Can one box serve all your multimedia needs – umm, YES
If you are looking for the home theater experience, go like the pros with the Zappiti Pro 4K HDR, a sleek media player for video, photos and music. It was recently awarded the EISA Award for Best Product 2020-2021.
Not only does this French-made Pro 4K hold up to an incredible 32TB of content, it will also enable you to stream content from NAS devices, PCs and external USB devices. So, no matter how large your digital collection is, the Pro 4K HDR can make it available locally or through the Zappiti Music and Video apps on your phone or tablet.
You can feed multiple rooms with different content at the same time via your network. I’m listening to my music collection via the Zappiti box, while running my drone aerial footage on my PC monitors, both being served up from the Zappiti SATA drive.
There are two easily accessible drive bays on the front of the unit, and you can start out with one smaller SATA HDD and hot swap larger ones later as your collection grows.
As the unit boots up, you are provided with a home screen and three large buttons – one for video, one for music and an explorer window for navigating to additional content throughout your network. There’s also an apps button that will take you to all sorts of additional functionality, such as the Media Browser that allows slideshows (with or without music) displayed with the Ken Burns effect for subtle zooms into the photos.
Media playback is flawless, the picture quality is outstanding, audio is perfect…there’s not much more you can ask for. The functionality of this ‘one-box-does-everything’ unit is amazing, and with all the media types that it recognizes, your entertainment can be non-stop.
Visual presentation of your movie collection is beautiful
Not only does the Pro 4K HDR index your entire video library, it displays it elegantly as well. Get full cover art and media information with automatic category indexing of movies and TV shows, all without a computer necessary. While looking at the thumbnails of each show, it will play soundtrack extracts.
A powerful menu system allows you to swap artwork for any movie with your picture of choice.
Use Zappiti’s powerful search engine to filter by actor, director, length, rating, release date and more.
Create collections for each family member and enable parental controls if needed.
Movies are marked as Seen or Ongoing and TV shows automatically que up the next episode when each is finished.
Watch trailers for your movies as well as read short synopsis, and watch other associated content like making-of, deleted scenes, extracts, reviews, blooper reels and listen to soundtracks.
Getting into the Zappiti specs
Play HDR video in BluRay or 4K definition at 50 HZ or 60 Hz. (HDMI 2.0a). Actually, it will handle standard def, 1080p, Ultra HD (3840x2160p) and true 4K (4096x2160p) up to 12 bit by primary color. It features auto framerate detection 24/50/60p.
Two HDMI outputs allow separation of video and audio for ultimate enjoyment.
Two USB ports (one 2.0 and one 3.0) on the rear enable you to connect a mouse and keyboard, making indexing and defining your content that much easier. [Caution – the mouse and keyboard do not work for all functions.]
A third USB-C port enables high speed transfer of files to the unit. On the front of the unit is a fourth USB port for convenient attachment of external drives with even more content.
An ethernet port connects to your local network and allows unlimited NAS drive integration.
Full range of A/V Connectors with S/’PDIF coaxial and optical audio output, audio analog output, CVBS, HDMI 2.0 CEC, HDMI audio only, HDMI input, zero signal output, and a 6.5 mm headphone jack on the front face.
Wi-Fi 5 GHz enabled with 2 removable antennas for playing and transferring content wirelessly.
With great specs like these, even the R-type transformer is top quality for ultra-low audio/video noise.
Be sure to check out the Zappiti Pro 4K HDR webpage for so much more information about the unit and its quality components. It is no wonder why it was selected as Best Product of 2020-2021. Next, find a reseller around the world with this list.
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