Candy TV - Portable Digital TV & Radio - a bad idea, done badly
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- A quick look at an unusual looking portable rechargeable digital TV, DAB radio and media player. A mostly pointless device in the age of smartphones and tablets with wireless data, but on top of that, this one is almost unusable too.
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"So why would you want this? Well, you probably don't."
My favorite kind of Techmoan video.
..and best not to. Useless device,
Haha! I heard him say that in the video I just watched!
I guess if had you an analogue pocket TV and missed free-to-air on the go, you might have *thought* that you wanted this?
I first thought this was a product from the early 2000s which would make a lot of sense because tablets had not taken off yet. But no, this is apparently a current year product....
It can't even be that much cheaper than a used ipad at this point. What a waste of plastic 😂
The people on the side of the box were the marketing team celebrating that they sold one.
"Oh, look...the LED is living up to the hype..." 😂😂
LED - Light Electronic Device
The LED was probably the only thing that worked as advertised!
We could, theoretically, have assumed it was a miniaturised nuclear fission device generating the light output - thank God it labelled it as an LED. (and based on the functionality of the rest of the set, I think it's a damn good job it's NOT a mini nuclear reactor!!)
I was wondering it it was a incandescent bulb, but thankfully they noted that it was a LED.
On AliExpress they sell a desktop USB charger with "product schematic" and "USB charger with digital display" printed on the front.
Ah, but you see the speakers are STAGE left and STAGE right.
So you see, more dramatic quality than normal.
They are so close together that even if they were correctly wired, you would not have much stereo separation anyway. At the most, some stereo effects just might sound a bit weird.
The Snagglepuss TV
@@ChrisHopkinsBass you and @cthellis crack me up!
I see what you did there
@@ChrisHopkinsBass😆
"A mostly pointless device in the age of smartphones and tablets with wireless data"
Ah, but those don't double as a door stop wedge.
Used that way, it could be like a billboard for the cats...
I think this device would fail as a door wedge as well.
Maybe you dont want to be spied on all the time having your location tracked by your isp or government.
What would it take to include a Digital Television receivers in a tablet? The ONE thing tablets aren't great for is trying to watch LIVE TV, like sports, as he mentioned.
@@StreetPreacherr $20 will get you a USB DVB-T dongle that works with android devices
Techmoan gets a medal for patience for taking that unit to the ends of the earth . So the Wedge will be “running up that hill”.
@@rabit818 I would say that Moore would suit better than Bush for background, over the hills and FAR away, atleast for this "fine specimen".😋
This Company really knows how to produce E-Waste
Shenzen… shipping E-waste to the UK for 2 decades!
In one video Techmoan browsed through the internet for present walkmen and mentioned "a waste, they might as well leave the stage of selling it to cutomers out and let it go directly go to e waste facility" something along those lines.
@@southcalder LOL didn't think of it like that
Depending on how easy it is to access the firmware, you may be able to hack it into something useful.
Well... in the long run they probably produce less than Apple, because you buy _one_ product from them and that's it.
...Finally, watchable Cheese.
My dreams were so close.
E - dam lad :D
@@deterlanglytonesometimes i dream about cheese....
Chee-vee? (They missed an opportunity there).
Damn these reply's are so cheesy!
"I will take it outside and..." I thought he would continue with "put it out of it's misery"
Give it the 1 Grit
i had to stop at the 3 minute mark. Your snark level is at 1000 today and the wife would be pissed if I watched such a hilariously on point Techmoan video without her.
Well, it's a quite nice case for a raspberry pi build...
Yeah it kind of reminds me of an amazon echo show
Except the screen’s still crap :/
And only £120!
I wonder if it's running android or Linux so one could hack it and make it useful
@@JanJanJanJanJanJanJanJanJan2I was thinking the same thing.
I’ve got an older version of those “digital picture frames” that not only runs native Linux but has a keyboard port on the motherboard. The port is not connected to the external world but it can be. It’s really a fully functional single board computer that uses maybe a tenth of its capabilities to display still images.
The downside is that it has very little onboard RAM. It requires a dedicated internet connection to the maker’s website to which you’ve uploaded your family pictures or whatever so it can access them, for a monthly fee. The company folded long ago, of course.
The upside is that there are websites dedicated to making a useful computer out of it.
I bet if Our Host opened that thing he would find something very similar except with RF circuitry added, and likely a Bluetooth circuit that’s either unpopulated or disabled in the software.
