Smart TV box millet small box how good or bad overall analysis

Millet box latest products Xiaomi small box listed, the face of the majority of user groups, this small box of millet is not easy to use it, what are the advantages and disadvantages? Below, the author will elaborate on how Xiaomi Xiaohe will go from multiple angles.


1, appearance

The small box size of the millet is only 46.8×46.8×38mm. The mainboard is only one-third of the credit card. The body only has one HDMI port. The built-in power plug can connect the TV. There is no similar product on the market. The world's smallest quad-core network set-top box.

Comments: From the above description point of view, millet small box body is small, easy to carry, and use is also very simple, only one HDMI interface, plug in can be used, but on the other hand millet small box is not USB Interface, SD card slot, AV audio and video interface, network interface, etc., greatly limit the user's use of conditions, only on high-definition televisions, and home wireless network can be used in the case, other users can not experience the small box of millet Bring fun.

2, hardware specifications

Xiaomi's small box uses a quad-core 1.3GHz CPU and a 4+2 core Mali-450 graphics processor, which uses a 28nm process. With mainstream hardware standards, the graphics performance is twice the performance of the Mali-400.

Comments: Looks millet small box configuration is really good, but in fact it is a non-mainstream configuration, which quad-core CPU processor is based on the A7 architecture, performance is weaker than the A9 CPU, running speed may be less As for the GPU, the Xiaomi box uses the Mali-450, which is better for image quality, but it is not a common eight-core configuration, but 4+2 cores.

3, video and game content

Xiaomi’s small box accesses the central Galaxy Internet TV integrated broadcast control platform, covering the most super video resources of the millet box so far, and more than 140,000 hours of high-definition genuine video resources, including 90% of the film content in the “Baidu Search Billboard”. . According to Lei Jun, the Xiaomi Box is a box created specifically for watching videos.

Comments: In the video “Category” section, Xiaomi Xiaojian has reduced one documentary section, and there are only two classification areas in the “Special Area” of the film and television, namely “3D Area” and “Children's Area” (testing). In the process, a new Blu-ray zone was added, and the user's selectability of the film fell. At the press conference, Lei Jun said that Xiaomi’s small box has 140,000 hours of content, but he hasn’t found a content advantage from the column’s classification.
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In terms of games, there are altogether seven category sections for the Xiaomi box, including leisure, parkour, handles, action adventure, flight, chess, children's puzzles, etc. It seems that when you are bored, you are not afraid to have nothing to play.
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4, online video playback

Xiaomi's small box also supports dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz, with higher speed and more stable WiFi wireless signals. At the same time using the most advanced H.265 hard decoding encoding technology. The author of this type of slogan has seen too much, not much to do.

Comments: In the wireless environment, watching ultra-clear video, 3D video smooth, picture quality is unexpectedly good, or the author's Internet speed is too good (joking).

Through the description of the above points, the author gave a few conclusions about the advantages and disadvantages of the Xiaomi box.

Millet box advantages

1, Xiaomi small box body compact and exquisite, stylish and easy to carry.
2. The interface is simple and it is more convenient to connect the TV.
3, equipped with Bluetooth 4.0 remote control, control more convenient.
4, built-in GITV genuine video on demand platform, content updates faster.
5, a variety of games, how to play on how to play.
6, support for dual-band WIFI signal reception, compatible with H.265 video encoding, watching video online can not be open.

Millet small box disadvantage

1, the number of interfaces is not suitable for old-fashioned TV users, can not expand other functions through the USB interface.
2. The hardware configuration is relatively weak and relatively difficult to run large files.
3, the highest resolution only supports 1080P, can not play 4K ultra high definition video.
4. Self-upgrade is difficult, and the idea of ​​autonomous upgrade via the USB interface is difficult to achieve.
5. The newly released Xiaomi box has not yet been fully formed. Users can watch videos that are still increasing.