In fact, the return of LeTV Box and the launch of Tmall and Xiaomi’s flagship products basically established the direction of the smart TV box market at the end of 2016. These three boxes not only have a certain intersection in positioning (from 299 yuan); all black appearance, crystal morning Amlogic processor performance architecture are also quite comparable. It is worth mentioning that the mainstream black IP may also lead the 2017 market standards.
For stronger comparability, we specifically selected the music box U4 worth 299 yuan and the dark cat 3Pro black version. Next, we will compare the appearance, UI, content resources, performance, TV assistants, voice, etc., and hope to give you a better reference. (For convenience, the text box L4 referred to music as LeTV; Lynx Box 3Pro black version referred to as Tmall; millet box 3S referred to as millet)
Black IP design language
LeTV box U4 size: 100mm*100mm*10.8mm, weight 157g
Lynx Box 3Pro Black Size: 100mm*100mm*22mm, Weight 193g
Millet box 3S size: 101mm*101mm*19.5mm, weight 176g
We look at the impressions of LeTV, Tmall Box, and Xiaomi's three boxes: they are all unique and beautiful. The same all-black color plus a similar size standard makes the contrast more intense. The cat's box 3Pro black version has a family charm on the top of the red trim, very recognizable; small face LOGO in the case of power supply will be white light; millet box 3S signal receiving panel in the front middle position, With a faint indicator light effect, only the “MI†brand LOGO is left on the top; LeTV U4 marks the “LE†LOGO in the middle of the top surface, with a hidden white strip indicator in the middle of the front panel. Display exhalation.
Three boxes of process materials are very good, the first reference to the IML surface treatment process of Tmall Box 3Pro black version +10.8mm ultimate light music box U4+ red dot design award millet box 3S, represents the respective brand in product design , process level achievements. Compared to the fine frosted surface texture of LeTV and Xiaomi, the surface of the Tmall Box is more gentle and smooth, and the smooth touch feels smooth and smooth.
In the bottom layer of anti-skid soft rubber processing techniques, I have to mention is music as the box U4, which uses a whole piece of soft rubber anti-skid feet laying, making the whole stability of the machine is very prominent, this design may be more to meet its Slim body structure, even if it is light and thin, it can have a strong stability; and like Lynx Box 3Pro black version, PC material of the foot pad on the part of the clean panel on the anti-skid performance is not very strong; millet box 3S is similar to LeTV, and the body is not slippery.
Of course, the determination of the design depends on everyone's aesthetic sense! Take a look at personal preferences! Lynx Box 3Pro Black Edition has the advantage of a unique design language, cute and playful; LeTV Box U4 is the most visual impact, 10.8mm body thickness looks very stunning; based on the red dot design award recognized , Millet box 3S calm extraordinary, side waist arc unique charm of the United States. Unfortunately, all three are less wearable.
LeTV U4: HDMI, USB, Power Interface
Millet Box 3S: Power Interface, USB, HDMI, AV
Lynx Box 3Pro Black Edition: Power Interface, Reset Hole, USB, Network Interface, HDMI, AV
It can be seen that the hardware interface of the three are very different. The Tmall box is the most complete, integrating many configurations of the mainstream function options, including the design of the network port and the reset hole. If you compare the network port configuration, then only the Lynx The box can be satisfied, the other two are not equipped with network ports, and LeTV does not have an AV interface.
The remote control part, the Lynx box and the millet box We also mentioned in the box review of Glory, Lynx, and Xiaomi. Their design keynotes are similar. The design language of LeTV's unique box is also distinguished from them. All three belong to the infrared remote control version. They do not include voice buttons. However, even if they are infrared remote control, their signal reception range and response accuracy are very high. The three are relatively balanced.
