hey guys EBPMAN here and today we're
taking a look at another android TV box
this one is the probox 2 air
let's check it out now on the channel
i've reviewed several android TV boxes
and I always like when i get something
have a small footprint great graphics
quality great graphics performance as
well as they updated operating system
and this is definitely one of those
boxes
let's take a look at some of the specs
we can see what this box provides take a
closer look at the aspects in general
you have a quad-core processor you also
have two gigabytes of processing memory
into our internal storage of 16
gigabytes you also have dual band Wi-Fi
so this is great this is going to
support both 2.45 your network set
within your house 24 point out and it
also has android marshmallow six point
out and that's really important because
a lot of the boxes that we're seeing in
the market today especially in the
amazon marketplace are either android
for or lesser so having a marshmallow
six point out is good it's not seven yet
but six is definitely much better than
some of the ones that we've seen in the
market you do have an hdmi connection 4k
output you also see that it has ethernet
connectivity ir sensor I remote included
and it's going to be a flexible box it's
going to have a very small footprint and
it's going to look well with your TV or
your pc wherever you connected
let's go ahead and check and see what's
in the box now in the Box going to have
your TV box an antenna that you connect
the TV box you have to remote one
traditional remote as you can see here
and then one and that is very similar to
what you would see like on a roku and
you have a little remote Donald that you
use you have your power cord which is
very small and compact hdmi cable a user
guide and some additional instructions
as you can see here you have this is
going to be your antenna connector right
here on the side you have a couple ports
you have your power you have USB hdmi
ethernet and then you have optical out
as well here you have another USB port
microsdhc can put up 220 asd in here
and then this is where the LEDs going to
light up there is no clock on this one
but it is you can see it's very small
if I put my hand on it you can see that
it's just a little bit larger than the
palm of my hand
not very large whatsoever and it's also
very since it's going to look good not
take up a lot of space and you know i
would say something like doing with
these little boxes is putting a sharp
piece of velcro here and this velcro get
behind your TV that could be something
you can do but that would affect
line-of-sight if you use this remote for
using this type of remote using a dongle
then definitely you can keep this away
from visibility so that's a pretty nice
small box once you complete the setup
process and a little he's just choosing
your timezone selecting your internet
connection and then you presented with
the screen is probably one of the
simplest ones that I've seen to date and
let's go over some of things that we see
you have a home screen and i'm just
going to use the mouse to move over
because you're Abby you can see that
there's very little installed you have
things like AirDroid for file movement
app installer browser it has chrome I
have a game here on gmail netflix sound
movie player miracast so that you can
share things from your phone and parrot
to the actual box itself you have Cody
happy casas again forecasting the play
store because it is an Android box you
can see that and then obviously some
over-the-ear type some updates and
backup so YouTube is also their present
if i go back and what I'm going to do is
just going to go up up again and we'll
go I'm over to home you'll notice that
here things are on nicely organized
where i can select Cody google play a
task killer on the bottom left-hand
corner what you'll see is kind of
devices that are connected so you can
see right now that it even if it's not
connected bluetooth is not connected and
pretty much we're connected to a Wi-Fi
that's why that icon is highlighted you
can go into any of these areas if i go
movies and TV it's going to show me
which apps are you know designed for
movie and TV show each one of these
sections we're just going to go through
and highlight apps that serve the
specific category
let's go ahead and let's go down here
for a second will go into settings now
settings because this is running Android
this is a very common view that we see
with a lot of the android TV box is so
what we're going to do is come all the
way over to about and in the about air
going to see the version that we have
here and again you're looking at its
using android version 601 again good
version here and then what you have is
the last security patch was done up in
August so let's go down and see that
doesn't look like there's anything else
there we can come back and you can see
pretty much standard android TV box look
and feel the only difference is that
this is a more current version out there
is an area that we saw in the go up to
the apps that had some updates
capabilities so you'll notice we can go
over here and then what we can do is
just shoes on the update screen so
here's an area where you can just check
and see if there's an online update
available
it's going to check in to see if there's
any system updates and it says that our
system is updated i always like checking
this because if you get an error message
then you know that you know the the
update solution doesn't really work in
this case no error message just told us
that there is no update available which
is a positive thing to see
so all in all everything looks pretty
straightforward now one of the things
that you have here is you do have the
ability to look at the screen in
different ways so you could look at a
different launcher so this is going to
be much larger it does have you can see
these giant icons here and as we move
over you can see the task killer so what
we have in essence change is kind of
like the look and feel of the desktop up
I kind of like the big the big version
like this so again same functionality
dis larger icons now launching Cody is
pretty straightforward
what you see is I'm loading Jarvis on
and this actually comes pre-configured
which is really nice if i go over here
you'll notice there's a lot of the the
pre-configured add-ons are already
available my keep in mind that Cody for
those of you who don't know what Kody is
i'll just give you a brief summary Cody
is a media center
technology software that allows you to
enhance your movie and TV content
experience by adding these add-ons that
you see here listed on the bottom that
open up a world of content many people
refer to this as the cord cutters box
because he was just with the internet
you can get a lot of the content that
you would get through a cable provider
or regular TV i'll give you kind of a
brief demo on one of the most popular
one so there's a couple of them sports w
can see there's one that people go to
see sports exodus is probably one of the
most well-known now when i pick that
really focuses on content and as you can
see right now there's an update taking
place the key to using Cody is to allow
these updates to take place if you start
using the apps and when you start up the
Kodiak for the very first time or even
subsequent times before the update takes
place things get a little wonky and you
