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With the advent of high-speed and afford­able Inter­net, you no longer need to buy discs or cas­settes with movies and music. Now all enter­tain­ment con­tent can be found on the Inter­net, and for this it is not at all nec­es­sary to turn on a desk­top com­put­er or lap­top. For those who are used to “the old fash­ioned way” to sit with the TV remote con­trol and want to watch only pro­grams that are inter­est­ing to them, they came up with an inter­est­ing device — media play­ers. Let’s talk about the best of them.

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1. ZTE ZXV10 B866

An inter­est­ing mod­el among the best media play­ers for TV 2022 is a device mod­el from a smart­phone man­u­fac­tur­er.

Among the advan­tages of the play­er is a styl­ish look, pow­er­ful fill­ing, the pres­ence of an ana­log port for old TVs and the abil­i­ty to watch TV shows from spe­cial sites for free. If desired, you can install a pro­gram for watch­ing TV via the Inter­net. The entire inter­face of the set-top box is opti­mized for remote con­trol. You can even con­trol the device with your voice — the con­sole has a built-in micro­phone.

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Characteristics

CPU	4‑x nuclear
Fre­quen­cy	1.6 GHz
RAM	2 GB
Oper­at­ing sys­tem	Android 9

Pros and cons

Per­for­mance, voice con­trol

flim­sy remote

2. Harper ABX-332

A com­plete omniv­o­rous “com­bine” that turns your TV into an inter­ac­tive enter­tain­ment cen­ter.

On board a pow­er­ful media play­er 3 GB of RAM, 4‑core proces­sor and a sep­a­rate graph­ics core. The body of the play­er is com­plete­ly made of plas­tic, pleas­ant to the touch. The device is dis­tin­guished from oth­er play­ers by a small dis­play locat­ed on the front — it shows the time and sta­tus of con­nect­ing the device to the net­work. The sys­tem in the play­er is open, which means that third-par­ty appli­ca­tions, such as play­ers or games, can be installed on it.

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3. Okko Smart Box

A tiny device from a video ser­vice. Such a device is easy to hide behind the TV and sim­ply for­get about its phys­i­cal exis­tence. Despite the fact that it was orig­i­nal­ly designed to work with the ser­vice of the same name, the media play­er will be able to play YouTube videos for you. The device has a closed sys­tem, which means that you can not just install “left” appli­ca­tions. Per­fect for those who do not need unnec­es­sary manip­u­la­tions with mem­o­ry cards, hard dri­ves and firmware. Due to its com­pact­ness, it only works via wire­less Inter­net.

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4. Mi Box S

Com­pact and afford­able device mod­el from Chi­na. For 4800 rubles you will get every­thing you need to have in a mod­ern mod­el of a “smart” set-top box for a TV. The play­er runs on Android, which means that you can install an infi­nite num­ber of pro­grams and games. True, the ver­sion here is already old, but you should not wait for updates. The pow­er of the play­er is enough to play video in 4K for­mat. A big minus is that it only works with wire­less Inter­net, which can some­times fail.

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5. Rombica Cinema 4K v01

An advanced and afford­able set-top box, but on a very old ver­sion of Android. It should be not­ed right away that as many as 3 USB ports are pro­vid­ed here — you can con­nect data stor­age devices and input devices, if nec­es­sary. Also, the play­er has a sep­a­rate hard dri­ve com­part­ment, to which the device can down­load your favorite movies and series. If nec­es­sary, you can increase the mem­o­ry using an SD card. Only a small amount of RAM can spoil the feel­ing, but you will only notice this when work­ing with video in ultra-high qual­i­ty. A cool­er is used for cool­ing.

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6 NVIDIA SHIELD

Per­haps the most gam­ing-advanced mod­el in our selec­tion of the best media play­ers for TV in 2022. The famous graph­ics card man­u­fac­tur­er has packed a pow­er­ful cen­tral and graph­ics proces­sor into a tiny body, which is suit­able for work­ing with the beau­ti­ful pic­ture of mod­ern games. In this device, all the empha­sis is on the gam­ing com­po­nent, but you can also watch YouTube videos or lis­ten to music. The play­er comes with a con­ve­nient gamepad and remote con­trol with voice con­trol. It is log­i­cal to buy such a device in a fam­i­ly where there are chil­dren who are inter­est­ed in video games.

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7. Apple TV 4K 32GB

An advanced and expen­sive pre­fix from the “apple” man­u­fac­tur­er. The Apple ecosys­tem is good for those who are used to con­stant­ly pay­ing for con­tent. There are built-in paid ser­vices for Net­flix, Apple Music, HBO and Show­time — it will be dif­fi­cult to just take and down­load the last sea­son of your favorite series. Cal­i­forn­ian devel­op­ers installed their own pow­er­ful proces­sor and 3 GB of RAM into the media play­er – this is more than enough even for 4K video. The play­er comes with a remote con­trol with voice con­trol and a set of wires nec­es­sary for con­nect­ing. There are no ports oth­er than HDMI and pow­er in the set-top box.

