[Evaluation Foreword]

With the increasingly fierce competition in the intelligent network set-top box market, more and more manufacturers are doing the opposite in order to increase their market share and add more powerful decoding performance to the intelligent network set-top box, bringing more added value. In the field of 4K Blu ray players, some products have begun to penetrate into intelligence, making its cost performance ratio higher, Kebor K9 It is such a high-end player.

Cabol K9 supports 4K resolution output, hard solution of 4K and hard solution of H.265 encoded video format, adopts KIUI9.0 system, advanced intelligent "automatic subtitle download" and "poster wall" functions, and all movies in the hard disk are presented in the form of posters (automatic download of movie posters) and automatically classified. It is easy to watch local movie sources, and supports the expansion of various APKs, It supports playing Blu ray BDMV and Blu ray BDISO, and also supports lossless output of multiple audio formats, such as Dolby full scene sound, DTS HD and other next-generation sound output and decoding.

What amazing performance does the new 4K Blu ray player Cabol K9 bring? Now let's go with the essayist to have a comprehensive experience.

1、 Open box experience

Cabol K9 is relatively large. The outer package is made of matte cardboard boxes with upper and lower covers, and the back is labeled with mango TV. It can be seen that this new product is a built-in mango TV broadcast and control platform, legal and compliant, demonstrating the soft power of Cabol's vertical resources in the industry. In addition, 3D/4K/H.265/KIUI/HDMI/WIFI and other important features are clearly marked on the bottom box, so that people can see its performance at a glance.

On the side of the box, five functional experiences, including high-definition movies, music appreciation, online cloud disk, dynamic games, and multi screen interaction, are revealed. As an Android based box, Cabol K9 supports the expansion of various APK functional experiences.

The accessories in the box are placed neatly and concisely. The accessories are placed on the bottom floor and the host is placed on the first floor, which prevents the collision between the accessories and the host. Cabol is very careful in these details.

In terms of accessories, Cabol K9 is equipped with high quality HDMI cable, in-line power supply and full function remote control as standard. The power supply adopts 12V/2A standard, which meets the energy conservation and environmental protection standards. With anti-interference coil, the power output is more pure. The accompanying accessories also have instructions. Students who do not know how to use Cabol K9 can make up for it by themselves.

Here is a family portrait of Zhang:

2、 Overall appearance: all aluminum wire drawing

Kebor K9 is positioned in the high-end 4K playback field, and naturally radiates the ultimate design concept from the inside out. Whether it is materials, workmanship or interface equipment, it provides services for high-definition decoding and playback.

Kibor K9 adopts a square round corner design as a whole, and its front panel uses acrylic panel LED display to display the playback status (including resolution, external devices (USB HDD, network connection status LAN WIFI), playback status (MOVIE MUSIC PHOTO ONLINE SETUP) And digital display of time axis), the user can know the playing status through the acrylic panel, which is very convenient, and there are 5 buttons on the right side for up, down, left, right and confirmation, which can be temporarily used when the remote controller cannot be found in time.

The fuselage adopts a cylindrical one-time forming process, which is made of all aluminum metal materials. With the wire drawing process, it is very textured. The junction with the front panel adopts black binding, which is an integral whole. It is worth mentioning that the use of all aluminum fuselage is not only solid and easy, but also the all metal fuselage material accelerates the heat dissipation of the fuselage, ensuring the lasting and stable operation of the machine.

The right side of Cabol K9 is relatively smooth, with product bar code affixed, and the left side is the hard disk compartment. It adopts a threadless design, and can be easily installed in a 3.5-inch SATA hard disk, with a maximum capacity of 6TB. According to the official news, Cabol K9 adopts high-quality connecting devices, which can support 10W times of lossless plugging and unplugging.

The right hard disk slot adopts a threadless design, and uses the bayonet as a switch to seal the hard disk. After the hard disk rack is pulled out, a spring is designed beside the built-in SATA interface, and the hard disk is ejected after the bayonet is released. The design of the screwless hard disk compartment can be installed on the hard disk more quickly, and the audio and video experience is better.

As a 4K player in the new era, Cabol K9 output interface is equipped with HDMI 2.0, and the transmission rate is up to 18Gbps, which can bring 4K@60fps With high dynamic response image quality and 7.1 channel output (supporting Dolby and DTS), the video visual experience is better, especially for some high-speed conversion scenes, the effect is very good; For the compatibility problem of some old TV outputs, Cabol K9 supports AV, YPbPr color difference output, and can also enjoy the entertainment brought by high-definition.

