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- Android 14 with expandable storage. Wi-Fi 6 and Dolby Vision/Atmos
- Faster processor than Google’s TV Streamer 4K
- $119 / £89 / about AU$169
Mecool has added a new Google TV box to its range of streaming accessories, offering excellent specifications and features, including expandable storage, at a low price.
The MEon1 4K GTV Streaming Box is $119.99 / £88.67 / about AU$169 and delivers content at up to 4K HDR with support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. It can upscale HD content to “near-4K quality” and comes with 32GB of on-board storage. There’s even a microSD slot supporting cards up to 128GB for easy expandable storage, and there are also dual USB 2.0 ports.
MEon1 4K GTV Streaming Box: key features
The MEon1 4K GTV Streaming Box has both Wi-Fi 6 and Ethernet networking and Bluetooth 5.2. It comes out of the box running Android 14 and is Netflix 4K-certified. As it’s a Google TV box, it supports Google Assistant, Google Cast, and thousands of third-party apps.
The device supports HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision, and the supported video codecs are AV1, VP9, H.264, and H.265 (HEVC), which should cover all bases.
The processor inside the MEon1 is a quad-core Amlogic S905X5M, paired with a Mali G310 V2 GPU, and there’s 2GB of RAM for apps. The ARM Cortex-A55-based processor is clocked at 2.5GHz, faster than the 1.8GHz of rival devices such as the Google TV Streamer 4K.
The HDMI output supports HDMI 2.1 and VRR and ALLM for gaming.
It’s a decent specification for the money, but it’s up against a very significant rival: the Google TV Streamer 4K. That has a list price of $99 / £99 / AU$159, but I’m often seeing it discounted for less.
Google’s product has twice the on-board RAM, so it’s likely to run more smoothly, but while it has both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, it’s running an older Wi-Fi version: 802.11ac. That won’t be a deal-breaker for everyone, however, and I don’t think it’s unfair to say the Google brand is a bit better known than Mecool’s.
Google’s product is also designed to interact with your smart home products, so that’s something to consider if you have a smart home already, or think you might want one in the near future.
The Mecool MEon1 4K GTV Streaming Box is available now.
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