The box market is also one of the more active markets, and many manufacturers have launched their own box brands. The Lynx box is certainly not unfamiliar to us. For example, the second generation of the cat's box has also been born. Let's take a look at it and believe in the evaluation.
In July of last year, Alibaba released YunOS smart home entertainment services such as Magic Box shopping, cloud games, video calls, home monitoring, cloud albums, Ali TV assistants based on Tmall boxes. Recently, I got a new Lynx box containing these services. From the TV box's point of view, the products we usually see are mostly based on video applications. It is said that the new Lynx Box is equipped with the above-mentioned YunOS, in addition to video on demand, but also emphasized the shopping, games and other aspects of the experience. However, this product seems to me to have two concerns. One is whether these experiences other than video are good enough. Second, do you really need this as a box user?
Appearance feel super good
Before experiencing the above-mentioned services, let's take a look at the product itself. I have to say that after the 1M of Lynx Box and Lynx Box, Ali's new Lynx Box is getting better and better than before. The most obvious is that the color of the previous two generations of products is black + red, and the front edge shows half a playful cat face. This pattern originally feels good, but because the color itself is relatively heavy, it looks like it is more of a shanzhai. Now. And when it comes to the new Lynx box, the black and white color turns into fresh white and gray. I don't know how you feel about it. Anyway, I think it's a lot better than before.
In addition, the actual feel of Lynx Box 2 is also very good. From the size of the fuselage, the new Lynx box actually has the same size as our common TV box and is quite satisfactory. However, the engineering plastic material on the surface of the fuselage is indeed very delicate and feels quite good. Moreover, since it does not use any mirror material, it doesn't need to worry about leaving fingerprints in its hands.
So, in summary, whether it is from the use of materials, or feel, the new Lynx box can be said to be the best one I have used the box.
Like other similar products, Lynx Box 2 also has all the interfaces designed on the back of the fuselage. However, the compact body brings a lot of inconvenience to the number and layout of the interfaces. As you can see, there is only one power connector on the back of the body, one network interface and one AV interface and one USB interface.
Although this design seems to be relatively comprehensive, it is somewhat overstretched in use. For example, when you want to plug a Bluetooth controller receiver into the body, you must unplug the removable hard disk that is connected to the box. Of course, this issue is not a problem for Tmall 2 and most box products are.
Three input methods
In addition to a satisfying appearance, the new Lynx Box has three operating modes to choose from. The first is the traditional remote control. As can be seen from the above picture, the machine's remote control is similar in design to the body's style, using a matt white engineering plastic material, and feels good. In addition, in addition to a few traditional keys, the remote control also has a unique M button, which is called "magic button" has the ability to shoot in the Lynx Mall. We will introduce this function in detail in the following articles.
In addition, although this remote controller uses a 2.4G wireless remote control technology, it is free to operate at 360°, but it also has voice control. According to reports, this voice control function can cover video calls, search the entire network, and even use voice to directly purchase goods on the box through Taobao.
In the actual experience, I discovered that you really can use voice to perform various operations. For example, when you want to listen to a song, you just say “I want to listen to xxxâ€. When you want to watch a movie, you can press the voice key to say “I want to Look at xxx, even when you say "I want to buy xxx" to the remote control, the system will automatically jump to the Taobao interface. But frankly, although it can conduct various searches, its accuracy is very general. If the speed of speech is too fast or the voice is too small, it will have a greater impact on the search results.
In addition, when you connect the new Lynx box for the first time, the boot interface will also let you use the mobile phone to scan the QR code to download the "Ali TV" application to control the box. Open this "Ali TV" application you will find, in addition to the remote control function here, but also has local video projection, home monitoring, and video, application search and other functions. However, I found that currently there are two functions that are not popular for the popular movie and application recommendation. There is no search after clicking.
To sum up, although the new Lynx Box provides three control methods, I think the most commonly used method is still the remote control, because it is the most intuitive and the best. Although voice control and mobile phone control seem relatively new, the accuracy of voice control is not high. The mobile phone control itself overlaps with the remote control function. These are the reasons why it is difficult for us to abandon the traditional operation mode.
Of course, if you do not let me have an expectation, I really hope that Ali can improve the performance of this part of the voice, after all, talking is the simplest and most direct operation.
