Home is everyone's harbor and dependence. Modern people spend more than half of their time at home. In addition to mobile phones, TV is the most important screen for people to obtain external information. Especially in modern society, variety entertainment, finance and sports are so developed that the role of television is even greater. In the past, people mainly relied on digital TV, which later developed into a network TV box. Now, Blu ray high-definition players have gradually entered ordinary families.

The evaluation 4K Blu ray player Kebor K9 is the latest work released by Kebor, and it is the culmination of Kebor's research and development for ten years. We can see Cabol's ambition from the outer package. The blue black package simply printed a large "1" consisting of various keywords, such as thread trimming family, intelligent TV system, HD decoding, karaoke, real-time weather, hot WIFI, multi screen interaction, playing games, software installation, etc. From these keywords, I feel more like a description of a powerful computer or flagship mobile phone, and the official poster of Cabol also emphasizes "great progress in sound and picture", which should make breakthroughs in sound quality and picture, which makes me full of expectations for Cabol K9.

1、 Workmanship: simple and exquisite

Open the packaging box, and the whole machine of Cabol K9 is square and three-dimensional. The body is made of black aviation aluminum alloy. With the metal wire drawing process, it is very strong and atmospheric, showing extraordinary texture everywhere, which ensures both firmness and lightness; The size is only 199 * 163 * 65 (mm), which is equivalent to a thick dictionary of 32 karats. Considering the use environment of Kebor K9, it has specially rounded the corners to prevent scratching consumers, especially children. It is very careful.

The front of Kebold K9 adopts classic acrylic board, LED display screen, power key and a group of simple physical keys; When starting up, the display screen will also show the hello character, which suddenly brings us closer, very friendly.

The right side of the fuselage is equipped with a push-pull hard disk compartment, but there is no standard configuration. If you want to use a hard disk, you need to purchase a 3.5 inch mechanical hard disk. The hard disk compartment is very easy to push and pull. It is designed without screws, which makes it easier to load and unload, open it, and then align and insert the hard disk to complete the operation, without any difficulty;

On the back of the fuselage, there are various interfaces. In addition to the basic power switch, there are one HDMI, two USB, network interface, and the traditional YPbPr color difference component connection interface, coaxial interface, and composite video output interface. It should be said that the interface is very rich, which can basically meet all TV devices or computer monitors on the market. It is worth mentioning that Kebor K9 adopts HDMI 2.0 lossless output, with transmission bandwidth up to 18Gbps, larger data transmission throughput, and support for blue ray 3D output, which is enough to enable 60fps high frame rate display of rich color images and present more excellent 4K images for consumers. HDMI2.0 also supports 7.1 channel output, which can make the sound effect more impressive.

In order to better match the HDMI2.0 interface, an original HDMI2.0 cable, about 1.5 meters long, with a gold plated interface, is also included in the accessories of KBR K9, which is better in the speed of signal transmission.

There is also a huge high-performance mute fan behind the Kibor K9, which is used for hardware cooling. In addition, there is a classic dual antenna design, which uses an external high gain antenna * 2, supporting 2.4GHz/5GHz 802.11 b/g/n ", bringing a more enhanced signal experience. The bottom of the Kibor K9 has four foot pads, which can firmly hold the table top and prevent it from falling to the ground.

In general, the Kibor K9 is very simple and exquisite. It is placed on the TV cabinet in the living room, integrated with the TV cabinet and TV, and there is no sense of discord. After all, the HD player is a functional device. If it is too fancy, it is easy to capture attention when watching TV, which is not good. The best way is like the Kibor K9, It can be ignored when watching videos, but it can only be noticed when switching functions. I think this design is the best design.

