What is 10bit color?

Typical Home HD video signals use 8-bit color, meaning that for each pixel, the signal contains eight bits for each of the three primary colors. Since there are 256 possible 8-bit binary numbers, you get 256 shades each of red, green, and blue. Combine the three together, and you get 16,777,216 possible colors (256 cubed).

That sounds like plenty, and to the naked eye, it is. But subtle differences between those 256 shades, impossible with 8-bit color, can help create depth and a sense of reality. That's where deep color comes in. With 10-bit color, you get 1,024 shades of each primary color, and over a billion possible colors. The below video explain further about 10bit color.

I placed my order with Nicety last week and received my Q10 Pro on Friday. Timing is just nice to demo the box over the weekends. Been busy playing with this new toy and hence the late feedback.

Package arrived in good condition and on time according to ETA.

I would like to give credit to Nicety for his patience in handling my question prior purchase. He pre-installed some apps that suits my requirement. He even provided phone number for watsapp purpose in the even issue arise. Not forgetting he drafted simple guideline for 1st time android box user! And lastly, his value added service is skydrive for existing customer regarding firmware upgrades/ new apps.

Overall, recommended and trusted seller.

Thank you for the compliment. Himedia is very good box, we would like to help our customers to fully utilise the box by sharing our experience.

Beside the support, we do encourage buyers to exchange their finding when discover any new good apps or any good functions.

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." From George Bernard Shaw

Hi Nicety - Well received the Q10 pro in good condition and definitely a good player. Highly recommended.

Question - i also bought a 3 TB into hdd and assembled into the player already. How do I start using the int hdd?

If you just mounted the newly bought SATA disk for first time, you need the below two steps :

1). Initialize the disk to MBR / GPT partition.
2). Format the disk to NTFS file system.

To save the above job, you may ask the Sata Disk seller to do it for you. If you would like to explore by yourself, please follow the below steps.

a). Get ready high speed USB cable(Tyoe B) as per below photo. Typically you could find this type of USB from your USB printer.


b). Connect your Q10 Pro to your Laptop USB port as per below photo.


c). Power on your Q10 Pro and Laptop.

d). Goto your Windows Control Panel -> Administrative Tools


e). Select Computer Management


f). Select disk management, you will noticed "Not Initialize" disk which is your new hard disk. The below photo show the G drive is the "Not Initialize" disk.


P/S : If you could not find the "Not Initialize" disk, most probably the disk is not mounted properly or the disk has been initialized and partitioned before. Snap the screen and PM to me, I will help you to identify.

g). Right click the "Not Initialize" disk, select "initialize disk".


h). The below screen will appear.


If your hard disk capacity is 2TB and below, please choose MBR partition.
If your hard disk capacity larger than 2TB, please choose GPT partition.

i). After initialized the disk, you could noticed the disk status changed from "Not Initialize" to "Online". You can see the total disk space but "Unallocated"


j). Right click the word "Unallocated", select "New Simple Volume".


j). Select NTFS file system and click Next start formatting the hard disk. If you tick "Perform a quick format", the format will complete in minutes. If you do not tick "Perform a quick format", the format process will take longer time.


k). Your hard disk is ready to use, reboot your Q10 Pro and it should detect the new disk in your Q10 Pro now. Try copy files to your hard disk to verify.

Then, if my hard disk capacity is 2TB and below and I choose MBR partition. So, what is the next step after "h" as frm your teaching step?

Tq

The step is the same, just follow step i, j, k.

May I knw what is the different between "Perform a quick format" & If do not tick "Perform a quick format"?

Tq :-)

A Quick Format is to make the formatting process quick, the drive is not checked for bad sectors.

A Full Format runs an additional step that checks the hard drive for any bad sectors. This check is what makes the full format take so much longer than a quick format.

Please follow the below, if your Kodi screen different from below, pls goto Skydrive drive and restore your Kodi from from "5 steps quick restore" guide under Kodi 16 subfolder.




This post has been edited by nicety: Aug 14 2016, 11:44 AM

hi, i would like to know more about Q5pro latest version.
i believe Q5pro and Q10pro are same performance right except the build-in Hardisk tray.

ok can the q5pro decoded the atoms x to multi channel via optical out to optical into AV receiver? which mean i will get the same effect if i use passthrough via hdmi and let the av receiver decode the DTS-X. Because mY very old receiver does not have HDMI input but have the optical and coax in. That is why i use the q5pro act as a dtsx , dts hd as a decoder. I have a 5.1 setup. my receiver got DTS and dolby.

and also pm me best price.

thanks

Thank you for inquiry. Beside the HDD enclosure, below are the differences :

LED Panel and Smart Touch-Key
Aluminum Housing and Low-noise Fan ( for HDD Cooling )
Coaxial digital audio port

In term of performance, Q5 Pro and Q10 Pro are the same.

Below photo show the optical audio port of Q5 Pro, you can passthru the audio to your AV receiver.

Thank you AVFAN.

Dear Customers,
If you have difficulties to install Adrian Supertv 1.1.6, just follow the 5 steps quick restore Kodi 16 guide, just uploaded the config zip file in the skydrive.

Wat is Adrian Supertv 1.1.6 mean? Adrian Supertv is an app which can install to my pro q10? Sorry i newbie to tv box even i own ths box in few months bck

Adrian Supertv 1.1.0 is Kodi Addons which already preinstalled in your Q10 Pro. To watch Rio 2016, you need to upgrade to Adrian super tv version 1.1.6.

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2807510/+378

This post has been edited by nicety: Aug 18 2016, 10:57 PM

yr AVR is obsolete.

DTS and Dolby are digital audio but are not HD audio.
optical/coaxial output can only handle DTS/DD, not higher.

DTSHDMA, DDTrueHD are HD audio, need AVR with HD audio capability.
DTSX, DDAtmos are even higher grade HD audio - these need AVR with DTSX/DDAtmos capability.

You need media source, player and AVR all HD audio capable to give HD audio.
Or all DTSX/DDAtmos setup to give DTSX/DDAtmos audio.
For these, only possible with HDMI connections and cables.

in yr case, if the source and player are HD audio, but yr AVR is not, it will downgrade to core DTS/DD.


similarly for video, if source and player are 4k, but TV is not, it will downgrade to 1080p.
only with 4k tv can 2160p or 1440p be displayed.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Aug 19 2016, 02:11 PM

hi thanks for the feedback.
ok i understand now. As a result, i still need to buy an avr with dts x and atmos support in order the play dts X and atmos. mostly probable will go with dts x because of current speakers placement. that is why DTS company still the best no matter what Dolby has done so far lol.

ok thank you very much for the advice.

cheers

I plan to get a new avr with dtsx, and the q5pro too.
But such files with dtsx are still rare.
So, hesitating, waiting.
Also, uhd4k videos also still rare for 4k tv.
Only netflix and youtube offer 4k videos.

So, for playback, still holding on to 1080p dtshdma, ddtruehd for now.

However, if need replacement right now, surely wise to get the newest capabilities.

ya i was thinkg a yamaha RX-V581 it support atmos and dts. and also Q5pro.
btw what is the diff between Q5pro and H8 2016 model? one with dts x support and other do not?
for music i have another setup so yamaha 581 is more the enough for movie.

ya dtsx source are very rare for now but i should be more next year.

cheers

that, and 10bit, 2160p 60hz.