The system runs fast
On the hardware side, the new Lynx box is equipped with Amlogic S802 quad-core Cortex-A9 architecture processor, Mali 450 graphics processor, 2GB DDR3 memory, 8GB internal storage space, the overall operating experience is very smooth, basically no case of Caton occur. On this basis, let's take a look at what it calls video, shopping and games.
Video experience
In the video experience I was divided into two parts: one is online video on demand and the other is local video playback. In terms of online video, the new Tmall Box has conducted in-depth cooperation with Hwatah. It has been able to provide more than 6,000 movies and more than 150,000 hours of TV dramas.
When you boot into the main interface, you can see that all the columns are arranged horizontally on the screen. Actually, apart from shopping, education, applications, games, and shopping, everything else is related to video and divided into movies. TV drama, video selection, search, children and other sections.
Since the video source uses a Chinese number, all content is genuine and there are no problems in quality. At present, the number of licensees in the number of Chinese content in the video content richness, update frequency and other aspects are still relatively good, so like Captain America 2, Godzilla such large films are also free to see. Of course, in addition to entertainment, you can also watch some popular science videos in the search columns, watch many classic animations in children's columns, and so on.
In addition to network video on demand, the new Lynx box also supports 4K video playback, if you have downloaded 4K content can be directly inserted in the box to watch.
New Lynx box evaluation cloud game is bright spots look forward to the number of further increase
During the experience, I randomly played a 4K video clip on my hard drive. The whole playback process was very smooth. Unfortunately, my home’s TV is not 4K resolution, and the results in the real shots above are worse.
In fact, the new Lynx box can support most of the current mainstream audio and video including 3gp, asf, avi, dat, flv, m2ts, mkv, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, rm, rmvb, ts, vob, wmv, etc. The format, which means that you download the blockbuster on the forum can get this box to play, there is no problem. Unfortunately, the new Lynx box does not seem to support external subtitles.
shopping experience
At the beginning of the article, I mentioned that the biggest feature of the new Tmall Box is to move the “shopping†to the TV, which can be done through simple operations in Tmall, Tmall Supermarket, and Cost-effectiveness. Shopping and fulfilling orders and payments.
Here, there are two ways to achieve online shopping: First, speaking of voice operations. You can directly press the voice key to say "I want to buy xxx" to the remote control, and the TV screen will jump to the corresponding page. Of course, I also said just now that the accuracy of speech is general and the actual experience is not very good. Second, you can directly click on the shopping column in the main interface to enter the shopping interface. You can search through the categories and find you. The product you want to buy.
In fact, the key to using TV to shop is not to select products, but to follow up on these orders. During the experience, I discovered that since my initial Taobao client was bound to the box in the initial boot screen, when I clicked Buy, the TV would pop up a dialog box to let me set the shipping address. After clicking on the settings, as long as you use the Taobao client to directly scan the QR code appearing on the TV, you can directly input your address and other information on the mobile phone, and really complete the final payment link.
Objectively speaking, this process, because of the need for switching between TVs and mobile phones, is still not suitable for the elderly to operate on their own, and still does not reach the standard of “all citizens enjoy online shoppingâ€. Of course, the entire process does not seem to be too difficult for young people. Just follow the step-by-step instructions and it is worthy of recognition.
In addition, the new Lynx Box also specially designed an M button on the remote control called “Magic Buttonâ€. You can use this M button to “spike†and grab shopping. However, unfortunately, because the new Tmall Box has not yet been officially sold, the interface has remained at the preparation stage after clicking the M button, and it cannot be actually experienced.
In general, using box products such as the new Tmall magic box to make online purchases on TV is believed to be new to young people. Although in the experience, I discovered that in fact, the process design and operation of each link are convenient. Both are quite good, but whether you can like it and get used to it this way is a big problem. Perhaps the special design of M-keys in the new Lynx Box will, to a certain extent, be a promotion to the user's habit of buying online on TV. However, the so-called nightly “snacking†efforts will in the end be great. Whether the product is a new Lynx Box Exclusive and so on are obviously more crucial.
The game experience game application is another major focus of the new Tmall Box in addition to video and shopping. For this reason, I also specially equipped the new Lynx box with a Bluetooth gamepad, hoping to find back the hours of summer vacation and secretly sat in front of the TV to play Contra-feeling.
