hey what's up guys Chigz here from
Chigz tech reviews and today I've got
my hands on another brand new Android TV
box stay tuned for the reavie so this is
a 5 octa core android TV box by high
media so this is AI media's latest
android TV box so we'll begin with a
quick unboxing followed by video tests
full HD 4k videos a few android games
testing Kodi performance and then we're
finish off with a benchmark and Wi-Fi
test so let's begin with the specs I'll
put the specs on the screen so you guys
can have a quick read so this has the s9
one - octa-core CPU the graphics chip is
a mali 820 you've got 2 gigabytes of
ddr3 ram 16 gigabytes of internal
storage you've got dual band Wi-Fi
bluetooth version for Android version 6
marshmallow this supports Ultra HD 4k
videos as 60 frames per second supports
HDR 10 + h LG HDR and this supports
dolby vision Dolby DTS so let's get the
Box open and see what it looks like
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so this is everything you get in the box
you've got a quick user guide getting
your setup so this is interesting you
get a flat HDMI cable so I think that's
quite cool
a UK charger a remote control this box
comes with a full-featured remote
control you've even got a 3d button you
can control your television it's got
those functions at the top and the
actual a5 itself so here it is this is
the high media a5 Android TV box the
first thing I notice is the aluminium
build so you've got aluminium it's black
aluminium at the bottom the sides are
made of aluminium and so is the top so
it's a complete aluminium design with a
nice shiny silver bezel so high-quality
design definitely
you've got the logo in the middle high
media and in the right-hand corner over
here you can see it says 8 cores 64-bit
ok so the front you've got again high
media and you have a power indication
light there so if we turn the unit
around you will see you have two USB
ports and then coming to the back of the
unit you have an antenna here for your
Wi-Fi oK you've got an optical s/pdif
port you've actually got an built in AV
ports I find that very interesting
because I have never seen Android TV box
with built in AV connections so yeah
something new there for you guys you've
got a HDMI port a network LAN port
you've got a reset hole there and the
actual power socket and if we continue
on this side you'll have another USB
port and a full size SD card slot so in
total you have three USB ports two on
one side one on the other and a memory
card slot and this is how the bottom
looks so the build quality is pretty
amazing you've got a complete aluminium
build here to give you guys an idea of
the size I'm going to bring in the TX by
Pro okay so TX five pro is one of the
smallest Android TV boxes you can get as
you can see the high media is slightly
bigger and in thickness it is by mini
retail - okay
so now I'm going to hook this up to my
TV and capture card and I'm going to
give you guys full demonstration of this
box and we're going to find out how good
the high media is
so here you have the home screen for the
a5 you've got a big icon here for Cody
you've got another one for media center
YouTube Google Playstore
you've got my app section Skype Facebook
settings Google Chrome and you can add a
custom shortcut at the end so that's
something new you can't normally edit
any of these larger icons they're fixed
you can never edit these in any any TV
box but this is the first TV box that
lets you put a custom icon here in the
big section so let's try it try and put
something there just to see how it would
look I want to put Netflix there okay
it's giving me more choice so I'll put a
few there and see what happens okay
let's come back out of it Wow so now I'm
really impressed now basically a lot of
people have asked me on their TV box how
do they change these icons or add icons
and stuff this is the only TV box that
will actually let you add your own big
icons so as you've seen I've just added
miracast Skype and Netflix and I can add
more and it will continue scrolling
similar to how the Windows 10 icons look
at the bottom you've got again shortcuts
but these shortcuts are very common
we've seen this before
you can add small shortcuts here to
whatever you're interested in you can
just add them in like this quite quickly
and go back and you'll see them appear
in the bottom so let's go to the app
drawer and find out what you get
installed as standard on this box so if
I go to my apps this is the app drawer
this is everything you have installed as
standard okay I haven't installed
anything yet this is what you get when
you first turn the box on so you've got
YouTube kodi Netflix Skype Facebook the
Google Play Store quick clean etc so you
have a whole bunch of apps that you can
play with so you can screen mirror you
can do mirror cast here you've got the
miracast option you click here and you
can connect to your mirror cast device
so let's have a quick look at the
storage so this box has 16 gigabytes of
internal storage and there is 11.7 3
gigabytes available the rest is taken up
by the OS so the first thing I like to
test it is Kodi performance so I'm going
to open up Cody
so what I'm going to do is play some 4k
video samples directly for offer USB
drive from Kodi
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so I just played a few 4k samples there
and as you saw they played very smooth
and clear so the next test I want to do
is some online streaming so let's try
out YouTube okay so I'll just open up
YouTube and I just got my channel open
here I'm just going to play one of my
videos so this is the weed Tech play -
Android TV box this is not just an
Android TV box it's a hybrid so this box
actually has a built-in TV tuner and you
have a full EPG programming guide and
you'll have the angles
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welcome to rant so I've just gone ahead
and installed all my favorite apps and
games on this box and they all installed
perfectly fine
okay so let's quickly test out Amazon
Prime
so here's Amazon Prime video so let's
try something out
not generations this peaceful island has
been home to our family Gandhari our
great danger okay so let's move on to
the gaming test the first game I like to
test is Real Racing 3
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moving on now too
five tests so this box has achieved
download speeds of thirty three point
four five megabits per second and nine
point four eight megabits per second for
upload speed
so the high media a5 achieved a total
benchmark score of 40 1490 in the antutu
benchmark software so let's see how that
compares with the others so this is my
top benchmark performance chart where
you can compare all the Android TV boxes
that I have reviewed to date higher the
score better the overall performance so
the high media a5 has jump straight to
number four in the octa-core chart with
an amazing score of 41 thousand four
hundred and ninety so it would be very
interesting to see which android TV box
I review next and what overall score it
will get so stay tuned for that so there
you have it guys that was the a5
octa-core Android TV box by high media
so as you saw from all the tests and the
benchmark scores this is a great
all-around performer it is very well
made you've got a full aluminium casing
here the build quality is very premium
and high quality definitely check this
out I put the links in the description
for you guys and if you like it of
course you can go ahead and purchase one
for yourselves I hope you enjoyed the
video and found it useful thank you so
much for watching and I hope you all
have a brilliant day