Perfect match, save unhappy, Skyworth box S1 use report

Foreword _______
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According to data from market research institutions such as DisplaySearch, global users’ surge in Internet TV duration and equipment shipments in the next five years will usher in a new “Internet TV era”. On December 10, the Skyworth Sohu Box Conference was held in Shenzhen. Skyworth Box joined hands with Sohu Video, one of the largest Internet service providers in China, and jointly launched Skyworth Boxes with the Internet TV licensees CIBN and JD.com. S1, while the first users who purchased the TV box can receive a one-year Sohu Video VIP membership service for free. This background, the benefits are so powerful and the main video of Skyworth Sohu TV box, how specific performance, and see the following detailed analysis:

Exterior_______
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The first thing to note is that the Skyworth box S1 is divided into two major versions: the classic version is priced at 299 yuan, and the distinguished version is priced at 399 yuan. The biggest difference between the two lies in the difference in remote control. The classic version of the remote controller is an ordinary infrared remote controller, and the distinguished version uses a 2.4G/5G dual-band WiFi remote controller, which can achieve a full range of remote control experience, and the distinguished version of There is also a 3.5mm headphone jack and voice control keys on the remote control, which will be described in detail below.

Skyworth Box S1 uses a cylindrical cake-like design, white paper box packaging, and the top of the packaging is the “Sohu Video” logo with bumpy gold lettering. The front is the golden font "S1". On the back of the package is Skyworth box S1's product features: voice search, earphone exclusive mode and other information. At the bottom of the paper box are partners such as Skyworth, JD Micro, CIBN, and related product company information 3C certification.



Skyworth Box S1 Packaging



Skyworth Box S1 Packaging

Open the carton package, the upper layer presents the Skyworth box S1, and the box and package have a high degree of fit. The front of the box is printed with the words “Sohu Video” on the bottom and the black curved pie design. The shell on the box is made of black plastic surface polishing technology, the lower shell is made of black plastic matt laser engraving words, semi-circular floor mats, the whole body is delicate in texture and exquisite in workmanship.


Skyworth box S1 appearance


Skyworth box S1 appearance

It is worth mentioning that Skyworth Box S1 is cleverly designed at the bottom and is equipped with a matte silicone beam cutter that is removable. At first glance, you will mistakenly think that there is no interface configuration. The scotch tape is on the cable harness and the 6-hole plug-in design is used for the cable cincher. The interface and product code can be seen by pulling hard with the thumb.


Skyworth box S1 bottom

Skyworth box S1 interface Micro USB interface, HDMI interface, RJ45 network cable interface, power interface, USB2.0 interface, reset button.


Skyworth Box S1 Interface

Dual-band WIFI remote control black appearance, using 13 buttons design, ergonomic design, the grip part is thicker than the front end, easy to operate, delicate texture. It is worth noting that the remote control is a bit special, with voice input and output functions, and the bottom of the remote control also supports the headphone jack. The more functions the remote controller of Skyworth Box S1 can achieve, the use of a battery No. 5 that can save more power, instead of the conventional battery No. 7:


Skyworth box S1 remote control


Skyworth box S1 remote control

In addition, Skyworth box S1 accessories are HDMI cable, 12V/1A power adapter, manual, warranty card, certificate. Family portrait:


Skyworth Box S1 Family Portrait

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Skyworth Box S1 is a network set-top box that Skyworth Digital has jointly released with Sohu Video, the licensee CIBN Internet TV, and Jingdong Micro-Link. Then the content is the first important meaning of Skyworth Box S1. The video is the most important thing. How rich is the contents of Skyworth Box S1? How much video is there?

First of all, look at the CIBN that it carries. CIBN is an abbreviation of China International Broadcasting Network (CIB). It is run by China Radio International and covers various new media formats such as networked audio-visual programs, mobile radio and television, IPTV, Internet TV, and CMMB, and provides them to global audiences. In comprehensive information services such as current events, politics, society, and Chinese language teaching, among the seven licensees issued in China, CIBN's resources are quite rich.

In addition to the basic resources provided by the CIBN licensee, since Skyworth Box S1 is also called Skyworth Sohu Box, Sohu's video resources are also indispensable. Sohu Video is the number one brand in China's Internet and has been deployed in the Internet TV industry for many years. Years, Uncerebrate Mage, "He Comes, Please Close Your Eyes", "The Misser", "High-Quality, Unrequited Love," and many other self-made products, have created new standards in the industry from quality to traffic. It is rumored that in 2016, Sohu Video will have the largest coverage and exclusive boutique possession in the domestic film and television dramas, overseas film and television dramas, variety shows, self-made, self-media and other areas. It is natural that its resources have nothing to say.