Thought of this, after connecting the handle, I couldn't wait to open the game lobby page card. In the main interface, you can see that the main visual is the cloud game area, and other small sections are currently recommended games.
According to my actual experience, except for the ten major games in the cloud game zone, other types of games are not only pitifully low, but also have little playability. For example, if you select the handle game in the category selection, there are only seven models after entering. I tried the FireWire command 2 in it. Although the picture quality is acceptable, because the game itself is designed for touch operation, the use of the controller is rather fun. Very awkward.
So, for the new Lynx box, the real game experience actually refers to the cloud game area. When you open the cloud game zone, you will find that although there are only ten games here, the level is significantly better than other ordinary games. For example, Batman: Arkham City, Pro Football 2014, NBA2K14, and so on. Of course, the game here is to charge, the cheapest is the legend of Heroes 6: empty track FC, 4.9 yuan per month, the most expensive is the live football 2014, 14.9 yuan per month, in fact, is still acceptable to people.
Since all of the games here are running in the cloud server, as long as your home network speed is greater than 4M, you can click and enter to directly operate. In the actual experience, through the processing capabilities of the cloud, the game screen continues to maintain a smooth effect. Although these games are all based on the Android system, but in the visual and sound experience is not lost on other platform localization games.
to sum up
It is undeniable that YunOS's carrying is the biggest highlight of the new Lynx box, except for the ones that I personally think is very outstanding. Judging from the actual experience, the video service of the new Lynx Box continues to cooperate with Wah, and the source is from the number of platforms in China. Compared with other similar products, the highlights are not obvious, and other cats can see the new cat. The box can also be seen, there is no way to see it, and 4K video playback is actually based on hardware upgrades, but in the case of extremely poor 4K film sources, there are also some "heroes don't use it."
Relatively speaking, online shopping and gaming applications do bring some new differences to the new Lynx box, which can be said to be two brighter applications. While emphasizing the game and online shopping applications side by side with the video, it also brought a lot of pressure to the new Lynx box. For example, as mentioned above, how can we guide the formation of user TV online shopping habits, and the continued enrichment of cloud games is the key to the future of the new Tmall Box that wants to stand out from many box products and then occupy the living room to “redefining the familyâ€.
In July of last year, Alibaba released YunOS smart home entertainment services such as Magic Box shopping, cloud games, video calls, home monitoring, cloud albums, Ali TV assistants based on Tmall boxes. Recently, I got a new Lynx box containing these services. From the TV box's point of view, the products we usually see are mostly based on video applications. It is said that the new Lynx Box is equipped with the above-mentioned YunOS, in addition to video on demand, but also emphasized the shopping, games and other aspects of the experience. However, this product seems to me to have two concerns. One is whether these experiences other than video are good enough. Second, do you really need this as a box user?
Appearance feel super good
Before experiencing the above-mentioned services, let's take a look at the product itself. I have to say that after the 1M of Lynx Box and Lynx Box, Ali's new Lynx Box is getting better and better than before. The most obvious is that the color of the previous two generations of products is black + red, and the front edge shows half a playful cat face. This pattern originally feels good, but because the color itself is relatively heavy, it looks like it is more of a shanzhai. Now. And when it comes to the new Lynx box, the black and white color turns into fresh white and gray. I don't know how you feel about it. Anyway, I think it's a lot better than before.
In addition, the actual feel of Lynx Box 2 is also very good. From the size of the fuselage, the new Lynx box actually has the same size as our common TV box and is quite satisfactory. However, the engineering plastic material on the surface of the fuselage is indeed very delicate and feels quite good. Moreover, since it does not use any mirror material, it doesn't need to worry about leaving fingerprints in its hands.
So, in summary, whether it is from the use of materials, or feel, the new Lynx box can be said to be the best one I have used the box.
Like other similar products, Lynx Box 2 also has all the interfaces designed on the back of the fuselage. However, the compact body brings a lot of inconvenience to the number and layout of the interfaces. As you can see, there is only one power connector on the back of the body, one network interface and one AV interface and one USB interface.
Although this design seems to be relatively comprehensive, it is somewhat overstretched in use. For example, when you want to plug a Bluetooth controller receiver into the body, you must unplug the removable hard disk that is connected to the box. Of course, this issue is not a problem for Tmall 2 and most box products are.
