More intelligent elements are integrated into traditional products and bring people a drastic experience. If a set-top box product is a milestone from a Linux system to an Android system that can be applied to expand, then the “voice control†function will be added again. Human-computer interaction in the box field. This sofa network appliance evaluation room ushered in the mainstream of the three commercial intelligent voice box, they are Mango Q H6, enhanced box millet 3, glory box voice, with voice control as the main selling point, plus the three major manufacturers Value-added services to the box bring more value to consumers.
3 box market comparison
Before the detailed evaluation, let's take a look at the basic market of the three voice boxes as a whole: the honor box voice was listed in December of the previous year, the enhanced version of the millet box 3 was listed in March of this year, and the mango Q H6 was in June. Just released, three set-top boxes are equipped with Hass quad-core, MediaTek MT8693 program and Rockchip RK3229, three boxes equipped with chip programs are different, thus bringing a differentiated experience; three boxes are positioned in the middle level, With voice control as the selling point, the price is 258 yuan, 405 yuan and 308 yuan, respectively, the mobile terminal can enjoy the purchase discount; three boxes are integrated with 4K decoding output, hard solution H.265, 3D decoding playback, genuine broadcast control Commercial authorizations and other popular selling points, as well as extensibility based on the Android system, detailed parameters as shown in the following table:
Can three voice boxes provide us with "intelligent" and "voice" experience? Please see the detailed comparative evaluation below.
Comparison of appearance
The three intelligent voice TV boxes that participated in the comparative evaluation, whether it is packaging design or product design, not only integrated the characteristics of the manufacturers, but also incorporated some trend elements into the ID design.
Package Design
In the carton design, the three intelligent voice boxes continued the standardized packaging of their product lines. The mango Q Q6 uses an extinction cover box, the millet box 3 enhanced version uses an environmentally friendly material yellow carton, and the glory box voice uses a blue extinction small box . The three internal hosts and accessories are placed separately, clean and simple, and can effectively prevent the collision between the accessories and the host. In terms of accessories, all three smart voice boxes are equipped with high-quality HDMI cables, eliminating the need for additional purchases by users. In addition, Mango Q H6 randomly presents the "My name is MT2" game card worth 128 yuan, for those who like the game. The player is a big surprise.
Design
The design of the three intelligent voice boxes are all very outstanding. They are designed with a slim and lightweight design element to integrate into simple style. The simple color combination adds clear lines and clear outlines. It can be used as a “hidden†effect in the living room.
The overall appearance of the mango å—¨ Q H6 is light and compact, with a square design, the appearance size is 10010025.5mm, and the weight is 0.7KG. The top cover of the box is made of silver aluminum alloy material. The CNC process is used to polish the sandblasted panel. Shine is even more high-end, high-gloss edges polish the metal's cold-eye color, blends with the white side, and the bottom is made of high-quality plastic material. The laminated design makes the compact H6 more three-dimensional. As the only one of the three models to use a large-area top metal panel, the metal lid has a higher cost and better quality, and can play a very good cooling effect, keeping the machine running smoothly and lastingly.
Millet box 3 enhanced version of the overall use of rounded square design, size 10010025mm, the line is simple, white top of the fuselage in relief display "mi" logo, using PC + ABS high-quality materials, from the official introduction to the information on the machine The built-in silent cooling fan cooperates with the left and right hollow heat-dissipating bars to remove the heat during operation.
As the first glory box voice using "socket" type design, the design not only reached the ultra-mini size of 545453mm, but also integrates the power supply and the main body of the box. It can be switched on by directly plugging in the socket. The box is made of high quality ABS. Material, no heat vent design is the only regret in the design of the box.
Interface design
The input and output interfaces are essential elements for flexible expansion of the box, but too many interface designs may appear bloated and unfavorable to the design. In terms of the interface and appearance of the box, it is necessary for manufacturers to consider the balance. I believe the following three interfaces are smart boxes. necessary:
HDMI output: High-definition digital model output interface, necessary for the output of 1080P and 4K resolution and high-definition audio signals (Dolby or DTS 7.1 audio track source code).
RJ45 network interface: wired network interface, although WiFi cabling is more convenient, and in recent years the rise of dual-band wifi, but the wifi signal is still subject to home environment obstacles and other wireless signal interference, easily lead to network instability.
USB interface: USB interface For the smart box, you can use USB to install Android applications, and USB decoding can be used for playback.
Among the three boxes, the Mango Q Q6 has the most complete interface. In addition to all the interfaces mentioned above, the Mango Q Q6 also has a composite audio and video output interface, in addition to compatible old TV (mainly CRT TV), AV output Another advantage is that the AV interface has a 50-millisecond delay for karaoke software, and 150-milliseconds for the HDMI interface. The difference between the two is 100 milliseconds. The response speed to the sound is faster. In addition, in the three boxes, the glory box voice lacks the use of Mini SD card slot to replace the USB interface, SD card slot to meet the APP installation expansion, for USB decoding you need to copy to the SD storage, less versatile, and then The expansion of USB smart devices (such as USB wireless mouse, USB wireless controller) is very inconvenient.
Comments: In the appearance of the contrast project, the three have their own characteristics, complete accessories, after the purchase immediately after the connection can be used immediately; three are using a compact and lightweight design, which glory box voice "socket" design makes people have a refreshing look The feeling that in the daily use, all three have obvious fever, so the heat problem is still more important, mango 嗨 Q H6 top surface of a large area of ​​the metal top, millet box 3 enhanced version of "quiet fan + lateral heat bar" It can play a good cooling effect; in addition, the mango Q Q6 has the most complete interface, enabling smart applications to be more easily deployed.
Remote control contrast
All three voice boxes are connected by Bluetooth and can achieve 360° no dead angle control. They are all white and match the same body. They are powered by two 7-cell batteries that are everywhere. Mango 嗨 Q H6 uses soft rubber. Button material feel better, millet box 3 enhanced version and honor box voice using plastic button material; button follow minimalist design, only retain function keys, including mango Q Q6 more red and blue features two buttons, can simulate subtitle switching, Mouse, output switching, track switching, mute, custom application shortcut six kinds of key functions, to achieve more control experience in a limited number of keys, and millet box 3 enhanced version of the remote control is integrated into the somatosensory function, playing similar A more sour and cool experience when playing sports big-screen TV games.
