SCISHION V88 plus was for a long time now, one of the cheapest TV Boxes. V88 Plus is equipped with the Rockchip RK3229 as and its predecessor V88. Their only important difference, is the 1GB Ram extra, which will make now the whole function of the TV box even more smoother!
Design
The SCISHION V88 Plus TV Box keeps the usual size of all TV Boxes have, a square black box. Made out of good quality plastic, the upper side is matt, while other sides are shiny. The front panel has IR receiver and power LED, which lights blue or red if it is working or not. On one side we can find 3 x USB 2.0 ports and 1 x SD card slot. On the rear panel are: 1 x USB 2.0 port, 1 x Optical SPDIF port, 1 x AV port, 1 x HDMI 2.0 port, 1 x RJ45 Ethernet port 10/100M BaseT and 5V/2A DC jack. It weights 0.143 kg and its dimensions are 11.60 x 11.60 x 2.50 cm.
Hardware
The SCISHION V88 Plus TV Box is equipped with the quad core Rockchip RK3229 ARM Cortex A7 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz and for GPU the ARM Mali-400MP2. V88 Plus CPU is helped by the 2GB DDR3 RAM and the 8GB of internal storage, that can be expanded through the SD card slot. Device runs on Android 5.1 out of the box.
Features
Unfortunately, SCISHION V88 Plus does not support bluetooth, so if you want to play games you need to purchase a gamepad with USB wireless receiver. The SCISHION V88 Plus without problem plays movies with the resolution of 480p,720p and 1080p (24fps, 30fps, 60fps) with various codecs video such as H.264,H.265, MPEG2, MPEG4, RMVB and audio – DTS and AC3. Dolby Digital 5.1 passthrough works fine via HDMI. It also plays without any problem AVI, MKV, MP4 (typical formats in which it holds the majority of movies) videos. In general V88 Plus supports video decoding 4K2K 10-bit H.265 @60 fps (Up to 200 Mbps), 4K 10-bit H.264 @30 fps (Up to 250 Mbps) and 4K 8-bit VP9 @30 fps (Up to 200 Mbps), 1080p H.264 and VP8 video encoder and HD Audio (7.1CH) passthrough.
Conclusion
The SCISHION V88 Plus was, is and I believe will be, one of the cheapest TV Boxes on the market equipped with SoC Rockchip RK3229. It might not have top of specs, but and with these, you will be 100% pleased. TomTop has it on flash sales, so you can go over there and get it ever cheaper and if you try and this coupon code LQPV88TV4, you will be able to save 4 more dollars!