With a 43 inch, 1080p 60Hz display, the Mi TV 4A might be the perfect solution for the
typical home that just wants to watch HD TV channels that are available with DTH or IPTV
services, and at price point of 23,000, this might be a no brainer for a lot of people
who're thinking about buying a TV, but this TV isn't perfect, and we are going to talk
about that in this video.
Hey guys, I am Siddharth, and this is Mi TV 4A, 43 inch review.
The Mi TV 4A looks a lot like the other TVs on the market, the design is very common,
but it is a well built TV.
The thickness is okay for a DLED TV, and even though this definitely is a thicker TV, I
don't think that the buyers are going to have any issues with it's aesthetics.
The bezels aren't super thin, but have an even thickness around the 4 corners, which
looks pleasing.
Three advantages of being a thicker TV is that this can have a directly lit LCD panel,
it can actually fit a decent speaker, which we'll come to later, and this design is comparatively
robust, so you don't have to worry about accidental touches, or avoid having kids in the first
place The TV is surprisingly light for it's size,
so it can be carried around easily by one person.
One disappointment for me was that the table stand is made of plastic and feels very cheap.
This definitely isn't an issue, but this TV has some other qualities that just make it
feel like a 'cheaper' TV.
Coming to I/O this TV has a very complete set of ports. have got 3 HDMI ports, one of
which has ARC for audio, then you've got 3 USB ports, all of which are 2.0.
You've got AV in, a S/PDIF coaxial out, which I think most people won't use, as this TV
HAS the good old, 3.5mm audio jack, so you can plug your stereo speakers in directly.
We don't have any USB 3.0 ports here, but since this TV will play 1080p content, I don't
think that the transfer speeds are going to be a limitation here.
There is existence of space behind this TV, unlike the Mi TV 4, so you can actually plug
in pen drives easily, without needing USB extensions.
Display quality is something that a TV should deliver up to a certain point, regardless
of the price range.
With the Mi TV 4, even though the quality may not have been as great as the top end
TVs, it was still very good and I never felt that it was holding me back from enjoying
content on it in any way.
With the Mi TV 4A however, I think that the case is different.
The display panel is 1080p 60Hz, which is fine, but the quality in colors just isn't
there.
The colors are just 'off' with this IPS panel which is directly lit by LEDs.
It isn't just the saturation with this panel that's low, but the color temperature is also
a bit weird.
I tried adjusting the saturation, and with boosting it a little, and changing the color
temperature to a cooler preset did help the image quality, it still didn't reach to a
level which would make me say that it is as good as the LG or Samsung TVs in competition.
Now all of this might make the display seem bad, but it's not actually bad and I am sure
that a lot of people might not even notice it, and for a 43 inch Smart TV costing Rs.
23,000, it's actually good, and it's still a terrific value for money.
It's just that the no compromise experience that I am used to with Xiaomi products isn't
here.
I think majority of people won't find this to be an issue, and the content is still enjoyable
on this panel, I watched some of my favourite shows on it, and the quality of colors didn't
affect the experience in a negative way, but those, who are used to better quality of colors,
will notice the inferior quality of colors here.
The viewing angles are quite good, and there is only a little shift in colors and contrast
even while viewing at extreme angles.
This was expected with the IPS panel, but it's still great to see.
In comparison with a 43 inch Full HD Samsung non-smart TV, priced at 40,000 Rs., I did
find the colors to be a bit better on the Samsung TV, but again it's not a huge difference.
The viewing angles also seemed to be similarly good.
So now it would depend whether you think that spending 17,000 Rs. extra is worth it for
the little improvement in the quality of colors.
Personally, since a TV is used for viewing content, and not doing professional work,
I don't mind the extra smart features at 17,000 Rs. less, even with the slightly inferior
quality in colors.
But if you are in that color specific crowd, I'd recommend that you check this TV out in
person before you buy it, which shouldn't be very difficult as so many people who've
already bought it.
We tried this TV for gaming by connecting it to a PC.
The input lag is way lesser than the Mi TV 4, but not by much.
The input lag is way lesser than the Mi TV 4, but not by much.
Have a listen to the delay between the mouse click and the gun shot, and you'll get an
idea.
The delay makes this TV quite bad for competitive gaming, but for casual gameing like Final
fantasy XV, or racing games, this is not a big problem.
Still I do not like the gaming experience on this TV, so I think that you should only
game on it, if you do not have any other option.
The panel has a semigloss coating which I am fine with, but it can get problematic,
if you have a light source, reflecting off the screen.
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A REALLY big disappointment in my opinion, is the fact that this TV doesn't have Bluetooth.
And I say that considering the price point of this TV, because Bluetooth is something
that could be added for very cheap, because the OS and hardware support it, and all they
had to do was add a receiver, which would've cost them only a few hundred bucks.
And even if that meant this TV costing slightly more, that would've been completely fine.
Not being able to pair your bluetooth devices, like headphones and speakers just doesn't
feel smart enough, and being able to watch TV with your wireless headphones without disturbing
anyone can be an essential for a lot of people.
There are work arounds for this problem.
This TV has 3 USB ports, so you can use one of it to plug in a mouse/keyboard combo with
a USB receiver.
And for audio, you can use something like this Homespot Bluetooth transmitter, which
will let you use both the analog audio out, and the digital coaxial out to connect to
a Bluetooth audio device.
But all of this inconvenience could've been avoided very easily for a few hundred bucks,
so I personally see this as a big issue with this TV.
Patch wall UI is the same as on the MITV 4, except that it has different looking fonts,
along with some minor differences.
