According to the statistics of Tmall, the largest sales volume of HD network set-top boxes in 2015 was Tmall Magic Box, with the sales volume exceeding 200000 sets. The second place is inpic/Infik, and the remaining places are TCL、 LeTV Box, Youku, Skyworth, Xiaomi, Taijie, etc. However, these boxes, which sell for only a few hundred yuan (even less than one hundred yuan), are mainly used to watch videos on the Internet and play local hard disks, especially 4K ultra clear videos. The market is still in control , HiMedia and other companies. The H10 of HiMedia was launched earlier and has occupied the throne for a period of time. Cabol has made great efforts to launch several 4K Blu ray players at the end of 2015, of which Q10 is obviously the most powerful competitor among similar products.

In the past ten years, Cabol has focused on the R&D, sales and brand operation of local and network player products, of which local hard disk players play an important role in Cabol's product camp. The flagship Q9 launched in 2014 still has many fans. Q9 uses Morningstar Technology's four core 64 bit A9 architecture chip MSO9180, which has already supported hard solution of H265 video format. It is equipped with an exclusively developed KIUI system, based on Android system design, which has strong openness and function expansion, while the operating interface is extremely simple and easy to use. At the same time, Cabol Q9 has the most complete interfaces among all high-definition players, including 4K/2K TV, traditional standard definition TV, fiber output active speakers, USB3.0, USB2.0, TF card slot, built-in SATA hard disk drawer, etc. Cabol Q9, the main "all-around" card, is perfect for both audio and video playback and games.

(Figure: Kebor Q10, two external high gain antennas are very helpful to the convenience of use. The 1000M network interface supports 20 people to access the same NAS at the same time. The USB 3.0 interface and HDMI 2.0 output are prerequisites for the flagship 4K player.)

(Picture: Cabol Q10, all metal case with wire drawing process, and larger size, make Cabol Q10 have Hi End temperament. Built in hard disk rack, supporting 6T or higher capacity hard disk)

(Picture: Cabol Q10 uses the world's only 64 bit eight core OTT BOX chip Ruixin Micro RK3368)

The flagship Q10 launched at the end of 2015 has reached a new level on the basis of Q9 and still has the highest performance indicators in the industry. Cabol Q10 uses the world's only 64 bit eight core 4K decoding chip, Raytheon Micro RK3368. The RK3368 is an eight core 64 bit ARM Coretex-A53 core architecture with a 28nm process design and a 1.5GHz operating frequency; The GPU is PowerVR G6110 and supports OPENGL ES 3.1 (the latest graphics computing standard launched by Khronos); RK3368 has super video capability, supporting 4K × 2K video, H.264/H.265 hard decoding and HDMI 2.0@60Hz Output; The system platform is Android 5.1 Lollipop; Support Security OS and mainstream DRM and HDCP2.2 security standards; The running score of Anthare exceeds 38000 points, and both 4K Blu ray original disc and 3D Blu ray can be played smoothly. The RK3288 released by Ruixin Micro in 2014 has developed a territory in the medium and high-end player market by virtue of monster performance and excellent decoding ability, but the disadvantage of RK3288 is that it is expensive. In early 2015, Ruixin Micro introduced another SOC by combining the advantages of RK3288, namely RK3368.

The RK3368 is the first 64 bit processor of Raytheon Micro, integrating eight 64 bit A53 processors. The performance of the A53 is far better than that of the A5/A7 and even better than that of the A9 in the same frequency even in 32-bit. The graphics processor GPU of RK3368 is PowerVR G6110, which is used by Apple. It has the advantages of high performance and power saving. In addition to functionality, Cabol has not forgotten to pay attention to the appearance of its products. The size of the Q10 4K player is close to that of the standard cabinet machine. The chassis is made of aluminum metal with wire drawing process. The large size display screen, in addition to giving a strong sense of science and technology, also gives a sense of security in the all metal shell. This is a hot practice for high-end users. According to the manufacturer's introduction, Cabol Q10 has the following characteristics:

◎ Independent research and development of the ninth generation KIUI system, which is extremely simple and agile.

