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Today I review the SeekBox S3 Pro, an Android 11 TV box with live TV and video-on-demand built in. Unlike many competitors that use cheaper Allwinner chips, SeekBox went with the Amlogic S905Y4, paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. I cover the unboxing, ports, the SeekBox launcher, the Neo apps, DRM and root status, 4K HDR and Dolby Vision playback, surround sound passthrough, gaming, and benchmarks, plus where it ranks on my TV box chart.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:31 Unboxing
1:54 Design and ports
2:56 Setup and firmware
3:16 Firmware features
10:11 DRM and root
10:43 4K HDR and Dolby Vision playback
11:50 Surround sound audio
14:20 Android gaming
15:14 Benchmarks and ranking

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00:00What's up everyone, Nick here from TV box top bringing to you a new and exciting
00:05Android TV box review. For today's review we have a new brand and a new sponsor to the channel.
00:12Today it's my pleasure to introduce the developers of Seekbox. And for their entry
00:17level products to my channel they provided me with their latest model the Seekbox S3 Pro.
00:23This model falls within that special category of boxes. So you know you can expect live TV
00:29and the video on demand. Let's just hope that they raise the bar compared to other competitors
00:34in the market. So in the world of business and marketing, your first impression is extremely
00:40important as it sets the tone for your brand and for later products. And when I tell you,
00:46before you even try out the product itself, their packaging alone gives you that premium feel to
00:52your purchase which is really exciting for an enthusiast such as myself. However let's not
00:57get carried away. Because we know in this industry the box's feature and performance
01:03must speak for itself. So to find out all there is to know about this latest Seekbox S3 Pro,
01:09don't go anywhere. My full review begins next.
01:31And welcome back. So after that satisfying unboxing. In the box you get the S3 Pro model.
01:40A Bluetooth voice remote, this model does not feature an air mouse.
01:44One HDMI cable, a 5V 2A DC power supply, and a user manual.
01:53Its design consists of a new outer shell. A design not used in any other model in the market so
02:01this is
02:01all new. For IO it comes with one HDMI 2.1 port, one gigabit ethernet LAN port, one optical audio,
02:11one AV port, and a USB type C power delivery port. For storage it comes with one USB 3.0,
02:20another USB 2.0, and an SD card reader. Its reset button is located to the base inside the AV
02:29port.
02:30To the front it comes with its logo as the LED power light and it does not have an LED
02:36display.
02:38And to its base has four rubber feet with no ventilation holes. Its first startup features a new
02:45Seekbox animation. Followed by the pairing of the Bluetooth remote.
02:52Then you have a first startup wizard. Then you are taken directly to the launcher.
03:02So here we are at the launcher. And this launcher is called the Seekbox launcher.
03:08It has a very nice semi-transparent design with a horizontal scrolling panel for all apps installed.
03:15The middle section contains a shortcut bar, and the bottom panel is where you can access its various
03:21settings such as the settings area, your Wi-Fi, you have hotkeys feature for the colored buttons on the
03:28remote. You have one click memory cleanup, wireless updates, and quick access to its about section.
03:36In this section it shows that it's running on Android 11 tvOS. Here is its current firmware
03:42build information with access to developer options. So as mentioned this model falls within that special
03:51category of live TV and video on demand. For those who aren't familiar, some may argue
03:58that all boxes fall within this category. However, these boxes are different. Hence the reason why
04:04their cores sometimes double the total of a standard model. For more information on the subject, please
04:10note that there are two versions of this video. The version you are looking at is the YouTube friendly
04:16version. And if you would like to see my second version, which is the full version, you can find me
04:23on
04:23all other social media platforms and all major video sharing platforms. Just look me up. And trust me,
04:30you would never know unless you actually own one. So Seekbox decided to use the name NEO as the main
04:37name for all the apps, starting with NEO TV. With NEO TV, you get 5,320 live TV channels across
04:45various
04:46categories from the US and Canada. Categories such as national channels, local network channels,
04:54all major news networks, all major sporting networks, 4K UHD channels, major kids network channels,
05:0324-7 channels, 24-7 channels, and more.