10:13 "These are not hardcoded subs" I like how Matt, while editing, is already forseeing and proactively shutting down stupid discussions in the YT comment section... 😂
Indeed, even though it's plain to see that it's the device generating the subtitles, no doubt some folk will creep out the woodwork who think otherwise!
My (probably wrong) guess is that these videos get an early airing to Patreons, so there's a chance to add captions based on feedback. That said, I've seen some ugly hardcoded subs, but never *that* ugly :)
Edit: by "captions" I mean the on-screen text that Matt adds for extra information, not hardcoded subtitles (rewrote my comment when adding it originally and lost clarity)
He was talking about the subtitles, it means cannot be switched off.
I thought maybe it plays subtitles automatically when the audio is muted, but if not, it's a huge failure.
I wonder if the subtitles are an "off by one" error and he needs to set it to one of the options next to "off" to turn them off.
As someone who has knocked together a thing from a bunch of China's parts bin, that's exactly what this TV is: we have all these things available to us, let's make a new thing! That's not a great way to get a commercial product.
Do I sense a highened amount of sarcasm in this video? Nah, I think it's just me.
Mat being sarcastic? Never!
"... so why would you want this?
You probably don't"
😄 True though.
The kindest thing you can say about this is that they gave the television antenna a flared base.
The kindest thing I would say is: they tried.
I did wonder if it was color matched (badly) to the case, or if it was just a coincidence. I think I'm going to go with "coincidence"
.mkv, .mov and .mp4 are container formats, in other words: anything with any encoding can be in the file.
That 1 mp4 file doesn't work, doesn't necessarily mean another one doesn't either.
it supports .mkv, so probably an .mp4 with the same encoding will work
I suppose it's the most classic type of mp4 with H264 for video and AAC for audio.
Yep... the FLAC, AAC and WAV streams might've worked perfectly well if contained in an MKV or MP4 container. It's likely that device doesn't know what a ".aac" file or a ".flac" file is, but could cope with ".mkv" or ".mp4" with the same streams inside.
Most people don't know the difference between container and codec.
@@tomgidden a lot of devices don't support FLAC or AAC since they require decoders that aren't part of the most common (especially older) decoder packages. It doesn't help to shove a FLAC or AAC inside a MKV if it still doesn't know how to decode them. These crap Chinese devices typically use ready made packages they can just drop in, and those will often support lots of ancient formats, but not anything we currently use in the west
@@thesteelrodent1796 Sure, but that device does claim to support AAC and WMA (not FLAC though)
See 3:33 . I'm betting the reason it didn't work was it didn't support the container (and/or file extension), not the encoding.
Watch it upside down and the speakers will be correct ...there you go, worth every penny.
That reflection is a problem. It was a really sunny day when Charles and Dianna got married and I wanted to watch and sun bathe at the same time, so I watched a black and white portable TV with my head in a cardboard box.
"Can you believe nobody bought this???"
This thing deserves the 1-grit.
I think you significantly overestimate humans. People buy anything.
It's almost like the biggest companies make the worst crap.
@@md_vandenberg It even looks like one!
It's like they were made for each other
Well, someone bought one.
I expected this to be just a cheap Android tablet glued into a wedge-shaped shell, and yet somehow it's so much worse.
Yeah. At least you can _do something_ with Android... 🙃
Oh, we had a bit of an excursion to the countryside, it was nice!
WOULD OF BEEN BETTER IF HE BROUGHT THE MUPPETS WITH HIM
I was expecting the sentence " I am gonna take it out to mddle of nowhere..." continue with "...and dump it there." Sort of, we took old Spotty to a farm in the north, he can run freely and bark on squirrels there. 😅
Poor old fella had to climb a mountain just to watch a bit of footie on his little tiddler telly.
You missed the point: you are supposed to drink a ton of label-less beer like the revelers on the box until this thing does not seem like a waste of money.
I miss analogue TV broadcasts
Same here my Sony Watchman Tv was a real treat I miss those days !
Same. You could still watch tv even with low signal unlike Digital TV
@@richardbrobeck2384 yeah i had one it was great at tv reception unlike most tvs back then When tv went digital it has become impossible to get any signal at all where i live.
I can’t stand the commercials.
@@meJaso well we used to be able to watch the BBC over the air, which is of course, ad free
some people don't have a clue into digital tv, and broadcasting, it is like a mobile phone in a tunnel having trees higher than the antenna creates a weaker signal. the more leaves in the way the weaker the signal, a house tv antenna is on the roof for a reason rather than at ground level, signal loss is a lot higher because of trees and buildings in view of the mast.
