In recent days, Skyworth Digital has once again teamed with Amlogic to introduce the Skyworth Box A5, a cost-effective TV box product that combines "high-value" and practical functions such as voice control. The appearance of this TV box is very beautiful, it also provides several different colors to match the different living room color theme, there are amazing voice and Bluetooth capabilities, and the hardware configuration of this TV box is also a very pleasant surprise. Today I have come to bring you a detailed evaluation of Skyworth A5. What exactly does it perform and how is the price/performance of the product itself? Now let me take a look at it with everyone.
TV set-top box is mainly used to deal with the old TV program resources issues, in order to replace the purpose of the cable set-top box, as the main force of everyday family living room entertainment, Internet high-definition TV set-top box played a traditional cable set-top box can not As a derivative product of the Internet age, various functions have been realized. With the continuous improvement of the pursuit of living room entertainment by users, the hardware configuration of Internet TV set-top boxes has gradually increased.
With the deepening of the strategy for building a smart terminal ecological chain, Skyworth Digital has launched in-depth cooperation with a number of Internet content providers, allowing users to have more choices and enjoy more exciting. Currently in the Skyworth boxes sold in retail channels across the country, A7, A8, and A11 carry IGIs, S1 uses Sohu video sources, and the product Skyworth A5 brings us today, which is Skyworth and Tencent Penguin TV and Southern Media. Connect the products produced by the eight parties to work together.
Skyworth A5’s voice and Bluetooth functions are its main selling points. Skyworth’s accomplishments in this area have been very well verified in the previous Q+II generation. This time, Skyworth’s cooperation with many strength partners brought us this. What about Skyworth's A5 performance? Now let me take everyone step by step.
Skyworth Box A5 has made great changes and innovations in its exterior design. It uses aluminum material sandblasted borders and the same materials and technology as the iPhone 6S. The texture and beauty of the metal can be seen at a glance. The rounded rectangular classic appearance, with a metal spray-painted shell, is generous and patient, but simple details are not simple. This Skyworth A5 TV box product has champagne gold, rose gold, girl powder, titanium black four colors, with your exclusive living room decoration style, truly make the living room entertainment more colorful choice.
My first impression of Skyworth A5 is that it has a very good feel. The surface of the matte texture is very good, the size of the product itself is not large, but it gives a very heavy feeling in the hands, aluminum alloy side frame and cover The combination of the tight seams, amazing, the appearance of this TV set-top box is very good workmanship, Skyworth English LOGO on the body is also very beautiful, the edge of the text LOGO is also not the case of flash.
The appearance of the Skyworth A5 has been a very pleasant surprise. A very beautiful appearance will not drag on your high quality home improvement environment, and even have excellent performance for the home environment. In terms of interfaces, the interface configuration of most TV set-top boxes adopted by Skyworth A5, in addition to the necessary HDMI interface and power interface, additionally provides a USB 2.0 interface and an AV interface as a small-scale extension.
The Skyworth A5 uses the remote control design used in recent TV Skyworth products. This is a remote control design that I really like. I'm the kind of person who prefers soft keys, compared to many mainstream TVs and TVs. The remote control of the box and the remote control of the rubber soft keys have become less and less. Compared with the remote control of Xiaomi, this remote control button of the TV set-top box has a very good feel, and there is no feel of the plastic key remote control. The unique key feel of rubber keys.
The overall appearance of Skyworth A5 gave me a great surprise. Whether it is the appearance, or the overall color, texture, and exquisite workmanship are the main quality factors of a product, and also the attitude of a manufacturer. The excellent workmanship of Skyworth A5 allows us to Experienced the attitude of Skyworth vendors, a good attitude from the perspective of users and good products.
