What the maker puts in writing
- “[S928X-K & Android 14 OS] Runs on Android 14.0 OS; S928X-K 64-bit ARM Cortex-A76 and Quad core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU; Support AV1 HDR; Support 8K 60fps”
- “[4GB RAM+64GB ROM] SK1 Lite gets 4GB Memory and 64GB internal storage”
- “[WiFi6 2.4G/5G Dual WiFi and 1000M Ethernet] SK1 Lite gets WiFi6, 2.4GHz/ 5GHz 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2T2R, 1000M Ethernet; Bluetooth 5.2”
- “[8K UHD and AV1] SK1 Lite has stable 8K 60fps resolution for streaming and audio perfectly without jerking”
- “Package contents: Ugoos SK1 Lite Box; Remote Control; Power Adapter; HD Cable; English User Manual”
- Description: “GPU: Mali G57 MC2 | RAM: LPDDR4 4GB | ROM: 64GB (EMMC) | WIFI: WIFI 6 2.4/5/6Ghz | Bluetooth: 5.2 | Power Supply: 12V/2.0A | Supports: AV1, VP9, H.265, H.264, MPEG-4/2/1 | Interfaces: 1× HD 2.1a, 1×USB 3.0, 1×USB 2.0, 2× Built-in WIFI Antennas, 1×SPDIF Optical Output, 1×RJ45 1000M Ethernet | Net Weight: 530g (18.7 oz)”
The optical output is the one thing nothing else here has
1SPDIF Optical Output.*
A small square socket carrying a digital audio bitstream on a fiber. Every other box on this shelf outputs audio over HDMI only.
Two cases where that solves a real problem.
An older amplifier with no HDMI inputs. Optical was the standard digital audio connection before HDMI, and a great many stereo and AV amplifiers from the 2000s have one — but no way to accept an HDMI signal at all.
And a television used purely as a display, with the amplifier beside it. Optical bypasses the set entirely, so nothing depends on the television passing audio correctly or on its ARC implementation.
The limit is bandwidth: optical carries stereo and compressed surround such as Dolby Digital, but not the lossless formats, which need HDMI. For most listening that is not the constraint it sounds.
And it publishes more than anything else on this shelf
Counted against the nine listings here, this is the only one giving all of: chipset part number, CPU core types, GPU, RAM type and size, storage type and size, Wi-Fi generation and antenna configuration, Ethernet speed, Bluetooth version, HDMI version, a full codec list, every physical interface, power supply rating, net weight, package size and box contents.
For comparison, ONN’s Google TV box at $62 publishes one figure: “Memory storage capacity: 8 GB.”
The codec list is the part you will use tonight
Supports: AV1, VP9, H.265, H.264, MPEG-4/2/1.
AV1 is the one that matters now. YouTube serves it widely and Netflix uses it, because it delivers comparable quality at twenty to thirty percent lower bitrate.
A box without hardware AV1 decoding has two fallbacks, both costly: software decoding, which stutters and heats the chip, or requesting an older codec, which means a lower-quality stream at the same bandwidth.
Only two boxes on this shelf publish AV1: this, and the Infomir at $99.
Which makes the comparison with its own stablemate awkward: the Ugoos AM6B Plus at $247.69 publishes “4K H.265 HDR” and no AV1, because the S922X-J predates AV1 hardware decoding. So $52 between the two Ugoos boxes buys AV1, Android 14 against Android 9, and a Cortex-A76 performance core.
Android 14, which is the newest here
The versions on this shelf: 9 (Ugoos AM6B Plus, $247.69) · 10 (Formuler, $121.43) · 11 (HK1, $78.62) · 14 (this) · with Google TV, tvOS and Linux 4.9 unversioned.
It matters because streaming applications progressively raise their minimum Android version, and when one passes a box’s, the app will not install or stops updating. Security patches follow the same curve.
Android 14 buys years before that becomes a question.
The chipset, and what the cores mean
S928X-K 64-bit ARM Cortex-A76 and Quad core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU.
A big.LITTLE arrangement: one A76 performance core for heavy work, four A55 efficiency cores for everything else.
That is a meaningfully different shape from the rest of the shelf. The HK1 publishes four A55s and nothing faster; the Infomir four A35s, which are slower still; the Ugoos AM6B Plus four A73s plus two A53s — more performance cores, of an older design.
And the Mali G57 MC2 graphics is two cores, against the G52 MP6’s six in the AM6B Plus. So within Ugoos’s own range the newer box has a faster CPU core and fewer GPU cores — a sensible trade for a device that decodes video in dedicated hardware rather than on the GPU.
But the Wi-Fi is published two ways
Bullet 3: “WiFi6, 2.4GHz/ 5GHz”.
Description: “WIFI 6 2.4/5/6Ghz”.
The added 6 GHz band is the defining feature of Wi-Fi 6E rather than Wi-Fi 6.
And it matters practically: the 6 GHz band is new, largely empty, and therefore free of the congestion that makes 2.4 GHz unusable in a apartment building. If the box genuinely supports it and your router does, that is the best connection available to it.
Worth confirming with the seller. Either way the 2T2R figure is real — two transmit and two receive chains, which is what “dual band dual Wi-Fi” means specifically.
What is not in the box’s favor here: the antennas are “2* Built-in”, where the maker’s own cheaper AM6B Plus supplies “2 Dual-Band Antennas” externally. A box behind a television is the worst place for an internal antenna, and an external whip can be angled away from the cabinet and couples more energy.
Eight K, read honestly
Stable 8K 60fps resolution for streaming and audio perfectly without jerking.
Published twice, and with a frame rate — where the HK1 at $78.62 claims “8K” with none, and a frame rate is what turns a resolution into a capability.
But the larger fact stands: 8K content barely exists. No 8K streaming service of consequence, no 8K disc format, almost nothing outside demonstration footage.
So the claim describes future capability. What is immediately useful about the same hardware is the headroom: a video engine that decodes 8K has a great deal of margin at 4K, and the HDMI 2.1a output is the matching figure, since 8K60 needs that bandwidth.
Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and 64 gigabytes
The combination that matters for local media rather than apps.
A 4K stream from the internet is 15 to 25 Mbit/s, so the 100M Ethernet on the Infomir and Formuler is ample for streaming. A high-bitrate 4K file from a network drive can exceed 100 Mbit/s, and gigabit is what carries it. USB 3.0 does the same for a drive plugged in directly.
With 64 GB internal and both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, this is set up as a media player rather than only a streaming client — which, with the AV1 list and the optical output, is a coherent product.
What is not published
No HDR format. “AV1 HDR” and “HDR” appear without naming Dolby Vision or HDR10+ — the two incompatible dynamic-metadata formats. Xiaomi at $94.99 and Apple at $234.99 publish both.
No audio format. No Dolby Atmos, no DTS:X, no channel count — on the one box here with an optical output, which is where an audio format statement would matter most.
No remote type. The contents list says “Remote Control” without saying whether it is infrared, which needs line of sight, or radio, which does not. The AM6B Plus specifies IR.
530 g is published in the description, where the catalog has no figure — and 169 × 108 × 30 mm makes this the largest-footprint box here apart from the two ONNs.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
