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Xiaomi takes on Roku with Mi Box, a 4K Android TV-powered set-top box

2016-05-19
so this is me box this is Tommy's first Android TV based product this is the launcher this is the Android TV launcher this is what you see when you power on me box up at the top here you've got search and voice search I'll show you more of that in a second then you've got a row of personalized recommendations so these are recommendations that the system is making from all the different apps that you have running on here basically the more content you watch the better these recommendations are going to look like one really important thing about this box is that it supports 4k resolution not only that but 4k at 60 frames a second the other thing that me box supports is this new video format called HDR we're all familiar with HDR from mobile photography so me box supports HDR out of the box in one of our partners that we're showing here today is Ling TV so you don't actually have to have a cable set-top box for example you can watch your USB n for instance directly from your Mii box if you have the this link TV app Google Voice Search is built right into Android TV as well so for example I can just by pressing this button here the microphone button on the remote I can say what's the name of that movie where Jim Carrey gets his memory erased and it will answer Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind I can start watching it right away another cool feature of me box because of Android TV is Google cast right so it's a feature that a lot of people already know say I'm watching a video for example on YouTube I can literally cast that video from my phone to the TV by just pressing this one button now I choose the box and it automatically casts it over there so I can continue watching the video that I was watching on my phone now on my TV so you get the box and you get the Bluetooth voice remote together the chips together of course with the charger as well and with an HDMI cable that's the basic kit and then of course we are introducing the me game controller which is an optional accessory of course it works with me box but it also works with any Android device so I can play for example bomb-squad which is one of the games that we're showing off here it's a multiplayer game you can play using the game controller you can play it using just the remote as well all games come in through Google Play so you download them all via Google Play directly these are all going to be Android TV optimized games you
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