What's up guys I'm Chigz and you are watching Chigz Tech Reviews and today
I've got my hands on another brand new hybrid TV box which has twin TV tuners
and is running Android 7.1 Nougat. So this is the Mecool K1 Pro Hybrid TV box
so as usual we begin with a quick unboxing followed by few tests video
tests Full HD 4k videos a few android games testing Kodi performance testing
out the TV tuners and then finishing off with benchmark and Wi-Fi tests so let's
begin with the specs I'll put the specs on the screen so you guys can have a
quick lead so the CPU is the s 9:05 d quad-core running at 2 gigahertz
you've got the Mallee 452 gigs of DDR for RAM 16 gigs of internal storage a
dual TV tuner supporting dvb-s 2 and dvb-t 2 you've got dual band Wi-Fi
supporting BGN and AC Bluetooth version for Android version 7.1 no God supports
Ultra HD 4k videos at 60 frames per second support HDR 10 and HL G so this
is everything you get in the box beginning with the instruction manual
HDMI cable I've got a UK power adapter here a full-featured remote control so
this TV box does have twin tuners on their twin TV tuners so you've got even
more functions on here for PVR recording EPG guides etc so it's going to be quite
a nice remote to work with I look forward to testing out and last but not
least you got the Mecool K1 pro so here it is guys
this is a brand new hybrid by Mecool and I love the brand Mecool they make the
best quality TV boxes they're one of the best out there for build quality so yeah
you've got the logo K1 Pro Mecool logo and a power button a physical power button
right there and that will also be an LED light so that will light up nothing at
the front nothing on the right and on the back you've got your twin tuners
your CV BS port Network LAN port HDMI you've got your optical out power socket
micro SD card slot and for full-size USB ports and we're back to the front and
this is what the bottom looks like so I love hybrids
I love hybrid TV boxes I love the fact that you can watch you can watch TV
without the internet so you've got choices of satellite and indoor area so
to give you guys an idea of the size of this unit I'm going to bring in the tx5
Pro tx5 Pro is one of the smallest TV boxes you can get if I just compare them
you can see that a few centimetres bigger and a few maybe is sent to me or
to thicker that was just to give you an idea of the size so now I'm going to
hook this up to my TV and we're going to find out how well let me kill k1 Pro
performs
so here is the home screen for the Mecool k1 Pro so a very familiar home screen so
this is Miko's trademark home screen all their boxes have exactly the same screen
first of all you have a short cup of TV Center which is their version of Cody
you got file explorer app drawer settings and web so let's go straight to
settings first of all and let's check out the system storage so you have a
total of 16 gigs from which there are 11 GBS
currently free to use right so this box is running the latest Android 7.1 and if
I go to about you can see it's running the latest 7.1.1 which is no good
just connected to my Wi-Fi network and it's updated the time automatically okay
so if we go to the app drawer let's have a look at what you get installed as
standard so these are all the apps installed as standard I haven't
installed anything yet the one app that appeals to me straight away is air pin
pro air pin pro is a paid app which you're getting for free with this box
this app allows you to do AirPlay Mirroring and it works flawlessly with
all I RS is and it's regularly updated me kiman have done a great job by
acquiring this software and they include the air pin pro software with all of
their boxes so yeah you've got Netflix miracast
MX player YouTube what you got special in here is DTV as this has a built-in TV
tuner so you'll be able to watch television without even connecting to
the internet so that's the beauty of these hybrid boxes also on the home
screen you have a smaller icon section at the top you can customize this
section add your favorite apps and they will appear on the home screen so all of
these top icons can be customized I have another thing I just tested is tv-center
is their own version of Kodi you can go ahead and install the
official version of Kodi as you can see that I've done there but that will not
get rid of tv-center tv-center will stay there if you if you do install the
official Kodi that would be a separate installation as separate app totally so
effectively you could run two builds so the next thing we're going to be testing
is airplay mirroring with my iOS device so let's go to apps let's open up a pin
Pro okay when you open this up it will say a pin activate it at the bottom and
now all you do is go to your iPhone scroll up click on airplay mirroring and
click on a TV and any second now you will see my iPhone screen mirrored there
you go here is my friend screen mirrored very nicely and as you can see it works
there is a minor split second lag there but it does work very well its settings
okay so that's AirPlay Mirroring working with my iphone 7 and it's working on iOS
10 now I'm going to test out miracast which is Android screen mirroring
software so if I grab my Samsung font click on Quick Connect start screen
mirroring now any second I'll have to accept it first so any second you'll see
my Samsung screen mirrored connected and there you go so here's my Samsung
mirrored really nicely there is actually no lag whatsoever on the Samsung screen
mirroring so in miracast the technology is a bit
better than airplay mirroring and it's very fast no lag whatsoever
it's literally real time really fast so I'm quite pleased to see that airplay
mirroring with iOS and miracast with your Android devices both work perfectly
fine so let's move on now so the next thing we're going to be testing is
playing 4k and HD video samples from a USB Drive so we're going to be doing
this on the Kodi Media Player so here it is I decided the shortcut for the latest