The size and size of the Tmall box is similar to that of the millet box. The LeTV box is the smallest. The three are very good in making materials and craftsmanship. The round transition of the back arc also ensures a good grip. The LeTV box uses 16 key layouts. Cheng Shizhong, with solid keys, the arrow keys are placed relatively lower due to the integration of the channel keys, requiring a certain amount of time to adapt; Lynx Box uses 12-key button layout, the key process should be the shortest, which makes the continuous pressing control response speed It feels better, but its buttons are more slack than the others. The millet box uses a 11-button layout. The newly designed touch operation is not particularly commendable. On the contrary, it is relatively easy to cause errors in the actual control process. Touch, fortunately, the feedback of their own button feels good, press the handle and hold are very good.
In terms of actual control experience, although the keys of the Tmall Magic Box are slack, the overall pressing sensation includes a more balanced response speed and grip. The remote control of the LeTV Box is very strong, but the button layout needs to be adapted to a smaller size. More size buttons, feel more compact; millet box the entire button hardness should be the strongest of the three, touch control playability is higher, but the wrong touch is also more worrying.
In other accessories, the three boxes have similar configurations. It is worth mentioning that, on the packaging design, the packaging of the music box U4 is the most impressive to me. Both the design language and the pattern materials are stronger than the other two; The design of the power adapter is also very easy, compact, delicate and beautiful. Power output standard, happy as 5V, 2A; Lynx box, millet is 5.2V, 2.1A.
• Performance, configuration
Red fonts are the highlights. Tmall's magic box leads the rest in terms of hardware configuration. LeTV's surface parameters are less prominent. [The highlights of the project's principle are as follows: "There are more than none, more than less." Such as millet 8G eMMC5.1 flash memory and Lynx Box 16G eMMC5.0 standard, although eMMC5.1 faster transfer rate than version 5.0, but 16G large flash memory is more realistic for consumers
In the Nenamark2 software test for game performance, Tmall's box scored the highest with 59.9fps, 59.1fps as a music box and 57.8fps as a millet box. However, the above results are very small from the 60fps, and the performance does not have to worry.
In terms of running points, the Lynx box is undoubtedly the best, among which the difference in 3D performance is the most obvious. LeTV and Xiaomi don't support the “isolated†test and only scored less than 3000 points. However, there are certain errors and accidents in running data. In fact, the experience gap between the three is not particularly obvious; for this reason, in addition to day-to-day control, we specifically downloaded the popular "King of the Glory" through the sofa butler for trial.
All three boxes can handle the game smoothly and smoothly. There are no Caton delayed frames dropped during the game and the experience is good. Their ability to control mainstream games is still worthy of recognition. Many games and applications can fully load. The actual difference is not obvious.
Video format support, the three test results are the same.
The LeTV U4 has no HDR technology compared to the other two, and it is not equipped with HDR technology. For example, the HDR test mentioned above has a significant difference. Among them, the Tmall Box and Xiaomi grasp the details of light and dark details. (The roughness of the screen will not actually be the case due to the shooting problem.) Without the music video box equipped with the HDR technology, the entire screen is relatively plain, although the brightness is increased. However, the color is different from the other two.
The article also mentioned that millet and LeTV boxes are not equipped with a network interface, so wireless network transmission has become their only networking method. In the wifi performance test, the three are more balanced and the difference is not prominent.
In the actual measurement, 2.4G band, "shaBei15" (measured distance is about 10m) signal strength reaches -30dBm in the Tmall box and millet box, which is very good, LeTV box is even more than -20 dBm [normal signal fluctuation, stability Good performance around -30 is satisfactory.
In the 5G band, since the frequency is higher than 2.4 GHz, the higher the frequency and the shorter the wavelength, the poorer the scattering ability of the wave, and the weaker the ability to penetrate the wall, so the display intensity is lower. In fact, the three "yofann_5G" achieve a signal strength of 5Gwifi of -50dBm, and the performance is already very good; like the other 5G segment below, it is actually the frequency of our upstairs signal. The difference in WiFi performance between the three is also basically negligible.
Switching speed
The figure above basically covers all the contents of the three boxes in the switch machine speed, in which the Tmall box is the best overall performance, followed by millet music. It is worth mentioning that the cool and hot start-up speed of LeTV's box is almost the same. All three also have boot ads, and Xiaomi supports returning to exit.
