zidoo Z9X PRO 4K HDR Media Player, 4K Android TV Box, Android 11 OS, RTD1619BPD Quad-core 64bit Processor 4G+32G, VS10 Image Quality Engine, HDR10+MKV, for Video & Audio Playback

To preface, I own 2x Nvidia Shield Pros, and I like them both for Plex, but this Zidoo Z9X Pro blows them away in terms of picture quality. That said you have to know what you're buying. A lot of the 1-star reviews here aren't really using this device in its intended purpose, and complaining it doesn't live up to it. First and foremost this device prioritizes local playing, whether from an attached HD or a SMB network location, and does so *extremely well*. The picture quality this device is capable of through the VS10 dolby vision chip is incredible, on par with $500+ UHD disk players. This device is NOT prioritizing Hulu or Netflix, although you can get both to work, I would opt for an Apple TV or Shield Pro if that's your goal. The Z9X Pro has a VS10 chip, which means it plays Dolby Vision remuxes from 4K UHD disks flawlessly, including DV profile 7 FEL. With some add-ons, it's also of playing local media via Plex, which adds a whole new dimension. If you have a folder full of MKVs ripped from your UHD disk collection, this will playback that content at reference quality. Seriously it'll blow you away. The VS10 chip is that good. While you can get streaming apps via the Google Play store or through Kodi add-ons. The main goal of this device is achieve amazing quality in local playback. Keep that in mind and you won't be disappointed.

At the end of last year, I set up a NAS to stream movies so I wouldn't have to mess with finding the right disk. I was originally using jellyfin to manage the streaming, but I had a lot of issues (sound playing in the wrong language, subtitles not working). So I gave up on that and bought the zidoo instead. Setup was a breeze and I don't have any of the issues I was having with jellyfin. It does have trouble sometimes with figuring out the movie metadata; I've had a number of movies where either it showed as the wrong movie or it didn't find anything at all. Fortunately, it's easy to log in to the device from my desktop and search for the correct metadata. I think part of the issue is that many of the movie filenames have underscores rather than spaces and the software doesn't seem to work without spaces. Using it, my main complaint is the remote; everything is very dark and it's difficult to find the button I want, especially when I'm using my projector and have the lights down low. I end up turning on lights just so I can find the button I want. I've also had a few occasions where I got stuck in a field on the settings screen and couldn't get out. If the remote and settings were just a little easier to use, this would be a five star device. Overall? It's kind of expensive for a device that's just replacing a free app, but for my use case it works better than anything else I tried, and it's not too expensive compared to the cost of the NAS and the movies themselves. I wish the remote was better (I'm probably going to end up looking for a universal remote that can work with it) but other than that I'm pretty happy with the purchase.

Using Google Play can work but turn of the play protect and you'll get to use whatever app you've side loaded. Great Box. This is my fourth Zidoo. Have one in every room. All interconnected to a main HDD. Could use a bit better file manager and the app ones you have to buy isn't a good option (Please Zidoo work on a better file manager). I don't like that option of having to buy a better file manager. The remote could use a little work too. Sometimes it is glitchy. The back light doesn't work well at all. But, having said all that, I have the amazon stick the Nvidia and others. I would buy this again. I also wish that when android upgrades higher (Now Android 11) that the apps stay up with all the changes. Seems to always make my apps that worked great not so much. And takes some work on my side and begging the app providers to work on updates to their apps. But again, I like it.

Where do I start? It's total garbage, starting with the remote. It's a dark charcoal gray, and the symbols on the buttons are like maybe 1/100th of a shade lighter, you can't make them out even if you shine a flashlight on it. I have a 4K tv, but it would only play movies in 1080p, it takes forever to scan all your movies, while Plex and Jellyfin take like a minute, tops. Videos constantly stutter and drop audio, you have to pause and re-start to stop it, but it only fixed it for less than a minute before it would start again. I reset to factory specs and had to go through the whole scanning thing all over again, but it still did everything I mentioned above, only the stuttering got worse. Oh, and way too many movies were assigned the wrong posters and synopses. For example there was one called "The Gardens of Paradise" with a weird graphic, I had no idea what it was, and I had to play the beginning of the movie (which took forever because of the stuttering and freezing) to discover it was the movie "Lucy", then you have to jump through hoops to find and load the correct poster and movie description. Unbelievable. The shame is, for the brief moment that it worked as it should, the picture and audio quality were subperb. I complained to Amazon and they immediately sent me a new one, but I'm not even going to open the box. I want my $266 back.

The most brilliant feature of the Zidoo is its VS-10 Dolby Vision engine. This is capable of outputting DV to any HDR device, even ones that don't support DV. I recently purchased a Samsung OLED TV. It's a beautiful device, but has one glaring shortcoming - Samsung doesn't support Dolby Vision HDR. I was going to return the TV, but then i discovered this Zidoo. The picture quality this player provides brings my TV to a whole new level of brilliance. There are some major limitations with this device. It is not certified by the major players, so streaming services only provide low bitrate streams - DVD quality at best. Likewise, you can't hook up a Bluray player and play retail discs. There are licensing issues that prevent any of this from working. What you can do is fill a hard drive with 1:1 rips of UHD or Bluray discs, and play those back through the Zidoo Dolby Engine. With this usecase, you'll get an incredible picture that you could only get with more expensive and limited devices like the HDFury Vertex. You need two devices to maximize the capabilities of today's TV's - one for streaming, and one for local playback. For local playback, Zidoo is in a field by itself. It's that good.

Excelente producto, reproduce toda colección de películas desde 720p, hasta 4k incluso isos o mks de más de 70gb, también permite reproducir las pistas de sonido desde dts, ac3, etc., hasta sonido atmos en el reciber, una gran compra.

I had one before and it was awesome, this new one is really nice however does not support 120hz at 4k, only 60. However must movies are 60hz except for the very fast action movies and sports that use 120hz.

Es un reproductor excelente de Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Atmos, no soy muy bueno en cuestiones de Redes pero puedo ver todos los archivos de video que tengo desde mi LapTop por medio de Ethernet y también desde una Sandisk con todas mis películas conectadas directamente al zidoo por USB-C, en mi opinión le faltaría una actualización en la manera que se observa la página principal, el Home Theater 5.0, tiene algunos detalles como no reproducir los trailes desde internet, pero creo que están trabajando en ello. Sumamente recomendable, lo conecté a mi AVR Onkyo sin problemas.

Amazing device if you store your MKV file locally - does everything I want and plays all my MKVs smoothly with frame matching.