hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the Xiaomi mi box s. Xiaomi
was nice enough to send me out to New York City to take a look at some of
their products with an event and this one was pretty impressive this is a 4k
HDR set-top box that runs android TV but only comes in at about $40 at least in
the united states it is available around the world but let's go ahead and take a
look at what's in the box and set it up and see how it all works so here's the
box it says 'my box asks 4k Ultra HD set-top box and then it says free HDMI
cable three thousand-plus apps on this side is his three-step setup HDMI
attach mi box to TV connect to the Internet and then start streaming on the
back you'll see it says it's a dolby digital DTS 2.0 + digital out it's got
chromecast built-in Google assistant built-in 4k Ultra HD plus HDR and then
it's got a quad-core CPU with a 3 plus 2 core GPU and then it shows what comes in
the box on this side so let's go ahead and open it up and here is the me box
itself we'll set this aside in just a moment here and take a look at that and
here we have some paperwork me box and I think this is just a quick setup and
then we have important product information there's one more here and it
says Terms and policies so let's set that aside inside we've got an HDMI
cable we have our power adapter and we've got a remote and a couple
batteries in there for the actual remote let me set this aside and we'll take a
closer look at the box itself so here is the me box and you can see it's
incredibly thin and then on the back we have our power plug USB a HDMI and audio
out this is also an optical audio I hope and noting around the side
and if we compare that to another popular 4k HDR box you'll see it's less
than half the size so it's pretty impressive if I put it on top here
you'll see it's even smaller this way as well so that's pretty impressive how
small this is in comparison so in this little box we can do 4k HDR so let's
connect it to the television and I'll set it up so we can take a closer look
once you have your me box set up you'll have this as your home screen and what
you have here at the top is all of your different apps from left to right you
can add a favorite go back over to your apps and then if we go down you'll see
there's play next Netflix HBO now trending featured and Google set all of
this up based on when I signed in I actually don't even have ESPN but it
installed it by itself so it's just something that it sets up for default
and then you can remove these later now if we go back up to the top we have our
apps now you do have an app button on the remote you can just hit that and get
to the same thing you can get more apps get more games so maybe you have a Plex
server something like that you have the option
to install things like Plex or whatever you'd like so that you can stream all of
your content if we go back home with this button we can use Google assistant
at the top now we can use our voice click to speak or we can use the actual
keyboard I'll use voice and I'll search for one of my youtube videos pixel 3xl
December update you'll see it finds my video there we can go through the other
ones as well and then we'll just click to play and you'll see this as my video
started to play pretty quickly it hasn't hiccup and it's in 4k so that
part's really nice now the other thing it has 4k HDR and if you have an HDR
television this will work great on that and I've only recorded one HDR video but
let's take a look at it Apple watch review 4k HDR you'll see it finds my
review I'll click on it to play and if you have an HDR television you'll be
able to see it in HDR if not it'll still look pretty good but it won't be
vibrant or the darks won't be as dark so it looks pretty good overall we go back
home you'll see it's nice and fast now this is an Android TV but it also has
chromecast built in so if we set the remote down we'll go over to my pixel
3xl and we can go to youtube and I'm already on my channel we've got the
chromecast button here will cast to me box 4 that's this one it's already
connected and then we can just play the latest video and it will play on the me
box so you can use it as a chromecast if you don't have one of those as well so
it's really nice and it plays pretty quickly and of course you've got all of
your controls on-screen if you want to just jump around the video and you'll
see it takes a moment to resume and it works pretty well so we'll stop that
stop casting and then back on the remote we have volume controls and then we also
have a live button if you have live TV set up a Netflix button and your
microphone and a power off button so it's pretty simple and straightforward
and it's really fast for just this tiny little box but it has 4k HDR and that's
probably the best thing about it and also if you have Google playing movies
and things like that you'll be able to play those as well
and music and everything else so that's it for the Xiaomi me box s let me know
what you think about it in the comments below I think it's pretty impressive for
the price and it's pretty incredible how thin it is as well if you haven't
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