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Good morning all.
Honor have entered the Smart TV business. Now, on a personal note, this is interesting as the market is pretty mature, and dominated by the likes of LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Sony and HiSense. In order to challenge this, you'll need to provide something special, so the fact that Honor have went for which is probably the most competitive market possible with the most popular size, is a statement of intent.
Via GSM Arena:
Honor's new TV is packed to the brim with impressive hardware and does, indeed, feel more like a smartphone in many ways. It's a shift in mentality that really seems beneficial for the smart TV space. At least on paper, that is. Starting off with the basics, the Honor Vision, both vanilla and Pro, features a 55-inch diagonal, 4K, IPS panel with 400 nits peak brightness, 178° viewing angles, 87% NTSC coverage and TUV Rheinland certification for blue light protection. It is housed within a very thin (as little as 6.9mm) metal frame, making for an impressive 94% screen to body ratio.
A good start. The big requirements for TVs at the high end are colour reproduction and accuracy and HDR support. (What is HDR? See here for more: https://www.whathifi.com/advice/dolby-vision-hdr-everything-you-need-to-know). This is a highly technical field, and sites like HDTVtest etc are meticilous with their reviews. If Honor have not paid attention to making sure that their colour profiles and greyscales are calibrated well, they will be found out, so here's hoping Honor have done well here. The big names have all fell down here at one point or another.
The really impressive bit in our mind are the hardware internals of the Honor Vision. Namely the Honghu 818, octa-core chipset, which does sound like smartphone-level silicon in terms of features. Some of its advanced image processing technologies include Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation (MEMC), High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR), Super-Resolution (SR), Noise Reduction (NR), Dynamic Contrast Improvement (DCI), Auto Color Management (ACM) and Local Dimming (LD). Also on board is the HiSilicon Hi1103 chipset, which 2.4GHz, 5Hz dual-band and 160MHz bandwidth support for peek download rates up to 1.7Gbps. A lot more than what you would typically find on a smart TV.
Another thing you don't see on a TV often is an integrated, Smart Pop-up AI Camera. It is present on the Honor Vision Pro and primarily intended for convenient video calls. However, in another smartphone-like move, there is a dedicated HiSilicon Hi3516DV300 NPU chipset connected to said camera enabling all sorts of Ai capabilities, including face recognition, body tracking and posture detection.
Again, interesting. Firstly, using a high powered chip will mean better scaling, video processing and motion interpolation, so that's good, but will mean support for things like Netflix and Amazon Video in 4K, and means the UI should be smooth. Also when other manufactures like Samsung are dropping camera and Skype support, Honor going for a camera is a bold move.
The Honor Vision and Honor Vision Pro are officially up for sale on vmall at the source link starting today for the regular Honor Vision and August 15 for the Pro. The vanilla goes for CNY 3,799, while the Pro will set you back CNY 4,799. The difference between the two being the smart retractable camera on the Pro, six 10W speakers, instead of four and different internal storage - 16GB and 32GB respectively. Orders come with a 30 day return policy and even free on-site installation.
So, what do you think of the new Honor Vision TV? Of course, for UK users, we have to wait to see if the TV makes it's way here, but at the very least, it'll be nice to see a new name in the market. Any comments or feedback? Let me know in the comments!
Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/the_honor_vision_smart_tv_is_now_official_and_the_first_device_to_run_harmony_os-news-38623.php
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Good morning all.
Honor have entered the Smart TV business. Now, on a personal note, this is interesting as the market is pretty mature, and dominated by the likes of LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Sony and HiSense. In order to challenge this, you'll need to provide something special, so the fact that Honor have went for which is probably the most competitive market possible with the most popular size, is a statement of intent.
Via GSM Arena:
Honor's new TV is packed to the brim with impressive hardware and does, indeed, feel more like a smartphone in many ways. It's a shift in mentality that really seems beneficial for the smart TV space. At least on paper, that is. Starting off with the basics, the Honor Vision, both vanilla and Pro, features a 55-inch diagonal, 4K, IPS panel with 400 nits peak brightness, 178° viewing angles, 87% NTSC coverage and TUV Rheinland certification for blue light protection. It is housed within a very thin (as little as 6.9mm) metal frame, making for an impressive 94% screen to body ratio.
A good start. The big requirements for TVs at the high end are colour reproduction and accuracy and HDR support. (What is HDR? See here for more: https://www.whathifi.com/advice/dolby-vision-hdr-everything-you-need-to-know). This is a highly technical field, and sites like HDTVtest etc are meticilous with their reviews. If Honor have not paid attention to making sure that their colour profiles and greyscales are calibrated well, they will be found out, so here's hoping Honor have done well here. The big names have all fell down here at one point or another.
The really impressive bit in our mind are the hardware internals of the Honor Vision. Namely the Honghu 818, octa-core chipset, which does sound like smartphone-level silicon in terms of features. Some of its advanced image processing technologies include Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation (MEMC), High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR), Super-Resolution (SR), Noise Reduction (NR), Dynamic Contrast Improvement (DCI), Auto Color Management (ACM) and Local Dimming (LD). Also on board is the HiSilicon Hi1103 chipset, which 2.4GHz, 5Hz dual-band and 160MHz bandwidth support for peek download rates up to 1.7Gbps. A lot more than what you would typically find on a smart TV.
Another thing you don't see on a TV often is an integrated, Smart Pop-up AI Camera. It is present on the Honor Vision Pro and primarily intended for convenient video calls. However, in another smartphone-like move, there is a dedicated HiSilicon Hi3516DV300 NPU chipset connected to said camera enabling all sorts of Ai capabilities, including face recognition, body tracking and posture detection.
Again, interesting. Firstly, using a high powered chip will mean better scaling, video processing and motion interpolation, so that's good, but will mean support for things like Netflix and Amazon Video in 4K, and means the UI should be smooth. Also when other manufactures like Samsung are dropping camera and Skype support, Honor going for a camera is a bold move.
The Honor Vision and Honor Vision Pro are officially up for sale on vmall at the source link starting today for the regular Honor Vision and August 15 for the Pro. The vanilla goes for CNY 3,799, while the Pro will set you back CNY 4,799. The difference between the two being the smart retractable camera on the Pro, six 10W speakers, instead of four and different internal storage - 16GB and 32GB respectively. Orders come with a 30 day return policy and even free on-site installation.
So, what do you think of the new Honor Vision TV? Of course, for UK users, we have to wait to see if the TV makes it's way here, but at the very least, it'll be nice to see a new name in the market. Any comments or feedback? Let me know in the comments!
Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/the_honor_vision_smart_tv_is_now_official_and_the_first_device_to_run_harmony_os-news-38623.php