Review of Android TV Boxes

At the request of regular readers of our website we take a brief review of the console in the software Android to turn on your TV in the SMART. We'll tell you how to connect your android-top box to the TV, how to set up your favorite services and service torrent playlists and how to find and install your favorite digital channels.

We choose the prefix of the most common and cheapest currently on sale - this model consoles M8S Plus and COOLEME TV Box. I want to immediately warn that the system android is very voracious in terms of memory consumption, so we should start to make a choice with a minimum of 1GB.

So how to talk on Skype, social networks, I was not in the plans, and listen to good sound you want, when watching programs and movies, the choice fell on the modelS805. Approximate cost from China at a cost of 25 USD (8 GB - internal memory, 1 GB - RAM), with the firmware out of the box, so they call the start. I think enough to experiment parameters.

With the system android today few people are surprised in the modern world. Settings cannot be distinguished from the phone on this system, only a small add-ons that are built for viewing on your TV and connect different devices. Here for example, it looks like a fitting image for the TV size. Changing the value of this green horseshoe, you change the geometry of the display image on your screen.

I will say at last, all the same system All Android, easy to set up, but loves to eat. With all my settings, in the course of the experiment, I have in store for RAM 200 MB left, so that some actions were carried out on the console with a sling. So if you plan to play games or many applications open at the same time, watch serious movies in high quality - do not be greedy grab by 2GB, good internet connection and happy faces.

The Media Player for Your TV

In recent years, television has evolved from a simple "box" for viewing analog TV programs in high-tech device, which by its functionality can be compared to a computer. Current models can be incorporated into a home network. Some use them to surf the net, communicating with friends on Skype, as well as for games. Of course, the "iron" the TV will not pull powerful of 3D-shooter, but "evil birds" you leave for sure.

But here's the catch: all of the above functionality have only TV Boxes (e.g. M8S Plus ), the price of which often exceeds the cost of a conventional TV set and a powerful computer together. Of course, many consumers need such a purchase is very big doubts. And it is correct, as a media player for your TV to turn an old LCD model is a good analogue of "Smart", and for all the fun you are unlikely to pay more than five or six thousand.

It would be foolish to continue to talk about this kind of devices, without making a retreat and not describing this concept in more detail. So, what is a media player for your TV? If you are a user gadget in the mobile OS Android, you can imagine a kind of a mini-computer that it is running. Have you heard about the Raspberry Pi? So, the media player - the same "Blackberries" on ARM-based processor. Unlike these mini-computers, it already has a proprietary shell from the manufacturer, usually based on "Android" with the addition of some specific services and programs. Roughly speaking, this is a miniature system unit, for which your TV acts as a monitor.

In principle, the positive aspects of this type of equipment you may well guess yourself. By purchasing the media player to your TV in just four or five thousand, you will make even from a modern entertainment center of old equipment. Considering the speed of development of the "Android", you cannot worry about missing any application: the players for video and audio files, browser programs. In conjunction with the ability to run a torrent client, it does any media player for your TV a real treasure for fans of watching movies. BTW, you can buy the Media Player at Banggood. Besides, you can easily get other electronic accessories (e.g. Torx T8-T40) there with high quality and reasonable prices.