[PConline evaluation] To a certain extent, the network TV box inherits and develops the previous TV set-top box, and the function is to provide more abundant content for the TV. I don’t know if you still have the impression that about 8 years ago, during the transition from cable TV to digital TV, there was a product called interactive TV. The interactive television receives content through a set-top box. In addition to viewing live broadcasts of each of David's videos, it also supports watching TV programs within two days and can broadcast some video resources on demand. Is it a bit familiar? Yes, to some extent, the interactive TV set-top box at that time was the predecessor of the current TV box.
The main brand of interactive TV set-top boxes at that time was UTStarcom. Recently, with the rapid popularity of smart TVs, boxes have begun to find themselves in an embarrassing situation. Major manufacturers have begun to seek innovations on the boxes. These innovations are part of content, such as cooperation with content platforms that have a lot of copyright; The other part is based on the box product itself. The latter's representative is the protagonist of our evaluation today: UT watch eggs.
What is the ghost of "watching eggs"? In fact, the UT housekeeping egg is a TV box recently launched by UTStarcom, and its innovation lies in an extra real-time monitoring function than an ordinary box. What is the skill of this strange name box? What exactly is the realization of housekeeping? Don't worry, we look down.
Appearance and details
At first glance, the appearance of UT's housekeeping eggs is like a cute little robot, as if it were creatures that came out of the movie. It resembled the great white in the Super Marines. The upper part is an olive-shaped main body standing on a diamond-shaped base, with a simple black and white gray tricolor.
In addition to the front of the camera exposed in the middle, the power lights and other originals are hidden in the middle of the translucent black belt, may be borrowed from the mobile phone panel design in the aesthetics of the information it. The power indicator lights red when the power is turned on, and the box is blue when it is powered on. The microphone on the right ensures that sound can be heard when monitoring or video is turned on.
The back of the interface is also concentrated in the middle of the fuselage, from left to right in order for the power interface, AV output interface, HDMI output interface, MicroSD expansion slot, noise reduction microphone, 2 USB ports, and an RJ45 network cable interface, basically meet daily Expand demand.
When the box and the pedestal are put together, the size is equivalent to two small coffee cups.
The four corners of the base are equipped with non-slip rubber mats, so that even on a smooth surface, a firm heel can be achieved.
The main body and the base are connected by magnetic attraction. Apart from being freely disassembled, they can also be rotated 360 degrees flexibly. Rotary damping and elasticity are moderate. In the actual use process, there will not be a situation where people turn around and "fall off their heads".
The remote control of UT's house eggs adopts the mainstream design nowadays, with a total of 12 buttons. The surface is made of a matte material that is not easily contaminated with fingerprints. Whole body black and most white boxes form a strong contrast, giving people a strong sense of impact visually. The brand LOGO is printed under the remote control.
The remote control of UT's house eggs adopts the mainstream design nowadays, with a total of 12 buttons. The surface is made of a matte material that is not easily contaminated with fingerprints. Whole body black and most white boxes form a strong contrast, giving people a strong sense of impact visually. The brand LOGO is printed under the remote control.
The shape of the remote control is relatively sleek and moderate in size. One hand can control freely, and the keys feel comfortable and the sense of feedback is crisp and neat. After familiarity, all operations can be completed without eyes. Unfortunately, this remote controller is just an ordinary infrared remote controller and does not support Bluetooth.
Summary: The appearance of UT watch eggs is no longer the shape of the traditional TV box, I believe that when you first see him, it will be attracted by its appearance, then the actual use up in the end? Not much to say, it is the nephew is out of the horse, let's boot! (Talk about the machine, civilization, you and me)
System and UI
The remote controller pointed at the box and tapped it. In a dazzling light, the red UT SARACOM was presented in front of us in animated form. It was very cool.
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After the boot screen is over, directly into the system desktop, you can see from the LOGO in the upper left corner that UT watch eggs use GITV license. The first impression of the system desktop is: simple and concise, or concise! Without any cumbersome features or options, several options on the desktop basically go directly into the corresponding content. To tell you the truth, this is really more like a TV than a system with N-level menus.
Because it is concise, it is smooth, from left to right are application recommendations, video resources, game resources, application management, file management, settings, and egg-watching applications. Yes, you are not mistaken, really only this! While other people are desperately trying to pile things up, the UT housekeeping eggs choose to do the opposite, aiming at those who only want to watch TV on TV, and who are particularly afraid of trouble. It can be said that they have created a blue ocean for themselves.
Similar to the interaction on the 3D Touch, when the cursor hovering over a tab, the corresponding shortcut options will pop up below the tab. For example, when the cursor is parked on iqiyi, it will pop up recently seen and film and television. Search for two shortcuts. After selecting them with the arrow keys, you can directly enter the corresponding function instead of just opening the APP.
Since it is a network box, of course, can not do without the network, UT watch the egg support wireless network, when connected to the wireless network, we found that the system is equipped with a relatively easy to use Baidu input method on the TV, although the input with the remote control is still relatively bitter Forced, but relatively good.
