What’s up everyone Nick here from TV Box Stop and welcome back to another TV box review.
So these days everyone is watching how they are spending as the price of goods and services
seems to be on the rise everyday due to inflation.
What if there was a way to cut the cord on one of your monthly bills and put some money
back into your pocket?
Well today’s TV box can do just that.
This is the Vseebox V2 Pro live TV box and with this box you get thousands of unlimited
streams of live TV channels and video-on-demand movies for a one-off payment with no monthly
subscriptions.
So in this review we take a look at why this box cost so much the benefits of such a device
and the hardware used to deliver the service.
So stay tuned you have that right after this.
Welcome back.
So in the box you have your standard contents and these include the box itself.
You get a Bluetooth voice remote with a voice search button and dedicated buttons for YouTube
Netflix Disney+ and Prime Video.
You get one HDMI cable.
A 5V 2A DC power adapter.
One external antenna.
And a user manual.
Its design consists of a plastic housing with a diamond cut pattern with the Vseebox branding
at the top.
For I/O ports it comes with one HDMI port one ethernet LAN port one optical audio port
one AV port one external antenna connector pin and its DC power input jack to its rear.
It has two USB 2.0 ports and one microSD card reader to its side.
At the front it has an LED display.
And to its base has four antiskid rubber pads cutouts for wall mounting and some ventilation
holes.
Its first bootup process includes the pairing of the Bluetooth remote a startup wizard and
then you’re taken to the launcher.
So this launcher is called the Grape launcher and it’s running on the Android 10 TV OS
version.
It contains horizontal scrolling panels for apps installed recommended apps and its settings
area.
It features a weather and time widget and a one-click button for freeing up its memory.
And this is Android TV OS so it does not have a navigation bar or status bar.
Features of this firmware include 4K 2160p display up to 60Hz.
You have an HDR on-off switch or you can set it to auto.
You get screen rotation to portrait mode reverse portrait and reverse landscape.
It has up to 10-bit color depth.
It has HDMI CEC options.
Mouse pointer settings.
It has the option to enable or disable surround sound audio and to enable audio passthrough.
54 various languages to choose from.
Screensaver option.
And Google Assistant feature.
So if you’re familiar with Android boxes and you view the price on their website I’m
almost certain your neck either jerk forward or backward in shock at the cost of this box
in comparison to cheap Android boxes.
It’s currently being sold at the price point of $329 and you can get it for $279 with a
$50 coupon which I placed in the description below.
So yes the box is way above what you would pay for a standard cheap Android box but with
that said this is no ordinary Android box.
Approximately 75% of the cost is for the service and the other 25 is for hardware.
What service?
Well I’ll get to that in just a moment.
But first let’s take a look at its system and hardware information.
So it says here that the manufacturer is Vseebox and it’s an Alwinner chipset running on
4GB of DDR3 RAM and 32GB of internal storage and Its Bluetooth version is 5.0.
Its CPU is the Alwinner H313/H616 and it’s a quad-core cortex A53 processor clocked at
1.5 GHz configured to run only 32-bit apps and games.
Its display and graphics are powered by the Mali G31 GPU with a refresh rate of 60Hz with
OpenGL ES version 3.2 support.
It has a dual-band 2.4GHz + 5GHz Wi-Fi adapter.
Its operating system is Android 10 and it’s not rooted.
Under devices it shows that it does not have Vulkan support.
They have also disabled the temperature sensor.
And under codecs in this list it has all the decoders for the playback of 4K HDR videos
and that’s all there is.
There are no AV1 Dolby Vision or surround sound audio decoders whatsoever.
So the box doesn’t stop there its Android 10 operating system is fully Google certified
and can play premium movie services in HD.
It comes with Google Widevine level I with HDCP 2.2 protection and it’s not rooted.
With this level all services are protected from piracy.
So with this it can play popular services such as Netflix and Prime Video in HD 1080p
only.
However it does not have an official Netflix ESN certification so in order to get Netflix
in at least HD 1080p you will have to install a modified version.
This modified version is not some special hack version and you cannot get free Netflix
with it.
You still have to pay for your subscription.
It utilizes the Google certification and HDCP protection and creates a workaround to get
at least HD 1080p.
To get a copy of this version you will have to email me directly at tvboxstop@gmail.com.
Netflix is the only service that requires a separate certification all other services
such as Prime Video Disney+ HBO Max Peacock will show in HD 1080p only using its current
DRM level.
For watching YouTube videos by default it comes with the Android TV version however
there is a major issue with playing 4K videos and also accessing the box’s HDR feature.
I installed the smart YouTube TV version and both the Android TV version and the smart
YouTube TV version cannot play videos in 4K resolution.
More than that it’s not triggering the box’s HDR feature.
So YouTube is limited to 1080p with no HDR.
Another area of concern is with this mobile screen mirroring feature.
It comes with a Miracast receiver app Google Assistant and you can also install the Airscreen
app.
I attempted to mirror my Android cell phone and tablet and none of the 3 options worked.
So mobile screen mirroring or casting is not available on this box.
For playing 4K videos you are limited to only 4K HDR as there are no AV1 or Dolby Vision
decoders.
So the videos played fairly okay and the HDR feature was automatically activated on my
TV.
However there were two videos that had some playback difficulty.
So I’ve already identified that the box does not have any surround sound audio decoders
and here in this demonstration each format I attempted to play resulted in the receiver
displaying PCM.
It even failed at software decoding via the MX player.
So there isn’t much you can do for playing Android games on 1.5 GHz CPU speed with no
GPU Vulkan support.
Also they have disabled the temperature sensor so there is no way of monitoring its heat
levels during gaming.
So here I’m playing a high-graphics Android game and in order for it to run smoothly I
had to set the graphics on medium to low levels.
Before I conclude let’s take a quick look at some benchmarks and where it ranks on my
chart.
In benchmarking its RAM and internal storage its 4GB of DDR3 RAM has a copy speed of 2675
MB/s.
Its internal storage has a reading speed of 144 MB/s and a write speed of 107 MB/s.
In testing its Wi-Fi and ethernet LAN speeds I got some surprising results.
Firstly as usual its 5GHz band and its a LAN port achieved the maximum speed of my network
of 154 Mbps.
What was surprising and unusual is its 2.4 GHz band reached as high as 132 Mbps which
would usually cap out at around 60.
So the network adapter used in this box is very good.
And in the comprehensive Antutu benchmark well given its low CPU clock speed and lack
of GPU Vulkan support it achieved a low score of 59954.
So based on its Antutu benchmark score it ranks at position 97 on my chart receiving
a 3/5 star rating based on its pros and cons.
To view the rest of the scores and features in comparison to other boxes I placed a link
in the description below the video.
I also provide the best prices and coupons using this link right here and you also have
a link to its corresponding video.
So see the link in the description below.
In summary.
Vseebox focused heavily on improving their live TV and video-on-demand service but at
the same time they used the same box from the V1 Pro model.
The firmware is fully Google certified but it lacks a Netflix ESN certification and critical
decoders needed for playback of videos with AV1 and Dolby vision formats and videos with
Dolby and DTS surround sound audio.
So with that said I’ve come to the end of this review.
As mentioned this box is pricey and most of the cost is for live TV and video-on-demand
service.
However you can get $50 off with the coupon I placed in the description below this video.
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