Android TV Boxes

[Asley]

Hello guys can anyone tell me which android tv box is the best out there in good order now.Thanks in advance.

[pixidustedu]

Minix X8-H

Hello guys can anyone tell me which android tv box is the best out there in good order now.Thanks in advance.

Well, most will probably tell you to find out what your needs are are and go from their. I'm into gaming and Video. I started off with an MK808b for a couple years then just upgraded to the Minix X8-H. I'm still trying to find out what "more" I can do with it, but It's really good on games and hd video from my external HD. Id recommend buying a powered usb hub, and a full keyboard with a touch pad. I have a Logitech K400r, and it was pretty inexpensive at Walmart and works great. I also have a moga controller which works great as well.

Developers could step it up a bit in the controller department so that more games are usable on Android with a controller, but I'm satisfied with it so far, and its a pretty powerful device, One of the top ones, specs wise. I installed the finnless rom that's available for it and it runs much better than the stock os.

[Asley]

General browsing , a TV tuner box, a Media player, a game console, an internet box.

[trebor]

Have a look at the Amazon Fire TV may meet your needs.

Cheers

[clarkss12]

New ADT-1 Android Developers box

Just received my newest Android Developers box and will be testing it. It is completely different than I am used to, so it will take some time to figure it out. Here a couple of pictures of the box.



Update. I am trying to give a little information about this new box from Google, since I have been very curious about this box, but not much information available. Since it is a developers box, some of the functions are missing, but it is still a very capable device.
Here are the basic specs
Tegra 4 chipset
2GB of RAM
16GB of internal storage
2×2 MIMO dual-channel WiFi
Bluetooth 4.0
Ethernet Port
HDMI port
Android L Developer Preview
The video is quite good, it plays all video files without any dropped or skipped frames, including 4k videos. The one codec that most of these boxes struggles with is the mpeg2 TS, live TV streaming but only on HD channels. This box plays the 1080i live streams flawlessly without any skipped of dropped frames, but it struggles on 720P streams with a lot of skipped and dropped frames.
The Dolby Digital and DTS passthrough are not working on this box.

At this time, the RK3288 boxes are better.
here is a video that I made showing XBMC running on this box. Also, Silicondust created an app that runs on this developers box using their HDHomerun tuners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUoy_p3OR2o&list=UUGsEJXTn2OM8NZPUNeGJKjQ

Edit. Dolby digital and DTS now work via HDMI through my A/V receiver.

Also, Netflix plays in true HD with surround sound.

[no_spam_for_me]

Are you also one of the lucky guys which got it offered at the 'Google’s developer conference'?
(http://www.geek.com/android/heres-go...adt-1-1597864/)
Or do you ordered it?

http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/06/30/adt-1-googles-android-tv-developers-kit-details/

http://androidcommunity.com/android-tv-adt-1-dev-kits-start-shipping-to-developers-20140729/

Here are some more unboxing pictures:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/298vsf/unboxing_of_the_adt1_the_developer_android_tv/

[clarkss12]

Are you also one of the lucky guys which got it offered at the 'Google’s developer conference'?
(http://www.geek.com/android/heres-go...adt-1-1597864/)
Or do you ordered it?

http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/06/30/adt-1-googles-android-tv-developers-kit-details/

http://androidcommunity.com/android-tv-adt-1-dev-kits-start-shipping-to-developers-20140729/

Here are some more unboxing pictures:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comm...er_android_tv/

Actually, they sent me one yesterday. I emailed them in late June requesting one. I told them I am NOT a devleoper, but been trying to integrate Live TV into the android boxes. I never heard from them until it showed up on my front porch yesterday.

[Haba]

Moving Android TV conversion from another thread. I hope this is o.k.

There Will be Camera and Mic Support buddy as voice will be a primary for control If remote or smartphone isnt used.
Please Remember just as Android T.V wil use different chipsets there will be additions of varying features,you will see in the coming months.
As for the Mele F10 Pro it will be discontinued as its been replaced by the Delux which doesnt have the PROs issues. -Talas

Perhaps you have more updated information than I. Can you provide a link to your information? The information I have is official documentation. Android TV from my understanding was to NOT allow all these varying features in short to present a standardized functionality across all boxes and tv's to create a toaster like simple device to the consumer.

Unsupported Hardware Features

---

TVs have a different purpose from other devices, and so they do not have hardware features that other Android-powered devices often have. For this reason, the Android system does not support the following features for a TV device:

Camera	android.hardware.camera
GPS	android.hardware.location.gps
Microphone	android.hardware.microphone
Near Field Communications (NFC)	android.hardware.nfc
Telephony	android.hardware.telephony
Touchscreen	android.hardware.touchscreen

L Developer preview

Thanks for the update on the remote, too bad the mic on the Pro remote didn't have general built-in Android support to enable use with all TV boxes and was dropped.

