65 吋 4K TV King of Whale W65L Reviews

Foreword A few days ago, the "China New Song" annual finals came to an end, as the only designated Internet TV program - micro-whale TV has also been continuously exposed in this year. If you do not pay much attention to the television industry, the micro-whale may still be a strange brand to you, far less familiar with domestic and international famous brands such as Hisense, Sony, and Samsung. However, this Internet TV maker, which had been established for more than a year, has achieved a series of astounding results in the past year. First, it was a double 11 and it won the championship of the same category with the only 55-inch TV, and then It was 6.18, which won the No. 1 sales of Tmall TV series. These impressive performances have made the micro-whale seem completely unlike newcomers who have entered the arena. On the product side, the layout of the micro-whale is also well-organized. It has only released its first product in just four months. Since then, the product line has been Complete coverage of the 43-55-inch mainstream size, recently, micro-whales introduced two new 65-inch W65L and 78-inch “canopy” to the market, officially opened its own big screen era. Among them, the 65U series W65L has come to the YORK evaluation room, this TV can hold up the big whale's big screen dream, let's take a look.
Product Name: Micro Whale W65L
Product price: 5548 yuan (official website)
The main selling points: 65-inch big screen, Samsung original 4K panel, 90% NTSC wide color gamut, 9.9mm body thickness, 64-bit flagship processor, HiFi-class audio, massive video resources, smooth and easy to use WUI system

Appearance: Heritage family design

Microwhale launches 65- and 78-inch large-screen TVs at this time, not only to improve the needs of its own product line, but also to adapt to the TV industry consumption upgrade, to welcome the big screen era. The 65-inch-size TV is still very large in the living room of the average family. The outer packaging is well protected. It takes two people to finish the box. The installation process is very simple, just install the base, connect the power cord on it, of course, you can also choose to wall. Attached accessories are remote control, manual, power cord, battery, triple AV adapter, base screws. The micro whale has carefully prepared five base screws. Actually only four are needed. The extra one is for standby, taking care of those users with rough leaves and large leaves.
After installing the TV, my first impression was: Well, this is a very small whale. There are not many Chinese-made TVs that have been reviewed by the author. On the brand recognition, micro-whales are ranked first. The family-style black-gray tone, herringbone base bracket, horizontal stripe back panel design, and the flapping whales logo on the back, can be found on almost every small whale TV.
From the front, the design of the Whale W65L is still concise, capable, unobtrusive, and without a redundant design. What the microwhale wants is to keep all your attention on this screen.
The border color is space-gray. The benefits of this color are of course good-looking, and can match different home styles and are naturally comfortable in any environment. In order to achieve this effect, the official claimed that after hundreds of repeated debugging and strict color control. For large-screen TVs, the importance of the protection of the frame is self-evident, not only to prevent the screen deformation, but also to avoid the screen in the handling of the installation. Therefore, the whale W65L uses a high-strength aluminum alloy for the frame material, and in order to achieve a better texture, the official said that the use of more than 20,000 rpm high-speed diamond grinding, and scrub and anodizing process, feels good texture.
The thinnest part of the fuselage is 9.9 mm, combing out the newly released Internet brand TV flagship new products, collectively marching into the age of less than 1 cm thick. The base is still a "bridge" base, which is very much in keeping with the classical aesthetics of the East. It is visually light and smart, but it is also inherently stable because it conforms to classical mechanics and is sufficient to support a large 65-inch screen.
Today's smart TV manufacturers pay more and more attention to the back design that is not often seen. In addition to the introduction of metal-integrated backplanes, different manufacturers have different designs for the backshells. The back shell of the Whale W65L is still a common plastic material. We all know that plastic is easy to be cheap compared to metal. How to get rid of this cheap sense, the micro whale's plan is to adopt the gradually disappearing horizontal stripe design and deepen the color of the plastic to minimize the sense of plastic. The actual effect achieved is indeed good, not only makes the flat back no longer monotonous, but also enhances the sense of quality.
Performance: Eat all kinds of 4K video, full format player