05:16Next we have NEO+. NEO plus offers the same number of channels as NEO TV. And the only difference is
05:26that it feeds off of faster servers and provides all channels in HD and UHD quality.
05:46For blockbuster movies and TV series, this is where the NEO plus VOD app comes in. NEO plus VOD
05:54NEO is the first video on demand application I've seen that comes very close to the interface of
06:00Streamio. You have thousands of movies and TV series to choose from, and it comes with a dedicated 4K
06:07section where you can get movies in 4K HDR with Dolby vision.
06:13For those who like to use the playback feature, NEO playback provides up to one week of recorded
06:20programming, mostly from a selection of news and sports channels, but not all channels are included.
06:32They added three separate app categories, NEO sports, NEO news, and NEO local. There is nothing special
06:41about these three categories. They simply categorize the older sports, all the news, and all the regional
06:48local channels under separate dedicated apps. But they are the same channels from NEO TV.
06:56So that covers its live TV and video on demand features, and is what drives the price of these
07:03models. However unlike other models, Seekbox decided to give their customers a bit more when it comes to
07:10hardware and firmware features. Unlike other models that took the cheap hardware route by using the
07:16all-winner chipset, the S3 Pro model uses Amlogic hardware. So let's have a look. And for this I'm
07:23using my custom system and hardware information app tailored for Android boxes called TV box specs.
07:29You can get this app for free using the link in the description below this video.
07:34So if I head over to the summary tab, it shows that the manufacturer is Seekbox and the model is
07:41the
07:41S3 Pro. Its operating system is Android 11 Google TV OS. Its firmware is rooted with Google Widevine
07:50Level 3 with no HDCP protection. Its CPU is the Amlogic S905Y4, a quad-core Cortex A35 processor
08:01configured in 32-bit mode with a max CPU clock speed of 2.0 GHz. It comes with 4GB of
08:10RAM,
08:10and 64GB of internal storage with no Samba server feature. Its GPU is the Mali G31 with open GLES
08:20version 3.2, Vulkan 1.1. It has a max resolution of 4K 2160P at 60Hz. It supports HDMI CEC
08:31function,
08:32and no auto frame rate switching. Its Wi-Fi and network adapter is not Wi-Fi 6,
08:38but it has a dual band 2.4 plus 5GHz AC adapter, and its LAN port is not a gigabit
08:45LAN port.
08:46For display, it supports HDR10, HLG, and AV1. And it does not support HDR10+, Dolby Vision,
08:55or any of the picture upscaling features. For audio, it supports Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital Plus,
09:02and Dolby Digital VR hardware built-in decoders. And I will test for the rest of surround sound audio
09:09formats using audio passthrough later in the video to confirm whether these work or not.
09:14And the last bit of information here is that it has an idle CPU temperature of around 56 degrees Celsius,
09:21132 Fahrenheit. For accessibility, you have 55 various languages to choose from.
09:33You have Google assistant included with the Bluetooth voice remote.
09:37What's the current price of diesel in the US?
09:45For the vision and hearing impaired, you have accessibility features such as high contrast text,
09:52text-to-speech engine. However, the talkback and the text-to-speech engine are not working.
10:11Now for its DRM information and root access. Its DRM information shows that it only has Google
10:18Widevine level 3, with no HDCP protection. This means apps such as Netflix and Prime Video
10:25will be restricted to basic 720p resolution even if you have a premium subscription.
10:32The root checker app also shows that it's not rooted. So my app was incorrect in this instance,
10:39where it showed that the box is rooted. For watching YouTube videos, it can play
10:46YouTube videos in the 4K resolution with HDR and HLG.
