SuperBox S5 Max - Full setup and features. Live TV and video on demand!

the super box is a great way to watch live TV I especially like using it for watching live sports you can find anything on this it also has video on demand so whatever TV show or movie you want to watch you can probably find it on this this is the S5 Max version of the super box it's running on Android version 12 does have Wi-Fi 6 so you got those faster internet speeds and it can support up to 6K comes with your power cable HDMI here's the remote so you'll notice that it does allow for voice input you've got the mic up here pretty standard but basic navigation requires two AAA batteries let's go ahead and put those in now and let's have a look this is a nice cool metallic blue color got the display in the front on the side you've got a TF card slot USB looks like this is USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 it's just listed as USB 1 and 2 reset button if you need to set up an infrared extender you could do that here you've also got an audio plug and it does have spedi as well you got your ethernet and your HDMI port so let's hook this up and try it out all right so booting up for the first time let's check this out so when you first boot it it has this disclaimer basically saying that superbox is not responsible for what you watch on this now let's set up our Network next thing is to set the screen we will go 100% that looks good and here we are so we got live TV video on demand playback browser has got some basic functionality for your remote control looks like we can add whatever app we want here so let's have a look at the apps real quick got the Play Store that's nice so you could sign into there system update so let's check out live TV looks like we need to add an app there I am not seeing anything to add so let's go to the app store and see what we've got App Store uh okay let's go ahead and install the App Store now let's see what we've got another disclaimer all right so super box is not responsible for what you download and here we've got the apps that we want so the blue video on demand blue TV blue playback this is what we want uh backup TV sure let's try this out and I'll do Disney plus while we're at it here and YouTube this is really responsive and snap happy fast downloads as well not bad so a fair number of apps let's go back to the home screen and now when we go to live TV and go to add we can actually add one of these so I believe this would be blue TV so we will add that let's open it up all right so we've got the live TV I like the navigation so far it's nice it's got a window I'm just kind of scrolling through the channels you can see there are a lot of channels up here hey PBS Kids now I have kids who love PBS Kids so if I press and hold the okay button does that favorite it yes it looks like it does so let's go ahead and open up PBS Kids all right and that opened up just great so if I press this oh cool so I've got navigation now so I can see the schedule of PBS Kids we go through here so if I go to Nickelodeon I'm going to press and hold okay again I've got that favorite it looks like it shows what the schedule is so if I want to watch PAW Patrol that's what's going on now let's go ahead and do Paw Patrol hey and there we go some PAW Patrol action right there and then up on front so you see we've got favorites so I've already added two favorites we got Network TV so if I want to go to network TV all your more common TV stations we also have sport networks so all your common sports channels and you can see here what's going on 24/7 Channel channel so if you want to watch nothing but Hogan's Heroes apparently you can do that and pay-per-view events as well so you can do specific Sports so NBA you can see what's coming up Major League Baseball NFL also NCAA football Major League Soccer NCAA basketball NHL wow ESPN music Canada Latino Philippines wow Super Sport now let's go to ESPN and we've got ESPN First Take I can press it again to do full screen nice press it again and it takes me to the schedule so this is really nice I can scroll through all the sports stations now for a lot of them you do have to wait a little bit for the schedule to pop up but I can go I can see what's happening want to watch some hockey right now you can go to hockey press the okay button again this is a lot of sports stations it's really nice that I can see what is going on for each Channel it does take a while for the listing to show up but now I can go here see that I'm watching the national dog show oh look at that dog that's a good looking dog all right the live TV that was really good let's check out video on demand let's add something all right so we'll do blue video on demand We'll add that there we'll open this up pops up with recommended movies see how fast it is to update that was not that bad at all that was pretty good video quality seems nice all right yeah so that's looking good let's scroll through this and this this looks good all right I want to try searching for a movie so let me try using the mic button see if this works oh nice so it looks like we can pair it perhaps via Bluetooth so we press and hold okay and the back button for 8 seconds and then press okay all right connected via Bluetooth I don't know why it didn't tell us to do that from the beginning this is a much better way now I don't have to keep pointing pointing it at the box but I can just point it wherever and it works so yeah so if you get this press the mic button from the GetGo so you can pair via Bluetooth let's try the mic the princess bright oh fantastic so much better than trying to find it okay let's see how this looks that loaded real quick that's a good sign let's scroll through see how quick it is to load up again when you are just scrolling and wow that's perfect that was really fast okay let's try searching