Unlock Your Gaming Journey with the TV Box

Healthy Ecosystem——The extensive use of the Android operation system has created a welcoming ecosystem for software and games, where numerous game applications are already available. This laid a solid foundation for gaming on TV boxes, since the most popular operation system on them is based on Android, and software developers can make less effort to transport games from mobile or tablets into the TV box. In addition to compatibility advantages, TV boxes also bring new possibilities for brand-new games, such as large-screen adapted games and motion-sensing games.

Powerful Performance——Though seen as large as a pocket, a TV box may contain a quad-core CPU under its unremarkable appearance, and it can achieve up to 1.8GHz frequency and is equipped with a separate GPU. What does a main frequency of 1.8GHz mean? While let me take an instance. The N100, one of the popular chips used on mini personal computers, has a fundamental frequency of 1.8GHz, equal to that of chips on TV boxes do, such as H618, 905X4, and RK3566. A powerful CPU and GPU allow for more vivid graphics and higher FPS (frames per second), which are crucial to users’ gaming experience.

Space-Saving Build——To suit different preferences, a TV box measures up to 5.8 inches, while the smallest, our D7, can be as compact as 2.25 inches. This character makes it possible for users to carry it out and share games with friends almost anywhere. Users can also use it with a television in the living room and then plug it into a portable monitor in their bedrooms, while a typical game console is much larger and heavier, making users unwilling to move it.

From the first electronic game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, born in the 1980s, to various games on various platforms today, many classic games have brought us abundant, vivid memories. However, with the advancement of game consoles, those older games are abandoned and no longer compatible with new platforms. It’s unfortunate for those who enjoy classic games and wish to complete the ones they haven’t had enough time to play before.

Thanks to the rapid growth of our hardware performance, simulators, which can run and host games from older and abandoned platforms, have been introduced first to Windows PC and soon to the Android platform. After several iterations of function and accessibility, nowadays, simulators are easy to use. Users can access the simulator application directly from stores or by downloading the installation package of the simulators from the Internet.

In addition to the simulators on the TV box, users can play retro games without any extra installation by plugging in a stick, a hot-selling product on e-commerce platforms. TV boxes can also receive gamepad controller signals and support up to two controllers simultaneously, so that users can enjoy games with their families and friends. In the early 2000s, it was hard to imagine that we could play classic games with a television or a screen larger than 55 inches and containing 4K resolutions.

Today, games are not only becoming more refined and lifelike but also larger. It is normal for a 3A game to occupy more than 100GB of storage space. Cloud gaming, one of the most advanced gaming technologies, alleviates users from the burden of storing games and shields them from the differences of game consoles by not executing games locally but streaming games to a local device. There already exist some famous cloud gaming platforms, and some of them do have a TV version application that can be executed on TV boxes.

However, the experience of those cloud game platforms is not that comfortable. The Internet's latency, optimization of control, high charging prices, and recording of play progress all challenge the spread of gaming on the cloud.