Planning to buy the q10pro

[Gandorelli]

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..)

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.

[Gandorelli]

Anyway...

My questions are well answered now thanks for everyone...

Gandorelli. 

[Masterolli]

[futeko.com]

[Roerom]

I appreciate the answers (by Admin), and I will reconsider to buy the Box. It will however help me if Himedia could indicate when they have solved this 720p 23.976 support. You mentioned that there is not much content in this old coded format, but many people (including myself) have 100's of these files... and it is not easy to get this all in 1080p (or at least costly)

[Eriol]

Very few TVs support 720p 23.976 and there isn't much video out there that is 720p 23.976, so it's not going to be a problem for most people.

Totally false.
Not the TV but the player should support 720p 23.976 -> all the TVs out there are capable playing 720p 23.976 content if the player itself supports it.
Furthermore the MOST 720p bluray rips out there is 720p 23.976 since MOST western (like USA and all from holywood) bluray is in 23.976. This means all 720p bluray rips are in 23.976.

[futeko.com]

Totally false.

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

[Gandorelli]

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.

Totally false.

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

[Eriol]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. My point is that we shouldn't care about what the most TV can or can't play. The player itself should solve the issue as almost all player in the market does the same.

[futeko.com]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. My point is that we shouldn't care about what the most TV can or can't play. The player itself should solve the issue as almost all player in the market does the same.

I agree, and it will.

[Brenus]

Hi All,

I was also planning to purchase a Q10 today, I am lured in by the chipset, GPU and 7.1 features but mainly because I'm just a 40 year old child who loves gadgets and its payday 
I have a projector room nothing special just Optoma hd26  projector , sony STR dn1050 avr and a load of BW speakers all coupled to xbox1, ps4 and my trusty Minix x8h but I want to swap out the minix as I feel like a change and it can go in another room.  Give it to me straight, is this box any good ?  My Minix is running finless rom is very stable and I appreciate that newer boxes like the Q10 will have teething troubles but does it do the basics? Like most of you probably also need.  To me these boxes have to be flexible and stable, Netflix for the kids, showbox, kodi etc. Does it perform well with these functions?

Also is anyone using one with an Optoma HD projector that can let me know if its a good match?

I have read such mixed reviews for the q10, I cant make my mind up. I don't mind buying it though even if it can be an annoying twat sometimes, if the support is good and you know its all going to get fixed over time .

Sorry for all the questions its just I have had my fingers burned twice with Tronsmart stuff, the Draco being the worse. Great hardware let down by glitchy unusable software and four to six month interval software updates that never seem to address the burning issues.

Cheers

[futeko.com]

There are very comprehensive reviews here:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=265888
https://www.avforums.com/review/himedia-q10-pro-android-media-player-review.12668

Obviously I'm biased(!) but it's an excellent product with a couple of niggles which will be soon ironed out. Uniquely amongst Chinese brand media boxes, HiMedia work closely with the chipset manufacturer HiSilicon (both part of Huawei) so stuff will actually get fixed.

Completely unlike Tronsmart etc who just buy chipsets off the shelf and quickly dump products with no ongoing support.

[Brenus]

[Brenus]

Hi Futeko,

Thank you, I am very tempted . I think I will have a look on eBay later and give paypal a workout

Just realised, you normally have a Q10 advert on ebay but there is nothing today,  I will buy one from here instead

Cheers

[Gandorelli]

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.