Smooth operating experience requires strong configuration
In hardware configuration, A5 is equipped with 1GB DDR, 8GB Flash, equipped with the most cost-effective 64-bit SOC Amlogic S905 on the market. S905 is the industry's first true 4K, 64-bit smart set-top box SOC, which integrates a 4-core ARM Cortex-A53 z and 5-core Mali-450@750MHz+ graphics processor, supports 4K@60fps video hard decoding and point-to-point display, and H. 265 10-bit and AVS+ and other formats, support HDMI2.0, HDCP2.2. Compared with the A9 architecture, the performance of the CPU is about 25% higher than that of the A9 architecture at the same frequency, which provides users with powerful kernel power support when using video, games, and social networking services.
Skyworth A5 uses a hardware configuration that is completely higher than its own product, Ding Wen. Its purpose is to let users get real sweetness. As a cooperative product of many partners, Skyworth A5 has excellent program resources and application resources. These excellent resources The smooth running of the system and the smooth operation of the system all require strong hardware configurations to support it.
Skyworth A5's Bluetooth remote control is another highlight of this product, the ease of use of Bluetooth remote control is beyond doubt, the advantage of Bluetooth remote control compared to infrared remote control is that it does not need to aim like an infrared remote control operating. After the remote control is paired, the user can remotely control the TV set-top box with no dead angle as long as it is within the Bluetooth connection range.
Of course, the use of the Bluetooth function does not stop there. You can enjoy high-quality TV programs with your Bluetooth headset when your family is asleep. You can also use the high-quality Bluetooth speakers to play program sounds. Bluetooth 4.0 technology development The Bluetooth power consumption problem has been perfectly solved, and the battery life in the Bluetooth remote controller has been excellent.
Recently, several major products released by Skyworth are equipped with Skyworth's unique optional usage model. These different models can handle family members of different ages so that they can better use the product. These three models are respectively Standard mode, senior citizen mode, child mode, and standard mode, as their name implies, are more suitable for the current mainstream users. They are familiar with the existing technology operation modes. The older mode is also more simple to operate with relatively simple fonts. In the mode, the interface in the child mode will become cartoon and interesting. This feature is also where other TV box manufacturers should learn. After all, family members use different levels of electronic devices.
There are good hardware and display effects, of course, with a rich content resources, the combination of software and hardware can play the greatest value of a TV. In terms of content, it is recommended to install a sofa butler - the sofa butler is a third-party app store designed specifically for smart TVs, Android box users, carefully providing television, box users with high-quality television exclusive version of the application, including with live Or on-demand video and audio and video software, various types of recreational competitive video game software and daily office entertainment management system management tools. Users can refer to the tutorial: Skyworth Box A5 Installation Method Install Sofa Manager to extend third-party applications.
Colorful, more colorful programming resources
Skyworth Box A5 joins Tencent Penguin TV to bring all the exciting Tencent videos to the box, allowing users to quickly and easily watch popular Korean TV dramas, American dramas, Hollywood blockbuster films, popular variety shows, selected popular sports events, live NBA, Children's animation, education and training, wonderful documentary and other massive genuine ultra-high-definition video resources of two million hours. Users can enjoy the simultaneous update of the latest television dramas from the Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the lyrics of the classic American dramas, and the new films of 6,000 global cinemas. Fans of NBA, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and other exciting events will be broadcast in real time. I believe that the rich content of film and television resources will provide users with a film and television dinner!
Penguin TV is an overall software solution launched by Tencent for Internet TV and smart set-top boxes. Penguin TV will focus on video content and strive to lead the new living room vision through the massive amount of high-definition content, superb visual audio-visual experience and a variety of hardware options. Penguin TV integrates open cooperation into the industrial ecology. Currently, Penguin TV has cooperated with four authoritative Internet TV licensees, ten major smart TV manufacturers, leading intelligent set-top box manufacturers and multiple network operators to build a new living room entertainment ecosystem.
Skyworth A5's video resources are very rich, and the update speed is very timely and rapid, including the current popularity of popular TV dramas, movie theaters, excellent movies, variety shows, and Internet TV programs are the advantages of their programs of choice, and high-quality programs Resources, what to look at, and more freedom than traditional cable TV programs. Whether this advantage of Internet TV set-top boxes can be brought into play, a good updated and timely program resource is particularly important.