As a smart voice box, the remote controller is especially important for the optimization of the microphone in addition to the standard keyboard design. The three box remote controllers are equipped with one-button voice buttons (the millet box 3 enhanced version of the voice button is multiplexed with the home button), and the microphones are all designed. At the top of the remote control (below in the picture shows the microphone position), it conforms to the voice control habits. It is worth mentioning that the microphone of the Mango Q Q6 remote control device adopts a device similar to the increase of the anti-blast network to effectively prevent the sound from being sprayed. The remote controller performs highly accurate speech recognition at a response speed of approximately 200 milliseconds in the blink of an eye.
In addition, the first time you need to boot the Bluetooth remote control and the box to match, three boxes through boot graphics tips, can effectively guide the user to correctly match, from the actual experience can be seen that mango Q Q6, millet box 3 enhanced version The matching process is the simplest, followed by the glory box voice, but because it only needs the first boot match, it does not affect subsequent use.
Comments: The three remote controls all use Bluetooth remote control to achieve voice remote control, no dead angle control to bring more convenient experience, there are no lack of features in the three remote control - Mango Q Q6 remote control for microphone optimization, voice recognition More accurate and faster, and equipped with red and blue function custom buttons, better function experience; millet box 3 enhanced version of the remote control into the somatosensory function, video game more sour and cool.
Hardware comparison
Three intelligent voice boxes equipped with three-party manufacturers processors, to give users a completely different control experience, Mango Q Q6 equipped with the latest quad-core RK3229 chip, its biggest advantage combines HDMI 2.0 and 4K 10Bit HEVC two major advantages More amazing quality performance, and the use of nano-thermal technology, the small size of the box but the cooling effect is obvious; millet box 3 enhanced version equipped with six nuclear 64-bit MT8693 processor (2 Cortex-A72 2GHz and 4 1.6GHz Cortex -A53 processor), excellent performance; glory box voice equipped with Hass quad-core processor, whether it is system operation or decoding performance are superior, exclusive support hardware decoding Blu-ray features, and built-in ExpressX image back-end processing engine, the ultimate The ultra-high definition and exquisite quality of the picture instantly appear.
The RK 3229 processor is the first to be unveiled at this year's CES 2016. Ruixin Micro's latest quad-core solution brings comprehensive performance, features, and price advantages. The price/performance ratio is higher: Based on the Cortex A7 architecture, the operating peak is 1.5GHz, and the built-in Mali -400MP2 GPU unit, picture quality is more obvious - support HDMI 2.0, and 4K 10Bit HEVC advantages presented, and in the support of big stream to a higher level, the following parameters for RK 3229:
CPU- Quad Core ARM Cortex A7 @ 1.5 GHz
GPU C ARM Mali-400MP2
Memory I/FC DDR3-1866/LPDDR3-1333
Video Output C HDMI 2.0 with HDCP 1.4/2.2 + CVBS
Video Codec C 4K2K 10-bit H.265 @ 60 fps (Up to 200 Mbps), 4K 10-bit H.264 @ 30 fps (Up to 250 Mbps) and 4K 8-bit VP9 @ 30 fps (Up to 200 Mbps )
Video Encoder C 1080p H.264 and VP8
Ethernet C 100Mbps (PHY)
Audio Codec C Yes
DRM C Widewine Level 1, PlayReady, Verimatrix
MediaTek's six-core 64-bit MT8693 processor, equipped with two 2GHz Cortex-A72 and four 1.6GHz Cortex-A53 processors, built-in Power VR GX6250 GPU, compared to the standard version of millet box, CPU performance increased by 80%, The 3D performance of the GPU is increased by 240%.
Hass quad-core processor Hi3798 uses quad-core ARM Cortex A7 CPU, clocked up to 1.5GHz, hardware JAVA acceleration, built-in quad-core Mali450 3D GPU, the highest frequency up to 800MHz, support 4K2K, H.265 full HD, 3D Video (MVC format) and Blu-ray navigation can bring users stable and efficient processing performance.
Comments: The hardware solutions provided by the three boxes are capable of running the system, and can meet the requirements for general home use. Therefore, at the present stage of the development of the OTT box, the hardware is no longer the main factor to consider the purchase of the box. The device can perform the functions of the smart OTT box very well.
UI interface comparison
On the system side, all three boxes are equipped with a professional TV intelligent system based on Android 5.1 depth customization, adapting to the three major manufacturers' system UI, and humanizedly focusing on displaying movies, music, games and application resources.
Mango å—¨ Q H6: HiUI
HiUI is a system interface developed exclusively by Haimedi for intelligent network STBs. It is applied to the Haimeidi series of intelligent network STBs. It consists of four main parts, the top status bar (display time, weather information, U disk connection status. Etc.), top mango TV content poster display, middle application shortcut entrance, and the bottom five system options, presenting a wide range of content resources such as small y games, mango TV, QQ music in front of the user, with no more than two layers of clicks You can find the content you need, the logic design is clear, the interface is simple, the elderly and children can easily master.
In addition, HiUI has two highlights: First, it is linked with the red and blue two-color function keys of the remote controller to achieve a one-touch direct function (caption switching, mouse, output switching, track switching, mute, custom application can be defined) Shortcuts and other functions); Second, the home page application shortcuts to add and change the location of the custom, enter "Add" to customize the application shortcuts, press and hold the remote control menu key to replace the shortcut location.
Millet Box 3 Plus: MIUI
The millet box 3 enhanced edition adopts MIUI specially designed for TV, and focuses on the online movie, game center, and application store three parts through a tile similar to win8. On the right is system application and user-defined application. The arrow keys can be turned up to call up the status page for status management. MIUI's simple and modular management is equally easy to master and clear.
MIUI has a "Smart Home" section, which can be deeply connected with home smart devices, allowing you to view router video, control air purifiers, water purifiers and other smart devices, and build the enhanced version of Xiaomi Box 3 into a home smart center.
