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Full review of the Xiaomi Mi TV Stick
Content
Main features of the Xiaomi Mi TV stick.
Installation of the Xiaomi Mi TV stick.
Android TV.
Games section.
Play content to your TV screen.
Conclusions.
It is a small device that looks like a USB with which you can install Android TV to any television. No matter what brand it is, how new it is. The only detail it requires is that it has an HDMI input.
It does not matter if your TV is smart or not, because with this little gadget you can install Android TV and all the application options to be able to access the internet and with a fairly low investment.
So if you wanted a smart TV, but you didn't have the budget to buy another TV or you want all the benefits that Google has worked for its TV applications, read on.
Main features of the Xiaomi Mi TV stick
The maximum resolution of the contents that you can reproduce is full HD. It should be noted that Xiaomi has a setup box to play content in 4K resolution.
The TV necessarily requires an HDMI input to be able to use the Xiaomi Mi TV stick. When you open the box you realize that it comes with a USB cable to power the little device.
It needs to be connected to the electrical network, but it can be connected to the same USB port on your television. It is very compact, it has a matte finish combined with another glossy finish.
The whole body is shiny and very light. The advantage of having such a compact shape is that you can travel and take it with you, especially knowing that not in all televisions you can find the applications that you generally consume.
In this case, one of the wonders is that you can interact with remote controls that give you direct access to the most popular applications.
For this model, Xiaomi integrated Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, you have the buttons to control the volume of the television, another that takes you to the application menu, and as in a smartphone, it has the button to return to the previous window and a HOME button.
It has a small circle, so you can scroll through the menu, it includes the power button and the direct access to Google Assistant.
It should be noted that the controller does not come with batteries, so when you go shopping, make sure you buy them at the same time.
One of the disadvantages of the Xiaomi Mi TV stick is precisely its design. Although it is very beautiful, practical and light, it has a drawback in some cases for installation.
Assuming you have a television where the USB devices enter axially, you would not have any problem, especially if the television is mounted to the wall.
But if your television is one of those models where the USB ports enter transversely, you may have problems to insert the Xiaomi Mi TV stick due to lack of space.
Installation of the Xiaomi Mi TV stick
After it is installed, it is then recognized by your television and the instructions to start configuring it appear through animations on the screen. What follows is to select the language and the region where you live.
You can also set up your fast TV with your Android phone. It is highly recommended carrying out this step, since this ensures that your phone is best integrated with the television from the beginning.
It is quite an experience to install this type of gadget, and it is also very simple. You tell your phone to configure your device, and it will begin to copy the information from your main Gmail account from the cell phone to the Xiaomi Mi tv stick.
In this way, your email data, YouTube, etc., and of course to download applications will already be configured on the television.
Android TV
Remember that Android is not an exclusive platform for Xiaomi Mi TV stick. There are several devices that you can install separately on your television to be able to use this platform, but there are also televisions that come with Android TV from the factory.
Brands like Sony, High sense, TCL and some others, already bring this platform from the factory. So you need to buy nothing else from him.
But if you have a Samsung TV, whether it has an internet connection, whether it is a smart TV or not, there would be two benefits.
If you bought a screen that does not have an Internet connection and does not have access to applications, with a small investment you can already have access to YouTube, Netflix and everything you can imagine.
Or if you bought a Samsung TV or another brand, but for some reason the platform does not convince you, or it is not to your liking, and you feel more comfortable with Android TV, in that case, install a Xiaomi Mi TV stick to add the Android Tv to your television or some other device that is currently distributed on the market.
When you browse with Android TV you will notice the most popular applications, and you can even add more to it. But you can practically find all the applications for series and movies that you can imagine.
You will be able to see a shortcut to the most popular Netflix titles, it has the highlights of the Google Play applications, it comes with Facebook watch.
You can customize channels and choose which ones you want to appear at the beginning and which ones don't. You have the notifications that will arrive as you use the platform, such as operating system updates, etc.
With a simple button, you have direct access to the app store. Here in Google Play you will see the applications that are already optimized to be used on television, that is, the variety is super wide.
But it is not the same number of applications that you are currently going to find for the cell phone.
As for games, most TVs have games pre-installed, but many of them are not to the liking of users.
This Xiaomi Mi TV stick has an internal storage memory (8 GB) which is what allows us to install a certain number of applications, and which is something that you should consider when choosing.
For example, between the Xiaomi Mi TV sitck 4K product that has more storage capacity and that is more expensive versus the Mi TV sitck that is cheaper, but with a little tighter storage.
At the top you can find a section for apps, another for games and others for your applications. In your applications you will already find some suggestions, since there are applications installed on your cell phone and the TV will automatically recognize them.
Also, through your voice you can tell the assistant to carry out any search, and it will carry it out, without having to press any button on the remote control.
The RAM of the device is 1 GB, which is not that big, but it is enough for the entire Android TV operating system.
But if you compare it with the speed with which it opens the applications when you are using the normal menu of your television, the Mi TV sitck if it takes a little longer.
Another way you can tell the difference in seconds in the response is each time you press the button on the assistant's microphone.
Games section
You will find games that will tell you that they are not available for TV, and those that are available will tell you that they are free, there are also others that are paid.
It would be amazing if developers found a way to adapt their games for televisions.
Play content to your TV screen
From your Android you will be able to play a lot of content directly to your television screen, either if you want to replicate the content of your Android screen to your television screen as such, or if certain content is played on the TV.
Currently, several applications already have this Chrome cast application and the good thing is that they adapt to the TV format to make the experience more comfortable.
Conclusions
It has an accessible price, because the price of the Xiaomi Mi TV stick is $50 and with it, you have access to all the applications that your television possibly did not have.
It has a super easy platform to use, because the dynamics is very similar to what we have in Android phones.
It has a wide variety of applications and the content you have on your cell phone is transferred to the television in a very well optimized way.
It comes with various games.
The remote control has direct access to Google Assistant, because it is much more convenient to control the TV with your voice, asking what content you want to see, in which application you want to see it.
The resolution in the main menus of each application are somewhat low, that is, the Netflix home menu is seen with a lower quality accessing from the Xiaomi Mi tv stick, than when accessing from a Samsung television, to cite an example.
This is because the resolution of the content we have on My TV stick is full HD.
If you have a TV with 4K resolution, and you want to see the contents in the highest quality, then go for the tv box, which is a bit more expensive but with a better resolution.
But you should not worry because at the time of playing the contents it looks pretty good, and if you have a subscription to the traditional Netflix ones, with or without My tv stick, the resolution of these contents is 1080p, so there is no difference.
In the same way, the videos that we reproduce on YouTube, most are in 1080p, that is, Full HD. So in that sense you don't have a problem either.
Something that you should also consider is that it is not that fast. If you press the main menu button or want to talk to him through Google Assistant, you will notice a slight delay. Even when you are opening the applications you will see that it takes a while to load each one of them, nothing serious.
You can still use all the benefits of the platform of this operating system for televisions
