It's been a while since i've reviewed one of these and that is an android tv box and this one is tiny
as you can see it's called the dynalink and this does support netflix up to 4k and hdr support
along with disney plus amazon prime video all of those popular streaming services it's powered by
an amilogic quad core with two gigabytes of ram and eight gigabytes of storage which yes is enough
for streaming services so what did surprise me is how small this little tv box is so we have a quick
start guide and just look at the size of this thing so it fits in the palm of your hand really
really small so at the top here simply just states dynalink we have micro usb there just to power it
power on button status led and right here at the back an hdmi port so this is hdmi
4k this one here is hdmi 2.1 spec hdr support too as well with this and there's just simply a few
specs there on the back with it so what is missing would have been great on one of these sides here
or even on the back there if they could have put a usb port on this a usb 2 at least enough to access
a pen drive with say some video files on it now the power supply that is right here very small
too as well i know this one's only five volts one amp so it needs next to nothing in terms of
power this thing super low powered hdmi cables nice and short of course to plug it into a tv
and here we have the double triple a sorry batteries that are required for the remote here
and this is a typical android tv style remote as you can see so we have the directional
buttons there okay in the middle back volume up and down dedicated buttons for netflix
youtube google play there there's a built-in microphone power button mute and the home key
right there it's a good quality remote too as well so the initial setup will take you about
five minutes it's very straightforward you can even use your phone to help get set up
get your wireless connection connected and your account that is google of course and google play
this is on here google play store you have google assistant that is there too as well
so what i've done is just install a couple of things here just to go through really what you
can expect out of this tv box but the main thing is i think most people we're looking at streaming
applications so things like netflix amazon prime video that's of course all supported and we do
have drm i've checked it out wide vine level one support and hdr support 4k support with everything
so the maximum support here so this is really good to see so amazon prime video i will load this one
up here first okay and that was very quick i think it was actually running in the background now the
menu system just like the main menu even with this app here very quick and fast to go through this
of course depending a little bit on your internet connection now the wireless i have not had any
troubles with the wireless connection on this one i'm connected up to wireless
five okay and that is 5.4 gigahertz no wi-fi 6 support with this one so i can't go into anything
here really for copyright reasons but you can see when you get into for example something that's
going to support uhd which is our 4k that you'll see down here with the episodes uhd support and if
it is hdr that will pop up too but currently the way i'm running it with the screen capture card
hdr is not showing but trust me it does and it does work so load time is very quick now if i try
to show you anything right now it's going to spit out a problem with my hdmi cable but i think it's
because it doesn't like me screen capturing amazon prime video obviously for copyright reasons there
so get out of this and we'll take a look too at our netflix performance and what
we can expect out of that but the programs and everything i've been watching tv series
and amazon prime video running flawless absolutely no issues and very good quality
the same deal here for netflix that it is very quick going through it and it will tell you if
it does support 4k or it's hd and the hdr2 there as well so when i go through this the performance
again is very very good now it's only just showing hd here at the moment again because the way i'm
screen capturing with this only connected up via 1080p otherwise you'd see that for anything
it does support it a gladiator doesn't but some of the tv series and things uh for example like
this one cobra kai uh that would come up with 4k if it does support it which it doesn't at
the moment but when i connect it up directly to my tv and not through the capture card it does there
so i'll just quickly load in a tiny bit of footage here so we can see what to expect all right
and it is very very quick here this is only going to take just seconds to get straight into it
and then it takes a little while to improve that quality and the
performance of it so just quickly skip ahead and you can see that that is fine
and the quality starts to improve the more it's going so i can't show you too much of
that unfortunately of course uh that is just under fair use at the moment
just to show a few seconds of that on how it performs but very good netflix performance
so performance and the quality looking through the youtube app here is great and it's very very fast
to scroll through everything now take a look at the performance we can expect here so just
load up this video should not take too long okay it's gone straight into it without any problems
so let's just get back here on the timelines it's gone to where i've been watching before
and see how long that takes that is really quick and the quality looks great i've had
no problems there with the quality so just bringing up that menu again you can go over
to more quality you can see these are the options so the maximum being 4k and surprisingly quick
very quick to cache in those videos and i don't even have the best internet connection
of course being an android tv tv box here that we do have a microphone built into the remote that's
bluetooth and you can use google assistant with it so various commands you can use it to open
applications close them information it's all very straightforward and most people will know
about this but i'll give you a very quick demo open netflix the witcher got it opening netflix
so has brought that up netflix the witcher as i stated and wanted it to
close application so you can use that as well as a simple quick way to close the
app there and even things like the weather very straightforward what is today's weather forecast
in catalonia today it'll and one last little test here open amazon prime video
opening prime video okay brought that up very quick the performance has been great
and you can use it to go into the app store and also search for applications instead of typing
you can simply just dictate to it as well and even with my accent it seems to be
quite accurate no problems that i'm having with it for simple straightforward commands that is
so what is this powered by so i'm going to just launch here ada 64. that'll give us all the info
we need to know so it is powered by an ami logic chip and we see them everywhere in these android
tv boxes so it's a quad core this one the maximum turbo is 1.8 gigahertz and it does have the mali
g31 as you see here under display sorry there we go melee g31 okay and under codec support here
take a look there are a lot of codecs in here now it does support hevc scroll down on this
you can see hevc support and even vp9 so it will be able to play some demanding files the
problem is with this particular android tv box here is that there is no micro sd card support
which would have been great and a usb 2 port really missing out on that because
then we could plug in external files video files and play those of course
gaming performance with this ami logic quad core and the mallee graphics is it enough it
is enough to play you can see these really old titles now this is real racing three and the
performance is not too bad so the limiting factor of course with gaming is really going
to be that internal storage that we've only got four gigabytes free and some of the new titles
they are very very large and that's some terrible gameplay from me just crashing but if you want to
play some of these smaller light older titles it is possible on this android tv box as you
can clearly see with a title like real racing 3 here so that's enough of my terrible driving here
and lastly under our preferences here so about you can take a look and see that it is version 10
and the android security patch level here is february the 5th so i do hope that that gets
updated considering now we are in july here and just getting out of that there's a couple other
things i can show you too so there's standard kind of settings and the free available amount
of space very very low here uh the total storage is 4.8 gigabytes internal storage
so you really cannot put a lot on it so it's basically just for streaming services of course
uh chromecast built-in screen saver there google assistant that's there too as well and
your typical kind of settings that you would find with an android tv box such as this one
okay so all up performance of this going in and out of the menus downloading things is all very
good here from this android tv box okay so there's no noticeable issues on performance in and out of
the menus the quad core handles it fine netflix's amazon prime video with a connection i've not had
any issues with my wireless connection it hasn't dropped out it streamed everything
really fast and it caches in netflix and amazon prime video very quickly too and runs up to 4k
and 4k hdr hdr support there as well my lg tv detected it straight away and it went into its
hdr mode which was great to see there so it does have wide vine level one which of course
is what we need to be running the 4k and over standard definition a lot of the older boxes
or the no-name brand ones will often not have even projectors i've reviewed not have that so
good that it does have it but what about the cons then so it doesn't have any expandable
storage there's no micro sd card slot there is no usb 2 port and that for me is well it's
disappointing because that would have been perfect to have at least one of those micro sd card slots
so i could put some video files on it play them off it because the ami logic here with the g31
can actually play demanding video files but of course the trouble is now trying to access those
external files with this and a usb 2 port would have been perfect to have but apart from that if
you're looking for just really playing netflix amazon prime video and disney plus having good
performance in a tiny little package and being able to stream up to 4k and hdr then it certainly
covers that base there the diner link right here so thank you so much for watching this video