Lynx Box 2 Upgrade Experience: It is no longer shell change or core change

Unconsciously, the Spring Festival of 2016 is approaching and 2015 will be successfully completed. At the turning point of this old and new arrival, the sofa network joint HDTV prepared a 2015 Hengping summary, and conducted an in-depth evaluation of the smart TV boxes that were launched in 2015 to help everyone understand these products more fully and to eliminate interference. This Hengping did not receive any sponsorship, and all purchase their own models at their own expense to ensure fairness, openness, and fairness.

The launch of Lynx Box has a unique advantage. The brand effect of Tmall makes the launch of this series of boxes gain the recognition of the majority of users. This is unmatched by other boxes. Usually on the forum, the activity is strong, free delivery, all kinds of buying, affordable see, coupled with adaptation of the TV box Ali cloud system optimization is also good, hot sale is indeed inevitable, market practice also confirm That's it! Following is a 2015 HD Fan box cross review of the days of cat box 2 single quantitative evaluation:



Lynx Box 2 Packing Box

Exquisite packaging, "My family needs a box of" propaganda language, through slogan instantly draw people's hearts, have a certain affinity.

Lynx Box 2 Open Appearance

Black and white, have to say, very classic.

Lynx Box 2 Storage Box

Cardboard also has a styling, design of everyone's demeanor.

Lynx Box 2 Accessories

Accessories packaging and layout.


Lynx Box 2 Remote Control

Finally is not a button-type remote control, and supports 360 no dead remote control, support for voice transmission, of course, not the infrared, and yes, 2.4G wireless remote control.

Lynx Box 2 battery compartment
Lynx Box 2 Power Adapter


A 5.2V 2.1A power adapter is used, which is somewhat different from other box power supplies.

Lynx Box 2 Host

Pebble shape, very sleek in his hand, the front of the cat's logo is very cute, workmanship is also very fine.

Lynx Box 2 Back

Silver is also just right.

Lynx Box 2 Bottom

Recovery hole at the bottom.

Lynx Box 2 Interface

After the list of interfaces, the main functions have been achieved and support AV output.

Lynx Box 2 Family Portrait

Summary: Tmall's Box 2 has been separated from the front box by its packaging and styling. There is a feeling of tallness, a strong apple wind, and the price of 399 is also very much matched. It is worth mentioning that the remote control is very powerful, no dead corner 360 degrees, support for voice transmission.


The relevant hardware system statistics are as follows:


Lynx Box 2 Hardware

The Lynx Box 2 uses the Crystal S802 quad-core CPU, which is accompanied by 2G memory and 8G flash memory. It is still very powerful.

Lynx Box 2 Run Points

Ann Bunny 5.7 run points performance, hardware performance in general. Again, running points is for reference only, meaning not too much.

Lynx Box 2 other configurations

The following is the teardown of Lynx Box 2, mainly to see the distribution of hardware within it:
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble
Lynx Box 2 Disassemble



Power consumption: The remote shutdown power consumption is 0.8W, the idle power consumption is 2.9W, and the power consumption when playing video is 3.54W. Overall, power consumption is still satisfactory.

Lynx Box 2 Power Consumption
Lynx Box 2 Additional Information




Lynx Box 2 Dynamic Boot Screen
Lynx Box 2 main interface

The UI of the YunOS system updated to 3.0.2 uses a new hovering UI: the navigation bar is lined with icons and text, and the bottom is a poster display of the new hot resources.

System settings interface
Some common settings

Like other machines, Tmall Box does not install any video-on-demand and live streaming applications other than the licensee. Users can install third-party applications according to their own needs.

Lynx Box 2 Movies
Lynx Box 2 Movies

Content is still very rich, but some sources are to pay. Tmall Box 2 Film and TV license party uses Wah Media, but in terms of content, the content of Youku Potato was added lately. Compared to the case where the previous Tmall Box video is slow, the content of the Tmall Box now has a relatively large size. Change and upgrade:

Lynx Box 2 Movie

When the movie is opened, it can be played in a small window, you can switch the full screen, and next to it is a video-like recommendation.

Lynx Box 2 Movie

The quality of the video is guaranteed. It supports breakpoint memory and drag and play.

