The trend of home appliance intellectualization has more and more obvious impact on ordinary consumers, and the intellectualization of TV is the first to bear the brunt. The biggest cost of TV is the screen. The larger the screen, the more expensive the price will be. A 120 inch TV of a domestic brand sold for 499900 yuan. The price of international smart TV of the same size is even more exaggerated.

So how can ordinary consumers get a considerable experience within a limited budget?

The main character of this article, Jimi Z4 aurora, can just solve this problem. However, the polar meter Z4 aurora is not a TV, but an intelligent projector with a maximum projection of 300 inches. It uses 0.45 "DMD RGB LED display technology, high transmittance coated lens, brightness of up to 600ANSI lumens, resolution of 1280x800, and compatible with 1080P/2K/4K resolution, contrast of 5000: 1. It also supports 3D projection. It is called "no screen TV" in official propaganda. How does this projector perform? Let's take a look at the design first.

I appearance

The Jimi Z4 aurora obtained by the author comes from the trial platform of Leifeng. com. If you are interested, you can go to the platform to apply for the trial of various novel products.

The black package is calm and elegant, the box design is simple, and the red label was pasted on the platform of Lei Feng.

Some product information is marked on the back. We can see that the video content of Z4 Aurora is from Mango TV, and the music content is from Baidu Music.

When the box cover is opened, the interior is of double-layer design, and the upper layer is of folded design, which has a strong sense of design.

After opening, it is presented in three sections. On the left are two 3D eyes, and on the right are remote control, power adapter and other accessories. The middle part is naturally the protagonist of this article.

The shape after opening is quite aggressive. I haven't seen such an exciting package for a long time.

Bring two 3D glasses.

The glasses are made of frosted plastic, so the elasticity, hand feel and weight are well controlled.

There is a switch button on the top of the glasses, and the USB charging port is hidden from the nose frame. The two built-in electronic 3D glasses can automatically identify and adapt to various 3D formats through sensors, greatly increasing the use of scenes.

The remote control adopts an integrated aluminum design, which has a sense of design. It has a built-in rechargeable lithium battery. Support Bluetooth, voice, focusing, gravity sensing, flying mouse and other features. Although the appearance is small, the function is very powerful.

The bottom of the remote control is equipped with a reset hole, a USB charging port and a focusing switch. When this switch is turned on, the focus of the image can be adjusted with the volume adjustment key to make the image clearer.

Finally, it's the hero's turn to play.

The front of the projector is designed like a vinyl record, which is low-key without losing cultural heritage. The color of the fuselage is also very simple and elegant, which can be integrated into the living room, bedroom, conference room and other scenes of various decoration styles.

The bottom tray can be unscrewed in the direction of the arrow, and can be directly inserted into the hard disk to expand space. In addition, the heat sink is designed around the bottom disc, which will generate a lot of heat when the projector works. The reasonable design of the heat sink has a crucial impact on the normal experience and service life of the projector.

The projector bulb can be closed when it is not in use, and then opened when it is in use. If the lampshade is closed but the projector power is turned on, music will play automatically.

Harman Carton's LOGO provides guarantee for the sound quality of the projector's built-in audio. In addition, the heat dissipation around the fuselage is also very good.

The projector also has a wide range of interfaces, including a network cable interface (which also supports 2.4/5G WiFi), a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0 interface, two HDMI interfaces, an AV interface, a power interface, a 3.5mm headphone interface and a reset hole.

Jimi Z4 Evoque has done everything from appearance design, hardware workmanship, abundance of accessories and scalability. Next, it depends on the experience.

II experience

For an intelligent projector known as "no screen TV", its content richness and software scalability play a decisive role in user experience. But it is unscientific to talk about experience without hardware. Let's take a look at the configuration parameters of the Z4 aurora.

Z4 Aurora is based on the four core 1.5GH processor, 2GB RAM+16GB ROM, and the TV system developed based on Android 4.3. 1280x800 standard resolution, compatible with 1080p/2K/4K HD resolution, supporting three projection modes of forward projection, rear projection and suspended ceiling, supporting three multi screen interaction modes of Airplay, DLAN and Miracast, and supporting Bluetooth 4.0 connection. The body size is 196x196x50mm and weighs 1.2kg.

With these sufficient hardware support, the software experience is even more exciting!

The main interface includes video, music, game applications and other modules.

Film and television is divided into several modules, including more than a dozen categories, such as "Top Cinema", "VIP Free", "VIP Coupon", "Action Adventure", "Magic Science Fiction" and "4K Cinema". The content is carefully done. There are the latest and most complete movie libraries in the world in the top cinemas and two VIP segments. Ordinary users need to pay for watching VIP movies, but do you remember the two year VIP card in the front appearance? The users who buy the Z4 Aurora are all VIP members of Mango TV for free for two years. They can see what they want!