"I've been looking for a paperweight with an anti-anti-glare screen!"
Seriously, though, I could see this device being perfect for someone who likes to hack hardware, write cutom firmware, and just, well... make it actually work.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw it, but then I remembered 3D printers and all the parts you can get now. It reminded me of that one guy who made himself a little weather and news console with a screen and 5 buttons and he made it look like something out of Star Trek. He however didn't need to hack anything; he bought all the parts and 3D printed the case. There's very little point hacking junk any more. Some people will do it anyway, of course, but it's just easier not to, unless you want something really compact like a phone or a tablet, which this isn't.
I bought a cheap portable DVD and digital TV some 14 years ago. I wasn't expecting much, but it's been a great device for £79. I used it in the car so the children could watch films on it, I've used it to watch TV on without disturbing the wife and it pauses live TV so that you can go and top up your popcorn! It also has radio and games on it. Wouldn't part with it. I think it needs a replacement battery now, which I think I can still purchase. I think I may take it on a camping trip this year!
"Don't turn it on... Take it apart!"
Since it's digital, it's probably quite boring inside.
Thanks Dave! ;-)
I'm really curious, why does EEVBlog say that? Like, what's the harm in checking the device as-is assuming it's new in box?
@@RealThorwegian I would expect a no-name tablet computer and a power brick with 3rd party signal inputs hotglued in.
@@proCaylak No harm I guess it's just a trademark phrase of the channel (among many others!)
Nobody has ever looked happy watching Digital TV - a clear early warning!
I love my shows turning into a pixelated unwatchable mess :D Digital TV rocks!
I stopped watching TV when anolg was phased out
@@consequenciasinimaginaveis6901 ur watching tv rn.
A TV for campers, especially who camp line of sight from TV masts
Half the campsites in the UK are pretty sheltered. :)
Happy Candy Time - our products only look good when you're wasted on beer!
Just as you'd expect from a no-name Chinese fly-by-night companies. Junk.
It's amazingly hard to develop and sell even a basic electronics product here in the West. Meanwhile, in China, they churn out a product like this every week. They have all these high tech manufacturing capabilities and they waste it on toys.
I like that it listed every audio format and only mp3 worked
I quite like the look to be honest, it looks like a prop from a 1970s Sci-Fi programme!
Are you often dishonest?
It is kinda cool in that respect. It would look right at home on Space:1999.
Maybe the 60s. Because in the 70s, sharp and straight corners were fashionable, as in Sinclair pocket TV
It does look a bit like the small monitors on the table tops in Star Trek now you mention it.
@@mavfan1 Have you ever seen a Google Home Max or Amazon Echo Show? Almost the exact same design, lmao.
I've always found the idea of a portable digital TV device intriguing (no reliance on wi-fi etc.), but signal reception is always the biggest issue unfortunately.
An unfortunate side effect of moving to digital broadcasts. Analog always has the ability to power through a lot of interference and still be watchable. Digital needs a clean signal at all times. Not that I'd go back to analog. Just makes taking a portable TV camping for live broadcasts impossible these days.
It would be interesting to have something like the ones my mom would smuggle into work, like you said to not reliance on wi-fi. I picture a world where people have some sort of tv / radio combo in emergency kits.
I've always wanted the opposite... a box in the attic that rebroadcasts all the digital TV multiplexes as raw streams over Wifi that any device in the house can subscribe to, and then TVs or STBs that are smart enough to "tune" to those, once given the Wifi credentials. I've tried various DTV-network tuner devices in the past but they've never quite delivered.
@@tomgiddenI do the same, I have a quad HD TV tuner card in my Linux server and I use TV headend to serve that out to client devices.
It kind of works in Japan. Their digital TV system is optimized for that, every station broadcasts an additional sub-signal called 1seg that is meant for reception by mobile devices. Digital TV tuners were also ubiquitous on Japanese phones before the iPhone era and even today some Android phones have them, and that really works.
Unfortunately, the tech is ancient by today's standards so all you get is 240p at 15fps 😅 The variant used in Latin America reportedly allows for 30fps but still at 240p.
10:00 The subtitles are in Bulgarian. I don't know about HBO, but typically the Bulgarian subtitles are somewhere near the 4th stream, so maybe it picks up the 1st available subtitle stream or picks them up in alphabet order.