Glory box voice
The system interface of Glory Box voice is combined with the customization of the Yangguang Galaxy video platform. Users can browse the rich content provided by Galaxy Galaxy on the main interface of the Glory Box, recommend hot content in the form of large posters, and the interface is divided into movies, TV shows, and animations. , Variety, area, application, set eight windows, among them, movies, television drama, animation, arts and crafts also under the classification there are 5 related options. The interface design is simple and intuitive, with clear logic.
It is worth mentioning that there are parental controls in the 5 options under the animation channel. The system can automatically recommend suitable videos to children according to the date of the child's birth date. Parents can also set the viewing time, once the children see it. Anime programs will not continue to watch beyond this period of time.
Comments: The three major system UIs can perfectly present their respective movies, applications, music and other resources, and the logic design is clear and simple. Even the novice can easily master, and each UI has its own unique features in the UI. In terms of design, the three boxes divide the world equally.
Voice control comparison
The three smart voice boxes all have a built-in K-Fox voice point technology and voice control, but are the three smart voice box experiences really the same? Voice control is related to system optimization and hardware configuration, especially the former. The table below is a table of feedback statistics generated by the author by giving the same instructions to the three boxes. There is an intuitive reference for the voice recognition accuracy and voice intelligence of the three boxes:
As can be seen from the above table, the three boxes in the search can accurately find the video. After the HDP live streaming software is installed, the mango Q H6 and the glory box voice can be directly selected for channel exchange. Supports its own broadcast control platform (Mango Q H6 for Mango TV, Glory Box for GITV) and Tencent Cloud Audio and Video Search, Xiaomi Box 3 Plus has super video resources, voice search covers iQiyi, Mango TV, China TV resources (but some source resources library but voice search can not come out); broadcast control and system control mango Q H6 and glory box voice voice control is excellent, in the query, chat with the machine on the mango Q H6 wins. In summary, the three experience in voice control is:
Mango å—¨ Q H6: High recognition accuracy, fast recognition, accurate search, simple query and chat function, and direct HDP broadcast selection. According to Haimei Di official news, voice control function Will be able to control the application of television cats.
Millet Box 3 Enhanced: Mainly based on voice search. The contents of voice search include IQIYI, Mango TV, China TV, and other resources. It is very rich. It is also recognized as a search for other voice queries and chats.
Glory box voice: recognition is a bit slow, mainly search, for some chat can also be identified.
Comments: The voice control of intelligent voice box should include basic search function and voice interaction function. It can be completed well for voice search three boxes, and for some intelligent voice interactions, such as system control, query, chat, etc. The order of preference is as follows: Mango å—¨ Q H6 Glory Box voice Millet Box 3 Plus.
Content service
Today's box hardware can basically meet the user's needs, software optimization and content resources have become the "watershed" of the box. Let's take a look at the experience of the three boxes that will bring us experience from video, music, application and game resources.
Mango å—¨ Q H6
Mango å—¨ Q H6 has licensed Mango TV, and exclusively provides HDTV live streaming on demand for all sections of Hunan Satellite TV. It has the rights to play broadcasts by various David TV dramas, Korean TV dramas, American TV dramas, and Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas. It also provides users with various popular movies. , TV dramas, variety shows, anime, music, entertainment and other content of online viewing, also has a 4K, 3D, H.265 area, and has "Super Girl", "Happy Camp" and other trump card variety network exclusive. As one of the seven copyright holders, Mango TV Server is stable, with rich video content and smooth playback; built-in QQ music in music, including genuine high-quality music of 100000+, Chinese music, European and American pop music, children's songs and other music online can enjoy The music of various categories is complete, popular, rock, classical and blues options are available; the game platform is equipped with a small y game platform, and the built-in recently popular 3D video game "My name is MT2 TV" is built in, and is presented as a random 128 Yuan "My name is MT2 TV" game card.
Millet Box 3 Plus
The main broadcast control platform of the millet box 3 enhanced version is GITV. After entering the area, we can also see the China TV and Mango TV, so we can see that the enhanced version of the millet box 3 is a resource with three major broadcast control platforms. Independent fees, here we can understand this: Millet Box 3 enhanced version of the built-in resources are very rich, but to see all the content needs to be very "hey"; rich music resources, built-in millet Internet radio, lossless music, Mandarin, Hong Kong and Taiwan, There are a lot of trend songs in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea. There are various blues and jazz styles to choose from. The game has a built-in millet game mall. It has a complete range of categories. Like the millet application mall, there are not many built-in games and applications.
Glory box voice
Glory Box cooperates with one of the seven radio and television licensees, the Central Broad Galaxy, to provide rich and stable and reliable licensed content, including iQIYI, PPS, Jiangsu TV and other source libraries, totaling more than 2 million hours each day. With the new content update, the system interface of the Glory Box is customized with the Yangguang Galaxy video platform. Users can browse the rich content provided by the Central Broad Galaxy at the main interface of the Glory Box. Compared with the former two, the Glory Box voice does not have a built-in music platform. The game resources and application malls have built-in Huawei Game Center and Huawei App Store, respectively, with only 16 games and 25 life applications.
Comments: The three major intelligent voice boxes in the film, music, games and applications on the distribution of resources, the main event in the film and television content, millet box 3 enhanced version of the built-in multi-cast control platform resources, but each broadcast platform separately charged, this The benevolent sees the wise see the wisdom; the music mango Q Q6 and the millet box 3 enhanced have built-in platforms, but similar to the music, games and application mall we can install extensions or other platforms (such as sofa butlers) through the U disk (SD card) To expand, there is no need to "lack" the content of the built-in platform.
Online video resources big PK
Here we identify the richness of the contents of the three boxes through the statistics of film and television resources. The source of the film and television titles came from the top five Baidu Hot Searches this week:
From the above table, we can see that the three are quite rich in film and television resources, and some Hunan Satellite TV's single-player variety shows such as “Happy Camp†only have Mango Q H6. In addition, the following are three box online broadcast control options, for the screen ratio, clarity, skip the beginning and end of the film can choose:
Local decoding
In addition to online resources, local decoding is now a must-have place for network set-top boxes. At the same time, it also enriches the added value of the box. How about the performance of the three intelligent voice boxes in decoding? Here we look at the USB decoding and LAN playback.
