Millet box 3 in-depth evaluation: the same appearance, not the same core

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.

From the millet box officially launched in September 2013, the millet box was launched. The rice box was continuously added to the box of millet box standard version, enhanced version and millet box (now renamed millet box mini version) and other box products. The millet box 3 was Its a new box with a 64-bit crystal morning Amlogic S905 quad-core processor, compared with the previous product, he has those changes to break it? Or let us take a look:

Millet box 3 detailed parameters

The processor in the millet box 3 is the latest S905 64bit processor from Amlogic. The operating frequency is 2.0GHZ. The five-core ARM® MaliTM-450 is one of the industry's first multimedia processors to adopt a 64-bit architecture. Excellent audio and video processing capabilities give users an immersive cinematic home entertainment experience. The S905 supports carrier-class security mechanisms and is the perfect choice for applications such as OTT, IPTV and DVB intelligent set-top boxes, TV sticks and smart homes. It supports ultra-high definition 4K 60fps hardware decoding, supports H.265 10-bit, H.264 and AVS+ and many others Format, HDMI 2.0 and CVBS output, Android 5.0 system

The packaging box still adopts the traditional environment-friendly paper packaging style. The design is simple and the workmanship is fine. The front only has a millet logo printed in the upper right corner. There are no other icons and texts. The main features, function introduction and parameters of the product are printed on the packaging. The back of the box is clear at a glance.

The machine is packaged in a double-layered structure. Underneath the machine is an accessory compartment. The remote control, power supply, HDMI HD cable, wrist straps, battery manuals and other accessories are placed in their respective storage spaces, making them look neat.

Full set of configuration photo

The appearance of the millet box 3 still follows the style of the millet box, and the appearance style is basically unchanged. The overall black engineering plastics manufacturing, the top frosted technology processor, and the narrow-edge design make the box more slender and streamlined. Full, more stylish beauty.

Looking at the bottom of the machine, there are also models with a round rubber foot that stabilizes the machine.

The function port of the millet box 3 is quite simple, only one DC power interface, one USB 2.0 interface, one HDMI interface and one AV composite output interface, and no TF slot and wired network port are provided. The machine adopts Built-in WIFI connection network.

The configuration of the remote control is a highlight of this machine, although it is still a simple 11-key remote control design, appearance and millet ordinary remote control is not much difference, but somatosensory, Bluetooth, voice control, see this is a The real multi-function remote control still uses two No. 7 batteries to provide power. The wrist strap is configured to prevent the user from using the remote control as a somatosensory handle and does not specially throw out the remote control due to excessive force.

Power adapter, output DC power supply 5.2V/2.1A.

To be honest, the millet box 3 is well-crafted and well-studied, but it still can't resist my curiosity. After careful dismantling, it reveals the internal motherboard and shows the structure of the whole machine. The machine's main board is black, and the main control chip is Shields are installed on the memory/flash memory and WIFI chip. The entire circuit board has a compact structure, neatly arranged components, full solder joints, and excellent workmanship. The counterweight iron of the top cover not only plays a role in stabilizing the machine but also takes care of chip cooling.

The processor, memory and flash memory exposed after the shield was lifted, Amlogic's latest S905 64bit processor, operating frequency 2.0GHZ, two Nanaya South Asian single 512MB DDR3, 1GB memory and one Toshiba capacity 4GB of flash memory.

Japan Ricoh (RICOH) Power Management IC.

The audio processor and WIFI module were not removed because the shield was soldered directly to the circuit board.

Receiver head and power indicator

Functional port close-up

Millet Box 3 uses the Android 5.1.1 version system. The deeply customized MIUITV desktop subdivides the functional modules into online movies, game centers, application stores, smart homes, and applications.

The machine does not need to be overly set, only a few basic setting options are retained

Resolution up to 4K (38402160), suitable for the user's high-definition 4k TV.

