Fever 4K Blu-ray HDD Player Open Bor Q20 Reviews

Evaluation Preface

Watching AV multi-channel home theaters and listening to high-definition music on the same source is undoubtedly the most beautiful combination for enthusiasts. In the era of CDs and BD discs as storage devices, the industry once Positioned as the relationship between oil and water, both of which are the top enjoyment of sensory experience, but it seems that they have ended in a separate way - the source of video and audio must deal with each other. With the iteration of information technology, when storage devices cross over to file-based disk arrays, when online video services become possible, and when Android-based open operating systems become popular, Sources becomes the core of home entertainment, not only for watching AV sounds. Home theaters and listening to high-definition music open the door, and can enjoy information services online, deepen human-computer interaction. Kaibol Q20 is based on this concept and designed to create a 4K Blu-ray hard drive playback boutique.
The KBoer Q20 is positioned in an enthusiast-grade 4K Blu-ray hard disk player, with a hardware top 64-bit Cortex-A53 processor, 2GB DDR3 large memory and 16GB FLASH flash memory, Bluetooth 4.0 support, built-in SATA 3.5-inch hard disk and external USB storage devices. Open Bor Q20 has the ultimate decoding performance and broadcast control quality, to meet the film and television enthusiasts demanding the demanding quality of the picture, and is compatible with the properties of online video services, bringing massive online video experience; as Kai Boer's flagship king positioning this year, open Bor Q20 passed The latest 4K resolution, 10Bit color depth, BT.2020 color space, HDR contrast and 60P frame number five ultra-high definition Blu-ray standard certification, so get a more extreme improvement in picture quality.

Appearance process opened Boer deep plowing high-definition audio and video industry for ten years, from the traditional Blu-ray disc player to Blu-ray hard drive high-definition player are involved, has accumulated industry vertical resource advantages and profound software development capabilities, explored in the high-definition industry in ten years of wind and rain, Dig deeper players’ needs and bring products that can meet market pain points.
The KBoer Q20 design uses HiFi-class black tone metal material, drawing process, body size is only 300mm x 150mm x 250mm, the overall feeling of steady and smart, elegant fashion. The overall design of the structure is clear, smooth lines, high rigid body molding process, with the front panel and rear panel together to create a beautiful KBoer Q20, its biggest highlight is the right side of the hard disk warehouse and the front panel mirror acrylic LED display, Compact structure with the fuselage, together "patchwork" into a small open Bor Q20.
The metal wire drawing process reflects ambient light and glows metallic colors. The front panel Acrylic LED display adopts a mirror material, which also reflects the ambient light. The harmonious sense of coordination is reflected in the perfect combination with the home environment, and details are at the corners. The Kaibol Q20 is also ingenious, sleek and unobtrusive.
As one of the highlights, the right side integrates a sleek, square built-in hard disk drive, which uses a sliding door opening method to load the hard disk in one second. According to official sources, the Bor Q20 can support 3.5-inch hard disks up to 6TB in size, which undoubtedly gives Blu-ray enthusiasts have opened the door to collecting classic movies.
The door can be opened at 90 degrees. There is a spring piece at the bottom of the door to prevent direct contact between the hard disk and the door and reduce the damage of the hard disk. From the door, the door can be “snooped” to the solid and compact material of the opener Q20. . It is reported that Kaibor Q20 built-in advanced SATA 3.0 interface, transmission speeds of up to 600M / s, compared to SATA2.0 transmission speed to double the experience for the transmission of large-stream 4K video provides the physical basis.
In the details of processing, we can see that the KBoer Q20 is still relatively scientific, the benefits of the metal fuselage in addition to the appearance of the machine in time to heat, making the machine work more stable, longer life, and the design of the internal hard disk has increased the machine Heat generation. Therefore, the Kaibol Q20 has a quiet cooling fan at the hard disk interface.
In terms of interface processing, the open Bor Q20 is equipped with luxurious, well-designed location, the hard disk storage (built-in SATA 3.0) and USB 3.0, USB 2.0 arranged on both sides of the fuselage, user-friendly plug, some less pluggable interface such as power Input, reset button, optical audio output, AV output, HDMI in, HDMI out and network interface design are on the back. It is worth mentioning that the HDMI out version adopts the latest 2.0a version and its transmission rate is up to 18Gbps. In addition, Kaibol The Q20 also has a physical switch on the back, which completely disconnects the power supply when the machine is not used for a long time.
The opener Q20 has a small chassis and provides excellent protection against high-speed rotation of the hard drive. In addition, we can also see the heat sink designed for heat dissipation on the bottom of the hard disk. sincerely.
In the matching of power supply and HDMI high-definition line, the open Bor Q20 is also equipped with luxury, using a separate plug and power supply design, and anti-interference coil, after power filtering and then supply power to the host, the output signal is more pure. The input range of the power adapter is 100-240V, 50/60Hz, 1.0A MAX, and the output is 12V, 2A. In addition, the KBoard Q20 uses its own HDMI 2.0 HD cable, which brings higher transmission speed and compatibility. it is good.
In addition, the Kaibol Q20 randomly presents a gift package worth 207 yuan, including 49 yuan Yifang education, 128 yuan "My name is MT2 TV" game card, 30 yuan CIBN VIP monthly card, to meet the learning, games, film and television Three-party needs.
Control experience