11:02Let's look at its 4K video playback capabilities. For this I'm using my custom Android TV box media player,
11:09you can get a free download using the link in the description. So this is HDR10.
11:27This is the AV1 format.
11:39Dolby Vision that falls back to HDR10.
11:49This is Dolby Vision with Dolby Atmos that falls back to HDR10 with Dolby Atmos.
12:01Dolby Vision that falls back to HDR10 with Dolby Atmos.
12:02This is HDR10 Plus that falls back to HDR10.
12:11And this is HLG.
12:24For surround audio it supports audio passthrough but it does not give you the full spectrum of surround
12:31sound formats. You get a Dolby Atmos and a Dolby Digital Plus.
12:43This is Dolby Atmos, the world's first object-based cinematic audio.
12:51With powerful moving audio that transcends from channels
12:56Dolby Atmos.
12:57To moving around you with 10 point accuracy.
13:08You get DTS HD Master audio.
13:20You get Dolby surround but those usually come with Dolby Vision videos.
13:26So it plays the audio with no video.
13:33It does not support Dolby True HD so you get video with no audio.
13:39You get DTS-X HD Master audio.
13:49And DTS-X.
14:20When it comes to gaming, you are faced with the Android TV version of the Google Play Store.
14:26That's limited and restricted to what you can install and play.
14:30You do however have the freedom to sideload any app or game you want.
14:35But you are restricted to only 32-bit apps and games.
14:54For users of Core OLEC, unfortunately I could not find the right DTB to work on this box.
15:01The chipset is Amlogic S905 Y4 4GB.
15:05But the appropriate DTB does not boot, which begs the question.
15:09I hope they are declaring the right chipset.
15:14Now a look at its benchmarks and where it ranks on my chart.
15:17First I have the benchmarks from its RAM and internal storage.
15:21It has a RAM copy speed of 3667 MB per second.
15:27Its internal storage has a read speed of 101 MB per second and a write speed of 93.
15:35In its CPU benchmark, Geekbench 5 produced a score of 111 single core and 368 multi-core.
15:45In testing its Wi-Fi and Ethernet LAN port.
15:49As mentioned it does not have a Wi-Fi 6AX adapter, but a wireless AC.
15:55And its LAN port is not a gigabit LAN port.
15:58So these are the results.
16:00None of them achieved the maximum speed of my network of 500 Mbps.
16:07Benchmarking its GPU.
16:08The 3DMark wild live test produced a score of 185 with an average FPS of 1.11,
16:16which is good for gaming.
16:17However, your play store is restricted.
16:20And in the Antutu benchmark version 11, because that's the highest version that can run on this
16:27model, produced a score of 131,870.
16:33So those are its benchmarks.
16:35Let's now see where it ranks on my chart.
16:38So at the time of making this video, the Seekbox S3 Pro ranks at position 29,
16:44with a 3 out of 5 star rating based on its Antutu benchmark score.
16:48This is a pretty good rating compared to the other all-winner models,
16:52and gives you more than just streaming with some room to do other things with its hardware.
16:58On the chart you can view individual benchmarks and features by simply clicking anywhere on a product
17:03row, and you will get a pop-up sidebar where you can view all of its features and benchmarks,
17:08access its purchase link and discount coupon.
17:10So if you would like to view this chart to compare all of its features to other boxes in my
17:15list,
17:15I placed a link in the description below this video.
17:18So in summary, here you can see that by simply using ARM logic hardware you get a big boost in
17:25what you
17:25can do with the box and its performance. And if you were wondering about the performance of the
17:31live TV and video on demand, I would say that it's at the same level of the Superbox models.
17:38So that brings to an end this review. If you would like to purchase this model using my $50 off
17:44coupon,
17:45as mentioned you can find those links in the description below this video,
17:49on my blog, and on the rankings chart. You can also check out my second hand
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17:59So special thanks to Seekbox for sponsoring today's video. If you enjoyed the presentation give
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