I almost shot beer out of my nostrils when that screen protector was being pulled off.
Makes you wonder what's running through Mr Moan's mind sometimes...
😁
Promises everything, delivers nothing, sure there isn't a little blue tree logo on it somewhere? :P
Took me a sec as I don’t live in the UK but I see you
The only thing I'm curious about is if perhaps the included antenna was just awful? What would have happened if you used a decent, standard TV antenna with it (or even a coat hanger/wire?)
Those little desktop antennas will almost never pick up anything unless you're in the perfect location for TV reception, and if you have to plug it into your home's antenna it sort of defeats the purpose.
@@antikommunistischaktion Not where I live. We live close enough, and in the city, that almost our entire house can catch at least most stations with smaller portable antennas.
It was used in the vertical polarisation. High power TV transmissions in the UK are horizontally polarised. The bottom of that antenna is magnetic and designed to be stuck on a fridge or car shell to make it work horizontally. Not that I think it would matter in this case, I suspect the tuner is not very sensitive and the wires are not shielded between the LCD and tuner.
@@antikommunistischaktion I think it would be quite silly to carry a large antenna with you, but I also think carrying a large wedge that picks up TV signals is quite silly too. I don't think either cancels the other out or makes it too awkward, but that's just me!
@@robotortoise Well if it had any real media format support it would be a good offline media player.
I live for screen protector removal on Saturday mornings 😂
The LED beeing labeled as such is needed for the "stupidest possible User". A friend of Mine lately Got a new Phone and to enter the sim compartment she poked a hole into speaker since both unlabeled holes where next to each Other.
😂 honestly.
To be fair, multiple times I put the SIM eject tool into my microphone. At least Samsung thought of it and put the mic further back so you can't damage it.
To be fair I’ve done that too and I’m a IT tech who also used to work for T-Mobile/EE
That's just bad design right there...
"she"
nuff said mate
I assume this is the sort of device that would be from Temu or Wish.
Oh man id have loved to see inside, any chance of a teardown?
Probably just a loose rubber belt.
@@SafetytrousersOr one that’s returned to the goo it was made from.
It's a shame too, because it looked decent.
You have excellent content and I really enjoy watching from my house here in Montana. Thanks Techmoan! Shiny screen on that!
I have the feeling that this is the kind of product aimed at that older audience who can be persuaded to buy an overpriced junk tablet by mail order with a caption like "finally a tablet for seniors!" and a promise of a jargon-free easy guide and sentences like "it can be your own digital cookbook! find new and exciting recipes! our guide tells you how!"
I dunno why, but the back of this little “telly” reminds me mostly of a rear-projection set…
It also intrigues me that it can play only MP3s and MKVs among other known media formats, not even MP4s which are widely used! Even a cheap no-name 32” LED TV from a supermarket can play those files! What a shame!
Judging by the UI and the on-screen menus, it looks like it’s based on the MStar 78** series chip which is also used in various Chinese-made Freeview boxes, and it’s also weird that it has an output resolution setting! 😊
Not sure MP4 is as common in Asia as it is overhere. I have a LG DVD player that will play almost any video format except MP4 - it even plays DivX even though I've not seen that used for anything but pirated movies in the past 15 years or so
It's really weird because some DVB transmissions are encoded with MPEG4 so it probably does have the codec in it, they probably just didn't configure it properly to recognise the MP4 container
Well those formats are containers. What is inside them can vary a lot, and unless you support all the internal formats a container can have, you’re stuck. Luckily as we get better formats everything becomes simpler, a H.265 MKV and H.265 MP4 are basically the same thing.
@@EmpereurHector I disagree with the claim that better formats are making everything better in this case - historically both MP4 and MKV had very few codec options and so specifying the container format was actually an entirely appropriate way to specify codec compatibility (when MP4 was relatively new for instance it would only contain either MPEG1, 2 or 4 video and every device that supported the container had all of those codecs, now it can contain h.264, HEVC, even FLAC as another commenter pointed out, which makes all of those old devices that just claimed "MP4" support incompatible with some MP4 files today when they were fully compatible in the past).
"A wedge of failure" - fantastic rock band name. :-)
So glad you expose these pieces of junk. Lets hope not too many unsuspecting people have parted with their hard earned.
Reminds me of those digital photo frames that were shovelled into stores for a few years back in the 00's.
IMO, those were substantially more useful.
