In the vast world of TVBox Android all hybrids can imagine. The Egreat A9 is the latest manufacturer, a solution that combines the format of the usual boxes but who are hiding in a location 3.5 inches for a substantial storage.
The big advantage of this format is obviously related to the proposed huge storage capacity and low cost per gigabyte. This can have a lot of sense for small independent media stations.
The Egreat A9 is not a new machine; in fact, the brand is changing an existing product by adding a new processor and a location 3.5 so as to add a big – in every sense – hard drive PC.
The Egreat A9 is a rather special case in the vast galaxy of Android solutions: Like the Zidoo X9, he proposed to store incoming data via an HDMI port and thanks to the encoding capabilities of CPU Mstar MSO9180- DB2. A quad core Cortex A9 chip clocked at 1.5 GHz and supported by a graphics processor ARM Mali-450.
The machine has 2 GB of RAM and 16GB eMMC storage base for shipping the system. From there, a HDMI input we can exploit capable of recording in 1080p incoming content (I guess not HDCP).
A second output HDMI 1.4b offer refund, up to 4K at 30 frames per second. An optical S / PDIF output will also be available. The Egreat A9 therefore bears the Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA 7.1 RAW passthrough. The M Mstar MSO9180-DB2 chip-managing these demanding audio formats.
The list of formats supported by the object is long. She knows how to support ISO formats and 3D in certain formats. Its support 4K / 2K in H.265 / HEVC is managed also materially. The most varied audio format is also supported with particularly lossless codecs FLAC type.
The connection is, for once, rather decent with a Ethernet Gigabit port, 4 USB ports including a USB 3.0 standards, a type of WiFi 802.11 b / g / n dual band based on MT7632 chipset including Bluetooth 4.0 and supported by 2 external antennas.
An infrared sensor will control the remote device; a small LCD screen allows knowing the status of the machine. A lot of good points but a new pretty bad since Egreat A9 is one of few TVBox to board a … fan. The presence of a disk 3.5 is generally heat that builds up quickly.
The set runs on a 12V / 2A power adapter and measuring 19.8 cm wide 19.9 cm long and 6 cm thick. The frame is constructed in aluminum and weighs 1.19 kg diskless.