New SkyworthBox: A film-watching artifact "adaptable to all TV sets in solar system"! The first experience of A810

Ever since SkyworthBox come into market, it has gained popularity of many users for its high performance, pretty appearance and affordable fair. On April 10th, a new "economical and suitable"member was added to Skyworth family, which is the protagonist of today A810. The advertising positioning of A810 is "a film-watching artifact adaptable to all TV sets in solar system". We will test A810 to see whether it is an artifact or not, and whether it could reflect the strength of Skyworth whose shipment has been the first in China and the top three in the world, and has been on the market for 17 years.

1. Overall Impression
In this era, "appearance" is highly valued. Thus we will intuitively tell our overall impression of SkyworthBox based on the configuration parameters and the first impression of the appearance.
1)Connector: as long as users glance at A810, they will know that the maximal difference between A810 and other STBs lie in rich and practical connectors.。

We will make a comparison between A810 and a few commonly-used STBs on the market:

From the comparison, we may tell Skyworth A810 has done a surprising job in the compatibility of the connector. There are two USB2.0 connectors with abundant expansion space; IR infrared extended hole enables us to place the STB in a more concealed place which keeps the room tidy and clean without affecting the remote operation; the most praiseworthy thing is that A810 has added AV composite output port which are not commonly equipped in STBs on the market. AV composite output port can be connected to most of the old TV sets. Coupled with HDMI connectors, A810 could make the advertisement "adaptable to all TV sets in solar system" come true.

2)Configuration: A810 adopts the cost efficient quad-core processor Amlogic S805, based on ARM Cortex A5 architecture up to 1.5 GHz frequency and GPU with quad-core mail450. Memory and flash memory are mainstream 1G DDR and 4G Flash. Such configuration could be counted the mainstay in current smart STB main market. Henceforth, we may tell that the product positioning of Skyworth STB A810 is like its advertisement: "a film-watching artifact"-- pursuing balance between performance and price.

3) Practicability: we can tell from the video and audio container format of A810 that it is compatible to overwhelming majority of current images, video and audio format, supports 1080P full HD format, supports anaglyphic, polarization and shutter 3D. In a word, practicability.

2. Low profile but elegant appearance
After we unpack the box, we could see that the packaging box of A810 has adopted layer placing design, which is simple and clear. After we take out the first layer in the box, we could see accessories: the power supply and the remote control.
A810 inherits the square "box" design and metallic surface spraying technology.

A810 has added gradient processing on the edge of the black bottom case, which makes A810 looks thinner. And the lattice grid design of the heat emission hole in geometrical shape composed by dots and lines is helpful for heat dissipation and ensures beautiful appearance.
Only from appearance design, craft and material, A810 could already reflect the strength of Skyworth whose shipment has been the first in China and the top three in the world, and has been on the market for 17 years.

3. Luxurious connectors
We cannot help mentioning the connector configuration of Skyworth STB A810.
Besides basic internet access and HDMI connectors, A810 also includes AV connector, SPDIF connectors, TF card slot and IR infrared extended connectors. Power button frees users from opening or shutting up the TV by plugging in or pulling out the plug which is a common practice for most STBs.

A810 has two USBs with high utilization rate, which makes it more convenient to watch high definition movie on external connections, like USB, mobile hard disk driver.

4. Remote of comfortable handle
The remote of Skyworth STB A810 is also compact with concise design. Although it has few buttons, the remote is easy to be used. As the thickness of the remote is increased by adopting 7th battery, coupled with curve design conforming to ergonomics, users will have a better handle without feeling uncomfortable for its edges. The signal reception is great. Basically, the remote could receive signals even if it is pointed to the sky.

5. Concise interface and user-friendly operating experience
Here comes to the widely concerned usage experience part. After connecting A810 to the TV, it shows the boot screen.
Skyworth interface starts with star-gathering animation and ends with GITV still frame, from which we could tell that A810 still uses the license of GITV. GITV, an OTT operating company sponsored and established by China National Radio, Jiangsu Broadcasting Cooperation, iQIYI and Dr.Peng Telecom and Media group, is one of the seven "OTT integrated broadcast business"license holders domestically. It has powerful research and development ability and its video content could satisfy consumers' omnibearing needs. As the internet video website iQIYI participates in GITV, all high-definition film and television are displayed with no monthly rent nor annual fee.

