Intex 5001 FHD SMT Full HD Smart LED TV Review

Intex mission has been to bring a smart television experience to customers at affordable prices. The 49-inch Full HD LED TV bears a price tag of Rs 39,990 ( Online Price). The Intex is always known for its budget pricing products but with good quality. If you see the price of this FullHD Tv which is almost near to some good high-end smartphone, that means you are getting a Smart television at the price of a smartphone. This sleek television has thin bezels, Android Os, and budget price so that more customers can adorn a large Smart TV in their living room to enjoy with family and friends.

Design

Intex 5001 FHD LED TV is very plain looking with thin black bezels all around. The lower-left corner holds a remote sensor that allows controlling the TV using the remote.  The entire TV sits on a silver V-shape stand that holds it up securely but does not allow it to pivot. You can also mount the TV on the wall without the stand.

Two USB ports along with two HDMI ports (one with MHL support)  are housed on the left side of TV. Rest of the ports are at the lower left side. There are physical buttons for selecting a menu, volume, or switching channels at the right back side of the Tv.

All ports and connectivity options

• HDMI: 3 (Auto Switch enabled)
• Composite (AV) In
• USB 2.0: 2
• Headphone: 1
• RJ 45: 1
• RF In: 1
• SPDIF Out: 1
• Audio Out(L+R: 1)
• Wifi
• T-cast/Miracast
• N-Screen
• Total Memory: 4 GB
• WiFi Direct

It has about 200 apps in its inbuilt store and some of them are:

• Netflix
• Yupp TV
• Youtube
• Browser
• Media Center
• Clean Master
• Facebook
• TV Tweets

The Intex 5001 is equipped with Dual Core graphics engine coupled with Quad-Core A7, 1GHz CPU to deliver smooth motion. It runs on the Android operating system and has 4GB internal memory, out of which 2Gb is available to download & install apps from its App Store. Other smart features include Web Browser, Youtube, Facebook etc.  The remote of the Tv has plenty of option and to reduce the chance to hit the wrong key while using the remote there is enough space between the keys.

Good Picture Quality

To review the performance we tested the TV with various Full HD movies, sound tracks etc and Intex puts on a decent show for itself. It may not have been able to compete with the televisions offering true black levels but the TV conveyed good black levels in most scenes. When given a completely dark scene it did not impressed us and lacked depth.

However, when we fed the TV with FHD content, the picture quality increases and the TV pushed good black level and an appreciable amount of depth in far away scenes. The color reproduction was also good and it is capable of delivering natural skin tones. Color uniformity was also good and when viewed off-axis color did not looked faded.

Talking smart features, Youtube works totally fine without any glitches or buffering on the 1Mbps shared internet connection. We played a lot of video songs on the YouTube everything was good but we didn't find an option to up or down the video resolution. It plays videos resolution according to the internet speed. We have also tested the Miracast option which also worked fine but there was a lag between the video playing on the phone and Tv.

The sound produced by Intex 5001 was good and is best suited for dialogues, vocals, less complicated tracks and struggles with bass heavy music. When watching an action movie, there was good clarity in dialogues however the explosions and gun shots sounded thin and you may want to invest in some good speakers to live all the action. The TV has automatic volume leveler(AVL) feature that is used for Channel Sound Stabilization. Turning on the feature helps to avoid volume fluctuation when changing the channels. This prevents a dramatic increase or decrease of the decibel level of the audio from the TV speakers.