Going through the Milky Way and having fun in the clouds
——Meile Cloudbox detailed evaluation
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On the eve of the Spring Festival, Mele Technology, which has been on the domestic market for a long time, launched a new product called the Mele Cloud Box on the Galaxy Internet TV, a joint Internet TV licensee of China National Radio.
What's so special about Meile's newly launched Mele Cloud Box and listening to me carefully.
Unpacking
The outer packaging of the Mele Cloud Box is carton-packed, with a white background. The top center and bottom surface are the emerald green of the Galaxy Lovecraft. The style of packaging is elegant and generous. The side cloud box's slogan "Meile Yunhe, playing with the cable to preserve the taste", uttered the Song Dynasty Zhu Xi's "Answer Xu Zirong" No. 4: "It's easy to understand how to play with the ropes and to make the heart vacant." Yu Suya See the taste, seek peace in peace, and reveal the design concept of Mele Cloud Box. The bottom is marked with the detailed hardware configuration, technical parameters, appearance pictures, delivery information, electrical information and the brand LOGO of the partner Galaxy Internet TV.
The black compact host is embedded in the white sponge, the color contrast is strong, and the protection of the host is also in place. All accessories are neatly placed in a single small package, so that the entire packaging style is simple and elegant, neat and orderly.
Inside the accessory box are equipped with remote control and power adapter, and HDMI cable.
The host and all accessories at a glance.
The remote control is also made of black plastic material, matt frosted technology, thirteen key design, moderate elasticity of buttons, and CR2032 button battery power supply.
The power adapter adopts 5V, 1A specifications, and passes the national 3C certification.
The host uses black plastic material, matte process, full of metal texture, small size but full texture, heavy in his hands. Top full black design, without any words and patterns.
The green breathing light of the front panel center Mele LOGO pattern is the crowning touch of the cloud box. It lights up when the power is on, and responds brightly when the remote control is operated. When there is no operation, the brightness is automatically reduced to prevent visual pollution caused by the dark environment. .
The underside is a non-slip design of plastic silicone that blends with the iridescent green idiosyncratic, and contrasts with the solemn and solemn darkness of the black, with a graphic design like a tree, MELE logo and The logo of the cloud box is embedded in the cloud, which is full of people's imagination.
Side panel with Galaxy Internet TV LOGO and product authorization serial number.
The interfaces are all located on the rear panel, including AV interface, HDMI output interface, wired network interface, USB2.0 interface and power interface.
Summary Miley Cloud Box is a product of tripartite cooperation. From the packaging, appearance, and content, it combines the features of the three products. Cloud Box adhering to the constant exquisite workmanship of Meletech, the design is small and exquisite, the color is solemn and lively, the design of the intelligent breathing lamp and non-slip silicone bottom is a great innovation in the cloud box. Also because of the compactness of the cloud box, the interface configuration is not complete, but it can meet the needs of general users.
Evaluation environment
Camera: Kodak M580, 8x light change, 16MP
Mobile: Tianyu Hornet, Android 4.3 system, 1G running memory
Screenshot tool: AVerMedia Box ER130
Display terminal: Extreme Z3S Super Screenless TV
Scoring Software: An Bunny V5.6, CPU-Z 1.08
Wireless mouse and keyboard: Ferris hand 2.4G wireless mouse and keyboard set
Network: China Telecom 10M Fiber
Wireless Router: TP-LINK TL-WDR6300 300Mbps Dual Band Wireless Router
UI and basic function test
In addition to the well-known MELE LOGO, the step-by-step screen of Mele Cloud has added a Galaxy Internet TV LOGO, which reveals the content features of the cloud box. With the participation of genuine network video licensees, users can use it more confidently. .
When it is turned on for the first time, it automatically enters the basic setting interface. The first is the display setting, including the resolution and display ratio settings.
Then there is the network setup.
The UI UI of the cloud box has changed the classic Mele desktop of the past, and the win8 style interface with Galaxy TV as the main video content has been adopted, making the content of the interactive interface more abundant and the screen more vivid.
Galaxy loves to watch channels, music, playfulness, children's songs, health consultations, comic dialogues, movie trailers and other casual content.
The recommended section also covers video, news, and other recommended content.
Search includes both full keyboard and T9 keyboard input methods.
Daily news, all sorts of news and information are all gone.
In the process of film and television drama playing, press the menu key to call out the setting interface, according to the user's network bandwidth environment, choose the clarity, off-line cache and whether to skip the start and end of the film.
It must be said that the Galaxy Internet TV channel classification is quite detailed and dazzling.
There are many types of channels and they are not elaborated in detail. Only a few common sections are listed.
The 4K channel is quite distinctive. Local video 4K video resources are still quite scarce. At present, China's average bandwidth condition cannot meet the conditions for real 4K video transmission. However, under the condition of bandwidth conditions, these so-called 4K channels Still can provide users with a clearer video experience. The S805 chip does not support local 4K video hard solutions, but this online video can still see the difference in resolution.
The following is a partial 4K channel online video capture.
In addition to the video content of Galaxy Internet TV, cloud boxes are also pre-installed with a variety of applications, including everything from eating and drinking.
Tencent TV games are now gradually occupying a place in the box market.
Flushing stock trading software has also been ported to the big screen, projected onto the white wall, some really feel in the stock market.
XFN TV language software has always been a good partner for Meile's box. It can be ported to a mobile phone or equipped with Mele's voice control remote controller. The voice on demand function is quite awesome. It is recommended for small white users and the elderly use this function. .
In the "My" section, several practical tools are integrated, such as network speed measurement, mobile assistant, etc.
The settings section contains network settings, playback settings, display settings, common settings, system information, and system upgrades.
Mele Cloud Box inherits the consistent openness of Mele Products, users can install their own applications through external storage devices. It is recommended that you first install a marketing software, such as a sofa butler, and then you can get everything you need. All kinds of converged video software, game software, system tools, and application software are all available, allowing your home TV to become a living room computer.
Summary Mele Cloud Box integrates the genuine video content of Galaxy Network TV. It is categorized in detail and rich in content. The 3D and 4K contents are excellent. The cloud box comes preloaded with many different kinds of applications and is very practical. Meile Cloud Box continues the openness of previous products, users can install their own applications through external storage devices, so you can get more application software you need by installing market software.
Configuration and basic capability testing
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Summary cloud box uses the crystal morning quad-core S805 chip program, 1G storage, 8G flash memory, WIFI module performance is excellent, running points in general. Support 1080P video point-to-point output, support hard-coded H.265 encoding format video and 3D video, but does not support 4K video decoding. Audio supports audio decoding in most mainstream formats and supports DTS and Dolby audio decoding.
to sum up
Mele Cloud Box cooperated with Galaxy Network TV, an online video licensee, to bring users rich and varied video content. 3D and 4K video content was impressive. Various types of pre-installed applications are also complete, to meet the needs of general users. Mele cloud box exquisite workmanship, unique technology, unique silicone art anti-slip base is amazing.
Meile Cloudbox uses the CrystalCrystal S805 chip solution, so it does not support 4K video decoding. Due to its compact body, the interface is not rich enough.
Meile cloud box listed price is 299 yuan, excellent workmanship, high-quality content, is a cost-effective network set-top box products.
Ye Haifeng
2015/2/14