NTV8 was sent to me courtesy of the kind people at Nagrace, so thank you all, and especially Candy, for the help and support! Nagrace is a Chinese manufacturer for over 15 years which specializes in TV Boxes – both own branded, and OEM/ODM (manufactured for other companies). They are a big Solution partner for Rockchip, and as such, produce …
The new Neo U1 from Minix is the latest and greatest from the leading TV Box manufacturer in the market. It is based on the successor of the S805, but is pitted against S812 and RK3368 devices – mostly for one reason: as the new generation of SOCs, it supports 10 Bit video decoding. Meaning, it …
Introduction Inphic SPOT i5 is one of the newest models from the Chinese manufacturer Inphic. My thanks goes to the Inphic team and especially Javier, for providing this review sample! It uses the cheaper and less powerful little brother of the AMLogic chipset family – the S805. That means that if you’re looking for 4K …
Introduction Quite a mouthful, isn’t it? Well, the reason is that this is a multi-branded product. What that means is that several different companies use an OEM version of the same product and give it a different name. If you search Aliexpress, for instance, you will find many results for this RK3368 based box. Some …
Introduction The third review, after Open Hour Gecko, and Probox2’s EX+ TV Box, is about the new Mini-PC/TV Box from one of the leading TV Boxes manufacturers: Tronsmart Ara X5 This is a brand new, Windows 10, Intel Atom (14nm Cherry Trail chipset) based TV Box and Mini-PC from Tronsmart. The “Mini-PC” description means it’s an actual windows running …