USB Decoding: Three Boxes Mango Q H6 and Xiaomi Box 3 Plus are equipped with a USB 2.0 interface, which is generally suitable for general format video files, 4K video, and Blu-ray files, but for some large-stream 4K video and Blu-ray The file may need USB3.0 or SATA interface for better transmission, of course, this situation is less, for the average family USB2.0 can meet; for such competition, the only box of the mini SD card voice honor box. It is relatively weak.
LAN decoding and playback: With the popularity of smart gateways in the home, local area network broadcasting is becoming more and more popular. All three boxes support the Samber protocol (Network Neighborhood), and even better is the NFS function supported by Mango Q H6. The transmission efficiency is higher than that of Samber, and it can be easily connected with the NAS server, which brings more smooth LAN playback, and the LAN broadcasts the mango Q H6 victory.
Here we look at 20 video test samples to see how the native performance of the three boxes is decoded, as well as the support of some special video formats. The test results are shown in the following table:
From the above table, the three boxes are perfectly supported by 20 basic video formats. For some special video formats, the Mango Q H6 is also perfectly supported, and the Blu-ray original and Blu-ray ISO files can be easily implemented. Navigation; millet box 3 enhanced version is not recognized for Blu-ray ISO files, Blu-ray original files need to enter the folder to find the corresponding index file to play; glory box voice does not support 4K 10Bit HEVC video file decoding play.
Other comparison items
At the end of this comparative evaluation, the author compared the features of some of the three boxes and the environmental parameters (power consumption, switching speed) to give you a more detailed understanding of the “peripheries†of the three boxes. For details, please see The following table:
Comments: The development of the child lock function can limit children or monitor the viewing time of children; there is no doubt that multi-screen interaction is an essential function of all smart boxes. WeChat Q H6's WeChat enables text search and voice search. Push playback, and remote control TV box through WeChat, plus Shanghai enjoy to share multimedia as a complement to fully implement intelligent control, enhanced version of millet box 3 through WiDiMiracast wireless display and screen artifacts to achieve the same with the mango Q H6 The function, glory box voice is a little inferior to multi-screen interaction, but its powerful video enhancements add a lot of features to its features.
Comments: smart box switching time and power consumption relative to the above evaluation of the functional experience is not so important, only as a friend in need as a reference: three boxes for the first time boot time glory box voice longest, and second The second boot time is the longest time for the mango Q Q6. This is related to the power consumption of the plug-in power-off condition. From the results of the above table tests, the three boxes did not actually achieve power failure in the case of plug-in power-off. The lowest power consumption is 0.40w of Mango Q H6, so the second boot time will be slower than the other two. If you don't use the set-top box for a long time, you should still pull the power out. In other cases, the power consumption The three consumptions are similar.
General evaluation evaluation
The above author has compared and evaluated the appearance, remote control, hardware, UI, voice manipulation experience, built-in resources, local decoding, and characteristic function environment parameters. From the results of the test, we can see that each of the three boxes has its own characteristics. When you can according to their needs point to the targeted selection, the following is a summary of the author's comparison of this evaluation:
Appearance: Each feature, glory box voice "socket" shape to become the "most adorable" box, and heat dissipation has become an important watershed for this design, mango å—¨ Q H6 to the top of the metal and chip nano-thermal technology to make the box more stable Long-term operation, millet box 3 enhanced version built-in silent fan cooling and cooling stripes also achieved better cooling effect;
Remote control: The three remote controls adopt a simple design, all use Bluetooth protocol for voice control, microphone position design is reasonable, mango Q Q6 in the microphone optimization using blowout network device optimization design, accuracy and response speed is higher;
Hardware: Mango Q Q6 and Xiaomi Box 3 enhanced processor performance are in perfect harmony, Mango Q Q6 uses this year's CES at the first dew-chip micro-core quad-core RK 3229 processor, in one fell swoop break HDMI 2.0 and 4K 10Bit HEVC transmission Quality barriers;
UI interface: Each of the three UIs has its own characteristics, and its hierarchical design is clear and can be easily mastered. Among them, the mango Q H6 HiUI linkage remote control's two-color function custom key is more user-friendly to achieve one-touch direct access, and the design is more excellent;
Voice manipulation experience: The keywords are defined and ranked in the order of the mango Q H6 "exact search + smart voice" glory box voice "exact search + semi-intelligent voice" millet box 3 enhanced "mainly search based"
Built-in resources: Millet box 3 enhanced version built-in 3 broadcast control copyright dealer content resources, more abundant;
Local decoding: The three support LAN playback, and compatible with most common formats, for some special video formats, such as 4K 10Bit HEVC, Blu-ray original and Blu-ray ISO, Mango Q H6 win, in addition, Mango Q Q6 support higher Transmission efficiency NFS protocol;
Features of the functional environment parameters: Mango å—¨ Q H6 support 1080P @ 24Hz output, when playing the video can be original flavor to restore film and film sense, and can achieve the function of micro-sampling to pick pieces, millet box 3 enhanced version and glory box voice support children With the lock function, the viewing of children can be controlled and controlled, and the application can be installed to an external storage. The glory box voice supports video enhancement and brings more detailed image quality output.
Third-Party Application Development: Huawei Box Honor Voice Installation Method, Hoi Mei Di Box H6 Installation Method, Millet Box 3 Enhanced Edition Installation Method
Written at the end: If you want to buy a smart voice, strange appearance, excellent quality and other comprehensive performance of the box, you may wish to purchase glory box voice; if you want to buy a movie rich content, powerful performance, convenient control of the box can buy millet box 3 enhanced version; if you want to buy a smart voice, stable performance, convenient manipulation, local decoding powerful box, we can consider mango Q Q6.
