KDLINKS A400 4K Android Quad Core 3D Smart H.265 HD TV Media Player with HDD Bay, WiFi, Dolby 7.1, Gigabit LAN, 2GB RAM, 16GB Storage, 4 Core CPU, 8 Core GPU

Update (27 Oct 2020): Device still works great, no issues.Update (8 July 2017): Installed a Seagate 10tb hard drive in this device and it works with no issues.Initial Review (13 June 2017): While not perfect, this is a great device. Bottom-line: With a little creativity this device allows you to create a homemade kaleidescape Movie Server at a fraction of the cost. HD picture quality is preserved and i've verified that the sound can output Dolby Atmos and DTS X. There are 70+ positive reviews for this device so I won't repeat what's already been said in other posts. Removed one star for the following:1) The included Kodi is version 16 (not current) but it still gets the job done as a movie media manager. Recommend selecting a different (the default leaves a lot to be desired) Kodi appearance skin.2) No instructions on how to use the included file app to transfer files from an external drive to the kdlinks internal drive. Through trial and error i figured it out.3) The fast forward, rewind buttons on the remote don't control the movie. You have to click the ok button and then use the fast forward, rewind buttons that are on the digital media player.4) PLEX picture quality is degraded because PLEX recognizes the unit as cloud client and not a media server.5) The included android operating system is not the most current, but still gets the job done as a movie media manager.

This is my 3rd media player purchase from KDLINKS. Previous ones being A200 and A300. Have gone for the subsequent versions due to certain improvements being done in the respective hardware. Like A300 supported 4K which A200 did not, and A400 supports 10 bit as well, which A300 does not. But having said this, one thing which is common to all three players is the world class playback performance, which comes guaranteed with their product. If you are looking for a media player which will play without hiccups and be a perfect companion to your home theater setup, look no further.I cannot say enough about the performance, which amply justifies the price, making it the best value for money product. Having used couple of other brands of media players before, I can honestly say KDLinks is perhaps the only one which delivers everything stated on the specs.The excellent support from Eric is the icing on the cake as in my entire history of purchases, I've not come across a vendor so customer centric, to not only to give an immediate response to your email queries, but also resolve them to your best satisfaction. He will leave no stone unturned to ensure that you are thoroughly happy with your purchase. I am really happy to use their product and have gifted some of them to my friends and family and planning to buy more of it in future.

With six little kids and boxes full of worn Disney clamshell VHS, grainy recordings of kids' movies off cable, and scratched-up DVD's and CD's with little fingerprints all over them stashed in the garage, digital media players like this have been a godsend and the prospect of not having to deal with physical wear and tear on DVD and VHS videos, some of which used to cost as much as $79.99 in the sale bin at Blockbuster back in the day, has prompted me to digitize everything that my kids repeatedly watch/listen to and keep the hardcopy safely tucked away in the garage. Over the years, I've used the playon.tv recorder app with lifetime license to capture content from Netflix and Amazon Prime as well as a VCR-to-digital software application from Costco which, much to my dismay, stopped working after some Windows update or other a few years back, to convert/save all my kids' favorite content onto external drives, not to mention the RealPlayer downloader app back in the day when classic movies and cartoons galore in the entirety were uploaded to YouTube in its early days before the studios got wise to that and took most of them down.As long as it's on an external USB drive and they don't drop it on the floor and flip the read/write pins rendering the USB drive unreadable, making all the movie files go away (which happened one time and I found it costs $2,000 to fix b/c they said they'd have to take my still-broken USB drive apart in a clean room to put new pins in it), everytime they go to watch a movie on the media player, it plays like we just got it out of the shrinkwrapped clamshell case at Best Buy. That said, I got this unit because my Uebo M200's remote (and its replacement) finally gave out on me after eight years of use - and when I went to get another Uebo, I discovered that uebo.net had since been turned into a malware site, the Uebo company was no more, and the chipset used in the Uebo wasn't manufactured anymore although there used to be other media players bearing different brand names which were essentially the same thing but, alaa, those brands, like the old chipset, are gone now, too. However, I learned that the folks who used to make the Uebo now make the KDLinks so I figured I'd give this unit a shot.That said, while the KDLinks has more bells and whistles than my old Uebo M200 (It plays YouTube, has Kodi, and a bunch of other features I haven't messed with yet), it is not nearly as robust when it comes to the USB external drive media filetypes it can play. Although the humble VLC media player applet can play all the A/V stuff on my external USB drives with no problem at all on my PC and I can stream it via Chromecast to my TV if I really wanted to, this KDLinks media player returned "playback error" messages for about 30% of those same files I've tried playing on it so far; it doesn't recognize some of my older AVI files and anything with VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders, for example.Conversely, although the Uebo M200 didn't know what to do with SACD and x265 filetypes or 2 TB USB drives (I haven't tried these on the KDLinks to see if they work or not), the Uebo M200 played everything else and its remote control and screen interfaces had a simple functionality with everything intuitively easy to find. This new KDLinks remote and interface are more complex and I have to get my 12-year old to show me how to use it.I recently found a long-lost working replacement Uebo M200 remote in a box in the garage. Maybe I'll reconnect my Uebo M200 to my TV once I find it in the garage and see if it still works...