Category: HDMI Sticks

UyeSee Set-top-box Roadmap: RK3288, Mstar 9180, HiSilicon 3798m

Posted by Charbax – August 18, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HiSilicon, Mstar, UyeSee, Android

UyeSee is an A/V device maker, designing and manufacturing multimedia players, OTT boxes, WiFi Streaming Devices using RockChip, MSTAR and Hisilicon. In this video, Ryan from Uyesee describes their roadmap, including High End Android TV Boxes on RK3288, MSTAR9180 with Quad Core/4K/HEVC/HDMI input, Low End TV Box solutions using Hisilicon 3798m, featuring QuadCore A7 /4K/HEVC and also Low End in Mstar 9260 featuring QuadCore A7 /4K/HEVC also. Previously they made RK3188/RK3066 in boxes or HDMI Sticks. Uyesee also works in WiFi A/V Streaming with their SoundMate that does CD Quality wifi music streaming using FLAC and with MultiRoom streaming support.

You can contact UyeSee here:
inquiry@uyesee.com
Skype: nice__ryan
Mobile:+86 18688703923
http://www.uyesee.com

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick and Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – August 14, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Sunchip, Android

Sunchip has RK3288 working on HDMI Stick and TV Box, implementing different user interfaces according to customer requirements, supporting RK3288 on HDMI Stick and Set-top-box designs, ready for mass production by the end of August with the Set-top-box being ready a bit earlier than the HDMI Stick.

You can contact Sunchip here:
Kobe Chen
kobe@sunchip-tech.com
http://sunchip-tech.com

Bluetimes cooperate with Realtek Realease wirless transmission solution based on RTD1185PA-GR & RTL8192DU/RTL8188CUS

Posted by Charbax – July 8, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Realtek, BlueTimes

Bluetimes and Realtek launch a wireless transmission screen solution based on chip RTD1185 system & RTL8192DU or RTL8188CUS Wifi chipset. This works with consumer products such as computers, tablet, mobile phones and provides Miracast, DLNA, Intel WIDI to satisfy users for portable devices with larger screen with high quality and low latency between the wireless transmission of screen application demand.

bluetimes realtek

Advantages of this solution :

1. RTD1185 system chip and RTL8192DU double-frequency 2 x2 wi-fi chip set of wireless transmission solution to become the first screen Miracast certification test platform.

• 2. BOM highly integrated DDR (ETN, HDMI, 128 m).

• 3. Support on the market all the Wifi display technology: Intel WiDi, Miracast, DLNA, as well as the self-developed Airfun.

, 4. RTD1185 format for the whole decoding multimedia chip, IC leading manufacturer for the multimedia player, so-called Full hd media player can encode any formats with movie.

• 5. Membership Realtek netcom department, to provide a complete set of main chip and the Wifi chip solutions.

• 6. Strong BLUETIMES FAE engineering team to provide hardware/software engineering support.

bluetimes realtek

bluetimes realtek

• CPU: 500MHz

• HD MPEG 1/2/4 & HD JPEG Decoder

• HD H.264, VC1, RM/RMVB, AVS Decoder

• AV Streaming/Transmission via Ethernet & WiFi

• TV Encoder with CVBS/S- Video/YPbPr/SCART Out

• HDMI v1.3 with CEC

• I2S, SPDIF Out

• USB2.0 Host & PHY

• USB2.0 Device & PHY

• 10/100 Ethernet MAC & PHY

• Gigabit Ethernet MAC

• PCI-Express

• Card Reader (SD/MMC)

If you are interesting with Bluetimes Mircast Full hd media player or other product pls email sales1@ebluetimes.com. Direct phone line +86 755 27318811 to Alex Dou.

$29 Miracast Dongle from MeLE

Posted by Charbax – May 31, 2014
Category: HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Actions, Mele

A new miracast dongle from MeLE, the MeLE Cast S1. It is a chocolate-sized media streaming device plugging into the HDMI port on your TV. Easy connected by WiFi and easy setup by the EZCast app on your mobile phone or tablet. It allows you to share favorite online shows, movies, music ,documents and more to your TV from your smart devices or notebook. It supports EZcast, Miracast, Airplay, AirMirroring and DLNA, compatible with iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.

