preface
With the increasing popularity of 4K, the substantial increase of network speed, and the increasing abundance of movie sources, the effect of enjoying 4K is no longer unattainable. Because the speed of optical broadband in the home of three year old users has doubled for free recently, the hard disk space and players are more and more limited now, and the original smart TV box can no longer meet their needs, Many so-called 4K TV boxes are already overwhelmed when playing the source with a code rate of more than 80BM/S. Therefore, it is planned to conduct a major upgrade. It is better to not only play high code rate movies, but also have a built-in hard disk for high-capacity and low-power BT downloads.
The Kibor F4 bought during the event three years ago has always been stable, and Kibor is one of the old manufacturers of 4K Blu ray players in China. This time, we chose its latest masterpiece, Kibor Q10 plus.
Simple unpacking
The Shunfeng Escort Agency knocked on the door less than 3 days after the order was placed and the goods were received. It was the first time to use the flagship model. Both the packaging and the weight completely changed my perception. The size of the entire outer package is not comparable to that of an ordinary box. It is closer to the size of the notebook package. After taking it out, we found that the size of the Cabol Q10 Plus is about the same as that of the power amplifier.
The red corner mark on the package box and instructions indicates that the genuine authorization of mango TV is built in. In addition to the conventional remote controller, power adapter, instructions and HDMI cable, two 5DBI WIFI antennas are also seen in the accessories.
In addition, three recharge cards are included, including a 49 yuan family study card, a 30 yuan CIBN monthly membership card and a 128 yuan TM game recharge card.
I am surprised to see the 12V 2A and 100-250V wide voltage adapters. It is reasonable that the size of Cabol Q10 Plus can completely build this power supply into the host. Of course, external devices have the advantages of external devices. They can reduce internal heat generation and electromagnetic interference inside the machine. At the same time, they are also convenient for maintenance. If there is a problem with the power supply, just replace the adapter directly. The adapter is a bit ugly. Fortunately, it doesn't matter if I have a TV cabinet at home.
Equipped with a light-emitting remote control, you can learn several six important functions on the TV remote control panel. One remote control panel controls the TV and Cabol Q10 Plus. In addition, there are shortcut keys such as mouse mode and 3D mode to improve the convenience of operation. The backlight lights up when you press the key, which is convenient for operation at night.
Cabol Q10 Plus adopts a full metal shell, which is close to the superposition volume of two ordinary DVDs. The large space inside and the metal shell are more conducive to heat dissipation. A digital display screen embedded in the front can display the time and the working state of the machine.
The power switch is designed, and the foot pad at the bottom is raised to facilitate air circulation and enhance heat dissipation. At the same time, the shock pad is designed at the bottom of each foot pad to reduce the vibration of the hard disk inside the machine.
The all metal shell is subject to metal wire drawing to enhance the appearance.
On the right is the hard disk compartment, which can be equipped with a 3.5-inch SATA hard disk. It supports 6T or larger hard disks to download low-power 4K movies.
The installation mode is similar to that of NAS, which can be directly inserted after opening, greatly facilitating the use. As the hard disk is a single disk and requires a long time of BT, the Western 4T golden disk with better data security and reliability is selected.
There are two USB2.0 and one USB3.0 interface on the left, which greatly improves the scalability. Three USB peripherals can be installed, and there will be no place to plug in game handle doubles.
It is the first time to see the detachable antenna on the player. This benefit is obvious. The antenna can be freely replaced to improve the signal strength of WIFI.
However, in order not to affect the appearance, the standard configuration is the 5DBI antenna, which cannot be seen from the front when it is closed.
All the interfaces are arranged on the back. From the front to the right, they are 12V power supply, TF card reading slot, reset hole, optical audio output, AV output hole, HDMI IN and HDMI 2.0a (HDMI OUT), and 1000MB network interface. Because it is a 4K output, Cabol Q10 Plus has abandoned the 720P component output this time, while HDMI IN supports recording, such as the online video recording of cable TV digital set-top boxes, which is a good choice for fans.
Finally, after the machine is connected and turned on, the status can be seen through the front panel. Cabol Q10 Plus can automatically judge the current machine working status and display corresponding instructions, such as WIFI connection, MOVE, 4K status.
UI and application
Compared with the previous large and comprehensive, Cabol Q10 Plus has been comprehensively refined and optimized to further improve the system performance. The new Android 6.0 is adopted, and the KIUI system is upgraded to 9.0, with a card like UI design. There are only five options on the home page: local, music, mango TV, apps and settings, which avoids the selection syndrome caused by too many apps, especially for families with elderly people, so they will not be unable to find movies.
After local playback is turned on, the content displayed by default is the inserted hard disk file. You can switch to the file in the machine or the shared file in the LAN through the visualized function menu on the left, and you can directly access the shared file in the network. This is a great progress.
The music player can support most audio formats, such as MP3, FLAC, APE, and many other audio effects. Unfortunately, it does not support online playback at present, and can only be realized when the audio file is opened through the file manager. Therefore, a better solution is to install a third-party music player, such as Kuwo Music, to achieve online playback and lyrics display.
