XGIMI Screenless Super TV Experience Review: A New Experience of Smart TV Projection
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There are more and more smart TV products on the market now. How to make the products distinctive and attractive enough to consumers is something that major smart TV manufacturers have been racking their brains for. Improving the hardware indicators of processing chips, increasing video service content, increasing screen display resolution, and even extending some mobile phone design elements such as "narrow borders" to smart TVs are the "eye-catching" solutions that general smart TV manufacturers strongly advocate. Is there a product that can escape the inherent thinking of traditional routines? Can we see some bolder and more innovative ideas after the smart TV? Now, the XGIMI screenless super TV has come to us. Remove the screen: small size in exchange for "large size" "Screenless" naturally means removing the screen. To be precise, the XGIMI screenless super TV should be called a projection super TV. Using a projection device to "print" the screen is a way to achieve a "screenless" TV. In addition, the machine also comes with "active shutter 3D glasses" at random, reflecting that this is a projection device that supports 3D display. Without the large screen that takes up the most space, the size of the XGIMI screenless super TV is naturally very small. The length and width of 132×233mm are very close to those of ordinary small-sized tablets, and the height of 31mm is no different from the TV set-top box in the family living room, which does not occupy the home space at all. Although small, it has everything. In addition to the projection bulb and heat dissipation window on the front of the machine, the XGIMI screenless super TV also adds dual speakers in a limited volume. Although the sound quality brought by the speakers is very limited due to the size, this design makes the machine itself "available out of the box" and still has a certain degree of practicality. The interfaces of the machine are concentrated on the back end. In terms of layout, the 3 USB, VGA, HDMI and network cable interfaces are quite rich. It is worth mentioning that the machine is designed with a TF card expansion slot on the far left to facilitate users to expand storage space. The machine also comes with an 8G capacity expansion card as the basic storage space. The standard power brand of the product is Huntkey, which can be regarded as a strong guarantee for stability and safety. Without the traditional display screen, the effect of the projected picture should be the first thing consumers pay attention to before purchasing the product. After testing, the XGIMI screenless super TV can indeed give people a shocking experience that is absolutely different from traditional TV. The official claims that the maximum display area of 180 inches that can be achieved is beyond the reach of ordinary home TVs. In addition, during the distance movement, the projected image does not appear "virtual", thanks to the "stepless zoom" supported by the device, which brings good image stability. But there are pros and cons. While giving users freedom of size, it is also a feature of projection equipment that is obviously affected by light. The color of the picture can only be fully displayed in a dark environment. In addition, the maximum physical resolution of 1280×800 is still a gap compared with the current 1080P fineness of traditional TVs. Putting a smart TV into a projector is simple enough to be called a "super TV". Naturally, it needs to have the internal structure of a smart TV. The XGIMI screenless super TV is at a comparable level with the current mainstream smart TVs in terms of software and hardware. In terms of internal hardware, the detection software identified it as Samsung Orion 4412 quad-core A9 processor supplemented by 1G running memory. As a former flagship mobile chip product, 4412 is really surprising to be used in TV products, but the software identified the core as dual-core, and the core frequency is also different from our usual understanding. It is unknown whether it is correct. The system of XGIMI Screenless Super TV is based on Android and is customized for the TV interface. The horizontal layout is in line with the usual practice of current smart TV manufacturers. You can press the menu button on the remote control at any section to call out the shortcuts on the right column of the interface. Operations such as clearing memory are not much different from the mobile Android in display. The two major sections of "online video" and "online live broadcast" are the main sources of online video content in TV. They are realized through third-party clients such as "Tencent" and "PPTV", which effectively guarantees the quantity and quality of video content. The TV live broadcast function is also click-to-dial when the machine is connected to the Internet, eliminating the trouble of users opening TV services again. What is most worth mentioning is that the system also provides a "HD download" function. Although the resources are listed in text form, recent blockbusters cover a lot of content, from a 720P file of more than one G to 1080P files of 8 or 9 G in size. The downloaded HD video files can make the user's viewing experience even better. Even if it is only used as a download method, this content supplement is still quite useful for users with higher requirements. The "Local" and "Settings" sections in the center of the system mainly provide the selection of video streams of external devices and the adjustment of the projection screen. Thanks to the good stability of the projection screen mentioned above, from the perspective of the TV, after setting it up, ordinary users no longer need to go to great lengths in these links. In terms of application experience, it shows that the system interface design of the XGIMI screenless super TV is very biased towards Android native. Third-party application icons have not been optimized too much, and even native Google applications such as "Google Play" are retained. The system supports direct installation of APK files in external storage devices, and the installation interface also retains the native style of Android. Although there is not much inconvenience in operation, it is still a bit awkward to display text only at the top and bottom of the screen for such a huge display area of the projection TV. In general, although the XGIMI Screenless Super TV adopts a new product thinking, it still maintains the specifications of mainstream smart TVs in terms of system and internal parameters without any shrinkage. The system based on deep customization and development of Android further reduces the demand for hardware resources for system operation. After two years of iterative development every two weeks, the experience is smooth. "U Control" remote control of the projection TV Although the remote control that comes standard with the XGIMI Screenless Super TV uses a new intelligent button layout, whether it is the remote control theme or the button itself, the operation feel is more inclined to the traditional TV remote control, and the design lacks highlights. All smart TVs are inseparable from multi-screen interaction with mobile smart terminal devices such as smartphones. The same is true for the XGIMI Screenless Super TV. The mobile app called "U Control" is quite distinctive. How to make the gaming experience of smart TV smoother is a breakthrough that major manufacturers have been demanding. Using gravity sensing and other methods to turn mobile phones into the operating terminal of TV games is the solution chosen by XGIMI's screenless super TV. The "U Control Game" section under the TV interface is the application entrance of this operation mode. After starting the corresponding game program, the mobile phone will display the screen synchronously with the computer, and interactive operations such as touch on the mobile phone can also respond in real time on the TV screen. But it is a bit regrettable that, perhaps due to compatibility issues, the gravity sensing direction of the Google Nexus 5 mobile phone used in the test cannot be well identified by the TV. This problem needs to be improved in the future research and development and upgrading of the product. In addition to supporting games, "U Control" also adds a touch mode similar to the laptop touchpad in addition to the mobile phone virtual keyboard remote control. For some third-party Android applications designed for touch interfaces, this design can effectively increase the operability of the program. In addition, the biggest highlight of "U control" is that it can interactively display the mobile phone screen and the TV screen in two directions, that is, the media content on the mobile phone can be pushed to the TV screen in real time, and the content on the TV can also be displayed in real time on the mobile phone screen. For the text input problem that has always been criticized under the TV interface, the user's convenience can be greatly increased through touch typing on the mobile phone screen. Summary: At a time when smart TV products are competing in size and size, the XGIMI screenless super TV really gave us a bright feeling, and the software and hardware level that is not inferior to other smart TV products and the playful multi-screen interactive method also laid a strong foundation for the development and survival of this new form of product. The continuous advancement of the smart TV industry is bound to give rise to more cross-border and hybrid products that continue to enter people's sight. The screenless super TV once again amplifies people's traditional definition of TV. We may also see a new beginning in the development of smart TVs. As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity. |
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