As the main partner of Skyworth A5, the richness of resource resources of Tencent Penguin TV is undoubted. As a major Internet resource resource website, Tencent Penguin TV is very strong, and current mainstream program resources can be found on it. The current people are gradually pursuing more enjoyment. As the main buyers tend to be fashionable, younger, and their purchasing power continues to increase, manufacturers of TV set-top boxes are gradually crawling out of the vicious competition in price wars. More users buy their own products. Everyone starts to fight for services, fight programs, and update speed. It gradually enters a period of healthy competition. This competition is a good trend to promote product development, allowing users to have more excellent experience. Good trend.
Games and Applications, Powerful Hardware Configurations
As a universal sales TV set-top box, Skyworth A5's hardware configuration has exceeded its own positioning value, this configuration is not Skyworth's useless work, I said before, now the TV set-top box is no longer the previous price war More attention has been shifted to the user experience of the product. A powerful set of hardware configurations can bring smooth operation, smooth running of games and applications, hardware configuration and high quality. The supply of games and application resources can bring the performance of the Skyworth A5's hardware configuration into full play.
The game experience of Skyworth A5 is very good. It can smoothly run almost all games provided by Tencent. The feedback speed of Tencent's gamepad is also fairly decent, but the game experience will be affected more or less, if it can be like a Bluetooth remote control, then the experience It will certainly become very good.
Skyworth's production of resources for various applications can be said to be a good deal. It may be that in order to make better use of the excellent hardware capabilities of TV set-top boxes, the application in the application store is really very much, you can think of, you can not think of Basically, everything is readily available, rich in early education apps, and fitness class apps. Although you don't necessarily have to use every kind of thing, there are always a couple of different ways. You can't live without it. It is a large-scale bombing of various APPs. No matter what kind of person the user is or what personality is, you can find the APP software that you can use.
In addition to a variety of applications, the Skyworth A5 also has some easy-to-use software such as WPS. Users can use Skyworth A5 to play PPT and Word documents. This is also quite easy to use in the office. You can even add external files. A keyboard with Skyworth A5 for simple text writing and office matters, this feature is also quite good for workaholics.
Small build HD 4K video playback display
For today's TV set-top box products, having 4K video playback capability has almost become the standard product, of course, this standard also led to the current mixed performance and 4K video playback quality discounted, Skyworth A5 The 4K video playback function is still very powerful. Let us now look at how it performs.
During the evaluation process, I used two 4K videos to test the 4K playback performance of this TV set-top box. The overall feeling was already very good, but I have to say that the Skyworth A5 will still be accompanied with slight 4K video playback. Caton appears, this kind of cardon phenomenon mainly appears in the initial period of the video just opened about 10 seconds, and a period of time after the fast-forward video, but does not affect the overall video playback, Caton is slight, almost negligible After all, the positioning of this product is not high-end, so these small defects can still be acceptable.
In terms of a single product, my overall experience is very good, excellent program resources, powerful hardware configuration, very easy to use voice and Bluetooth features, you can use voice to complete most of the operations, including Open your designated APP or search for the program resources you are looking for. As I said, the hardware value of this product has far exceeded its own product positioning, Skyworth A5's cost performance is very high, if everyone If you are interested in this TV set-top box product, you may wish to buy a home. It will definitely give you more than ten times the value of your purchase! Well, today's evaluation of Skyworth A5 is here. I hope that my review will bring you some small help.
TV set-top box is mainly used to deal with the old TV program resources issues, in order to replace the purpose of the cable set-top box, as the main force of everyday family living room entertainment, Internet high-definition TV set-top box played a traditional cable set-top box can not As a derivative product of the Internet age, various functions have been realized. With the continuous improvement of the pursuit of living room entertainment by users, the hardware configuration of Internet TV set-top boxes has gradually increased.
