Category: Set-top-boxes

ezTalks Onion 1080p video conferencing

Posted by – April 8, 2017

ezTalks Onion is a 1080p all-in-one device with hdmi, ethernet, with a 1080p camera with 120° wide angle lens, dual microphone and a loudspeaker. It can be put on the top of any TV or PC monitor, users can quickly start or join a video conference. Selling at about $1299 retail, distributors can contact for discounted prices depending on quantity. The cameras can be remotely controlled for surveillance.

Distributors can contact ezTalks here:
sales@eztalks.com
+1 (888) 567-8889

Nvidia Tegra X2 in Jetson TX2 Developer Kit, dual Denver2 + quad ARM Cortex-A57, Pascal GPU


Nvidia Tegra X2 features two Nvidia custom Denver 2 cores, four ARM Cortex-A57 cores with Nvidia’s Pascal GPU (made of 256 CUDA cores) made on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET+. Nvidia Tegra X2 (codenamed “Parker”) delivers up to 1.5 teraflops of performance, about 50% more performance than Nvidia Tegra X1. Enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI), for building advanced robots, drones, smart cameras, portable medical devices, enabling the processing of complex deep neural networks on the edge of the IoT world. While X1 could do 4K at 30fps encode, 4K 10bit 60p decode, X2 can encode 4K H265 at 60p and decode 4K 12bit 60p. Memory bandwidth has more than doubled from 25.6GB/s to 58.3GB/s, you can buy the Nvidia Jetson TX2 Developer Kit for $599 at https://store.nvidia.com/store?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&SiteID=nvidia&id=QuickBuyCartPage

Linaro shows Video Playback Verification with Robot framework and OpenCV

Posted by – March 14, 2017

The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) recognizes the need for automated video testing software in Linaro’s automated validation architecture (LAVA). In LHG they have started looking at the open source Robot Framework generic test automation framework and OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision). The demo at Connect (BUD17) shows some of the first steps of how to automate the verification of video playback using open source test projects that can be implemented as part of the Linaro Continuous Integration (CI) framework.

Linaro RDK with GStreamer-V4L2 video accelerator and Freedreno graphics overlay

Posted by – March 14, 2017

The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) has extensive experience working with the Comcast RDK. LHG has been instrumental in leading open source initiatives in the RDK. At Linaro Connect (BUD17), the LHG Director, Mark Gregotski, along with 2 Comcast assignee engineers (Siva Patchaiperumal and Kalyan Nagabhirava) are demonstrating a port of the RDK to the Qualcomm 96Boards Dragonboard 410c. This demo shows the RDK media framework taking advantage of the GStreamer-V4L2 support provided by the DBD410C to use the hardware video decoder. The HD video is scaled and then a rotating triangle is overlaid using the open source Freedreno graphics support available with DB410C. The demo shows smooth video playback without any stuttering with smooth graphics overlay. Since the video decode is offloaded to the video hardware, the CPU is not heavily loaded.

Linaro Android AOSP TV, making Android TV Boxes and Smart TVs better

Posted by – March 13, 2017

Interview with the core team behind the Linaro’s AOSP TV project. The project lead Khasim Syed Mohammed and team members Show Liu and Vincent Chou demonstrate Android TV running on the 96Boards HiKey platform. The team shares the goals of the AOSP TV project, how it will benefit the SoC vendors, OEMs and ODMs of Smart TVs and Advanced Set-top box manufacturers and Android TV application developers. They clarify the project goal, its to create AOSP TV as the open source subset of Android TV and is not to fork the Android TV work from Google. They also share the details on upcoming LHG’s AOSP TV m-lcr release, OPTEE security framework integration, DRM support to be added and a lot more.

Koen Kooi talks about Kodi on ARM, V4L2, OpenCDM, EME for HTML5

Posted by – March 7, 2017

Koen Kooi, release manager at Linaro, talks about wanting to watch Netflix from inside Kodi and the work going on to make that possible. This video was filmed at the Linaro Connect Budapest 2017.

EC Technology shows $50 Projector docks with $75 Mini PC, $100 Combo, and S905 TV Box


EC Technology has a pico projector for $50. EC Technology has a mini pc for $75 and mini PC/pico projector combo for $100. EC Technology has a Amlogic s905 Android set top box for $100 plus a keyboard with integrated touch pad for an unspecified price. More products planned for the future. Moq for all units is 50 units or more.

$149 MyGica ATV1960 with AmLogic S912 Octa-core, 3GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet

Posted by – February 5, 2017

Geniatech presents the MyGica booth, MyGica is Geniatech’s consumer facing brand, here presenting the products that MyGica has for sale in the US market. MyGica ATV1960 will be for sale in the USA at $149. MyGica eyetv netstream connects a DVB ATSC/T2/etc free FHD over the air digital TV that can then be streamed to any device within the home.

