IT168 Review Speaking of Philips, many people immediately thought of its small appliances, these days, who can not turn over a few to ah, the quality of that is a bar, the key is good. Speaking of Philips TV, many people will immediately associated with the word "colorful", the year's sales champion, with the change of the image in the screen, hazy and clear reflections, giving a person a feeling of the cinema, there is a wonderful romantic mood.
It has to be recognized that the Internet is subverting everything in the industrial age, including the consumer market, brand perception, mode of thinking, the rise of Internet-branded TV is enough to illustrate the problem. Most of the people's needs have been tapped, and even a demand will have N brands can come to meet, the fierce competition can be imagined. However, in the color TV industry, the heritage of this thing does exist, as long as you seize the opportunity to complete the intelligent transformation, with a deep technical heritage of traditional brands can still maintain their leading edge, Philips is a typical example.
April 28 this year, the long-silent Philips TV suddenly held a conference in Beijing, announced that with Tencent Penguin TV jointly released a new TV, its new series contains an ultra-thin TV, QD quantum dots, streaming color, streaming projection, curved TVs, OLED TVs, HDR high-dynamic range TVs, etc., compared to the past, the lineup of products and the market mainstream consumer demand affixed to a closer. The concept of "good hardware + good content + good brand" of the three good TVs is even more y rooted in people's hearts, so it is no wonder that in the latest market survey, its sales ranked the first foreign brands.
This kind of comeback, whether by chance or by necessity, or let the product give the answer. The upcoming Philips 55PUF6481 came to our review room this week, so let's take a look at its performance.
Appearance: the quiet man
Many people say that flat-panel TVs now look the same. In fact, the same thing also happened in the cell phone, said who copied who, there is no basis, just because everyone on such a high degree of recognition of the shape of the design, so there is no need for manufacturers to challenge the public aesthetic, grasp the details of the OK. of course, it is easier said than done, but also difficult.
Nowadays, minimalist design has become the goal of designers, people engaged in design know that sometimes the design of subtraction is far more difficult than the design of addition. Philips 55PUF6481 did not engage in any peculiar shape and personalized decorations, the first glance gives people the feeling of stability, the bottom of the central highlighting the PHILIPS logo is the only thing that can identify the identity of the right.
The ultra-narrow bezel is a highlight, with the entire bezel measuring just 25px wide, which is almost negligible on a 55-inch TV. Although the outer frame is made of plastic, but after the mirror polishing treatment, the overall feeling is particularly good, almost can achieve the visual effect of no border, can give the user very strong unrestrained visual sense.
Another angle to look at the Philips 55PUF6481, no curvature, straight lines.
Many manufacturers like to use a dollar coin as a reference, and we use a dime, and the thickness of the body than, a heart. In short, the size control is very good.
Next look at the back, because it is a review machine, so there is no nameplate affixed, and there is no energy-efficiency marking. From the information provided by the manufacturer, we found that the energy efficiency index is 1.3, and the energy efficiency class is G3. A large number of cooling holes are evenly distributed to ensure the rapid spread of internal heat.
The power socket hole is designed separately in the center, with the benefit of anti-interference, which is necessary.
Details: everything is practical first
Reducing physical buttons has been a trend in modern TV design, especially as the bezel is getting narrower and narrower, the buttons are no longer suitable for designing on the front panel, which seriously affects the aesthetics, so the Philips 55PUF6481 is only designed with a five-dimensional navigation key on the left rear lower portion to provide on/off switching and function selection. Reaching out is enough to reach, although menu switching is a bit cumbersome, but after all, it is used in emergencies.
What does it mean to have no less than one? Look at the Philips 55PUF6481. From left to right is the network cable interface, VGA interface, SPDIF audio output, AV input, dual-channel audio input, HDMI interface. As for the very rare SERV.U interface, that's for engineers to debug.
In order to facilitate the user to access third-party devices, there are also interface layout on the side, which are USB2.0, USB3.0, RF cable TV interface, and HDMI interface.
