Slide 1 – First Look: Micromax 42-inch UHD TV priced at Rs. 39,999

Appears and construct: The Micromax 42C0050UHD seems modern and really fashionable. The base (stand) is an all metallic unit and has a minimalist but fashionable really feel to it. The metallic strip on the underside body although, may have been averted. An all-black piano end body together with the chrome metallic stand would seemed much more classsy. The piano end body is all plastic, similar to most 42-inch TVs out there. Additionally, the display screen has a matte end, a giant plus compared to among the overly reflective shiny screens provided by different distributors.

The again continues with the shiny end and the stand meeting is fairly straight ahead. You get the same old provision to connect a wall-mount. The wall-mount brackets are part of the package deal.

When it comes to thickness and profile, being an Edge-lit LED TV, the TV is pretty slim and it will get bulkier as you progress from the sides in the direction of the middle. Whereas not being the slimmest LED TV round, the Micromax 42C0050UHD is not cumbersome by any requirements. 

The bezels on this TV are fairly slim, as anticipated. Most new TVs out there sport slim bezels to make sure most screen-to-body ratio, additional accentuating the large display screen influence.

All ports are positioned on the left facet of the again panel. The LAN, digital out, part, PC (D-Sub), AV-in and Antenna ports are backside dealing with, whereas the opposite ports (proven in subsequent slide) might be accessed extra conveniently from the left facet.

Picture on the fitting: The TV supplies 3 HDMI ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB 3.0 port and a SD card reader as properly. Aside from the bodily connectivity, on the wi-fi entrance, being a Good TV you get in-built WiFi and Miracast help. 

The TV gives backside firing audio system rated at 8W x2. These are one-way (single driver), full vary audio system.  

The provided distant is pretty small and feels useful, a begin distinction compared to the button-laden remotes provided by huge display screen TVs offered couple of years in the past. Although, few buttons does have its draw back when it comes to few direct entry buttons for frequent instructions. The distant has a built-in gyro sensor for movement base gaming together with a microphone for voice management.

Image high quality: Out of the field, we had been pleasantly stunned by the picture high quality when it comes to colour depth, distinction and black ranges. After our latest evaluate of the Micromax Grande 50-inch Full HD Micromax TV, our expectations had been pretty modest and compared the, Micromax 42C0050UHD certainly raised the bar when it comes to picture high quality (extra on this over the following few slides)

4K content material on a 42-inch native 4K panel does look razor sharp. You will get actually near the display screen with out experiencing pixelation. Whereas the Micromax 42C0050UHD does provide punchy colours, the colours do seem fairly a bit over-saturated, hinting in the direction of an try and make every little thing look further brilliant and vibrant. Fortunately, you possibly can tweak the settings (proven in following slides) individually to attain a greater stability.

The TV boasts of 178 diploma vieweing angles and we are able to affirm that the viewing angles are fairly good when it comes to sustaining colour constancy at excessive angles. We didn’t discover any outstanding colour shift.

Whereas the core specs talked about on the web site in regards to the TV declare the panel to supply 60Hz true refresh fee (do not imagine the extremely readability 120Hz movement index, it’s only a advertising jargon). We had been disspointed to find that at 4K decision, the Micromax 42C0050UHD solely helps a measely refresh fee of 30Hz. So, neglect about utilizing the TV as a Gaming PC if you wish to run it at 4K decision. At 1080p, the panel natively gives 60Hz refresh fee, which is the naked minimal for any TV. So, this TV is not really helpful when you plan to observe quick motion primarily based sports activities, films or do gaming at 4K/UHD decision. For all of that, you’ll have to tone down the decision to 1080p. 

The ‘settings’ button on the distant evokes the above proven menu, the place you possibly can rapidly entry frequent settings. Additionally, we performed 4K content material by way of the USB 3.0 port and the content material performed high quality. So far as file format help is worried, we the TV helps mostly used codecs in 1080p. In case of 4K compressed content material, the TV had hassle enjoying one of many information (extra on this in our detailed evaluate)

You get a good quantity of management over image high quality, you possibly can (and can certainly must) tweak a number of points across the picture high quality to seek out the candy spot as per your style. 

The ‘Movement Optimization’ choice is the primary setting that you need to flip off, it’s enabled by default and finally ends up enjoying every little thing at an exagerrated tempo. The setting is definitely supposed that will help you take care of judder when enjoying fast-paced content material, however given the truth that it’s a software program managed gimmick, we propose you flip it off. 

Superior controls for image allow you to regulate backlight ranges together with few extra choices that we most well-liked to be turned off. Although, the ‘Dynamic Depth’ setting did permit for deeper colours and higher distinction. 

On the sound entrance, you get fundamental choices with some presets.

You’ll be able to additional tweak the sound output through the use of the 5-band equalizer.

The Community choice within the settings menu is the only and most easy place to be in.

You’ll be able to replace the firmware of the TV over WiFi, the TV ships with the most recent firmware.

The Micromax 42C0050UHD gives an app, permitting you to regulate the TV by way of your cellphone.

Simply scan the QR code to launch the app set up. And it really works!

The TV  comes with a ‘Good Browser’, with bookmarks to in style websites and companies.

As talked about earlier, the Micromax 42C0050UHD does provide voice management, by way of the distant. We tried some fundamental searches and located successful fee of 60%, 6 out of 10 instructions had been acknowledged precisely.

The ‘App administration’ menu retains a tab on App installs, sure the TV helps Android and comes with Jelly Bean model of Android backed by a dual-core SoC and 2GB RAM. Although we skilled some hassle attempting to determine a approach by which we are able to login utilizing our personal credentials (extra on this in our evaluate). 

The ‘App Retailer’ offers you entry to obtain Apps (we’ll replace this half with extra particulars, as soon as we remedy the log-in concern). This isn’t the Google App Retailer.

We tried downloading a sport to check movement gaming utilizing the gyroscope primarily based distant, didn’t work as anticipated within the first go. We’ll replace you guys as quickly as now we have our ultimate report on this a part of the TV. 

The ‘Historical past’ menu is a pleasant solution to observe again to the final used apps, media information and webpages loaded by way of the browser.

Total, on the idea of our expertise with the TV to date ( 2 hours), we like the truth that it’s an fairly good 1080p TV when it comes to picture high quality and Good TV options. It might deal with 4K content material, however the 30Hz hurdle does put us off. At, Rs. 39,990, the Micromax 42C0050UHD does appear to supply loads when it comes to worth and options. Keep-tuned for our detailed evaluate the place we’ll move our verdict on who can purchase it and who ought to skip shopping for the Micromax 42C0050UHD.