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8. MXQ Pro 4K 1/8 Gb

The most afford­able mod­el on our list of the best TV media play­ers. For two thou­sand rubles, the buy­er will receive a device ide­al for watch­ing TV shows. Run­ning at least some games on the play­er with just one giga­byte of RAM will not work. But there are four USB inputs, an ana­log TV out­put and a soft­ware option to install var­i­ous appli­ca­tions for watch­ing movies and TV shows for free. You can con­nect wire­less head­phones, a mouse, or a key­board via Blue­tooth.

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9. Rombica Smart Stick Quad v001

Anoth­er small play­er for a rea­son­able price. The main advan­tage of such a device is the com­pact size of the “whis­tle”, which can be hid­den right behind the TV. The proces­sor pow­er and the amount of RAM are enough for stream­ing video or sim­ple card games. The user him­self will be able to choose what to use — the stan­dard Android menu or a pre-installed shell with a con­ve­nient set of appli­ca­tions. Over 100 free TV chan­nels can be watched via the Inter­net. An unpleas­ant minus is the lack of con­trols; to work, you need to pur­chase a mouse or remote con­trol.

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10Google Chromecast Ultra

A sol­id hybrid of a media play­er and a wire­less sig­nal receiv­er for a TV. With the help of a small “tablet” you can start broad­cast­ing appli­ca­tions from your phone screen direct­ly to your TV in 4K for­mat in two clicks. There are hun­dreds of pro­grams and games for Android and iOS that work with Chrome­cast tech­nol­o­gy — Youtube, Net­flix, HBO and oth­ers. This media play­er has no extra inputs and out­puts. In order to save space, the devel­op­ers fit the wired Inter­net con­nec­tor into the play­er’s pow­er sup­ply.

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How to choose a media player for your TV

Togeth­er with the sell­er of the con­sumer elec­tron­ics store Sergey Uvalt­sev we will under­stand the intri­ca­cies of tech­nol­o­gy and choose the best media play­er for TV 2022.

In fact, any media play­er for a TV is a minia­ture com­put­er hid­den in a com­pact box. Despite its mod­est size, you can con­nect all devices from the “big broth­er” to such a device — remote con­trols, mice, key­boards, hard dri­ves and acoustics. Anoth­er fea­ture of media play­ers is a sim­pli­fied inter­face. It is con­fig­ured so that you can con­trol the full func­tion­al­i­ty of your PC with just one remote con­trol while lying on the couch.

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Media player format

All devices are divid­ed into two types — “key chains” and “box­es”. The dimen­sions of the first slight­ly exceed the dimen­sions of a stan­dard flash dri­ve. Such devices can only receive video from a phone or PC. The sec­ond option is a full-fledged “boxed” ver­sion of the media play­er. There is already a set of inter­faces for con­nect­ing con­trol devices or stor­age media. The dimen­sions of the “box” are com­pa­ra­ble to a small note­book or a router, but such media play­ers have much more pos­si­bil­i­ties.

Operating system

There are already three main options — Android, Win­dows and tvOS. As a rule, most devices run Android, Win­dows play­ers are not so pop­u­lar in Rus­sia, and Apple devices are suit­able for own­ers of Apple tech­nol­o­gy who want to cre­ate a sin­gle mul­ti­me­dia sys­tem at home.

Characteristics

As in a stan­dard com­put­er, this item is respon­si­ble for how pleas­ant it will be to work with a media play­er. You can hard­ly like a twitch­ing video pic­ture or con­stant mes­sages about the lack of RAM.

The proces­sor of the set-top box is respon­si­ble for pro­cess­ing the image on the screen. You should not buy a device that has less than two proces­sor cores with a clock speed of less than 1.5 GHz. Anoth­er impor­tant para­me­ter is RAM, it should be at least 1 GB. A plus in the con­sole will be a sep­a­rate video proces­sor. The amount of inter­nal mem­o­ry is not the most crit­i­cal para­me­ter, since you can always buy a sep­a­rate SD card or hard dri­ve.

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Interfaces

The more of them in the con­sole — the bet­ter. The “gen­tle­man’s” set of inter­faces in the best TV media play­ers in 2022 is at least one USB port, one HDMI, a mem­o­ry card slot, Eth­er­net, Wi-Fi and Blue­tooth. A TV tuner is nec­es­sary for those who plan to con­nect a media play­er to an exter­nal pro­jec­tor and watch TV pro­grams through a bun­dle of devices.

Some mod­els have space for an exter­nal hard dri­ve and a tulip con­nec­tor for old­er TVs. All “boxed” media play­ers are pow­ered by an exter­nal pow­er sup­ply, so there should be a free out­let near­by.

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