Hardware performance is a key factor in the quality of the player, and the control experience runs through the entire process. The latter is sometimes more influential than the former in influencing the player's decision to purchase the player. Then what are the outstanding features of the opener Q20 in the control interface and remote control design?

1 system UI

The KBoer Q20 system is based on the Android 6.0 smart TV system. The UI interface uses Kaibor's newly developed KIUI 9.0. Its system features lightweight design that optimizes the open architecture and interface of the Bor Q20. The system runs more smoothly and the interface level logic is more Clear and easy to interact with users. The homepage adopts a simple card-type design, which displays local (super file management), music (local music player), mango TV (online player), applications (supports the deletion of installed applications, clears cache management), and settings ( Personalized adjustment of system settings) Five entrances, slider up and down video library functions, view local videos and manage and play them, cursor down to application shortcuts can add application shortcuts. The KIUI 9.0 system is in line with the player's machine habits, and the controls are more comfortable. The system is designed to run smoothly through simple design. It is a very outstanding system UI.

Home page with a simple card design

Slide the cursor to adjust the library function

Cursor slides down to apply shortcuts

2 remote control experience

The remote control operation occupies more than 99% of the entire operating cycle of the player, so an excellent remote control design will give players more comfortable use. Kaibol Q20 positioning fever, remote control standard professional luminous remote control, its biggest highlights are twofold: First, with a luminous function, press any key to activate the backlight for 5 seconds, instantly in the all black theater space can also Accurate control; Secondly, up to 50 key buttons are designed and optimized for playback control, such as pause/play, one-touch switching of tracks/subtitles, scaling, slow playback, previous/next, Mute and other buttons for the user in the broadcast control escort.

Kai Bor Q20 professional remote control

In addition, the opener Q20 remote control also supports the mouse control function, which can be regarded as an air mouse control; pressing the "screen display" button can adjust the brightness of the player's mirror LED display screen in four steps. The significance of this function lies in Satisfying the ardent demand of enthusiasts watching the movie in the dark environment, if you watch Hollywood blockbusters in your home theater, there is a very dazzling screen below the projection screen. Isn't the viewing experience discounted? In addition, pressing the yellow function key of the remote control can also implement the screenshot function and intercept the current screen.

Kai Bor Q20 professional remote control

Local broadcast control management

Kaibol Q20 positioning flagship king position, as a fever-class 4K Blu-ray hard disk player, so its black and white technology in film and television broadcast control and decoding times, ten years grinding a sword, the sword is finally sheathed, in this give Kaibol tenth anniversary Celebrating the special significance of the ship product, the Kaibor Q20 brings together library functions, Blu-ray navigation, on-line subtitles, and subtitle editing functions in broadcast control, to make up for the insufficiency of traditional Blu-ray players in broadcast control, and to add more Internet elements; In the new audio and video processing solution, the KBL Q20 perfectly supports the ultra-high-definition Blu-ray standard in the five-dimensional world, leading the industry average in terms of picture quality and bringing even more extreme audio and video experience.

