Is the watershed for high-end TVs a picture quality chip or a picture quality engine?
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One question has never been to understand why many big Vs in the field of Zhihu TV (note, there are many, not all) have pushed the independent picture quality chip to the position of the altar, almost as a watershed for high-end TV. The following screenshot is represented by the article interface of the two TV super V, you can see it for yourself.
I feel that such views of big Vs will mislead the public, which in turn will make the public make the wrong choice when buying a TV. Why do you say that?
To express my point of view clearly, I must first introduce what is a TV quality chip and picture quality engine.
- The image quality engine, simply put, is a piece of software, the software responsible for adjusting the picture quality. There are many databases, algorithms, program instructions in it; Run this software and it will be able to adjust the image quality very well. Of course, how good it can be depends on the level of the program apes raised by major TV manufacturers. Many manufacturers, such as Hisense, TCL, Skyworth, etc., will have their own picture quality engine software development team; Almost it, such as a certain meter, is said to use the bottoms on the chip of MediaTek directly.
TCL Q image quality engine
- The picture quality chip, simply put, is a chip, which is equipped with the software of the picture quality engine. No matter how high-end the picture quality engine, it is still a software, and it has to play its functions through the hardware platform of the chip. And this chip because the program that needs to run is not complicated (compared with mobile phone computer chips), so it does not need to be very small, ordinary chip production process can be, no need for nanoscale. In other words, many Chinese chip manufacturers can do it.
Hisense H3 image quality chip
In this comparison, for TV picture quality, it is obvious that the important thing is whether the picture quality engine is high-end, not whether there is a separate picture quality chip. The picture quality engine is the soul, and the picture quality chip is only the hardware that carries this soul!
As long as the picture quality engine is high-end enough, whether it is mounted on a separate chip (and then we artificially call this chip a picture quality chip), or combined with other programs to carry it on the CPU chip or GPU chip, from the picture quality effect, it makes no difference.
This is like tonic soup, whether it is eaten alone or added to white rice and eaten with rice, from a nutritional point of view, it makes no difference.
When we want to express that we have taken a very nutritious soup (such as the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum boiled turtle), what we should promote is how nutritious the thousand-year-old turtle soup itself is, rather than declaring that I ate a soup alone (not mixed with rice).
The same is true for TV picture tuning, we should advertise how high-end its picture quality engine is, not whether it is mounted on a separate chip.
Sony's high-end TV used to be for a long time only one main chip equipped with all the software used by the TV, what CPU, GPU, picture quality chip, all are this chip.
It's good to do good and save costs, so why not? Since it is so good, why did Sony's new TV later have a separate chip to carry the picture quality engine?
To put it bluntly, the purpose of the new chip is not to enhance the picture quality of the TV, but to wipe the ass for MediaTek's main chip, in order to reduce the burden of MediaTek chips, part of the picture quality calculation and function to XR chips to solve.
In layman's terms, this so-called independent XR image quality chip is actually mainly used to patch the main chip, and not all the software of the image quality engine is carried by it. And in the future, if the main chip of MediaTek can solve the existing bugs, Sony can use a chip solution, which saves costs!
Dafa is still like this, and other so-called independent picture quality chips, it is estimated that this chip is more of a function as the main chip patch.
But then again, patches, independent equipped with all picture quality engine software, doubts about whether there is no independent picture quality chip; It is not the focus of picture quality improvement, the focus is whether the technology of the image quality engine is high-end enough.
Friends, so the next time you choose a TV, you don't have to look at whether there is an independent picture quality chip, you should look at whether the picture quality engine is high-end.
I won't look at whether the image quality engine is high-end, what should I do?
Without a quality engine, can you play this quality effect?
Hehe, simple, directly watch the playback effect of the TV picture quality! If the quality of the picture played looks very good, gorgeous, bright, clear, rich, natural... Then there must be a high-end quality engine working in the background!