I was always like "bruh, I wish my iPad was a triangle"
9:57 what's up with the Bulgarian subtitles, is Techmoan secretly not British? 🤔
Well if Apple told you you should, and priced it 2000 USD more than the regular one, you'd be in the que around the corner!
To be fair, I think Amazon got there first with the Echo Show
Is that a The Office reference?
@@Jerbod2 Unleash the Power of the Pyramid!
Looks more like a 1st gen echo compared to an iPad
I don't see anybody from Slovakia screeming "huray Slovakia displayed on the screen of useless device", so here I am - Huray, Slovakia displayed on the screen of useless device! 😂
Without scanning through the comments to see if already mentioned, that black stumpy antenna is likely a magnetic mount antenna, using the capacitive coupling through the magnet to create a ground plane. So I guess you could mount it on the roof of a car or the nearest metal object when outdoors. Given the quality of the hardware, it would still probably suck.
I wouldn't say it's a bad idea. There are still people who will want a portable TV like this to bring around, take to work, etc. It's just that it's a piece of junk. If it was quality made, didn't have the issues you pointed out, had the ability to receive TV signals in a house or office without needing to go up a hill to the highest point in town, was a reasonable price, many would buy it.
I hate seeing a failed device like this. You know there has to be someone on the project that cared and wanted it all to turn out better. I'm curious about that back story.
Maybe a tax wright off idea?
@@jarrodhook
Write off.
Dude that would be a great lgr video
Absolutely nobody cared making this, it's cheap chinese junk from a long long line of similar things, purely designed to extract quick bucks from people tricked into thinking it's a proper device.
Me
MP4 is just a multimedia container format. It supports different video coding formats, such as AV1 (AOMedia Video 1), H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding) and H.265/HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding). Not all of these video coding formats are supported by all media players. Maybe the reason the MP4 file you tested wouldn't play on this device is because the file contained a video coding format that's unsupported. Just a thought.
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) not AV1. If this actually advertised AV1 and played AV1 it'd almost be worth it.
@@antikommunistischaktion An MP4 container, however, can contain AV1-encoded video (or a host of other video encodings). You might have misread the comment.
You should create a novelty product that is purposely the most poorly functioning and convoluted device ever designed, but make it out of quality parts so it has the longevity of a 1950s hairdryer
Try it upstairs if your house has an upstairs.
Even the 12 or so feet you gain from stairs will make a difference.
You could also stick a low noise amplifier in between the antenna and the TV socket. That might boost things up a little.
I think this could actually be handy, if you put together a better antenna kit.
Oh boy it's Techmoan! I get genuinely excited when I see new videos
A teardown would be nice, but i assume you're going to return it to the shop for another unlucky person to buy!
Nice vid, as always!
As a viewer from Bulgaria, imagine my surprise when the subs showed up during the video test and they were in Bulgarian :D
"The Last Hill Before Liverpool" sounds like it could be the title of a Beatles song.
Love your channel, Mat. All the best from Australia.
So if you live in the field far from the city but not too far, and you have access to electricity but you don't have a radio, tv, computer or a smartphone... This is perfect 😂😂
It looks like a device the 1960s thought was the future.
Ever had to take shelter during a tornado warning in a power outage? I have, and a battery powered TV/radio is something I've used to watch the weather reports. It made more sense with analog TV signals that were easier to receive. HD requires more in the way of antenna.
Exactly i lived in Florida and during the hurricane season or Tornado season Analog portable tv was a blessing you could reliably get a signal and see the weather radar Ever since Tv went digital it has been nothing but a royal pain in the ass to even get a steady receivable picture even with the few portable digital tvs made worse yet the batteries are internal and not replaceable when they die the tv is basically junk.
Pocket TV's back in the day were just as useless, as was DAB for me where ever I've lived. Most of the reception problems were geographical. I took my Casio pocket TV with me when I worked in Crystal Palace, London, excellent reception, as soon as I got back home to south east Kent, Margate area, boom!, no channels AT ALL.
This device reminds me of the Lenovo clock.
despite what the propaganda says, you often need a proper DAB/DVB antenna to receive any kind of quality broadcast, especially if you live in the city where everyone have their own WIFI network and there are cellphone transceivers everywhere
Analogue like digital had their high power transmissions work in horizontal polarisation. With everyone sticking their antennas up vertically, it was always going to be a problem to receive a signal unless it was a strong signal area. The thing is, having the telescopic antenna in the correct orientation was never going to be practical.
