Since the invention of the TV remote control in 1961, the remote control has been shown as a tool for lazy people who live in convenience. As you move forward twenty years ago, someone who owns a color TV with a remote control is also proud not to need it. However, TV manufacturers are now trying to ruthlessly abandon the dependence of TV products on the remote control and instead use voice substitution, such as the Storm TV Echo X5 that was just released a few days ago.
Is it easy to get rid of the remote control and use voice control? What is the experience? Today, we will actually experience this storm TV Echo X5 65.
Design: Super narrow overall frame thickness 9.8mm
The narrow border is the fashion element of the TV for a long time, perhaps removing the border restriction is the ultimate goal of TV product design. We can see that Storm TV uses a relatively narrow metal frame design, the width of the border is about 1cm, and the width of the four sides of the upper and lower left and right look looks the same, so that visually watching Storm TV is a complete face, Feeling no extra parts left.
The thickness of the upper part of the fuselage is only 9.8mm, which is a very good achievement in the current large-size TV. Storm Logo is designed to be a very small one, placed on the border in the lower left corner of the frame, so as not to affect the beauty of the machine. However, if there are some ultra-thin products with today, there seems to be some gaps, such as Xiaomi just released, only 4.9mm.
The TV's overall corner design language is the kind of angular feature, not round. The frame adopts an integrated metal frame on the material, and there is no seam at the middle of the corner. This is not only beneficial to the improvement of visual aesthetics, but also beneficial to the strength of the whole machine under the narrow frame design.
The upper part of the back of the fuselage was made of magnesium alloy wire drawing material, and the official of the storm called it "the United States back" design. Honestly speaking, I didn't feel how beautiful I was, but the simplicity was pretty good. I didn't use plastic materials.
Storm TV Echo X5 65 base with a thick alloy material, in order to facilitate the user to install, the designer deliberately put all the fixed screws are designed as a screwdriver-free quick twist design, not to mention the adult man, is the home of the smart wife, Even the elderly are basically installed without barriers. If you can't wait for the installer, it's time for you to do it by hand.
In addition to the obvious parts of the frame and the back, we also noticed that Storm Echo X5 65 is a product that supports continuous hardware upgrades, which is fundamentally different from the way that other brands continue to use the experience intelligently. Based on the above simple design and hardware upgradeable design, this TV received the Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award and Red Star Design Award, which shows its uniqueness and how the specific experience will be discussed later.
Hardware and Interface Details: Replaceable Hardware Design
In terms of hardware, this TV has a built-in 64-bit MSt** A838 chip, 2GB DDR4 high-speed memory, 4-core Cortex-A53 CPU, Mali-820 GPU and 16GB eMMC 5.1 storage space.
At first glance, it doesn't seem like a problem, but if you look at other products released recently, you will find that the storm's memory and storage space are not outstanding, or even a bit small, after all, the opponent has begun to standard 3GB of memory, 32GB Storage space like this.
In fact, this is also the official consideration of the storm. The way Storm understands the problem is that even if 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage space are available for use, this will not necessarily ensure that users will experience it in the coming years. The smoothest feeling. So the storm is different from other products, it brings a replaceable hardware design, a manually replaceable hardware slot is designed on the left side of the TV, the user can replace it with a very low price, so that you completely Don't worry about the lack of TV performance.
At first thought, it seems to be the case, ah, another board card this idea like! But have you ever thought that the time is developing? People's pursuit of the size of a television screen never stops. Judging from the data of recent years, the mainstream TV size for home use has risen from 50 inches to 55 inches, and the price has dropped from 5,000 yuan to 3999 yuan in this price segment. The 60-inch and above products are driving manufacturers and panel makers to innovate products at an alarming growth rate. I believe that 60-inch or even 70-inch and 75-inch products will gradually become the mainstream of home use. After all, the lowest price is 75. The inch TV is already around 10,000 yuan. Replacing a small screen with a large screen may be a matter of time. Well, once this is the case, this design may be very embarrassing. This time we are taking a 65-inch version. I think this problem will be more prominent on 50-inch and 55-inch products. In summary, the value of this alternative design will gradually diminish with the development of battery screen size.
Interfaces, storm TV Echo X5 65 inch provides two HDMI2.0 interface, a USB3.0 interface, a USB2.0 interface, an optical audio output interface, an AV audio and video input interface, a Line Out interface, an Ethernet interface, and an artificial intelligence "brain" interface.
It is worth mentioning that the intelligent external brain that is used to implement intelligent voice and video functions is presented as a random gift, because only with this attachment, we can realize the core intelligent voice control function of Storm TV. The manufacturer who had to use money to buy it, the storm was quite kind.
In the end, I simply talk about picture quality. In terms of picture quality, the official said at the press conference that Storm TV is the best in the industry. I think the mainstream can be, and the first class is not realistic. Looking at the normal distance is really not a problem, but if you look closer, you will find a small defect. When you look closely, you will find that the color transition zone of the screen will be slightly unnatural, and there will be more obvious delamination of the color transition from the close look. I still hope that the official attention to imaging details in this regard, after all, the panel hardware parameters are good on the one hand, debugging and decoding the final effect is a good thing.
Watching experience: Voice solution is complicated typing, remote control can not throw!
In the past, smart TVs wanted to implement so-called intelligent voice functions by activating the voice control through the voice buttons on the remote control. In fact, you think about this kind of control is not particularly good. Because you still need to use the remote control, you still have to look around for remote control. The idea of ​​the storm is, why not make it feel like Siri, all the features directly to solve it with voice?