This is a custom skin on Android 6.0, so this TV can run most of the Android apps.
You can directly load an apk on a pen drive, or use alternative app stores like aptoide
to install apps.
So all that android awesomeness with MX player, ES File explorer, and modded YouTube is possible
here.
You can browse websites, and the TV handles complex webpages well.
One extremely disappointing thing about this TV is that there was an option to just turn
the screen off while keeping the TV on, which meant that you didn't have to wait for 30
seconds every time you turned it on, but after it received an update, Xiaomi removed this
option without mentioning in the changelog that they'll remove this option, and I really
can't think of a reason for doing that.
So if you have this TV, it might be better to not update it so that you don't lose this
option which I think is very important.
The TVs display also turned off when you turned your set top box off, but now that doesn't
happen after the update.
Another big limitation here is that the UI is rendered at 720p, which means that by default,
any app cannot reach a resolution beyond 720p.
This includes YouTube, which by default goes only up to 720, but with modded YouTube, which
I'll link to in the description, you can reach 1080p.
and it is quite unfortunate that Xiaomi has lower than native resolution on all it's TVs,
including the Mi TV 4, and this makes the Smart part of these TVs inferior to the competition
like Vu and TCL, which have stock android which runs on their native resolutions.
You can also cast your phone and PCs, using Miracast, and this wireless connection, supports
a Full HD resolution, which is nice to see.
You get Mi IR cable with it, which you can use to browse ongoing content on the TV channels
on air, and when you select the channel on Patchwall, it switches to your set top box,
and switches to your selected channel using the IR cable.
This TV has as Amlogic T962 chip, and is powered by a quad core cortex A53 CPU, running at
1500 MHz, and a Mali 450 MP3 GPU, running at 750 MHz, performance is good, and you won't
find it lagging or getting stuck, but the 1 GB of RAM shows its limitation, and the
Patchwall UI launcher, the homescreen will frequently be killed when you're running other
apps, so when you press the home button, it will have load again, which will take some
time.
This isn't a big issue, but it does make you wait for 2 to 4 seconds whenever you switch
to an app that was killed in the background.
The processor is fine so this is an issue, only because of this having only 1 GB of RAM.
In fact the processor is so good, that it can actually play 4K HEVC files, if you install
a third party media player like MX Player.
The Stock media player won't play anything above 1080p, but I don't think that you should
be using it anyways, when you can use MX player.
Another great thing here is that this can also play HDR files, which doesn't mean that
this TV will show HDR, as this isn't an HDR display, but the clipping of whites you get
while playing HDR content on other non HDR display is not here, so you can at least watch
HDR content, if you only have that version of a movie.
It has 8 GB of storage, which I think is sufficient for a TV.
Installing android games on this TV is also possible, but the experience may not be that
great, so I wouldn't recommend it.
The Remote that comes with Mi TV 4A is good, but it definitely feels cheaper with its rubber
buttons, and less ergonomic shape, while compared with the more premium Bluetooth remote of
Mi TV 4.
This is an Infra Red remote, but they have designed it in a very clever way, hiding the
IR emitter bulb, which makes it look like it uses some other technology, the button
presses on it won't get registered on the TV at all angles, or with a large obstruction
between the remote and the TV, which is possible with Mi TV 4's Bluetooth remote, but this
remote will still register the input from almost all realistically used angles.
I was unable to connect this TV to Mi Remote App over Wi-Fi, so the reverse casting feature
on the Mi TV 4 which allowed you to select things on TV from your phone's touchscreen
isn't here.
But since this has an IR receiver, you can use phones with IR blaster, like this Redmi
Note 4 to control the TV using the Mi TV App.
But controlling this TV isn't possible with a lot of phones, including with Xiaomi's
own Mi Mix 2, which is a disappointment.
This TV has 20w speakers, and while wattage isn't everything, the quality of these speakers
is actually quite good for a TV of this kind, you can hear the dialogues easily, and you
can definitely skip adding external speakers, unless you want a home theatre experience
or have high expectations from your audio.
I'll also play some music so you can get an idea of the quality.
So in conclusion, I think that this TV is a great buy for most people who're looking
to but a TV at 23,000 Rs.
But this TV isn't perfect, the biggest issue I have with this TV, is that colors aren't
as good as your typical Samsung, Sony, LG TV, and if you're picky about colors, you
may not like it.
The other omissions that this TV has can be lived with, and there's no denying that this
might be the best value for money you can get in this price range.
So I can definitely give this TV a huge recommendation, but I'd recommend that you check the quality
of colors if it is possible, to make sure that it isn't a deal breaker for you, even
though I don't think that most people are going to have issues with it.
I am not able to test and review the TCL, and VU, TVs, and while they will have advantages
over Mi TV, like Stock Android TV OS running at Native Resolution, I think that Xiaomi,
as a brand is better than them.
My barber comes to my home to cut my hair, and when he saw the 43 inch TV, he told me
that he also wanted to buy it, but he was unable to get it in the flash sales.
So I recommended that he could also look at other brands like TCL and Vu, but he said
that he didn't want those brands and only wanted to go for the Mi TV.
So Xioami has really done some right things with developing their public image, to an
extent that even the non tech savvy people consider it to be the brand to go for.
But Xiaomi also has to provide software updates and fix the problems that I talked about in
this review, as the hardware is held back by the software on all of their TVs, but I
don't think that at this point, Xiaomi is going to provide those updates, as it has
been quite some time since their TVs have been released, and if they had plans to fix
those problems, they would've released those updates already.
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