00:00What's up viewers and welcome back to the channel. Today's TV box is from one of the
00:05founding brands from 2015 and 2016 which started the Android TV box market that you see today.
00:12If you have never heard about Yoka TV, there are some who claim that they still have a working
00:18Android box from way back, still working in good condition. So for today's video I bring to you
00:24the return of the Yoka TV brand with their newest model called the Yoka TV IPX2.
00:30They actually released two models, the IPX1 which I will do in a separate video
00:35and the IPX2 which is the model I'll be featuring today. So my full review is up next. Stay tuned.
00:54So welcome back. And after that quick unboxing, in the box you have your usual
01:02Android TV box contents. These include the new IPX2 model itself. One Bluetooth voice remote
01:10with voice search and voice commands feature. One HDMI cable. A 12V 1A DC power supply.
01:18And your user manual. So the design of this new model consists of a white plastic shell with the
01:27Yoka TV branding. For IO it comes with one HDMI 2.1 port, one gigabit LAN port, one optical audio,
01:37one AV port, one IR extender port, and its DC input socket. On the side you have one USB 3.0,
01:48another USB 2.0, and a micro SD card reader. At the front it has an LED power light.
01:56And to its base has four rubber feet cutouts for wall mounting and ventilation holes.
02:03Its startup process consists of a Yoka TV animation followed by the pairing of the Bluetooth remote.
02:11Then a first startup wizard. Then you are taken to the launcher.
02:21So this is their launcher and it's called the IPTV launcher.
02:25It consists of horizontal scrolling panels and a utility shortcuts bar at the bottom.
02:31It's running Android tvOS so it does not feature a navigation bar or status bar for users of a
02:37mouse and mini touchpad keyboards. This launcher is best navigated with a direction pad and OK button.
02:43The utility bar features a shortcut to its settings area.
02:49Its WiFi settings.
02:52Wireless updates. And speaking of which when I connected to the internet it presented me with
02:56its first firmware update.
02:58You have a shortcut to its system information. Here it shows that it's running on Android 11 tvOS and you
03:06have access to developer options.
03:10You have a shortcut to power key definition options.
03:13And the final option is where you can change its wallpaper on the launcher from a selection of presets
03:21or you can add your own custom wallpapers.
03:23This box falls into the OTT category similar to the bus TV models.
03:40Where you can use it as a hub to host various live TV services that you may have.
03:45The box itself does not provide any of these services, only the facilities to host them.
03:51For firmware features, under device preferences it shows that when connected to my 4K 60Hz TV
03:59it has a max resolution of 4K 59.94Hz.
04:04You get HDR display with an adaptive HDR feature.
04:09You get up to 12 bit color depth.
04:13HDMI CC options.
04:15You get auto frame rate switching under a new parameter called
04:19HDMI self-adaptation.
04:22You have custom picture settings.
04:25Power key definition options.
04:28And for audio you have surround sound audio pass-through with some Dolby and DTS settings.
04:34You get Google assistance feature.
04:37And 54 languages to choose from.
04:42Now a look at its system and hardware information.
04:46So the manufacturer of this chipset as already mentioned is Amlogic.
04:50It comes with 4GB of DDR4 RAM and 32GB of internal storage with Bluetooth 5.0.
04:58Its CPU is the Amlogic S905X4.
05:02A quad-core Cortex A55 CPU clocked at 2.0GHz configured in 32-bit mode.
05:09Its display is powered by the Mali G31 with OpenGL ES version 3.2.
05:15It comes with dual band 2.4 plus 5GHz Wi-Fi adapter.
05:20Its Android version is Android 11 and its firmware is not rooted.
05:26Its GPU has Vulkan support API version 1.1.
05:30It has an idle operating temperature of around 57 degrees Celsius.
05:37And for audio and video decoders it comes with HEVC, AV1, and Dolby Vision.
05:43And for audio it comes with Dolby Atmos AAC3 and DTS-HD.
05:49So the Amlogic S905X4 was and still is one of the best performing chipsets ever created
05:56and I'm happy that they have successfully implemented all these sarongzong audio
06:01and Dolby Vision decoders. So that is system and hardware information.