Lynx Box 2 Online Playability

Summary: The quality of the online source of Hua Shu is still very good, but some movies need to pay, and some regrets, the program is still very rich.

Installation process 1 Download the sofa butler installation file to the U disk → 2U disk to insert the cat's magic box USB interface → 3 local play Open the installation file → 4 installation is successful

Steps

method one:

1. Baidu searches for "Sofa Manager" and clicks on the top ranked search results to enter the sofa ().

Click "Download now" at the most prominent place on the homepage to download the latest version of the sofa butler apk installation package (360 browser pop-up download box please select "download to computer only"). You can also check out other brand TV box tutorials at the Home Tutorials portal.


You can also directly download the sofa butler apk installation package by clicking on the right link: http://app.shafa.com/shafa.apk. Download a good apk installation package, please copy to U disk.

2. Plug the USB flash drive into the USB interface of the Lynx Box 2 Appearance Version. The system detects the connected mobile device and the corresponding menu will pop up. Select “Apply”.


3, enter the file list interface, you can see the sofa butler's installation package, move the remote control to the sofa butler icon, press OK to confirm the installation.



4, complete the installation, open the sofa butler, through the application of the sofa butler application market can be needed.


Method Two:

If your Tmall 2 box does not recognize the U disk, or if you do not open the U disk when it is detected, you need to use a third-party file manager. Lynx Box 2 Enjoy Version The file manager is hidden in the new version of YUN OS, so this process is relatively troublesome.

1. Select "Application" on the main screen.


2. After entering the menu, select "Apply" on the left.


3. Then select "Utilities" in the left menu.


4. In the Utilities list, select White File Manager.


5, install the white file manager.


6, open the white file manager, select "all files."


7. Select "mobile device."


8, find the sofa butler installation package, you can install.



9, open the sofa butler, exciting applications for you to download.



The sample library used this time is a dedicated sample library for Hengping.

Lynx Box 2 Local Browse
Lynx Box 2 Local Browse
Lynx Box 2 local screenshot
Lynx Box 2 local screenshot
Lynx Box 2 local screenshot

The parameter statistics are as follows.

Lynx Box 2 Local Test

Among the different formats, only the tp and evo formats cannot be recognized, others can play, and DTS and AC3 audio decoding are supported. After testing, the Tmall Box supports 4K hard solutions, but does not support H.265 decoding:

Lynx Box 2 Local Test

Through the video test function of security Bunny to verify again.

Lynx Box 2 Video Test
Lynx Box 2 Video Test
Lynx Box 2 Video Test

The test found that the video playback interface of Lynx Box 2 is very simple. Although it supports external subtitles, there is no subtitle-related adjustment option. It is a pity. After testing, Lynx Box 2 actually does not support 3D signal output. Playing out left and right, up and down format video only depends on your TV to synthesize 3D images. Blu-ray iso images do not support. From these perspectives, Lynx does. It is not suitable for a local HD player.

Lynx Box 2 native playback capability

Summary: Local playback capability, Box 2 seems to be a short board.



Special feature:
1. The Tmall (Tmall Box Office) Tmall Cinema is an online video service launched by Alibaba in June of this year and is officially launched in September. Its contents are all charge items.

Lynx Box Theatre

2. A special “M” button on the remote control. Press this button to exhale the notification bar and the quick application dock bar with one click. This quickly manages Lynx Box 2 notification messages and quickly enters applications:

Lynx Box 2 Notification

3, video chat, have to say this feature is very practical and fun, but there are also prerequisites, that is, the other party is also using Alibaba Cloud's box:
Lynx Box 2 Video

4. In addition to the “M” key on the remote control, there is also a voice control button side by side with the Home button and the return button. Voice search is quick and easy:

Lynx Box 2 Voice

Summary advantages:
1, the machine workmanship is very fine, on the level
2. Aggregated China Video, high quality of resources, smooth performance when watching
3, Chen Chen's quad-core CPU, 2G memory, hardware configuration more mainstream
4, YunOS 3.0.2 version suspended desktop, reasonable layout, easy to use
5, remote control support voice transmission, support voice search, control

insufficient:
1, the local playback ability is not good, hot trend H.265 does not support
2, Alibaba Cloud system standard TV shopping experience needs to be improved
3, built-in TBO Tmall cinema latest hottest video collection speed is slow, many charging items

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