What are the performances of the millet box in 2016? Unique design, more detailed

In the video box used by the sofa network Xiaobian, Xiaomi's box left a deep impression on Xiao Bian, and is one of the best boxes Xiao Bian has ever used. Therefore, when the millet box 3 was released at the end of 2015, the sofa net Xiaobian looked forward to this product.

Application of millet box in professional home theater

Millet box for subtraction 3

From the appearance point of view, millet box 3 and previous generations of products is no different, the shell is still using a polycarbonate with a certain degree of matte effect, a rubber pad at the bottom, to maintain the stability of the box on the desktop. Behind the box are various interfaces. It can be seen that Xiaomi has been doing a design subtraction. After the enhanced version of the Xiaomi box canceled the wired network interface, the Xiaomi box 3 also subtracts the Micro SD card interface, and now only the power interface, HDMI 2.0 interface, and USB are left. 2.0 interface and AV interface. The HDMI 2.0 interface is a bright spot, because the millet box 3 can realize the 4K@60Hz video output for the first time, and has a perfect performance when connecting 4K video to play 4K video. However, Xiaomi Box 3 still uses USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0, which makes Xiao Bian very sorry.

Bluetooth remote control is one of the reasons Xiaobian's favorite millet box 3 is. Because from the cold south outside the house, it is no longer necessary to take out warm bedding and hide it in a bed, so you can easily control it.

In addition to the Bluetooth function, this remote controller also supports voice and somatosensory functions for the first time. Hold down the "Home" button of the remote control to play voice video, and somatosensory function requires downloading the game. Xiao Bian tried a few games. Frankly speaking, its response delay was slightly inferior to the somatosensory remote control of professional game consoles such as Wii and PS4, but it was still within an acceptable range. In addition, due to the increase in power consumption due to increased functionality, Xiaomi Box 3's remote control has changed from the original button cell to two 7-cell batteries. This is a good thing for Xiaobian, because the purchase channel of No. 7 battery is obviously superior. Button battery.

Millet box for addition 3

In design, millet box 3 is doing subtraction, and in performance it is doing addition. From the hardware parameters, millet box 3 is undoubtedly the strongest box in the current millet. The millet box 3 is equipped with Amlogic S905 chip, which is an upgraded version of the S802 processor installed in the enhanced version of the previous generation millet box. It uses a quad-core 64-bit architecture and achieves a frequency of 2.0 Hz. Its biggest feature is its support for H.265 4K@60. Frame hard decoding. Looking at the GPU again, the millet box 3 is a Mali-450 chip that supports 4K video hardware decoding and supports 10-bit H.265 hard decoding.

For storage, Xiaomi Box 3 uses a combination of 1G DDR3 memory and 4G eMMC5.0 high-speed storage. One thing to be said here is that for the video box to run slowly after a period of time, the millet box 3 uses CMA intelligent continuous memory allocation technology. This is an extension of the Linux Kernel memory management system and can solve 4K video. Playback requires a lot of continuous memory. Therefore, the millet box 3 can intelligently allocate reserved large contiguous memory for use by other programs to fully ensure the smoothness of the system.

Reliable intelligent system

Whether it is the millet box or the millet TV, Xiaomi's MIUI TV version of the smart system is built-in. After several versions have been developed, it is quite mature and reliable. After updating the built-in system of the millet box 3 to the latest version, it will find that the new system has continued its previous interface style, but has made certain optimizations in some details, such as the addition of four categories of entrances under the “online film and television”. This allows users to jump directly to movies or TV shows.

The key to the video box is the richness of the video content. The millet box 3 is exactly the same as the Xiaomi TV. It has a content platform for Xiaomi to create a video website with a billion dollars. There are more than one hundred partners (including iCNTV, The 440,000 hours of content provided by GITV, Mango TV, and Hua Digital TV's four major licenses have channels such as cinema movies, television dramas, variety shows, anime, and documentaries. Of course, there are a lot of video content that need to be paid for viewing.

However, for some “naughty” users, Xiaomi Box 3 also provides third-party software installation functions, and the U disk can be connected to the USB interface. At the same time, the millet box 3 also provides a powerful local video playback function, plug in a mobile hard disk or U disk to see the local high-definition video or even 4K video, support almost all video formats on the market, such as 4K resolution source, MKV, AVI, MP4, MOV, Blu-ray HD. Xiao Bian tried to play several 4K videos with different bit rates. The performance of Xiaomi Box 3 was excellent. Even the 4K video with 100 Mbps bit rate could play smoothly.

The convenient interconnection with the mobile phone is also a feature of the MIUI TV system of the millet box 3. Firstly, you can install the "Screenshot Artifact" app on your mobile phone to not only project video and photos on your mobile phone onto a large-screen TV, but also to control the millet box on your mobile phone and use your mobile phone to directly search for videos in the millet TV/millet box. , and projected on the TV with one click. Secondly, even if a mobile phone without a "Screenshot Artifact" is installed, it can use the DLNA (Android Phone) or Airplay (iPhone Series) function to project the mobile phone content onto the TV.

Smart home needs to continue to optimize

All along, Xiaomi has shown a strong intention in the smart home, so in the millet box 3, sofa net Xiaobian saw the "millet smart home" function was newly added to the MIUI TV system. If you have a millet bracelet, millet air purifier, millet camera and other millet smart home accessories, you can view in real time here. A strong home theater shopping guide network welcomes you!

Just Xiaobian had a millet bracelet and tried it. The first is the need to download and install the "millet movement" application, and then the usage is the same as the APP on the mobile phone. After the mobile phone and the millet bracelet are synchronized, the data can be viewed on the television. However, when viewing the data on the box, it is necessary to log in again when the bracelet is synchronized with the mobile phone. After the bracelet is synchronized with the mobile phone and wants to view the data on the box, it needs to log in again on the box. Although such operations are high in security and privacy, they are somewhat troublesome. If the login on the box changes to the way the mobile phone scans the QR code, it may be more convenient.

Although this attempt did not make Xiaobian particularly happy, Xiaomi's efforts in smart homes are still worth encouraging. Xiaomi hopes to increase smart home improvements in subsequent system versions.

Worth buying box

Xiaomi Box 3 once again left a deep impression on Xiao Bian with excellent performance. The most important thing is that the price of 299 yuan shows a great temptation. It is indeed one of the most worthwhile video boxes currently purchased.