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Xiaomi's onslaught of affordable technology continues. The Chinese company has today launched its new 40-inch Mi TV 2: a powerful smart TV running an Android-based OS that will sell for $320.
The new TV features a 40-inch full HD LED panel by Sharp with 5000:1 contrast ratio, a Cortex-A9 quad-core 1.45GHz CPU, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of flash storage and a MIUI TV Android-based OS. In terms of playback, it offers H.265 10-bit hardware decoding, allowing you watch H.265, H.264, MPEG4, and REAL, as well as other mainstream video formats like RM, FLV, MOV, AVI, MKV, TS and MP4. Xiaomi appears to be playing up its gaming credentials, too, and boasts that it measures just 14.5 millimeters front-to-back at its thinnest. It appears to be available with a range of bright rear casings, too, that my help you jolly up your pad.
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It's impressive how affordable Smart TVs are becoming, and they come with a built-in Android PC inside the TV.
This looks like a nice Smart TV for using Android apps services like Netflix, and games where the 1.45 GHz Quad-core CPU, and 1.5 GB of RAM will come in handy for playing 3D games.
I think Sony, Panasonic, and Samsung needs to watch out for Xiaomi since affordable TVs made by Xiaomi, and other smaller companies could take a large chunk of their buyers who now buy Xiaomi TVs instead.