Online movie playback is built in with the authentic resources of Mango TV, which everyone knows, clearer movie source, more content, and more timely updates. However, if you need to buy a VIP to watch the latest movie without advertisement, you can enjoy a lot of free content, but you just have to endure 30 seconds of advertising time.
All installed applications can be viewed through the apps on the homepage. Compared with the large wave of applications bound to mobile tablets, Cabol Q10 Plus can be regarded as a model of the Internet. Except for the four commonly used online movie and television playing apps, all other functions are native.
Cabol Q10 Plus gives free members of CIBN for one month, so they can enjoy the latest videos without advertisements.
Of course, for an excellent 4K player, it is far from enough to only have a few online playback applications. It is essential to install a few aggregation software. Cabol Q10 Plus is very considerate in this regard. It can be installed online by inputting 5200 on the remote control, including a series of common applications such as Dangbei market and sofa butler, The complicated steps of extending the APK file through the USB flash drive examination are eliminated.
Of course, the classic APK stored on the computer can also be directly installed in Cabol Q10 Plus after being shared on the computer, eliminating the trouble of copying APK files back and forth. Of course, the traditional U disk installation method is still applicable.
On the home page, you can go down to the application software directly, or you can add commonly used applications here to quickly open them.
Poster wall, which supports NAS online playback and automatically grabs movie and television profiles.
The home page goes up to the poster wall. When using it for the first time, you need to specify the location of the downloaded movie. It not only supports movie search in the built-in hard disk, but also supports movie search in NAS and movie shared folders.
The operation process is very simple. You only need to specify the location. The entire interface and operation have been optimized, which is more intuitive and convenient. As you can see from the network address in the figure above, scanning and matching are being performed directly from my NAS.
After scanning, it can automatically match the film information and display it on the TV wall in the form of film posters. At the same time, it also has the overall score of the film. In the past, if you need to play movies in NAS, you need to install the ES file manager by yourself and switch back and forth with the mouse and remote control, and only see the file name. Now it is much more convenient to have a poster wall.
After selecting a movie, the content of the movie can be further displayed. Unfortunately, the poster wall cannot be automatically updated. When a newly downloaded movie appears, it cannot be automatically displayed on the poster wall. Instead, it needs to manually match again.
Support online subtitle download.
For the broadcast of films, especially foreign blockbusters, we often encounter such an embarrassment that the Chinese version is not as effective as the original version, and the original version cannot find subtitles, so many times we waste time looking for subtitles, and Cabol Q10 Plus supports online subtitle download, which undoubtedly saves time, You only need to select the download subtitles during the movie playing process. At the same time, it supports multi language subtitle switching.
You can manually select the subtitles found to find the most accurate subtitle file.
Performance and 4K playback:
The score is mediocre, the 4K decoding is strong, and the high code rate is easy to play.
Cabol Q10 Plus uses a Corex A53 64 bit CPU, 2G memory and 16G EMMC. The 36000 rabbit scores are not among the best, but the MAIL T820MP3 hard solution is appropriate. In particular, the video decoding part has a special chip for H264/H265 decoding, which supports 7.1 channels.
There is only one format that is not supported by the video test, and most videos can be played normally.
4K is a very popular topic now, especially with the upgrade of network bandwidth and the increasingly rich 4K video seeds, 4K videos are loved by more and more people. Compared with the conventional 1080P video, 4K video has a higher resolution, more good picture quality and more rich details, so it brings better details to show in the viewing effect, which is also the fundamental reason why 4K TV is popular. So whether Cabol Q10 Plus can better support 4K, especially high bit rate 4K movies.
At present, the vast majority of 4K boxes stop at 80MB/S data speed movies. For 90MB/S and above, the audio is not synchronized or the video is three steps and one card. It is basically a slide show. And Cabol Q10 Plus can support high bit rate movies very well, such as 91.9MB/S movies can be played smoothly, which is the quality of a flagship 4K player.
Full channel 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. 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 Q10 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.
Supports ISO direct insertion and Blu ray navigation.
I used to be very fond of Blu ray movies in ISO format. I needed to use the decompression software to open the BDMV directory, find the STREAM folder, and force decompression. The reason is that ISO format does not support playback. This time, I accidentally found that Cabol Q10 Plus can be played directly, avoiding the trouble of decompression (the decompression time of a 20 gigabyte compressed package is quite horrible).
In addition, it also supports Blu ray navigation, which can be broadcast by chapter.
Hard solution of H.265, 3D Blu ray full format support, flexible and diverse caption adjustment.
It is not a rare thing to play 3D movies directly. Many players support it. However, playing 3D movies does not mean that a 2D TV can become a 3D TV. As a result, you will be surprised to find that it is not the TV that changes to 3D, but there are two pictures on the left and right.
So it is necessary to switch from 3D to 2D. At least 2D TV sets can watch movies normally. Unfortunately, many players do not have this function. Fortunately, Cabol Q10 Plus supports it.