System UI
â–² LeTV
â–² millet
â–² Lynx Box
If you talk about the pros and cons of the three UI design, there is not much comparability. I believe that all three represent the most mature system settings in their respective architecture systems, with distinctive features.
EUI5.8's carousel and focused desktop design are very easy to implement. It caters to the needs of different groups of people. It is also very convenient to operate and manage. After loading, it is loaded with carousel content. This is different from the selective interaction of the mainstream box. It is fully adaptable. The basic TV function, which can be seen by opening, is especially suitable for elderly people who are not accustomed to multi-path operation.
Millwall's PatchWall puzzle wall system adopts a logical content layout with intersecting crosswise and crosswise crosses. The guiding and searching capabilities are stronger. The cascade-flowing interactive interface adds content to the Shanghai topic classification, and has interesting and interactive capabilities.
Compared with the UI layout of the previous version, the Lynx Box is actually improved, the horizontal interaction logic is more concise, the M-key function guides the interaction and convenience, especially the update of the film and video 5.0, it also brings it similar to Xiaomi. The layout of the film and television content of the waterfall flow is relatively slick and the overall design is more capable than the other two.
Although the three have a certain gap in the hardware configuration, the difference in the actual interaction experience is not obvious. The three boxes have high interface fluency and will not give people the feeling of lagging behind.
In addition, it is also necessary to explain that we pass the actual test of film and video content to test the path steps. The actual operations of the three are equivalent and there is no anti-human multi-step operation. However, in the design of the video content details page, the Tmall Box is more cumbersome than LeTV and Xiaomi, especially in the drama series' interaction.
This is the guide of the millet box PatchWall puzzle wall system waterfall flow type interface, the new movie and TV 5.0 form of the day cat box is similar to it, in this makes a reference explanation.
As for the content of TV dramas, I did not use the previous standard of comparison. I think that as a consumer, to see what kind of broadcast control platform and video site content support each box is equipped with is not absolutely reliable, you can see official website instructions. Therefore, the comparison of our content resources mainly refers to the degree of integration of TV dramas, including movies, and not all of them are compared, but they can also be reflected from them.
In terms of TV dramas, we selected three popular TV series before the hot search, including Kitahiro, Ghost Blow, giving up, and seizing me. What is more obvious is that the three contents of the box are integrated, and the other two boxes are only available. Give me up, hold me tight. However, the characteristics of each box are still worthwhile to talk about, as the Lonely Fang does not self-review recently broadcast, it seems quite fiery; Lynx box of the odd star, Xiao Wu Lei new drama on the line; millet box met love Mr. Lee, It is an urban love story.
In addition, in the American drama, in the Baidu hot search rankings, the United States horror story, the Western world, deadly poisoners only integrated a millet box. In other respects, it seems that Sherlock's fourth quarter was rather fierce. I am not a person who loves to watch American dramas. Therefore, there is not a very detailed understanding of the content of these American dramas.
As the most critical part of the content of film and television resources, advertising, clarity and membership are the basic content framework of the box.
Advertising duration, according to the prevalence of film and television content, the length of advertising is also different, and in the course of our actual operation, many times the ratio of open advertising of movie and television content is random, like a box of millet, sometimes 45s, sometimes Will reach terrible 90s ads. According to the general standards, popular video content, music as the basic 60s advertising box, Tmall box 30s, millet box 45s. Overall performance, Tmall's box is relatively good.
In terms of video clarity, we have deliberately selected one of the more popular foreign movies and domestic movies in the near future. One of the more popular foreign movies and domestic movies was previously. Among them, the content, the millet boxes are integrated, Lynx box does not have a mechanic 2, LeTV does not have a super body, but LeTV and Tmall's 4K content has a lot of preparation, especially LeTV, also integrated 3D, Dolby 1080P Definition standards; while the millet box is basically in the ultra-clear and 1080P standards, and the recent popular movie does not support the trial, so the clarity of the millet box to see the non-member level are super clear.
