Mi TV Stick review: Cheaper and sleeker, but misses the mark – THE WEEK
There was a time when the options in media streaming devices were pretty much limited to the Google Chromecast and the Amazon Fire TV stick. Things, however, changed drastically in the past year or so with a number of devices—most of them based on Android TV—hitting the market. Among them, a genuine threat to Amazon’s reign in the segment was Xiaomi’s Mi TV Box 4K. Packed to the brim with features—4K HDR 10, a powerful processor, the latest version of Android TV, built-in Chromecast Ultra, Dolby and DTS support, Google Assistant—it smartened up quite a few dumb TVs in the past few months. It was reasonably priced, too (MRP Rs 4,999, but available at Rs 3,499). So why would Xiaomi come up with a cheaper, stripped-down version of the Mi TV Box 4K? The Mi TV Stick, well, is a stick (about three times the size of a USB stick), and not a box like the Mi TV Box 4K. This form is more suitable for TVs mounted on walls as the stick would fit snugly behind the TV. The Stick, unlike the Box,...