After a couple of days, I could control everything I needed to without relying on a backlight. The remote is minimalism done right, with an intuitive layout that nonetheless manages to find a logical spot for every function.
Michael CriderĮlsewhere in the box, you get some minimal documentation and an infrared remote, which has a simplified control setup that looks very similar to the mini remotes from Roku, Apple TV, et al. There’s a Bluetooth-powered app, but it doesn’t offer any more options than the remote. It’s a surprising whiff in terms of usability. But while the LEDs are pleasantly obscured when you’re watching from a chair or couch, that means you’ll need to stand up to see if the input you’ve modified has any effect. Keeping the user interface to a minimum is a good call for something that’s going to be sitting in front of your TV.
#INFINI D 4.5 PRO#
The Infini Pro is a little over three feet wide, with dedicated tweeters, woofers, and subwoofers. Instead, it uses a short row of LEDs, opposite the hardware buttons on the top of the central unit, to indicate connection and input status.
Even cheap soundbars often include a small LED for basic audio and source management, but the Infini Pro does without. There’s something notable in its absence, however: a screen.
#INFINI D 4.5 DRIVERS#
The upward-firing Atmos subwoofer drivers are hard to spot: notice the faint circles on either side of the control cluster. At a little over three feet wide and 4.5 inches deep, the bar is bigger than many in this price range but justifies the size with the integrated subwoofer and top-firing Atmos speakers hiding behind the fabric wrapping. Keep It Simple, Soundbarīuilding off the critical success of the Infini and Infini Mini, Anker keeps things simple with the Pro. This comes at the expense of flexibility and a higher cost-$250 might be more than some are willing to spend. The simple setup makes it easy to get good sound from more or less anything with barely any thought. Anker’s minimalist approach to design will undoubtedly be welcome by people who don’t know-or care-what ARC or optical audio cables are.
#INFINI D 4.5 BLUETOOTH#
It uses a 2.1 setup with an integrated subwoofer and very few frills in terms of connections or settings but adds in Dolby’s Atmos kinda-sorta-surround sound and Bluetooth to help justify the higher $250 price tag.Īnd for the most part, it succeeds. But the Infini Pro is an interesting proposal from Anker: premium, powerful sound, with a simple setup that appeals to non-audiophiles who want better audio from their TV.
#INFINI D 4.5 SERIES#
Infini-D was especially popular in the Macintosh market.The Infini series consists of two cheaper soundbars, the standard and “Mini,” both offering stereo sound at under a hundred bucks. Distributed Rendering was initially handled through a separate program, BackBurner, but it was incorporated into Infini-D with the release of version 4. Infini-D was a diverse package, useful for creating print images as well as web and video media (even spawning an Adobe Dimensions-like basic 3D program aimed at print and multimedia users called LogoMotion.) It was notable for its friendly interface, and ability to queue and distribute render jobs to a render farm, freeing the artist's computer for other tasks. Soon after, Metacreations divested itself of all products other than MetaStream, including Carrara, which was sold to Eovia, who then sold it to the current developer, DAZ, upon Eovia's breaking up. It was continued by MetaCreations when Specular merged with them, developing up to version 4.5, then combined with Ray Dream Studio to create Carrara. Infini-D was a 3D computer graphics program developed by Specular International.