From Entertainment to Productivity: How a TV Box Can Fulfill Multiple Roles

The increase in video and device resolution reflects consumers’ pursuit of a vivid and immersive viewing experience. If a TV box serves as a receiver pulling streaming from telecom providers, only up to 50% of its performance is released, for most streaming providers, such as telecom and Internet platforms, only offer 1080P videos. In contrast, a TV box such as Magicsee’s product can support up to 8K, which has 16 times higher resolution than 1K.

Though consumers could buy other devices for high-resolution viewing, such as a personal computer and integrated television, their prices are not that attractive (to play 8k movies smoothly in PC, a high-performance graphics card and big VRAM are necessary, and in integrated television, a higher budget is the key point). However, a TV box only costs one-tenth and achieves an even better experience since the chipset for the TV box is specially optimized for decoder and coder, and the rest of the budget saved could be used for better acoustic equipment and bigger local storage.

Once have regarded a TV box as powerful decoder hardware, we unlocked their potential for diverse usage of TV boxes.

To be honest, it is impossible to acquire 100 percent of the experience of a real cinema due to the limited space and electricity power in the home (otherwise, all cinemas could close their doors), but under home environment, we have more flexibilities and other advantages which a cinema cannot completely cover.

Firstly, consumers are free to set and arrange the viewing environment as they like. It is hard to install a giant screen as wide as one in a cinema, but it is effortless and costless to set a sofa more comfortable than those in a cinema. A palm-sized TV box makes home furnishing layout very convenient and easy, unlike an integrated television, which is too big and heavy to move frequently.

For big families with many children having their own rooms, it may be expensive to equip each room with a television. Under this situation, TV boxes are the most suitable devices. Just with one center content distributor, TV boxes can output images to any display device, such as projectors, computer monitors, and of course, televisions.

Based on the Android operating system, users are able to install all kinds of applications they need. For users averse to technical complexities, the pre-installed application store within modern set-top boxes delivers comprehensive entertainment solutions—from streaming essentials to curated gaming catalog spanning action titles, RPGs, and strategy simulations. As to users who are willing to be technical tinkerers, they can install games that they want through the USB interface.

Playing games on TV boxes is also easy to operate. All you have to do is plugging the receiver into the USB interface, and share another gamepad with your friends and customers. What’s more, there also exist several games exclusively designed for TV. They may have special and funny control modes with all kinds of sensors, like a gravity sensor and an accelerometer.

Screen mirroring has become the digital bridge of modern life, flawlessly projecting smartphone or personal computer content to larger displays. However, the number of screens that cannot support screen mirroring far exceeds those that can. TV boxes offer a more flexible and affordable solution compared with updating display devices. For most of the Android TV boxes, screen mirroring is integrated into the system and protocol-agnostic.

Imagine that you can cast your favorite network shows, yoga follow-along tutorial videos, and work presentation PPT on old-fashioned television sets; we can announce that TV boxes have already successfully enabled those television sets with a single functionality.