Since October 2016, Cabol has launched several new 4K Blu ray hard disk players, steadily occupying the first class position in the Blu ray player market. The author also bought their latest 4K during the "Double 11" festival of Tmall online shopping once a year Blu ray hard disk player—— The appearance of Cabol K9 Plus is needless to say. The classic square body design along the Cabol player is the configuration and functions of this K9 Plus.
1、 Appearance and accessories
Cabol K9 Plus 4K Blu ray hard disk player is positioned as a professional level 4K Blu ray hard disk player. This professional level HD player not only fully supports the playback of 4K audio and video resources, but also strengthens video HDR optimization, audio and video resource management and other contents, and is equipped with top processing chips and Android system. It is equipped with 2GB DDR3 large memory and 16GB EMMC flash memory, supports Bluetooth 4.0, and can be equipped with built-in SATA 3.5-inch hard disk and external USB storage device.
As one of the standards of Kebor hard disk player, Kebor K9 Plus integrates a smooth square built-in hard disk compartment on the right side. With the sliding door opening mode, the hard disk can be loaded in one second, and can support a 3.5-inch hard disk up to 6TB in size. This allows Blu ray movie enthusiasts to collect classic movies.
As a flagship product positioned at high-end Blu ray player, Cabol K9 Plus is sincere in remote control design. It adopts a full-featured key design with up to 50 keys, covering all control commands, especially the optimization for playback. Compared with ordinary players, it is better than ordinary players. Its unique backlight key design even in a completely dark theater environment, It can also accurately find the required keys. From this point of view, Kebor K9 Plus can be called a cinema level player.
Kebor K9 PLUS remote control can press up to 50 keys
Cabol K9 PLUS remote control has backlight function
The digital buttons can not only input numbers quickly on the large TV screen, but also quickly locate the time axis when watching the blue ray source. The remote control is also specially equipped with a resolution output adjustment button. When the player's display screen is black due to high resolution, the "output" button can be used to quickly switch the output resolution.
Digital key area of Kebor K9 PLUS remote control
The middle part of the remote control is a functional operation area, which can be used for intelligent applications and selection. The bottom part of the remote control is a professional playback control area, which has made relevant key optimization for movie playback and music playback. For example, one button switching audio track, one button switching subtitles, and various 3D format switching are all covered, Basically, users can control all movies or music through the buttons in this area.
It is worth mentioning that the "screen display" button can adjust the brightness of the LED display screen on the front panel of the player by four levels to adapt to the viewing space of different lights. It would be better if the lowest brightness level of the LED display screen could be turned off. You know, watching movies in full black is a great experience!
Kebor K9 PLUS remote controller professional play key area
Cabol K9 Plus has passed the latest 4K resolution, 10Bit color depth BT.2020 color gamut space, HDR contrast and 60P frame number are five UHD Blu ray standards certified. Kebor K9 Plus has the ultimate decoding performance and broadcast control quality, so it has obtained more extreme picture quality improvement, can meet the demanding needs of movie and television enthusiasts for picture quality, and also contains the attributes of network video service, bringing massive online video experience.
2、 UI operation experience
Kibor K9 Plus system is deeply customized based on Android 6.0 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 Plus. The system runs more smoothly, the interface hierarchy logic is clearer, and the interaction with users is simpler.
(Home)
The homepage adopts a simple card design, which focuses on five entrances: local (super file management), music (local music playing), mango TV (online playing), applications (which can support the deletion of installed applications and clear cache management), and settings (personalized adjustment of system settings). Slide the cursor up to call out the movie library function, View local movies and manage and play them. Slide the cursor down to application shortcut to add application shortcut.
(Slide the cursor up to call up the movie library function)
(The cursor slides down to an application shortcut)
KIUI 9.0 system conforms to the player's habit of using the machine, and the control is more comfortable. The system runs smoothly through simple design. It is a very well designed system UI.
3、 Important function experience
Cabol K9 Plus is positioned as a professional 4K Blu ray hard disk player, so it is more advanced in film and television broadcast control and decoding. Cabol K9 Plus integrates poster wall function, Blu ray navigation, online subtitle download, subtitle editing function and HDMI IN recording function. It perfectly supports 4K HDR decoding H. 265 10bit hard decoding and other five dimensional integrated ultrahigh definition Blu ray standards. These powerful functions are used to serve local playback. Let me start with the poster wall function shared by external devices to test what is outstanding about the image quality, audio quality and other aspects of Cabol K9 Plus.
1. Poster wall function
The function of poster wall is to automatically analyze the content of equipment to form a poster wall by identifying external devices or local area networks, so as to achieve film classification.
(Movie display effect)
Each player has its own movie management system. Traditional players usually use file list to manage movies and interact with users through the screen, as shown in the figure below. This traditional way is not convenient for users to understand movies. We don't know what the main content of movies is.
Cabol K9 Plus introduces the poster wall management function, which can automatically match local movies online with movie posters, introductions (including actors, directors, producers, and movie introductions), douban ratings, and movie classifications. After successful matching, it supports the search for the first letter of local movies and classification screening.
The powerful local film management system turns the boring file list into a vivid and direct poster display.
How to use the poster wall function?
You just need to connect Cabol K9 Plus to the Internet, and then automatically match it by simply selecting files.
Of the 45 movies I scanned, only 2 failed to match. The matching success rate is still high, as long as you correct the name of the movie file.
The simple and practical poster wall function of Cabol K9 Plus optimizes the operation habits of audiophiles, making local film management more convenient. At present, the poster wall function also supports Android device mobile terminal mapping push broadcast control. Unfortunately, Apple devices do not support it at present. You can download and install the Movie Library Assistant by scanning the QR code at the lower left corner of the movie library interface on your mobile phone. As long as you are in the same LAN, you can map the local movie information of the movie library to the Movie Library Assistant on your mobile device, Playback can be controlled through mobile devices. This is also a highlight.