3 box market comparison
Before the detailed evaluation, let's take a look at the basic market of the three voice boxes as a whole: the honor box voice was listed in December of the previous year, the enhanced version of the millet box 3 was listed in March of this year, and the mango Q H6 was in June. Just released, three set-top boxes are equipped with Hass quad-core, MediaTek MT8693 program and Rockchip RK3229, three boxes equipped with chip programs are different, thus bringing a differentiated experience; three boxes are positioned in the middle level, With voice control as the selling point, the price is 258 yuan, 405 yuan and 308 yuan, respectively, the mobile terminal can enjoy the purchase discount; three boxes are integrated with 4K decoding output, hard solution H.265, 3D decoding playback, genuine broadcast control Commercial authorizations and other popular selling points, as well as extensibility based on the Android system, detailed parameters as shown in the following table:
Three mainstream intelligent voice box market comparison
Can three voice boxes provide us with "intelligent" and "voice" experience? Please see the detailed comparative evaluation below.
Comparison of appearance
The three intelligent voice TV boxes that participated in the comparative evaluation, whether it is packaging design or product design, not only integrated the characteristics of the manufacturers, but also incorporated some trend elements into the ID design.
Package Design
In the carton design, the three intelligent voice boxes continued the standardized packaging of their product lines. The mango Q Q6 uses an extinction cover box, the millet box 3 enhanced version uses an environmentally friendly material yellow carton, and the glory box voice uses a blue extinction small box . The three internal hosts and accessories are placed separately, clean and simple, and can effectively prevent the collision between the accessories and the host. In terms of accessories, all three smart voice boxes are equipped with high-quality HDMI cables, eliminating the need for additional purchases by users. In addition, Mango Q H6 randomly presents the "My name is MT2" game card worth 128 yuan, for those who like the game. The player is a big surprise.
Mango å—¨ Q H6 open box
Millet box 3 enhanced version of the box map
Glory box voice open box illustration
Design
The design of the three intelligent voice boxes are all very outstanding. They are designed with a slim and lightweight design element to integrate into simple style. The simple color combination adds clear lines and clear outlines. It can be used as a “hidden†effect in the living room.
The overall appearance of the mango å—¨ Q H6 is light and compact, with a square design, the appearance size is 10010025.5mm, and the weight is 0.7KG. The top cover of the box is made of silver aluminum alloy material. The CNC process is used to polish the sandblasted panel. Shine is even more high-end, high-gloss edges polish the metal's cold-eye color, blends with the white side, and the bottom is made of high-quality plastic material. The laminated design makes the compact H6 more three-dimensional. As the only one of the three models to use a large-area top metal panel, the metal lid has a higher cost and better quality, and can play a very good cooling effect, keeping the machine running smoothly and lastingly.
Millet box 3 enhanced version of the overall use of rounded square design, size 10010025mm, the line is simple, white top of the fuselage in relief display "mi" logo, using PC + ABS high-quality materials, from the official introduction to the information on the machine The built-in silent cooling fan cooperates with the left and right hollow heat-dissipating bars to remove the heat during operation.
As the first glory box voice using "socket" type design, the design not only reached the ultra-mini size of 545453mm, but also integrates the power supply and the main body of the box. It can be switched on by directly plugging in the socket. The box is made of high quality ABS. Material, no heat vent design is the only regret in the design of the box.
Interface design
The input and output interfaces are essential elements for flexible expansion of the box, but too many interface designs may appear bloated and unfavorable to the design. In terms of the interface and appearance of the box, it is necessary for manufacturers to consider the balance. I believe the following three interfaces are smart boxes. necessary:
HDMI output: High-definition digital model output interface, necessary for the output of 1080P and 4K resolution and high-definition audio signals (Dolby or DTS 7.1 audio track source code).
RJ45 network interface: wired network interface, although WiFi cabling is more convenient, and in recent years the rise of dual-band wifi, but the wifi signal is still subject to home environment obstacles and other wireless signal interference, easily lead to network instability.
USB interface: USB interface For the smart box, you can use USB to install Android applications, and USB decoding can be used for playback.
Among the three boxes, the Mango Q Q6 has the most complete interface. In addition to all the interfaces mentioned above, the Mango Q Q6 also has a composite audio and video output interface, in addition to compatible old TV (mainly CRT TV), AV output Another advantage is that the AV interface has a 50-millisecond delay for karaoke software, and 150-milliseconds for the HDMI interface. The difference between the two is 100 milliseconds. The response speed to the sound is faster. In addition, in the three boxes, the glory box voice lacks the use of Mini SD card slot to replace the USB interface, SD card slot to meet the APP installation expansion, for USB decoding you need to copy to the SD storage, less versatile, and then The expansion of USB smart devices (such as USB wireless mouse, USB wireless controller) is very inconvenient.
Comments: In the appearance of the contrast project, the three have their own characteristics, complete accessories, after the purchase immediately after the connection can be used immediately; three are using a compact and lightweight design, which glory box voice "socket" design makes people have a refreshing look The feeling that in the daily use, all three have obvious fever, so the heat problem is still more important, mango 嗨 Q H6 top surface of a large area of ​​the metal top, millet box 3 enhanced version of "quiet fan + lateral heat bar" It can play a good cooling effect; in addition, the mango Q Q6 has the most complete interface, enabling smart applications to be more easily deployed.
Remote control contrast
All three voice boxes are connected by Bluetooth and can achieve 360° no dead angle control. They are all white and match the same body. They are powered by two 7-cell batteries that are everywhere. Mango 嗨 Q H6 uses soft rubber. Button material feel better, millet box 3 enhanced version and honor box voice using plastic button material; button follow minimalist design, only retain function keys, including mango Q Q6 more red and blue features two buttons, can simulate subtitle switching, Mouse, output switching, track switching, mute, custom application shortcut six kinds of key functions, to achieve more control experience in a limited number of keys, and millet box 3 enhanced version of the remote control is integrated into the somatosensory function, playing similar A more sour and cool experience when playing sports big-screen TV games.
