Zidoo Z30 PRO 8K UHD Media Player

Zidoo Z30 PRO - 8K Ultimate Evolution

The Z30 PRO is an 8K media player equipped with the powerful Amlogic S928X-K chipset, 6GB DDR4 RAM and 64GB eMMC storage. It includes a built-in HDD bay, allowing the onboard storage to be expanded up to 16TB. The newly developed cross-platform player architecture, combined with the VPU video processing engine, enables effortless support for almost all Dolby Vision HDR formats with direct metadata output. Users can flexibly customize the VS10 Dolby Commercial Quality A Engine for content, getting better visual performance (even for ordinary content).

Key Features:

• New generation Amlogic S928X-K 64-bit penta-core A76 + A55 high-performance multi-functional processor
• HDMI 2.1 supports 8K 60Hz point-to-point output
• Supports HDR (HDR10/HLG/HDR10+/Dolby Vision)
• 12-bit, BT.2020 wide colour range
• Supports Atmos/DTS X audio pass-through output
• 6GB DDR4 memory and 64GB eMMC internal storage
• Built-in VS10 engine for significantly improved image quality
• Hidden NSS patented HDD bay supporting up to a 16TB drive
• Supports acquiring and processing HDR10+ dynamic metadata, colours and brightness are processed frame by frame and scene by scene
• Automatic frame rate 23.976 and resolution switching output ensures smooth movie playback without interruption
• Supports BD/UHD Blu-ray menu playback and gapless branching playback of Blu-rays with complex MPLS structure
• Supports special effect subtitles, automatic download of network subtitles
• Supports dual forced subtitles for Blu-ray and MKV
• Supports access to network protocols like NFS, SMB v1/v2/v3, UPnP, Web DAV, and built-in SMB service
• New Poster Wall 4.0 supports movie trailers and user-friendly custom classification and management
• Supports lossless music playback in formats like DSD (SACD ISO, DSF, DFF), WAV, APE, DTS
• Upgraded music player 8.0 with brand new UI main interface, supports lossless playback and decoding, personalized settings, song data matching
• Supports HDMI 2.1® CEC control, RS232 control, Control 4, seamless integration into smart home

User Manual (PDF, 8.72MB)

Powerful CPU

The Z30 PRO is equipped with the Amlogic S928X-K ARM A76+A55 five-core processor using 12nm technology. Featuring a 3.2 TOPS NPU and built-in AI picture quality optimisation engine, it boasts better processing capabilities and more powerful decoding performance, to achieve outstanding audio-visual playback.

Chassis Material and HDD Bay

The Z30 PRO is constructed with a solid aviation aluminium alloy chassis, which inherits the excellent qualities of Zidoo's previous-generation players. The front large LED display shows important info and the brightness can be adjusted.

The Z30 PRO is designed for both form and function. As well as looking high-class alongside your other AV equipment, the alloy chassis of the Z30 PRO aids in keeping the media player cool even in heavy use.

The Z30 PRO includes a built-in large-capacity HDD bay, ensuring stable and high-speed bidirectional read and write capabilities, providing more convenient media storage.

Multiple Connections

The Z30 PRO has many connections to meet home theatre enthusiast's needs, including both analogue and digital audio, HDMI, Gibabit Ethernet, multiple USB ports & SATA (on side of unit).

Global 4K UI, Clear & Beautiful

The new Zidoo 8K series boats powerful performance, supporting global 4K GUI display. Poster walls and music player covers are clearer and more aesthetically pleasing, while also supporting third-party applications' 4K UI. Users can freely switch between 4K UI and 1080p UI in the settings.

Dolby Vision

The innovative visual technology of Dolby Vision® delivers vivid images, making shadows darker and highlights brighter, providing an extraordinary colour range that brings characters to life like never before. With clearer contrast and incredible brightness, it makes you feel more like looking through a window than at a screen.

The Z30 PRO media playback technology supports direct playback of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (BDMV and ISO) and various file formats, including MKV, MP4, TS, and M2TS. It supports all mainstream Dolby Vision profiles, utilising extended Dolby Vision metadata and transmitting it to the TV to enhance picture quality.

Dolby Vision® VS10 Image Engine

The advanced Dolby Vision VS10 video processing engine ensures the highest image quality when playing any type of content (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision) with any type of video output signal (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision). It improves the quality of SDR/HDR/Dolby Vision conversion, minimising the colour banding effect. This benefit extends even to older TVs that do not support Dolby Vision. Moreover, the Z30 PRO's VS10 engine, further developed by Zidoo, can be customized to optimize the viewing experience for different content

HDR10+

The Z30 PRO is compatible with HDR10+ technology. HDR10+ is the latest and most advanced HDR technology, enhancing the viewing experience beyond HDR10. HDR10+ represents the dynamic range of video content on a per-scene (or even per-frame) basis, providing essential scene characteristics with minimal metadata to preserve important details. While static HDR uses a uniform static tone mapping throughout the content's duration, HDR10+ employs dynamic tone mapping to optimize each scene, individually increasing brightness and contrast to match the capabilities of the display.

