OnePlus entered the tv phase with the Q1 sequence of quantum-dot LED TVs in 2019, however has since turned its consideration in the direction of making TVs with diversified display screen sizes and budgets for a price-conscious India. This contains the Y1S Professional sequence of televisions, which supply larger Extremely-HD screens at affordable costs, acquainted software program experiences, and a few integrations and ecosystem advantages when you have different OnePlus {hardware}. Whereas the 43-inch and 50-inch variants within the Y1S Professional vary have been launched earlier in 2022, the corporate solely lately put the most important 55-inch variant on sale.
Priced at Rs. 39,999, the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional Extremely-HD LED TV has been developed with worth in thoughts, and goes up towards the competitors from manufacturers equivalent to Xiaomi and Redmi, TCL, and Hisense, amongst others within the deeply aggressive, reasonably priced big-screen TV phase. The OnePlus tv provides assist for HDR10+ excessive dynamic vary content material, and guarantees a software program expertise that works effectively together with your OnePlus smartphones and equipment. Is that this the perfect tv you should buy for beneath Rs. 40,000 proper now? Discover out on this evaluation.
The OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional is significantly completely different from the corporate’s costlier choices in the case of design
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OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional design and specs
OnePlus’ tv vary in India matches roughly into three classes, of which the Y-series vary is probably the most reasonably priced. That mentioned, the Y sequence in itself has customary and ‘Professional’ fashions. The Y1S Professional vary options three dimension choices — 43 inches, 50 inches, and 55 inches — with all that includes Extremely-HD (3840×2160-pixel) LED screens. The biggest of the three sizes, the one on evaluation right here, is priced at Rs. 39,999 in India.
This is not a very fancy tv in the case of design, but it surely does verify the bins for a competitively-priced tv of this dimension. The OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional is accessible in a single black color, and has slim borders surrounding the display screen on all sides and an excellent screen-to-body ratio. There’s a small OnePlus emblem on the underside strip and a reasonably conspicuous module, however the TV has a design that’s largely distraction-free and retains the concentrate on what’s on the display screen.
The OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional weighs round 10.9kg with out the included desk stands hooked up, and may be wall-mounted utilizing customary VESA-compatible wall mounts (not included within the field, however may be organized for on the time of set up). It is not significantly slim, and there’s a fairly large hole behind the TV even when wall-mounted, however the TV would not come throughout as too thick both. Nevertheless, the ports on the left aspect of the TV are far inwards from the periphery and generally is a bit troublesome to achieve when you have the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional on a regular low-profile wall mount.
Connectivity choices on the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional embody three HDMI 2.1 ports (one helps ARC/eARC), two USB ports, a digital Optical (Toslink) port, an Ethernet port, and a single socket for AV enter (for use with a 3-in-1 adapter). There may be additionally Bluetooth 5 and dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity on the tv.
As talked about, the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional has a 55-inch Extremely-HD (3840×2160-pixel) LED display screen, with assist for prime dynamic vary content material within the HDR10+, HDR10, and HLG codecs. The speaker system has two drivers, with a complete rated output of 24W and assist for Dolby Audio. There may be 2GB of RAM and 8GB of inside storage for apps and app knowledge on the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional.
OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional distant and options
Minimalist remotes at the moment are the norm, and the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional has a reasonably customary distant which retains the concentrate on the fundamentals of the sensible TV person expertise. Curiously, there is no such thing as a devoted energy button; the button with the OnePlus emblem controls the ability and standby modes, along with shortly switching to the Oxygen Play interface.
The OnePlus Join app helps you to use a smartphone as a distant for the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional
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Other than this, there’s a customary D-pad and choice button for navigation, residence and again buttons, quantity and Google Assistant controls, and hotkeys for Disney+ Hotstar, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video. The distant makes use of each IR and Bluetooth for connectivity, and is powered by two AAA batteries.
It is a good wanting and conveniently-shaped distant, and the educational curve (significantly associated to the ability controls) wasn’t an excessive amount of to deal with. I’d advocate retaining the TV on standby a lot of the time relatively than powering it down utterly, since this ensures a fast boot-up whenever you flip it on once more. Nevertheless, you would possibly must do a full shut-down each few days to maintain the system operating easily.
