The TV box's minor issues that can't be ignored

The TV box continues to heat up. Even if it suffers from pressure, its prospects are still promising. As the direction of home entertainment development, various brands have also invested in it and launched many products that have been approved. However, the development of TV boxes is still a chaotic battle. From product design, quality, to brand influence, there is not a stable and stable pattern. From the TV box application, from the hardware configuration to the built-in services, there are always problems, although the fans have fun playing, but in the end is not mature, here to share some of the worthwhile points, in the final analysis The product is not perfect, hope TV box can do better.

Bad workmanship

The poor craftsmanship is that any product cannot be tolerated by consumers, and so is the TV box. Of course, we know that the TV box is nothing more than a beautiful shell plus a circuit board inside it. The structure is not complicated. Of course, the mobile phone and tablet are also in this structure. There is nothing more than a battery. May be limited by the cost, the box price is basically between 200 yuan -400 yuan, in the digital product this price is already very low, so it seems to indirectly affect the material used.


Mango å—¨ Q H7

The brand's flagship product will give users a sense of trust in quality. For example, the mango Q H7 is made of a metal shell. Although the shape is ordinary, at least it is practical. The Lynx Box and the Xiaomi Box, which are highly publicized, are great both in terms of style and feel. In addition, the most praiseworthy thing to bring in their hands is the Baidu video stick, which is of sufficient weight and material quality.


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However, there are many television boxes that can be called big brands. The design of the body shell is very rough, and the traces of cheap plastic are very obvious. After the finger tapping, various complicated sounds give people a very bad feeling. If we say that this is a certain brand of a cottage, then it is worth noting that for big brands that are committed to the television box market, product differentiation cannot sacrifice quality.

2. Incomplete interface configuration

The TV box interface is very important and is an essential configuration for input and output. General video output is HDMI interface and composite AV interface, HD smart TV is generally equipped with HDMI, the old TV can use AV cable access, the same can be used. The TV box is essentially an OTT product. It is based on web services, so local input is not important, but at present, users want to be able to demonstrate the local storage data through the box in addition to the network data, so we will see the USB interface, Mic USB, OTG, and so on, then the problem comes, because the box design is too delicate, will result in space savings, and give up some of the interface.


Millet Box Plus

The interface adjustment is most obvious in the millet box. Currently, the enhanced version of the millet box that is being sold is rich enough, but it lacks the cable interface. Although wireless routers are completely popular, because of the influence of environmental signals, the direct plug-in cable is more stable when necessary. We can only say that Xiaomi's box can work harder for smart homes, and wireless networks connect everything.


Millet Box 2

This is not a special part of the millet box. The previous generation of new millet box is indeed equipped with a network cable interface, but it saves the USB interface. Although there is a micro USB, but for the perennial U disk, mobile hard disk in hand we It is indeed not convenient enough.

3. Remote control function redundancy

Too much remote control is an annoyance of the living room, and the remote control function is also an annoyance. Box remote control is essential, although we look forward to direct control of the box after the phone, but for the elderly or children, you need to use the remote control to operate, the mouse connection box is not reliable.


Lynx Box Remote Control

TV box remote controllers tend to be simplified in structure and simple in function. For example, Apple TV3 as a representative, domestic millet box, Lynx box, GALAXY mango tower A01 is the case, the button yo, about 11-15 keys enough.


Mango Q remote control

But more products are still like TVs, a large remote control, densely packed with various buttons. From the number keys to the arrow keys, and finally the special function keys, it is indeed abundant, but it is also dazzling, in fact, not many really can be used. For example, the mango Q H7 remote control has 33 buttons.

The simplification of key functions is a future trend. Many options can be selected on the operation interface. However, for elderly people at home, the input of numbers is more reasonable on the remote control. This is a dilemma.

4. Performance false promotion

Now many low-end TV boxes are said to have four-core eight-display configuration, it seems very awesome. However, it is usually emphasized that the quad-core eight-display does not always mention how much memory is because it uses 512M of memory, while the mainstream model is 1G of memory, and the popular model is even 2G of memory. This is why the quad-core eight-card TV box is so cheap.



Consultation record


Consultation record


Consultation record

If you just evade the problem, it will be nothing. In July of this year, Xiao Bian purchased a certain brand of XX II. The publicity selling point is four quad-core eight display and support 4K, 3D video, but after the editor bought it, they found that they could not play 4K video. After consulting the official flagship store technical support, the answer given is “subsequent maintenance can support” and the specific time is uncertain. This naked false propaganda really played with consumers.

5. Read U disk file settings are not reasonable

The box can directly read the information in the U disk, including movies, music, pictures, and APK files. Of course, most other file formats are incompatible, but generally these are sufficient for demonstration and installation.


Read apk file

Not enough before we receive the box test product, there will be video files because the format does not support and can not read out, which will make users very depressed. We all know that the video format has a lot of avi, rmvb, rm, etc., plus the resolution format is also very much, if a box compatibility is not good enough, it will really make users feel depressed.


Also, we found that LeTV's box reads the installation file and treats the apk suffix as case-sensitive. Uppercase suffixes can be read, lowercase suffixes cannot be displayed, and only a single file is installed. Does the user need to do so?

6. TV broadcast cannot be watched

This question is what we put in the final introduction and is the most helpless. The big brand TV boxes are able to watch TV live broadcasts and on-demand broadcasts by working with Internet licensees. However, since the end of June, a number of policies have been adjusted by the SARFT, and the licensees have also been eliminated. The live TV broadcasting function has been suspended and has not been restored. The users who used the Internet to watch TV have suffered a stumbling block. Even the boxes seem to have become brick.


live TV broadcast

In the long run, resuming live television is necessary and a big trend. Otherwise, the function of the TV box will be greatly reduced, and there will be no live broadcast or on-demand broadcasting as a basis. Other derivative applications will not be able to pick up the backbone. Both the licensee and the box manufacturer are convinced of this, so they can still increase the investment in the box, leaving only the user waiting silently, there is no timetable for functional recovery, we can only wait patiently.

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