In addition to the high standard experience of video. In addition to the above conventional interfaces, Cabol K9 also supports optical fiber audio output and coaxial audio output. For some professional players, bringing Cabol K9 home is undoubtedly a rhythm of struggle. In addition, Kebor K9 has one USB3.0 and one USB2.0, which can be used for application expansion and USB video decoding through the USB input port. It supports the gigabit wired network card and the 150 megabyte wireless network card. The external high gain dual antenna makes the WIFI connection more stable.

Due to the built-in hard disk, the heat generated by hard disk operation cannot be ignored. In addition to a cooling fan at the back, Kebold K9 is also designed with a cooling hole at the bottom, supplemented by a soft rubber pin to form a cooling gap with the horizontal surface, which can remove the heat from the machine in time.

3、 Professional full function remote control

The remote control of Kibor K9 follows the design of the player with fever, adopts two features of "full function+full black screen+night glow", goes deep into the player camp, and the full function keys include the TV learning area, digital area, functional area and play control area. Especially the design of the play control area retains the key design of the professional level Blu ray player, which can not only practice basic play/pause, stop Repetition, information, proportion, and the ability to switch tracks, subtitles, and 3D modes with one button, as well as to search subtitles online with one button; The full black screen means that when you press the screen display button of the remote control, the brightness of the acrylic LED display screen of K9 will gradually fade until it is completely off, which can bring a full black audio and video experience when watching a movie.

How can I control the remote control freely in a completely dark theater environment? Another killer of Cabol K9 remote control is the luminous function, which is only available on many high-end Blu ray players.

The Kibor K9 remote control adopts polishing process, which is very shiny. The soft glue feels good. It is very comfortable to press and bounce. It uses No. 7 battery to supply power. However, for the large remote control, the Kibor K9 remote control feels a little light. If you can add counterweight to the remote control, it will feel better.

IV KIUI 9.0

Kibor K9 system is deeply customized based on Android 5.1 intelligent TV system. The UI interface adopts KIUI 9.0, which is newly developed by Kibor. Its system feature is that the lightweight design optimizes the architecture and interface of Kibor K9. The system runs more smoothly, the interface and hierarchical logic are clearer, and the interaction with users is simpler.

Kibor K9 homepage

The homepage of Cabol's exclusive KIUI 9.0 system has five entrances: local (system file management, which can manage built-in storage of set-top box, SATA hard disk, USB removable storage files), music (support lossless music playing), mango TV (online movie and television playing), applications (Android application management), and settings (system settings). Slide up the cursor to call up the movie library function, and slide down to the secondary directory.

Slide the cursor up to call up the movie library function

The cursor slides down to the secondary directory

System file management

From the home page, you can access the system file manager and browse the built-in storage SATA hard disk and USB mobile storage). The system manager supports both the samber and NFS protocols, supports automatic scanning and reading of files in the LAN, and can select/copy/cut/delete/rename/paste/create new folders. The system file management also supports changing the file view.

The cursor can be used to select memory to the left, and the cursor can be used to view files by category. The interleaving of the two brings better execution positioning, better user experience, and greatly improves the efficiency of file management.

Customization of secondary directory

The cursor slides down to the secondary directory, and we can click "+" to customize the shortcut of the application, so as to quickly open the application.

System settings

Kibor K9 system is equipped with Android 5.1 native design interface.

5、 Movie library function

With the update of previous versions, the function of the movie library has been upgraded on the K9. It not only has more online matching and editing functions, but also can realize mobile phone interaction, bringing more interesting movie playing experience.

The function of the movie library is an in-depth research and development of local movie management by Cabol, which has gathered the opinions of many movie fans. It has a richer management and control function for local movies, completely abandons the traditional UI interface in the form of headline, and is presented in the form of ecological "image+score", through online search for movie name keywords and matching movie posters Introduction, classification, Douban rating and other information to improve users' experience in playing local videos.

Movie library function experience (the above two pictures: comparison before and after adding)

The use of the movie library function is very simple. After simply loading and storing the flagship, Kebor K9 will automatically connect to the network to match information, and display the movie in the form of posters. Click in to view the movie details, as shown in the following figure:

How to add a movie library

Movie library function experience: big posters/big subtitles

Because the movie library function matches by file name when matching, the requirement for file name accuracy is relatively high, and the content of some movies and TV plays with the same name will be confused. Therefore, for movies that have been matched online or have not been matched successfully, we can achieve more accurate matching by manual intervention. The method is simple, Hold the cursor over the film to be modified and matched, press the menu key to pop up a dialog box, press Edit to modify the file name, press Update to re match, or delete the file (the source file is not deleted).

The following is the matching of the videos in the author's hard disk on the video library:

Scan the QR code at the lower left corner of the screen to download the mobile version of the video library. Mobile terminal control can be carried out in the same LAN, and K9 matching video library data will be synchronized to the mobile terminal for display.