As a smart voice box, the remote controller is especially important for the optimization of the microphone in addition to the standard keyboard design. The three box remote controllers are equipped with one-button voice buttons (the millet box 3 enhanced version of the voice button is multiplexed with the home button), and the microphones are all designed. At the top of the remote control (below in the picture shows the microphone position), it conforms to the voice control habits. It is worth mentioning that the microphone of the Mango Q Q6 remote control device adopts a device similar to the increase of the anti-blast network to effectively prevent the sound from being sprayed. The remote controller performs highly accurate speech recognition at a response speed of approximately 200 milliseconds in the blink of an eye.
In addition, the first time you need to boot the Bluetooth remote control and the box to match, three boxes through boot graphics tips, can effectively guide the user to correctly match, from the actual experience can be seen that mango Q Q6, millet box 3 enhanced version The matching process is the simplest, followed by the glory box voice, but because it only needs the first boot match, it does not affect subsequent use.
Mango Que Q H6 Bluetooth Remote Control Matching
Millet Box 3 Plus Bluetooth Remote Control Matching
Glory box voice Bluetooth remote control match
Comments: The three remote controls all use Bluetooth remote control to achieve voice remote control, no dead angle control to bring more convenient experience, there are no lack of features in the three remote control - Mango Q Q6 remote control for microphone optimization, voice recognition More accurate and faster, and equipped with red and blue function custom buttons, better function experience; millet box 3 enhanced version of the remote control into the somatosensory function, video game more sour and cool.
Hardware comparison
Three intelligent voice boxes equipped with three-party manufacturers processors, to give users a completely different control experience, Mango Q Q6 equipped with the latest quad-core RK3229 chip, its biggest advantage combines HDMI 2.0 and 4K 10Bit HEVC two major advantages More amazing quality performance, and the use of nano-thermal technology, the small size of the box but the cooling effect is obvious; millet box 3 enhanced version equipped with six nuclear 64-bit MT8693 processor (2 Cortex-A72 2GHz and 4 1.6GHz Cortex -A53 processor), excellent performance; glory box voice equipped with Hass quad-core processor, whether it is system operation or decoding performance are superior, exclusive support hardware decoding Blu-ray features, and built-in ExpressX image back-end processing engine, the ultimate The ultra-high definition and exquisite quality of the picture instantly appear.
The RK 3229 processor is the first to be unveiled at this year's CES 2016. Ruixin Micro's latest quad-core solution brings comprehensive performance, features, and price advantages. The price/performance ratio is higher: Based on the Cortex A7 architecture, the operating peak is 1.5GHz, and the built-in Mali -400MP2 GPU unit, picture quality is more obvious - support HDMI 2.0, and 4K 10Bit HEVC advantages presented, and in the support of big stream to a higher level, the following parameters for RK 3229:
CPU- Quad Core ARM Cortex A7 @ 1.5 GHz
GPU C ARM Mali-400MP2
Memory I/FC DDR3-1866/LPDDR3-1333
Video Output C HDMI 2.0 with HDCP 1.4/2.2 + CVBS
Video Codec C 4K2K 10-bit H.265 @ 60 fps (Up to 200 Mbps), 4K 10-bit H.264 @ 30 fps (Up to 250 Mbps) and 4K 8-bit VP9 @ 30 fps (Up to 200 Mbps )
Video Encoder C 1080p H.264 and VP8
Ethernet C 100Mbps (PHY)
Audio Codec C Yes
DRM C Widewine Level 1, PlayReady, Verimatrix
MediaTek's six-core 64-bit MT8693 processor, equipped with two 2GHz Cortex-A72 and four 1.6GHz Cortex-A53 processors, built-in Power VR GX6250 GPU, compared to the standard version of millet box, CPU performance increased by 80%, The 3D performance of the GPU is increased by 240%.
Hass quad-core processor Hi3798 uses quad-core ARM Cortex A7 CPU, clocked up to 1.5GHz, hardware JAVA acceleration, built-in quad-core Mali450 3D GPU, the highest frequency up to 800MHz, support 4K2K, H.265 full HD, 3D Video (MVC format) and Blu-ray navigation can bring users stable and efficient processing performance.
Hass Quad-Core Functional Framework
Comments: The hardware solutions provided by the three boxes are capable of running the system, and can meet the requirements for general home use. Therefore, at the present stage of the development of the OTT box, the hardware is no longer the main factor to consider the purchase of the box. The device can perform the functions of the smart OTT box very well.
UI interface comparison
On the system side, all three boxes are equipped with a professional TV intelligent system based on Android 5.1 depth customization, adapting to the three major manufacturers' system UI, and humanizedly focusing on displaying movies, music, games and application resources.
Mango å—¨ Q H6: HiUI
HiUI is a system interface developed exclusively by Haimedi for intelligent network STBs. It is applied to the Haimeidi series of intelligent network STBs. It consists of four main parts, the top status bar (display time, weather information, U disk connection status. Etc.), top mango TV content poster display, middle application shortcut entrance, and the bottom five system options, presenting a wide range of content resources such as small y games, mango TV, QQ music in front of the user, with no more than two layers of clicks You can find the content you need, the logic design is clear, the interface is simple, the elderly and children can easily master.
In addition, HiUI has two highlights: First, it is linked with the red and blue two-color function keys of the remote controller to achieve a one-touch direct function (caption switching, mouse, output switching, track switching, mute, custom application can be defined) Shortcuts and other functions); Second, the home page application shortcuts to add and change the location of the custom, enter "Add" to customize the application shortcuts, press and hold the remote control menu key to replace the shortcut location.
Mango Q Q6 System Search Interface
Millet Box 3 Plus: MIUI
The millet box 3 enhanced edition adopts MIUI specially designed for TV, and focuses on the online movie, game center, and application store three parts through a tile similar to win8. On the right is system application and user-defined application. The arrow keys can be turned up to call up the status page for status management. MIUI's simple and modular management is equally easy to master and clear.
MIUI has a "Smart Home" section, which can be deeply connected with home smart devices, allowing you to view router video, control air purifiers, water purifiers and other smart devices, and build the enhanced version of Xiaomi Box 3 into a home smart center.