In addition, related to LeSport's own hardware-free mechanism, such as the old movie gun, Lynx Box, millet support ultra-clear free viewing, and LeTV non-members only support "fluent" clarity, basically do not have to read; only member preparation , before you can choose "fluid" more than the clarity, and even 4K.
Television members, the price of the three is still a certain difference, LeTV if you do not randomly buy the price is relatively high, so if you buy, LeTV U4 Member Edition or U4Pro more worth recommending, especially super sports, music as established sports content ecology The system, whether perfect or integrated, must be stronger than the other two. This is undeniable; and the LeTV U4 comes with a January Super Sports membership. Tmall Box Movie and Television content can be said to be the most affordable of the three. The 399-year fee and complimentary two-month membership will not only allow you to watch popular video content, but also more 4K film and television integration. Millet box 360-year fee is not expensive, but it only represents Xiaomi Iqiyi content members, other platforms need to be recharged independently, do not enjoy the 360-year fee included, this fact is also nothing wrong.
In short, from the aspect of film and television content integration, Tmall Box does not have much advantages over the other two, but its existing content form includes the overall framework and is the most direct. It is easier for users to implement the standards at the level of requirements. Xiaomi's content resources are the most comprehensive and multi-platform integration. It is more efficient for the entire content preparation. LeTV's desktop has always been the most reasonable one I think. It welcomes the daily operating habits and demand habits of the public, as well as Le Sports. content. However, regardless of the level of content, we can all use application extensions. All three support the development of third-party applications. We can expand and install video content and games through the big screen. The big screen must be a popular TV/box application, games, video download platform, a key download, convenient and efficient.
TV assistant
Many people may be more skeptical about why the contrasting description of the box will take into account the differences among the television assistants. In fact, we mainly use the television assistant to implement the voice function operation. Although the three boxes are not equipped with voice remote control, they are Is the voice function, our most direct way is to use the TV assistant to drive the voice function. Incidentally, we will discuss the sincerity of the three applications in external software applications.
â–² music as remote
â–² Ali TV Assistant
â–² Xiaomi screen artifact
The mobile terminal we selected was iphone. The application names of the three were: LeTV, Ali TV Assistant, and Xiaomi Screencast Artifact.
Application UI design, "music as the remote control" the most refreshing, deep flat icon plus light blue background, personal preference flat style completely designed; "Ali TV Assistant" UI is relatively simple, large icons, clear and clear; "millet cast screen artifact "The combination of MIUI design orientation, and music as the remote control".
In terms of functions, the three can be connected and started automatically after they are connected for the first time. In addition to the basic remote control function, "LTV" integrates carousel / film / screen, application installation, screen capture, TV acceleration, voice and other functions; "Ali TV Assistant" integrated film / game screen, application installation, screenshots, remote assistance, Video chat, home monitoring, voice, etc.; "Millet screen artifact" integrated video / photo screen, cleaning master, network testing, screenshots and other functions.
It can be seen that "Ali TV Assistant" has the most comprehensive functions, and the actual box itself has the most features. "LeTV" and "Xiaomi Screencast Artifact" are the second most important.
voice
The voice function is a popular form of interactive optimization. Therefore, even if the three are not equipped with voice remote control, we still need to compare the functional configurations of the three. Unfortunately, there is no voice drive in "Millet Casting Artifact". For this reason, we have found a demonstration of the voice remote control of Xiaomi Box 3 Plus. The results of the three boxes are as follows:
(√ is support, × is not supported, - is not fully supported)
The voice test basically compares the test with the use range and the recognition accuracy. The figure above includes the mainstream commonly used range of standards, and basically covers all the operations.
Among them, the audio and video function of Lynx Box is the most outstanding. Among the measured items, only online stocks do not support query, and all other items are perfectly supported; followed by LeTV; Xiaomi’s performance is not satisfactory and all controls are established. In the video search form, many basic functions cannot be achieved. And I don't know if it's my voice remote control or what, its recognition accuracy is the worst of the three, and the other two are all performing satisfactorily.