2、 Performance: Powerful

In terms of performance, Kebold k9 also fully deserves the title of flagship. It uses chips based on 64 bit Big.little architecture and eight core Cortex-A53CPU architecture. This chip uses a low leakage, high-performance 28nm HKMG process, with a main frequency of up to 1.5GHZ. It supports 4K H.264 and H.265 decoding, as well as 4K 60fps TV display, which can be described as a real "core" king. Compared with the ordinary 32-bit eight core processor in the past, the performance of the K9 has been improved by four times, completely reaching the highest level in the industry. In particular, Cortex-A53 is one of the main CPU chip architectures of ARM at present. It adopts a dual transmit sequential execution architecture, which is more flexible. Branch prediction, data processing, load storage, floating point/NEON, etc. can be transmitted from two decoding paths at the same time. Therefore, Cortex-A53 claims to be the most efficient CPU architecture in history. It achieves the extreme of sequential execution architecture. Another focus of the Cortex-A53 architecture is to reduce power consumption and improve energy efficiency. When running SPECInt2000 tests, the power consumption of a single core does not exceed 0.13W. The use experience is equivalent to the current super phone, but the power consumption is only one quarter of that.

In order to improve the quality of image analysis, Kebor K9 also uses the relatively rare powerVR G6110 graphics processor, which is embedded with high-performance 2D acceleration hardware and supports OPENGL ES 3.1, OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.0, OpenCL, DirectX9.3， Cooperating with the powerful 8-core CPU, the KBR K9 is also extremely powerful in decoding. It supports MPEG-1/2/4 H.264/AVC、H.265/HEVC、MVC、VC-1、Motion JPEG、H.265、4K* 2K@60fps 、 H.264/MVC/VP8 1080P@30fps It can decode a variety of video formats such as 3D automatic recognition, 3D Blu ray original disk, 3D Blu ray ISO image playback, and easily meet all home video needs. Combined with DDR3 2G high-speed memory, Kebor K9 image processing is faster and more exquisite, and 4K quality output is more smooth. In terms of audio, given its powerful configuration, Cabol K9 can perfectly analyze MP1 MP2、MP3、WMA、OGG、AAC、M4A、FLAC、APE、AC3、AMR、DTS、RA、WAV Equal format audio, realizing Dolby full scene sound and DTSHD and other next-generation sound output and decoding, bringing more shocking sound effects.

At the same time, the Kibor K9 has its own 16G large capacity flash memory, which makes it easy to install external programs. Of course, if the storage is not enough, the external hard disk compartment of the Kibor K9 can support up to 6T of hard disk capacity, and there is no problem in becoming a home entertainment storage center.

From the perspective of hardware configuration alone, Cabol K9 can be regarded as a powerful player in the field of high-definition Blu ray players, which is enough to stand out in the Jianghu and kill many heroes.

III UI： Simple and easy to use

The hardware configuration of the product is the foundation, but the use experience of the product is the key. Cabol K9 has developed a new KIUI 9.0 lightweight system based on Android 5.1, which is more suitable for TV screens. With high-speed feedback and smooth response, it has brought unprecedented interactive experience. More fluent, more concise, more focused on local 4K Blu ray playback.

Turn on the computer to connect to the TV and enter the homepage of Cabol. The homepage design is very simple, including five sections: local, music, mango TV, applications and settings. Easy to understand, everyone can operate.

In terms of resource integration, Cabol K9 cooperates with Mango TV (MGTV), a licensed dealer authorized by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Cabol has launched several high-definition Blu ray players cooperating with Mango TV before, so this K9 is more mature and easier to use after previous experiments and tempering. It is based on the R&D concept of "simplicity", eliminating complexity and providing parents, children and families with the purest viewing interface and browsing experience. One million hours of mango TV online high-definition free real-time viewing, the latest popular film and television dramas, synchronized theater blockbusters, gold medal variety shows, Hunan Satellite TV's own trump card content, educational animation, health care, and life information are available in one stop to meet the entertainment needs of the whole family.

In addition, the sofa butler can install TV video software such as TV Cat, which can not only broadcast video programs on demand, but also broadcast video programs live. Hundreds of TV channels, whether CCTV or local satellite TV, are all connected, saving hundreds of yuan a year in digital TV fees, and revolutionizing cable TV. It's a happy account.

