Zidoo Z9X 4k HDR Media Player Android 9.0 OS , 4k HDR TV Box, HDR10+, Dual Version,3D Player, HD Audio

So easy to install and adding external drives works perfectly. I bought this to replace a NVIDIA device, which I had a lot of problems with.

This plays absolutely everything. The quality is far superior to the built-in media player of my LG OLED.

Picture and sound is great, good interface. If so it's not a tv box, it's a media player for high end TVs and picky users who love top picture and sound quality, so to use it as an android TV box is a bad choice, poor control in apps and browser by remote, but I didn't buy it for that. What I dont like: usb ports and sata are on the sides, so all cables are visible, that's really nonsense, wifi antennas could be integrated in the case. Overall a nice player for home cinema.

Plugged my hard drives with all my movies and tv shows into this little beauty, and it’s like a movie juke box. Arranges all your movies with posters and plays just about every format. Love it

Negatives (for me)I bought this because it said that it supported SACD audio ie DSD and was Roon ready.My amp is DSD ready and can support DSD from an incoming HDMI cableHowever despite the description I couldn't get it to send DSD audio from my network (format not recognised/supported message and skipped the tracks) from the built in player.Perhaps it would send DSD to my amp via Roon. It did not and the sampling frequency of the converted PCM signal was high approx 176khz but not the 384khz I'd expect to see.I was going to see if the Roon remote app would work on it (which it should being Android and not AndroidTV) but to get the Play Store on there was way too much like hard work, and the Android interface on the box was no better than the cheap £30 devices I've used in the past.I was really hoping for a Roon ready device that streamed multichannel DSD with a decent interface. Sadly this box wasn't it. It didn't do what I wanted and it was complicated to see if I could coax it to do what I wanted so I gave up and sent it back.On the positive side it was solidly constructed and if used as a TV media device it probably works really well, but I have a TV with Android built in so there's no benefit to me for that.

I've been streaming my holiday Bluray collection to my TV from my laptop using Powerdvd. It's pretty straight forward, just drop your BDMV folder into any folder and point Powerdvd at that folder as it's 'Media library. It sees it and plays it perfectly as a BD, complete with menus etc. Thinking it would be nice to incorporate a hardware media player into my home cinema system, I bought the Zidoo after reading many reviews online.Initial setup is straight forward, but then.......There is a COMPLETE lack of instructions with this beyond that initial setup. I spent hours online finding out basic info such as how to format an external hard drive. (which you will need for any collection as the internal storage is tiny) It is totally unintuitive. The software for a media library is pre-installed (Home Theatre 4.0). This would be OK if you have a collection of illegal blurays as when you've assigned the drive (more time online) is scans it and goes off online to get info and 'posters' to show the on the 'wall'. Fine. But, it treats home BDs the same. So the 2 BDs I trialled it with - Devon and New York - came back as Some horror film called Devon and a mushy movie called I Love NY (complete with heart!) This included full descriptions and poster pics. I did work out how to change the pictures but not the descriptions. I didn't have the patience to spend any more time scouring the internet. Performance: Selecting either of these folders played a couple of seconds of the actual video before bouncing back to the menu. (???) The menus themselves were all over the place, with the play button where it should be but the button highlight randomly stuck up in the top left corner! That was game over for me and I returned it. Just for info; these BDs were authored using professional software as that was a part of my job before I retired. The player itself does seem like good quality (as it should given the price) but it just doesn't do the simple things that I want it to. Maybe if I spent a week or so searching online.....??

Excellent box

Does what it says brilliant