An additional explanation is that the "-" option in LeTV and Tmall's box is still very good. At the beginning, I denied the ability to open the episode of the TV series in the three boxes because they did not support direct opening. However, LeTV and Lynx Box are very smart. They support the content voice control of the movie details page. In the movie details page, support for the first few episodes of voice opening, and even the collection of movies, LeTV box also supports voice clarity options, very smart. Therefore, the manipulation of “Opening Episodes of TV Series†is only one more step of language control for LeTV and Lynx Box, and it is still acceptable.
Temperature control
The three temperature control performances are actually acceptable, but it is now winter, do not know the temperature control test in summer, the three will have what kind of performance.
We also intercepted the maximum temperature by using the test for two hours without interruption. Maybe LeTV's extremely thin body design, the temperature is the highest of the three; but compared to whether it is millet, Lynx box or music box, the temperature control performance between them are still Acceptable range. The actual feel of the test temperature, but also does not act as a warm hand valuable, this can be assured.
to sum up
What needs to be shown is that I have a positive attitude toward the overall performance of the three boxes. They can represent the highest standards of mainstream smart TV boxes regardless of their design or UI or content resources. For LeTV, Lynx Box, and Xiaomi, I couldn't even think of a model that is more competitive than them. Especially in the 299 grade, all the weights are inclined to these three, these three boxes are Nowadays the strongest models.
LeTV U4
Advantages: Slim appearance design is the design focus, it may lead the 2017 mainstream TV box design direction; music as the focus of the desktop, including Home rotation, is LeTV's unique system content; 4K/3D/Dolby content preparation; Super Sports has great voice in all the boxes; voice features are widely used and easy to operate.
Disadvantages: not equipped with HDR; LeTV member preparation form is more tangled; fewer interfaces.
Lynx Box 3Pro Black Edition
Advantages: Appearance design cute, solid technology, comprehensive interface; UI design is simple and easy to understand, control is simple; performance is balanced; 4K content preparation; function expansion is rich; voice function is powerful; HDR+HLG.
Disadvantages: Content resources are not rich compared to the other two (fortunately, they can be expanded through the high-definition application market).
Millet Box 3S
Advantages: strong sense of appearance design, calm extraordinary; PatchWall puzzle wall system features clear features, interactive guidance and convenient function; touch remote control of high playability; content and resources coverage of a wide range, more comprehensive; HDR; excellent temperature control.
Disadvantages: Remote control mistakes are embarrassing; interface is less; voice function is less tasteful.
On the whole, the Lynx Box is the most balanced among the three boxes, so that its shortcomings, in addition to content resources, I can not think of other. In fact, the integration of content resources, we can all through the big screen to carry out the extension charge, and like interfaces, voice capabilities, hardware configuration, the advantages it brings, is absolutely established. There are many models that Lynx Box 3Pro designed based on the Super IP. They all have very clear goal orientation. The personal preference depends on the choice. After all, the overall performance is good enough.
In addition, for the LeTV box, due to its membership form, the purchase option I recommend LeTV U4 member or U4Pro, even though its hardware configuration is inconspicuous, but the overall control experience is still very strong, and voice interaction is also very intelligent. My favorite music as the home desktop carousel content, is based on the most innovative content of the box content architecture system, it is worthy of praise, especially for the family of elderly users.
Millet box 3S, it is carrying a multi-content platform integration, to create the most comprehensive content resources, including the PatchWall puzzle wall system and touch remote control to meet the content architecture, all for the layout of content resources layout, more intelligent More convenient interaction. In my opinion, the millet box 3S is more suitable for the younger generation of consumer groups. Its UI design orientation, the pursuit of the fun, including the properties of the performance configuration, are very balanced and comprehensive. The only thing I feel sorry for is that the millet box 3S that carries the sense of “artificial intelligence†has very poor voice performance.
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