When it comes to options, the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional is like another price range Android TV machine, with Extremely-HD Chromecast built-in, and assist for Miracast and HDMI CEC. As talked about, there’s voice assistant assist by Google Assistant, with the invoking button and microphone on the distant.
OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional software program and interface
Much like Xiaomi’s dual-UI method, the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional runs on Android TV 10 with the refreshed inventory Android TV person interface as the first UI, however with the addition of the corporate’s Oxygen Play launcher. Oxygen Play has no content material of its personal, as a substitute specializing in curation of content material from varied OTT platforms and providers. This contains films, reveals, sports activities, children content material, and information telecasts, from providers equivalent to Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Zee5 and Sony Liv, amongst others.
As with different curation-focused launchers, you will want paid subscriptions for many of the providers, and you may additionally want to put in the apps if they don’t seem to be already put in. Apps equivalent to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Sony Liv, and Voot are preinstalled on the TV, however some may be uninstalled to make issues a bit lighter in case you desire. On the entire, Oxygen Play is nice for these searching for suggestions — significantly standard Indian content material, however there are additionally curated lists for globally related films and TV reveals.
If you recognize what you wish to watch, or desire looking by content material inside particular apps, the inventory Android TV launcher may be higher suited to you. I do, nonetheless, advocate lightening the set up load by eradicating any apps you do not intend to make use of and leaving solely those essential to you.
You may also set up the OnePlus Join app (accessible on Android and iOS), which helps you to use the smartphone or pill as a distant for the TV when related to the identical Wi-Fi community. The app additionally supplies entry to different interconnectivity options equivalent to display screen casting, native video casting, and file transfers to the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional. If in case you have different OnePlus units equivalent to earphones or smartwatches, these may be related to or used with the TV shortly and pretty seamlessly.
Oxygen Play supplies curation of content material, however you will nonetheless want the apps and subscriptions to have the ability to watch most of what is on supply
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The tv has solely 8GB of inside storage, and on one event I used to be requested to clear some house to have the ability to set up a 1.2GB firmware replace, contemplating the dimensions of present masses equivalent to Oxygen Play and apps equivalent to Netflix and YouTube which might’t be uninstalled. Though 8GB of storage is satisfactory on most Android TV units, OnePlus’ software program package deal makes it fall quick, and there ought to ideally have been 16GB of house on the Y1S Professional tv.
Efficiency and navigation on the person interface was a bit gradual at instances however content material, as soon as streaming, labored effectively with not a lot lag. I did obtain a firmware replace throughout my time with the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional, and hottest apps for Android TV are supported by the Google Play Retailer. Apps are inclined to show content material within the most doable decision (based mostly on availability and your personal subscription plan), with Extremely-HD HDR content material accessible on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ Hotstar.
OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional efficiency
The reasonably priced big-screen tv phase usually focuses on specs and format assist, however OnePlus’ method to the house is a bit completely different. That is an Extremely-HD TV with excessive dynamic vary assist, however OnePlus has skipped the costlier Dolby Imaginative and prescient format assist in favour of higher total efficiency with image high quality and sound high quality for the worth.
Whereas the corporate’s costlier Q1 Professional is best outfitted together with a front-firing soundbar speaker system and assist for Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Atmos, the Y1S Professional is expectedly easier given the worth distinction. On paper, it’d even appear a bit under-equipped as in comparison with competing choices from manufacturers equivalent to Xiaomi, Vu, Hisense, and TCL, however the total expertise was largely on par with what I’ve skilled with different 55-inch televisions priced at round Rs. 40,000.
Extremely-HD HDR10+ content material expectedly seemed greatest on the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional
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Whereas Dolby Imaginative and prescient assist might need been an excellent addition given the number of content material for the format accessible by platforms equivalent to Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, and Apple TV+, the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional manages to make do fairly effectively even with the step right down to HDR10. Some content material from providers equivalent to Amazon Prime Video is accessible in HDR10+, however the variations between the 2 codecs weren’t vital, and appeared extra to do with the standard of the content material itself.
I watched quite a lot of TV reveals and flicks throughout varied providers and codecs, together with the primary season of Andor and Rogue One on Disney+ Hotstar, season three of Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime Video, and Kaleidoscope on Netflix, to check efficiency with high-quality Extremely-HD HDR content material. I additionally watched varied different HD and full-HD reveals and content material together with the Soccer World Cup remaining, assorted episodes of Trendy Household, and movies on YouTube.
