The latest entrant in the TV segment is aggressively priced
4K ON A BUDGET
The affordable Smart TV market has grown tremendously in the last few years with so many brands vying for consumer attention. Now Acer (licensed by Indkal Technologies) has joined the fray to get a piece of the growing market with several television sets, including the 50-inch Boundless model, which we are taking a look at this month.
True to its name, the Acer Boundless TV has a clean, no-nonsense design on the front, thanks to the almost non-existent bezels around the display. The power and the myriad of connectivity ports ranging from three HDMIs, 3.5mm audio jack, two USB ports and an Ethernet port are placed at the back. The TV comes with the stands for the desk mounts (or can be wall-mounted), remote control and a 3.5mm RCA adapter, which is ironic because they are shipping it with a 4K TV.
Getting the TV up and running is a fairly simple process if you have used or set up a Google TV before. It is powered by Google’s TV OS running on Android 9 and features some useful pre-installed apps like Netflix and Prime Video and unneeded ones like theS-Channel that shows the icons of popular local apps. However, one does get access to the Google Play Store, which lets you install hundreds of supported apps and games. It also supports Google Assistant and Chromecast.
On the picture front, the TV supports up to 4K UHD resolution with a peak brightness support of 420 nits. It also supports a wide colour gamut, HDR10+ with HLG and micro-dimming. The TV produces punchy colours and good contrast and can be tweaked with the preset picture settings or granularly, in the advanced settings. We did experience some colour banding, but that was limited to some user interface menus and not while watching actual content. Audio is crisp on the 24W speakers and is loud enough for a medium-sized room. It supports Dolby Audio and preset audioptions that can be changed instantly, depending on the type of content you are watching.
However, the 50-inch Boundless TV is not perfect. It does not support the 5GHz Wi-Fi band, which means you have to rely on the slower 2.4GHz frequency band. There are inactive buttons on the remote, which apparently will work only after the TV gets the Android R update. The TV also features some bloatware, which could have been avoided and even has a parallel system update app that works (and updates) separately to the official system update option.
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