[Haba]

Just received my newest Android Developers box and will be testing it. It is completely different than I am used to, so it will take some time to figure it out. Here a couple of pictures of the box.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]7910[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]7911[/ATTACH]

Update. I am trying to give a little information about this new box from Google, since I have been very curious about this box, but not much information available. Since it is a developers box, some of the functions are missing, but it is still a very capable device.
Here are the basic specs
Tegra 4 chipset
2GB of RAM
16GB of internal storage
2×2 MIMO dual-channel WiFi
Bluetooth 4.0
Ethernet Port
HDMI port
Android L Developer Preview
The video is quite good, it plays all video files without any dropped or skipped frames, including 4k videos. The one codec that most of these boxes struggles with is the mpeg2 TS, live TV streaming but only on HD channels. This box plays the 1080i live streams flawlessly without any skipped of dropped frames, but it struggles on 720P streams with a lot of skipped and dropped frames.
The Dolby Digital and DTS passthrough are not working on this box.

At this time, the RK3288 boxes are better.
here is a video that I made showing XBMC running on this box. Also, Silicondust created an app that runs on this developers box using their HDHomerun tuners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUoy_p3OR2o&list=UUGsEJXTn2OM8NZPUNeGJKjQ

Edit. Dolby digital and DTS now work via HDMI through my A/V receiver.

Also, Netflix plays in true HD with surround sound.

Thanks a bunch for posting the pics and video with info. Should be interesting to see how successful this second attempt at the living room by Google will be.

[clarkss12]

Thanks a bunch for posting the pics and video with info. Should be interesting to see how successful this second attempt at the living room by Google will be.

We are still in the early stages of this technology and I figure in about 5 years every household will have several of these boxes. They will be more powerful than most computers today. It took years for home computers and the internet to become mainstream. This technology is moving in a very rapid pace. All the big players are starting to get into this race. In anticipation of this boom for these kind of devices, several months ago I purchased some Nvida stock. 😁

[Talas]

Moving Android TV conversion from another thread. I hope this is o.k.



Perhaps you have more updated information than I. Can you provide a link to your information? The information I have is official documentation. Android TV from my understanding was to NOT allow all these varying features in short to present a standardized functionality across all boxes and tv's to create a toaster like simple device to the consumer.

Unsupported Hardware Features

---

TVs have a different purpose from other devices, and so they do not have hardware features that other Android-powered devices often have. For this reason, the Android system does not support the following features for a TV device:

Camera	android.hardware.camera
GPS	android.hardware.location.gps
Microphone	android.hardware.microphone
Near Field Communications (NFC)	android.hardware.nfc
Telephony	android.hardware.telephony
Touchscreen	android.hardware.touchscreen

L Developer preview

Thanks for the update on the remote, too bad the mic on the Pro remote didn't have general built-in Android support to enable use with all TV boxes and was dropped.

The Information is based on Different hardware that IAM aware of i wish i could say more and i will when restrictions have been lifted.Its safe to say that Hardware manufactureres have requested to add additional features to there Androd T.V Product line.
I did post in other Android TV boxes about the Asus Intel Box.

[Talas]

Just received my newest Android Developers box and will be testing it. It is completely different than I am used to, so it will take some time to figure it out. Here a couple of pictures of the box.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]7910[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]7911[/ATTACH]

Update. I am trying to give a little information about this new box from Google, since I have been very curious about this box, but not much information available. Since it is a developers box, some of the functions are missing, but it is still a very capable device.
Here are the basic specs
Tegra 4 chipset
2GB of RAM
16GB of internal storage
2×2 MIMO dual-channel WiFi
Bluetooth 4.0
Ethernet Port
HDMI port
Android L Developer Preview
The video is quite good, it plays all video files without any dropped or skipped frames, including 4k videos. The one codec that most of these boxes struggles with is the mpeg2 TS, live TV streaming but only on HD channels. This box plays the 1080i live streams flawlessly without any skipped of dropped frames, but it struggles on 720P streams with a lot of skipped and dropped frames.
The Dolby Digital and DTS passthrough are not working on this box.

At this time, the RK3288 boxes are better.
here is a video that I made showing XBMC running on this box. Also, Silicondust created an app that runs on this developers box using their HDHomerun tuners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUoy_p3OR2o&list=UUGsEJXTn2OM8NZPUNeGJKjQ

Edit. Dolby digital and DTS now work via HDMI through my A/V receiver.

Also, Netflix plays in true HD with surround sound.

No to see Google getting the Dev Box out to people who are doing real world use and dev for it..should have come earlier though.