REVIEW – Some time ago I reviewed the MECOOL KM7 Android TV box and I liked it and have been using it ever since. In my home, we tend to have frequent movie nights, and having options to be able to view a variety of content makes the experience that much better, Now I am […]
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IMPORTANT — SEE UPDATE at the bottom of this review concerning MALWARE warning for this device. REVIEW – I have a very busy schedule and I get up at 4 am for work every weekday. This type of schedule does not allow me much time to watch Tv during the week. On the weekends, I
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REVIEW – Since “cutting the cord” years ago I’ve had the opportunity to try out pretty much every TV media box. I’ve run my media collection and streaming apps through Rokus, TiVos, Amazon Fires, Chromecasts, Xboxes, Playstations, Macs, PCs, Smart TVs, and my all-time favorite, Nividia Shields. Just know, the Nividia Shield hands down outshines
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REVIEW – I’m what you might call an early adopter. Many years ago, when our kids were little, we bought three television-based video conferencing units – one for us and one for each set of grandparents. I wish I could remember the name of the units, but alas, I cannot. You looked them up to
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REVIEW – I reviewed my very first Android TV box a week ago and now I’m back with a review of another ATV in my quest to find one with the best picture and features. The one I’m going to talk about today is the MX10 Android TV Box from Gearbest. Let’s take a look.
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REVIEW – Cord cutters have a wide assortment of gadgets that can help them sever ties with cable and satellite companies for their entertainment. There are OTA antennas that you can use to bring in local TV network stations, and then there are gadgets like the Apple TV, Roku, and Android TV boxes that provide
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These days, many people are looking to find alternatives to cable services and cable boxes. This is primarily so because of the continuously rising costs of cable TV and the way their “packages” provide less versatility. In response to the cable companies, numerous devices have “popped up” on the market and they claim to provide
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I have been building home theater PCs (“HTPCs”) for almost fifteen years. My current HTPC configuration includes an Intel Celeron CPU capable of decoding various AV codecs, a high end Nvidia GPU card, a large capacity hard drive, and an M-Audio sound card capable of 7.1 surround sound. The entirety of this system is housed in a
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There are a lot of TV set top boxes out there. The closest I’ve come to using one is using Chromecast or our Xbox for streaming various forms of media. That’s not to say that I haven’t been interested, so when The Gadgeteer was offered the Pivos Xios XS Media Center for review (an Android/XBMC
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If you have a TV – HD or even an old SD/CRT – that you’d like to expand the capabilities of, you can turn it into a “smarter” TV with the SmartPod from Woxi Media. It runs Android 2.3.6, which they say is enhanced with multi-user capability and TV optimized.” (You can define up to eight
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Kimdecent has released the MK806 Android TV stick. This is a small PC that runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has a Cortex-A9 dual core chipset, 1GB of DDR3 memory, 4GB of storage, and a microSD card slot for expandable storage. This also has Bluetooth 2.0, which is a new feature from its previous model
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The Probox2 (sold by W2COMP) is a recent entry in the Android TV (or Android Stick PC) category. These devices fit somewhere between the size of a fat USB memory stick and a deck of cards and are full Android devices. They usually have DVI video-out, one or more USB ports, WiFi, and sometimes wired Ethernet
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With the newly announced TV connect from Archos, you can turn your existing HDTV into a smart TV. The TV connect runs Android 4.1 (“Jelly Bean”), and has access to all the apps in the Google Play store. When you turn your TV into a smart TV with the TV connect, you’ll be able to
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The Magic-Pro iGoGo TV box is powered by Android 2.3.1, so you’ll be able to enjoy Android apps – internet surfing, movie watching, and games – directly on your big HDTV. iGoGo TV has an ARM Cortex-A8 1GHz processor and 512MB DDR3 and 4GB NAND flash inside, and you can add even more memory with
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