Xtreamer Prodigy 3D upgraded to V.3 with Android 2.2: A Powerful and Versatile Media Player with 3D
- tarubamowha
- Aug 14, 2023
- 2 min read
The first hardware media player i ever tested that carried the android OS was the TViX Xroid A1 and back then i was somewhat excited to see such a solution, until of course i started testing and problems started to appear one after the other (most of those were later resolved but still the unit was far from perfect). Today android based hardware media players have improved quite a bit but still are not what they should be and so although they offer amazing menu detail and countless applications for you to choose from in the end no matter how you see it the android OS was never designed for such use. Because of that the Prodigy Black slows down quite a bit when you start using android compatible applications. Perhaps the Realtek RTD1186DD chipset is simply not powerful enough to sustain android OS usage but the why is not as important as the end result. On the other hand however the Prodigy Black excels when playing Full HD media and it can even reproduce the heaviest media files i have (even a 30GB MKV rip of the latest Avengers BD) with very good image and audio quality. Since the Prodigy Black is based on the latest Realtek RTD1186DD solution it can also playback BDISO files successfully and without serious slowdowns in the menus (happened a few times with the Avengers BDISO). We did encounter some slow data transfer rates when using the Gigabit Ethernet connection but that only happened a couple of times when transferring extremely large media files. The dual DVB-T MPEG4 decoder worked ok although we had to scan twice in order to find every available channel (it missed two the first time).
Xtreamer Prodigy 3D upgraded to V.3 with Android 2.2
Since Xtreamer is not a very large manufacturer their products are not available in every single store but currently you can find the Prodigy Black for USD234.99 in the USA (Amazon) and at around 200Euros inside the EU a price tag which is not very high considering we are not talking about just a hardware media player but also an dual DVB-T MPEG4 Tuner. It would be nice if Xtreamer was able to lower the price a bit just to make the Prodigy Black more appealing to potential buyers but i see nothing wrong with its price as is right now. Overall the Prodigy Black is a very good hardware media player but what really separates it from most of the competition is not the android OS but rather the built-in dual DVB-T MPEG4 tuner which allows you to watch one channel and record another at the same time. So for all of the mentioned pros the Prodigy Black by Xtreamer receives our Golden Award.
Jak by mohly nové verze firmware pro starý sideWinder 1 srovnat krok s Prodigy když v prodigy je operační systém Android. Znamená to že android pojede i na hardwaru starého sideWinderu ? včetně těch 3D her ? to mi prosím osvětlete , protože tomu se mi nechce vůbec věřit. 2ff7e9595c
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