The Bluetooth device supports Xiaomi Bluetooth remote control, millet Bluetooth handle and other Bluetooth devices.

Accounts and Security You can manage your own Miyoshi account and set up applications that allow/deny the installation of unknown third-party sources and enable/disable ADB debugging.

Online movie and TV columns users can directly select movies, TV shows, variety shows, children's entrance, video news and viewing history options on the desktop.

Click on the recommended icon can also enter the on-demand platform directly.

It's just a lot of movie theaters. Wonderful movies need to be settled with rice coins. No ricin can only watch trailers, but the clarity is quite good.

Dolby area, 3D area, Blu-ray area is also the detection of user equipment

The multi-screen interaction of the millet box 3 is realized by scanning and downloading the two-dimensional code to install the screen casting artifact, which can realize the pushing of photos and video applications, and can also transform the mobile phone into a remote control to realize the control box and perform screen HD screen capture. , easy to operate.

The unique voice remote controller also performs quite well. It can perform movie title search, starring search, movie category search, etc. In the video playback, the user can also control the movie's fast forward and rewind by voice.

Somatosensory games, this is a healthy exercise, millet box 3 of the gym with a somatosensory remote control, allowing you to experience a player's pleasure, the measured game process control easily smooth, no stalling phenomenon.

Although the app store of Xiaomi Box 3 is not very rich, some of the contents it contains are still worth trying.

The millet box 3 is equipped with Amlogic Crystal's latest S905 quad-core processor, 64-bit A53 architecture, support for H.265 decoding, support for 4K video playback, performance, with HDP evaluation room to prepare various formats of video, we To test the local playback capability of the millet box 3, the results obtained are in no way inferior to those of TV boxes equipped with eight-core 64-bit processors.

14 different formats of video samples, in addition to EVO format can not be played, the rest are smooth playback, test play smooth, no stammer phenomenon, fast forward and fast response quickly.

4K/H265 Video Playback Test: Only 9 of the selected 9-segment 4K video samples cannot be played, and 2 of the 3 H265 video samples cannot be played. The video is loaded quickly, and the playback is smooth and stable.

4K video test:

Unique 4K60fps 10bit format support, the image is very beautiful

H265 video, during playback, can adjust the specific parameters such as audio track, subtitles, and lists

3D format video sample test, in addition to its own machine does not support Blu-ray original format playback, the rest are successfully played, the output 3D signal is normal,

Installation process 1 Download the sofa butler installation file to U disk → 2 Allow "Install unknown source applications" → 3 Application store/user/U disk installation → 4 Complete the installation

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



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, open the "millet box settings" → "account security", the "install unknown applications" is set to allow. Note that "ADB debugging" should be kept closed. If it is already enabled, please close it and restart it. Otherwise, it cannot be installed correctly.


3, open the application under the "HD player."

4. Switch to the "Device" tab and select "Move storage device".



5, open the U disk, find the sofa butler package.


6, install the sofa butler and open.

The local audio decoding and playback test of the millet box 3, the selected 12 audio samples of different formats, except that the two samples of the Dts and vqf formats do not support playing, the rest of the format samples are played smoothly:

The local picture playback capability of the millet box 3 was tested using HDP evaluation room professional 56-format picture samples. The mainstream bmp/gif/jpe/jpeg/jpg/png format pictures can be perfectly played, and the user can also select the slideshow. Slice mode for playback.

The score of the security Bunny V5.7 evaluation scored 27068, a very good score, reflecting its excellent performance.

Overall power consumption: The Hankun smart metering socket was used to measure the following results:
Standby power consumption: 1.4W

Comprehensive power consumption: 2.0W

Very personalized millet box 3, the function port of the box is extremely streamlined, the test network connection is stable, the online network playback resources are stable and rich, the local play performance is good, the perfect decoding of various video samples, playing smoothly, plus Bluetooth somatosensory voice Reasonable use of the remote control, a lot of competition for this box, can not play ISO Blu-ray format video, but some regret.