You can contact MeLE directly here:

OEM & ODM Brand for Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Tina Zhang Email: sales14@mele.cn Skype: tina.zhang703
Contact: Coco Jiang Email: sales8@mele.cn Skype: melecoco

Distributor & Reseller for MeLE Brand of Android Tv Box, Air Mouse, HDMI Dongle:
Contact: Gennie Peng Email: sales10@mele.cn Skype: apvell091
Contact: Isaac Long Email: sales5@mele.cn Skype: isaac_520320

Official Company Website: http://www.mele.cn
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/meleofficialstore
Official Aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/715968

All inquiries will be reviewed and responded promptly (in 24 hours)
If you have any urgent questions you can call +86 18675512024

BlueTimes Power Banks and BlueTimes WiDi Cast Miracast Dongle

Posted by Charbax – May 16, 2014
Category: HDMI Sticks, Power Banks, Exclusive videos, Actions, China Sourcing Fair, BlueTimes, Android

BlueTimes shows some of their Power Banks in different colors with 10000mAh, 5000mAh. BlueTimes also shows their $14-$16 Miracast Dongle based on the Actions AM8251 (you can buy a sample for $20 including shipping). Watch my tour video at the BlueTimes factory here.

You can contact BlueTimes for Inquiries regarding cooperation opportunities:

Android tv box and Power Bank enquiries (OEM & ODM)
Email : sales1@ebluetimes.com Contact person Alex Dou
Skype : alexdou3
QQ: 32755616

Reseller inquiries regarding bulk purchases (Bluetimes brand or only for personal use )
Email: sales4@ebluetimes.com Contact person Linda Yang

Questions about Technical RMA Warranty
Email: service@ebluetimes.com Contact person Bluetimes service

Factory Website: http://www.ebluetimes.com/en/Main.asp
Alibaba Website: http://www.ebluetimes.en.alibaba.com/
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/bluetimestech
Official aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/702748

All inquiries will be reviewed and responded to promptly ( in 24 hours )
If have any urgent question please feel free call 86 18680319256

Unuiga Factory Tour, HDMI Sticks, TV Box and Tablets

Posted by Charbax – May 6, 2014
Category: Tablets, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, Rockchip, Unuiga, Android

Unuiga shows around their Factory assembling RK3188 HDMI Sticks, RK3188 Set-top-boxes and they are making RK3028 Tablets also, all branded by their customers asking them to make custom products for them. This video also features Quality Inspection of color, sound, burning test, display, connectors, PCB, manufacturing 3 thousand HDMI Sticks in one day in this factory. They are soon about to be able to manufacture RK3288 HDMI Sticks and TV Boxes here also. You can also watch my videos at the Unuiga SMT Line, PCB Design House and videos with Steven Ching about Uniga’s Product Portfolio Planning and the Company History.

You can contact Unuiga here:

Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick and Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – April 22, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Sunchip, Android

Shenzhen Sunchip shows their RK3288 based HDMI Stick and Set-top-box PCB, the hardware is ready, they just need another month or so for the software to be ready and optimized. We’re talking Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 (according to Rockchip and posters), Mali-T674 GPU. Sunchip sells about 30K HDMI Sticks and Set-top-boxes per month. I will look for the Chrome OS based RK3288 HDMI Stick, check http://ARMdevices.net for news on that. You can also watch my videos filmed at the Sunchip HDMI Stick heaquarters in Shenzhen (2, 3, 4)

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick

Sunchip RK3288 HDMI Stick Sunchip RK3288 Set-top-box Sunchip RK3288 Set-top-box

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

You can contact Sunchip here:
Kobe Chen
kobe@sunchip-tech.com
http://sunchip-tech.com

Shenzhen Tena RK3288 HDMI Stick

Posted by Charbax – April 22, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, HKTDC Electronics Fair, Android

Shenzhen Tena shows the mockup for their upcoming RK3288 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 HDMI Stick. For now this is just a mockup, but the RK3288 HDMI Stick should get ready by around next month. With 2 USB Ports, IR remote control, MicroSD card. Shenzhen Tena will also provide a RK3288 based Set-top-box. Tena has a RK2928 Miracast dongle with 5Ghz WiFi. You can also watch my Factory Tour at Shenzhen Tena HDMI Stick maker filmed last year (2).

