The 4K source is very familiar. In the figure above, except for the two pictures in the upper left corner, all are 4K source real shots. Just in some 3D film sources there have been pictures without sound, but this TV does not support 3D so we do not need to question, only as a test player.


The tiny whale WTV55K1 uses LG's original RGB True 4K screen, with high-quality backlight modules and carefully tuned Ultra HD quality engine, with a resolution of up to 3840 x 2160 and a resolution 4 times that of 1080P Full HD. In terms of color performance, this TV uses a top 10 bit panel and can display 1.07 billion colors. The color difference performance is 64 times higher than that of the 8 bit panel, bringing a richer color gradation and higher color reproduction. Imported true 4K screen and higher level of debugging make this TV very satisfying for 4K color performance and dynamic image performance. With an ultra-fast response speed of 8 milliseconds, there is no trailing phenomenon when playing intense sports games. For young people who like football games, watching the game on this TV must be very cool.


Football game real shot, no smear


The TV's screen also has a 178° ultra-wide viewing angle, allowing us to see the TV screen from every angle. In order to give everyone a more intuitive experience, shooting from the side, the picture above uses a position near the horizontal line of the screen When you take a picture, you can see the image in the center of the screen in the middle of the line of sight, and the lower picture with a smaller angle can see the entire screen. Taken together, this 4K screen is very good at color performance, dynamic response and viewing angle.


Side real shot


Micro whale WTV55K1 built powerful 64-bit ARM CortexA53 1.4GHz processor core 4 and the core 4 Mali-450 graphics processor with 64-bit YunOS advanced system, full chip performance, and the viewing of the whole system are very smooth. In order to give everyone an intuitive demonstration of its ability to run, through the use of security Bunny 64 evaluation software and video evaluation software for testing, although the test results are not yet eager to run 7-8 million mobile phones, but in the TV test can Running 23818 points, this score is still satisfactory. For video test results, there are three different package videos (encapsulated mp4\audio encoding aac\video encoding avc, encapsulated mp4\audio encoding aac\video encoding mpeg-4, encapsulated webm\audio encoding vorbis\video encoding vp8) Caton appeared, but MicroWhale WTV55K1 supports almost all video formats currently on the market.


In the end, the micro-whale was a newcomer to the television world, but it was created by a team of geeks who worked in the television industry for many years. The micro-whale WTV55K1 is also the first smart TV built by this experienced team, relying on Chinese people. Culture, Alibaba, Tencent, and the Central People's Broadcasting Station have the core competitiveness that matches many high-end models on the market today, both in hardware and software. Of course, the most important is its more than cost-effective, created a number of first in the double 11 shopping carnival, once again demonstrated the strength of this newcomer in the television industry.