Dolby Vision and HDR10+

The best possible picture technologies for an incredible home cinema experience

Zappiti Media Players

The Uncompromised Audiovisual Quality Of The Original Film

Zappiti designs and manufactures only professional grade Video Management Systems; delivering the highest quality, outstanding performance and best possible user experience.

All the Zappiti products are designed to provide our end-user customers with convenient and intuitive access to their entire movie library collection, in stunning 4K High-Definition resolution. Your movie files are delivered to your private cinema with the highest video quality available and pure high fidelity, lossless reproductions of the original motion picture soundtracks. The Zappiti Neo combines the best performance possible with an utterly unique design for high-end home entertainment.

Our award-winning user interface Zappiti Video provides the best AI available on the market to organize your movie library. Zappiti Video offers advanced features that allow you to play trailers, create custom categories or groups of movies, browse while listening to the original soundtracks of your movies in the background, customize the homepage and buttons, special top banners such as director's cut or unrated editions, access to the online additional contents, or add your personal movie covers,

background, or soundtrack. In addition, the parental control code protects your kids from adult content.

The Zappiti Neo supports the majority of digital audio and video formats, including the most modern 4K HDR standards such as Dolby Vision and HDR10+, almost all recent video file formats, full BD/UHD Menus, HEVC video codec with one billion colours (10-Bit colour encoding), VP-9, 3D video standards with 3D subtitles, high-resolution audio files such as DSD, FLAC, ALAC, and MQA, and features a wide solid chassis, dual HDMI output, 4K 60p, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X for the best possible home theatre experience. 

Zappiti HDR Range
Comparison

The ultra-vivid image of innovative visual technology Dolby Vision® brings characters to life with darker darks, brighter brights, and a remarkable colour range you can’t get anywhere else.

Experience a remarkable colour palette, sharper contrasts, and incredible brightness that feel more like looking through a window than at a screen. This is HDR-like you've never seen it before.

Discover subtle details you simply can’t see with a standard picture, for a viewing experience without compromise, just as the filmmakers and creators intended.

Zappiti Neo media player supports direct playback of full Blu-ray disc images (BDMV and ISO) with menus in Dolby Vision (MEL and FEL), as well as various file formats including MKV, MP4, TS, and M2TS. All popular Dolby Vision profiles (P4, P5, P7 MEL and FEL, P8) are supported. The extended Dolby Vision metadata is used and transmitted to the TV to improve picture quality.

Dolby Vision®
VS10 Video Processing 

The advanced Dolby Vision VS10 video processing engine ensures maximum image quality when playing any type of content (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision) with any type of video output signal (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision), improves the SDR/HDR/Dolby Vision conversion quality, minimizes the effect of "posterization" ("banding") due to more advanced 12-bit video processing. This gives benefits even when using the media player with older TVs that do not support Dolby Vision.

HDR10+

The Zappiti Neo is compatible with HDR10+ technology. HDR10+ is the latest and most advanced HDR technology, building upon HDR10 to further enhance the viewing experience. HDR10+ signals not just the dynamic range (the ratio of light to dark) of video content on a scene-by-scene (or even frame-by-frame) basis, it also provides, with minimal metadata, the scene characteristics between bright and dark so that important detail can be kept. This enables displays to reproduce images more realistically, adhering to the creator’s intent. Whereas static HDR, such as HDR10, utilizes static tone mapping uniformly across the duration of the content, HDR10+ employs dynamic tone mapping to optimize each scene, individually increasing brightness and adding contrast to fit within a display’s capabilities.

Ultra HD 4K.

Zappiti Neo features HDMI 2.0b output to provide ideal compatibility with the latest UHD 4K video content such as HDR. Zappiti MagicPixel upscales your video files up to UHD (3840x2160) into 4x times Full HD! The high-quality upgrade dramatically improves video image quality.

HDR > SDR

With the VS10 processor, any HDR content is converted into traditional SDR with perfect colour grading. In addition, the Zappiti MagicPixel processing converts Ultra HD video content into extremely high-quality 1080p uncompressed 4:4:4 video for viewing 4K content on Full HD 1080p displays. This process increases the resolution by about 30% compared to Blu-ray on a 1080p TV or projector. With Zappiti MagicPixel v3 and VS10 technologies combined, you can benefit from the benefits of the 4K UHD contents on your 1080p TV or projector. Less compression. More colours. More details! For some 4K projectors, the HDR > SDR conversion by Zappiti provides even better results than the direct HDR display managed by your projector. 