The base is so designed that it seems simple, but in fact, it is stable, and you don't have to worry about the 55-inch large screen at all. Supplied with four screws to fix, the base has a metal reinforcement part in the middle, making the base only as small and light as possible at the same time more stable.
With such a remote control design, it is clear at a glance that it is a traditional color TV brand. There is no single-minded pursuit of lightness, a large number of functions are integrated into the menu, forcing the user to take the time to learn. Philips 55PUF6481's physical buttons are obviously much richer, looks quite big, but the grip is very comfortable, ergonomic, bringing a comfortable control experience.
Commonly used functions are independently set up as buttons, with clear zoning. Honestly, the elderly at home will definitely like this design.
Screen: there is the pursuit of picture quality
Picture quality is always the most concerned about the user, especially many people rushed to the 4K before getting a new one.
Philips 55PUF6481 adopts a 55-inch 4K display with a resolution of 3840 * 2160, with 4 times the image detail performance of ordinary HDTV 1080P, can provide up to more than 8 million pixels of display quality. The adoption of straight-down LED backlight technology allows the TV backlight to be transmitted more evenly across the screen, making the picture more detailed and realistic. The self-developed 4K Riptide Core is an even better guarantee of good picture quality, as it is capable of obtaining sharp motion images and ultra-high contrast. The technology also enables the 4K UHD TV panel to display more color gradations, and the grayscale performance is also more perfect, with a stronger sense of image hierarchy.
The viewing angle is superb, which means that even if you're not sitting on the front of the TV, you can see the picture quality just as perfectly.
This is the "high-end 4K test chart" that is often used in current color TV reviews. The test chart is mainly for 4K clarity, color accuracy and wide viewing angles, etc. By comparing the test images on a 4K TV, you can simply tell the difference between different 4K technologies in terms of picture quality.
This 4K TV resolution test chart, including text, line drawings, resolution table and color block structure chart. 4K Ultra HD (resolution 3840 × 2160) and Full HD (1920 × 1080) recognition limits are indicated by red and blue arrows. Among the various line drawings 4K can distinguish the thinnest 1st, Full HD can only recognize to the 3rd. Philips 55PUF6481 in this link is quite powerful, in a variety of colors, can be distinguished with the naked eye can show any color of the first bar. 4K color block structure is clear and precise, the word display is also quite excellent, the edge of the clear recognition can be guaranteed.
4K TV color performance and viewing angle test chart on the upper 24 color block is according to the SHB color system hue angle every 15 degrees to choose a color, saturation and brightness are taken as 100%, the more saturated the color block indicates that the wider the color gamut of the display, if the color block has a concurrent order, indicating that the color also has an error. Philips 55PUF6481 color performance can hit 85 points, HSB color system color block in the ideal state, the color saturation between the 2 color blocks, color does not appear any and order, jump order. From other angles, there is no color deviation, and in the color distribution chart reward can be seen in the Y area and the G area of the triangle has been deformed. The layers of each color sphere on the right are rich, with even and balanced color transitions.
The test is a test, and the results must be seen in context.
Overall details are outstanding, colors are realistic, and both dark details and bright levels are retained, enough for home use.
The green gradient effect is very natural, and the scale powder on the butterfly's wings is almost visible, which is what 4K resolution can achieve.
Quite a few TVs display red with distortion, thankfully the Philips 55PUF6481 doesn't.
Again, it's time to test the detail performance, the hairs don't appear to be sticking and the roots are clear. It should be a blast to watch photos from a high-resolution DSLR camera on this screen.
4K playback: all passes
Standard-encoded content at 1080P all plays smoothly. We also used LG's 4K promo, which decoded properly and played smoothly without lag.
No error color blocks during playback.
Motion picture is clear, which is the ideal audio-visual playback effect. As for the rest, without going into more details, it can be seen that the decoding ability of Philips 55PUF6481 is still up to standard.
Independent external audio kills traditional TV
In addition to visual perception, more and more consumers are beginning to pay attention to the auditory enjoyment, and want to leave the house to experience the audio-visual effect in the theater. Philips this time is also a pioneer in the field of television, the first time equipped with an independent external sound system. With five large-sized speakers, including a 2,75-inch woofer, two 2-inch midrange speakers and two 1.75-inch silk film tweeter (neodymium magnet) speakers Soundbar audio, the configuration can be said to be quite strong, so how is its actual performance?