Cabol Q10 Plus can adjust subtitles freely. In addition to adjusting font size, it can also adjust synchronization time, which is most practical. Because many foreign films have different subtitle versions, sometimes the subtitle sound is slow or fast, so it is necessary to adjust the delay time.
The fine adjustment of up, down, left and right subtitles is particularly useful when watching 3D movies. Everyone who has seen 3D movies must have such an angry feeling. At present, many subtitles are not optimized for 3D, and they are often subtitles of 2D movies. Therefore, when playing 3D movies, the text is often one and a half, which is almost illegible, and the adjustment is not good. Now with this fine-tuning function, it can be perfectly adjusted to three-dimensional subtitles.
Dolby panoramic sound support
To play the full scene sound, just connect the optical fiber to the power amplifier and select the through output in SPDIF.
Then select DTS or Dolby track in the movie.
At this time, the power amplifier will automatically match the audio track selected for the movie, and the corresponding light will light up and display 5.1 channels (Huiwei's 5.1 channel M60 is used at home). When watching the movie, 5.1 channels bring a greater sense of space than the traditional 2.1 channels. Unlike 2.1 channels, which only have the front surface, 5.1 channels form an enclosure that just encircles people, Better restore the location of each sound. In particular, the intense fighting in the film has been brought into full play. You can feel the position where the gunshot is emitted. * * * flies out from this position, flies close to the ear, and flies behind, bringing a better sense of presence. I can only say that this is the enjoyment with 4K 10BIT HDR display output and 3D.
It supports HDMIIN reservation recording, which is necessary for ball game recording and broadcasting.
For many fans like me, the most important thing is not the finale, but catching up with the new episodes on the Internet, which have not been released yet, and can only be done online through digital TV. The most important thing for office workers, especially fans, must also have the same problem. What should we do when the game time is just work time? At this time, the HDMI IN recording function of Cabol Q10 Plus has come into full play. Insert the HDMI output of the digital TV box into the HDMI IN of Cabol Q10 Plus, and then set the pre recording time. I thought it was a chicken bone function, but I found that some functions sometimes become life-saving straws only when I meet 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 movie itself, which connects dramas and sports events.
It supports 1000MB network, and can realize BT download when the network hard disk is used.
Finally, we tested the internal 16G EMMC speed of the Cabol Q10 Plus. The speed of reading 135.5MB/S and writing 189.7MB/S is relatively satisfactory. However, when we tested the network speed, we were a bit puzzled. The speed of copying files from the NAS to the Cabol Q10 Plus in the home gigabit network decayed at 33-36MB/S.
However, it is puzzling that copying from a computer to Cabol Q10 Plus can stabilize to 70MB/S. Is EMMC accelerating the hard disk? If there is acceleration, what is not reflected in the replication from NAS to Cabol Q10 Plus? Is acceleration unilateral? I have been troubled by this strange problem.
However, Cabol Q10 Plus has achieved the sharing of the built-in hard disk, which is very good. Although it can't be found directly from the network neighbor, it can be opened by directly entering the IP address. At the same time, the access speed is not slow, so if there is no NAS at home and there are friends who have data to back up, it is very practical. The entire NAS can be backed up with Cabol Q10 Plus.
In addition, this is also a benefit. Install Thunderbolt in Cabol Q10 Plus, and then directly access the seed file to Cabol Q10 Plus through IP and throw it into the built-in hard disk. Open it with Thunderbolt to realize BT download. Compared with computer download, downloading with Cabol Q10 Plus consumes much less power.
In addition, Cabol Q10 Plus also supports Bluetooth 4.0, WIFI 5G and 2.4G dual frequency, and 2.4G signal is stable.
Summary
What impressed me most about the 4K Blu ray player Cabol Q10 Plus was its support for HDR and full channel 10bit video processing, which fully demonstrated the details of the bright and dark parts of the picture, made color restoration more accurate, and brought a more realistic viewing experience with the sound effect of full scene sound. It supports 200MB/S high bit rate 4K video playback, realizing a true 4K playback.
In addition, the poster wall has been further optimized to automatically capture film and television profiles, eliminating the trouble of sorting videos. Online subtitle matching and subtitle fine-tuning when playing videos are also more convenient to use. At the same time, Cabol Q10 Plus supports 3.5-inch SATA high-capacity hard disk to realize low-power BT download, which can also be used as a network hard disk. This is the first example in the 4K player. Although it does not have complete NAS functions, it is a good choice for friends who only need to back up data, which can save a lot of money.
Of course, Cabol Q10 Plus is not perfect. For example, the built-in music player does not currently support online on-demand, which can be solved by installing a third-party player. In addition, when there are newly downloaded movies in the hard disk, the "poster wall" cannot be automatically updated, but needs to be manually re matched.
In addition, it should be noted that HDR and full channel 10bit are supported, which does not mean that the use of the 4K Blu ray player Cabol Q10 Plus can transform ordinary TVs into HDR TVs. Of course, when using Cabol Q10 Plus to play 4K movies with 10BIT supporting HDR, the picture display effect of ordinary 4K TVs will also be greatly improved compared with that of 8BIT.
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