Geniatech ARM PC MultiMedia Gateway APC1295 and APC1966 with 3x HDMI inputs

Posted by – February 3, 2017

Geniatech ARM PC APC1295 is a Multimedia Home Gateway with WAN port, Gigabit Ethernet Port, HDMI in and HDMI out, it’s a router with 2×2 Mimo, Wi-Fi AC, Android 6.0 based, PVR, Access-point, Home Cloud storage, Media streamer, NAS and more functions are inside. It also allows for Geniatech’s eye TV functionality inside re-broadcasting the HDMI signal to any device in the home. Geniatech is also showing the APC1966 with industrial grade design, 3x HDMI inputs for inputting 3 HDTV or 4K HDMI sources into the box and being able to re-distribute it anywhere in the house, it also has a digital TV tuner such as ATSC/T2/Cable etc. HDCP compliant, local DRM support. Geniatech also shows their Android TV Box and Gateway with 4G LTE modem integrated.

Distributors can contact Geniatech here:
http://www.geniatech.com
sales@geniatech.com

Zoomtak Uplus TV Box on AmLogic S912 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53

Posted by – January 23, 2017

Zoomtak Uplus is powered by Amlogic S912 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 at up to 2.0GHz with ARM Mali-820MP3 GPU at up to 750MHz, it supports 4K HDR10, VP9, H.265 10bit decode, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 16GB eMMC and supports an internal 2.5″ SATA hard drive up to 2TB. Zoomtak Uplus TV Box comes with LED screen in the front panel, it runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with pre-installed Kodi 16.1 Jarvis (stable version). It supports OTA update. HDMI 2.0, CVBS output (RCA), stereo audio (2x RCA), Gigabit Ethernet, dual band WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, 3x USB ports, IR receiver, 5V/3A Power Supply available in Silver, Red, Blue and Black. You can read more about it on Zoomtak’s website.

Distributors can contact Zoomtak here:
Shenzhen Zoomtak Electronics Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 755 29033689
Mob: +86 13538098986 (whatsapp)
Web: http://www.zoomtak.net
Email: joanna@zoomtak.net
Skype: joanna_zhouyu
Wechat: zoomtakjoanna

Sunchip RK3399 Set-top-box, 4K Sports camera on Hisilicon Hi3559 V100

Posted by – January 23, 2017

Sunchip shows their latest RK3399 Hexacore 64bit dual ARM Cortex-A72 with quad ARM Cortex-A53 with Sata port, USB Type-C and USB3 and more. Sunchip also shows their dual lens 360 panoramic video camera. Sunchip CX-A12 is their 64bit AmLogic S912 octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 based TV Box. Sunchip releases true 4K sports camera based on Hisilicon Hi3559 V100 which is a 32bit big.LITTLE SoC using one ARM Cortex-A17 and one ARM Cortex-A7 core on 28nm HPC+ process using HiSilicon fifth-generation Hi-Lark video encoder which can encode 4K@30fps and 1080p@30fps simultaneously, 2K@60fps, 1080p@120fps or 720p@240fps. Hi3559 V100 supports dual sensor inputs for a dual-lens 4K@30fps 360 VR camera which Sunchip says they are working toward.

$52 Amlogic S812 2G 8G BT Android 4.4 TV BOX by GIEC

Posted by – December 20, 2016

GIEC shows their hot sale Android TV box, powered by Quad Core ARM Cortex A-9 Amlogic S812, with Octa-Core Mali-450 GPU , 2G DDR3, 8G Nand Flash, 3*USB port, 1*TF card reader, HDMI and AV out, 100M Ethernet port, and build in 2.4G 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. The GIEC GK-MP111 support H.265 hardware decoding up to 4K.With a nice-Custom-Designed GUI, with Google play store, support DLNA, Miracast, Airplay. Best price at USD52 from MOQ 1000pcs.

Distributors can contact GIEC for more information:
For OTT/ TV box/TV dongle products inquiry, please contact:
Sales Manager: Dennis Zhang
Email: dennis@giec.cn
Skype:dennis.zwh
Mobile:+86-18617031005
http://en.giec.cn

For MID/Laptop/Tablet products inquiry, please contact:
Sales Manager: Sonnia Wu
Email: sonnia@giec.cn
Skype:sonniawu
Mobile:+86-15816865959

$40 Ubuntu 4K on AmLogic S905 ODROID-C2 development board by HardKernel from South Korea

Posted by – December 15, 2016

The HardKernal ODroid-C2 is a board that outputs native 4K resolution over HDMI 2.0. It uses 4x ARM Cortex-A53 cores at 1.5GHz (Mali-450 GPU) coupled with 2GB DDR3 RAM. Upto 128GB eMMC HS400 and 200GB UHS-1 microSD cards are supported simultaneously. A Gigabit Ethernet port as well as 4USB Host and 1 USB OTG ports are present. The demo setup consists of a 4K TV playing 4K videos while using Ubuntu OS with MATE desktop environment. The board costs US$41.95 without the recommended eMMC memory.