Skyworth Box this time combined with the powerful combination of Sohu Video, through the CIBN Internet TV integrated broadcast control platform, integrated China International Radio and TV network platform and Sohu video quality genuine content, with over 2 million hours of genuine licensed video resources. Let's take a look at how Skyworth Digital, Sohu Video, and CIBN fit together on the Skybox S1:

Skyworth Box S1 has a rich on-demand category. In addition to conventional movie and TV series, sports and other items have also been separately extracted and classified. Therefore, on-demand contents of Skyworth Box S1 cover seven categories: search, recommendation, theater, movie, TV drama, animation, variety and sports. These seven categories basically take into account all ages.





Skyworth box S1 video section

One of the main theaters is Skyworth box S1, from a separate special effects animation you can see the difference with other classifications. The contents of the Skyworth box S1 are mostly based on featured films, and are classified according to the subject matter and type. The video source is Sohu video. The contents of the theater are paid items, starting from 18 yuan per month.


Skyworth Box S1 Cinema


Theater pays

Skyworth Box S1 TV series not only includes popular video resources, such as "He came to close your eyes," "Qin Shi Mingyue" and so on, as well as Sohu video's main drama series - US drama. Can be seen Skyworth box S1 drama screened keyword play in the interface of the top position, but the content is not very rigorous, take a screenshot of this point of view, shielding the key words drama only the first three is the American drama, followed by the mainland drama set:


Skyworth Box S1 TV Drama

Skyworth Box S1 Other On Demand Navigation: Movies, animations, variety shows and sports are all classified as TV dramas. They are classified according to the subject matter and type of the film and television and displayed on the posters. The following is a screenshot of Skyworth box S1 video resources:




The House of Cards screenshot

Skyworth box S1's video resources are based on CIBN. Sohu video is filled with rich and colorful contents. However, Skyworth box S1 is still lacking in individual details. One is the display of sports columns, mostly low-resolution ones. The characters on the posters can only be seen clearly, affecting the perception:


Sports plate blur

The second is the orange CIBN watermark of the playing interface, which is eye-catching and affects the viewing. Only standard definition and high-definition options are available:


Skyworth box S1 watermark

In order to cooperate with rich resources and improve search efficiency, Skyworth Box S1 also adds a voice button on the remote control, presses and holds the desired movie, TV show, etc., and can be automatically played after identification. Skyworth Box S1 has a high rate of voice control recognition and quick response:


Skyworth box S1 voice

The mystery on the remote control, in addition to voice control, there is a 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom. Imagine that if a family member goes to bed at night and one person watches TV, he wants to experience a large amount of shocking sound effects without affecting his family's sleep. What should he do? Remote control has this function, is this problem perfectly solved? When the earphone is connected to the remote controller, the headset will be reminded by the way of the Toast on the screen. In addition, Skyworth box S1 remote control also has a play button, unlike the general OK button, select the cursor at the outermost level of the interface to select the movie, press the play button, you can directly open the movie, skip the secondary menu The video in the introduction and other details:


Skyworth box S1 headset tips

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Skyworth box S1 is still using the Android version 4.4 system. In addition to optimizing the layout of the UI for remote control operations, it can also be seen that the display of resources is optimized. And many Internet set-top boxes are the same for navigation. The contents of the navigation box are displayed in different ways. Skyworth box S1 uses up and down navigation, and the right side of the navigation bar shows the content of resources. Although it only changed the direction of operation logic, it can provide a fresh visual experience:


Skyworth Box S1 UI

The above-mentioned on-demand content mentions that the transferred content occupies 8 navigation categories, with the remaining applications, users, and setting three navigations. When the Skyworth box S1 is connected to a USB storage device, a navigation bar is added to the navigation center so that the user can view the contents of the storage device. From the layout of the navigation bar, the number of on-demand categories can also be seen, and the video resources occupied by Skyworth box S1 are absolutely important:




Skyworth Box S1 User

The two major items in the Skyworth box S1 application are the application store and the game lobby. After the APP is installed, the installed APP is displayed under these two major items. It can be seen from the application that Skyworth Box S1 does not have any third-party software built-in at the factory and the system is clean.


Skyworth Box S1 Application

Although the Skyworth box S1 is configured with a USB 2.0 interface, because the Skyworth box S1 responds to relevant regulations, this USB port cannot read APP files on the U disk or an external hard disk. In other words, U disk installation is not supported. Three-party software. However, as a user, there is no need to worry about this, because this interface does not have to use, Skyworth box S1 also has a Micro-USB interface, use a USB cable to connect to the computer, you can install software for Skyworth box S1 through the USB cable on the computer. However, there are still some simple steps that need to be done before the installation: enter more (advanced settings) in the settings, then go to the bottom of the media box, click the version number, until prompted to enter the developer mode, return to the superior Menu, enter the developer options, check the USB deployment, return to the previous menu, check the allow unknown sources in the security. After that, you can use your computer to install third-party software for Skyworth box S1. Test King's HDP live broadcast, security Bunny evaluation and Xiaobai file manager are all installed in this way:

Skyworth box S1 installs third-party software


Skyworth box S1 software installation completed

Skyworth Sohu box S1 uses an Android operating system, has a more complete openness, support the installation of third-party applications, users can install sofa butler (http://) to download more fun TV application software, expand the box of APP resources.


