Zidoo X6 Pro TV Box Review, reviewed by Android TV Box Review

The Zidoo X6 Pro Tv Box has a nice build quality that mixes aluminum and plastic, without feeling fragile or cheap. Its dimensions allow you to store it easily since it’s not overly big and it’s more on the thin side. To control this box, a remote is included. It enables you to perform all the basic functions you’d expect from an included remote and communicates via IR with the box. To get more precision and features, you might want to use a wireless HTPC keyboard, or download one of the remote apps for Android, like Kore or Yatse.

Design & Connections:

While it looks quite attractive the silver effect casing of the box feels very flimsy and lightweight and it’s also very small (110x110x20mm), which might be a worry in terms of cooling. There’s an infra-red receiver panel at the front which also contains the blue power light, which shines a little too bright, for our liking, especially when the lights are low.

features of the X6

The supplied remote is slightly above average in this product category with a rounded design and pleasantly rubberized buttons. All the most used buttons are at the top and in the center, so we’ve no complaints about the layout either. One bonus feature of the X6 is the ability to power off the box using one press on the remote control button; it might not sound like much but it makes it unique amongst Android boxes. Connections are on the left-hand side and at the rear and include two USB version 2.0, a Micro SD card slot, a Toslink digital audio out, an HDMI 2.0 port and the LAN connection.

User Interface & Features:

It’s slightly ironic that having heaped praise on Zidoo in the past for their flair in designing attractive and well-planned user interfaces that they seem to have somewhat mimicked one from one of their competitors (Minix) with the X6. It’s clean and easy to use with an array of customisable shortcut tiles and it’s easy to navigate using the remote control. We actually prefer a couple of Zidoo’s previous efforts, to be honest, so they should have just stuck with those.

Audio/Video Performance:

Zidoo has evidently spent quite some time honing both their firmware and specially tailoring a version of KODI in order to meet some of their lofty pre-release claims; the results have been semi-to-very successful. It needs to be stated that the review is based upon firmware v1.0.16, although there is a beta version which might fix some of the issues that do exist.

A near holy grail in any media player – for a vocal minority, at least – is full support for 3D playback; by that we mean the frame-packed type – rather than side by side, explanation here – which produces higher resolution 3D images with more depth. Unfortunately, this feature is not properly working on the X6, at the moment, and frame packed 3D ISO is being displayed as half side by side, both in KODi and the built-in player. To be honest, most people couldn’t care less about 3D but since the fact that Zidoo was causing such a fuss about this very feature, pre-release, and it prospectively put the X6 Pro into a near-unique position, it is a very big miss. As we said above, Zidoo is working hard to fix the problem but we could hold off no longer waiting for the update.

Zidoo is to be congratulated on releasing their KODI source code, for all to see, which should hopefully have the benefit of better support for the chipset in regular KODI releases going forwards; for now, it is much better to use Zidoo XBMC. As an aside, the release of the source code has allowed the KODI developers to add support for playback of 3D ISO on the Raspberry Pi so it surely won’t be long before Zidoo gets it right on their own player.

Main Features:

● High-performance 64bit chipset will give you smoothly using experience

● 2GB DDR3 RAM + 16GB ROM will give you more space to download your favorite Apps to browse websites, play games,      watch movies more smoothly

● 1000M LAN can improve the net speed and the performance to a large extent

● Easy pairing with most Bluetooth-enabled devices

Where to buy Zidoo X6 Pro TV Box

You can buy the Zidoo X6 Pro TV Box from GearBest, Amazon or Ebay

 

 

 

Specifications:

Brand: ZIDOO
Model: X6 Pro
Type: TV Box
System: Android 5.1
Processor: RK3368
CPU: ARM Cortex-A53
Core: 1.6GHz,Octa Core
GPU: PowerVR G6110
RAM: 2G
RAM Type: DDR3
ROM: 16G
Max. Extended Capacity: 32G
TV Box Features: 5.1 Surround Sound Output
Color: White

Media Supported

Decoder Format: H.263,H.264,HD MPEG4
Video format: ASF,AVS,H.263,H.264,MPEG-4,MPEG1,MPEG2,RV,VC-1,VP6,VP8
Audio format: AAC,AC3,AMR-NB,DTS,FLAC,MP3,OGG,WAV,WMA
Photo Format: BMP,GIF,JPEG,PNG,TIFF
Support 5.1 Surround Sound Output: Yes

Product Details

5G WiFi: Yes
Bluetooth: Bluetooth4.0
Power Supply: Charge Adapter
Interface: CVBS/L/R,DC 5V,HDMI,Micro SD Card Slot,Optical,USB2.0
Language: Multi-language
DVD Support: No
HDMI Version: 2.0
Other Functions: 3D Games,3D Video,DLNA,ISO Files,Miracast,NTSC,PAL
HDMI Function: CEC
RJ45 Port Speed: 1000M

Firmware Information

System Bit: 64Bit

Power Requirement

Power Type: External Power Adapter Mode

Battery Information

Remote Controller Battery: 2 x AAA batteries

Dimension and Weight

Product weight: 0.1350 kg
Package weight: 0.6080 kg
Product size (L x W x H): 10.90 x 10.90 x 2.00 cm / 4.29 x 4.29 x 0.79 inches
Package size (L x W x H): 17.90 x 14.40 x 6.50 cm / 7.05 x 5.67 x 2.56 inches

Package Contents

Zidoo X6 Pro TV Box
Power Charger, 1 x Power Adaptor
HDMI Cable, 1 x Remote Control
English Manual

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