The Android TV box market is growing rapidly. But the competition among the manufacturers is low for these devices because of Amlogic’s very aggressive and successful policy. This chip maker offers various SoCs to the TV box manufacturers. So latter have only a few things to do to come in with a final product. The market has given up. Amlogic has a monopoly in the market where the pricing varies from $40-60. In the price range of $20-40, Rockchip is doing its best to survive. No seems it has no chances against the ultra-budget S905W. However, there is an invisible wall at the border of $100. Thus the premium TV boxes that cost above $100 need something more. Even the Minix Neo U9-H with the AMLogic S912-H is trying to take a punch hardly. Amlogic has few chances because of the Realtek RTD1295DD that stands guard at the wall. The best models with this chip are the Zidoo X8, Zidoo X9S, and Zidoo X10. The latter is considered as a high-end Android TV box with astonishing features. And now you are offered to get your hands on it for only $199.00 after applying the coupon (code: ZIDOOX10).
Many wonder why the Zidoo X10 is so big. But it’s designed so to carry a 3.5? hard drive. Moreover, there is a built-in cooling fan, which ensures optimum operating temperature inside the box. Apart from this, the housing is made of an aviation aluminum alloy giving the user premium feeling.
On the front, it has a big VFD screen to display all important information you need.
Three USB ports are placed on the right side. One of them is v3.0, while the next two are regular USB 2.0 ports.
All other ports are located on the back side of the optical port (2CH, 5.1CH), TF card reader, HDMI in, HDMI out, and of course gigabit LAN port.
The remote control comes with tons of buttons to implement various operations on the Zidoo X10. It is backlit. So nothing will prevent users from interacting with it in the dark.
As for the Zidoo X10 hardware and performance, it comes with a Realtek 1295DD quad-core CPU running up to 1.4GHz. And though it yields the Amlogic S912 CPU in terms of frequency, this is not the case when we can judge about a product via the specs written on the paper. This chipset supports HEVC 10 Bit, 4K 3D movies, and HDR HDMI IN function including HDMI-in recording. This TV box is also packed with an ARM Mali T820 tri-core GPU at 750MHz, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and 16GB of internal storage. It supports an 802.11ac dual-band 2.4GHz + 5.8GHz WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.
At last, the Zidoo X10 runs on Zidoo trademark software called ZIUI, which is based on Android 6.0. It is considered to be one of the best user interfaces seen on a TV box. It comes with a custom version of Kodi 16 called ZDMC.