1 library function

Each player has its own video management system. The traditional player usually manages the management of the video by using a file list to interact with the user through the screen. As shown in the following figure, a long list of English movie titles is not user-friendly. We do not know. What is the Chinese name of the film? We do not know what the main content of the film is.

Match the previous movie file list

Kaibol Q20's innovative video library management capabilities enable local videos to automatically match video posters, profiles (including actors, directors, producers, and videos), watercress scores, and video classifications. After a successful match, the first letter of the local movie is supported. Search and classification filters. The powerful local video management system turns the list of boring files into a vivid and direct poster display. The matching process is very simple. Just specify a matching folder. Kaibol Q20 will download related information for automatic network matching. Of the 18 videos tested by the author, only one failed to match successfully. It is reported that the library function matching success rate is over 98%. The simple and practical library function optimizes the operating habits of audiophiles, making local video management more convenient.

Video file management after matching poster wall

Kai Bor Q20 Video Gallery - Introduction

Kai Bor Q20 Photo Gallery - Video Category Screening, Initial Search

The library function currently supports Android device mobile mapping push broadcast control, unfortunately Apple devices are not yet supported, you can download and install the "video library assistant" through the QR code in the bottom left corner of the mobile phone scanning interface, as long as the same LAN, The local movie information of the library can be mapped to the "video library assistant" of the mobile device and can be controlled and played by the mobile device. "Shadow Assistant" optimizes the player's control experience. For example, we can browse video information and push videos through the "Shadow Assistant", and in some commercial docking systems such as the shadow bar system, the video library function will be greatly improved.

Open Bor Q20 Video Assistant

Open Bor Q20 Video Library Assistant Broadcast Control Management

2 Blu-ray navigation

The disadvantage of commercial Blu-ray disc players is that Blu-ray navigation cannot be achieved. Some versions of Blu-ray movies cannot be selected. There are still some tidbits that cannot be viewed. This is also the crux of many enthusiasts who are not enthusiastic about Blu-ray Disc players. The insurmountable "gap". The biggest advantage of the KBoer Q20 is its support for Blu-ray Disc (BDMV) and Blu-ray ISO navigation. Captions, tracks and chapter selections are available. The current firmware version tested by the author only supports Blu-ray Easy Navigation, but according to official sources, Follow-up will be perfect through the firmware upgrade.

Open Bor Q20 supports Blu-ray navigation

3 Online captions and captions management

The external subtitles are available on many hard disk players, but the plug-in steps are very tedious. They need to be downloaded to the PC, changed to the same name, and placed in the same folder as the movie. The opener Q20 is linked to the three subtitle websites to provide rich content. The subtitle resource is available for users to download directly online, just press the subtitle key of the remote control to switch to the subtitle download item or the direct remote controller to select the “subtitle selection-download subtitle” function on the TV screen, and then the online subtitle downloading plug-in can be realized. In addition, subtitles can be adjusted in terms of offset, size, synchronization, text encoding, color, and more.

Kai Bor Q20 support for external subtitles

Kai Bor Q20 support caption adjustment

423.976/24Hz

In addition, in the video broadcast control management, the opener Q20 also supports automatic switching to 23.976/24Hz. Friends who have played Blu-ray have known that playing the movie at this frame rate will bring about the most original screen restoration, and the film sense recorded in Blu-ray movie files will be truly restored.

Local playback quality

The article mentioned that the opener Q20 supports the latest ultra-high-definition Blu-ray standard, which supports 4K resolution, 10Bit color depth, BT.2020 color space, HDR contrast and 60P frame quality rendering, and supports Dolby panoramic sound. In this playback quality test, we mainly examined the decoding performance and playback performance of the open-Bal Q20. The TV adopts the TCL 65C1, supports the HDR, and the AV amplifier is the Onkyo 609. The speaker is the JBL surround sound system and supports 7.1 surround sound. Due to the shooting conditions and subsequent transcoding, the picture cannot represent the actual playback effect. The photo is for reference only.

