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

My NVIDIA Shield Pro is starting to show its age and I wanted something with HDR10+ support and AV1 decoding so I picked this up based on the reviews and it lives up to the hype. I still have my Shield for streaming apps. NOTE: this is NOT a replacement for a streaming stick or box. Although it can support some streaming apps, this device is meant to play files from a locally connected hard drive or network storage and it EXCELS at this function. The user interface is basic but inoffensive. The Home Theater 4.0 software scanned my library of 60+ movies and over 100 TV episodes and I only had to manually rematch 4 of them. Can't ask for better than that. Zidoo has a customer for life here if they maintain this same quality in their devices moving forward.

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.

I downgraded to 4 stars for a couple minor reasons. Reason one is the instructions in the box is a complete waste of paper. Luckily the forums and youtube videos are a great help. Second is the firmware shipped and still the official one is not ready for primetime. Again the forums to the rescue to get the beta firmware that resolves those issues. I came from a Zappiti Neo since Zappiti went out of business. Navigating and browsing files is so so so much faster. Identification and grouping does a better job. Identification is faster. Dolby Vision is handled better. Additional bonus is it has a music player that does similar for your music collection. Something the Neo never had. Price is considerable less than I paid for the Neo. Overall I am very happy.

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.

After deciding to replace my ODroid media player, I spent months and months researching what could handle what, and finally landed on the Zidoo Z9X Pro. This monster spent months out of stock, and so when I did finally device this was the was I was going to go, I spent at least three months watching Amazon's page to see if it ever came back in. It did, I bought it, and I must say, I'm very impressed. This AndroidTV-based media player has so far taken everything I can throw at it, including handling Dolby Vision, which was a big selling point with me, as was being able to play a full disc backup with Java menu support - if I design a bluray menu in Java, and export it, I can now test it real-world, instead of just seeing how it looks in the authoring software. Yes! Yes! Yes! Network support, wifi support, Dolby Vision support, external drive support.. This little device has it all in a very well produced metal enclosure that never gets too warm to the touch. The manufacturing feels very solid, very crisp, and very clean: never once would I even think of refering to this as "the Temu version of a media player." My only gripe, assuming I had one, would be that the menus aren't exactly customizable. No theme support, no ability to remove the stuff I don't use. But, considering what I'm getting in this fine $200ish package, I'm pretty okay with it. We use this as the daily driver for all media in the house, watching everything from TV shows to 4K movies on it, and haven't had a glitch anywhere. Highly recommended.

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.

Love the unit just to.let you know if your movies are not named properly it won't match the movie poster to it so you have a lot of renaming to do.. great posters and backgrounds, plays flawless.. does not play some old avi files ... other than that it plays the most recent mkvs