- The unit can be easily connected to the TV set, you are immediately in the menu and Wi-Fi is set up in no time
- The navigation is intuitive
- Keyboard and NAS integration The NAS integration into XBMC is quite simple, is to enter the user data has annoyed me in the short term, as well as an external German USB keyboard only works with the US keyboard layout which is just extremely annoying with special characters. Have therefore tried with the APP SmartiRemote so but you can not enter any uppercase (just does not work, it then is neither an upper nor a lower-case), which is also very annoying. The on-screen keyboard again is useless, in my view for the password entry, as it always has delays and is therefore sometimes 2 characters enters when you only want to enter one, too, is inaccurate, so sometimes the neighboring letter is pressed on the keyboard, although the arrow is clearly above the desired letter. Here one must therefore look very closely, otherwise nothing will happen. Ultimately, I've been using a combination of an external keyboard and app keypad to enter my passwords (keyboard for letters, App for special characters and numbers). Knowing this, it's no problem, but it has yet annoyed me briefly.
There is probably also an app which means that you can also use a German keyboard, this app but I have not used. In my view, involves using a German keyboard for a sold product in Germany to standard, and here I see a manufacturer's failure.
- I had massive problems to get sound on Youtube (both APP and via browser), various media centers and in some videos and films
After I had occupied almost 2 days in which I have worked among others with the sound app About the audio output, I was just going to give up and the box returned again, when it came suddenly.
Unfortunately, I can not really say why, because the settings as they are now (Dolby 5.1, HDMI passthrough etc.) I had already times. Restart I had also carried out numerous, but had brought no improvement.
- Miracast did not work in a first test with my tablet so pretty (with Android 4.2), but that's not so important to me, so have I also reingesteckt no more energy. It has been found the device, but it could not be contacted.
- In addition to the device described the tone for all the content is I have noticed that the quality of the videos from the ARD and ZDF media library is not particularly high, here the TV box seems to be identified as a mobile device, how to videos here can watch in HD quality, I have not yet figured out.
Conclusion:
The machine does the job and especially streaming content my NAS like it very much.
The establishment of the correct audio output was with me a lot of work, which may be because I play the sound is not the TV, but via a surround system, in general would have to go but easier finally expected a very be commonly encountered setting.
The problem is that only some apps, websites and videos do not hear the sound, while others already, I had previously also with any other device. If I have spent the same content with my laptop via HDMI to the TV, which was always easily.
Now that the device is running, I'm happy with it, but for 5 star it is enough (sound, video quality from media libraries, keyboard, Miracast ...) due to the time-consuming setup and optimization options not described. There is room for improvement.
Update 8/17/2014: Have again deducted two stars because the device with playback but significantly more problems than expected. In many formats the picture and sound are out of sync, but slightly offset. You can view the movies so indeed, but it does not irritate irrelevant. In another video, the aspect ratio is rendered incorrectly, so that large parts of the picture are not visible. To see again regularly use my laptop to watch movies, that's what I really wanted to avoid the TV box. Would not the device does not buy again.
Update: 11/10/2014: After updating to firmware 109k4 the box is finally good. German keyboard although there is still not know what's a bit annoying when entering passwords with special characters, but otherwise I'm happy now. Lip Sync now seems to be well placed, have at least found yet otherwise. Now there is 4 stars because I still continue to see potential for improvement.
