what's up guys I'm Chigz and you're
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today I've got my hands on the cheapest android TV
box I'd ever seen this box is priced
under $23 which is incredible today
we're going to find out if it's any good
so this is the Sunwell r69 TV box is a
brand new box which recently released
aimed at the budget market so as usual
I'll be running a series of real-time
tests to find out how well this box
performs so let's begin with the specs
I'll put the specs on the screen so you
guys can have a quick read so the CPU is
an all winner quad-core 1.5 gigahertz
the GPU is the Mali 400 you've got one
gigabyte of ddr3 RAM eight gigs of
internal storage
you've got Wi-Fi 2.4 gigahertz BGN and
Android version 4.4 this is everything
you get in the box you've got a user
manual HDMI cable a UK power adapter a
remote control and the TV box itself so
here it is the Sunwell r69 TV box
wow that is small so yeah you have a
matte finish r69 logo at the top and
you've got a really nice green strip
going all the way around that looks
pretty neat and the box is actually tiny
if we look at the ports at the front
you've got nothing on the right you have
a micro SD card slot and a USB port on
the back of the unit you have an AV port
HDMI your network LAN port another USB
port and a power socket nothing on the
left and we're back to the front of the
unit and this is what the bottom looks
like so it's quite a basic design very
light and small in size you've got
basically two USB ports to play with and
a micro SD card slot so I just want to
quickly show you guys how small this
device is if I bring in the txy pro tx5
Pro is one of the smallest Android TV
boxes you can get and if we compare it
to the r69 you can see that the r69 is
in fact smaller and in depth
they're exactly the same maybe the i-69
is a millimeter thicker but yeah overall
our 69 is definitely smaller and lighter
so this is the first Android TV box to
use the allwinner CPU and in terms of
specs this box is definitely on the low
end there is no bluetooth support
built-in and it's running Android 4.4
which sounds old by today's standards
however I'm quite interested to see how
this performs I don't think this is
going to be able to play 3d games and is
probably only good for watching movies
and TV nevertheless I'm excited to test
this box out as if the cheapest TV box
I've ever seen
so I'm going to hook this up to my TV
and capture card and let's find out what
this little box can do so this is my new
backlit wireless keyboard you can change
the lights to three different colors
it's an absolute amazing keyboard you've
got navigational buttons shortcuts a
really nice mouse pad multimedia
functions and a full QWERTY keyboard
I'll put the links for this in the link
description it's an amazing keyboard and
it will really enhance your experience
on your TV box
so this is the home screen for the i-69
TV box so you've got a massive icon here
called KD player and that is actually a
Kodi player will ever look at that in a
bit
you've got web browser the app drawer
music Settings clean memory Google Play
Store and video and at the bottom here
you've got customizable shortcuts where
you can just click the plus sign and you
can add as many shortcuts as you like
and they will appear at the bottom clean
memory if you press it it will simply
just clean the memory or make that
swishing noise and the memory would be
clean if you click on video you can
again customize that and you can add all
your apps related to video over here
let's go and have a quick look at the
app drawer so these are all the apps
that you get on this system
I have not installed any apps yet so you
can see you've got all the standard app
set you've also got the Google Play
Store so you can download thousands of
different games and apps this box
surprisingly supports miracast
and airplay so let's test out miracast
with android so if I click lower cost
receiver it says waiting for a
connection if I open my Samsung device
and click on Quick Connect so only
second now you should be able to see my
Samsung phone on the screen as you can
see miracast is working very nicely with
my samsung phone directly to the r69 TV
box okay so now I'm going to open up air
pin Pro so this app will allow you to do
screen mirroring with your Apple device
so I'm going to try this out to see if
it works
alright so we're going to twist out
AirPlay Mirroring I've got my iPad here
if I just scroll up from the bottom
click on airplay mirroring you can see
it says a TV click on that and you
should see my iPad screen mirrored so
this worked fine as you can see it has
worked fine I think there might be a one
second lag but it is working there could