Interface, two USB3.0 interfaces, two HDMI2.0 interfaces, an antenna input interface, an AV input interface, a network interface, these interfaces ensure that the TV content can be richly expanded, the interface position is toward the right of the backplane On the side, it is much more convenient than the downward facing interface.
I really like the voiceless bluetooth remote control of the microwhale, even thought that this should be the standard for all smart TVs. Compared to infrared, Bluetooth remote control does not pose, no alignment, pick up and use. Bluetooth 4.1 brings a receiving distance of up to 12 meters. There is no dead space in any of the living rooms, and power consumption is greatly reduced, reducing the frequency of battery replacement. The 12-key minimalist design offers the possibility to pick up blind presses. The feeling of holding the remote control in the hand is picking up the hands. The keystrokes are deep and the feedback is clear. The back curvature fits the handle. Both sections of the 7th battery provide a sense of weight while providing power. They are very stable in their hands.
Micro Whale integrates voice control functions into this remote control. Pressing the voice key enables playback of movies, music, open applications, and even basic weather operations. It also understands dialects, and the recognition rate and speed are also very good. This facilitates the elderly or children who are not familiar with television operations.
In addition to the remote control that can manipulate the TV, the Micro Whale official also provides an app for "Micro Whale Assistant." In the same network environment, open the App, slide the screen to control the direction, click OK, two-finger clicks can also take screenshots, screenshots at the same time stored in mobile phones and television. Supports the installation of applications through the App to TVs, but it is mainly for several applications that cooperate with the government. It also has a screen-casting function that can project the pictures in the mobile phone onto the television.
Compared to the exquisite appearance and solid workmanship, the performance of the micro whale W65L on the hardware performance is somewhat unsatisfactory. Mstar 6A828 quad-core processor, 64-bit Cortex A53 architecture, clocked at 1.4GHz, integrated Mali 450MP4 six-core GPU. This processor also appeared on the 55-inch PRO released last year by the Little Whale. In this year's mainstream flagship models have used the background of the Mstar 6A938, it seems a little sincere. Fortunately, the optimization of the micro whale for this 64-bit processor is in place, and does not say the fluency of daily use, even if playing some non-large-scale games, it is also very smooth. Thanks to the addition of the wide color gamut, the game screen presents rich colors. If you're used to playing games on your phone and your computer, the 65-inch big screen gives you a feeling of being unprecedented. People are the animals of the senses, and naturally will like the picture of more intense visual impact. Various game details will undoubtedly be better displayed on television.
2GB DDR3 running memory and 8GB eMMC storage space can be a bit overwhelming for buddies like to install smart TV applications and big games. Fortunately, it supports H.264, VP9, ​​H.265 and other full 4K format hard decoding, in particular supports H.265 4K2K @ 60Hz 10bit ultra-high definition decoding, called the full-format player. Perhaps in the eyes of the micro-whales, the W65L should be a smart TV that is used for viewing rather than as a game console.

System: WUI's smooth and easy to use as always

As an Internet brand TV, systems and resources are the areas that need to be the least worried. Micro Whale W65L's WUI system is still based on Android depth optimization, left and right columns, waterfall flow page layout, clear logic, get started quickly, learning costs are extremely low. Sliding and switching are very smooth, and the speed of opening applications is very fast. The optimization of the skill of the micro whale is evident. It is worth mentioning that the WUI's signal source supports real-time preview, which is very convenient when switching the selection of the signal source, without intertwining which interface the device is plugged into.
In order to facilitate content expansion, WUI provides a convenient way to install the App. In addition to U disk installation, it also supports remote installation. The TV and the computer or mobile phone are in the same LAN, and the application can be installed by entering a specific URL.
In terms of screen settings, WUI supports many custom functions, such as color temperature adjustment: support standard, warm, cool, image mode supports standard mode, movie mode, colorful mode, sports mode, game mode, monitor mode, custom mode And so on, we tested different image modes. The movie mode will darken the overall screen brightness and increase the atmosphere. The bright mode will increase the saturation. The rest of the screens will not change obviously. Ordinary users choose the default standard mode. In addition to the screen can be adjusted, according to different playback environments, there are more optional sound modes: standard, living room, cinema, music, stadiums and so on.
In the image settings, there is a "dynamic backlight" feature, the default is off, we try to open and found that it is mainly through the brightness to achieve a more obvious light and dark contrast, not what we thought of the dynamic adjustment of the partition backlight, slightly It's regrettable.

