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.

"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.

buying or not?!

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.

U got astrogo working on q10pro?

If u had installed from playstore earlier, it will hv been auto updated to v 8.2.6 now.

Arc issues, cant help... since i dun use this set up.

And arc behavior varies quite a bit with diff tvs, avrs, soundbars.
Optical is simple and easy.

u gotta explain a bit.

is ds player a player app like vlc or mx?

did u try using the native himedia player, do u get these black bars?

ceiling speaker or add on speaker?

i think u r not using the native player...?

if u r using native player with either native file manager or media center, a click on a bdmv folder will lead u immediately to the bd menu - u do not get see the folders or files inside.

if u do, that tells me u r not using native player but some other player... mx, kodi, other nas player..?

or... u r missing the bluray apk and/or it hasn't been activated.

(this is unlikely if u had bought from nicety.)
suggest u copy a couple of videos incl a bdmv on a portable HDD, plug it into the usb and play direct with native player.

then u can see the diff, what u r missing, what may be wrongly set up...

i have experienced the bolded part when using just SMB wifi.
it happens with bit rates >60Mbps; below that, it is smooth.
my conclusion is my LAN equipment has something that isn't good enough but can't tell what... router, pc, adaptor..?
internal hdd or hdd direct to usb, never had any problem.

in yr case with synology nas, i wouldn't know much.
try checking the threads below, u may find some useful comments.
http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?action=search2