Since last year, Internet TV has become more and more popular, and traditional TV manufacturers have been unable to sit still and have launched their own Internet brands. Among them, Kukai has always been a more active one. Just recently, Kukai launched a new smart TV product - Kukai 50A2, which focuses on HIFI and "big content". The official introduction is to use "big content" to respond to the ecological model of Internet manufacturers. Now let's share a bit of practical experience to see if the Kukai 50A2 with big content can cope with the ecological attacks of Internet manufacturers.

Quality design:    

For the time being, the technology accumulation of traditional TV manufacturers in TV production is still ahead of that of Internet manufacturers, which is also evident in the design and process of Kukai 50A2. The front of the Kukai 50A2 adopts an all metal design, which has sufficient texture and high recognition. If you put it in the living room, you will automatically look at it more. When the screen is turned off, the front is completely black, and the ID has no border.

In addition to the texture brought by the all metal design, the two metal bases of the Kukai 50A2 are small and strong, which I like very much. On the one hand, it does not take up too much space, on the other hand, the TV set is very stable, and it will not shake back and forth with a gentle hand shake.

There are three levels on the back of the Kukai 50A2: 1. The bottom layer is an all metal cover plate. Officially, this cover plate adopts a stiffener design, which can be strong enough while ensuring the thin and light metal back plate. If you are not familiar with the stiffener design, you can take a look at your own suitcase. High quality suitcases all use the stiffener design; 2. The second layer is a polycarbonate plastic cover plate, and the interior should be the processor, memory and other hardware; 3. The third floor is the two audio systems of the Kukai 50A2, which will be discussed in detail later.

The Kukai 50A2 has very rich interfaces, including 2 HDMI2.0, 2 USB3.0, 1 audio interface, 1 network interface, 1 RF interface, and 1 TF card slot. Because the 4K screen is used, it is the best choice to support HDMI2.0 and USB3.0. In this respect, Cool Open has not shrunk.

Soundbar with excellent sound quality:

Kukai 50A2 has also made great efforts on the speakers this time, which is also one of the biggest selling points of Kukai 50A2. In the past two years, TV manufacturers have made efforts in the direction of thin and light. First of all, they must admit that ultra-thin can give consumers a more high-end feeling, but it is really not easy to make good sound quality with ultra-thin body. At present, the mainstream solution is to match independent speakers, but this will undoubtedly increase the cost of purchase. This time, the Kukai 50A2 will add Soundbar while achieving ultra-thin body, achieving both ultra-thin and high sound quality.

The Soundbar of Kukai 50A2 adopts the 8-unit loudspeaker solution customized by JBL, 2 silk film tweeters, 2 rubidium magnet subwoofers, 4 subwoofers, 600ml audio volume, forward sound generation, and TI TAS5766 power amplifier chip, reaching the top level in hardware. In addition to powerful hardware, Kukai officially introduced that this set of audio has been repeatedly adjusted by the Golden Ear team composed of 18 elite acoustic masters, reaching JBL's A-level standard.

In terms of the specific use experience, the overall sound effect is more impactful than that of the smart TV without Soundbar. There is a feeling that the sound is coming from the front, which is very strong when watching music programs.

Soundbar can also directly play music in mobile phones and tablets through Bluetooth connection with mobile phones, tablets and other devices. Soundbar supports closing the screen when playing music, which is useful for music enthusiasts who only listen to lossless music.

There is a solid foundation in hardware, but the Kukai 50A2 does not have a built-in music playing software in the system, which needs to be downloaded separately. There is still a gap with Internet manufacturers in this regard.

4K screen with black technology:

Kukai uses a 50 inch 4K screen with a contrast of 5000:1 and a brightness of 300 nits. It also supports the hottest MEMC motion compensation and HDR display technologies.

It can be seen from the above live shot of the Dunk Contest that the overall picture is more fluent because of MEMC.

As for HDR technology, video files that support the HDR standard are needed to work. At present, there are still too few resources in this area. It can be said that the support of the Kukai 50A2 for HDR is a preparation for the future.

On the whole, this screen still has excellent display effect, which can meet the needs of ordinary families. The only pity is that this screen has an average angle.

Kukai Film and TV with big content:

The 5.2 system of the Kukai 50 A2 is shipped from the factory, and the first boot will prompt you to upgrade to the 5.5 system. It is recommended that all users who have access to it upgrade.

The main interface of Kukai 5.5 is the current mainstream "big color block" mode, and the background color is light cyan, which can better highlight the content to be displayed. On the left side are local media, signal source, settings, Kukai account, and Kukai children. The main content entrances are Kukai TV, Youming Circle, and Kuyou Bar.

When you first enter Kukai Film, you will be prompted to log in to the Kukai account. After you log in, you can get two years of VIP privileges for Kukai Film. In fact, it is the TV VIP account of iQIYI, and you can watch all the videos of iQIYI, such as the recently popular "Jiumen", "Zhuxian", "Cross border Singer", and so on. The annual membership fee of iQIYI TV is 499/year, and it will be close to 1000 yuan for free membership for two years, which is very affordable.

Take "Old Nine Gates" as an example, VIP members can see the updated series faster than ordinary members. In terms of definition, TV series have three options: "standard definition", "high-definition" and "ultra definition".

In terms of movies, take Three People's Walk as an example, you can choose 4K definition at most, 20M mobile broadband at home, and there is no jam in normal viewing. There will be a slight jam in fast forward and fast backward. Watching 4K videos on 4K TV, combined with JBL certified SoundBar, the overall viewing experience is good. At the same time, H.265 and Dolby modes can also be selected in terms of definition. The advantage of H.265 is that it can save more broadband under the same definition. It is recommended that you choose H.265 mode when watching online videos.

It's a good experience to watch online videos, but it's a bit helpless to watch local videos, because the Kukai 50A2 does not support switching audio tracks, does not support switching audio tracks, does not support switching audio tracks, and has no choice but to say it three times. This short board can be said to be fatal, which greatly affects the viewing of local videos.

If the software is more perfect, the experience will be better.

After more than a week's experience, the biggest feeling of using the Cookai 50A2 is that the hardware is really hard, but the software is really soft. The hard hardware refers to the memory combination of Mstar 6A 938 and 2G+8G adopted by Kukai 50A2, which is almost the strongest hardware configuration of smart TV at present; The software is really soft, which means that Kukai 5.5 still needs further optimization in terms of system stability and smoothness, and suspended animation often occurs in use. The main advantage or difference between smart TV and traditional TV is the integration of software and hardware. At present, the software of the Kukai 50A has dragged the hardware back.

advantage:

1. Excellent design and workmanship, strong sense of quality;

2. The built-in Soundbar has excellent sound quality;

3. Two years of iQIYI TV VIP free, affordable.

Disadvantages:

1. The smoothness of the system is general, and suspended animation occasionally occurs;

2. Switching audio tracks is not supported for local video playback.