Millet box 3 enhanced version system search interface
Glory box voice
The system interface of Glory Box voice is combined with the customization of the Yangguang Galaxy video platform. Users can browse the rich content provided by Galaxy Galaxy on the main interface of the Glory Box, recommend hot content in the form of large posters, and the interface is divided into movies, TV shows, and animations. , Variety, area, application, set eight windows, among them, movies, television drama, animation, arts and crafts also under the classification there are 5 related options. The interface design is simple and intuitive, with clear logic.
It is worth mentioning that there are parental controls in the 5 options under the animation channel. The system can automatically recommend suitable videos to children according to the date of the child's birth date. Parents can also set the viewing time, once the children see it. Anime programs will not continue to watch beyond this period of time.
Glory box voice system search interface
Comments: The three major system UIs can perfectly present their respective movies, applications, music and other resources, and the logic design is clear and simple. Even the novice can easily master, and each UI has its own unique features in the UI. In terms of design, the three boxes divide the world equally.
Voice control comparison
The three smart voice boxes all have a built-in K-Fox voice point technology and voice control, but are the three smart voice box experiences really the same? Voice control is related to system optimization and hardware configuration, especially the former. The table below is a table of feedback statistics generated by the author by giving the same instructions to the three boxes. There is an intuitive reference for the voice recognition accuracy and voice intelligence of the three boxes:
As can be seen from the above table, the three boxes in the search can accurately find the video. After the HDP live streaming software is installed, the mango Q H6 and the glory box voice can be directly selected for channel exchange. Supports its own broadcast control platform (Mango Q H6 for Mango TV, Glory Box for GITV) and Tencent Cloud Audio and Video Search, Xiaomi Box 3 Plus has super video resources, voice search covers iQiyi, Mango TV, China TV resources (but some source resources library but voice search can not come out); broadcast control and system control mango Q H6 and glory box voice voice control is excellent, in the query, chat with the machine on the mango Q H6 wins. In summary, the three experience in voice control is:
Mango å—¨ Q H6: High recognition accuracy, fast recognition, accurate search, simple query and chat function, and direct HDP broadcast selection. According to Haimei Di official news, voice control function Will be able to control the application of television cats.
Millet Box 3 Enhanced: Mainly based on voice search. The contents of voice search include IQIYI, Mango TV, China TV, and other resources. It is very rich. It is also recognized as a search for other voice queries and chats.
Glory box voice: recognition is a bit slow, mainly search, for some chat can also be identified.
Comments: The voice control of intelligent voice box should include basic search function and voice interaction function. It can be completed well for voice search three boxes, and for some intelligent voice interactions, such as system control, query, chat, etc. The order of preference is as follows: Mango å—¨ Q H6 Glory Box voice Millet Box 3 Plus.
Content service
Today's box hardware can basically meet the user's needs, software optimization and content resources have become the "watershed" of the box. Let's take a look at the experience of the three boxes that will bring us experience from video, music, application and game resources.
Mango å—¨ Q H6
Mango å—¨ Q H6 has licensed Mango TV, and exclusively provides HDTV live streaming on demand for all sections of Hunan Satellite TV. It has the rights to play broadcasts by various David TV dramas, Korean TV dramas, American TV dramas, and Hong Kong and Taiwan TV dramas. It also provides users with various popular movies. , TV dramas, variety shows, anime, music, entertainment and other content of online viewing, also has a 4K, 3D, H.265 area, and has "Super Girl", "Happy Camp" and other trump card variety network exclusive. As one of the seven copyright holders, Mango TV Server is stable, with rich video content and smooth playback; built-in QQ music in music, including genuine high-quality music of 100000+, Chinese music, European and American pop music, children's songs and other music online can enjoy The music of various categories is complete, popular, rock, classical and blues options are available; the game platform is equipped with a small y game platform, and the built-in recently popular 3D video game "My name is MT2 TV" is built in, and is presented as a random 128 Yuan "My name is MT2 TV" game card.
Millet Box 3 Plus
The main broadcast control platform of the millet box 3 enhanced version is GITV. After entering the area, we can also see the China TV and Mango TV, so we can see that the enhanced version of the millet box 3 is a resource with three major broadcast control platforms. Independent fees, here we can understand this: Millet Box 3 enhanced version of the built-in resources are very rich, but to see all the content needs to be very "hey"; rich music resources, built-in millet Internet radio, lossless music, Mandarin, Hong Kong and Taiwan, There are a lot of trend songs in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea. There are various blues and jazz styles to choose from. The game has a built-in millet game mall. It has a complete range of categories. Like the millet application mall, there are not many built-in games and applications.
Glory box voice
Glory Box cooperates with one of the seven radio and television licensees, the Central Broad Galaxy, to provide rich and stable and reliable licensed content, including iQIYI, PPS, Jiangsu TV and other source libraries, totaling more than 2 million hours each day. With the new content update, the system interface of the Glory Box is customized with the Yangguang Galaxy video platform. Users can browse the rich content provided by the Central Broad Galaxy at the main interface of the Glory Box. Compared with the former two, the Glory Box voice does not have a built-in music platform. The game resources and application malls have built-in Huawei Game Center and Huawei App Store, respectively, with only 16 games and 25 life applications.
Comments: The three major intelligent voice boxes in the film, music, games and applications on the distribution of resources, the main event in the film and television content, millet box 3 enhanced version of the built-in multi-cast control platform resources, but each broadcast platform separately charged, this The benevolent sees the wise see the wisdom; the music mango Q Q6 and the millet box 3 enhanced have built-in platforms, but similar to the music, games and application mall we can install extensions or other platforms (such as sofa butlers) through the U disk (SD card) To expand, there is no need to "lack" the content of the built-in platform.
Online video resources big PK
Here we identify the richness of the contents of the three boxes through the statistics of film and television resources. The source of the film and television titles came from the top five Baidu Hot Searches this week:
From the above table, we can see that the three are quite rich in film and television resources, and some Hunan Satellite TV's single-player variety shows such as “Happy Camp†only have Mango Q H6. In addition, the following are three box online broadcast control options, for the screen ratio, clarity, skip the beginning and end of the film can choose:
Mango Q Q6 online broadcast control
Millet Box 3 Enhanced Online Play Control
Glory box voice online broadcast control
Local decoding
In addition to online resources, local decoding is now a must-have place for network set-top boxes. At the same time, it also enriches the added value of the box. How about the performance of the three intelligent voice boxes in decoding? Here we look at the USB decoding and LAN playback.
