Key Feature

• New generation Amlogic S928X-K 64-bit penta-core A76 + A55 high-performance multi-functional processor.
• 8GB DDR4 RAM + 64GB eMMC storage, providing smooth operation, meets the needs for installing numerous applications.
• Dual HDMI audio and video separate output can enjoy 4K video and HD audio at the same time without upgrading AV receiver.
• Smooth Android 11 OS significantly improved system performance and stability.
• Aluminum alloy brushed panel, large LED display panel, high quality switch power supply.
• Hidden NSS patented HDD bay supports capacity up to 16TB; Built-in Wi-Fi and BT Antenna.
• HDMI 2.1® supports 8K 60Hz point-to-point output, supports HDR (HDR10/HLG/HDR10+/Dolby Vision).
• Supports AV1/VP9/H.265/AVS3/AVS2 video codecs, 12-bit, BT.2020 wide color range; supports Atmos/DTS X audio pass-through output.
• Built-in VS10 image quality engine is highly customizable, significantly improving image quality by custom mapping different video modes.
• Processing HDR10 static metadata (MaxFall, MaxCll) more accurately which shows higher brightness and deeper darkness level.
• Supports acquiring and processing HDR10+ dynamic metadata, colors 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 local playback and online streaming).
• Supports BD/UHD Blu-ray menu playback and gapless branching playback of Blu-rays with complex MPLS structure.
• Supports lossless music playback in formats like DSD (SACD ISO, DSF, DFF), WAV, APE, DTS.
• Supports special effect subtitles, automatic download of network subtitles; Zidoo is the only one among the field to support Blu-ray and MKV dual forced subtitle.
• Supports multiple music streaming methods, such as DLNA, Tidal Connect, etc.
• New Poster Wall 4.0 supports movie trailers and user-friendly custom classification and management.
• Upgraded music player 8.0 with brand new UI main interface, supports lossless playback and decoding, personalized settings, song data matching.
• Supports HDMI® CEC control, RS232 control, Control 4, seamless integration into smart home.
• Supports the exclusive Zidoo Controller APP for iOS and Android mobile phones, iPad landscape mode and Android tablet landscape mode, which can seamlessly play and control Zidoo media players.
• Supports access to network protocols like NFS, SMB v1/v2/v3, UPnP, Web DAV, and built-in SMB service.

Extraordinary 8K UHD

The Z3000 PRO is an 8K media player compatible with Dolby Vision and HDR10+ and built with high level craftsmanship all round. Equipped with a powerful Amlogic S928X-K chipset and 8GB DDR4 + 64GB eMMC of internal storage. The Z3000 PRO features dual HDMI port audio/video separation technology, developed by Zidoo. The HDMI main port is equipped with HDMI 2.1, supporting up to 8K/60 output. The second HDMI port is dedicated to audio only. The audio-video separation technology is better compatible with existing AV receivers and integrated receivers, no need to upgrade to 8K AV receivers.

Powerful CPU

The Z3000 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.

High Quality Power Supply

Z3000 PRO has a high quality switching power supply, which has metal shielding treatment to effectively reduce the external magnetic field interference and ensure better audio and video output.

Exquisite Craftsmanship

The Z3000 PRO features a metal body with a beautifully symmetrical design and military-grade quality. Large LED front panel display supports brightness adjustment. HDD bay and antennas are hidden in the chassis, which makes the whole device look more exquisite and beautiful.

Efficient and Convenient HDD Bay

The Z3000 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 Interfaces

Z3000 PRO has many interfaces, meeting home theatre enthusiasts' needs for connecting various AV equipment.

Large Memory and Smooth Response

8GB of new-generation DDR4 RAM provides fast & smooth playback response while enjoying wonderful movies and music. 64GB eMMC internal storage meets the needs for installing numerous applications, creating more possibilities for audio-visual entertainment.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

The Z3000 PRO is equipped with a built-in 2.4G+5G dual-band 2R2T MIMO Wi-Fi module that supports Wi-Fi 6, offering wireless transmission speeds of up to 1201Mbps. This ensures a stable and high-speed connection even in harsh network environments. Additionally, it features Bluetooth 5.2, supporting a wider range of Bluetooth connections such as remote controls, mice, speakers, and headphones.

Dual HDMI A/V Separate Output

Zidoo has pioneered the development of dual HDMI audio/video separation technology based on two custom chips. Utilising digital separation technology, it efficiently isolates interference. The HDMI Main port is equipped with HDMI 2.1, supporting up to 8K/60 output. Two high-precision audio-specific crystal oscillators reconstruct the clock for the HDMI Audio Only output port, accurately reproducing sound and greatly improving audio quality (supports multi-channel DSD 64 Native output). The audio/video separation technology is better compatible with existing AV receivers and integrated receivers, no need to update AV receivers for 8K support.

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 Z3000 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, 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 Z3000 PRO's VS10 engine, further developed by Zidoo, can be customized to optimize the viewing experience for different content.

HDR10+

The Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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

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

Z3000 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

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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 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 Z3000 PRO also comes with a remote control that supports infrared mode; The Z3000 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.

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