Today, televisions are suitable not only to broadcast the TV channels: they are used to view the cinema and photographs, Internet surfing and much more. We tell about the most interesting features.
What can modern TV? Yes, almost all the same as the computer in its consumer hypostasis, that is, to reproduce media files from various sources. The TV can be connected to the Internet and "Surf" on the network using a built-in browser, attend popular sites, receive and send email, communicate in social networks. You can connect to the home network and play photo and video files from the home media server, computer or smartphone.
TV Hisense Laser TV - Personal Home Cinema with Screen Diagonal Up to 2.5 M (100 inches)
Connect the game console or, say, connect via the appropriate flash drive or memory card through the appropriate slot. All these features can be implemented using different software.
It is not surprising that users when choosing a TV increasingly pay attention to the possibility of its use as the center of the home physician. What should I pay attention to when choosing such a smart device?
Smart TV.
This is the name of a set of programs and applications that allow you to use the TV as a computer. First of all, this is a built-in catalog program, with the help of which you will carry out web surfing, that is, to visit various sites. Visually on the screen it looks like a system of buttons and bookmarks (sometimes quite intricate), leading to popular sites, broken through various categories of content. Categories can be characterized by content type: online cinemas, games, social networks, or by genres: fantasy, sport, for children, or for some other parameters.
The comfort of using the interface of this program depends on the comfort of using the technique, so when choosing a smart TV, try to check the convenience of the software set. Turn on the TV and run on the items and buttons. All menu items must be intuitive and not to cause difficulties even with unprepared users.
The most popular sites must be easily accessible through the on-screen menu. Someone is important that you can watch Youtube videos, someone needs Facebook. Therefore, before choosing Smart TV, consider what sites you are used to using on the Internet that you will need it in SMART TV.
For user convenience, television software is complemented by various applications. Here each manufacturer tries to his way. Thus, Samsung's TVs became the first on which the updated Yandex application is installed, providing convenient and personalized access to the video content. Sony C 2016 offers televisions with a popular Android TV operating system with voice search and simple switching with mobile devices.
Today, televisions are characterized by high functionality and are not much inferior in this regard to personal computers.
And Panasonic continues the development of the My Home Screen platform, where there is the possibility of streaming video playback from YouTube and Amazon TV, including 4K resolution and HDR support. And LG has an exclusive service of online television LG plus channels. It is enough to connect the TV to the Internet and run the LG application plus channels to access more than 200 channels, more than a third of which - in HD / FHD quality.
It is important and how the text command setting mechanism and messages are organized. Traditional remote controls are not suitable for this (for sure, many readers remember what torment there was a set of text in a push-button phone). In the SMART TV TVs, the set can be carried out in different ways. This, firstly, virtual keyboard displayed on the screen is the easiest, but not the most convenient option. It is much more convenient if the TV can be controlled using a smartphone that plays the role of a kind of control panel. In some TV models, you can connect the keyboard and mouse to the TV, both both wired and wireless them options. But not all models of devices can be connected to each other, so if you need a TV with a keyboard connected and a mouse, check with the sellers, which models come to a friend to a friend.
Televisions with high resolution screen comfortably watch and closely
High quality pictures and sound
TVs in the living room are often used to view the movies, so for many buyers, high quality images and sound are important. For home theater, it is best to use models with a large screen diagonal, from 60 inches and above. Of course, the total area of the room is important here, the TV should be at some definite distance from the viewer to provide the most comfortable view. So, for models with a screen diagonal of 50 inches, a distance equal to about 2 m is recommended, for a screen of 60 inches - 2.6 m. If the TV will be too close, separate pixels will be noticeable. The higher the resolution, the less can be the distance: for Full HD TVs (1920 × 1080 pixels) it can be one or two diagonal of the screen, and the latest models with the Ultra HD 4K resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels) and especially 8K (7680 × 4320 pixels) can be set to the audience at least close. But do not forget that the effective viewing angle of most people is approximately 60 °, so it is too close to be located (at a distance less than 0.8 screen widths) can also be uncomfortable.
The quality of the picture depends on the resolution. In this regard, Ultra HD is out of competition. True, the 8K model is so far too expensive (for example, the price of 8K QLED-TV Samsung with a diagonal of 75 inches - 699 thousand rubles), but the devices with 4k screens and for less costs. Thus, models LG 4K with a 43-inch screen diagonal are sold for 33-35 thousand rubles. The 40-inch samsung 4K TV costs less than 30 thousand rubles, and the technique of such brands, like Erisson, BBK, Hyundai, can be purchased for 20-25 thousand rubles.
If you decide to purchase a TV with super high (Ultra HD and especially 8K) screen resolution, take into account the fact that in the coming years you will most likely have to deal with video recordings made in a smaller resolution. And therefore it is very important that your TV can easily scale the images in a low resolution, primarily a broadcasting television.
As for the quality of the image, today technologies based on LCD crystals used in almost all primary and medium price range TVs, as well as more advanced OLED and QLED technologies, which are used in premium models (the minimum price of such TVs will be 55-60 thousand rubles.). OLED technology uses LEDs based on organic compounds that can emit light when current passing through them. The QLED technology offered by Samsung, microscopic crystals are used (they are called "quantum dots", from here and name QLED, Abbreviation Quantum Dot LED), which provide very accurate color reproduction. Both of these technologies are now practically "killed" the plasma panels and compete now among themselves.
