You’ve bought questions, I’ve bought solutions! That is the third installment of our sequence the place I sort out the superb questions from the Digital Traits neighborhood. On this episode of You Requested: Will I evaluation the Hisense UX TV? Why don’t we take a look at TV temperature? Do I actually simply wish to be Linus or Marques? Subwoofers for Apple Homepods, and far more.
Let’s dive in.
Hisense UX
@AbiolaOlajide-ue5hh asks: “When are you going to evaluation the UX Hisense?”
When this query was initially posted, my reply would have been “probably by no means.” That’s as a result of when final I spoke to Hisense, it didn’t suppose it was going to have the ability to ship out evaluation samples. So, I steered Hisense contemplate flying reviewers in for an occasion the place everybody might get a crack at measuring and evaluating the TV. I didn’t hear again about that, so I used to be starting to suppose perhaps I wouldn’t get the prospect to evaluation this TV.
However, only a few days in the past, I discovered {that a} Hisense UX is making its method right here, and I couldn’t be extra excited. So, to reply your query — give me a few weeks! Now we have numerous TVs right here to evaluation, however that one is a precedence, so I’ll get to it ASAP.
TV temperatures
Subsequent up, @AP-hn8wd asks: Hello, Caleb! With TVs getting bigger, why don’t TV reviewers begin reviewing warmth output (temperature-wise) on a TV? I’ve heard some homeowners of sure TVs 65 inches and bigger [say the TVs] make their dwelling rooms heat, particularly throughout the summer time (could possibly be smaller dwelling rooms in residences). Even smaller TVs of 55 inches or smaller can heat a small bed room after an hour or so when gaming.
Properly, I’m betting you had been asking why don’t TV reviewers take a look at a TV’s warmth output rhetorically. However simply in case you actually had been questioning why it isn’t generally achieved, my guess can be it’s as a result of it’s extra work than you may suppose — at the least to get issues going — and since it could be robust to make the outcomes significant. However I’m as much as the problem, and I’m keen to provide it a strive. And apart from that, I’ve been on the lookout for simply another reason to get a
digital laser infrared thermometer gun
and also you simply gave it to me, so thanks!
The problem in getting this arrange is that I’ll must create some testing parameters in order that we will get dependable outcomes. And from there, we want a sequence of controls. So, off the highest of my head, I’m pondering we’ll wish to go away the TV on for, say, an hour, taking part in a predetermined mixture of content material that we placed on each TV to ensure the stress we placed on every TV is constant. Now we have to be sure that the temperature within the room is all the time the identical as a result of warmth buildup might exponentially improve based mostly on how heat a room is to start with. And, I feel we will’t take a look at whereas the AC or heater is blowing, or too quickly after the AC/heater has been on, so we’ll wish to standardize how lengthy after the HVAC has shut off that we conduct the take a look at. Then we have to measure each the entrance and the again of the TV, and I suppose take a median from these two readings. Complicating issues, I’d have to determine the place on the again of the TV to take a studying, as a result of it could be unfair to measure proper behind the facility provide on one TV and never on one other.
See? There’s so much to it. However let’s say we determine that each one out. How will we make the outcomes significant? I don’t have the reply to that — but.
I take a look at largely 65-inch TVs, so I can simply make a rule that I solely measure the temperature of 65-inch TVs since I solely get 77-, 85-, and 90-plus-inch TVs often and couldn’t actually construct up sufficient knowledge on these massive sizes to make comparisons such that I might conclude that one TV runs sizzling and one other runs cooler. My different concern is that I don’t understand how realizing sizzling a 65-inch variant of a sure mannequin will get would inform us something about how sizzling a 55-inch model may get. Or an 85-inch model. You may suppose it’s cheap to suspect a smaller TV wouldn’t get fairly as sizzling, whereas a bigger TV would get hotter. However I don’t have any knowledge to show that the warmth technology goes to be predictably linear.
It’s simply not truthful for me to level and shoot a temperature gun at a TV and say, “It’s this sizzling,” with out placing that into context, and to have context, I want an enormous pool of knowledge. However, I can’t get that knowledge except I begin amassing, so … I promise you this: I’ll get that temperature gun as a result of — enjoyable! And I’ll look into it. Examine in with me in about … three months, and I’ll let you recognize the place I’m at. Does that appear truthful? Thanks for the query and suggestion!
I’m simply Caleb
@channelmames feedback: You wish to be Linus or Marques sooooooooo dangerous.
No. Nope. Not going anyplace close to that one proper now. Whoooo, no.
