What I learned about 3D using Active (Shutter) glasses is that you need perfect eyesight at viewing distance with both eyes. If unpaired even marginally eye strain will be the result in various degrees. That is not so strange after all as eyeview is being flipped constantly. Had myself a pair of cinema glasses made (fixed viewing distance) special for this. Resulted in a view without any problems watching full length movies. Love to watch 3D in my cinema with my Epson projector, really as spectacular as in a real cinema. Many new movies are still released with 3D. I think it will come back again with TV's some day too. 3D always has been a rollercoaster ride. Some fifties movies are really great in 3D!
interesting. personally, i would rather have better color and higher refresh rate. those horizontal panning stutters always drive me nut. but if one day, we can have 3d in addition to those 2, im all for it.
"Panning stutters" are really bad on OLED. I can't take those without frame interpolation motion processing. It's like 2 steps forward and one back on 24 fps - shaking the TV apart
Active glasses operate at 60 Hz only. The best image that I find is using frame interpolation at the highest setting. It regenerates missing frames to allow for even 60 fps per eye. The movie looks like it was filmed at 60 fps with black frame insertion known on Sony devices. Using true 24 fps movie with 60 Hz glasses generates 3:2 pulldown out of sync between left and right eye. 3D motion looks just wrong in this setup. I find eye strain from Epson projector when going to full blast power to fight dark active glasses. There is some UV light leaking through at that point and constant flickering of active glasses. On the other hand big screen 150" of 3D is truly spectacular We better go back to Z9X. Good news is it has 3D sticker!
No news yet, but given the new 1619 Dune is supposed to be due in June I'd hope Zidoo would follow suit.
I think it will be availability this summer but I think I will turn to a Dune HD Pro 4K II which will be available soon and I hope with a future compactible firmware HDR10 + and Dolby Vision
Hello "Markswift2003", you prefer which machine in terms of image quality between the shield pro 2019 and the z9s?
I use and prefer the Z9S for 4K local playback (UHD BluRay remuxes) - I only use the Shield for online services such as Netflix, Amazon and occasionally YouTube. As long as the source files are good enough, the image quality of the Z9S is pretty much the same as any high end BluRay player.
The first time I tried the animated drawing hotel transylvania 3 in UHD on the z9s, I was speechless !!! I have a sony upb x700 player, I preferred the z9s!
No, I've been through more media players than I care to mention over the years, but since I got the Zidoo I've stopped looking at others - it fulfills my particular requirements perfectly.
Beelink is geared as Kodi media player for streaming services. It includes Netflix 4K player from what I see from reviews. Don’t know if it actually uses its own hardware player or native Kodi player. Network performance as is low, no NAS functionality and Atmos sound is questionable. It is for people looking for Kodi streaming services and IPTV player. Zidoo is designed as high end media player using your own local library. You need to define your needs first. Those two are not directly competing players.
I think that's a requirement of the studios - that's certainly the case with the Panasonics - HD audio is blocked from network playback.