Content: Video of the Little Whale Ocean

The start-up picture of the microwhale is a small white whale leaping over a blue ocean. For the microwhales, this ocean is the sea on which it depends and survives.
Essentially, a microwhale is actually a content startup company. Just like Apple, Apple prefers to call itself a software company. The iPhone is just a shell that sits outside of iOS. Similarly, micro-whale TV is a showcase for the huge content resources owned by Micro-Whale Technology, so micro-whales have the power to make money without relying on hardware. How large is the cultural empire of micro-whales?
On this map, there are not only online video media platforms such as Tencent Video and Mango TV, but also outstanding content producers such as Canxing and Oriental DreamWorks, and even TVB's Hong Kong Drama and BBC documentaries. Both Chinese and foreign quality resources are Nets are listed.
According to statistics, in the first half of 2016, the top 20 domestic movie theaters at the box office covered 70% of the micro-whales. The top 20 variety shows with an audience rating of 85% occupy the annual update of over 1000 movies. The micro whale not only serves as an integrated party and platform for high-quality content, but also serves as a content producer - a content creation platform that relies on Chinese culture. He participated in the production of phenomenal variety shows such as "Gai Shi Yin Xiong" and "China Good Voice" and applied cutting-edge VR technology to create a new viewing experience. In the WUI content resource, we found the “Panorama VR” section, and the micro whale officially put VR content on the TV screen.
Among them are variety shows such as "China's New Song" and "Masked Song". There are also recording versions of concerts and even some horror-stricken movies. Then, what is the difference between the VR version of "New Chinese Song" and what we usually see? In the VR version of the program, we can use the remote control to rotate the camera 360 degrees, even if the audience sitting in the audience can see, completely changed the past we can only watch the single point of view provided by the video, brings not The same visual experience.
The price of the Micro Whale TV has included a year of membership services, so it can be collected on TV for free.
Micro-whales choose to enter the TV field from the perspective of content. In today's hardware homogenization, this is a unique path of development. From the point of view of the impact of micro-whales, the “content” is still a good breakthrough point. Just like the small whale CEO Li Huaiyu said, to meet the Internet TV audience "to share with the world's desire." Only content can stimulate the desire to share.

Quality: Wide color gamut, Samsung original 4K panel blessing

For television, whether it is multi-intelligence, whether it is LCD or OLED, picture quality is still the most noteworthy place.
W65L is equipped with original imported Samsung 4K ultra-high-definition VA panel with a resolution of, 90% NTSC wide color gamut, dynamic contrast ratio of 10000:1, 10Bit color depth supporting 1024 gray levels, and hair color number reaching 1.07 billion colors. The ultra-clear picture quality engine provides a good picture quality foundation.
Through special screen testing software, we tested the W65L, including defects, light leakage, grayscale, color, etc., and found that the color layer has a strong sense of color, and the color transition is obvious, especially in the control of light leakage.
We have selected a few 4K videos to test the performance of the Whale W65L in color. The following is a screenshot of the video screen (the following image has only been cut to size, without post-processing).
Let's talk about color. Thanks to the wide color gamut and high brightness, the performance of the Whale W65L in color is very pleasing to the eye. It will not be too lush, and it will not be visually fatigued if you look at it for a long time. The picture is transparent and the overall style is more youthful. However, this type of training mode will show signs of blueness in the blue sky and the sea.
In terms of details, the outlines of the figures in the figure below are clear and the details of hairiness can be clearly distinguished.
As a 65-inch big-screen TV, using it to watch the ball is more appropriate, but the micro whale W65L is not equipped with motion compensation, is indeed a big regret. Fortunately, when testing sports videos, there was no noticeable smear phenomenon and no need to worry too much.
In terms of sound, the Micro Whale W65L has a built-in Hifi-class sound and supports DOLBY and DTS dual decoding. Now that smart TVs are getting thinner and thinner, the space reserved for sound inside is getting smaller and smaller. In the audition, we found that the sound quality of the Whale W65L was better than expected. The treble was transparent, the vocals were full, and the directionality was clear. It should have benefited from the optimized design of the sound board. There is no broken sound when the volume is turned to near maximum, and it is sufficient to open 6-7 volumes in a quiet environment. However, the bass sounds a bit boring, especially when restoring low drum sounds.

to sum up:

After more than a year of market competition and baptism, the product design and content construction of micro-whales have become more mature and diverse, and several of its products have repeatedly become explosion models for e-commerce shopping festivals. This time, the 65U and 78-inch “Taiwan” hit the big screen. The market must be full of confidence. From the W65L's body, we saw the family of wind design language, thinner body, solid workmanship, original Samsung 4K panel, as always, stable quality performance, in addition to the performance is slightly weaker than the flagship model, and There is no obvious short board, it can be said to be a very honest television product. The price of 5548 yuan still maintains a high level of performance/price ratio in the 65-inch 4K model. At the same time, it is deeply involved in the production of VR video resources in the content areas where it is good at, and continues to integrate global high-quality video resources to build up competition barriers. . If you like the stunning visual brought by the big screen and you also want to have many video resources that you can watch at any time, I believe the Whale W65L will be a good choice.