4K resolution is 3840x2160, 4x 1080P resolution gives the user a clear and vivid experience. In the scene of the test of “Meihei Tianfu” video, the texture of the tea set on the desktop is clearly visible, and the leaves behind the 65-inch TV There is no sense of "mosaic" on the big screen. It can be seen that the opener Q20 achieves 4K point-to-point output, accurately restores every detail, and plays smoothly without any sensation of rattling.

Test movie: "Meili Tianfu", 4K H.265 encoding

If the resolution is a two-dimensional picture, then when the color depth is added, it becomes three-dimensional, the picture color saturation is higher, and the color transition is smoother; the BT.2020 color gamut and the 10 bit color depth are the attributes under the ultra-high definition Blu-ray standard. The two represent the quality and quantity of the color. The common Blu-ray standard uses the BT.709 color space, which covers only 35.9% of the BT.2020 color space. The latter is the largest color space in current display devices. With 75.8% of the CIE 1931 color space, the 10Bit color depth reaches 1.07 billion colors (8Bit color depth is only 16.77 million colors). Kaibol Q20 supports 10Bit color depth and BT.2020 color space display, in the face of 10Bit color depth decoding test, the vast majority of players on the market will still have more or less pressure, but Kaibol Q20 perfect decoding SES Astra demonstration film , The overall color performance is gorgeous, the warm color system performance, the color transition is smooth, the color performance does not have the problem of the banding (Banding), the quality of the picture presented in the depth of the 10 Bit color is still good.

Test Movie: SES Astra Demo Ultra HD Demo 4K HEVC 10Bit

In terms of details and sense of hierarchy, what is the performance of the Kaibol Q20? The KBL Q20 supports high-dynamic HDR contrast technology, which can smoothly decode HDR movies, and expands the contrast between the bright and dark areas of the image, increasing the contrast and richer image layering. In the juvenile HDR test video, the dark sky in the far dark field and the floating jellyfish near the sea surface are detailed and detailed. The middle layer of the ship is highlighted, and the depth of field brought by the screen is more felt. The three-dimensional effect is stronger.

Test Movie: Junior HDR Edition

In addition, Kaibol Q20 also supports 60P frame number playback, for a high number of frame source content can be more smooth performance, at the same time, Kaibol Q20 supports full-format 3D, support for video, interface, subtitle depth of field adjustment, and supports 3D transfer Play in 2D and encounter some videos in only 3D format, eliminating the possibility that 3D TVs cannot be viewed.

Open Bor Q20 Supports Full Format 3D

The following is the author's test through the Bunny Bun video test on the Bor Q20, for reference:

In addition to being compatible with popular video formats, the Kaibol Q20 can output audio from the HDMI source to post-stage AV amplifier decoding, supporting advanced Dolby panorama sound effects and DTS:X, bringing a stunning surround sound experience.

Audio decoding

In addition to the strong decoding performance of the local video, the Kaibol Q20 built-in music player supports mainstream master audio decoding and playback. It is a great welfare for friends who like to play high-definition audio. The Kaibol Q20 supports 192KHz/24Bit resolution audio decoding and decoding. The quality is equally amazing.

Open Bor Q20 Music Player

The sound information recorded by the 192KHz/24Bit lossless audio is very complete. The volume of the presented sound is very full. It is more resistant to hearing loss than ordinary audio, and it is neat and clean in the sense of hearing. The resolution of the sound is excellent and the sound field is relatively wide ( External speakers for the JBL Bookshelf).

In addition to good music decoding quality, the opener Q20 also has a very good experience in music broadcasting and control. It supports the CUE list function, satisfies the convenience of many audiophiles ripping CDs, and relieves the difficulty of playing CUE audio files. , And support for single loop, list play, random play, sequential play four play modes, as well as normal, jazz, classical, dance, accent, rock, pop, soft, metal, modern 10 sound effects.