Three input methods
In addition to a satisfying appearance, the new Lynx Box has three operating modes to choose from. The first is the traditional remote control. As can be seen from the above picture, the machine's remote control is similar in design to the body's style, using a matt white engineering plastic material, and feels good. In addition, in addition to a few traditional keys, the remote control also has a unique M button, which is called "magic button" has the ability to shoot in the Lynx Mall. We will introduce this function in detail in the following articles.
In addition, although this remote controller uses a 2.4G wireless remote control technology, it is free to operate at 360°, but it also has voice control. According to reports, this voice control function can cover video calls, search the entire network, and even use voice to directly purchase goods on the box through Taobao.
In the actual experience, I discovered that you really can use voice to perform various operations. For example, when you want to listen to a song, you just say “I want to listen to xxxâ€. When you want to watch a movie, you can press the voice key to say “I want to Look at xxx, even when you say "I want to buy xxx" to the remote control, the system will automatically jump to the Taobao interface. But frankly, although it can conduct various searches, its accuracy is very general. If the speed of speech is too fast or the voice is too small, it will have a greater impact on the search results.
In addition, when you connect the new Lynx box for the first time, the boot interface will also let you use the mobile phone to scan the QR code to download the "Ali TV" application to control the box. Open this "Ali TV" application you will find, in addition to the remote control function here, but also has local video projection, home monitoring, and video, application search and other functions. However, I found that currently there are two functions that are not popular for the popular movie and application recommendation. There is no search after clicking.
To sum up, although the new Lynx Box provides three control methods, I think the most commonly used method is still the remote control, because it is the most intuitive and the best. Although voice control and mobile phone control seem relatively new, the accuracy of voice control is not high. The mobile phone control itself overlaps with the remote control function. These are the reasons why it is difficult for us to abandon the traditional operation mode.
Of course, if you do not let me have an expectation, I really hope that Ali can improve the performance of this part of the voice, after all, talking is the simplest and most direct operation.
The system runs fast
On the hardware side, the new Lynx box is equipped with Amlogic S802 quad-core Cortex-A9 architecture processor, Mali 450 graphics processor, 2GB DDR3 memory, 8GB internal storage space, the overall operating experience is very smooth, basically no case of Caton occur. On this basis, let's take a look at what it calls video, shopping and games.
Video experience
In the video experience I was divided into two parts: one is online video on demand and the other is local video playback. In terms of online video, the new Tmall Box has conducted in-depth cooperation with Hwatah. It has been able to provide more than 6,000 movies and more than 150,000 hours of TV dramas.
When you boot into the main interface, you can see that all the columns are arranged horizontally on the screen. Actually, apart from shopping, education, applications, games, and shopping, everything else is related to video and divided into movies. TV drama, video selection, search, children and other sections.
Since the video source uses a Chinese number, all content is genuine and there are no problems in quality. At present, the number of licensees in the number of Chinese content in the video content richness, update frequency and other aspects are still relatively good, so like Captain America 2, Godzilla such large films are also free to see. Of course, in addition to entertainment, you can also watch some popular science videos in the search columns, watch many classic animations in children's columns, and so on.
In addition to network video on demand, the new Lynx box also supports 4K video playback, if you have downloaded 4K content can be directly inserted in the box to watch.
New Lynx box evaluation cloud game is bright spots look forward to the number of further increase
During the experience, I randomly played a 4K video clip on my hard drive. The whole playback process was very smooth. Unfortunately, my home’s TV is not 4K resolution, and the results in the real shots above are worse.
In fact, the new Lynx box can support most of the current mainstream audio and video including 3gp, asf, avi, dat, flv, m2ts, mkv, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, rm, rmvb, ts, vob, wmv, etc. The format, which means that you download the blockbuster on the forum can get this box to play, there is no problem. Unfortunately, the new Lynx box does not seem to support external subtitles.
shopping experience
At the beginning of the article, I mentioned that the biggest feature of the new Tmall Box is to move the “shopping†to the TV, which can be done through simple operations in Tmall, Tmall Supermarket, and Cost-effectiveness. Shopping and fulfilling orders and payments.
