With the LCD TV becoming cheaper and cheaper, many families now have to buy a TV from 65 inches, but it still feels so small on their TV wall, but the TV that can match their living room is expensive. At this time, many people will remember the projector. With the continuous updating of technology, it is no longer the time when more than 10000 pieces of bulb projectors must be used. Maybe someone said that the LED projectors were not bright enough, could not be used in the daytime, and were not practical enough two years ago. This is not true. The latest flagship product S3 of Kuletv uses a 1000 lumen LED light source. Let's see how it performs
Packaging&Appearance
The packaging box is the black packaging box used for high-end products, which is full of weight and has only one logo of S3 on the front.
The four sides have the logo of loving movies and life, which gives the product a clear positioning. Of course, the logo of the manufacturer is unavoidable at this time.
Model stickers are pasted on the bottom, and 4K, 3D and DLP Texas logos are displayed.
The whole box is wrapped with a lot of cushioning materials to prevent the internal parts from being damaged.
First of all, the product manual and a regular Q&A, but because the manufacturer did not provide a DTMB antenna... This page is almost useless.
Above is the machine. We will talk about it later. The following parts layer and zigzag partition are introduced one by one:
Random power cord and adapter.
The adapter specification input is 100-240V MAX 2.0A, output is 19V-7.1A, maximum power is 63.9W, and it is manufactured by Hangjia, a well-known domestic switching power supply manufacturer, with guaranteed quality!
The random remote control, from top to bottom, is the power key, focus+&- key, five navigation keys, Android menu key, voice shortcut key, return key, volume increase/decrease key, and Android home page key. The key range is good, and the feel is good. However, it needs to complain that Android's regular three keys have been replaced by voice keys, which takes some time to adapt. And after a period of use, without shortcut settings and screen capture keys, I would be at a loss. To change something, I need to return to the root directory to modify it, and screen capture is enough.
Finally, it's our main character. The flagship version of Kuletv S3 has a plastic reflective panel on the front and a logo of Coolux, which looks very textured.
There are huge cooling holes on the left side of the rear side, and the interfaces on the right side are 3.5mm interface, AV interface, ANT antenna interface, two HDMI, LAN RJ45 network cable interfaces, two USB interfaces, and DC power input. The interfaces are very rich, which can meet the needs of most household users.
Silver panel on the front.
HiVi in the lower right corner indicates that the audio products produced in cooperation with Huiwei are accompanied by numerous speakers.
The LED lamp cap and protective cover are on the far left, and the machine starts when the protective cover is opened.
In the middle is the auto focus module. Of course, you can focus manually through the F+and F - on the remote control.
On the back, the partition is very clear, the hole in the middle is a wall hanging hole, and the product nameplate is below:
There is a huge cooling hole in the middle, and the cleaning icon is marked. It seems that it is better to remove dust from time to time when you buy it.
The four corners are respectively provided with huge footpads, which are stable on the table.
Actual use
1： Hardware
For comparison, the contrast machine comes from Zimi Mango Xiaomi. Simply refer to the sofa butler's equipment score of 7490, which is matched with the ARMv7 4 core CPU of Android 4.4.2 system. The 1G memory (825MB is displayed because of the graphics card memory allocated by the integrated graphics card) storage space is 1.92+2.97G=4.89GB.
On the other side of Cool Music S3, we can see that there are a lot of high places. First of all, let's talk about the configuration. The sofa steward gave us a score of 6605. As a new machine in 2016, it was quite unexpected. Even the benchmarking portable Kimi Mango last year was nearly 1000 points worse. This flagship version is a little tired. The system is a little higher but not much higher. It is 4.4.4, not the most basic Android 5.0, Needless to say 6.0, CPU is the main reason for splitting. The ARMv7 2 core really doesn't match the flagship version. RAM is still 1G, ROM is 3.87+4.99=8.86GB.
In fact, it goes without saying that the response of the dual core S3 operation is not as good as that of Jimi Xiaomi. This is a drag on the CPU and there is no way to do it. Of course, it will not affect the playback interface, but only the experience
2、 System
Compared with Jimi, which has a mature cooperative relationship with Mango TV, Kuletv has to say that the system is still not good enough, UI&UE design, underlying optimization or operation logic, there is always an interface that makes you unhappy. The first version of the system could not see the application list to the right after five applications were installed. It was solved by restoring the factory settings. What's more wonderful is when updating the new version of the system with a USB flash disk (because it can only be updated with a USB flash disk, and cannot be updated online like Kimi) After the update, all user settings and software need to be reset and downloaded, which is extremely unpleasant. I hope it can be optimized later.
Of course, the software is not useless. The multi wall color adaptation of S3 is not a big problem for a start-up company. Slowly, the number of bugs is getting less and less. Only when developing, we try to consider the problem from the user's point of view. It is not easy to install several software, but once the update is complete, there is no place to lose your temper.
3、 Selling points and special functions
I wonder if you can say that Cool LeEco doesn't mean much.
Selling point 1: The brand new high brightness P1A LED light source from Osram, Germany, has been tested by the "National Quality Supervision and Inspection Center for Digital Audio, Video and Multimedia Products" to reach 1081 ANSI lumens, and is equipped with 0.45 "1280 × 800 high-definition display chip of Texas Instruments (supporting 1080P/4K).
Is this useful? In today's environment where most LED degree projectors are blind in the daytime, 1000 lumens means that you can continue to experience the large screen by blocking a curtain slightly in the daytime. The test results at night are also very obvious, from Mango Xiaomao to Kuletv S3 flagship, which is very practical in the daytime and can largely erase the impact of other shortcomings, After all, seeing is the absolute truth!
Selling point 2: support auto focus/dynamic real-time focus, gesture remote control, active 3D function, and the projection ratio is 1.2 for short focus. Since Jimi Mango Xiaomi is also a short focus machine, the projection area of the two is almost the same at the same distance. However, when the distance is doubled, the wider focus distance and higher brightness can ensure that the picture is still excellent. Jimi Mango Xiaomi can't do this. Moreover, if lifting is used, the projector will still run out of focus after a long time of use, Youle auto focusing system is really much more convenient, and it can also focus manually through the remote control. It is very practical because it is related to whether you can see clearly!
Selling point 3: HiVi sound system, in fact, for most Chinese people, they won't buy a home theater to enjoy the movie, even a 5.1 speaker of about 500 yuan. So, S3 with a better sound field is very practical, which is very practical when you enjoy the war movie or need to change the sound channel to experience the plot in the movie!
Of course, some of the selling points are not very practical, such as better 4K support, active 3D and gesture operations. There is no problem with these points, but I feel that if these projects are cut off, they will bring better experience on hardware and software.
summary
Obviously, the dormancy of Kuletv S3 in the past few years has also determined its own pragmatic direction, 1000+lumen illumination+auto focus+better speaker system, which has been doing very well in influencing users all the time during the movie viewing process. However, if you want users to buy their own products, you need to work hard on details, and hope that Kuletv will become better and better, Only competition can lead to better products. As a pragmatic person, are you excited about this projector?
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