Daiwa – Tech Raman https://techraman.com Simplified Tech Talk Sun, 05 Jan 2020 09:25:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://techraman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TR_logo-150x120.png Daiwa – Tech Raman https://techraman.com 32 32 Daiwa 55-inch Quantum Lumit 4K Ultra-HD Smart TV Review – A Surprise Package https://techraman.com/daiwa-55-inch-quantum-lumit-4k-ultra-hd-smart-tv-review/ https://techraman.com/daiwa-55-inch-quantum-lumit-4k-ultra-hd-smart-tv-review/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2019 04:22:48 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=14404 ]]> Daiwa is a TV brand owned by homegrown Videotex International Pvt Ltd who have a long history spanning 33 years in TV industry.  They have a wide portfolio that includes Smart TVs , non-smart TVs both in various screen sizes. Their recent launch comes with what they call as Quantum Lumint display technology (which is not to be confused with Quantum dot display from Samsung). The Daiwa Quantum Luminit 4K TV threw couple of surprises when I started using it and more about that keep reading the review.

Pricing:

The Daiwa TV with Quantum Luminit display is avaible in 55-inch, 49-inch and 42-inch screen sizes.  Priced aggressively the 55-inch TV is priced at Rs 39,990, the 49-inch at ₹31,990 and the 43-inch scren at ₹23,990. The Televisions are availabe from their website and PayTM mall.

What you get with the TV?

  • The LED TV
  • Remote
  • “AAA” battery – 2 nos
  • TV stand
  • Wall mount
  • User manual

Design

Like any products design is a very subjective term. The Daiwa TV doesn’t boast of being razor thin but it doesn’t look very bulky either. The borders are in black so are the leg stands. The finishing is decent. The TV also comes with a built-in sound bar with a 20 watts speaker.  The TV could blend easily with any decor of your room. The metal leg stands have a solid build quality, the box also comes with a standard wall mount fixture if you want to mount it on a wall. Vertically stacked at the back are optical out, one HDMI port (out of the total 3), earphone port, SD card input, two USB ports. Below that horizontally at tha back are the RF in, AV in, two HDMI ports, ethernet port,  Line out (L and R).

Picture and Sound

Size 140cm
Screen Resolution UHD 3840*2160
Panel A+ Grade (Zero-Brt Dot)
Panel Make Samsung
Display Color 1.07 Billion
Wide Colour Gamut (NTSC +/- 5%) 95%
Backlight Type D-LED
Viewing Angle 178° / 178°
Response Time 8mS
Color Temperature Normal / Warm / Cool
Picture Enhancement Yes
Noise Reduction (NDR) Yes
When I first turned on the television, what took me by surprise was the picture quality. I have earlier tested one of their TV from a different range but this QLED TV screen is nothing like that. Simply put. the Quantum Luminit display they have used here is outstanding for the price it comes at. Daiwa has used a Samsung A+ grade panel and the panel type is D-LED backlight with 4K resolution. The display is very sharp, crisp and vivid. Even though Youtube doesn’t handle 4K resolution, even the Youtube videos at 1080p were stunningly clear. The colors are poping out, a little bit tilted to rich scale of saturation but this would be something consumers would like. The HDR display really comes alive and one of the best television display out there and watching movies is a wonderful experience. What am testing here is the 55-inch variant and simply bowled by the visuals. Thanks to HDR-X technology, it has a good contrast ratio, the blacks are very deep and the viewing angles are great too.
Contrast Ratio 6000:1
Brightness 450nits +/-10%
Display Color 16.7M
Aspect Ratio (Panel) 16:09
Sensi Yes
HDR HDRX
4K Enhancer Yes
Video Decode H.265 / H.264 / VC1 / VP8 / VP9 / MPEG1,2,4 / WMV / WEBM
Picture Mode Standard / Dynamic / Soft / Vivid / User / Eyesafe
Image Freeze Yes
De-Interlace 3D
Comb Filter 3D
The second biggest highlight of the Daiwa 55-inch Quantum Lumit 4K Ultra-HD TV is the sound qualit. It boasts of built-in 20 watts soundbar and you would not normally require an additional soundbar to go with since it punches above its weight.
Audio Output 10W*2
Music Mode Yes
ARC HDMI3
Surround Sound Yes
Bass/Treble Control Yes
Auto Vol Control Yes
Equalizer NO
Sound Bar Yes
Dolby Digital Yes
The built-in 20W soundbar can easily fill up your room and gives a full and rich bass and you will enjoy music on it.

Daiwa QLED TV Remote

The TV is accompanied with a unique tv remote. On one side you have the standard layout with numeric keypad and other stuffs like home, back, volume controls, media button. There is also a mouse curson on the remote to navigate through the menus, a dedicated M cast button to cast your smartphone display to the TV screen. The back side has a alphabet keyboard which comes handy filling passwords or to type on the browser. Trust me, this makes life easy if you use the smart features extensively. One problem which can get frustrating at times is the remote many a times doesn’t work unless you point it directly at the receiver in the TV. The keyboard part though works well coz it is paired via Bluetooth.

