The device is essentially a portable Android computer to ‘smarten’ your TV
They are part-free, part-fee, but the explosion of video-on-demand services in India such as Hooq, Hotstar and lately Netflix has had one big effect: We now live in a world of multiple screens — PC, tablet, phone and television. We download stuff from the Net on our phones or people send videos through WhatsApp and we want to view them on the largest screen, the TV.
Which is why a media player like Amkette’s Evo TV2 is so timely. It works like a clearing house, enabling the user to send content from any device to the TV; to store programmes or movies offline on a hard disk drive to play back any time; to organise all your media, using the Kodi app or just switch seamlessly between live TV channels and web channels like YouTube.
The umbilical that binds all of this together, is WiFi and EvoTv2 (this is the new upgrade of a device first launched in 2012), needs a home wireless Internet connection to start working.
The EvoTV2 is best value for those whose TV is not ‘smart’, because it lets you use your TV as a web browser. Amkette has included all the most popular Net video services as ready-to-click icons. The device is in effect a small Android computer with 8 GB of storage and 1 GB of RAM, with full HD capability and a generous 4 USB slots.
However, none of the functions will work unless you are a Google Play user, or have a Gmail account. If that is not an issue for you, then Rs 6,999 may seem a fair price to ‘smarten’ your TV.