@@tgheretford Really? Everything in the U.S. is circular polarized.
@@TonyP9279 For FM we moved from horizontal to "mixed" polarisation - horizontal and vertical as opposed to circular. Originally FM was designed for home listening with horizontal polarised antennas but when car radios got FM, it was decided to also use vertical polarisation as a vertical antenna is far more practical for mobile use but not remove horizontal polarisation to avoid displeasing home listeners (predominately Radio 3 listeners who get very vocal if there are changes they dislike).
For DAB we use vertical only for the aforementioned reason, we prioritise small portable radio and car radio listening. For television we primarily use horizontal polarisation for main transmitter sites and primarily vertical polarisation for relay stations. There are the odd exceptions but that is the general rule.
LED probably stands for "Low Effort Device".
Nice
Imagine.....a portable TV that you have to connect to a rooftop aerial for the best signal 😂😂
3:01 Do a teardown. I guess the half-populated plug panel is hiding something, probably a daughterboard that would have been occupied by a micro SD card slot. And the SoC would be a super low-end MIPS chip from early 2010s.
Also, my guess is this thing will die if you use it too often because its internal eMMC flash is the bargain basement special.
most likely it's put together from stuff you can find on Aliexpress - which is often made from bits salvaged from other components
It's always good to see Techmoan in the field!)
Love these deep dives in unusual, arachic, and/or dead-end audio/video technologies. I've described your videos in other comments and to other people as "unreasonably entertaining". That's because in any other context, I'm not even particularly interested in this stuff. But your passion, knowledge and above all, wry presentation makes them far more entertaining to me that they have any right to be. I delight in eager anticipation everytime I see you have put out a new video because I know I'm in for a 15 - 20 minute treat. The dictionary definition of "infectious enthusiasm" should include "ex. see Techmoan (YT)".
Dolby Effect; just one of them, and none of the ones that come to your mind when you think of Dolby.
I was just looking for a portable TV yesterday on Amazon and came across this product. I am glad to see you made a video about it.
When I was 12 years old, I went on a 2-hour journey and connected the power output of a portable DVD player to a Freeview box. I then used a SCART to RCA adapter to connect the video output of the Freeview box to the portable DVD player's video input. I have to say, tuning it was awful, and every region you passed through required re-tuning as well since each region had different digital metadata. However, I managed to watch TV for a bit until I got tired of re-tuning it.
The aerial was rabbit ears placed on the floor of the car, btw.
No chance you'd manage it up here in Northumberland, even an aerial on the roof isn't a guarantee you'll get a signal. I switched to streaming completely(whether live or not) when analogue was shut down in 2003 'cause I'd need to pay £75(and installation fee) for what's effectively an aerial on a 10ft flag pole on my chimney. A few(and I mean few) people on my estate have them and it looks ridiculous.
You know, I actually would've been a bit disappointed if this unit had turned out to NOT be bad. 🤓 Thanks, Mat!
Great video as usual, and my enjoyment was further increased by the fact I'm wearing the same shirt as you are.
Love how the manual says it can handle H265 and AV1 (General specs) but not H264, but then in Media Video list H264 but no H265 or AV1. A real cluster f...
AVI, not AV1. If this advertised AV1 and actually played AV1 it'd almost be worth it despite all the flaws.
It says VC1 not AV1 in the general specs which is different
@@IsoMacintosh That's not what tripped him up. It's AVI which in some fonts can look a lot like AV1. I really wish Google planned a different name for AV1, perhaps AO1 in reference to the interest group that defines the format.
@@antikommunistischaktion Nope, read what he said:
"manual says it can handle H265 and AV1 (General specs)"
General specs is the first page we see in the video (At 3:44), that page does not mention AVI at all.
@@IsoMacintosh Nope, look at the video format matrix at 4:04. He got those two mixed up as no one is going to confuse VC1 and AV1, but they can confuse AVI and AV1.
It maybe useless in the European area, but in Asia where ISDB-T version is perfect and has Bluetooth, the TV reception is okay, not the greatest but good enough, the signal reception is always a problem, funnily enough, the Philippines still streams analog TV over the air, so we aint losing tradition
I think you knew right from the get go exactly what this was going to be! Thanks for the Saturday entertainment! Cheers!
