right.

The diff is small or unnoticeable if using soundbar or low end home theater.

It is very significant if using full home theater 5.1 or 7.1.

u need to describe:

.. after factory reset, what is your firmware now?
.. what firmware were u trying to update to?

note that after factory reset, all settings are wiped, u need to key in the wifi settings, password, etc. again.

ethernet will be auto detect.

ethernet or wifi, check the settings to see if they are set to on, whichever u r using.

ok.

unifi is not turbo-ing fast enough and practices unfair pricing.

gud 4 u!

your soundbar... if not mistaken, cost rm8-10k..?

assuming connection is q5pro->soundbar->tv...

if the mkv file has atmos or dtsx tracks, q10pro should deliver accordingly to what u had selected as audio or default.

(but i wud suggest u get better videos than mkv for such audio.)

since soundbar has no display panel unlike an AVR, i suppose the only way to tell is your ears hear sound from ALL the speakers, incl upward firing ones.

dtshdma, ddtruehd will not give audio in those upward or downward firing speakers.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Oct 24 2018, 07:05 PM

i cannot confirm becos my home theater cannot do atmos or dtsx.

but i have seen a friend's system using q10pro with avr displaying dtsx for a dtsx track.

all q5/q10 pro users are very happy with playback video and audio output quality with native player.

more so if u play the big files... full 4k hdr bdmv's.

afaik, nothing new on the horizon.

More memory, more storage will be useful.
Not so much to install 1000 apps but useful for p2p apps.

Dolby vision, doubtful... this is only licensed to a handful of major cos.
Seeing how slow tv makers are picking up dolby vision, i dun expect it to survive.
Hdr10 will live n take some time to become mainstream before hdr12 kicks in.

Netflix hd will be useful.. not so much 4k.
Becos to do 4k, u need a 4k tv and just about all 4k or 4khdr tvs come with netflix 4k... doesnt need a box.

Your q16 is almost 5 yrs old, 4.4.2, cant do astrogo, cant do zaltv, cant do 10bit, cant do hdr.
But still great for playback incl 1080p bdmv hd audio... thats what i m using it for.
And it has a long life...

reposted from another thread:



i quite agree with the comments.

as i hv always maintained, the local playback function is probably the best thing about himedia boxes.

esp playing back with home theaters with higher video and audio capabilities.

I guess the comments were more for himedia then.

With android9 already launched, i will find it hard to buy anything new with android5 or 6.

You havent bought a new box yet?

"HD" comes in many grades.

your decoder gives the highest; the app does "HD" that barely qualifies, with a lower bitrate, i am sure.

some channels r better than others. i will say it can be 576 or 720, with some others at 360, 480 only.

u should try it first b4 u terminate becos u may not be happy enuf with the video quality.

however, for those who already cut it, the app is surely fine... it is also stable.

current is 2.1.0.

been working since 2.0.8.

all is good.

is that a movie app?

paid or ahem?

everything on old boxes slow down.

no diff from humans!

buying or not?!

ok... u will like it.

Audio is surely impt.

The other feature i like and use a lot is the internal hdd.

U can do p2p like utorr or quasar... high speed can get u 30MBps... do 20, 40, 80gb files... all the good stuff.

No need pc, file transfer, copying...

q16 firmware updates stopped after 2.5 years which is not bad.

i haven't known any box that went from android4 to 5.

i am still happily using this box for playback incl BDMV 1080p and some light apps.

Q10pro is for heavy lifting!

think discussed b4...

if yr AVR is non-4k, the best is to q10pro->tv (for 4k, hdr); tv optical->avr (for DD, DTS only... can't do higher).
u dun want q10pro->AVR as this will cut off all 4k video although u can get dtshdma/ddtruehd.
common thing la... my second set is like that.
only solution is to get new AVR!

netflix, better use the 1080p/4k app in tv. then with the setup i suggested, the optical will give yr AVR dd5.1 but not higher.

tv... better use wifi... more so if u have >100mbps speed.
becos yr tv isn't gigabit, will max out at 100mbps with ethernet.
wifi, u probably can get >200mbps.

nas.. i wud think q10pro wired will do better.
anyway... i already suggested tv do wireless.
no harm trying both.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Nov 9 2018, 02:19 PM