Monday, November 9th 2020

Dynalink TV Box Supercharges Your Living Room with Android TV and the Simplicity of Voice Control

Dynalink TV Box (model: DL-ATV36) is everything Google's Chromecast and Android's Fire Stick should have been, and then some. If you're like me, you've probably had a decent quality TV since before they started integrating Smart TV functionality, specifically that based on Android TV. You worked your way around using Google's nimble and inexpensive Chromecast, or the Amazon Fire Stick (since a petty spat between the two tech giants doesn't allow Prime Video to be cast on Chromecast). Dynalink TV Box is groundbreaking as it gives any TV with an HDMI input the full power of Android TV, complete with a very capable voice-remote control.

The Dynalink TV Box comes in a compact package that includes a foot-long HDMI cable, a power adapter, and the highly functional voice remote control. The puck-sized unit can be hidden away behind your TV. The voice remote control leverages Bluetooth 4.2, and hence needs no line-of-sight with the TV Box. The 1 A power adapter is optional if your TV has a USB port capable of delivering around 800 mA of power. Setting up the TV Box is accomplished in 5 minutes, flat. Simply plug it in, pair it with the included voice remote control, point it to your home's Wi-Fi, sign-in to Google, and you're good to go. Out of the box, the TV Box comes with Netflix and YouTube pre-installed, although you can install any of the hundreds of streaming video apps from the Google Play Store.
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The unique selling point for Chromecast has been a complete lack of control on the device, and moving controls to apps on your phone. In that sense it's essentially a wireless HDMI cable. You pair your app to the Chromecast, and your TV replaces your phone's screen for the video. Fire Stick puts some control in your hands with a home-screen, in-built apps that can run without a smartphone in its vicinity, and a remote control for navigation. Android TV is a variant of Google's ubiquitous Android operating system that's been optimized for TVs, with support for practically every streaming video or over-the-top streaming (OTT) app that works on Android. Its user interface also supports Google Assistant. A mic on the remote lets you use the highly capable voice assistant.
The Dynalink TV Box voice remote control cuts through the clutter of having to poke and prod with your on-phone apps to get things done on the screen. You get a highly capable wheel-shaped D-pad, an action button, audio volume/mute buttons, and shortcut buttons to Netflix, YouTube, and the Play Store. There's also a dedicated Google Assistant button that's every bit as capable as Alexa on the Fire Stick. Simply hold it down and ask anything.
I've spent a little bit of time catching the latest episode of "Star Trek Discovery" on Netflix, and the latest videos on YouTube, and the video quality is every bit on par with watching them on TV. The Dynalink TV Box features a powerful 64-bit Arm quad-core processor that zips through the Android TV interface, including switching between apps, seeking parts of a video you're watching, voice-commanding it, and more.

So who's the Dynalink TV Box for? Everybody! It's especially useful for people who don't want the hassle of casting content from a smartphone to the TV over Chromecast, or getting caught-up in the Amazon-Google walled garden politics. The TV Box supports YouTube, Prime Video, and Netflix in equal measure, as does it support Twitch, Spotify, Disney+, HBOMax, Hulu, ESPN, Sling, and hundreds more apps. In fact, you can even use TV Box as a Chromecast—simply touch on the "cast" icon in your phone's app, and select the TV Box from the list.

Taiwan-based Askey corporation designed the Dynalink TV Box for the world. By this we mean that the TV Box will not just be sold as-is, but Dynalink is even looking to build OEM partnerships with Telecom companies and fiber ISPs. The sample in this review, for example, had customization for Bell, Canada's leading telecommunications company. An OEM partnership lets ISPs and Telecom companies pre-load the device with apps specific to the market, including bundled services, such as OTT streaming app subscriptions bundled with the customer's main subscription. If you represent a telecom company or an ISP, reach out to Askey Dynalink. They'll whip up any client-facing device you'd possibly want!

Even otherwise, popular global e-commerce sites should have the Dynalink TV Box listed soon, at an extremely affordable price. Already have a Full HD or 4K TV from the mid 2010s? Don't buy a new TV, just get one of these, and you're set for the future of on-demand content.

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