Walmart quietly released a new 4K Google TV box with Dolby Vision

Walmart’s caller Onn 4K Plus includes a distant with dependable capabilities but without backlighting oregon the quality to find it erstwhile it goes missing. | Image: Walmart

Walmart has released a caller mentation of its 4K Google TV container that could beryllium an adjacent amended replacement for Google’s present discontinued Chromecast line. The caller $29.88 Onn 4K Plus Streaming Device is $10 much costly than Walmart’s $19.88 entry-level Onn 4K, but includes a diagnostic from the pricier $49.88 Onn 4K Pro astute speaker we felt was missing from the cheaper $20 option: enactment for Dolby Vision HDR content.

The caller Onn 4K Plus besides features a somewhat faster processor than the Onn 4K Pro that launched a twelvemonth agone — a Amlogic S905X5M quad-core processor clocked astatine 2.5GHz — but lone has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, compared to the Pro exemplary that offers 3GB and 32GB, respectively.

The Onn 4K Plus besides doesn’t treble arsenic a astute talker similar Walmart’s Pro model, and sacrifices features connected its included voice-capable distant similar backlighting and the quality to find the distant erstwhile it goes missing. But dissimilar the entry-level $20 Onn 4K box, the Plus’ distant does see a customizable fastener that tin beryllium programmed to motorboat your favourite streaming app and a dedicated “Free TV” fastener to rapidly entree Google’s ad-supported FAST channels.

The astir tempting crushed to take Walmart’s caller Onn 4K Plus is that it connects to a powerfulness root via a USB-C port. The Pro exemplary alternatively uses a barrel-style connector for attaching a powerfulness adapter, portion the entry-level 4K exemplary includes an ageing Micro USB port.