code you 17.3 I'm going to open this up so here's the latest version of Kodi
let's go to the file section so these are all my 4k and HD video samples let's
go ahead and play the first one
trust me once you're down there you're not gonna want to come back up it can
take your breath away assure me
what is this place who are you people you'll find out
so I just played some 1080p and 4k video samples and as you guys saw the videos
played nice and smooth so let's move on now to the YouTube test 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 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 let's open
up YouTube so we're just going to test out a few 1080p trailers so this book
supports a maximum YouTube resolution of 1080p desire today
I can assure you my mother Claire any songs there without a thought
motherfuckers Kincaid is big big baby so there you have it guys that was a
YouTube test let's move on now to the gaming test we are now going to begin
the gaming test starting with the Real Racing 3 but please be aware that this
box is not actually designed for gaming as it only has a Mallee 450 GPU
nevertheless let's give it the test and see how it performs
starting with Real Racing 3 so this is the game controller I use for all my
Android TV games this is the G 600 controller I'll put the links in the
description box below so you can check it out let's continue with the game
tests
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so there you have it guys I just completed the gaming test now I'm going
to move on to the TV tuner test I recently bought this this is a flexible
digital high gain antenna you've got some adhesive stickers at the back so
you can stick this up on the wall it's got a nice long cable you can even stick
it on the window and it's got a standard indoor connection which will just go in
at the back of this box we are going to be testing the dvb-t two tuna and dvb-s
two is for your satellite connection so I haven't got the satellite connection
here at the moment so I can't test that but we will be testing the indoor
connection to dvb-t two so let's open up the TV tuner software which is DTV so
this is installation you go to dvb-t to click on ok and click on auto search all
channels and click start now that's going to automatically scan all your
channels that are available in your area and this is based on the indoor area
that I showed you guys earlier so let that finish its task so the installation
is complete and all the channels have been tuned in and as you can see it
works great let's click on e PG on the remote control also for clearly
brilliant okay this is your TV Guide basically here's your EPG guide so if we
go to Gai news for example you've got all the
listings for Sunday which is today you can press right on the remote and it
will give you listings for the next six days as well
which is quite a good feature so yeah you can change the channel very quickly
it just press ok and the channel changes this does also support subtitles it's
found over 80 channels including radio channels so these are all the Freeview
channels you get into UK basically ok I just want to quickly test out the PVR
function ok I just pressed the PVR button it says no storage attached so
now I'm going to attach a USB Drive and I'm going to hit the PVR button ok it
said the storage is inserted and we are recording so you can see on the top left
hand corner you've got a recording time of this and is telling you that you are
recording this channel you cannot change the channel while you're recording so
program is recording do you want to stop here I say ok and recording end so yeah
that's the TV tuner guys now what I want to show you guys is what format it
recorded so if you bear with me I'll be right back so here is my USB Drive if I
go to DTV record files so here's Sky News recorded in TS format
I can try opening the file from file manager it gives me the options to
choose a media player I'll choose MX player I find that to be
one of the best players so we recorded 14 seconds of video and as you saw it's
2.25 megabytes in size so in the Wi-Fi speed test that k1 Pro achieved download
speeds of sixteen point four eight and upload speeds of nine point seven three
megabits per second I'm using my hotel Wi-Fi for this speed test
so in the antutu benchmark test this box achieved a total benchmark score of
thirty three thousand two hundred and forty eight so let's see how that
compares to the others so this is my top benchmark performance chart this chart
simply shows you which are the highest overall performing boxes however when
choosing the TV box you must also consider other factors such as the home
screen Android version size appearance and of course the price so as you can
see the Mecool Kk1 Pro has gone straight into position seven on the quad-core
chart you'll be interesting to see which TV box I review next and what overall
performance it will get please be aware the prices shown are just a guideline as
they are constantly changing on a daily basis
so that was the Miku k1 Pro this is a brand new hybrid box by Miku and it
allows you to watch live TV channels without the internet my overall
experience with this box was quite good the box has a mani 450 which means it's
only meant for casual basic games nevertheless I did try out Real Racing 3
which was playable but did not look very nice with lots of frame drops this box
is all about streaming HD and 4k and it does that very nicely also the TV tuner
was amazing and had great PVR functions allowing you to record live TV this
system was running Android 7.1 and it was very stable no issues lags or
crashes everything just worked as it should
Wi-Fi speeds were very good considering I was using a shared hotel Wi-Fi
connection but online is you have a great 4k streaming hybrid TV box which
can play basic casual games 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 thing
you