Here, there are two ways to achieve online shopping: First, speaking of voice operations. You can directly press the voice key to say "I want to buy xxx" to the remote control, and the TV screen will jump to the corresponding page. Of course, I also said just now that the accuracy of speech is general and the actual experience is not very good. Second, you can directly click on the shopping column in the main interface to enter the shopping interface. You can search through the categories and find you. The product you want to buy.
In fact, the key to using TV to shop is not to select products, but to follow up on these orders. During the experience, I discovered that since my initial Taobao client was bound to the box in the initial boot screen, when I clicked Buy, the TV would pop up a dialog box to let me set the shipping address. After clicking on the settings, as long as you use the Taobao client to directly scan the QR code appearing on the TV, you can directly input your address and other information on the mobile phone, and really complete the final payment link.
Objectively speaking, this process, because of the need for switching between TVs and mobile phones, is still not suitable for the elderly to operate on their own, and still does not reach the standard of “all citizens enjoy online shoppingâ€. Of course, the entire process does not seem to be too difficult for young people. Just follow the step-by-step instructions and it is worthy of recognition.
In addition, the new Lynx Box also specially designed an M button on the remote control called “Magic Buttonâ€. You can use this M button to “spike†and grab shopping. However, unfortunately, because the new Tmall Box has not yet been officially sold, the interface has remained at the preparation stage after clicking the M button, and it cannot be actually experienced.
In general, using box products such as the new Tmall magic box to make online purchases on TV is believed to be new to young people. Although in the experience, I discovered that in fact, the process design and operation of each link are convenient. Both are quite good, but whether you can like it and get used to it this way is a big problem. Perhaps the special design of M-keys in the new Lynx Box will, to a certain extent, be a promotion to the user's habit of buying online on TV. However, the so-called nightly “snacking†efforts will in the end be great. Whether the product is a new Lynx Box Exclusive and so on are obviously more crucial.
The game experience game application is another major focus of the new Tmall Box in addition to video and shopping. For this reason, I also specially equipped the new Lynx box with a Bluetooth gamepad, hoping to find back the hours of summer vacation and secretly sat in front of the TV to play Contra-feeling.
Thought of this, after connecting the handle, I couldn't wait to open the game lobby page card. In the main interface, you can see that the main visual is the cloud game area, and other small sections are currently recommended games.
According to my actual experience, except for the ten major games in the cloud game zone, other types of games are not only pitifully low, but also have little playability. For example, if you select the handle game in the category selection, there are only seven models after entering. I tried the FireWire command 2 in it. Although the picture quality is acceptable, because the game itself is designed for touch operation, the use of the controller is rather fun. Very awkward.
So, for the new Lynx box, the real game experience actually refers to the cloud game area. When you open the cloud game zone, you will find that although there are only ten games here, the level is significantly better than other ordinary games. For example, Batman: Arkham City, Pro Football 2014, NBA2K14, and so on. Of course, the game here is to charge, the cheapest is the legend of Heroes 6: empty track FC, 4.9 yuan per month, the most expensive is the live football 2014, 14.9 yuan per month, in fact, is still acceptable to people.
Since all of the games here are running in the cloud server, as long as your home network speed is greater than 4M, you can click and enter to directly operate. In the actual experience, through the processing capabilities of the cloud, the game screen continues to maintain a smooth effect. Although these games are all based on the Android system, but in the visual and sound experience is not lost on other platform localization games.
to sum up
It is undeniable that YunOS's carrying is the biggest highlight of the new Lynx box, except for the ones that I personally think is very outstanding. Judging from the actual experience, the video service of the new Lynx Box continues to cooperate with Wah, and the source is from the number of platforms in China. Compared with other similar products, the highlights are not obvious, and other cats can see the new cat. The box can also be seen, there is no way to see it, and 4K video playback is actually based on hardware upgrades, but in the case of extremely poor 4K film sources, there are also some "heroes don't use it."
Relatively speaking, online shopping and gaming applications do bring some new differences to the new Lynx box, which can be said to be two brighter applications. While emphasizing the game and online shopping applications side by side with the video, it also brought a lot of pressure to the new Lynx box. For example, as mentioned above, how can we guide the formation of user TV online shopping habits, and the continued enrichment of cloud games is the key to the future of the new Tmall Box that wants to stand out from many box products and then occupy the living room to “redefining the familyâ€.
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