DVD, Blu-ray & UHD Menu Support

Display the DVD, Blu-ray and UHD menus and get access to additional content (director's cuts, theatrical versions, bonus extras, bookmarks, etc.) This feature is compatible with both ISO and BDMV (DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D and 4K UHD). Or, if you do not want to display menus, you can start a movie immediately without trailers or warnings. The seamless branching is also perfectly supported for perfect gapless playback on director cut editions.

With its 3.5 "SATA hot-swap rack, the Zappiti Neo is capable of supporting up to 20TB of data internally; the equivalent of about 500 Blu-rays or 250 Ultra HD Blu-ray (bit-perfect) on a single hard disk. And as it is possible to exchange hard drives, you have no capacity limit! With the Zappiti Neo, you no longer need to worry about storage problems. Zappiti Video can manage one collection for each drive or one collection for all your drives as you wish. 

Hard drive not included.

HDD
Slot

Hi-Quality Backlit RC.

Easily control the Zappiti Neo media player with the IR remote control (accessory included). You can also control the player using a wireless mouse or keyboard (not supplied). In addition, the Zappiti Neo can be controlled by the leading brands of universal remote controls such as Crestron, ProControl, RTI, Control4, Elan, Savant or Logitech Harmony.

Direct access & shortcut buttons.

Switch instantly from one application to another (Zappiti or Explorer) using the direct access buttons: image ratio, 3D, subtitles, audio tracks, repeat mode, ... The remote control of the Zappiti Neo features a true STOP button and direct playback access to 1 min. forward / backwards and 10 sec. forward / backwards.

Wide Range IR Sensor

The Zappiti Neo features a high sensibility infrared sensor that covers a wide-angle on long-distance (60° / 26 ft). In addition, the remote control is equipped with two IR diodes.

IR Extender.

The Zappiti Neo comes with an IR extender. This allows you to place your Zappiti Neo behind closed doors in a cabinet or in another room and still be able to control them from in front of your TV. It comes with self-stick tape on the back of the IR bud for easy installation on any flat surface.

Astonishing GUI

Zappiti Neo includes Zappiti Video — the best entertainment hub available on the market, featuring an impressive user interface with movie covers. Zappiti scans your video content (movies and tv shows) located on a local drive connected to your Zappiti player, or on a NAS through the local network. Zappiti then collects the cover art and various info such as casting, director, release date, rating, etc. Sit back in your home theatre seat with your friends or family. Choose your film easily. Browse a genre. Sort movies by rating, duration, or release date. Read a synopsis. Watch the trailer. Then, press PLAY to enjoy your movie. After the end credits roll, eventually watch the extras or wait for the auto-launch of the next episode of your favourite tv show.

Several graphical templates are available (classic or silver*). *The silver template is sold as an option.

Zappiti Video is compatible with multiple collections of video content and switching from one to another easily.

Zappiti Video features an astonishing GUI, and optional beautiful skins. Zappiti features an automatic top banner (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, etc...), and a special top banner for Final Cut, Director's Cut, Theatrical Cut, Unrated, Disc 1/2, Bonus, Concert, Special Edition, etc. It also features 2.35:1 mode, soundtracks while browsing movies or Tv shows, parental control and admin functions using a tablet or smartphone, exclusive Zappiti AI for the best movie identification possible, exclusive top-quality multilingual movie covers, utilization of fanarts database, Zappiti DB and TMDB search engines, filtering and sorting, automatic playback of the next TV show episode and many more exclusive features.

Dual HDMI Output.

The Zappiti Neo features two HDMI outputs – one HDMI Out Main port for connecting to the latest UHD 4K TVs, projectors and A/V receivers, and an additional HDMI Out Audio Only port (v1.4) dedicated to audio for connecting to older A/V receivers and for better audio performances. The HDMI Audio Only port features a high-stability, high-precision clock. This design significantly reduces jitter and eliminates timing errors, allowing you to enjoy your audio & video contents with increased accuracy when you use the audio-only HDMI output port for connecting the audio signal to your A/V receiver. In addition, on the video output, the audio stream is automatically muted when the HDMI Audio Only output is used, thereby reducing the effects of video noise on the main HDMI output.

The connector indications are printed in both directions so that you can read them easily in the correct direction when you connect your device.

Gold-Plated Ports.

