Hi all,

Finally, I decided to go ahead and purchase this device as the auto frame rate switching is fixed now. First of all  I can say it's very impressive I really like the quality of this device. I already set up with an 8tb harddrive loaded around 2000+ 720p movies. The only thing I'm not happy with is the remote control, feels very cheap every time I press it sounds like it's gonna broke and really missing a microphone from it, a voice search would make life easier...
Few bugs:
                  - it has the latest firmware on it... I tried to uninsall the Skype and Facebook with success, but next day when I switch on the player both of the application are installed again I can't remove them. Very strange.(Skype would be nice if the remote has a microphone)
                  - I set up the latest Kodi, but have problem with it, it doesn't really want to exit with the exit button, but sometime when it does it slows down the launcher I found out that, when existing from Kodi it changes the resolution to 2160p when I switch back to 1080p the launcher speed is being back to normal (my TV is 1080p)
                  - another thing some of my movies (mkv) has like 3-4 audio track and 3-4 subtitle as well, but when I switching between them there are no track names, but I named all the tracks when I muxed them(like commentary with Ridley Scott) it tells correctly what languages they are but there are no track names. I miss them.
                  - I like the way in Kodi with the frame rate patch, when I watch a movie with frame rate 23,976 it switches to the right frame rate and stays everything on that and until I start a movie with a different frame rate and so on. But in the himedia player anytime I stop the video I  mean exiting the player it switches back immediately to 1080p@60 would be nice the way like in Kodi, hope you know what I mean. However I prefer himedia player.

I didn't try every possibilities of the device, so far.
Other than these things, It's a great Player. And no microstutters, finally.

I have to agree with futeko...

As I said my TV (Samsung LE40B750) plays all my 720p 23.976 Blu-ray rips perfectly the reason is the built in media player
upscales everything to 1080 24p.
So probably the TV doesn't support 720p 23.976 and it doesn't have to, if the media player upscales the movie to 1080p it's even better

So this is what himedia has to fix within the next firmware, anything less then 1080p (even such a  small resolution bdrip like 720x384) upscales to 1080p24 or, if the tv supports
4k then then everything bellow 2160p has to be upscaled to 2160p24

Another problem new owners reported and I could read in different topics, there is Microstuttering in every resolution 720p,1080p,2160p at 23.976

Once these are fixed Iam ready to buy one.

Quote from: Eriol on June 20, 2016, 11:52:39 AM

Totally false.

It's not. TV support for 1080p 23.976 is common, TV support for 720p 23.976 much less so.

I think the same....he said "Q5/Q10 Pro are the best Android media boxes available."
and the way it plays movies "
Not perfect, but OK!" from the best android box on the market I expect a little bit more then
Not perfect, but OK (better than a kick in the ball, yes it is..)

Quote from: futeko.com on June 14, 2016, 09:06:19 AM

You say that 'it's 2016', well you're right. And 720p is a little 2006 maybe? Auto frame rate switching for resolutions below 720p will be added in future. As it is, 1080p and 4K work and these boxes are high-end devices aimed at high-end users with primarily Full-HD and Ultra-HD material. 720p content plays quite well as it stands at 50/60Hz. Not perfect, but OK for the time being until HiMedia get 23.976 at resolutions below 1080p working.

That is the craziest thing I've heard... Are you forgetting that most television is still at 720p?
I also believe that the issue is under 1080p, such as  1920x1079p and below is an issue for frame rates.

Thanks for all of you...

Still not sure about the internal, external subtitles, streaming live tv the 8tb wd red
and if the audio streams can be played without any audio equipment...

Anyhow, I am very disappointed now... After a long search I tought finally found a
media player what plays everything well!, but looks like it's just another well advertised
android box with very poor updates. I mean it's 2016 and a brand new up to date device
not able to play well 720P movies.
Very unlucky my collection from 720p is about 2500 movies all blue-ray ripps with 2 audio
and two sub...
My tv is quite old it's a Samsung Le40b750, think I bought it about 6-7 years ago, but the way
how plays all my movies(720p or 1080p)  butter smooth...Not even a microstutter or freeze
Unfortunately it lacks dts, flac sound and also can't switch between audio streams and subs.

Don't really know what to do now will I buy this faulty box or not?
Are they going to fix it with a firmware update? I mean in this Century?
Or can you guys come up with another solution? Is there any other
android box similar to this box and can handle an 8tb wd red?


Thanks for all the help.
Gandorelli.