Packaging diagram
With the deepening of the strategy for building a smart terminal ecological chain, Skyworth Digital has launched in-depth cooperation with a number of Internet content providers, allowing users to have more choices and enjoy more exciting. Currently in the Skyworth boxes sold in retail channels across the country, A7, A8, and A11 carry IGIs, S1 uses Sohu video sources, and the product Skyworth A5 brings us today, which is Skyworth and Tencent Penguin TV and Southern Media. Connect the products produced by the eight parties to work together.
Skyworth A5’s voice and Bluetooth functions are its main selling points. Skyworth’s accomplishments in this area have been very well verified in the previous Q+II generation. This time, Skyworth’s cooperation with many strength partners brought us this. What about Skyworth's A5 performance? Now let me take everyone step by step.
Your living room needs a colorful look
Skyworth Box A5 has made great changes and innovations in its exterior design. It uses aluminum material sandblasted borders and the same materials and technology as the iPhone 6S. The texture and beauty of the metal can be seen at a glance. The rounded rectangular classic appearance, with a metal spray-painted shell, is generous and patient, but simple details are not simple. This Skyworth A5 TV box product has champagne gold, rose gold, girl powder, titanium black four colors, with your exclusive living room decoration style, truly make the living room entertainment more colorful choice.
Skyworth A5 four color combinations
My first impression of Skyworth A5 is that it has a very good feel. The surface of the matte texture is very good, the size of the product itself is not large, but it gives a very heavy feeling in the hands, aluminum alloy side frame and cover The combination of the tight seams, amazing, the appearance of this TV set-top box is very good workmanship, Skyworth English LOGO on the body is also very beautiful, the edge of the text LOGO is also not the case of flash.
Skyworth A5 interface display
The appearance of the Skyworth A5 has been a very pleasant surprise. A very beautiful appearance will not drag on your high quality home improvement environment, and even have excellent performance for the home environment. In terms of interfaces, the interface configuration of most TV set-top boxes adopted by Skyworth A5, in addition to the necessary HDMI interface and power interface, additionally provides a USB 2.0 interface and an AV interface as a small-scale extension.
Skyworth A5 and Skyworth Remote Control
The Skyworth A5 uses the remote control design used in recent TV Skyworth products. This is a remote control design that I really like. I'm the kind of person who prefers soft keys, compared to many mainstream TVs and TVs. The remote control of the box and the remote control of the rubber soft keys have become less and less. Compared with the remote control of Xiaomi, this remote control button of the TV set-top box has a very good feel, and there is no feel of the plastic key remote control. The unique key feel of rubber keys.
Skyworth A5 standard packing list
The overall appearance of Skyworth A5 gave me a great surprise. Whether it is the appearance, or the overall color, texture, and exquisite workmanship are the main quality factors of a product, and also the attitude of a manufacturer. The excellent workmanship of Skyworth A5 allows us to Experienced the attitude of Skyworth vendors, a good attitude from the perspective of users and good products.
Smooth operating experience requires strong configuration
In hardware configuration, A5 is equipped with 1GB DDR, 8GB Flash, equipped with the most cost-effective 64-bit SOC Amlogic S905 on the market. S905 is the industry's first true 4K, 64-bit smart set-top box SOC, which integrates a 4-core ARM Cortex-A53 z and 5-core Mali-450@750MHz+ graphics processor, supports 4K@60fps video hard decoding and point-to-point display, and H. 265 10-bit and AVS+ and other formats, support HDMI2.0, HDCP2.2. Compared with the A9 architecture, the performance of the CPU is about 25% higher than that of the A9 architecture at the same frequency, which provides users with powerful kernel power support when using video, games, and social networking services.
Skyworth A5 basic parameters
Skyworth A5 uses a hardware configuration that is completely higher than its own product, Ding Wen. Its purpose is to let users get real sweetness. As a cooperative product of many partners, Skyworth A5 has excellent program resources and application resources. These excellent resources The smooth running of the system and the smooth operation of the system all require strong hardware configurations to support it.