Contact info (please only contact them if you are serious about buying/importing large quantities of these devices):
Shenzhen Tena Ltd
http://www.sztena.com
Sales manager: Calvin Huang
calvin@sztena.com

Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2014

Unuiga SMT Production Line Tour

Posted by Charbax – April 21, 2014
Category: Tablets, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Unuiga, Android

Unuiga shows around their SMT Production Line, outputting PCBs for their Set-top-box and HDMI Sticks and outputting PCBs for Tablets also. You can also watch the video from Unuiga’s PCB design house, Unuiga’s Product Porfolio and the Unuiga Company History video.

Contact informations:

Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976

Unuiga PCB Design House, RK3288/RK3188 for HDMI Sticks and Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – April 16, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Factory Tours, PCB Design House, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, Unuiga, Android

With RK3288 designs in the ramping, Unuiga has 60 hardware/software engineers, 20 sales people, Unuiga is an ODM Android TV Box and HDMI Stick system provider in Shenzhen China specializing in Rockchip PCB solutions for Set-top-boxes and HDMI Sticks. Featuring among other Android optimizating, PCB layout, creating new designs for TV Boxes including Unuiga’s wide TV Mounted RK3188 TV Box with Camera for video-conferencing. Developing some Android home replacement user interfaces designs for customer’s custom TV usage.

Contact informations:

Steven Ching
Marketing Director
Company Name: Great Harmony Electronics Industrial Limited
Factory Name: Shenzhen Ulike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Factory Address: 5F, E Building, Dakan Technology Park, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Tel: 86-755-86110143
Fax: 86-755-86330445
Cell: 86-18038133940
Web : www.unuiga.com
E-mail: steven@unuiga.com
MSN: stevenching@live.cn
Skype: stevenching1976

MediaTek MT6595 ARM Cortex-A17, MT8135 big.LITTLE A15/A7 and more

Posted by Charbax – April 14, 2014
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, Shenzhen Electronics Fair, Android

Booth tour at the MediaTek booth featuring their upcoming MT6595 with ARM Cortex-A17, the already available MT8135 big.LITTLE, this video also features MT5327 (4K TV Box), MT8639 (Miracast dongle), and the MT6592 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 already in full mass distribution worldwide.

BlueTimes Factory Tour, Android TV Box and Power Bank

Posted by Charbax – April 12, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Rockchip, AmLogic, BlueTimes, Android

Shenzhen Bluetimes Technology Co., Ltd maker of Android TV box, Miracast Dongle and Power Bank shows around their 4000 square meter factory featuring 4 high-speed SMT Lines, 2 wave soldering Lines, 4 testing and assembly Lines, aging test room to enable the output of 500,000 Power Bank and Android TV box per month. 80% of BlueTimes products are exported to Europe, USA and Southeast Asia. BlueTimes features solutions using Rockchip RK3188 and AmLogic M802, with plans for Rockchip RK3288 and more.

You can contact BlueTimes for Inquiries regarding cooperation opportunities:

Android tv box and Power Bank enquiries (OEM & ODM)
Email : sales1@ebluetimes.com Contact person Alex Dou
Skype : alexdou3
QQ: 32755616

Reseller inquiries regarding bulk purchases (Bluetimes brand or only for personal use )
Email: sales4@ebluetimes.com Contact person Linda Yang

Questions about Technical RMA Warranty
Email: service@ebluetimes.com Contact person Bluetimes service

Factory Website: http://www.ebluetimes.com/en/Main.asp
Alibaba Website: http://www.ebluetimes.en.alibaba.com/
Official eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/bluetimestech
Official aliexpress Store: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/702748

All inquiries will be reviewed and responded to promptly ( in 24 hours )
If have any urgent question please feel free call 86 18680319256

Entropic EN7310 ARM SoC for Set-top-box with HEVC and MoCA 2.0

Posted by Charbax – March 30, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, TV Connect, Android

Entropic shows their latest EN7310 ARM Cortex-A9 SoC with IP-STB and HDMI Stick features, integrated multi-tuner dual DVB-S/S2 cable reception, advanced security and DRM, HEVC decode and transcoding with Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) 2.0 home networking.