Homepods subs
@augustya7543 asks: I’m on the lookout for a subwoofer to make use of with my OG Homepods to have extra bass. Which is the subwoofer that you would be able to recommend that has a tiny footprint and is compact and transportable?
To the most effective of my understanding, there isn’t a method so as to add a subwoofer to Apple HomePods audio system, both the OG model or the newest gen. So if you really want extra bass in your life — and who doesn’t? — then I feel it’s best to have a look at changing the HomePods with one thing else or including a system that satisfies your music/film listening wishes. I’m sorry I don’t have higher information for you.
Room EQ
@patrickmoodley6619 wrote: What are your ideas on the assorted Room EQs in AVRs? Comparability between Dirac, Audessey, Ypao. Is all of it a lot of a muchness or is there some profit in a single over the opposite?
I’m tremendous glad you requested this query, however I’m afraid I don’t have an excellent useful reply for you … but. I personally suppose one of the vital admirable issues somebody can do as a reviewer is admit after they don’t have satisfactory info to make a name or share an opinion on one thing. And that’s the place I’m at with Room EQ proper now. I haven’t examined very many AVRs recently, and positively not sufficient of them to make comparisons. However, I intend to alter that. Now that I’ve a brand new studio house, I can go away a speaker system arrange on a regular basis and simply swap in AVRs in addition to amplifiers, and dig into the audio house somewhat extra. So hopefully, I’ll be capable to weigh in on the state of Auto-EQ packages quickly.
I’ll say this, although: I’ve spent numerous time poo-pooing auto setup wizards and room EQ packages as a result of after I did work with AVRs so much, I discovered that they did extra hurt than good when it got here to the sound I bought from them. I recall them doing a very good job of figuring out speaker distance, so that they had been good at time alignment, however I used to be by no means happy with the crossover factors they picked for every speaker. I additionally didn’t like the best way the EQ sounded.
I’ve this idea — not the preferred one — that attempting to repair what your room does to your audio system’ sound by altering the sound of the speaker is simply not an effective way to go about doing issues. I perceive the precept, I simply haven’t loved the outcomes — prior to now. It’s time to check issues once more. I hear Dirac can do some good things and I wish to hear it for myself.
Optical audio accessibility choices
Tony Wagner says: OK, one factor I discover very annoying is Optical outputs on TVs that cease working when something is linked to ARC or eARC. On the Hisense 75U8H, we use the optical to feed the transmitter for listening to aids, however should take away the connection to the receiver as a way to get the listening to aids to work. The perfect can be for the optical to all the time output except the mute is on. I do know these of us with disabilities get ignored so much, however perhaps if issues like this had been talked about extra, one thing would occur. I talked to Hisense tech help and was given the brush-off. Do any of the TVs you’ve reviewed have working Optical outputs?
So, to start with, Tony, I agree that people with disabilities deserve some urgency round options that assist them benefit from the tech they use. And I’m wanting to do no matter I can to assist that trigger.
I’ve not achieved a lot testing to find out which TVs robotically change audio output to ARC or eARC when linked, however I believe it’s most, if not all, of them, and that most likely has to do extra with how the chipsets in these TVs are programmed than how a model like Hisense makes use of them.
Because of Vincent Teoh at HDTVtest, we all know that Hisense makes use of Pentonic SOCs in at the least a few of its TVs. I believe that it’s a part of that system on a chip that causes the optical audio output to get disabled when there’s an eARC connection. However I additionally suppose that it shouldn’t be too arduous to regulate the audio output settings so that there’s a default audio output, be that user-selectable, the place you say all the time use optical except you alter it, or last-used, the place the final chosen audio output is used till you alter it. Nonetheless, the problem of not with the ability to output to each optical and HDMI could also be an inherent limitation. By that I imply, the capabilities of HDMI and optical are totally different — HDMI helps audio codecs that optical doesn’t, and the audio decoder within the TV wants to regulate relying on what’s linked, so I’m undecided we’ll ever see a TV that outputs two totally different audio streams to each optical and HDMI on the similar time.
I do have a suggestion so that you can strive, although. Contemplate connecting your listening to support transceiver to the optical output in your AV receiver, if it has one. It’s doable that the AV receiver is ready to transcode audio coming in by way of HDMI and route it out the optical connection, and if it does, which means you might simply activate the receiver and mute it whenever you solely wish to use the listening to aids. It does imply you would need to activate the receiver just about any time you watch TV, although. That’s except you’re simply going to make use of the TV audio system. I don’t know if that’s going to work — there could possibly be copy safety that can forestall it. It’s value a shot, although.
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