From the two complimentary electronic 3D glasses, we can see that 3D viewing is an important selling point of the Z4 aurora, and the viewable 3D resources have become an important criterion for experience. However, Mango TV's built-in application only has 12 3D movies for viewing, and the resources are relatively old. Don't worry about that there are many ways to expand resources besides users downloading 3D movie sources on the Internet. Don't forget that the Z4 aurora is an Android system, as we will discuss later.

These 3D film sources are almost all "left and right format" 3D films. After wearing 3D glasses, the image you want is not a screenshot, which is divided into left and right parts, but a 3D picture. As for what is left and right format, up and down format, please learn by yourself.

The Z4 aurora can project a 300 inch large screen at most, and resource clarity is also particularly important. The 4K movie source has no chains at all. It is not only rich in resources, but also has a great improvement in clarity. The above is the screenshot of Transformers. The real effect is much better than this.

There are more and more detailed categories in all movies, and it also supports resource search. The resources are very rich and the update speed is relatively fast.

In addition to movies, the resources related to TV dramas, variety shows, anime, documentary and music are also very rich. Jimmy chose to cooperate with Mango TV, which is really the right partner. It meets the needs of various users.

Next is the game resources, which cover all kinds of popular game categories, and all famous games are available. If you want to experience the feeling of playing games on the big screen, Z4 Aurora is definitely a good choice.

Well, Digital Jun is really good at playing games. But to be honest, playing games with a remote control is very painful. Friends who want to experience this kind of large screen games can equip a professional game controller. For Android, there must be endless games for you to develop.

Since it is an Android system, there is no problem in the application. There are everything from office work, news reading, children's education, perpetual calendar, etc.

This is the display effect of today's headline article, which is consistent with the mobile terminal.

All of the above are included in Jimi. As an Android device, we must not limit ourselves to these. Through various application extensions, we can obtain more and richer resources. Let's continue to see.

In the TV version of Tencent Video, all the resources on Tencent Video APP that you see on your mobile phone are available here, and all the resources are synchronized.

On the top is the main interface of Androtype video and pudding video. In addition, you can also install the most commonly used APPs such as Youku and iQiyi. The content is synchronized. So you don't need to worry about using resources.

Having said so much, is there something missing from the title of "screen less TV"? Of course it's live TV!

Digital Jun has installed a "VST Live" APP, which includes the CCTV, Hunan Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV, Jiangsu Satellite TV and other popular TV stations. At the same time, there are various clear signal sources for you to choose. If the broadband is powerful, of course, the effect of the ultra clear version is the best.

Since then, the smart TV has no less than the Jimi Z4 aurora, while the playability will be more abundant and the scalability will be extremely powerful! So now, Digital Jun is still worried about the annual cost of hundreds of cable TV bags that he just paid a few days ago. It would have been better if the Jimi Z4 aurora had come a few days earlier

III Mobile APP

In addition to the remote control we saw earlier, the Z4 Evoque provides us with another more intuitive and easy-to-use interactive mode with rich and powerful functions, that is, the "no screen assistant" APP developed by Evoque. Let's take a look.

The main interface of the APP is divided into three TABs: film and television, music and applications. The film and television pages include movies, TV dramas and other content, all from Mango TV.

Music content comes from Baidu Music, the largest legitimate music platform in China. There are almost all old songs and new songs you want to hear.

The application expansion we mentioned in the second part may not be intuitive enough, but it is very intuitive in mobile APP, which is a very large application market, greatly enriching the playability of Z4 Aurora.

Click the icon in the upper right corner to enter the remote control and tools page.

Only the mobile phone and the projector can be connected to the same WiFi to automatically connect, without tedious binding operations. The buttons of the remote control are very simple. There is also a treasure box about the projector. Focusing and stepless zoom are very practical for projectors. The input tool is mainly aimed at the inconvenience of entering text through the up, down, left and right OK keys on the projector. Here, you can directly open the touch keyboard of the mobile phone for input.

In addition to key pressing, the non screen assistant also provides touch pad and voice control functions. The manual voice assistant can send commands to the projector, open applications, input text and other operations. It means that when sliding within the range of the touch pad, a floating mouse will be clicked on the projected image, and clicking the touch area is the select/confirm function. In some operation scenarios, this method is more direct and fast.

IV summary

As mentioned at the beginning of the article, the Jimi Z4 Aurora is a thing that can maximize the enjoyment of high-quality audio and video under limited budget. It is not a substitute for smart TV. In terms of portability, the projector has incomparable advantages for smart TV. The picture color and picture fineness of Z4 Aurora are certainly not as good as those of smart TV, but compared with other similar products experienced by Digital TV, the performance of Z4 Aurora is very gratifying. Without deliberate comparison with TV, there is almost no difference. For a 3999 yuan product, this is enough. If you have consumption demand in this area and the budget is equal, Z4 Aurora must be a very good choice.