Entropic is a fabless semiconductor company recognized for inventing the MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) home networking technology, creating Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Outdoor Unit (ODU) single-wire technology, and developing the industry’s first ARM processor and OpenGL graphics Set-top box (STB), System-on-a-Chip (SoC).

This video also features Eagle Kingdom Technologies (EKT) who launches DCP5205 world`s first Entropic powered hybrid PowerPlug Set-top-box combining the functionality of a Set-top-box into a plug socket, thus eliminating the need for a separate power adapter commonly required in today’s hybrid STBs.

Sree Kotay, Comcast Chief Software Architect about starting the Linaro Home Group for optimizing Linux for the ARM Powered Set-top-box

Posted by Charbax – March 18, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect, Android, Google TV

Radically revamping the device development model for Carrier class operators with ARM and Linaro. Comcast? Software? Isn’t that an oxymorom? See how the open source community and modern development models are re-shaping the feature velocity and security models for embedded devices like set-top-boxes, cable modems and gateways. Competing in the modern landscape means building products and experiences that compete with a new breed of innovators. Comcast’s SVP, Engineering and Operations and Chief Software Architect will provide insight into how its reinvented its technology stack and product line.

my interview with him:

The new Linaro Home Group is about optimizing ARM Linux for Multimedia Set-top-boxes. Here’s my interview with Sree Kotay, Comcast Chief Software Architect about how Comcast is interested in working with Linaro to optimize Linux on the ARM Powered Set-top-box.

and his keynote video is here:

Geniatech OTT TV devices, M802 HDMI Stick, DVT-T, ISDB-T, Office Cast, WiTV

Posted by Charbax – March 18, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, CES, Geniatech, Android

This video features:
1. Geniatech ATV180 shows 2Ghz AmLogic M802 based ATV180 Series HDMI Stick with 4K2K support, OTT STB / UHD Support, 600MHz Mali 450MP8 Octa Core GPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB Flash

2. Geniatech PT115 – Android TV Dongle for DVB-T, PT115 DVB-T is a high sensitivity Tiny size digital micro USB TV Stick It turns your Tablet into a portable digital multimedia center. Features Watch and record DVB-T TV on Tablet, Supports Electronic Program Guide EPG and Subtitle Supports Time-Shifting function Low power consumption, requires Android 4.1 and a phone or tablet with OTG USB host support.

3. Geniatech PT230 – Android TV Dongle for ISDB-T same as PT115 but for ISDB-T standard

4. Geniatech Office Cast / any cast New product / connect – display and beam any content from smartphone / tablet / notebook / PC to Beamer. Office use ! Protocol: Miracast, DLNA, UPnP, own APK iOS and Android. ARM CORTEX A9, frequency is 800MHz-1GHz, RAM is 1G, built in 2G-32G flash memory Linux / based !

5. Geniatech ATV1610 – Series

6. ATV582 Series

7. WiTV – Wireless, WiTV is a small stand alone TV tuner which connects worldwide TV signals and streams of live TV wirelessly to mobile devices in iOS/Mac OS/Android OS the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android Phone and Android tablet etc.. Live TV can be watched through your home Wi-Fi network

Android optimizations for ARM by Linaro Engineers

Posted by Charbax – March 7, 2014
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect, Android

Linaro Engineers present a bunch of optimizations they recently did in Android for ARM. These optimizations are in areas like BIONIC for Cortex C string routines, migrating to GCC 4.9, migrating the external projects to their latest versions, optimizing SQLite, optimizing battery life, also they discuss their progress building Android with CLANG, migrating Android to latest versions and how Linaro is planning to release these optimizations to the Android community through Linaro Android releases and upstream them to respective project repositories.

