

I have however bought two Dune players to test - a 4K solo and the 4K Lite.

I tried the Zappiti 4K HDR too and came to pretty much the same conclusion - very restricted ecosystem which you're stuck with, so no personalisation or external management (as far as I can see). If Mede8er do not release a 4k player, I will go looking for a native 4k player. As for local media, I hope Mede8er release a native 4k device and not some android clone as I never want to use an android device for playing local media again. When I make the move to 4k, I will likely upgrade my Roku's to the newer versions that handle 4k. I have learnt that having an all-in-one device just doesn't work. I now have 3 Roku's for online streaming, and 2 Mede8ers for local media. Also, some files wouldn't play that used to on the Mede8er. No matter what I did, I couldn't mount an external usb drive larger than 2TB. Trying to play local media became another headache. On the apps that would work, streaming buffered and stuttered. Also, some steaming apps wouldn't run on the custom firmware, others picked up the device was rooted.

All I can say is that it was an awful experience.įor starters, Netflix on most Android devices only support 480p with no 5.1 sounds. I bought a gbox mx2 (android box) 2 years ago with the intention of using it for both playing local media and streaming online media.
