[sirmedia]

I finally had a chance to play with the Vidon box today and I have a few questions/problems.
Here's what I did:
- I applied all updates (SDK, VMC, XBMC), the initial setup took a while with all the updates, and it walked me through the same questions at least a couple of times
- I selected HDMI, 1080p, 60Hz, 100% scaling, audio pass-through. My receiver is a Denon AVR-3808CI capable of HD audio (tested with blu-ray players and also a Windows based HTPC, all HD audio bitstreaming works)

Problems:
- Cannot get HD audio bitstreaming working. I tried both versions of XBMC that are on the box, all updates applied, configured for audio pass-through and DTS-HD checked. When I play a Blu-ray rip (done with MakeMKV) the receiver shows PCM and the sound is garbage. If I disable DTS-HD in XBMC then I at least get DTS.
- Lip-sync issues, the video seems to be slightly behind the audio.
- Netflix does not work. I updated to the latest version of Netflix from the Play Store, I get audio and subtitles but the video is all black. I get some images once in a while for a few seconds and it goes back to black.
- The box feels sluggish overall, apps are slow to start and seeking within movies is slow too. The movies are served via NFS from a Linux server, all is Gigabit wired, so no wifi issues here.

For comparison, I tried a Google Nexus Player, Amazon Fire TV box (AFTV), Win 8.1 Intel NUC i3 HTPC, OpenELEC on an HTPC, Chromecast, Fire TV stick. All with the same AVR and TV. From all of the above, for me the Win 8.1 NUC is hard to beat, everything just works once set up (though I do not enjoy using or maintaining Windows and I'm hoping I can move away from it some day). After that I like the AFTV -- I'm lucky that I was able to root mine. Nexus Player I was not impressed with, I found the wifi pretty weak (I prefer wired connections). OpenELEC was very nice for XBMC but I have to use Netflix and Amazon Prime Videos.

Unfortunately the Vidon box is the most problematic, pretty much unusable for me in its current state. If there's anything I should try to make it better please let me know, before I disconnect it from the setup and put it back in its box.