Among the many varied Extremely-HD HDR reveals I watched on the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional, image efficiency was greatest with Jack Ryan, significantly throughout well-lit, daytime scenes. Europe’s scenic cities, in addition to the Greek shoreline on show within the third season seemed nice, with first rate ranges of brightness, fairly correct colors, and loads of seen element.
Whereas the standard punch and vibrancy seen on costlier TVs with higher shows was expectedly lacking, it nonetheless made for an excellent viewing expertise — in case you can lower out sufficient ambient mild within the room. There was additionally a noticeable distinction in the way in which brilliant and darkish scenes have been dealt with by the TV, which additionally tended to have an effect on sure varieties of content material equivalent to motion reveals and thrillers, making for a much less constant viewing expertise.
The OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional is exclusive in that it provides LED backlight dimming. Nevertheless, it is what may be termed as ‘world’ dimming the place there’s a single backlight zone that routinely adjusts the complete backlight for the LED show in accordance with the scenes and detected color ranges. The settings menu permits for adjustment within the depth of this, and it did appear to make a little bit of distinction with darkish scenes, though not by a lot.
This being an reasonably priced LED TV, the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional would not profit an excessive amount of from this, and black ranges weren’t significantly good in darkish scenes throughout the reveals that I watched. Among the darker scenes in Kaleidoscope and Rogue One gave the impression to be ‘gray washed’, with vital noise seen even with probably the most mild of actions. Content material remained watchable, however I did must darken the room as a lot as doable, and tended to look at principally at night time as a way to cowl for the TV’s shortcomings on this regard.
Decrease decision content material carried out equally to Extremely-HD content material by way of brightness, black ranges, and the overall adaptability of the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional to altering scenes and ranging image circumstances. There was, in fact, a visual distinction within the sharpness that was made extra apparent by the 55-inch display screen dimension, however that is to be anticipated from any tv of this dimension and did not closely impression the viewing expertise.
Sound high quality on the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional is superb for a tv on this worth phase
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The Soccer World Cup remaining with its brilliant lights and hues seemed superb, as did episodes of sitcoms equivalent to Trendy Household and The Massive Bang Principle. Conversely, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 2 did not look pretty much as good due to its usually darkish tone and the TV’s weak spot with darkish scenes, which additionally tended to convey out the shortcomings within the upscaling.
Gaming on the OnePlus TV Y1S Professional with the Apple TV 4K (third Gen) was good too, with the TV usually performing effectively with the intense, sharp imagery of the video games I performed. The tv would not have any particular options for current-generation console gaming, however ought to carry out decently in such a use case for the fundamentals.
Sound on the OnePlus TV 55 Y1S Professional could appear unexciting in case you solely go by the specs, however I used to be pretty impressed by the precise audio efficiency of the TV. Other than having the ability to get fairly loud, the Y1S Professional TV was additionally effectively tuned and made probably the most of its easy two-channel speaker system. Dialogue was clear and sharp, the low-end had an inexpensive quantity of drive and assault to it, and audio ranges have been usually constant throughout quantity factors.
Even with the amount turned down at night time, dialogue and sound results have been clear and audible. Though the dearth of Dolby Atmos assist would possibly look like a disadvantage, OnePlus’ method to delivering easy, well-tuned sound with its primary speaker setup is arguably a greater method on this worth phase.
Verdict
The Y1S Professional sequence from OnePlus has put the model in an essential worth phase, and the newest 55-inch dimension possibility lastly offers the corporate a big-screen Extremely-HD possibility at a aggressive worth to match choices from manufacturers equivalent to Xiaomi and Vu. Whereas the spec sheet and the dearth of assist for Dolby Imaginative and prescient might look like drawbacks, the fact is kind of completely different, and the 55 Y1S Professional is a fairly succesful tv that matches as much as the competitors in most methods.
I did expertise some drawbacks within the person expertise, and movie high quality in darkish scenes was solely actually watchable in a darkened room, however the TV largely delivered a worthwhile efficiency when it got here to high-quality content material and sound high quality. The OnePlus ecosystem advantages may be value contemplating if you have already got a OnePlus smartphone or earphones, however the 55 Y1S Professional is an honest possibility to contemplate in order for you an enormous display screen on an inexpensive price range.
