Kuul Media are pleased to unveil Buzztv most powerful set top box ever built, the Power Station code named P6. After almost a year of speculation about the design, the chipset, and true specifications, we can now divulge all.

The Power Station will come in two variations with its newest Buzztv 6 with huge surprises, in lime green/black or in all black. The specifications will differ depending on consumer choice of RAM. The Power Station is powered by Android 13 Operating System and its engine is the Rock Chip RK3588. This incredible chipset boasts Soc Dual-core 64 Bit Chip with Cortex A76 & Cortex A55, 8nm lithography process. The A76 packs up to 2.4GHz frequency and the A55 up to 1.8GHz! In addition, its multi-media processor consists of ARM Mali-G610 MP4 Quad Core GPU and a built-in Ai accelerator NPU, providing integrated 6 Tops computing power.

It’s ramped up its viewing capabilities with a super 8K@60fps H.265/VP9 video decoding and 8K@30fps H.265/H.264 video encoding with simultaneous encoding and decoding capabilities. Now for the more common 4K content, the Power Stations will cater 4K@60fps AV1 decoding supported.

Streaming devices commonly offer up to 4GB of DDR4 RAM, however the Buzztv Power Station accommodates a monstrous 8GB or 16GB RAM which means faster, smoother, and perfect choice for multi-tasking and gaming.

The Power Station has 128GB eMMC storage plus expandable NVMe via its storage bay accessed from the underside of the unit!

What is an NVMe and its benefits vs the traditional SATA Drives…

NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) is a new communication interface and driver access (storage) that delivers superior performance, efficiency, and response times. The Buzztv Power Station uses PCIe Socket (PCI Express) for NVMe protocol that delivers significantly high-bandwidth and low-latency performance and transfers 25x more times data compared to Sata, supporting up to 64 of parallel command queues that’s much faster than hard disks and traditional all-flash architectures, which are limited to a single command queue.

What is also neat is the user can charge their external devices using the Power Station 10 Watt USB-C Type data and power port!

The Power Station offers BT 5.0, Dual Band 2.4/5G, Wi-Fi 6, 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps) Network, HDMI Interface,

Buzztv have taken on consumer feedback regarding the ‘must haves’ and have now unveiled the new BT-500 and it is a thumbs up for us.

The BT-500 is an upgrade to the BT-400 with more keys, bigger directional keypad, more juice with its double AA batteries… Oh and it has the official Google voice/microphone button! The BT-500 now has a dedicated TV volume +/- buttons and of course the favourable backlit inherited from the BT-400.

UPDATE: 16/01/2024