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The Android Linaro team’s presentations are live and available on Linaro.org LCA14 and on youtube at LinaraOnAir channel – http://www.youtube.com/user/LinaroOnAir:
LCA14-205: Optimizing SQLite for Android mobile
LCA14-304: Building Android with CLANG for ARM v7 and v8 platforms

Qualcomm, Mediatek, ZTE, Allwinner and Comcast join Linaro

Posted by Charbax – March 7, 2014
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, E-readers, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, ZTE, Linaro Connect, Android, Chrome OS, Google TV, Ubuntu

George Grey, CEO of Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source Linux software and tools for the ARM architecture, announces that Qualcomm, Mediatek, ZTE, AllWinner and Comcast are joining Linaro to work together on bringing Linux on ARM forward together. They are joining the existing Linaro member companies who are ARM, HiSilicon, Broadcom, Fujitsu, LG, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, AMD, AppliedMicro, Canonical, Cavium, Cisco, Citrix, Enea, Facebook, Freescale, HP, LSI, Marvell, Montavista, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Red Hat and IBM who all are contributing engineers to all be working together to improve Linux on ARM for Mobile, Enterprise (servers), Networking, and now also for Home (Set-top-box) usage with the Internet of Things potentially also to be supported. Linaro just held its Linaro Connect Asia here in Macau this week and I will be posting many videos from there, interviewing Linaro engineers about some of the latest Linux hacking work they are doing to speed up all ARM Powered devices.

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MHL for Productivity, Acer Extend, MediaTek MT6592 MHL Optimizations and Dell/Roku MHL HDMI Sticks

Posted by Charbax – February 28, 2014
Category: Laptops, Smartphones, HDMI Sticks, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, MWC, Android

One of the most interesting aspects of MHL in my opinion is that MHL enables your Smartphone to run your PC/Desktop/Laptop experience. Now Acer is showing their Acer Extend prototype where it’s an “empty” good looking laptop shell as stylish as an Ultrabook, which only contains the display, battery, keyboard, mousepad and basic MHL support electronics, thus potentially being sold at a very cheap price, then you power that Laptop Dock with your Phone, in the similar way to the Motorola LapDock system of a couple of years ago. MediaTek is showing some Android software optimizations that they are doing to run this setup on their Octa Core MT6592 processor, thus switching the Android UI to a more Laptop-friendly orientation and configuration when the MHL connectivity to the Laptop Dock is triggered. Hopefully that Android 5 will feature optimized MHL functionality also, perhaps even enabling to instantly switch to a full Chrome OS like productivity state when the MHL to Laptop Dock is detected. MHL also demonstrates a couple of important HDMI sticks from Dell and from Roku which feature MHL support, making HDMI Sticks easy to use and clutter-free, automatically powered by the TV itself and running the full Productivity Suite or the Entertainment Functions directly on the HDMI Stick. Now with MHL 3.0, MHL supports up to 600mbit/s on the USB Host direction, something that I have been looking forward to since I started video-blogging about MHL in 2011. The potential here is to accelerate the adoption of ARM Devices for powering productivity.

MHL shipped in over 400 million devices, MHL 3.0 does 4K

Posted by Charbax – January 26, 2014
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Projectors, Displays, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, CES, Android

MHL launches MHL 3.0 with 6gbit/s bandwidth to support 4K 2160p30 video output from a phone, simultaneous up to 40mbitps data channel for USB 2.0 host (for example USB hard drives), new RCP commands, HID support for touchscreens, keyboard and mice, now charging with up to 10W of power, HDCP 2.2, 7.1 surround sound with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD, connector agnostic (uses as few as five pins), support for simultaneous up to 4 displays on one MHL 3 output while being backward compatible with MHL 1 and MHL 2. Thus far, more than 200 companies have shipped over 300 MHL compatible devices in phones, tablets, TVs, accessories and more, shipped in more than 400 million devices on the market thus far since MHL 1 launched in 2010.

Marvell Armada 1500 powers Android TV and Chromecast

Posted by Charbax – January 21, 2014
Category: Set-top-boxes, HDMI Sticks, Displays, Exclusive videos, Marvell, CES, Android, Google TV

Marvell Video R&D Software Architecture Team Leader Gaurav Arora talks about how Marvell and Google deliver the ARM Powered Google TV, now renamed Android TV on the dual-core Marvell Armada 1500-Plus, how the extremely popular and successful Chromecast runs on the single-core Marvell Armada 1500-Mini. Marvell also shows their new quad-core Marvell Armada 1500 Pro HD to be released in devices Q2 2014 running Android TV. Google is bringing the TV into the mainline ARM Powered Android releases, that is why they now brand it Android TV. The app package included on Android TV is called the Android TV GMS Package, includes apps like YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, Netflix and everything else optimized for the TV. The apps are designed for a 10-foot experience remote control user interface.