06:06For digital rights management to play premium movie subscription services such as Netflix and others,
06:14it comes with Google Widevine level 1 with HDCP 2.3 protection.
06:19It also shows that the firmware is not rooted.
06:22These two requirements provide the right environment for services such as prime video,
06:27max and others to play in HD and 4K. However, it does not come with an official Netflix ESN license.
06:34So Netflix will be restricted to HD quality provided that you have a special version of the app that
06:40can utilize the Widevine level. But at this time I do not have a modified version of Netflix
06:46and the model that comes on the box does not provide HD.
06:51For watching YouTube videos, the Android TV version of the app provides up to 4K 2160p resolution with
06:59HDR. However, due to the resolution of the UI, it's cropped into a 1080p frame.
07:12It comes with the official version of Miracast for casting your Android cell phones.
07:18And they also provided the DLNA for casting your PCs.
07:22Here I'm casting my Android cell phone in HD quality.
07:39For playing self-hosted 4K HDR Dolby vision videos, under its decoder section shows that it has all the
07:47supported formats. However, during my testing it only produced the HDR10, AV1, and HLG.
07:54I could not get Dolby vision. So this is HDR10.
07:58This is an AV1 video.
08:15This Dolby vision video processes as HLG.
08:18This is another Dolby vision video, but it only processes as HDR10 with Dolby Atmos.
08:34This is an HDR10 plus video, and it processes as HDR10 only.
08:39And this is an official HLG video, and it triggers the HLG feature.
08:53In testing its surround sound audio, when connected to my 7.1 AV receiver,
08:58it produced the following formats.
09:01This is Dolby Atmos.
09:07This is Dolby Atmos.
09:10The world's first object-based cinematic audio.
09:15This is Dolby Digital Plus.
09:22For DTS Audio, you get DTS Virtual X.
09:28You get Dolby Surround.
09:40You don't get Dolby True HD.
09:45And you get DTS Virtual X again, when you try to play a DTS X video.
09:50So you don't get DTS HD master audio, DTS X, and Dolby True HD.
10:08For users of the core Alec operating system.
10:11The operating system installs successfully via SD card or USB flash drive.
10:16However, it does not recognize the box's Wi-Fi adapter.
10:20Nor does it recognize its Ethernet LAN adapter.
10:23Which makes the point of installing Core Alec useless on its box.
10:28For those interested in gaming.
10:30You are once again limited to the Android TV OS Play Store.
10:34And there are also many games that cannot run even if they are sideloaded.
10:53Now a quick look at some benchmarks and where it ranks on my TV box rankings chart.
10:58First, the results of its RAM and internal storage.
11:02It has a RAM transfer speed of 3,493 MB per second.
11:07Its internal storage has a read speed of 126 MB per second and a write speed of 64 MB per second.
11:14The results of its Wi-Fi and LAN speed test revealed that on its 5 GHz band,
11:20it will achieve the maximum speed of your network.
11:23The 2.4 GHz band averaged around 45 MB per second.
11:28And its LAN port is not a gigabit LAN port averaging around 94 MB per second.
11:34Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark produced a score of 144 single core and 414 multi-core.
11:42Its graphics benchmark received a score of 189 in the 3DMark Y live test with an average FPS of 1.10.
11:52And in the Antutu benchmark version 10, it received a score of 111,760.
12:00So those are the benchmarks. Let's now see where it ranks on my chart.
12:04So the new Yoka TV IPX2 ranks at position 42 at the time of creating this video with a 3 out of 5 star rating.
12:13So if you would like to view its benchmarks in comparison to other boxes in this list,
12:18you can view it using the link in the description below.
12:21This chart is also a great source for determining which is the best Android boxes that suit you
12:26with the right features. See the link in the description.
12:29In summary, even though we welcome the return of the Yoka TV brand, we were looking forward to something
12:36new like the S928X-K chipset. However, with that said, they have already indicated that they have
12:44more models to release, so we look forward to that.
12:46So that was my review of the new Yoka TV IPX2 Android TV box. If you are interested in this model,
12:55you can grab one using the special link provided in the description below this video.
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