Tofu pudding TV box new TOMO system detailed evaluation

Foreword:

With the continued rapid development of smart home products, new products are constantly being researched and innovated. The recent addition of a new member in the field of television boxes - tofu pudding, tofu pudding is not our traditionally recognized food, but a TV box like a tofu.

Tofu pudding is the first television box developed by Shanghai Liaodian Information Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as PIVOS Bars). PIVOS Bars was established in 2013 and has a research and development team from Silicon Valley, USA. Through the development of large-screen cross-system platforms and smart terminals, we are committed to creating a unique and cool interactive entertainment living room experience. The company is a strategic R&D partner for the five major system platforms for IP solutions such as ARM and Intel, and has research and development bases in Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Hangzhou.

The birth of tofu pudding is due to the existence of Android system homogenization competition in the current TV box market. The built-in operating system of the box is basically a transplant of the mobile terminal operating system, and the user experience is general. Tofu pudding uses TOMO (Tofu Media OS), which PIVOS developed specifically for television, symbolizing the future of Internet TV operating systems (TOMO also stands for Tomorrow) and is a disruptive TV operating system. The TOMO operating system adheres to PIVOS's design concept of flattening minimalism and seeks simplicity to pureness to restore the user's most essential needs for television. Different from the traditional Android system, there is no redundant application without a complicated interface, and the consistency experience of going to the Metro to the APP is used to pursue the integrity of the operating system.

In addition to the operating system, Tofu Pudding also has a rare built-in 2G memory, which is equipped with 8G flash memory and is highly equipped for TV boxes. How does the tofu pudding perform in the end, and the evaluation king and Fan You together to witness:

Tofu-like appearance?

Tofu pudding's box is very delicate. Founder's shape plus black color, calm atmosphere. The tofu pudding packaging box is made of paper material. The surface of the packaging box has detailed bumpy textures. The packing box adopts the opening method of the world cover. The front of the box of tofu pudding box has only the "TOFU pudding" LOGO pressed pattern, which is relatively simple overall. The bottom of the box is also printed with the selling point logo, such as the iCNTV license, 4K resolution support and H.265 decoding, etc.:


Tofu pudding TV box host model is very Founder, black matte polycarbonate body, angular. In the lower right corner of the top there is also the "TOFU Pudding" LOGO, hidden power white signal in front of the fuselage, the product has a bar code on the right side of the fuselage:

In addition to the 3C certification and the brand nameplate on the bottom of the tofu pudding box, the middle part is covered with a rubber pad. There is a certain gradient at the bottom peripheral part, covered with cooling holes and hidden visual effects:


The interface of the tofu pudding box is centrally arranged on the back. From left to right are: USB2.0 interface, TF card slot, HDMI interface, 100M network interface and power input interface:


Tofu pudding box accessories are mainly HDMI high-definition cable, 5V/2A plug adapter power adapter, 12-button Bluetooth remote control, as well as two 7th battery for remote control.


Tofu pudding family portrait

From simple to pure system UI, restore the most essential viewing requirements

Xiao Bian now leads everyone to experience how different the system UI is. First of all, the TV box starts up and takes about 28 seconds in total, which is longer than other TV boxes. During the boot process, the screen shows "ICNTV", indicating that the tofu pudding is using ICNTV's video resources. After starting the system, the system will automatically request the Bluetooth remote control's pairing connection, setting the screen display and network connection, and the system will automatically update and upgrade.



Boot Settings Page

The default boot page for tofu pudding is the featured category page. The system page adopts TV large screen and cross interactive remote control design, 3D dynamic playback, 3D layered manipulation. On the upper left side of the page is the logo of the ICNTV logo. On the upper right side of the page is the status of Bluetooth remote control connection, WIFI connection, weather, and time. The layout of the page adopts the upper and lower structure. The bottom is the various categories, and the middle and lower are the resources of the corresponding categories. The pages are much simpler than other TV boxes.


First of all, let's look at the TV box homepage, divided into search, WeChat photo album, music, video, finance, games, applications, documents, settings 9 categories. The search function in the homepage only supports video and music searches. Wechat albums will be explained in detail in the featured features.



Home Category

The music classification also mainly adopts a method that is basically the same as the traditional classification. Randomly demanding a song, the music will follow. As long as the music is operated, the music will be automatically played in the background and displayed on the entire background screen. When the video is played, it will also be played in the background automatically. This is the uniqueness of the TOMO system and other Android TV boxes.


Music classification


play music

Tofu pudding built-in palm financial, financial classification to provide comprehensive and rich stock market information, including stocks teaching videos, stock data, real-time interactive exchange of information, simple settings. Users of stocks can track real-time quotes based on their own stocks.



Palm Capital

The game store and application market provides a variety of game and application downloads. There are not many preset games. There are only 8 preset applications in the application market. Download Plants vs. Zombies, Magic Tower West Tour 2 and Tank Wars game. For trial play, the system runs smoothly and without stalls.


Plants vs. Zombies


Magic Tower Westwalk 2


Tank War

The file management can only identify the external device and cannot identify the content of the TV box's own machine. It needs to install a third-party file manager to identify it.

Setting up the interface is simpler than other TV boxes and enables settings such as network, Bluetooth settings, screen saver display, weather, screen display, video playback, system upgrade, and user feedback. The system's default resolution is 720P 60Hz, and supports multiple resolutions such as 1080P, 4k, 480i, 576i, 1080i, 480P, and 576P.