UI Smart Features of Daiwa QLED TV

The homepage has many apps and videos pulled from Youtube to get going immediately. The top layer has a preview of your AV input, adjacent to it shows trailers and random video tiles. Below that there are list of hot apps preinstalled. There is a row of sports, music content and then you can also add your favourite apps in the last rows. The UI is fairly good to use and navigate. Pressing the remote to the left takes you to apps, network, media and settings.  Being a smart TV connecting to the internet gives the optimum use.
CPU Cortex A73 Dual Core 800MHz
GPU Dual Core Mali450-540MHz
RAM 1GB
ROM 8GB
Android Version 7.0
While most of the Smart televisions in the market especially in the budget or low cost high value propositions still run on Android Kitkat, the Daiwa QLED TV runs on Android version 7.0 with Cortex A73 dual core processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB of storage. [gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="14450,14451,14452,14453,14454,14455,14456,14457,14458,14459,14460,14461,14462,14463"] Netflix and Amazon Prime are preinstalled. While there seem to be some optimization issue with the Neflix app making it way too difficult to use and can be fixed with some updates, Prime app works perfectly well. At times, I did come across lags and even few times there was some hanging issue while on apps and I had to restart the TV. Clearly there is some issue with the optimization which need to be addressed.

Verdict:

At ₹ 39,999 for a 55-inch 4K HDR display Smart TV, the Daiwa QLED is a definite buy. The brilliant display and rich audio makes this a compelling proposition if you are looking for an affordable big smart TV. On the other hand, there is some optimization issue with the apps, occassional lags and the TV remote is frustrating and needs a direct point to work. If you are going to binge on FireTV stick  or stick with Youtube or your regular dish TV contents, this is the best display you can find at this price.]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/daiwa-55-inch-quantum-lumit-4k-ultra-hd-smart-tv-review/feed/ 1 Daiwa D32D1 80 cm (32-inch) HD Ready LED Television Review https://techraman.com/daiwa-d32d1-80-cm-32-inch-hd-ready-led-television-review/ https://techraman.com/daiwa-d32d1-80-cm-32-inch-hd-ready-led-television-review/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:39:09 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=12267 ]]> Daiwa? What? When the TV landed at home for review, whoever came home shot the question without fail. Daiwa? who? which company is it? . Frankly I have not heard about them either earlier but digging into their websites this is what I they claims to be. Daiwa is a sub-brand of an OEM/ODM VideoTex, a company which launched TV in their brand name VideoTex back in 1984. Since them they been manufacturing televisions for other brands. In 2011 they relaunched their VideoTex LED TVs in offline markets and Daiwa is their new brand line up that compromises LED televisions and home theater systems. That’s the small history about them.

The Range

In Amazon India, they have both non-smart TVs and Smart TVs listed in various price range and screen size. The one am going to talk about is their most affordable non-smart TV with a screen size of 32-inch and boasting of a toughened glass.

Unboxing

Out of the box you get
  • LED TV Unit,
  • Table Stand,
  • Remote,
  • Handset Battery “AAA”,
  • User Manual,
  • Warranty Card,
  • Wall Mount
https://youtu.be/JQfJAF-hydw

Design

The design is nothing spectacular but what you expect from a normal LED TV. It weighs 6 Kgs and measures 83.9 x 50 x 14 cm. The build quality is decent for the price it offers and the design is non-nonsense standard lines you expect on a budget LED TV. On the right side of the TV (when you face the screen) you have a physical buttons for power on/off , menu, source channels and volume, just in case you misplaced your remote under the pillow. Stacked on the left side are two USB port, Aux-in , L1, R1 and V1 for video inputs At the bottom there is three HDMI port, AV out, PC port and PC audio-in port.

Display

The 80 centimeter panel has a HD resolution (1366×768) with an image contrast ratio of 4000000:1. It has a 250 nits brightness and response time of 8ms. The display has a good 178 degree viewing angle on either sides and the display is quiet decent , far better than what I frankly expected on this budget model. The colors are decently rich and the picture quality good too. The settings menu allows you to change the aspect ratio of the display via the remote and it also includes a cinematic zoom in case you want the content to be full screen without the black borders. Though frankly, like me most of us would just settle for the auto display settings but then it is there if you want to fiddle around with the aspect ratios.

Performance

As mentioned above, the HD panel of the Daiwa D32D1 is a decent one. The colors are considerably richer than most other models of the budget TVs I have seen in this range. We can put it as a good display at this price. Being a non-Smart TV there is nothing much of add-ons here, there is a bluetooth connectivity option and you can connect your phone via bluetooth and listen on the TV speaker but why would you want to do it? Well, at least I won’t be keeping the TV on just to listen to songs. There are many picture modes, sound profiles to shift. The picture mode settings allows to control the contrast, brightness. color and sharpness and also color temperature. The settings also has a lock mode with a hotel mode. So this model suits commercial establishment and the hotel mode has settings where you can control the max volume and many other relevant controls. A sleeper can be set to put the machine on auto sleep on a scheduled time and there is also a clock with a sleeper time to manually be set. The sound quality of the Daiwa TV is pretty good. The essentials are covered with two USB ports, 3 HDMI ports. I connected my Amazon Firestick and it worked charmingly well. Since it has a PC connectivity, you can turn the TV into one big display monitor. Ideally, Daiwa D32D1 can make a strong pitch in the commercial uses like in display TVs to run advertisement, as a big monitor for security cameras. The TV also supports wire range of audio and video formats, so you can plug in your media files on pen drive and directly watch it on the big screen.

Verdict:

Priced at Rs 12,290 the Daiwa TV D32D1 is quiet a compelling  buy for those on a tight shoestring budget.    ]]>

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