You can select a movie/play on demand/pause/play the timeline at a fixed point/play the previous song/next song/close the video through the video library on the mobile phone.

6、 Blu ray play

Kebor K9 The popular video format on the market supports hard solution of 4K video, hard solution of H.265, full format 3D and Blu ray files (BDMV And BDISO), which supports the output and decoding of next-generation sound, such as Dolby full scene sound and DTSHD, and has super decoding performance. It is linked with a professional remote control, comparable to the traditional 4K Blu ray high-definition individual player, and has excellent broadcast control interface management. Its biggest feature is that it exclusively supports the one button online caption download function and the 3D to 2D function. Its broadcast control interface is divided into playlists 3D-2D switching, subtitle selection, audio track setting, screen aspect ratio, and playback mode.

Cabol K9 can realize the online subtitle download function. Press the subtitle key on the remote control to switch to the subtitle download item or directly select the "subtitle download" function on the TV screen with the remote control. For external subtitles or downloaded subtitles, we can edit the "position, size, color" of the subtitles.

In addition to its powerful decoding performance, the previously mentioned interface of Cabol K9 is equipped with the interfaces commonly used by film and television fever equipment such as HDMI 2.0, optical fiber audio, coaxial audio, etc., which can be output to the AV power amplifier for decoding output, bringing up to 7.1 surround system shocking sound effects, and bringing a stunning film and television experience together with the 4K picture quality.

7、 Lossless audio playback

In addition to the powerful decoding performance, the built-in music player of Cabol K9 also plays lossless audio decoding, which can reproduce the enjoyment of voice brought by lossless audio through simulating the output of left and right channels to the rear HIFI amplifier.

For common MP3 and three kinds of lossless audio decoding, the decoding quality of K9 is shown in the figure below:

In addition to the rich support for lossless audio formats, the Kibor K9 built-in audio player also supports the CUE list function, which meets the convenience of many audio enthusiasts to grab track CDs and alleviates the embarrassment of playing CUE audio.

In addition, on the broadcast control, K9 supports 4 playback modes (single cycle, list playback, random playback, sequential playback), 10 sound effects (including normal, jazz, classical, dance music, accent, rock, popular, soft, metal, modern), and online lyrics (automatically downloaded after Cabol K9 networking).

8、 Rich online resources

In addition to meeting the requirements of 4K Blu ray HD decoding and lossless audio playback, Cabol K9 can also meet a large number of demands for serial TV dramas, the latest movies and popular variety lovers. It has the legitimate license of Mango TV, one of the seven major copyright dealers, which ensures the clarity and stability, and avoids the worry that online content will suddenly be taken off the shelves, In addition to having a large number of public entertainment content resources such as movies, TV dramas, cartoons, etc., Mango TV, compared with other licensors, has integrated the variety shows elaborately produced by Hunan Satellite TV, such as the exclusive broadcast of classic programs such as "Everyday Upward", "Happy Camp", and even some large-scale live programs such as "I Am a Singer in the Fourth Season" In the end, Zhang realized multi angle and multi slot live broadcast, creating a more enjoyable variety entertainment for users.

Mango TV channels are fully classified, Hunan Satellite TV variety show is its highlight, and there are also 4K, 3D H.265、 Dolby zone provides users with excellent clarity, sense, speed and sound experience.

The search page provided by the system supports initial search.

The broadcast control interface provides picture proportion and selection of skipping titles and credits.

[General evaluation]

The 4K Blu ray player Kibor K9 is positioned at the middle and high end. The appearance design adopts the full aluminum wire drawing process+acrylic panel LED display, which makes the high-end high class. The interface is equipped with HDMI 2.0, USB 3.0, optical fiber audio output, and coaxial audio output to pave the way for film and television fever. The design of the screwless hard disk compartment undoubtedly adds color to Kibor K9;

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The author comments on Kebor K9

Appearance design: ★★★★

Hardware configuration: ★★★★

System interface: ★★★★★

Video decoding: ★★★★★

Audio decoding: ★★★★★

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Kebor K9 adopts a cinema level customized eight core 4K decoding chip scheme, which is based on Cortex-A53 CPU to bring a low consumption and high performance experience. The GPU unit is PowerVR G6110, which supports OPENGL ES3.1. It is supplemented by 2GB memory and 16GB flash memory to bring faster response and smooth system operation; As the most important positioning of KBR K9, KBR K9 perfectly supports 4K Blu ray HD and lossless audio format, matches with the video library function and professional remote control design, more affirms the positioning of K9 in audio and video. In addition, KIUI 9.0 based on Android 5.1 system integrates the minimalist system with smart power, bringing fever level OTT applications.

Whether it's video or audio, Cabol K9 can bring the ultimate experience. If you like to linger on Internet applications, Cabol K9 can also satisfy you.