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Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by MCRed »

reedlaw wrote: post #38
MCRed wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a different display. Look on the tech specs page for the chinese one: http://www.mi.com/mitv#params and compare it to the OP: http://www.mi.com/en/mitv#fullspecs For example, the CPUs are different, one's a snapdragon 1.7GHz, the other is a Cortex A9, 1.4GHz. (Different GPUs too.) Not to mention one explicitly says it's 1920x1080, while the other is "4K".

You're right. There's a number "2" after the name of the TV in Chinese. Maybe the Chinese site is the second generation Mi TV.

The price on the Chinese page is 3999 yuan, which translates into $641, indicating this is the model the OP meant. So it looks like the OP linked to the wrong page by mistake and got version 1 instead of version 2.

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Post by nodata »

royjacobs wrote: post #33

Xiaomi is a really interesting company. This TV announcement is just one in a long line of recent products that promise high quality devices for low prices (recently announced Mi Pad, Wi-Fi Router, etc). I own a Xiaomi MI2s phone which cost me about 200 euros to get shipped from a Chinese webshop and it's been working perfectly. They even update their phone OS (MIUI, based on Android) with weekly builds that are inst…

Maybe, but you sound awfully like a marketing department!

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by dmm »

xur17 wrote: post #29
willholloway wrote: post #11

I use a Seiki 50" 4K display for coding and it was a revelation. I love all the bezel-free screen real estate and I would never go back. For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has. More competition in the ~50" 4K space is welcome news.

I use a 39" 4k Seiki, and I've been very happy with it too. Paid $420 about a month ago (it's $500 from Amazon right now), and it's a pretty amazing amount of real estate without a bezel. 30hz is a little annoying for some tasks, but for coding and other static applications, it really doesn't bother me.

If you flash the 39" with the 50" firmware you get true 120Hz at 1080p. It also changes the scaling to a simple 1 pixel to 4.

Anybody considering the Seiki should know that it uses an unusual pixel format, BGR. So to get subpixel rendering to work be sure to run the subpixel setup program if you use windows or configure fontconfig if you use linux.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by polshaw »

NB the linked page is currently for the MiTV 1 (1080p, 47"), but the topic is about V2;[1]

On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM

supports miracast, airplay, dlna, widi, SMB, dual band ac wifi, USB3, micro SD, bluetooth 4 (BT LE remote with finder). 15.5mm thick and 6.2mm bezel. It has everything, except the HDMI version is conspicuous in its absence-- so I'm guessing it's not 2.0, which is required for 60fps at 4K. Also not completely clear if it could actually play back 4K 3D-- perhaps this would work with h264, but for h265 it states 30fps. Released on the 27th in China, no mention of elsewhere.

1. http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&p...

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by szatkus »

MCRed wrote: post #39
royjacobs wrote: post #33

Xiaomi is a really interesting company. This TV announcement is just one in a long line of recent products that promise high quality devices for low prices (recently announced Mi Pad, Wi-Fi Router, etc). I own a Xiaomi MI2s phone which cost me about 200 euros to get shipped from a Chinese webshop and it's been working perfectly. They even update their phone OS (MIUI, based on Android) with weekly builds that are inst…

I find the "Chinese Apple" to be a curious desire. Which characteristics do we choose from the two? "high quality devices for low prices", is very chinese, but Apple is known for high quality prices based on innovative technology. If he wants to build a company that makes high quality products based on innovative technology at low prices, then he could find great success. Alas, in my experience, no companies besides…

I think he meant scale. Competing with Apple in Apple's niche isn't good idea.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by zo1 »

blueskin_ wrote: post #32

Anyone put its traffic through Wireshark to see what it's up to yet?

Why? Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company? How would you feel if people said that about American products? Maybe I should be scared about getting irradiated from American products because Americans have killed a metric ton of people using nuclear weapons within the last century?

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by xhrpost »

xur17 wrote: post #29
willholloway wrote: post #11

I use a Seiki 50" 4K display for coding and it was a revelation. I love all the bezel-free screen real estate and I would never go back. For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has. More competition in the ~50" 4K space is welcome news.

I use a 39" 4k Seiki, and I've been very happy with it too. Paid $420 about a month ago (it's $500 from Amazon right now), and it's a pretty amazing amount of real estate without a bezel. 30hz is a little annoying for some tasks, but for coding and other static applications, it really doesn't bother me.

I've recently done the same. Still trying to get my work environment set up decently. We need some sort of user group for people doing 4k programming to exchange ideas, tools, methods, etc.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by royjacobs »

nodata wrote: post #43
royjacobs wrote: post #33

Xiaomi is a really interesting company. This TV announcement is just one in a long line of recent products that promise high quality devices for low prices (recently announced Mi Pad, Wi-Fi Router, etc). I own a Xiaomi MI2s phone which cost me about 200 euros to get shipped from a Chinese webshop and it's been working perfectly. They even update their phone OS (MIUI, based on Android) with weekly builds that are inst…

Maybe, but you sound awfully like a marketing department!

Thanks, I guess? :)

I don't want to sound like I'm astroturfing, but I genuinely think they're interesting. Maybe I should clarify: I don't think they are at the same quality level as, say, Apple. The phone is still plastic galore and MIUI certainly isn't as elegant as iOS.

However, amidst all the Chinese companies that are churning out cheap electronics, Xiaomi doesn't seem to be content to "just" churn out clones.

Except, maybe, one of their new routers that has a design copied from an iPad stand.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by akfanta »

mwill wrote: post #27

I see a few people in this thread saying you would need an amount of luck to actually get one of these, can anyone shed some light on why? And possibly what someone might do to actually get one shipped out to Australia?

Whenever they release a new gadget, they make the announcement and then make you to wait. Their online shop has this queuing system which is super hard to get in whenever they make a new release. And it usually get "sold out" in a matter of minutes or even seconds. The majority of the consumers won't get hand on it months after its initial release. And interestingly, when this happens, usually the component price has dropped quite a lot where the price/cost ration is far less impressive. However, they still get to keep the reputation that they sell "quality" stuff at an insanely low price.

The whole process sounds like a shady business to me, but apparently they grow super fast with this kind of strategy. So yeah, I guess what do I know.

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