Behind the cable interface, naturally supports wired networks. From the wired setup, we can see that the UT watchdog supports PPPOE dial-up, static IP, and LAN-based DHCP.
The next thing is the housekeeping skills of housekeeping eggs. Yes, the ability to keep a watchful eye is home-watching. From the desktop into the egg-watching application, after a brief initialization, enter the following interface (first time you need to bind the phone). The left side of the screen shows the screen captured by the UT housekeeping camera, and the right side is user management.
Scanning the QR code on the TV will automatically start downloading the mobile phone APP. The size is only 5M, and it will not occupy too much space in the mobile phone. After filling in simple registration information and verifying success, you can bind your home box.
After the binding is successful, the mobile phone can monitor the home situation in real time, and supports functions such as taking photos and videos. It can not only see the picture but also hear the sound. Of course, whether or not there is a delay depends on the speed at both ends of the box and the phone. Measured here when Xiaobian's mobile phone just did not have electricity, just like people borrowed a very domineering mobile phone.
Summary: That's right, it's simple. It's so easy to use for users of all ages. Easy to use is a must to cross the past. Actually, in addition to the housekeeping, this camera has many other uses, such as video chat with family members. And so on, I believe that manufacturers will also introduce more useful features in the later stages.
Content and Games
UT watched the home eggs to access the Galaxy Internet TV license, and integrated genuine high-definition content such as the Central People's Broadcasting Station, Jiangsu Radio and TV Station, iQiyi, and Movie Network. After entering the corresponding application from the desktop, the first thing that catches your eye is the recommended interface.
Press the left arrow key to enter the love interface. At this time, the left side will automatically play a hot message, and the right side will display the current hot content according to different categories.
The movie interface is rich in content, and some of the most popular movies recently debuted from the cinema can also be watched. Of course, there are some members who can only watch it.
The homepage of the TV drama interface has recommended some hit TV dramas for us, such as "Xing Xing" and his "Imperial Crimes". Nowadays, the resources that can be seen and updated are relatively rapid, basically after the second day of TV broadcast. You can see.
The default recommended content for the anime interface is mainly for children. For reasons you know, there is no such thing as A station B station above.
Variety shows are very comprehensive. Not only do most of the popular variety shows in China, such as “running menâ€, but also popular Japanese and Korean variety shows, as well as some self-produced programs.
The channel interface is a finer division of content. In addition to classification according to the nature of the content, it is classified according to age, content, etc. to facilitate our search.
Although the box is not specifically designed for playing games, it is inevitable that there will be a little game demand in boring times. The game market of UT watch eggs divides the game into several categories, among which there is a special category of remote control games. Xiao Bian downloaded the “landlords†and “fishing experts†casual games, download and install without any problems, the installation speed is also satisfactory.
Open "My Apps" to see the games we just installed.
Xiao Bian tried to play a fishing game, start the basic seconds, the game is running very smooth. For such a box is not the main game, we do not need to test too complicated games, as long as some casual games can run smoothly enough.
Summary: Playing local video in a box is also an accident. For most people, the box's own content has become an important reference standard of our choice. However, people have three urgency, when necessary (for example, off the net), the local resources play is an important function, then the UT watch the local play ability of eggs? We continue.
Local resource playback capability
Open the device information view interface in the settings, we can see, UT house eggs equipped with a custom system based on Android4.4.2, CPU for AllwinnerH3, from the SOC's official website query shows that the processor used by the 4 Cortex- A7 core structure, graphics processor for the Mali400MP2 600MHz, although the official website that supports 4K and H.265 video playback, but in this era of A72 mobile phones, see this CPU and GPU, Xiao Bian is still a little worried.
Measured results show that the local video playback capability of the UT's housekeeping eggs is relatively strong and supports many formats that are used every day. Although the official does not emphasize this, it is indeed a box that supports 4K high-definition video playback. Xiao Bian accidentally discovered during the test, when playing a local video actually can also switch to 3D mode, but to use with glasses and other equipment to use, the official there is no clear instructions for use, this will not be demonstrated for everyone.
Let's briefly test the playback of pictures and music. Since there is no relevant application on the box, we can only open pictures and music saved in the USB flash drive from the file manager.
Music supports m4a, mp3, aac, amr, wav, wma and other major formats, but does not support FLAC lossless music playback, of course, no one will use the box to play lossless music.
Common image formats such as JPG and GIF have not encountered any problems when they are opened, and the beauty in the picture looks beautiful.
Summary: UT watch eggs just launched not long, although conciseness is one of its important features, but some "hard power" is not necessary or somewhat pity, I believe that manufacturers will continue to enrich the application of the box in the later period, so as to better play The strength of hardware.
Summary: The UT housekeeping eggs were released on June 8th. At 10:10 on the same day, the sources of their respective channels were sold out, and they are still out of stock. In addition to the appearance and features of the housekeeping function, its rich content and good value for money are reasons why people have chosen it. Although the product has just been launched soon, many places are still exploring, but excellent market performance is enough to show that UT Starcom's product strategy of “leaving the Red Sea and heading for the Blue Ocean†is more successful. This also provides a lesson for the increasingly difficult TV box industry.
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