Online broadcast

In addition to being a fever-class 4K Blu-ray hard disk player, the KBL Q20 also has a genuine authorization for Mango TV, which ranks in the Mango Moonlight series and enjoys millions of online video resources in content, if it is against the local classic Blu-ray movie. With aesthetic fatigue, change channels to watch popular online movies, TV shows or variety shows. Mango TV is guaranteed in the clarity and stability of videos. In addition to the mass entertainment content resources such as movies, TV dramas and animations, Mango TV integrates Hunan Satellite TV's elaborate variety shows, for example, in comparison with other licensees. Every day, such as the "Upward Daily" and "Happy Camp" are broadcast on the entire network, and even some large-scale live broadcast programs have realized multi-angle and multi-broadcast live broadcasts to create more smooth variety entertainment for users.

Mango TV main interface

Mango TV channel classification is complete, Hunan Satellite TV variety is its highlights, there are 4K, 3D, Dolby area in the movie channel's secondary classification, for the user to bring either clarity, sensory, video buffer or sound experience, the effect is Leveraged.

Mango TV Complete Channel Classification

4K, 3D, Dolby Area

Three Silly Bollywood 4K Online Movies

Rich broadcast control buttons

The hit TV series "Qing Yun Zhi" is about to usher in the finale and play with the same progress as the TV

Single Broadcast Variety "Happy Camp"

Finally, let's take a look at the charging situation of Mango TV. The average annual fee of 300 yuan is less than RMB 1 per day, and the price/performance ratio is still quite high.

Mango TV charging standard

Smart articles

Kaibol Q20 is based on Android 6.0 TV intelligent system in-depth development, in addition to the strong advantages of local broadcast control, compatible with the network set-top box's smart features, can connect to the Internet to watch videos, support APP unlimited expansion, thanks to powerful hardware performance, open Bor Q20 in the game The performance is also very outstanding, the following is the security Bunny evaluation running points situation, 36,584 running points results in the dominant smart box advantage.

In addition, Kaibol Q20 has a very good file manager, supports a variety of video, device management, support for common file operations (copy, delete, new, etc.), support for SMB, NFS and other network protocols, support for Blu-ray file direct playback , And support Android APP installation.

The KBL Q20 supports HDMI signal input to capture the output signal of an HDMI device for (reservation) recording, picture-in-picture display, and broadcast. The HDMI signal input function makes it easy for players to manage an extra HDMI device in the home and its signals to personal favorites and share them.

In addition, the Kaibol Q20 supports intelligent central control functions, and will follow through the firmware update will support OPENWRT function, to achieve professional NAS server functions, then we can BT \ PT and HTTP download.

General evaluation evaluation

The KBL Q20 is a video hard disk player that has a wide range of compatibility. It does not need to worry about finding a specific video format. Even Blu-ray BDMV and BDISO files can handle it freely, and even bring great control of Blu-ray navigation, especially the video library. The innovative experience of the feature makes the selection of movies no longer annoying. The unique online subtitle downloading function makes all foreign language movies more “localized”. The ultra-high definition Blu-ray standard in five dimensions makes the overall picture of the TV look very comfortable. , Brightness of the picture and response to dynamic picture control, especially HDR technology requires high detail in shadow and highlight, many image details can be presented, plus 4K clarity, the overall picture performance layering is more Strong; as a sound source, the 192KHz/24Bit lossless audio support brings a strong decoding advantage to the open Bor Q20, multi-format mastering music resource support, CUE list and 10 sound effects broadcast control to bring more users Playability; At the same time, as a high-quality Internet media center, online network video services, scalable intelligent system applications HDMI in input and other functions to increase value-added products, plus about to usher in intelligent control, NAS servers and other services, Bor Q20 will bring us more surprises, the market is worth looking forward to and concern.

The Kaibol Q20 is a full range of audio and video players with excellent local and online experience. It is a stylish, sculpted, and technologically imprinted brand. It is a high-quality Blu-ray player that is rare in recent years. It can be purchased at a price of RMB 3,999. Configuration, I believe with the opening of the Bork Q20, will once again ignite market expectations for Blu-ray players.

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