be a slight lag there but overall it is
working ok so there you have it so iPad
screen mirroring is working absolutely
fine
so let's head over to settings and have
a quick look at the storage you get on
this so here is the system storage
information you have three point six one
gigs available to use from a total of
eight yeah you're running Android
version 4.4 which is a believe KitKat so
far navigating the menus and everything
does seem quite Swift and fast so let's
move on now to our first test we are
going to be playing 1080p videos from a
USB Drive and we're going to be doing
that on coding so let's open up Cody so
this box has Cody 16.1 Jarvis on there
you can't actually install the latest
version of Cody because it won't be
compatible if you go to the Google Play
Store you'll only have the option to
install Cody
Jarvis that suits me fine because I like
Cody Jarvis and this is the build I use
here on my video samples which contain
4k and 1080p clips I'm going to try a
few 1080p clips first and then I'm going
to play one 4k clip and we're going to
see how this r69 handles it
I detect you see understand
be careful the mankind I know
she's my
and I play to 1080p clips and they
played very smooth and perfect there was
no problem there let's play a 4k clip
now now this box is not designed to
actually play 4k videos the maximum
resolution this supports is 1080p but
I'm going to test it out to see what
happens so let's open up this 4k clip so
that didn't go down too well as expected
the 4k videos will not work on this box
so let's move on now to the next test so
the next test we're going to be doing is
streaming 1080p videos on YouTube so
let's get YouTube open so I'm just going
to play a trailer or so and we're going
to see how how it goes the maximum
resolution you can stream on YouTube
is 720p she's already
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ready for them spend some time with your
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grandfather
YouTube plays very well unfortunately
you can only stream 720p max but it is a
very smooth playback so let's come out
of this and let's move on to the next
test so moving on now to the gaming test
if I go to the aptril to installed all
my favourite games and apps as you can
see so the first game I'd like to test
out is Real Racing 3 so this is the game
controller I use for all my android TV
games this is the g600 controller I'll
put the links in the description box
below so you can check it out let's
continue with the game test
Wow
what
in the Wi-Fi speed test this box has
achieved a download speed of sixteen
point two to an upload speed of nine
point three three megabits per second so
there you have it guys there are 69
achieved a total benchmark score of
twenty thousand six hundred and ninety
one 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 the sunwell are
69 is in last place under the quad-core
chart with a score of twenty thousand
six hundred and ninety one this is the
lowest performance goal we have seen to
date it will be interesting to see which
TV box i review next and what overall
score it will achieve I'm still waiting
for a box that can match or beat the
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for more reviews like this one that was
the Sun Valar 69 Android TV box the
cheapest TV box I've seen to date the
Box also achieved the lowest performance
score I have seen so far so what is this
box good for you can play up to 1080p
movies from a USB Drive you can stream
720p YouTube videos play basic games
like Crossy Road and Ballmer friends etc
playing anything graphically intense
like real racing 3 and it will work but
it was struggle to perform well and it
would not be an enjoyable experience
live TV apps like BBC iPlayer and ITV
player etc work very well you have the
Google Play Store web browser Facebook
Twitter and all of that works nicely
there is no lag when you're generally
navigating the menus however you cannot
play or stream 4k videos Wi-Fi speed was
not the best either this is quite an
underpowered TV box but based on the
very cheap price this is selling for I
would say it's a very decent 1080p 720p
media player this box would also be
suitable in a children's room to play
favorite movies and TV shows all video
formats play nicely with no lag from MKV
to mp4 as long as the movies up to 1080p
it will play very nice and smooth you
can also play a lot of basic games as I
demonstrated earlier with that being
said I'll leave the links in the
description so you guys can check this
product out and if you like it you can
of course go ahead and purchase one for
yourselves I hope you enjoyed the video
thank you so much for watching and I
hope you all have a brilliant day