First take a look at the appearance, Philips Soundbar audio appearance design moderate, but the material as well as workmanship are relatively excellent. Has a bar speaker called SoundBar, and is the same color and material as the TV body, so that can be better with the use.
In addition to being small and easy to place, Philips' SoundBar audio is also very easy to connect and control, and the wiring is very simple, definitely not like a home theater, where the audio is surrounded by a mess of wires, which seriously affects the visual effect. In some cases, you only need an HDMI cable to connect to your TV.
It's worth mentioning that Philips Soundbar also supports Bluetooth, which has a built-in Bluetooth 4.0 module with lower power consumption and faster and more stable transmission, and can connect with cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices, so that you can get rid of the boundaries of the cable, and then you can use the cell phone to play music after successful pairing.
At the same time, it also has a built-in gravity acceleration gyroscope, which can automatically switch between wall and desktop sound modes, providing consumers with the best possible use.
Sound, we specifically selected the Dolby sound of the movie "Iron Man 3", as well as pop, rock, jazz, blues and other styles of music playback to test this audio. In the music playback process, its bass is thick and solid, the middle and high sound is full and powerful, for the human voice and guitar, piano, violin and other high-range instruments to restore more clear and natural. And in the subsequent viewing test, Philips Soundbar audio can be said to be at ease, with a large subwoofer, the bass is very shocking, deep dive, dynamic range, for gunfire, fighting, explosions, car chase scene sound reproduction is very realistic, and has a clear cinema surround sound sound, virtual surround sound can be as if they were in the realm of the general.
Sound quality summary: independent external audio is quite powerful, general household can fully meet not to mention, compared to some of the Jingdong sales of the first few brands of those 2, 3 thousand TV's audio are much stronger, according to the author's personal experience, if this set of audio systems sold separately, buy a thousand or so then it is also quite worth buying. In addition, it is not that the external speakers can not leave the sound, in fact, it is also integrated in the internal sound system, just compared to the external sound gap is larger.
System: only a small step away from perfection
The Philips One UX operating system of the Philips 55PUF6481 is based on Android 5.1, which has been y optimized and improved. To say that the degree of magnificence, it is true that it is not as good as what Xiaomi has done, and the operation process is slightly laggy, but it does not affect the experience of using it.
The Philips One UX operating system is divided into four main sections, including the main home screen, video screen, game screen, and app screen. Popular movies and apps are divided into eight small sections displayed in the main interface, which is simple and intuitive, and allows the experience user to find the content they want more quickly.
Philips 55PUF6481 is connected to the ICNTV broadcast control platform, which owns many movie and TV series resources, and cooperates with Tencent to own many sports resources such as Penguin Sports. Currently the movie content has more than 4,000, 1,000 TV series, 800 variety shows, 2,000 animation, NBA new season hot broadcast and many 4K video resources.
The current hit "If Snails Have Love" can be synchronized and updated. Each TV series is accompanied by a detailed introduction, including actors, profiles and ratings, clicking on the attention of the film will be added to the personal center, the next time you watch it can be directly accessed, eliminating the need to search for the trouble. In addition, it also includes the movie's peripherals, so you don't have to look around for them.
The Philips App Store provides a variety of apps to download.
It's not impossible to turn it into a game console. Smart TVs just have to be daring.
Summary:
Sometimes fetishizing a brand is not a bad thing. After the reverse Philips did bring us a refreshing feeling, it puts forward the "good hardware + good content + good brand" three good TV, is definitely not a slogan shouting, but actually implemented in the product. Although the use of Philips 55PUF6481 only a few days, but the pragmatic attitude of this product, solid workmanship, fine design, excellent picture quality, stunning sound effects and humanized system have left a deep impression on us. For ordinary consumers, they sometimes need is not such a TV? More features are not better, and the design is not as flashy as great. Simplification of complex operations is also a level. And of course, the pricing is wonderful.