Zidoo Z9X 8K UHD Media Player

Z9X 8K - High-End 8K Ultimate Experience

The Zidoo Z9X 8K is a full spec 8K UHD media player designed for high end home theatre systems, featuring a powerful new Amlogic S928X-K chipset, 6GB DDR4 RAM and 64GB eMMC internal storage.

The Z9X 8K features newly developed cross-platform player architecture, offering exceptional compatibility with audio/video & subtitles, as well as providing excellent AV synchronisation and rendering performance. Combined with the new VPU video processing engine, the Z9X 8K now supports almost all Dolby Vision formats with direct metadata output. Users can also customise the VS10 Dolby Commercial Quality Engine based on content, and the new Poster Wall 4.0 management system & Music Player 8.0 are now available.

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
• Supports external 16TB large capacity SATA hard drive
• Also supports external CD-ROM drive to play original CDs
• Supports acquiring and processing HDR10+ dynamic metadata, colours and brightness are processed frame by frame and scene by scene
• Advanced Dolby Vision technology supports LLDV (Player Led) and Standard mode (TV Led) output
• 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, 8.64MB)

Powerful CPU

The Z9X 8K 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 Workmanship

The all-metal chassis of the Z9X 8K is both easy on the eyes as well as durable. The Z9X 8K is designed to look good enough to sit alongside your other AV equipment and the alloy chassis of the Z9X PRO aids in keeping the media player cool even in heavy use. The black sandblasted surface has a high-class feel, and the workmanship that has gone into the design and details is apparent.

Multiple Connections

The Z9X 8K has many connections to meet home theatre enthusiast's needs, including Toslink Optical, 3.5mm AUX audio, HDMI, Gibabit Ethernet, multiple USB 3.0 ports & Sata (on side on 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 Z9X 8K 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, utilizing 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, minimizing the colour banding effect. This benefit extends even to older TVs that do not support Dolby Vision. Moreover, the Z9X 8K's VS10 engine, further developed by Zidoo, can be customized to optimize the viewing experience for different content

HDR10+

The Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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

Z9X 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

Z9X 8K 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

Z9X 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 menus are played with authentic viewing experience.

Powerful Subtitle Features

The Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K 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 Z9X 8K also comes with a remote control that supports infrared mode; The Z9X 8K 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.