Future demand, HDR TV's Skyworth Experience Report



Speaking of Skyworth’s earliest connections with it was when she bought TV for her female friends in 2013. Because the living room was relatively long (5.7m), I wanted a “big TV” at the time. Originally, I wanted to buy Xiaomi LeTV. Branded, but older people still like to use the set-top box to watch TV and will not be reluctant to go online.

The leaders set a few standards:
1. The screen size is greater than 50, preferably 55;
2. Must support 1080P, better with 3D capabilities;
3. The shape should be beautiful enough, the border should be narrow enough 4. The price is not higher than 6,000.

In the end, we purchased this "Coocaa 55K1T 55-inch Dream Edition 3D Cloud Smart (White)" in Jingdong 4999. Consumers generally hope that what they buy is good and they also want to hear more good news about the brand. One of the followings was "In June 2015, Skyworth released the world's first 4K HDR TV." I'm also honoured to have obtained Skyworth's qualification for HDR TV and began to share the experience.


First of all it is a "big" TV

Everyone's feelings for this big guy is big! Big! Big! Even if we can't get through the small staircase in the process of carrying, we have to put up the TV. If you buy this big guy at the tail, please be sure to find two warriors and make sure that the door and the stairwell are accessible.

The traditional theory holds that the length of a 65-inch TV living room should be more than 5 meters long, but like the size of a mobile phone, there is no so-called "conclusiveness" with the advancement of cost and technology. Today, I enjoyed the immersion of the 65-inch screen with my little partner in the 3m living room. I didn't feel uncomfortable. As long as the budget is right, the bigger the TV, the better. Whoever knows who to use.



The Skyworth True HDR TV model is G8210. I will call it "Big Guy". The "big guy" package is very simple, with two bases (fixed with a Phillips screwdriver), a power cord, a remote control (using two 7-cell batteries), and several product manuals and warranty books. The assembly process is very simple, just need someone to help lift it for 5 minutes, so easy!




"Big Guy" is currently the flagship product of Skyworth and is equipped with the latest system based on Android L. "Cool 5.0." After it is set up, it will enter the advertising page for 22 seconds and enter the TV interface for 45 seconds. The interface is as novel as most television systems nowadays. It is much better than the cool open system of 2 years ago. In addition to the video resources provided in cooperation with iQIYI and Tencent Video, it also provides live broadcast of live concerts like traditional TV. And NBA, CBA and other programs.



In general, the Coocaa system has grown into a mature and usable TV system, and it has begun to build its own ecosystem. However, due to copyright issues, many video resources require VIP renewals. However, as an old driver relocating to the Internet, the U-disk will be loaded with a XXX and it will be done. (Dang Niang can tell you @Tech-zhexue).




The design of the remote control is more refined and beautiful. It uses two No. 7 batteries. Infrared reception, so it is still necessary to align the infrared receiver to receive the signal, the delay is not large. It is strongly demanded that at least the flagship model be upgraded with the Bluetooth remote control "feeling the charm of technology." I don't want to change the angle remotely by silly changing angles.



System settings because it is based on the Android system so a bit imaginary is inevitable, there are application default installation location, unknown source control, restore factory settings and other familiar features. My favorite additional feature is the regular shutdown so that I can listen to the TV and feel sleep.


The name of the "hardware monster" in the television industry should be just as appropriate

For most people, the most important thing to buy TV is hardware. "Big Guy" equipped with LG Display's original 4-color 4K HDR screen and Skyworth's RTD2997H chip jointly developed with Raychem, which can solve 10bit 4K video resources, and achieved brightness backlight control and HDR color image modulation technology. LED dynamic multi-zone light source processing, with 1236nit backlight drive control, provides wider, more precise, and higher image dynamic range of the screen processing capabilities.


Translating adult messages is done with a really good 4K screen. All the HD videos you can download can be viewed directly, and it looks almost like you are on the ground. It can display more colors and a wider brightness level. .


Try to download several video resources in different formats, including MKV, MP4, AVI, and M4V. Only Apple's M4V cannot be played directly. Different bit rates, different bits of video, as long as the correct format can be hard to solve. Especially with 10bit video, there are really few televisions that can be played directly.


