Every Wednesday Rob Coenraads writes on pcactive.nl in ‘Rob about’ an article that he experiences, encounters or interests. This time is about the television that it has to do it yourself, compile a television yourself and Ambilight TV.
This week I was in Barcelona for the presentation of the new televisions and audio from Philips. For this I was invited by TP Vision, the company that has been publishing these devices under the Philips brand name for many years. The European head office is in Amsterdam, making the lines short and therefore easy. During the presentations, among other things, the new OLED+950, ​​OLED+910 and other Ambilight TVs were announced, the articles of which you can already read on Pcactive.nl. In addition, there was a lot of attention for artificial intelligence that you can read in this article on AI.
Below you can read that a television should also do something yourself, whether it is useful if you can put together a television yourself and finally about Ambilight TV.
Television has to do it yourself
In many living rooms, TV is the central center in the evening. I used to look with my parents and brother at the 5 channels that we could receive: the Netherlands 1, the Netherlands 2 and 3 German channels. Nowadays, much less is looked linearly: programs are recorded or you look at one of the many streaming services such as Netflix and Viaplay TV.
TVs are now also being provided with all kinds of gadgets and features, but a presentation showed that little is used from it. Who has his TV on Filmmaker-Mode when there is a film on it? It would be nice if the TV arranges it once you have indicated that. While just about every manufacturer of consumer electronics puts in everywhere AI or says they do it, they would also take a good look at what the consumer really wants. Have you ever looked at what options there are that you can set or sometimes have to set yourself (s) for better image quality? I can imagine that many people have a TV delivered and that someone else adjusts the TV completely, no matter how easy it seems. Or will AI be doing that for you from now on?
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Compile television yourself
AI also requires a lot of computing power, but then you do need a good processor with sufficient memory, just like with your computer. Almost every television has only 1 GB of RAM or memory on board, some even 512 MB. Then it is not surprising that the TV is not as fast as you would like and you sometimes see that in the lesser image quality or that it is slower.
Perhaps there is something to say for you that you can configure your own television, just like you can do with many laptops, for example. So you choose the screen size yourself (there are of course only a few sizes available) and also the number of GBs of computing power.
Ambilight TV
Incidentally, you also see Ambilight TV with more and more Philips televisions. Although, especially in the Netherlands but also in more countries, Philips is still a well -known brand, that is not (more) the case everywhere. Moreover, for the older generations of Philips is known as a strong brand, but that is less for the younger generations.
Ambilight is a unique feature of certain Philips televisions and you do not see that lighting at other brands such as Samsung, Sony, LG, Heisense or TCL. TP Vision has (still) many patents on Ambilight. TP Vision therefore increasingly puts the name Ambilight TV in the spotlights: it is on the right shoulder of the shirts of football club FC Barcelona.
Once you have an Ambilight TV as a consumer, figures show that your next television is again one with the well -known lighting. Of the people I know who have such a TV, that also applies.
