[callagg2]

Hi guys, I think this will be the box to beat for 2020. Good price and finally has all the ports I was looking for, including TV antenna (DVB-T2/S2) AND Optical SP/DIF port which is rare to find at good price !

Waiting to see if the 4GB RAM, 64GB ROM "deluxe" model becomes available soon, for now you can get 2GB/16GB model, it arrived on shelves last week for around $65 USD

It is not a good product!

1. This version of Android is NOT multitasking. Basically it is a step back to the DOS era (early eighties, late seventies)
2. Worse than this, even the TV application itself is not multitasking. If you are recording a channel, you are not able to see the program guide, cannot program another event and cannot watch a previously recorded program.
3. Pressing one of the APPS or BROWSE buttons on the remote control while recording, kicks out of the TV application, cancelling recording. No warning, no question asked.

 It needs a major firmware upgrade to bring this unit up to an acceptable level.

Yes well it was worth a try , the MECOOL K7 that is. Overall impression is that it's not bad - for only EUR 95.
The standard launcher is poor, wasn't long before i installed a new launcher -> TVLauncher.apk from the play store.
The Settings menu is very limited, very shortened version of usual Settings menu in Android.
I knew Netflix would not be HD, but worse still is that the version of Netflix is like something from a mobile phone, navigation can be really awkward.

For me though - despite updating the software so its DTV is up to date - what is really frustrating is the DVB-S2 does not work correctly.
For many of the British channels, such as BBC HD or ITV HD it will only show pictures, there is no sound.
You only get sound on the SD channels, however there are some HD channels where it will play the sound.

There is some version of Kodi installed, under a different name, it's called "TV Centre"
Build: TV Centre 17.6 Git: Unknown
Compiled: January 16, 2018
Operating System: Android 9.0.0 API LEvel 28 (Kernel: Lnux 4.9.113)
The annoying thing about this slimmed down version of kodi is that it won't allow me to install a Simple IPTV to use instead of the box's own DTV for those HD channels!!

Maybe, it i were buying a box like this again, that is, has built-in DVB-S2 and DVB-T2 tuners,
I would probably just got for https://ferguson-digital.eu/produkt/ariv...o/?lang=en for EUR 109
though whether i would get Netflix HD on that is another thing...
Also, not sure how well supported its Hisilicon Hi3798C200 chipset is supported.