again Groundhog Day and that loaded real quick quality scrolling through and awesome all right so watching movies on this is fantastic let's check out TV series Jeopardy UK I didn't even know that was the thing uh let's go to episode 8 looks like this is struggling to open again all right I want to try something I want to exit and then try again okay weird so it looks like the first time I tried to play it doesn't work but second time I try it loads just fine might see this type of Adventure on Everest all right let's search for a TV series I'm going to use the mic again monk Perfect all right so the navigation we've got the seasons here let's go to season 6 episodes it shows the episodes as well I like that go to episode five that loaded up real quick that's great let's scroll through all right video quality is good scrolling is good let's go to the end so that went to six if I go back does it Mark this as played no it doesn't seem to mark it as played but maybe that's because I didn't actually watch it but let's favorite this I wonder if this has any old TV series on it so let's let's search again perfect strangers so maybe not some of the older series that's all right Full House okay so it does have a full house that's kind of an older show go to season 6 episode 1 see how fast this is to load and that was plenty fast this was made in that didn't change anything adapt extr I'm not noticing any changes all right so we can change the playback speed that's cool let's go to two times and yeah playback speed is working we'll go back to normal so we can decode using Hardware or software so I'm generally quite happy with navigation it seems really Snappy the the video quality seems to be fine let's check out some of these settings so if I go to settings it says I can change the aspect ratio I don't notice it really doing anything oh there we go so when I extrude it did stretch it out a bit um we'll just go to default playback speed you can play it fast if you want to do that so we will play at two times the speed yeah and that works fine let's go back to normal subtitles track so we can turn on subtitles so let's do that that and go back to the video and we'll scroll to where they are actually talking I am not seeing any subtitles here so we do have Spanish subtitles let's try English again and English is not showing up so that's interesting let's try a different movie and see if it's just for this one that it's not working let's try The Lion King and see if the subtitles works for this okay subtitles tracks and we'll do English and the subtitles work just fine so it looks like subtitles work for some movies and possibly not for others maybe this is a bit of hit and miss all right I want to check out the playback app now and see if we can watch some live sports that happened a day or two ago so it looks like there's a lot more than just sports that you can play back so that is quite nice if we go to the NBA this is today so let's go back a day we've got Thursday Wednesday that's interesting so it does seem to be kind of selective on what actually happens nothing on Wednesday or Tuesday I'm pretty sure there was something on TV on those days the Clippers game see if this loads up and hey that seemed to be really quick let's scroll through to where the game actually is and we've got the game it is playing back really slowly or it was okay now now the speed seems fine and hey that's that's looking good that is not too bad so is let me add YouTube to this see how YouTube Works quality seems good let's scroll through a bit and this is just the YouTube app so if you're used to an Android TV this is going to be very familiar sweet so this is a great way to watch YouTube as well Disney plus seems to open just fine on the home screen let's look at some of the options that we've got so we've got a file manager so if you want to browse for some local files and watch watch the video that way we can we also have C cleaner so if it's running sluggish we clean things up looks like it also has a speed test buil in uh a trash icon okay so we can uninstall apps uh mic so we can search oh okay so you can connect that way we are already connected so we don't need to do that again oh so you could do shortcuts for different apps let's try that so we will add YouTube to number one then we will go home I'm going to press number one on the remote control now number one function not set that is a lie I just said it let's try this okay I didn't save that's my bad let's press home all right and now I'm going to press number one and that should open up YouTube hey that's really cool I like that and it looks like these color buttons on the remote open up the blue apps this super box was sent to me so I could make this video video I have reviewed several TV boxes like this this is really responsive really Snappy fast works really well has a good movie and TV selection it has a lot of options life Sports works really well I haven't been getting any cutouts in live sports that's what I use this mostly for and I'm really a fan of the navigation and how fast programming comes up when you're doing live TV or playback some areas for Improvement on this I did notice in some instances subtitles it says you can turn them on but they didn't always work for some movies or TV shows another kind of interesting thing for this is sometimes when I press play on a movie it would not work initially it would just kind of hang and freeze I would have to go back and then press play again and then it would start working and when it does work it works really Snappy this is a great way to watch any streaming service you can add any app on this you want is really responsive and fast really impressed with this

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Length: 13min 3sec (783 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 26 2024