The Zappiti Neo features high-quality gold-plated output ports for HD/4K video and HD digital audio, L/R analogue audio and coaxial for better sonic accuracy and more detailed natural sound as well as a less corrosive effect over time. Zappiti’s gold-plated ports use advanced engineering methods and the highest-quality materials to reduce noise and interference and deliver cleaner, natural, more accurate sound from your components. Gold-plated materials are also used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas as well as the CVBS output.

Zappiti Real Cinema.

Cinema movies are shot at 24 frames per second (fps), but most video or Blu-ray files are recorded at 23.976 fps. Today, many multimedia players output a video signal at 24,000 Hz. However, this conversion generates problems of stuttering, in particular on video projectors. Zappiti Real Cinema technology maintains the original frame rate of the file, whether in 23.976 fps or 24,000 fps until the final display in order to enjoy the same fluidity as in the cinema and preserve the original integrity of the work displayed. On the other hand, thanks to the auto framerate, the player automatically switches to the correct output frequency depending on the frame rate of the file, namely: 23.976 Hz, 24 Hz, 50 Hz and 59.94 Hz (60 Hz) depending on the type of file being played.

With ISO files from original video discs, the video bitrate is 4x higher than streaming services — meaningless data loss. Image and sound are crystal clear and more realistic for the best possible home theatre experience.

Dolby Atmos
DTS:X, & Auro 3D

Enjoy the most amazing multichannel audio formats including Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD in 5.1 or 7.1, and even, Dolby Atmos®, DTS:X, DTS:X Pro, and Auro 3D, revolutionary audio technologies that transport you into the story with moving audio that flows all around you in breathtaking realism! These new audio formats create a powerful, realistic experience by introducing two important concepts to cinema sound. Audio objects and overhead speakers.

Integration.

Zappiti products have been specially designed to operate in high-end installations and integrations using multi-level security locking, IP and IR control codes for ProControl, RTI, Control4*, Crestron*, Savant*, Philips Pronto, Elan*, URC* and Logitech Harmony, a Middle Atlantic rack mount kit and even a Zappiti API for high-end custom integrations.

Audio/Video Sync. adjustment

The Zappiti Neo offers a new feature to adjust the audio/video sync forwards and backwards.
This pro-level functionality is especially useful when using an external scaler.

A universal media player.

• Dual HDMI: Use the second HDMI to separate audio and video for the best performances and enjoy the 4K HDR, while using an old-generation AV receiver or soundbar non-4K compatible. You can enjoy both HD sound and 4K HDR without having to replace your AV receiver or soundbar.
• Video processing: Zappiti Magic Pixel V3 and VS10 video processing combined offers an outstanding picture quality - far better than the previous generations - with improved dynamics, accuracy colourimetry, increased contrast, solid deinterlacing and better upscaling (up to 4K resolution). Even on a Full HD 1080p TV or a front projector, you will be astounded by the image of your display! 3D also offers better image depth and an impressive, immersive effect.
• Dolby Vision and HDR10+: Display your HDR, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision video content on a compatible display.
• HDR Conversion: Convert your HDR video content into SDR to display it on your 1080p TV or projector managed by a brand new video processing for better colour grading accuracy and a perfect luminance curve.
• 10/12-Bit: Take advantage of powerful 10/12-bit YUV hardware decoding for professional-quality video display and benefit from increased nuance and reduced "posterization" ("banding") effect.
• REC. 2020: Enjoy a wider colour space for more saturated and richer colours.
• 4K 50/60p: Display your 4K 50p/60p video content in 2160p at 50 Hz or 60 Hz.
• Real Cinema: Advanced auto framerate detection compatible with all video frequencies (23.976 / 24 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 Hz).
• Direct Output: Display your videos in their original resolution and frequency without scaling processing.
• Widevine L1 DRM: Watch premium online video services in HD and UHD.
• 3D Video Support: Enjoy all your 3D movies files (3D BD ISO, MKV 3D MVC).
• Network Player: Connect your Zappiti on your local network and enjoy your content from a PC/MAC or a NAS via SMB or NFS.
• SMB Server: Access the contents located on the internal hard drives of the Zappiti (or a connected hard drive) from a computer connected via a local network.
• MKV Player: Playback SD, HD and UHD video content in MKV and other modern video file containers and formats, including top quality HEVC/H.265 video codec with very high bit-rates > 400 Mbp/s.
• BD / UHD ISO: Display the DVD, Blu-ray and UHD menus and access to the additional contents, director's cut or theatrical version, bonus and extras, bookmarks, etc. with seamless branching support.
• HDD Rack Option with Hot Swap Function: Easily and quickly insert and exchange internal 3.5'' SATA hard drives up to 20 TB.
• USB Ports: Conveniently connect HDDs, USB flash drives, USB card readers and other USB storage devices.
• Ports USB 3.1 and Type-C: Read or transfer your files at ultra-high speed. Note: USB Type-C and USB 3.1 ports cannot be used simultaneously.
• Full Range of A/V Connectors: S/PDIF coaxial and optical audio output, audio analogue output (cinch), CVBS video analogue output, HDMI Main (Deep Color, xvYCC, 12 bits, and CEC), HDMI Audio Only.
• Multichannel home cinema audio: Bitstream up to 11.2.4, downmix stereo.
• Hi-Res Music Playback: Playback Hi-Res Audio quality (up to 24-bit) music files in various formats (DSD, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, WavPack, APE, DTS, AC3, etc).
• Playback memory: Resume playback from the last position.
• Backlit Remote Control: High quality backlit remote control with convenient direct access and shortcuts, wide range (60° / 26 ft) and recordable buttons to control another device.
• Bluetooth 5.0: Connect your wireless devices via Bluetooth such as joysticks, headphones, connected speakers ...
• Computer Mouse and keyboard: Connect a computer mouse and keyboard to control third-party applications and more convenient text entry.
• Complete File Management System: copy, cut, past (multitasking), delete, rename.
• Zappiti Video Control: Control your Zappiti player with the virtual remote control via your tablet or smartphone.
• Open GUI: Add apps and movies in the Favorite section.
• Hi-Fi Coaxial Output: The Zappiti Neo offers an ultra-high quality coaxial output that provides extremely high efficiency and transparent high fidelity sound up when using an external DAC. The coaxial output also provides lower jitter than the optical output.

