TV – Tech Raman

7 Reasons OnePlus TV could brings Diwali Sparks in your living room

Lakshmi Rajan — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:47:05 +0000

7 Reasons to buy OnePlus TV Q1

1. Its way smarter than a projector – The OnePlus TV provides a premium experience that is seamless and clutter-free. The OnePlus TV interface based on the Android TV provides the most holistic smart TV experience. This also enables quick connectivity with your android device and offers a ton of great features like the Google Assistant, Built-in Chromecast, Play Store and YouTube for your smart home. Whereas on a projector, you’d need three other devices to just get the video going. 2. Acoustic Audio System – The OnePlus Q1 Pro comes with a sliding soundbar which compliments the picture quality with immersive acoustic experience. The 8-speaker stereo system on the OnePlus TV finds the perfect balance between excellent speakers and stunning exterior design. The woofer speakers deliver a wide range of deep bass and powerful beats, while the tweeters and full-range speakers provide the best ‘surround’ effect to make sound rich and consistent. Essentially, making an entire audio setup which you would require with the projector, completely redundant. 3. The QLED display is no match for the projector – With the OnePlus TV, one can be definite of the dynamic viewing experience each time. The Synchronously optimized algorithm and hardware, the Gamma Colour Magic on the OnePlus TV bring you the highest level of performance and phenomenal image quality, making family movie time a much better experience. 4. No more spending hours tuning the projector to get the video quality right – Ever felt like the lighting and the contrast always ruins the entire viewing experience on the projector. Well, with the OnePlus TV, you can be sure of the vivid details in the pictures, bright colours and optimal contrasts that make the dark even darker and the bright even brighter. The Dolby VisionTM on the OnePlus TV provides clarity in both the dark and the bright areas in every frame with clearer and more vibrant colours. 5. Sound that drown the neighbors and their crackers – The Dolby Atmos on the OnePlus TV creates the sound to excite your senses and inspire your emotions, which will eventually deliver a holistic entertainment experience. 6. No more asking the family IT person to operate the laptop or video player – To avoid the hassle of looking for the remote or having a dedicated resource to just lower volume or adjust brightness, we bring to you the OnePlus connect. It helps you connect your OnePlus device to the TV and double it as the remote. This enables the user to a gamut of features that make the user experience seamless. The OnePlus TypeSync makes sure your smartphone is your smart remote and you have higher efficiency with mobile keyboard and voice input. The Quick App Switch offers you the experience of smooth navigation. You can also capture screenshots of your TV, using the OnePlus connect app. 7. OxygenPlay – The OnePlus TV ensures that you have a variety of content to browse through and that you are also updated with the latest stuff. The OnePlus TV comes with deep integration with international and local content providers including YouTube, Prime Video, Eros Now, Hungama, Jio Cinema, Zee 5. The Oxygen Video application covers local features and international content, exclusive content on shelves, high-quality recommendation, convenient content search (voice search + search aggregation), to provide users with a wonderful, burden less viewing experience. ]]>

Truvision launches 40 inch, Smart LED HD TV, TX408Z, priced at Rs. 34490

Lakshmi Rajan — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:54:34 +0000

Truvision, an European consumer brand has added another TV to their portfolio in India with the launch of Truvision TX408z 40-inch Smart TV at Rs 34,490 and would be available at leading retail stores across India. The Truvision TX408z is an Android Smart TV but with an customised UI and comes with Google Play store for downloading apps of your choice. The TV has a fullHD display and promises great viewing experience with a 300000:1 contrast ratio. Further the company says they have implemented a Corneo Eye technology that reduces the strain affecting your eyes and also adjusts the screen to ideal colour aspects for optimised viewing. Being an Android TV, it also has the popular Youtube app and other apps can be downloaded from the play store. The built-in Miracast enables sharing movies and other files between your compatible devices like Smartphone. The company also claims the TV is energy efficient consuming less than half percent of energy than the usual with the Super Energy Saving Technology. Director of Truvison, Mr. Saurabh Kabra, shares, “Without spending much, now you can experience the pulse and thrill of reel to real entertainment on Truvison 40inch TV. Designed exclusively for Indian Markets, we give our customers an international experience and additional benefits with products without compromising on the quality”

Key Features of the Truvision 40-inch TX408z Smart LED TV

40-inch display
fullHD 1080p
300000:1 contrast ratio
Android Smart TV
Corneo eye tecnology
2 HDMI ports
WiFi
Miracast
Energy Saver technology

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Daiwa D32D1 80 cm (32-inch) HD Ready LED Television Review

Lakshmi Rajan — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:39:09 +0000

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. ]]>

Mitashi launches 65" Full HD LED TV; priced at Rs 1,39,990

Lakshmi Rajan — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:22:26 +0000

In case you don’t know, yes Mitashi makes televisions too and they have quiet a many models from small TV’s to now a mega 65-inch TV. Mitashi, the official Electronics partner of Rajasthan Royals cricket team has unveiled Mitashi MiDe065v09, the 65-inch big screen right in the middle of IPL season so that you can watch the stadium like experience sitting in your living room. “This IPL season has been very exciting for all the cricket fans who missed to be in the stadium and can still experience the feel of being there with our latest 65″ Full HD LED TV.” said Mr. Rakesh Dugar, Chairman & Managing Director at Mitashi Edutainment Pvt. Ltd. “Mitashi has expanded its range to further accelerate this trend. Taken together with Mitashi’s contemporary design and attention to detail, such as sound quality and convenient connectivity, we are looking to again deliver the ultimate home entertainment experience through our new 65″ Ultra HD LED TV.” The Mitashi 65″ TV features a Full HD resolution (1920 X 1080) display with DLED Technology and sporting a Super SLIM Panel. The display has a 500,000: 1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio. The TV has USB port enabling to play media files directly from pendrives or external hard drives and the movie plug and play application supports a wide range of formats like AVI, MPEG, MKV, WMA. There is also a HDMI port. The Mitashi TV can be mounted on the wall or fixed on the stand. It comes with a MRP of Rs.1,39,990/- and includes a 3-years warranty. ]]>