Millet TV 3S experience: probably the most cost-effective curved TV

As the biggest window of the living room that each manufacturer wants to occupy, the war of smart devices has been blazing from the mobile phone to the TV. More and more Internet brands have also begun to flow into the area where they originally had a technical threshold. They rely on "smart TVs" and " "Online content" and other concepts are just like the squid, and the calm lake is buzzing.

Xiaomi is one of the earliest ones to enter television in this wave of Internet. With the "cost-effective" weapon, "the young man's first TV" and "the young man's first home theater" performed in the market so that the TV giants who had had a steady day have to pay attention to the "smart TV." "Come.

Accompanied by the iterative speed similar to mobile phones, Xiaomi TV also released its latest generation of products, Xiaomi TV 3S, sometime ago. In addition, Xiaomi added high-end elements such as large screens and curved screens to the latest generation of TVs. Of course, the highest-end version also reached a price of 8,999 yuan, which is second only to the 370-inch version of Xiaomi TV. Can this TV with a curved screen add a firm foothold in the increasingly competitive high-end TV industry?

Some basic parameters

Screen section

The host part has 3 HDMI2.0, 1 USB3.0, 1 USB2.0, 1 MI PORT, 1 VGA, 1 Ethernet interface, 1 AV interface, 1 audio output to subwoofer interface, 1 analog signal DTMB.

The millet TV 3S priced at RMB 8999 has a 65-inch 4K curved screen with an overall length of 1446.2 millimeters and a height of 902.4 millimeters (including a herringbone base bracket) that is larger than the next-generation millet TV 2S.

Since the TV's main interfaces, components, and stand-alone audio systems are all located in the split host unit, the TV screen section has only one MI PORT port, and the main part of the TV unit has only a curved panel, so the thickness of the screen section is rather gratifying, only 5.1 mm. Compared to the iPhone 6s or the Samsung note 5, it is much thinner.

The curvature of this millet TV curved screen is 4000R. If you don't understand it, there is a more vivid description of it: “A section cut from an arc with a radius of 4 meters”.

The back of the TV is a black metal back panel, and the frame is also a drawing process. The overall workmanship is much better than many televisions before Xiaomi. However, some of the details are not precise enough, such as the corners of the borders appear a little rough; however, due to the design of ultra-thin and ultra-narrow borders, the width of the black border in the screen is slightly fluent; when the hand is put on the border, the panel trembles. Some do not feel relieved.

actual use

As mentioned above, this millet TV 3S curved screen version uses a split design, which means that the screen and host are completely separated. The two are only connected via the MI PORT. The interfaces required by the TV are completely centralized on the host. The advantage of this is that the TV screen portion can be made thinner, and the various cables behind the TV are also easier to organize; of course, the problem is also that, for example, the cramp of the interface is not flexible enough. After all, this kind of design requires the screen portion. A computer monitor is also not acceptable.

After booting, the first thing that catches your eye is the screen performance of the TV. This is also the most fancy for many traditional television consumers.

As a LCD TV with a bottom-entry LED backlight, the screen panel quality of this millet TV 3S is quite good.

The color performance and grayscale performance of television are shown in the figure.

The distortion of the screen is also smaller.

Having seen the basic performance of the screen, let's take a look at the software part of Xiaomi TV 3S, which is one of the selling points that Xiaomi has always emphasized. This millet TV running system is MIUI TV version 1.2.6 (stable version). After connecting to the WIFI, the step of binding the millet account is used by MIUI users. The TV's UI is naturally quite different from the mobile phone MIUI. It is a bit more of Metro UI's charm, clear, clear, and informative.

This kind of UI design is often seen on other smart TVs, presumably this is an example of a smart TV UI.

After several generations of development, the main parts of this version of MIUI TV are "TV", "online film and television", "lifestyle" and "application".

The TV part, as its name suggests, is the channel broadcast of traditional TV channels. Before starting to look at each channel, channel search is needed. But now, how many opportunities do young consumers have to use this feature? In addition, there is always an "8H Latex Mattress" ad below this section...

The “Online Film and TV” resource of this millet TV is mainly based on iQIYI and can be combined with iQiyi’s “Kiwi VIP Membership Card”. In actual use, TV can still watch other video websites online, such as the resources of Mango TV.

The third part of the main screen is “Lifestyle”. This part is mainly “App Store” and “Game Center”. You can install third-party apps to realize unlimited potential. This may be the charm of such smart TVs. There is also a module in this part that has to be referred to as “smart home”. After entering this module, users can easily purchase a variety of products from the Xiaomi ecological chain with one click.

Third-party apps that users install on their TVs will appear in the "Applications" section.

Some other aspects of television use small details.

One of the main features of this generation of millet TVs is the "projection artifact." With the "Screenshot Artifact" app, Android phones and iPhones can easily interact with TVs. Take the Android mobile phone as an example. With this application, the mobile phone can act as a TV remote control, and can easily achieve TV screencasts, and can also project pictures and the like on a mobile phone onto a TV screen. More importantly, through this application, the mobile phone is equivalent to an organic extension of TV. It can easily install applications for TVs, search for online resources, etc. After all, the efficiency of mobile phone input of Chinese characters is still higher than TV remote control. less.

The quality of TV audio systems also determines the overall TV experience. Due to the split design of the TV, the sound system has more room to play, and its final sound performance is quite good: the bass is calm, the treble part is clear enough, and the sound field is also well-built.

The first curved screen TV for young people?

Millet TV 3S 65-inch curved screen price is 8999 yuan, which is quite high in Xiaomi's selling system. However, as a TV with a 65-inch 4K curved screen, in the case of high prices of similar products, this price is undoubtedly very competitive. "Young people's first curved TV" doesn't seem to be entirely a joke.

However, we should also see that as a high-end TV, this millet TV 3S does not have the latest display technology such as Sony's high-end new products such as 4K HDR. Xiaomi used "Samsung" to endorse several times in the promotion of TV core hardware outside the main MIUI TV system. These all show that Xiaomi lacks in TV core technology. Perhaps outside the software, Xiaomi still has a long way to go.