What the maker puts in writing
- “4K Ultra HD Resolution: Enjoy your TV in stunning resolution Ultra HD ers four times the resolution of Full HD”
- “With the Android TV operating system you will have access to the best content, download the infinity of applications available through the Google Play Store”
- “Voice remote control: Just press the Google Assistant button and ask it to find, play and control content”
- “Chromecast Built-in: Easily cast movies, shows, and photos from your Android or iOS device”
- “Plugs into your TV’s HDMI port: An HDMI cable is included so you can easily cONNect your streaming device direct to your TV”
- “Compatible TVs: ONN, Samsung, Sony, RCA, Vizio, Hisense, TCL, Philips, Magnavox”
- Description: “Only Available in the U.S.: This product is designed for use in the United States and is not compatible with regions outside the U.S.”
Eight bullets, against one on its own stablemate
ONN sells two boxes on this shelf three dollars apart.
This Android TV box, $58.87 — resolution, operating system and app store, voice remote, Chromecast, set-up, audio processing, HDMI cable, television list, and a regional restriction.
ONN Google TV 4K Streaming Box, $62 — one bullet: “Memory storage capacity: 8 GB.”
No chipset, no RAM, no HDMI version, no Wi-Fi, no codecs, no remote, no box contents.
So three dollars buys the newer Google TV interface and almost nothing about the hardware beneath it. On published specification, this is the only one of the two that has a specification.
Chromecast built in, and the part that matters
Easily cast movies, shows, and photos from your Android or iOS device.
Two things worth drawing out.
It works from an iPhone, not only an Android phone — which the bullet states explicitly and which is not universal.
And casting is not mirroring. Your phone tells the box what to play and the box fetches the stream itself. So the phone can be locked, used for something else, or taken out of the room without interrupting playback, and its battery is not drained decoding video.
The practical consequence: a service with no television app, or one you have on your phone but not on the box, can still play on the big screen.
Xiaomi’s TV Box S at $94.99 publishes the same capability as “Google Cast for screen mirroring”, which is the other and more limited mode.
The HDMI cable, which five listings here do not supply
An HDMI cable is included.
Four of the nine products on this shelf publish box contents: this, Xiaomi (box, voice remote, power adapter, HDMI cable, manual), Ugoos SK1 Lite (box, remote, adapter, cable, manual) and Ugoos AM6B Plus (box, IR remote, two external antennas, 12V adapter with US, EU, UK or AU plug, cable, manual).
The other five — including the $234.99 Apple TV and the $62 ONN — publish nothing.
On a box whose only job is to plug into an HDMI port, that is not a trivial inclusion.
Android TV, which is the older interface
The Android TV operating system… the Google Play Store.
Worth distinguishing from what the dearer ONN runs. Google TV is the interface layer that replaced Android TV’s home screen — same underlying Android, but a front page that aggregates recommendations across your services and keeps a watchlist. Android TV’s home screen is rows of apps.
Which is better is genuinely a matter of taste. Google TV surfaces content across subscriptions, which helps if you have several. Android TV stays out of the way, which helps if you want to open an app and be left alone.
Xiaomi at $94.99 runs Google TV and sells the difference directly: “personalized content recommendations”.
And the regional restriction is the only one on this shelf
Not compatible with regions outside the U.S. (including Mexico or other international locations).
A genuine limitation — regional licensing and store availability — and to the listing’s credit it says so where eight others do not.
The compatible televisions list is a different matter. “ONN, Samsung, Sony, RCA, Vizio, Hisense, TCL, Philips, Magnavox” implies a compatibility question that does not exist: an HDMI streaming box works with any television that has an HDMI input. The interface is a standard, and the box has no knowledge of the set it is plugged into.
Two small signs of how the page was assembled, in passing: bullet 1 reads “Ultra HD ers four times the resolution” — “offers” with the start missing — and bullet 7 reads “easily cONNect”, with the brand name capitalized inside a word.
What is not published
No chipset. Seven of the nine listings here name one, most of them precisely: Amlogic S905Y4-B (Infomir), S905X4 (HK1), S922X-J (Ugoos AM6B), S928X-K (Ugoos SK1), A15 Bionic (Apple).
No RAM or storage. The shelf runs from 1 GB / 4 GB (Infomir) to 4 GB / 64 GB (HK1 at $78.62 and Ugoos SK1 at $299.90).
No Ethernet. Five boxes here publish a port — 1000M on the HK1 and both Ugoos models, 100M on the Infomir and Formuler. A 4K stream is 15 to 25 Mbit/s, so 100M is ample for streaming; gigabit matters only for playing files off a network drive.
No HDR format, where Xiaomi at $94.99 publishes Dolby Vision and HDR10+ — the two incompatible dynamic-metadata formats, so having both means matching any television.
No AV1 codec, which YouTube and Netflix now use. Only the Infomir and the Ugoos SK1 Lite publish it. A box without hardware AV1 decoding falls back to software decoding, which stutters, or to an older codec at lower quality.
340 g and 167 × 97 × 52 mm are published.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