Technical Specifications.

• Chipset: Realtek RTD1619DR.
• CPU: ARM Cortex-A55 (hexacore). +77% faster than 4-core ARM A53 used in the previous generation media players.
• GPU: ARM Mali-G51 MP3. +50% faster than Mali T-820 used in the previous generation media players.
• Operating System: Linux + Android 9.
• DSP: Video and Audio DSP with hardware acceleration. Native hardware 10-bit YUV support. Hardware performance optimizations for Zappiti UI.
• Cache: 1 MB L2.
• RAM: 4 GB. 2x more than in the previous generation media players.
• ROM: 32 GB NAN eMMC. 2x more than in the previous generation media players.
• Connectors: gold-plated HDMI Audio Video 2.0b (HDCP 2.2, CEC, Deep Color, 12-bit, xvYCC, MHL 3.0), HDMI Audio Only 1.4a, 2x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.1, 1x USB Type-C, gold-plated CVBS video analogue output (both analogue and digital video outputs are active at the same time), gold-plated audio analogue RCA (both analogue and digital video outputs are active at the same time), gold-plated coaxial and S/PDIF optical audio output (TO-slink), Ethernet Gigabit 10/100/1000 Gb/s, Wi-Fi 2.4 & 5 GHz with 2 gold-plated removable antennas, Bluetooth with dedicated antenna, IR input for IR extender, AC input, AC button On/Off, power LED and multi-segment LED display HH:MM:SS controlled with dimmer option.
• Dual HDD Rack Enclosure Option: Easily and quickly insert and exchange internal 3.5'' SATA hard drives up to 40 TB (2x 20 TB).
• Media Sources: External HDD (USB), USB devices (USB flash drive, USB card reader, etc), PC and NAS in local network (SMB), other Internet and local network media sources. External multi-bay USB storage enclosures supported.
• Easy and Fast File Transfers: up to 90 MB/s via SATA and USB 3.1 / 115 MB/s via Ethernet.
• Internet Navigator: Connect a computer mouse and keyboard to browse the Internet as on a computer.
• SMB Client/Server: Direct access from another Zappiti / computer through your local network. Samba Client up to SMB2/SMB3. Zappiti Share.
• Video Codecs: HEVC, H.265, x265 (up to Main10 Level 6.1 High 60p in 4K UHD), MVC, AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.264/x.264 (up to 60p in Full HD and 24p/20
• Mbps in 4K UHD), FLV, AVS, XVID, DIVX (from version 4), Sorenson Spark L70, VP9 Profile 2 (up to 4K 60p and HDR); ultra-high bitrate support (up to 400 Mbit/s in HEVC 4K UHD).
• Video File Formats: UHD ISO, 3D BD ISO, BD ISO, BDMV, MKV, MKV 3D, MK3D, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, MPEG, MPE, MPG, TS, TP, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, WebM, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS, RMVB, RM, DAT, VOB, 3GP, FLV, DAT, AVCHD 2.0 (AVCHD 3D, AVHD Progressive).
• Dolby Vision support: ISO, BDMV, MKV, MPEG-TS, TS, M2TS, MP4.
• Widevine L1 DRM: Watch premium online video services in 1080p and UHD. Security Level 1 (L1) is complete processing performed in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). This level refers to the highest level of DRM (hardware DRM) and lets Zappiti stream premium video services at resolutions up to UHD quality. Level 2 cannot stream videos higher than 480p.
• Video Output Flexibility: Output video in any resolution and format from SD to 1080p, Ultra HD (3840x2160) and 4K (4096x2160). Up to 4K 60p. Display your movies in true 24p (23,976 Hz output).