Of course, in addition to rich online resources, Cabol K9 is also a mass consumer Blu ray player with powerful local playback capabilities, bringing a new experience of 4K and Blu ray ultra clear playback to regular consumers, and stimulating the box to transform from simple online playback to local playback. As mentioned above, the powerful decoding ability of Cabol K9 enables consumers to purchase hard disks or build LAN NAS systems to play local content, truly achieving seamless connection of home entertainment.

4、 Function: a lot of innovation

Cabol K9 has many bright spots in innovation. After using it for several days, I feel that Cabol K9 surprises me everywhere. Originally I just wanted to use it as an ordinary TV box, but I didn't expect its powerful functions, humanized experience, and innovative functions were far beyond my previous imagination.

First of all, it is the function of the poster wall of the photo gallery that is publicized by the official of Cabol. The traditional classification can only label films with words, which can not play a guiding role, while the function of Cabol's photo gallery can classify all local films with one click. It should be noted that we do not need to search and download the movie posters in the movie library, but scan the movie videos in the storage disk through the movie library system provided by Cabol K9, and automatically capture the movie posters, movie introductions, and netizen ratings on the Internet. This is the first time for us to understand the core outline and praise of movie videos in the consumer management storage disk, More time saving, convenient and fast.

In addition to posters, Cabol K9 also supports the function of downloading subtitles online, which is very practical when some new movies have no subtitles. This function has also appeared on some previous products of Cabol, and has been praised by many high-definition players.

It can match movie subtitles online, select any type of subtitles (support online download/plug-in/embedded multiple choices), and support PGS, SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA, ASS, Sub+. idx and other subtitle formats.

In addition, since Cabol K9 can be called the center of home entertainment, the main reason is that it has a built-in gigabit cable network card in the 4K Blu ray player, is compatible with 802.11 b/g/n, and optimizes the underlying architecture with WeUnicom and Qunhui NAS vendors to access shared resources in seconds. Simply download 4K and Blu ray movies and videos directly to the computer, and open the NAS sharing service on the computer. Instead of copying to its built-in hard disk, you can play them directly through the LAN on the video library of the Kebor K9 4K Blu ray player. You can easily scan to find network storage, making access more intuitive.

In addition, Cabol K9 supports multi screen interaction, uses Apple/Android smart phones, perfectly supports Airplay/LAN simultaneous screen synchronization function push function, cross-border integration, seamless docking, and easy play with large screen life.

I think it is also worth recommending the Kebold k9 operating remote control. It adopts the national standard remote control layout, has rich and comprehensive physical buttons, and at the same time adds innovative functions. It is a learning remote control with luminous digital buttons. First of all, he can learn other remote controls. In three simple steps, he can learn the signal frequency of the TV remote control. Through Kebor's remote control, he can not only control the Blu ray player, but also control the TV. He gets rid of the troubles of numerous remote controls. The specific learning method is labeled on the back of the remote control. In addition, the remote control also has its own light-emitting system, which can be lit up as long as it is operated, which is especially useful at night. Previously, when watching videos at night and operating other remote controls, it was always hard to see the buttons clearly. With the remote control of Cabol, this problem can be easily solved. This is really a humanized design, which must be praised. Another thing worth mentioning on the remote control is that it has a mouse button. After pressing this button, there is a mouse symbol on the TV screen. It may be helpful to control some external program software by manipulating the mouse from front to back, left to right, and clicking the OK key.

In general, Cabol K9 is a product worthy of serious exploration by high-definition film and television players. The more time you spend, the more interesting and easy to use it will be. Kebor k9 is both a Intelligent Blu ray player It can also be used as a Wifi hotspot sharing, a game console, a karaoke box, a digital photo album, and... There are too many possibilities for Kibor K9 to play, and time is not enough!