◎ Support QFHD (resolution: 3800 x 2160) and DCI standard (4K standard for digital movies, resolution: 4096x2160/60P)

◎ Support hard solution 4K and H265 coding technology

◎ Support 7.1 surround sound source code output

◎ Support poster function (local storage/external storage/LAN movie poster automatic matching)

◎ Online subtitle download (support online download/plug-in/embedded multiple options)

◎ NAS network reading (NAS can be found directly, and multiple network protocol modes such as smb and NFS are supported for resource reading)

◎ Unlimited expansion of application software (support online network viewing)

◎ Support 6T or higher capacity hard disk (built-in hard disk rack)

◎ High speed transmission through gigabit network interface (fast reading of film and television resources)

◎ External split dual high gain antenna, greatly increasing the convenience of use

◎ Firmware continuous update (online upgrade and instant activation)

Next, let's compare Performance difference with the largest competitor HiMedia H10:

We found that there are several main differences between Cabol Q10 and HiMedia H10:

① Operating system. The ninth generation KIUI system independently developed by Cabol is based on Android 5.1, and HiMedia H10 is based on Android 4.2. The biggest impact of Android 5.1 on us is that it completely abandoned the Dalvik mode, and all apps are running in the ART mode. That is to say, all apps run local code on the CPU. Since then, Android and Apple ISO have finally reached the same starting point in terms of performance.

　　②CPU。 The 64 bit eight core RK3368 of Raytheon Micro is the king of the electronic box at present. HiMedia has also started to use this chip in some follow-up products, but there are surprises in the configuration of Cabol Q10, including the addition of USB3.0 (RK3368 It does not have a USB3.0 integrated controller) and a gigabit network card. It also has 2G memory and 32G flash memory. These are very necessary for a 4K box. When installing the software, it can be found that Q10 benefits from the 8-core A53 and Android 5.1, and the software installation speed is very fast. Compared with other boxes, the user experience has improved dramatically.

③ HDMI 2.0 output. HDMI 2.0 shows that Cabol can output 4K resolution signal with 60Hz refresh rate and realize 10Bit color effect of 4K video. At present, the output of most players is HDMI 1.4a, the data bandwidth is 10.2Gbps, and the maximum 4K resolution of output is only 4096x2160@24 Hz or 3840x2160@30Hz The 4K signal with high frame rate is not supported, and it can only correspond to 8Bit color, which does not give full play to the display advantage of 10Bit color used in 4K video. The bandwidth of HDMI 2.0 transmission speed is increased to 18Gbit/s, which is enough to support the display of 12Bit color images at a high frame rate of 60fps per second.

④ 10 Bit color. The basic principle of color TV is the principle of three primary colors, that is, different combinations of red, green and blue (RGB) three primary colors constitute a colorful visual enjoyment. Each primary color in the computer uses binary 1 and 0 to represent all bright and all black, and 8 bits (that is, the 8th power of 2=256) are used between all bright and all black to represent the difference in details. The RGB three colors together have 256 cubic=16777216 colors. What about 10bit? That is, each primary color has 2 to the 10th power=1024 kinds of detail differences. When the three primary colors are combined with each other, the total number of color lights that can be formed is 1024 to the 3rd power=1073741824, about 1.07 billion colors, 64 times the color of 8bit, which is also the technology most close to the true color of nature at present. When people look at one billion colors, the color transition will be more smooth and delicate, the colors will be more colorful and colorful, and the layers will be rich, and it can also more accurately restore the true colors of objects. Q10 supports H265 10Bit@60 It is the highest performance in the industry at present.