Something like this, better implemented by a reputable manufacturer, would be handy for camping, caravanning, off-grid living etc. It wouod of course need bluetooth, a decent antenna and a significantly better battery life. But yes, this particular device is just so much Chinese e-waste, and not even cheap e-waste at that.
Techmoan channel name is certainly living up to the name :) Why wouldn't you moan about something as quite useless as this :) Never came across a digital player that won't play wav files ! Does look kinda nice though :)
I have to wonder if the TV antenna was functional at all. Either that antenna was just plastic with no antenna, or the port wasn’t connected internally.
It worked in a place with ideal reception. Indoor aerials rarely work well with digital TV.
It was vertically polarised in a situation where the broadcasts are horizontally polarised. It was never going to work except on that hill where the signal was going to be very strong and able to overcome the issue of a vertically polarised antenna.
Whoa! Dual Speakers with extra bass! I’m sold.
Don't forget MP3!
It looks a lot like a early 2000 Electric usage monitor I had on my kitchen counter years ago. That was rubbish & actually cost more money to run than you saved by turning it off. Still I enjoyed it as I dunked my biscuits in my coffee.
This reminds me of that old chumby thing, but the sony version.
Funny, I thought of Chumby as well. The almost-forgotten offspring of an iPad and a cushion...
You'd think they'd have used a black usb port to fit with the rest of the COMPLETELY BLACK back
Fun fact: USB ports are supposed to be white for USB 1.x and black for USB 2.0. Then there's blue for USB 3.0, teal for USB 3.1 and warm colors for sleep-and-charge ports in various forms.
That is not universally followed, especially in this day and age where many computers will have all ports 3.x and then those are also displaced by Type C anyway. But in theory, by standard, black and white ports shall be different speeds.
@@kFY514 that colour standard kind of went out the window as soon as it was created. Honestly never seen it followed except on very early USB stuff. And on modern PC components that are built for specific colour schemes, anything goes.
@@kFY514 Yes, that was before the "RGB" era and before painting crap on the motherboards such as GAMING, etc. just to look cool and sell to the kids. I also liked the color coding of the connector. But I think in this case they just went for the cheapest connector they could find. I think it's USB 2 speeds at most, because it just needs to stream some 1080p videos.
@@vdochev USB 1.x and 2.0 ports are physically identical, and thus interchangable as far as the physical connector parts are considered, while 3.x have more pins. I also think that's a 2.0 port probably, because 1.x is not really enough for mass storage. Although who knows, with how awful this thing is, it could even be 1.1 😅
@@kFY514 I've had a few stereos with „USB playback“ on them - i.e; The USB plugs in to a port which is connected to a single-chip DAC with output going to the amp - And these have _always_ been communicating at USB 1.1 IME. I think its this reason why I tend not to use bitrates above 128kbps... 😇
Great and very honest review. I see a version of this device is being sold by Amazon, it would be a service to potential customers if you posted a link to your video there.
Always the best-weirdest stuff!
Looks like the upgraded version of the terminals on star trek tos
my new catch phrase..."quite a prominent reset hole"
Likely because it’s going to be used frequently
This was a fun watch. Well done.
Jay another episode of my favorite e-waste show 😍 This one is a banger. Who even thought a device like this should exist these days 😅
Why the subtitles of the clip at 10:00 are in Bulgarian? :D
Ahh, 3am Techmoan. Gotta love timezones
*122* digital TV stations over the air for free!? 😮🤯
*Cries in Canadian. I think we have 3 maybe 4...
It's not quite 122 TV stations, since some of them are time-shifted (+1 hour) or HD variations of other TV channels, and some of them are radio stations.
So there are only about 70 unique TV channels, plus some local or nation-specific channels that are only available in some parts of the UK.
Some of the channels also share bandwidth with other channels, so they don't necessarily broadcast all day. eg CBeebies and CBBC broadcast from 07:00-19:00, and BBC Three and BBC Four broadcast from 19:00-04:00
Also bear in mind that it's only "free" in the sense that you don't need to pay an extra fee on top of your normal TV Licence, which is around £15 a month.
4, and 3 are French
It depends on where you live. The best spot is around Niagara Falls since you get a lot of the US stations. There's a few Canadian stations broadcasting off the CN Tower.
@@writerpatrickI'm in Ottawa, there's 2 transmitters to point at. I don't have a roof antenna and I only rent, so I'm stuck with whatever I can get from the pancake antenna in my window
I always like when the left right sound file shows up, it's a but of a easter egg that pops in from time to time.