Elegant 4K HDR OLED TV BEOVISION ECLIPSE (Bang & Olufsen) on an outdoor stand
The difference as an image so far OLED and QLED is not viewed, small flaws have each technology, but they are not critical. Say, OLED crystals can fade, lose brightness after many years of operation (it will become noticeable after 10 years, if you use the TV daily at 8 h), and the QLED screens do not fade away, but they are somewhat thicker, 3-4 cm, and thickness The same OLED screen can be less than 1 cm.
The brightness of the 8K-TV Sharp screen is sufficient so that it can be comfortable to look at it
Sound reproduction technologies are also in place. All wider use technologists for wireless connection of acoustic systems. Also used built-in super-compact and hidden loudspeakers. A characteristic sample can serve as a series of Sony OLED TVs with Acoustic Surface Audio + technology. Flat speakers are built into the housing behind an acoustically transparent screen. In fact, the sound is transmitted by the entire surface of the screen, no speakers at the bottom or side. Thanks to this, a wonderful minimalistic design and a thin case is obtained. Such developments are also conducted by other manufacturers.
The use of hidden wiring antenna cable will help get rid of excess wires in the interior
Curved screen
For deep immersion in the film view, you can recommend televisions with a curved screen. The curved screen gives a high-quality panoramic effect, it uses peripheral vision, which helps to plunge into action on the screen. Such TVs are good for both the viewer and the company. Enhances the quality of viewing and refusing a frame that visually limits the review.
4K QLED SAMSUNG Q8C TV
How to check the quality
Before buying Full HD TVs and especially Ultra HD, it is advisable to check them out and make sure that they provide a picture of a normal quality, say, from digital airtal television (in Russia, the resolution of the essential television is 720 × 576 pixels). A normal picture means that the image should not contain visible distortion: the image does not scatter on the cells, the gradient transitions of the tones and colors smooth, and not a step, fast moving objects are not blown in the form of amorphous spots.
SAMSUNG Q QLED 2018 TV in the Ambient is turned off almost invisible, adjusting to the texture and color of the wall on which it is located
Ability to fit into the interior
The minimum dimensions of loudspeakers, the lack of kinescops and other any volume details - all this allows you to make televisions if you can say so as minimal as possible. On the front panel of modern premium models, you will not see any buttons nor light bulbs, nor any connectors - only a glass rectangle screen. Framing screen frame turned into a thin (2-3 mm) rim.
Such TVs can be made an interesting design element in residential premises. Modern technologies allow you to make their body with a thickness of less than 1 cm. The TV can be enjoyed close to the wall, and the attachments provide the minimum required clearance for ventilation (also less than 1 cm).
The bracket with several degrees of freedom will allow you to adjust the tilt and rotate the screen.
Additional programs allow TV to mimicry under the picture, a window or even the wallpaper pattern. So, in LG TVs there is a "gallery" mode. In this mode, photos of different parts of the planet with musical accompaniment are displayed, updated each season TripAdvisor travel portal.
In OLED TVs Samsung 2018, there is an ambient mode. In the Decor section, this mode creates a changing color background on the screen, harmoniously complementing the interior of your room. Using the Ambient mode, the TV can be configured to display current traffic information, weather, news, or music playback. Ambient allows you to copy color or wallpaper pattern directly on the device display, thanks to which the TV mounted on the wall will be perfectly fit into the interior of the room.
In modern TVs, the voice control, the latest models of Samsung, Sony, LG and some other manufacturers are quite confidently perceived by speech - no worse than, let's say, smartphones and latter generation tablets
About how spectacularly copes one or another TV with designer functions is best of all, of course, to judge the person. It is advisable to inspect and choose a TV at the level of lighting level, which will be most often used in your living room (far from everyone likes to watch news or some programs, sitting in the pitch darkness, as it usually happens when shooting previews). If you want to place a TV on the wall, rate the design of its connector and how you will connect the power cables and antenna to the device (get drunk about the antenna cable in advance). In a number of models, the control system with all the necessary buttons and connectors (for connecting to the power grid, the Internet, home local network, ports for connecting USB flash drives, etc.) is transferred to a separate unit that connects to a TV in one-sole cable . This design allows you to easily disguise this cable when installing the TV, and you can connect and disable various devices to the unit as they need.
TV should be installed so that the sunlight does not interfere with the transmission
New technologies: HDR, OLED and LED TV
- HDR. The abbreviation is decrypted as an "extended dynamic range". This is an image encoding technology that allows you to record (and then reproduce) video so that becoming more noticeable close-tone parts. A standard HDR frame includes in addition to the image, a data set that suggests exactly how to process a picture.
- OLED and LED TV. If the names of "Organic" OLED LEDs are a more advanced technology that provides a better quality image, an extended dynamic range with better color reproduction, as well as deep dark and bright light images, which creates a more realistic image compared to conventional LED TVs.
. Stands as design element in Sharp OLED TV (design from PinInfarina)
OLED TV LG Signature OLED TV W8 is made in the design format "Image on the wall". High quality image provides an OLED display with self-changing pixels and a new processor α9 (Alpha9)
Wireless subwoofer included Laser TV (Hisense) TV
Stands as an element of design in Panasonic OLED TV models
Model U9A from the premium series ULED TV (HISENSE)
SMART TV menu options
SMART TV menu options
Using the Smart TV Samsung Users menu, access Content and Services
. Stands as design element in Sharp OLED TV (design from PinInfarina)
. Stands as design element in Sharp OLED TV (design from PinInfarina)