• Audio / Video Sync: Adjust audio / video sync forward / backward (in ms).
• Audio Codecs: AC-3 / Dolby Digital, EAC3, DTS, DTS-WAV, MPEG, MP3, ALAC (Apple lossless), APE (Monkey's Audio), M4A, M4A, AIFF, WAV, WavPack, VSELP, FLAC (2.0 only), AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2, AMR-NB, OGG (Ogg/Vorbis), RA_COOK, LPCM, PCM, ADPCM, FLA, MQA; lossless and audiophiles formats support (up to 32-bit / 384 kHz), SACD ISO, SACD DSF, SACD DFF.
• SACD (DSD): Play top quality Super Audio CD (DSD) music files in all any popular formats  (ISO, DFF, DSF), including both stereo and multichannel files as well as files that use DST compression. Multichannel DSD files can be output to HDMI as high-quality multichannel PCM (up to 176.4kHz). Stereo DSD files can be output to HDMI and S/PDIF as high-quality stereo PCM (up to 176.4kHz).
• Multichannel home cinema audio: Bitstream, downmix stereo (DTS, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HRA, DTS:X, DTS:X Pro, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D).
• Playlist file formats: M3U, PLS, CUE.
• Subtitle Formats: SRT (Subrip / external), SUB (MicroDVD) (external), text (MKV), SSA/ASS (MKV, external), VobSub (MP4, MKV, SUB/IDX external), SMI (Sami), IDX, PGS (UHD ISO, BD ISO, BDMV, M2TS, MKV), DVBSUB (DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C).
• Subtitle Options: Option to download subtitles. Support for forced subtitles (ISO and BDMV). 3D subtitles supported with customization of display depth. Customization of sync, size, color and encoding. Changing the vertical position of subtitles, including on Blu-ray (PGS) subtitles. Multiple external subtitles supported. Customization of the default subtitles.
• 3D Hardware Acceleration: OpenGL.
• Photo File Formats: JPEG (hardware decoding), PNG, BMP and GIF. Slideshow, transition effects, picture rotation, zoom, browse playlist, repeat, shuffle.
• Supported Formatting: FAT16/FAT32 (read-write), EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 (read-write), NTFS (read-write), exFAT (read-write), HFS/HFS+ (Mac OS Standard/Extended) (read-only), BTRFS (read-write).
• Ethernet: 10/100/1000 Mb/s.
• Wi-Fi: Dual Band 2.4+5 GHz 802.11b/g/n/ac 2T2R, two external Wi-Fi antennas (gold-plated and removable).
• Bluetooth: BT5.0, separate external Bluetooth antenna.
• Android 9.0: Install and enjoy additional apps via GooglePlay or APK files. 
  
  Warning! Some Android apps are not suitable for use with the remote control. In this case, use a connected computer mouse or an AirMouse (not supplied).
  
  
• Network Playback: Special optimisation of the network, guaranteeing better performances of the local network playback no matter which type of media thanks to SMB protocol (HEVC UHD files included) via Gigabit Ethernet or Ethernet 10/100.
• Universal RC: Integrate seamlessly into smart home installations via ready-to-use Control4 driver, RTI driver, Elan Driver, Crestron IP codes, Savant, ProControl, Logitech, URC, Pronto, and general IP codes. 

  
  
  

Accessories.

• High-Quality Backlite IR Remote Control
• IR Extender
• Wi-Fi Antennas x2
• Bluetooth Antenna
• External Power Supply, DC 12V (3A), AC 100-240V