[ppoulos]

I get what you are saying, I think the majority of people with boxes like these, and I include the Nvidia Shield here think because it can playback some low bitrate avc mkv with vanilla flavoured DTS at ' whatever' refresh rate the box defaults too as well as a game of Minecraft that the box is brilliant.
It is when you get people like me and you who care about refresh rates, have spent lots of money on DTS:X systems and want to playback high quality files at the best they can be that we unearth the problems and boy is there a lot.
To summarise, the masses are not the ones that Android box developers should be catering for, it is me and you who want the device to do what they say it can do.
P.s. I have found turning off the force 24hz option and setting the box to output 24hz manually in 4:4:4 (Auto) mode solves a lot of problems.
Or try switching to 4:2:2, that seems to be a good option with 24hz forced.

I agree with your sentiments.

As far as getting 24Hz refresh rate to work I first set my zidoo box to all the recommended settings shown in the Photo Gallery, but that did not fix any problems. Now per your recommendations I have tried to turn off the Force 24hz option without much improvement. I can set the display to AUTO, 4:4:4 or 4:2:2 but I cannot see were the box would output 24hz "manually". In any case I still get bad video stuttering (mainly using NFS, but again less with SMB).

Boy this box has some serious issues to fix!