12 Bit Colour Depth

The Z30 PRO not only supports 10 Bit (approximately 1.07 billion colours) decoding and output at the resolution of 4K 60Hz, but also supports 12 Bit (approximately 68 billion colours) colour output. The 12 Bit colour depth has more balanced colour representation and natural colour transition.

Accurate Frame Rate Switching

The Z30 PRO supports switching original resolution and frame rate automatically and accurately (23.976, 59.94, 25, 30, 50 and 60). The new automatic switching algorithm allows completing the film frame rate switching in advance to ensure smooth and integral film playback.

Cool Poster Wall

The Z30 PRO comes with new movie posters management system. It has concise navigation, personalized category, record viewing and custom collection etc. It makes movie collection more convenient and fully improves the efficiency of mass movies management.

Smooth Blu-ray Seamless Branching Playback

Z30 PRO optimizes the video playback engine, which improves the Blu-ray seamless branching playback and says goodbye to stuttering and messy playback issues. BD and UHD Blu-ray navigation are played just like enjoying movies in a cinema.

Wider Colour Range

Z30 PRO supports BT.2020 wide colour range which could display 75% nature colours and closer to what human eyes could see, while traditional BT.709 could only display 35% nature colours. It has bright and eye-catching colours, rich and full images, and a better sense of space, three dimension and layering.

Smooth Blu-ray Seamless Gapless Branching Playback

Z30 PRO optimises the video playback engine, which improves the Blu-ray seamless branching playback and says goodbye to stuttering and messy playback issues. BD and UHD Blu-ray menus are played with authentic viewing experience.

Powerful Subtitle Features

The Z30 PRO features Zidoo's most powerful subtitle system to date. It supports all forms of special effect subtitles, including built-in/external ASS and built-in/external SUP. All text subtitles (including ASS) can have their position, size, colour, font, and timeline (advance or delay by up to 10 minutes) adjusted. The brightness, position, and size of PGS/SUP subtitles can also be adjusted. The resizing of ASS and PGS subtitles is not a simple full-frame adjustment but is instead region-specific based on the subtitle display position, ensuring that resizing does not alter the relative position of special effect subtitles. The Z30 PRO supports mounting two subtitles simultaneously, allowing for the display of both Chinese and English subtitles at the same time. It also supports forced subtitles for PGS based on the original disc and SRT in MKV files.

Music Library Management

The Zidoo music library offers powerful local music playback function and comprehensive local music management. You can add music files from local hard drives or network storage across platforms. The Zidoo music library will automatically fetch music information from the cloud, matching music artists, album covers, descriptions, local CUE files, and more to create a personalized music database. It supports personalized categorization of music by genre, sampling rate, album, artist, and more. You can create custom playlists and it supports high-resolution audio files (such as DSF, DFF, SACD ISO, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, APE, ALAC). The library also supports gapless playback at the same sampling rate and playback gain features.

Music Streaming

The Z30 PRO can be used as a network music streamer, supporting Tidal Connect streaming and DLNA casting. This means you can use music streaming apps installed on mobile devices within the same local network to wirelessly stream or cast high-quality music to the Z30 PRO for playback. This allows you to enjoy more selection of online music services and experience lossless playback with superior sound quality on the device at the same time.

Lossless Music Playback

Support master-level DSD (SACD ISO, DFF, DSF, DSD etc.), regular lossless formats (FLAC, WAV, APE, DTS etc.), CUE track and CD-ROM playback (CD-ROM is not included).

Multiple Network Protocols

The Z30 PRO supports NFS, SMB v1/2/3, and UPnP sharing protocols, allowing users to browse and play multimedia content saved on NAS or network drives connected in the same LAN with gigabit network. Even high-bit rate DSD512 master recordings can be played without stuttering.
Additionally, it supports mounting and streaming from various cloud storage services such as WebDAV.

Powerful File Management and Transfer Capabilities

The Z30 PRO features a comprehensive media file management system. It allows you to perform regular quick edit and management operations such as copying, pasting, cutting, and deleting files on local hard drives and network storage.

Comprehensive Smart Control

The Z30 PRO offers advanced smart control with specially developed Android/iPhone/iPad apps. In addition to basic playback control and system settings, the app allows asynchronous viewing of music library data, system applications, and menus. You can also browse and select built-in streaming services through the control app, making it very convenient to play songs or view music data; For better control, the Z30 PRO also comes with a remote control that supports infrared mode; The Z30 PRO also supports WOL (Wake-on-LAN) functionality (requiring a wired network connection), enabling remote control for turning the device on and off on the app.