Minix TV Boxes at ARM Techcon 2016

Posted by – November 26, 2016

Minix is a Hong Kong-based set top box manufacturer that has on display their entire range here. The bestselling model uses an RK3188 CPU (quad-core Cortex-A9) with an Ethernet port, 1GB RAM and 16GB of NAND flash. The X7 and X7 mini, their most mature platform, is used by companies to use their own software which is then sold to end consumers utilising digital signage. The S905 uses a 64-bit CPU, and supports 30fps 4K video. There is also a model with a 3G/4G SIM card and a PCI-E port for adding faster wireless cards or SSDs.

Geniatech ATV1960 AmLogic S912 Octa-core with Dual TV Tuner

Posted by – November 23, 2016

Geniatech ATV1960 Octa Core TV Box based on AmLogic S912, runs Android 5.1, supports 4K 10bit HEVC Hardware decode, Dual Digital TV Tuner built-in (ATSC/T2), one for live watching, another for recording. Support DLNA streaming. Geniatech Netstream Air for broadcasting from Tuner to the home or office.

Zoomtak V Plus on AmLogic S912

Posted by – November 23, 2016

The Zoomtak V Plus Android TV box is based Amlogic-S912, Octa core A53 at 2.0GHz, in Alumium Housing, LED display, runs Andriod 6.0, with 2GB RAM, 16GB EMMC, Supports 4K2K H.265 hardware decode, HDR 10bit, Kodi 16.1, 1000M Ethernet. HDMI 2.0, Dual band ac wifi 2.4G/5.8G with Removable antenna.

Distributors can contact Zoomtak here:
Shenzhen Zoomtak Electronics Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 755 29033689
Mob: +86 13538098986 (whatsapp)
Web: http://www.zoomtak.net
Email: joanna@zoomtak.net
Skype: joanna_zhouyu
Wechat: zoomtakjoanna

Zoomtak H8 Plus on AmLogic S905X

Posted by – November 23, 2016

The Zoomtak H8 Plus Android TV box is based AmLogic S905x Quad core ARM Cortex-A53 at 2.0GHz, in Alumium Housing, running Andriod 6.0, with 2GB RAM, 8GB EMMC, Supports 4K2K H.265 hardware decode, HDR 10bit, Kodi 16.1, 100M Ethernet. HDMI 2.0, 2.4G WIFI, available in Silver and Black.

Distributors can contact Zoomtak here:
Shenzhen Zoomtak Electronics Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 755 29033689
Mob: +86 13538098986 (whatsapp)
Web: http://www.zoomtak.net
Email: joanna@zoomtak.net
Skype: joanna_zhouyu
Wechat: zoomtakjoanna

Egreat A5, Egreat A10 4K HDR TV Box on Hisilicon 3798C V200

Posted by – November 5, 2016

Egreat A10 and A5 Set-top-box supports 4K with HDR on Hisilicon 3798C V200 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-720 GPU, supports Blu-ray Navigation Menus, system to automatically match movie poster and cover art from IMDB internet, Dolby True-HD/Atoms and DTS-HD MA/DTS X passthrough, HDR10 and Dolby Vision, HiVXE2.0 video decode engine H.265/HEVC hardware decode, HDMI 2.0a up to 4K 60Hz 3840x2160p resolution output, Compatible with XBMC scraper resources, deep color up to RGB444 10Bit, HDD, U-Disk, Samba, NFS file share & play, preferred subtitle function, preferred audio function, SATA 6GB/S, runs Google Android 5.1.1.

Distributors can contact Egreat here:
Morgan Lee, Overseas Department
sales1@egreatworld.com
Skype: lijuan19890320
wechat: alexlee0
whatsapp: +86 13128851772

$69 Gole2 on Indiegogo, Intel Z8350 Windows10 or Allwinner A64 Phoenix OS

Posted by – October 8, 2016

Introducing Gole2 on Indiegogo at http://igg.me/at/gole2 starts at $69 (early bird for the Allwinner A64 ARM Powered version), here I show off both the Intel Cherrytrail Z8350 Windows 10 based Gole2 and the Allwinner A64 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Phoenix OS Android based Gole2. It comes with 1xUSB3, 2xUSB2, HDMI, Ethernet, Mini-Jack, MicroSD and more.

Gole’s official website: http://gole.tech

GaraponTV 4 HD DVR Records 8 channel at a time

Posted by – October 4, 2016

Garapon has on display their TV recording hardware device called GaraponTV 4, capable of recording up to 8 channels simultaneously. It comes equipped with an internal hard drive and can broadcast recorded shows to connected devices wirelessly. The device is built to stream video with a bit rate of 400kbps for smooth streaming on 3G when broadcasted to mobile devices, going up to 3.2Mbps. It costs approx. US$300.