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Sorry forgot to mention, don't know if it has anything to do, but I do own an LG OLED 77 C1.
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There's no dolby vision support on the Odroid N2 (well, with Coreelec, anyway) - so you might want to ask elsewhere. Other than DV, the Odroid N2+ with Coreelec is a rock solid, fabulous 4K/HDR Kodi player...best I've ever used, by far.
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Glad to hear that. So if I understand correctly. The N2+ doesn't support Dolby vision (but can still play them), but uses up to the color gamut of HDR on DV videos .Correct?
Also how would you compare this to a Nvidia Shield Pro. Keep in mind I don't Give a s... of streaming content, just interested in local content. My question is in term of scrolling down on a huge library any lag loading the images of covers? I would love to see a video of someone just scrolling a big library.
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You will get massive green/purple shifts playing DV content (but yes, it can send it to the screen as such). But the colour shift is massive - the point of unwatchable. All other HDR formats play fine. And at correct frame rates etc.
If playing local content only, just avoid anything in DV, go for the HDR10+, HDR10, or PQ version instead. Having played back DV via the TV apps, and the same thing in HDR10+, the difference is negligible....you're really not missing much. And the N2+ is zippy across the board.
In general my impression of the shield is _way_ more bugs and issues.
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I just wanted to confirm before I purchased, that the N2+ (2GB) can properly play Hi10 formatted mkv's?
Would anyone consider the need for the 4GB version for anything in the future, or perhaps a need for retro emulation?
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10 bit files? No problems....
I went for 4Gb, just in case I want to later re-purpose them for other things when the next wizz bank Kodi box comes along...but I'm pretty sure from the Kodi perspective it makes zero difference.
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(note that what I said about DV files going green/purple is for files with _only_ DV - if they have an HDR10 fallback layer, they should play back fine, but I just avoid anything with DV altogether...)
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I have played 8 bit and 10 bit HDR and non-HDR content without any issues on my N2 with CoreElec. I thought it would do DV well, but it does not. Not a big issue, I can play HDR just fine.
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ATV4K has some irritating issues, like true 24p playback (not 23.976 fps) not working properly and audio bitstreaming doesn't work. I'm not even sure if MrMC or Infuse play all DV files. Apple has not made it easy for the devs.
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Your alternative for N2s is to buy from a local reseller, that will then be bound by the law in your country (e.g. in Australia, the Aus. Consumer Law is very powerful and would not let a reseller limit a product to 4 weeks warranty...)
That being said, I've bought a bunch of these (N2s and N2+) from HK directly. Never had any issues with the hardware so far. And they're cheap enough I'm willing to take a reasonable punt and 'self insure here'. (Compared to the days of buying NUCs, or building HTPCs etc, these things are so cheap and so good it's amazing....)
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