know monkey being a technical term
pretty much means it kind of starts
acting up so I always wait for this is
just takes a couple seconds you know
anywhere from 30 seconds to 60 seconds
and then I wait for it to update once
it's updated will go into the app and or
the add-on so you can see how it works
now Cody itself is broken up into a
couple areas you have a picture area
video area music area program area and
then a system area now one of the things
that you'll find is there's a new
version of cody which is cody version 17
and this is actually version 16 this is
a Jarvis version you could update to the
newest one by just replacing this or
even as you connect your account to the
google marketplace it will automatically
update Cody Cody is available on the
market place now what we're going to do
is going to show you a couple ways for
those of you new to Cody you can add
access add-ons by going into the an area
and here you have a lot of different
add-ons that you can just access is
going to give you kind of a brief
description of each one or what you can
do is you can just choose the shortcut
center right here these are kinda like
thumbnails for things that are the
favorites of the most frequently used
ones that have been pre configured for
us
now what I'm going to choose the
ministry's Exodus just to give you a
sense of what extra this doesn't how it
works
I'm gonna go into TV shows alright i'm
going to choose i'm also going to come
down and look at let's say most popular
and you can see there's a lot of
categories that you can choose from and
what it's going to do is it's going to
serve up all this content that's
available on the internet for you and
you notice there's a lot of content so
that's why they refer to these boxes the
cord cutter boxes because this is all
content that would require you to be
connected to some type of service
provider but really easy all you have to
do is now going to choose this one right
here taboo choose it
it's very much like Netflix choosing the
season that I want to see and then i'm
going to choose an episode appleton
let's start on the first one just you
can see how this thing streams content
now you know what we're looking what's
going to happen now is going to go and
search the internet for this contest
once the contents available
it's going to give us options as to how
we stream that content i'm going to give
it a second i'm going to let it find out
all the sources i could cancel at any
point i don't have to wait for the timer
to a timeout but the longer I wait the
more options he potentially will have
but that's in theory
so what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to cancel at this point because
they I think it found enough sources and
what it's going to do is going to
organize the sources based on resolution
so you'll notice here 1080p and then you
have HD so what we're looking for is how
quickly does the box stream i'm going to
choose this service provider
now some some of the content that's out
there may be slower than some than
others some is faster but you'll notice
i chose that and now immediately i'm
streaming content and now this content
should be coming in at 1080p you can see
that the very bottom how its 1080p now
what I look for is smooth content i look
for the content not to stutter
this is going to be based on a couple
things your internet service provider
and it's also going to be your you know
you that the the content providers well
so that one was stopping a little bit i
don't really think that that's the box i
think that was more the constant general
so let's go ahead and let's choose
another one just you can see how that
works what we'll do is we'll choose one
out will choose vikings and we're gonna
go down let's go to the one of the last
season everything is organized really
nicely and what I'm going to do is it's
going to come down to choose this one
just to see and same thing is going to
happen it's going to source the content
if we probably all want weeks for it to
do all of it but we'll see it got 293
i'm going to cancer think that's more
than enough and receive what sources i
haven't what resolution and we'll just
go ahead
no 1080p version is only high-definition
high-definition is at times could be
1080p but in most cases it's going to be
720p notice how fast this thing is
streaming notice how again it's there's
no stutter because once again it's a
combination of things that makes this
product work well if I go in here this
is 720p at 720p this is pretty good so
you can see just the overall content
coming across very very nice
so again nice a nice options
nice slow and the box is performing
really well and as I'm even leaving or
at moving out of it you'll notice that
the content is still streaming without
any issues
so now the box comes with two remotes
that we're looking at the time you right
now are seeing kind of a point move back
and forth and you notice that i have
this this remote I'm not touching i just
want to show you what i'm doing so over
here is the other remote which has kind
of an air mouse capability so you can
use this for game playing as well as
controlling the TV again this is this
one right here but then what I'm doing
right here is just moving the mouse
around because it has kind of like an
arrow button that you can press right
here that now you'll notice nothing's
happening but I can still control the TV
and then by enabling this button here i
have that air mouth which means if I'm
playing a game i can use this game
controller like this for negotiating
turning and doing things or i can use
like this almost like we remote now if
you want to what
playback for other things we saw Cody a
little bit but this
another good way to see what the
performance looks like what we can do
here is just highlight any content that
is available here on YouTube and then
just select it for playback so what I'm
going to do is I'm just going to go down
and we're going to choose something here
on the screen and just show you how
quickly the box response what I've just
done is I just switched to my air mouth
a lot easier to negotiate you know
YouTube this way i'm going to select out
the specific one here so we're just
going to select it and going to see the
playback and you'll notice on loading
screen pretty nicely and the content is
starting to come up really nicely to
everything is moving at nice speed
really no stutter and that's what you
want in a box something that's that fast
that's pretty unavoidable that as you're
using the box that things slow down this
happens with apple TV it happens with
iphones and it happens with android
devices as well so you have this little
task killer here that you can use I
don't really use this often but let's
say you run into a situation where
things are running slow
what you could do is just select this
and it's going to go through and clean
up the memory or any apps that are
misbehaving or not releasing its memory
which could happen from time to time
really nice a function there just to
clean up things and keep things running
snappy so this concludes my review the
pro bowl x 2 air android TV box very
cable box very thin it doesn't take up a
lot of space and also provides great
performance and content to your TV for
those of you who are looking for a cord
cutting solution this is definitely
something considered to consider have
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