USB Decoding: Three Boxes Mango Q H6 and Xiaomi Box 3 Plus are equipped with a USB 2.0 interface, which is generally suitable for general format video files, 4K video, and Blu-ray files, but for some large-stream 4K video and Blu-ray The file may need USB3.0 or SATA interface for better transmission, of course, this situation is less, for the average family USB2.0 can meet; for such competition, the only box of the mini SD card voice honor box. It is relatively weak.
LAN decoding and playback: With the popularity of smart gateways in the home, local area network broadcasting is becoming more and more popular. All three boxes support the Samber protocol (Network Neighborhood), and even better is the NFS function supported by Mango Q H6. The transmission efficiency is higher than that of Samber, and it can be easily connected with the NAS server, which brings more smooth LAN playback, and the LAN broadcasts the mango Q H6 victory.
Mango Q Q6 Supports NFS LAN Sharing Protocol
Here we look at 20 video test samples to see how the native performance of the three boxes is decoded, as well as the support of some special video formats. The test results are shown in the following table:
From the above table, the three boxes are perfectly supported by 20 basic video formats. For some special video formats, the Mango Q H6 is also perfectly supported, and the Blu-ray original and Blu-ray ISO files can be easily implemented. Navigation; millet box 3 enhanced version is not recognized for Blu-ray ISO files, Blu-ray original files need to enter the folder to find the corresponding index file to play; glory box voice does not support 4K 10Bit HEVC video file decoding play.
Other comparison items
At the end of this comparative evaluation, the author compared the features of some of the three boxes and the environmental parameters (power consumption, switching speed) to give you a more detailed understanding of the “peripheries†of the three boxes. For details, please see The following table:
Three boxes feature comparison
Comments: The development of the child lock function can limit children or monitor the viewing time of children; there is no doubt that multi-screen interaction is an essential function of all smart boxes. WeChat Q H6's WeChat enables text search and voice search. Push playback, and remote control TV box through WeChat, plus Shanghai enjoy to share multimedia as a complement to fully implement intelligent control, enhanced version of millet box 3 through WiDiMiracast wireless display and screen artifacts to achieve the same with the mango Q H6 The function, glory box voice is a little inferior to multi-screen interaction, but its powerful video enhancements add a lot of features to its features.
Three boxes of environmental parameters comparison test
Comments: smart box switching time and power consumption relative to the above evaluation of the functional experience is not so important, only as a friend in need as a reference: three boxes for the first time boot time glory box voice longest, and second The second boot time is the longest time for the mango Q Q6. This is related to the power consumption of the plug-in power-off condition. From the results of the above table tests, the three boxes did not actually achieve power failure in the case of plug-in power-off. The lowest power consumption is 0.40w of Mango Q H6, so the second boot time will be slower than the other two. If you don't use the set-top box for a long time, you should still pull the power out. In other cases, the power consumption The three consumptions are similar.
General evaluation evaluation
The above author has compared and evaluated the appearance, remote control, hardware, UI, voice manipulation experience, built-in resources, local decoding, and characteristic function environment parameters. From the results of the test, we can see that each of the three boxes has its own characteristics. When you can according to their needs point to the targeted selection, the following is a summary of the author's comparison of this evaluation:
Appearance: Each feature, glory box voice "socket" shape to become the "most adorable" box, and heat dissipation has become an important watershed for this design, mango å—¨ Q H6 to the top of the metal and chip nano-thermal technology to make the box more stable Long-term operation, millet box 3 enhanced version built-in silent fan cooling and cooling stripes also achieved better cooling effect;
Remote control: The three remote controls adopt a simple design, all use Bluetooth protocol for voice control, microphone position design is reasonable, mango Q Q6 in the microphone optimization using blowout network device optimization design, accuracy and response speed is higher;
Hardware: Mango Q Q6 and Xiaomi Box 3 enhanced processor performance are in perfect harmony, Mango Q Q6 uses this year's CES at the first dew-chip micro-core quad-core RK 3229 processor, in one fell swoop break HDMI 2.0 and 4K 10Bit HEVC transmission Quality barriers;
UI interface: Each of the three UIs has its own characteristics, and its hierarchical design is clear and can be easily mastered. Among them, the mango Q H6 HiUI linkage remote control's two-color function custom key is more user-friendly to achieve one-touch direct access, and the design is more excellent;
Voice manipulation experience: The keywords are defined and ranked in the order of the mango Q H6 "exact search + smart voice" glory box voice "exact search + semi-intelligent voice" millet box 3 enhanced "mainly search based"
Built-in resources: Millet box 3 enhanced version built-in 3 broadcast control copyright dealer content resources, more abundant;
Local decoding: The three support LAN playback, and compatible with most common formats, for some special video formats, such as 4K 10Bit HEVC, Blu-ray original and Blu-ray ISO, Mango Q H6 win, in addition, Mango Q Q6 support higher Transmission efficiency NFS protocol;
Features of the functional environment parameters: Mango å—¨ Q H6 support 1080P @ 24Hz output, when playing the video can be original flavor to restore film and film sense, and can achieve the function of micro-sampling to pick pieces, millet box 3 enhanced version and glory box voice support children With the lock function, the viewing of children can be controlled and controlled, and the application can be installed to an external storage. The glory box voice supports video enhancement and brings more detailed image quality output.
Third-Party Application Development: Huawei Box Honor Voice Installation Method, Hoi Mei Di Box H6 Installation Method, Millet Box 3 Enhanced Edition Installation Method
Written at the end: If you want to buy a smart voice, strange appearance, excellent quality and other comprehensive performance of the box, you may wish to purchase glory box voice; if you want to buy a movie rich content, powerful performance, convenient control of the box can buy millet box 3 enhanced version; if you want to buy a smart voice, stable performance, convenient manipulation, local decoding powerful box, we can consider mango Q Q6.
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