⑤ High bit rate playback. For friends who play 4K videos, playing high bit rate movies is always a difficult problem. I have a "History's Largest 4K" time-lapse photography masterpiece with a duration of only 48 minutes and a capacity of 307G. It was directed by Tom Lowe in 2012. This film is a nearly lossless master tape with a resolution of 4096x2304. It carries 12bit information for post production. Its code is Gopro Coneform, and the decoder needs to be installed by itself. Benefiting from the high quality of shooting equipment, this landscape documentary has clean and exquisite pictures, amazing details, and beautiful soundtrack. The screenshots can be used as a computer desktop. According to the recommendation of the predecessors, I also use the i7 processor+8G memory+512G solid state disk configuration, and then decode the PotPlayer with the perfect player. In addition to the rendering of MadVR0.84.7+LAVFilters0.52, the CoreAVC v3.1 decoding and DFX10.8 audio effect are the best combination of computer playback. Even so, it is difficult to ensure that the 110Mbps code rate can be played smoothly without jamming. The maximum playback bit rate of Cabol Q10 is 100Mbps, including 4K MV (FPS value 120, bit rate 100Mbps) of Korean girls' age, except for The Scenery of Time, "Crowd Run" (also known as "Ten Thousand People Running" on the Internet, using fixed quality mode CRF coding, the highest bit rate reaches 281Mbps), Panasonic grayscale test film "Undercurrent Surge" (10bit color, the highest bit rate is 200Mbps), these short computer abuse films can not be played, and the widely circulated 4K films can be played normally.

The so-called bit rate is also called bit rate. In short, it refers to how much data the video needs to write into memory in one second. If the video bit rate is 50Mbps, it means that the video will write 50Mbps of data to the computer in one second. Even if it is the same 4K video, the effect of different bit rates is different. The higher the bit rate, the higher the video definition. When most computers play 4K video with a code rate of 50Mbps, the CPU utilization rate is as high as 90%. When 4K video with a code rate of 100Mbps is played, even the CPU resources of i7 will be fully occupied. It seems that a computer with a very high configuration may be able to barely play high bit rate 4K movies, but the cost performance ratio is too low to be recommended at all. It is a smart and correct choice to use a hard disk player like Cabol Q10. At present, Netflix provides 15Mbps code rate H265 encoding for 4K film platform abroad; Youtube is a VP9 code with 18Mbps code rate; Comcast's service is 18M-22M code rate H265 coding; Domestic websites use 5Mbps H265 to play 4K content. Panasonic's first 4K Blu ray disc player supports HEVC coding, high dynamic range HDR, Rec.2020 wide color gamut standard and the same 100Mbps bit rate in its specifications. In other words, Cabol Q10 supports playback at the highest bit rate of 100Mbps, and its performance and practicality fully meet the high standards of the industry. In the future, 4K Blu ray programs can also be played easily.

Independent research and development of the ninth generation KIUI system, which is extremely simple and agile

Support H265 10Bit color and 60 frame output

Support poster function

Direct playback of multiple 3D format movies

Support the function of downloading subtitles online

Using several 4K movies with 100Mbps code rate on hand, such as Taipei 101 Building fireworks, the Imperial Palace roast duck, Changhong demonstration film Meizai Tianfu, Jiuzhaigou, Taiwan Jingyan HD collection, Golden Sound demonstration film, etc., to test, Cabol Q10 plays smoothly, responds quickly, and presents bright and sharp colors. On my Sony 4K projector+Japan OS 130 inch 2.7 high gain white screen, I can experience the advantages of Cabol Q10 with full color and strong contrast. Local media play is the most basic and guaranteed function of HD player. The formats supported by Cabol Q10 cover the current popular formats, including AVI/DIVX FLV/F4V、WMV/ASF、RM/RMVB、3GP/3G2/3GPP、 MP4/M4VMPEG/MPG/DAT/VOB/EVO/VOB、TS/M2TS、MKV/WEBM、MOV This is one of my most satisfied players so far.

Support the next generation Dolby Atmos and DTS Neo X and other 7.1 surround sound source code output

2G memory+32G flash memory, the flagship product with the highest configuration at present

Convenient remote control

Cabol Q10 has built-in authentic program platforms such as Mango TV and CIBN, and the 32G super capacity is enough for you to install any desired APK software. Q10 has preset Youku CIBN all-in-one movie TV. In terms of movies, the number, update speed and even film quality of various free movies exceed Mango TV, which has too many things to pay for. If you want to watch the 4K program source, you can recommend installing the APK such as BesTV, Huashu TV, iQiyi Lizhi TV, LeTV TV, Mango TV, etc. These software can be downloaded and installed through the Dangbei market. However, some of the movies are not native 4K, and some need to be paid. Currently, there are not many resources to choose from.

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, The pace of development has not stopped, but at the beginning of 2016, Cabol Q10 is undoubtedly crowned and firmly seated on the throne.