So we saw that Storm TV achieved almost every day operation without using a remote control. You can turn on the TV, turn it off and speak commands in a very natural way. "Storm over the ears, come a soothing music," "Storm over the ears, remind me to watch the game after 30 minutes." "Storm over ears, I To see the cartoon "" Storm winds ears, I want to see "the name of the people" Episode 3 ".
Theoretically from boot to shutdown, the whole process can be achieved through voice control. However, the actual experience of my experience and the conference live demonstrations seem to have a big gap.
First of all, I experienced the third and sixth episodes of "The People's Name" promoted from booting to playing advertisements. The wow experience was awesome. I continued to try a TV show with a lot of attention, such as "Qian Bang," which is still a direct line of speech. It has absolutely no problems and it is fluent. And during the playback process, you can say that this feature of “The big wind storms, fast forward for 30 minutes†is quite favorable to me. It is more convenient than we use the remote control to fast forward.
But when I next tried to try a combination of content and statements that weren't mentioned in the ad, the question came. "Storm with big ears, play Terminator 2", the system pops up "Terminator 1," "Terminator 2," "Terminator 2018," and "Terminator Gaidell." Various options are tiled on the screen, obviously it I do not know where to go, the same problem also occurred in the well-known blockbuster "Iron Man". I often try this problem with other movie titles. Even if the speech recognition is correct, the movie still cannot achieve a direct result. If you do not use the remote control at this time, you will continue to face embarrassment. Because you cannot use the remote control to return to the one-button selection, you need to use a voice to call out "the big storm ears, choose the second one." In the process you have to worry about whether it recognizes the success, but also wait 2, 3 seconds. In the pursuit of efficient electronic product operations, the waiting time for voice outgoing calls is obviously a problem!
Once you use the voice to search content that is not in the content library, all you have to do is use the remote control to return with a single button in 0.5 seconds or less. But if you completely get rid of the remote control and need a voice operation to return with a key, this experience is not very good.
Interestingly, even if voice control can help search for content, content search efficiency is improved. However, at least it is still not perfect. At the time of my test, within two hours, two "dead-bombing" states have occurred. If you are using it fluently, suddenly the voice function "dead-dead" will surely cause people to collapse.
Then, I experienced the music broadcast, weather, and nearby restaurants in the conference. The experience is not as good as the demo at the conference. Putting music into play is basically not a big issue, but I asked a question: How do English songs use voice search?
Storm TV Echo X5 65 TV uses the Chinese recognition technology of HKUST News. This technology is very good, even if it is the world leader, but the problem is that it is totally helpless with English. According to the composition of my listening music, the ratio of Chinese songs to English songs is about 4:6, which means that in half of the cases, I cannot directly use the voice to listen to the songs I want to hear.
Asked the weather, iPhone 4S had already been realized for a long time. After a lapse of 4 or 5 years, I do not think that this is an advanced function. It deserves a special lecture at the press conference.
Asked the restaurant to pull even more, I tried to be very serious, exhausted my stuttering to clear the limits of the same as during the presentation of the conference to inquire about "What's good in the vicinity?" The result is, tried 4 or 5 times, it did not feedback Any valuable information. Not to mention what direct route navigation was demonstrated at the conference.
Today's electronic products, if a function, users experience more than 5 times, have not obtained a good use of feelings, that basically this function is equivalent to abolished, the practical value is too low. What’s more, the mobile phone is so convenient, and it’s clear what happens in minutes with a mobile phone. Why should I try to use voice over and over again on television with the risk of failure and waiting time? This logic itself is worth thinking about.
After talking about voice control, let's look at the product system again. Deep feeling does not speak first. As an ordinary media person and an ordinary consumer, I can't stand the stretch of a thumbnail on the first screen. On a few pictures, you feel it:
Even if there is no distorted thumbnail page, the picture resolution is completely inconsistent, and the rough feeling that can be seen at a glance is commonplace. Face work is not done well, users can also rely on the system to use it?
According to the official description, the total number of new content that storm TV goes online every month is 2 times that of LeTV! It's okay to flip through the contents. The only place that I would like to criticize is to place TV shopping in a huge first-level module and the place is in front of the sporting events. Is this what users want? It is worth thinking about storms.
Summary: Full voice? Remote control can not throw
Storm TV can have such a spirit of innovation, trying to lead the television in a more intelligent direction leads to praise, but the details of the experience exposed in the process is still storm TV, and even take the road of voice intelligence TV manufacturers can not be avoided.
Smart voice idea is good! However, the core technology of speech analysis is, in the final analysis, the news of the University of Science and Technology. TV makers still match the semantics of speech recognition with their own functions. This is not what intelligence is all about and not AI. The voice is indeed searching for content, solving the embarrassing situation of inconvenient typing of the remote control, but it still cannot exist independently, because simply using the voice will make users feel cumbersome in operating efficiency. The voice of Storm TV tries to get rid of the constraints of the remote control, but in the end, it is no different from other remote control products that exhale voice functions. It lacks the thinking about user's human nature and operating efficiency.
So my overall feeling is: full voice? It was too early! The remote controller can not throw away for a short time.
In addition, although there are few obvious slots in the hardware indicators above, the TV also comes with a big storm, "outside the brain." This is a kind of storm TV. However, it is clear that the beauty and ease of use of the television system will require a lot of time and effort. It is possible for Storm TV to get rid of the green and tender impression of the new brand.
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