System settings

In the "My" page, you can view your play history, login account for more video resources, and attention to video resources.

Because the tofu pudding television box restores the user's essential demand for television - watching movies and television programs. Film and television programs mainly include: Featured, Financial, Sound, TV Drama, Film, Variety, Children, Animation, Feature, 15 of us, Penguin Cinema 11 video resources. What needs to be explained here is that the Penguin Theatre is a free resource for members. For ordinary users, you can only try 5 minutes. The full version requires paid viewing.



Film and television classification

Movies, television dramas and other video resources page has a corresponding classification, classification column at the top of the entire page, the bottom for the entire video resources content tile development, and traditional Android TV box is quite different.



When playing music and video, the system homepage will have a corresponding display "Now Playing - Video", "Now Playing - Music", and there will be an oval hover box at the top right of the page, showing the video and music status being played. . In the operation of other resources, the video and music playback interface will be displayed in the background of the system to play in the background. Due to system screenshots, the playback interface cannot be displayed. The display is a black screen.



Now Playing

In the process of using the remote controller, there may be a phenomenon that the response is slow or the button responds multiple times. The tofu pudding engineer is solving the problem. If you use the hard disk USB to access the TV box, it may happen that the hard disk power supply is insufficient (the TV box power supply is 5V/2A) and the file browsing is not responding. You need to re-insert the hard disk or restart the TV box.

I have no people, people have me

WeChat photo push sharing:

Open the album in the homepage. Before the photo is pushed, you need to add family members. That is to add the WeChat account by scanning the QR code and log in to the public photo album platform. After logging in, click on the “Upload Photo” in the lower right corner. Mobile phone photos are pushed to the TV screen display. Nothing can be done according to the corresponding steps provided.





WeChat photo push sharing

Third-party Android apk compatibility:

Due to the minimalist design concept of the APP and the integrity of the TOMO system, there are only 8 applications in the application market. To download more applications, you need to use third-party plug-ins for installation, such as U-disks, hard disks, and other external devices. , Perfectly compatible with Android apk, better scalability and playability. Since tofu pudding has no built-in broadcast software, how do you want to watch live? Need to download and install the world's fastest, most comprehensive application market sofa butler (http://), and then download and install live broadcast software from the sofa butler such as vst all-aggregates, TV cats, HDP can watch live.



A rare industry with high?

Tofu pudding configuration Crystal morning S812 quad-core Cortex A9 2.0GHz processor, Mali-650 eight-core graphics processor, using the industry's high 2G memory is to support the advantages of large-scale game operation, 8G flash memory, based on Andrews 4.4 development of the TOMO system. Supports 4K resolution and H.265 hard decoding, supports 802.11AC wireless WiFi protocol and Bluetooth 4.0. The difference between using 2G memory and traditional TV box 1G memory for tofu pudding is that the running performance is faster and more stable. Tofu pudding TV box hardware configuration in the end how the performance of the following evaluation software to test:

An Bunny software score of 35043 points, this running enough to spike other mainstream TV boxes:


The video test score is 1061 points, each video format can be decoded, including OGG, NSA, NUV, NSA video formats of the unpopular:


Local video playback decoding capability:

The tofu pudding local player can automatically load subtitles of the same name, but subtitle selection, color, size, and position settings are not supported. The evaluation king tested the native video playback decoding capability:

For X-Men with MKV 720P format, MKV 1080P gravity, ISO 1080P Hunger Games, MP4 4K Samsung Demonstration Film, Hobbit 2 and Steel Tears' native decoding capability, perfect support, playback Smooth. However, the Kardon phenomenon was observed in the LG DEMO playing MP4 4K 50FPS Jurassic and MP4 4K 60FPS. In general, tofu pudding has a strong local decoding capability.


Local decoding capability

Video playback screenshot:


Samsung demo screenshot


Hobbit screenshot


LG DEMO Screenshots


Steel Tears Screenshot


Jurassic World screenshot

Tofu pudding summary:

Through the above experience, tofu pudding is unique in the field of TV boxes. PIVOS has innovatively developed the TOMO system, a disruptive operating system for TVs, symbolizing the bright future of tofu pudding in the field of TV boxes and creating new ones. New era of TV box industry.

Overall, as a new product in the TV box market, tofu pudding, the overall performance is very good, restoring the user's essential demand for television, enough to spike the mainstream TV box in the industry:

1. Black Founder adds exquisite and compact appearance, and sees the truth in calm. Tofu-like appearance, but has a strong "inner heart." Rich interface, support TF card slot. However, Bluetooth remote control needs to be optimized.

2. The system UI pursues the design concept from simple to pure to beautiful, goes to Metro to APP, 3D dynamic display, hierarchical remote control, which greatly promotes the direct application interaction between the user and the TV box, and the experience is better. Access to the ICNTV broadcast control platform, enjoy the vast amount of genuine video resources.

3, WeChat photo sharing to enjoy a different interactive experience, third-party Android apk Android application software, compatibility, scalability and playability.

4, tofu pudding 2G memory, 8G flash memory, using crystal morning S812 quad-core Cortex A9 2.0GHz processor, Mali-650 eight-core graphics processor, the system runs smoothly, support for large-scale game operation does not get stuck. Support multiple format video decoding and H.265 hard decoding, support 4K resolution. The hardware configuration is high in the industry. The current official price is 439 yuan.

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