The interface style of A810 has inherits the Metro style of Skyoworth Box with no exceptions. Whichever board the select box moves to, the board will pop up. There are five menus at the bottom of the screen, such as favorite, recommendation, channels etc..Users could move the select box to the menu and skip to the relevant menu page, or shift the board at the top to the right or the left and move to relevant board. Corresponding board will be highlighted by amplifying the font of the menu. It is very practical to place two commonly used functions, search and history in the home page, in other words, recommending page.

We will review the classification of the menu. There are totally five menus in A810: favorite, recommend, channel, application and setting.
1)favorite, that is short film carousel. Students who are used to American blockbusters and TV series could come to this board to experience this fast food style short films.

2) recommend, that is the hit TV series, blockbusters, varieties, animations etc. Students with choice phobia disorder may watch these recommended programs.

3)channels, very detailed classifications reaching up to 27 makes it convenient to find contents you like.

4)applications, favorite of senior users. In this board, they could play games and start a third party application. In media center, they could watch the video and audio files in USB and mobile hard disk driver.

5) settings, mainly some user account information, basic setting of A810 and device information. The most noteworthy is that there is a test function for internet signal is not as stable as cable TV signal. When the video does not go smoothly, users could come to this test function and see if there is anything wrong in the network.

The multi-screen function in setting provides a perfect experience in searching and watching movie, mobile phone news and mobile phone control.

6. Massive film and television resources
Skyworth A810 still uses GITV licenseand continues to cooperate with iQIYI. It put all resources in iQIYi video websites to A810. Basically, all the hit TV series, shows and movies could be found in "Channels".
H.265 sector in Channels. H.265 is currently the latest codec format, the merit of which is that its compression rate is higher than H.264. In brief, it enables users to watch videos of high definition without changing the bandwidth. Therefore, H.265 undoubtedly leads the trend of future video format.

The rough statistics show that there are more than ten thousand movies, over two thousand TV series, over two thousand animations, over five hundred shows, 130 thousand pieces of news, over forty thousand documentary films and classified categories like sports, fashion, life, tourism, education etc, with forty to fifty thousand resources respectively. These content are really abundant and they are continuously updated. Maybe it is really like what is says in its slogan, "it will take 325 years to finish watching all the massive free film and television resources!" It seems that we could not watch all the resources in this life or next life.

7 .Abundant APPs
Application channels provide abundant APPs and games to users. Users could download proper applications based on personal favors, which is very convenient.

We will take the test of some hot applications as an example:
For example, enter "home hot spot" and take A810 as a router to share wifi

Enter "flush" to view the stock exchange. so easy

KTV, a home KTV better than the commercial KTV

Beva nursery rhyme, prepares abundant animated idiom stories, bedtime stories and fables for children.

"School club" provides lots of practical video courses for white-collars.

Grape game room is a built-in game platform where everyone could install games. This platform is highly compatible to most of the commonly seen joystick brands. There are considerable amounts of various games on this platform, such as large-scale games, online games, emulator games etc. It could surely satisfy the need of mild players.

Evaluation summary:
The new SkyworthBox A810, guaranteed by the top status of Skyworth in domestic STB sales for years, is a cost-efficient "film watching artifact" . The rich connectors are adaptable to almost all TV sets, which could seckill the overwhelming majority of smart STBs. The humanized design in packaging, appearance, remote and system operation perfectly attends to users' experience. The mainstream configuration satisfy the need for daily film watching, online education and games. Partner iQIYI provides all video contents required impeccably. The affordable price is especially noteworthy. A810 is really worth recommending to families and fashion icons.
Well, it is the end of the first test to SkyworthBox A810, "a film-watching artifact adaptable to all TV sets in solar system". In addition, after SkyworthBox A810 come to the market, it is widely sold in domestic electronic digital malls. If you are interested, be hurry!