2. 4K film source test
The local video playback function of Cabol K9 Plus is very powerful, supporting 4K movies with code stream rate up to 200M, AVI H.264 BP/MP/HP、H.265/VP9、VC-1、MPEG-2、MPEG-4、DIVD/DIVX、Real8/9/10、RM、RMVB、PMP、FLV、MP4、M4V、VOB、WMV、3GP、MKV In other formats, all types of films tested by the reviewer are perfectly supported.
At present, the vast majority of 4K players stop at 80MB/S data speed movies, and those above 90MB/S are either audio out of sync or video three-step one card, which basically means watching slides. Cabol K9 Plus can well support high bit rate movies, such as 91.9MB/S movies can be played smoothly, which is the quality of a flagship 4K player.
3. 10bit output, supporting HDR
In the setting of video depth of field, the full channel output of 10BIT can be turned on. At the same time, it supports the currently popular HDR Blu ray.
The 10BIT color level is 4 times that of 8bit, so the color transition is more natural and smooth, and HDR can fully display the highlights and dark details of the screen.
It is not difficult to find that the water surface has become too violent from the 8BIT non HDR video, which is just like increasing the contrast, brightness and color temperature of a 10BIT image. Although it looks more transparent, the white is too violent, the black is dead and the black also has a slight deviation in color restoration, and the ground appears pale and lifeless.
(Non HDR)
(after HDR)
The 10BIT video processing and HDR make up for these shortcomings, making the color restoration more realistic, the depth of field of the picture deeper and more realistic and natural. This is also the root cause of the popularity of HDR. Cabol K9 Plus supports HDR (high dynamic range image) and BT.2020 (ultra high definition blue light standard), and supports full channel 10bit video processing, which has made a qualitative improvement in color restoration.
4. Automatically output 23.976Hz movie pictures
Cinemas play movies at 23.976 frames per second, so if they can "synchronize" with them when playing, they will get a more realistic movie feel. Cabol K9 Plus has a built-in automatic output function of 23.976Hz movie pictures, which can truly restore the feeling of movie film.
5. Online subtitle download function and special effect subtitles
External subtitles are available on many hard disk players, but the steps of external subtitles are very tedious. You need to download them on a PC, change them to the same name, and put them in the same folder as the movies.
Cabol K9 Plus is linked with three subtitle websites to provide rich subtitle resources for users to download online directly. Just press the subtitle key on the remote control to switch to the subtitle download item or select the "subtitle selection - download subtitles" function on the TV screen with the remote control to realize online subtitle download plug-in.
In addition, subtitles can be adjusted in terms of offset, size, synchronization, text encoding, color, etc.
Screenshot of special effect subtitle source ↓↓
6. HDMI IN video recording function
For many fans like me, it's not the finale that kills me most when chasing the show, but catching up with the new episodes on the Internet that haven't been released yet, and we can only go online through digital TV, which is the most painful for us who work in the daytime. At this time, the HDMI IN recording function of Kebor K9 Plus came into play. Insert the HDMI output of the digital TV box into the HDMI IN of Kebor K9 Plus, and then set the pre recording time. Originally, I thought it was a weak function, but I found that some functions sometimes become life-saving only when I encounter them.
I have to say that this function is really easy to use for fans and drama fans, but unfortunately, after recording, the sound channel turns into two channels, which can not play the charm of 5.1 channels. Fortunately, there are not many multi-channel programs except for the film series and sports games.
7. Blu ray navigation function
In addition to supporting the ultrahigh definition Blu ray standard, Cabol K9 Plus is luxurious in the configuration of the Blu ray playback link. It supports the simple navigation of the Blu ray original disk and the Blu ray ISO file (the perfect navigation of the Blu ray original disk can be achieved through firmware upgrade in the later stage), restoring the natural sound and color of the film, and bringing more shocking performance.
Since the Blu ray original disk navigation function will be realized through firmware upgrade in the near future, we can first see the official Blu ray original disk navigation test results.
Official beta version of Blu ray original disk navigation file
Navigation screenshot of original Blu ray disc of Royal Guards
8. Support CUE file list playback
In addition to the above unique functions, Cabol K9 Plus is also a high-quality HiFi player that supports panoramic sound and DTS in terms of sound effects: X sound effect and audio decoding are no inferior to the top HiFi player. Cabol K9 Plus supports the next generation source code to output 7.1 channels. It supports eight formats of lossless audio files, including FLAC, OGG and other formats. It also supports up to 192KHz/24Bit master music playback and CUE list.
Cabol K9 Plus not only supports local lyrics display, but also supports 10 kinds of sound effects output and background music playing. Therefore, Cabol K9 Plus can not only meet music enthusiasts who are extremely demanding for sound quality, but also ordinary Bluetooth audio enthusiasts.
The author summarizes
After just a few days of use, I found that the K9 Plus has very rich functions and has met my most basic requirements. As a HiFi player, the support of 192KHz/24Bit lossless audio brings strong decoding advantages to the KBR K9 Plus. The support of multi format master band music resources, CUE list and 10 kinds of audio effects broadcast control bring more playability to users.
As a Blu ray hard disk player, Cabol K9 Plus has a wide range of compatibility. It doesn't need to worry about finding a specific video format. Even Blu ray BDMV and BDISO files can cope with it easily, and even bring the smooth control of Blu ray navigation. Especially the innovative experience of poster wall functions, making movie selection no longer a chore, The unique online subtitle download function makes all foreign movies more "localized".
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