The following is the detailed parameters of this machine

Cool open system 5.0 64 bit (compatible with Android L)
Chip 10bit HDR
Processor CPU: Cortex A53x4 (64-bit) GPU: IMG6110x6 VPU: V-Enginex2 HDR-10 Processor x2 A total of 14 cores of memory are DDR3 2G
Available storage 3.4G
Peak brightness ≥ 700nit
Resolution
Viewing angle ±178°
Color Technology Nontoxic Wide Color Image Processing 4K Local Dimming 4K MEMC +

Skyworth TV 65G8210 users can refer to the tutorial: Skyworth TV 65G8210 installation method Install sofa housekeeper to achieve third-party application extensions.

Talk about "HDR" on TV

The range of brightness that our human eyes can actually sense is approximately between 1 and 10 of the 12th power, but in the absence of pupillary adjustment the range is approximately 1 to 10 5th power, ie 100000:1. The SDR of traditional television programs and televisions is 1000:1, so when watching TV, it feels more "flat," which means that the dynamic range is not high enough. HDR is an abbreviation for "High-Dynamic Range High Dynamic Range." The luminance range is much larger than that of a conventional SDR and can be approximated to the fifth power of 10.

In recent years, with the large-scale application of new types of digital photographic equipment, professional 4K cameras/cameras mostly support HDR shooting, and the original images taken with these devices have a very wide brightness range. The eye-perceived beauty can be burned in video resources, but if the home TV can only be displayed in the 1000:1 brightness range, the original large amount of brightness and color signals are lost.


Skyworth made early efforts in the field of HDR TV, and released its first 4K HDR TV in June 2015, earlier than Sony and LG's related products debuted at CES 2016. Although the brightness of this TV is only about 1000nit, it is actually much larger than the dynamic range of traditional TVs. The most intuitive performance is that when watching high-definition video, the brightness contrast is huge, the sun is no longer just a yellow circle, the sunlight reflected by the glass is no longer dim, and the xenon headlights on the stage can shine your eyes, just like The front row of the concert was beautiful.


In the actual experience, we tried to play a 10 bit 4K resource. The hard solution was no stress, and the effect was amazing. Especially when the highlight appeared on the screen, the brightness was stunning, the color was excessively smooth, and the details of the shadows were more abundant. Using an inappropriate metaphor is to change from listening stereo to 5.1 surround sound. But in the parameters still can not reach the maximum brightness experience of 4000nit brought by giants such as Sony.


A few pictures were used to test its color and brightness. When the first picture shows her hair, the upper left corner is already dark and cannot show "black and black". It can still be clearly identified on the MacBook Pro. The right hair is no longer the original brown and is a little red. The high brightness of the cheeks and forehead is very high, even a little over-exposure.


Then look at this sports car map, to truly show its strength, the background glare with the high contrast and the brightness of the highest 1236nit show dazzling, glare around the color transition natural and smooth, but also thanks to the color cast of the screen makes the foreground This red Ferrari is very beautiful.


This "white and white" smoke is not a problem in displaying the white color scale, but the pure white mist edge became the "pink" toxic smoke (not a good "non-toxic wide color gamut". Well, it makes the overall elegant taste different. Adjusting the "color temperature" in the settings, cold, warm, and standard, does not change much.


In order to verify the problem, use this 2016 with a pure white background, the 6 on the right makes “dark red” become “bright red”, and the color of the word 201 is not too bright and bright but it is true, and the most concerned white background also shows more White and white, there is no problem with reddening. Therefore, it should be the problem of adjustment of the tendency of hair color instead of screen quality.


These problems did not appear even on the Skyworth 55-inch 1080P TV in 2013, but they appeared on this flagship machine. It reminds me of the fact that when the camera of the mobile phone just started to enter the 1300W, although the pixels are higher, the imaging is not better than the 800W, because the coloring engineers are more familiar with the 800W camera. The HDR of TV is after all just something that was presented to consumers in 2016. It is not yet technically mature. But after experiencing the stunning performance of ultra-high-definition video at 10 bits, and combining the impact on the development of the production industry, I have no doubt about the future of this technology. I also believe that Skyworth can bring us better and more practical HDR TV.


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