Skyworth A5 Voice Bluetooth Remote Control
Skyworth A5's Bluetooth remote control is another highlight of this product, the ease of use of Bluetooth remote control is beyond doubt, the advantage of Bluetooth remote control compared to infrared remote control is that it does not need to aim like an infrared remote control operating. After the remote control is paired, the user can remotely control the TV set-top box with no dead angle as long as it is within the Bluetooth connection range.
Skyworth A5 Bluetooth settings interface
Of course, the use of the Bluetooth function does not stop there. You can enjoy high-quality TV programs with your Bluetooth headset when your family is asleep. You can also use the high-quality Bluetooth speakers to play program sounds. Bluetooth 4.0 technology development The Bluetooth power consumption problem has been perfectly solved, and the battery life in the Bluetooth remote controller has been excellent.
Skyworth TV box unique three modes of use
Recently, several major products released by Skyworth are equipped with Skyworth's unique optional usage model. These different models can handle family members of different ages so that they can better use the product. These three models are respectively Standard mode, senior citizen mode, child mode, and standard mode, as their name implies, are more suitable for the current mainstream users. They are familiar with the existing technology operation modes. The older mode is also more simple to operate with relatively simple fonts. In the mode, the interface in the child mode will become cartoon and interesting. This feature is also where other TV box manufacturers should learn. After all, family members use different levels of electronic devices.
There are good hardware and display effects, of course, with a rich content resources, the combination of software and hardware can play the greatest value of a TV. In terms of content, it is recommended to install a sofa butler - the sofa butler is a third-party app store designed specifically for smart TVs, Android box users, carefully providing television, box users with high-quality television exclusive version of the application, including with live Or on-demand video and audio and video software, various types of recreational competitive video game software and daily office entertainment management system management tools. Users can refer to the tutorial: Skyworth Box A5 Installation Method Install Sofa Manager to extend third-party applications.
Colorful, more colorful programming resources
Skyworth Box A5 joins Tencent Penguin TV to bring all the exciting Tencent videos to the box, allowing users to quickly and easily watch popular Korean TV dramas, American dramas, Hollywood blockbuster films, popular variety shows, selected popular sports events, live NBA, Children's animation, education and training, wonderful documentary and other massive genuine ultra-high-definition video resources of two million hours. Users can enjoy the simultaneous update of the latest television dramas from the Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the lyrics of the classic American dramas, and the new films of 6,000 global cinemas. Fans of NBA, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and other exciting events will be broadcast in real time. I believe that the rich content of film and television resources will provide users with a film and television dinner!
Penguin TV movie resource interface
Tencent sports resource playback interface
Penguin TV is an overall software solution launched by Tencent for Internet TV and smart set-top boxes. Penguin TV will focus on video content and strive to lead the new living room vision through the massive amount of high-definition content, superb visual audio-visual experience and a variety of hardware options. Penguin TV integrates open cooperation into the industrial ecology. Currently, Penguin TV has cooperated with four authoritative Internet TV licensees, ten major smart TV manufacturers, leading intelligent set-top box manufacturers and multiple network operators to build a new living room entertainment ecosystem.
Penguin TV drama interface
Skyworth A5's video resources are very rich, and the update speed is very timely and rapid, including the current popularity of popular TV dramas, movie theaters, excellent movies, variety shows, and Internet TV programs are the advantages of their programs of choice, and high-quality programs Resources, what to look at, and more freedom than traditional cable TV programs. Whether this advantage of Internet TV set-top boxes can be brought into play, a good updated and timely program resource is particularly important.
