
Power Supply – 12V/3A Standby mode power consumption: 0.5 watt. Misc – Power/standby button, power switch, 2x LED, 4-digit 7 segment front panel display, IR receiver. Dual ATSC 2.0 tuner with two demodulators.
Twin DVB-S2/S tuner with Disqc v1.0, v1.2, and USALS support. Dual DVB-T2/T/C tuner with two demodulators. Combo tuner with DVB-S2/S and DVB-T2/T/C tuners. USB – 1x USB 3.0 port, 3x USB 2.0 ports. Connectivity – Gigabit Ethernet, dual band 802.11 b/g/n/ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE. Audio Output – Via HDMI, AV ports, optical S/PDIF port.
Video Output – HDMI 2.0a port up to 4K60 with HDR10 support, HDCP 1.4/2.2, AV port (composite + stereo audio). Storage – 16GB eMMC 5.0 flash, internal SATA port for 2.5″ & 3.5″ hard drives / SSDs, micro SD slot. SoC – Hisilicon Hi3798C V200 quad core Cortex A53 processor + multi-core ARM Mali-T720 processor. The TV box has some pretty impressive specifications: As usual, after listing the specifications, I’ll start the review by checking out the hardware, before reporting my experience with the firmware in the second part.
There are actually three variations of U5 PVR with Deluxe/Slim/Normal models, and the company sent me U5 PVR Deluxe model for review. The company – Shenzhen Vivant Technology – is now back with a new model called U5 PVR powered by a more powerful Hisilicon Hi3798C V200 quad core Cortex A53 processor with fast interfaces like USB 3.0, SATA, and Gigabit Ethernet, as well as support for 4K 60Hz via a HDMI 2.0a interface. It worked pretty well, except for a few bugs here and there, the processor is not the most powerful, and video output & decoding is limited to 4K 30Hz. Last year, I reviewed U4 Quad Hybrid, an Android TV box powered by Hisilicon Hi3796M quad core Cortex A7 processor and with a combo DVB-T2/C + DVB-S2 tuner.