On December 2, Storm TV held a new product launch conference in Beijing, officially releasing its first TV product—— Storm TV There are three 55/50/42 inch versions of Storm TV released this time, and the price is 3799 yuan/2999 yuan/1999 yuan respectively. The TV host needs to be purchased additionally, and the price is 599 yuan. The 55 inch Storm TV (with TV box) we are evaluating this time.
Unpacking&Installation
The 55 inch Storm TV is packed in an oversized box, and has been put on a wooden frame when it is shipped. Even if it is unpacked, it needs at least three people to take out the TV completely.
Plastic backing plate
When installing Storm TV, you need to use a screwdriver to remove the screws on both sides of the TV tripod, and then take out the plastic base plate. However, even after removing the screws, it is difficult to take out the plastic base plate, which requires some skills and strong strength. Take out the plastic backing plate and insert the metal foot pad.
Appearance details
TV box part
TV box withdrawable
TV box after pulling out
TV power on button, which can be used as direction key
The speaker of the TV is located at the bottom of the TV
Spare parts
Left: Storm TV remote control Right: Xiaomi TV remote control
The accessories of Storm TV are very simple. There is only one remote control and video input adapter cable. It is worth mentioning that the remote control of Storm TV is very similar to the remote control of Xiaomi TV. The only difference between the two is the position of the power key and the logo.
Experience use
The physical frame of Storm TV is relatively narrow, but if the black edge inside the screen is included, the overall frame is about 1cm, and the thinnest thickness of the TV is about 1cm, which is equivalent to the radius length of a one yuan coin.
In terms of specifications, 55 inch Storm TV adopts 4K resolution, SoC of TV host uses Cortex-A9 architecture, 4-core processor, GPU is Mali-450MP8, 2GB LPDDR3 RAM+16G ROM, uses EMMC 5.0 flash memory, and supports Bluetooth 4.1 and WIFI. The box part is equipped with two USB 2.0 interfaces, one USB 3.0 interface, and the network cable interface. The built-in wireless network card will prompt us to select the WiFi to be connected after boot.
In terms of the system, the interface and UI of Storm TV box are the same as most TV boxes on the market. The whole system is relatively simple. You can choose to watch some TV, variety show, animation, etc. online in the system. Most of the resources in Storm TV are used by iQIYI. Some new products can also be found in Action, including Ganwumei, Gaoda, etc. In addition, there are also Android games in the application market and some applications available for download. However, due to the restrictions of radio and television, there are not many applications in the app market, most of which are video players, music players, etc., and some games that can run in TV boxes, including Wild Racing 8. Playing games on 55 inch TVs is still shocking.
There are some 4K resources and some animations in Storm TV, most of which are from iQIYI, including Sherlock Holmes, Anti drug, Sweet Killer, etc. After being identified by a small editor with the naked eye, although these videos all boast the word 4K, they are not really 4K high code rate videos, There is a certain gap between the high bit rate 1080P video in MKV format (a movie is 10~15G).
Screen quality test
The quality of the 4K screen of Storm TV is relatively poor. The color temperature is 9300K, the static contrast is 450:1, the color gamut is 94% sRGB, 76% Adobe RGB, the maximum white spot brightness is 280nits, the peripheral brightness is 250~280nits, the brightness distribution is relatively uniform, and the gamma curve is some distance from the standard 2.2, The average Delta E is 10.73. There is a certain gap between the overall quality of its screen panel and that of high-end TV screens.
summary
On the whole, the advantages of Storm TV lie in its narrow frame, workmanship and price. It has little advantage over other Internet TV brands in terms of display effect and resources. As the first product of Storm Technology, we can not only see its innovation, but also find its own immaturity. As a maiden work, Storm TV does not have many shortcomings, and has its own advantages in appearance and workmanship. However, we expect its follow-up products to further improve in screen display.