Skyworth A5 TV series selection interface
Skyworth A5 variety shows playback interface
As the main partner of Skyworth A5, the richness of resource resources of Tencent Penguin TV is undoubted. As a major Internet resource resource website, Tencent Penguin TV is very strong, and current mainstream program resources can be found on it. The current people are gradually pursuing more enjoyment. As the main buyers tend to be fashionable, younger, and their purchasing power continues to increase, manufacturers of TV set-top boxes are gradually crawling out of the vicious competition in price wars. More users buy their own products. Everyone starts to fight for services, fight programs, and update speed. It gradually enters a period of healthy competition. This competition is a good trend to promote product development, allowing users to have more excellent experience. Good trend.
Games and Applications, Powerful Hardware Configurations
As a universal sales TV set-top box, Skyworth A5's hardware configuration has exceeded its own positioning value, this configuration is not Skyworth's useless work, I said before, now the TV set-top box is no longer the previous price war More attention has been shifted to the user experience of the product. A powerful set of hardware configurations can bring smooth operation, smooth running of games and applications, hardware configuration and high quality. The supply of games and application resources can bring the performance of the Skyworth A5's hardware configuration into full play.
Skyworth A5 App Store enters the interface
Skyworth A5, which is in deep cooperation with Tencent, brings Tencent TV games to users. Tencent TV games can be regarded as the mobile version of Tencent mobile games. Many games on mobile phones can be well represented on TV platforms. Similar games such as "Cool Run Every Day" and "Every Day" have a good sense of experience. In addition, Tencent gamepad app is very easy to use, it can turn your phone into a handle, only need to download an app on OK.
Tencent Gamepad
The game experience of Skyworth A5 is very good. It can smoothly run almost all games provided by Tencent. The feedback speed of Tencent's gamepad is also fairly decent, but the game experience will be affected more or less, if it can be like a Bluetooth remote control, then the experience It will certainly become very good.
Skyworth A5 Education Application Interface
Skyworth A5 life application interface
Skyworth's production of resources for various applications can be said to be a good deal. It may be that in order to make better use of the excellent hardware capabilities of TV set-top boxes, the application in the application store is really very much, you can think of, you can not think of Basically, everything is readily available, rich in early education apps, and fitness class apps. Although you don't necessarily have to use every kind of thing, there are always a couple of different ways. You can't live without it. It is a large-scale bombing of various APPs. No matter what kind of person the user is or what personality is, you can find the APP software that you can use.
Skyworth software application interface
In addition to a variety of applications, the Skyworth A5 also has some easy-to-use software such as WPS. Users can use Skyworth A5 to play PPT and Word documents. This is also quite easy to use in the office. You can even add external files. A keyboard with Skyworth A5 for simple text writing and office matters, this feature is also quite good for workaholics.
Small build HD 4K video playback display
For today's TV set-top box products, having 4K video playback capability has almost become the standard product, of course, this standard also led to the current mixed performance and 4K video playback quality discounted, Skyworth A5 The 4K video playback function is still very powerful. Let us now look at how it performs.
4K video playback test
4K video playback test
During the evaluation process, I used two 4K videos to test the 4K playback performance of this TV set-top box. The overall feeling was already very good, but I have to say that the Skyworth A5 will still be accompanied with slight 4K video playback. Caton appears, this kind of cardon phenomenon mainly appears in the initial period of the video just opened about 10 seconds, and a period of time after the fast-forward video, but does not affect the overall video playback, Caton is slight, almost negligible After all, the positioning of this product is not high-end, so these small defects can still be acceptable.
4K video playback test
4K video playback test
In terms of a single product, my overall experience is very good, excellent program resources, powerful hardware configuration, very easy to use voice and Bluetooth features, you can use voice to complete most of the operations, including Open your designated APP or search for the program resources you are looking for. As I said, the hardware value of this product has far exceeded its own product positioning, Skyworth A5's cost performance is very high, if everyone If you are interested in this TV set-top box product, you may wish to buy a home. It will definitely give you more than ten times the value of your purchase! Well, today's evaluation of Skyworth A5 is here. I hope that my review will bring you some small help.
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