Skyworth Box S1's game lobby uses a game cafe APP. There are many categories, many contents, and a special area for users to read. Here is Skyworth box S1 running game screen:


Skyworth Box S1 game


Skyworth box S1 game screenshots

In the user navigation of Skyworth Box S1, JD Micro, user information, viewing history and message notifications are aggregated:


Skyworth Box S1 User

Skyworth box S1 settings, are more conventional settings options, such as the screen resolution adjustment, video player title removal and system upgrade options, etc.:


Skyworth box S1 settings

Hardware and Local Play _______
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Skyworth box S1 is not equipped with the current mainstream 64-bit processor, but chose a relatively mature Crystal Chen S812 quad-core processor. In the evaluation of the evaluation of the past, S810 equipped with network set-top boxes have a good, even more than 64 eight-core processor playback capabilities, Skyworth box S1 local playback in the end, will be able to know the answer for a while, and now Let's take a look at the main hardware configuration of Skyworth box S1. In addition to the previously mentioned main control, Skyworth box S1 is also equipped with 1GB of running memory and 8GB of flash memory, configuration quite satisfactory. Although the Skyworth box S1 does not support the 802.11 AC 5G WiFi protocol in the parameter configuration, the Skyworth box S1 can support 5G WiFi. The following is a list of the basic parameters of Skyworth box S1.
Skyworth box S1 parameters

Skyworth Box S1's hardware comprehensive running points, we still use the security Bunny Run points evaluation automatically tested, equipped with Crystal morning S812 Skyworth box S1 in the security Bunny Run points evaluation 5.7 version ran out of 31000 + results, Not only more than one vote of the eight-core CPU, but also more than Jing Chen this year's 64-bit processor S905 run points scores, performance is remarkable.


Skyworth Box S1 Running Points

In the local playback capability test, the security Bunny video evaluation 3.0 is still the first key test. From the result, Skyworth Box S1's score is the highest point scored by the evaluation king using the security Bunny video evaluation 3.0. Even if there is a succession of 64-bit processing chip S905, the strength of Crystal Chen S812 can not be underestimated:


Skyworth box S1 video running points

Have seen Skyworth box S1 praised the place, the following changes to talk about the inadequacies. In the manual local play test of Skyworth box S1, there is no such dazzling result as before: Subject to the system's own default video player - Sohu video player, Skyworth box S1 has dropped frames in many videos, and Caton and Can't play. And Skyworth box S1's local player features a single, only the subtitle switch. Common caption size settings, 2D and 3D conversion are not available.


Skyworth box S1 subtitles

Skyworth Box S1's local file management supports the installation of video, music, and other item categories, but does not support the classification by folder, does not support LAN-related functions, and the functions are relatively limited. However, it is also very easy to solve the above problem. You only need to install a third-party video player, such as Kodi, or MX Player, and so on.


Skyworth box S1 file management

Although the local player function of Skyworth Box S1 is not powerful enough, it does not obscure the bottom line. The local hardware power of Skyworth Box S1 is very powerful.

Skyworth Box S1 Review Summary _______
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Skyworth Box S1 is a network set-top box that Skyworth Digital has jointly released with Sohu Video, the licensee CIBN Internet TV, and Jingdong Micro-Link. In terms of content, everything is readily available, covering a wide range of domestic and foreign cinema lines.

Appearance, Skyworth box S1 uses a round dish shape, top polished, black color calm deep. Hidden interface layout, overall integrity.

In terms of configuration, the Skyworth box S1 did not ship with the popular 64-bit processor in the second half of this year. Instead, it used the more mature Crystal S812 quad-core processor. From the hardware running points, the video running scores also proved that the Skyworth S812 equipped with Skyworth box S1 has strong performance and does not lose 64-bit processor boxes.

Perhaps not perfect is the normality of all things. Skyworth Digital and Sohu Video Team's Skyworth Box S1 is worth noting on the whole, but there are still places worth mentioning in terms of details, such as the default player with simple function, the clarity of the video. , sports book resolution, etc.

In short, I don't care, Skyworth Box S1 is indeed a content-based network set-top box, like the sand powder can continue to pay attention to save your unhappy Oh!

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