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Do they lock their OS down or can Kodi be installed on these?
Looks promising. Spec wise it does everything I want but that price, ouch!
Just when I was getting over Zappiti on my Dune and enjoying Kodi...
Hi Adam,
What made you move from using zappiti UI to Kodi?
I’m curious as whenever I do some brief online research I frequently see forum members reporting issues with frame rate or audio. The Dune seems to have a great reputation as a stable unit (no picture/audio issues) to playback contact from a NAS which is what I’m primarily looking for.
These new Zappiti units look like a decent alternative.
I discounted the Dune HD before as I think it is HDMI 1.4 but maybe Dune will release a HDMI 2.0 unit at CES in a few weeks.
Regards,
Stuart
Ricky I just paid £235 delivered for the Mini direct from Zappiti. Works out as just the same delivered price as the PCH A500.We will be adding the HDR range to our portfolio early in the new year. Projected price for mini is currently under £250 Inc UK delivery. Need to check my calcs for exact price.
Thanks. Looked at my working page, and we are aiming to be at around £219 via website, and £229 via Amazon, pending some last minute tweaks, so in the right ballparkRicky I just paid £235 delivered for the Mini direct from Zappiti. Works out as just the same delivered price as the PCH A500.
Question: Why are people buying this? What does it do that devices already available for half the price don't do? I'm struggling to see.
Also when paired with their NAS makes a good user friendly easy solution.I'm a fan of the Shield. I've been running one of those but find SPMC annoying and the game controller irritating. I could never work it out and it's usually a last resort using this machine.
I've also been running the 4K Zappiti (non HDR) for close to 8 months. An excellent gadget which I've found to be far more reliable than the Nvidia Shield. More on par with the Mede8er which was excellent. Firmware updates have been regular and added to the experience. The remote control is very good though it's range wasn't quite as great. What's been missing is HDMI 2.0 support, HDR10 and BD lite.
The new units tick these boxes and have a better chipset so they should play everything thrown at it. The remote control has also been improved and control 4, Logitech and other control driver compatibility should make them easy to run. Add to that media control from an iPad. We should be getting our stock in early Jan.
What else would you expect on a local file streamer? It has every modern audio and video standard apart from DV and that's just about irrelevant since there is no sign of a disc let alone a method of ripping it.For that amount of money I would like something more but looking at the specs it's not adding anything new or different .