Media player recommendations?

[stwd4nder2]

Resurrecting this old thread just to say, I finally bought a Ugoos AMB6+ and installed CoreELEC. Works perfectly and I'm now watching my remux content in Dolby Vision, and I couldn't be happier.

Personally, I've been able to see a difference in many of my 4K movies. Dark City immediately jumped out to me with more vibrant colors. My partner happen to walk by as I was testing it, and unprompted and unprimed, she remarked, "This looks even better." And she doesn't even care about these sorts of things lol

Back To The Future also looked more vibrant. I always felt the HDR was too dark for me, but Dolby Vision improved it significantly for me.

Installing CoreELEC was fairly straightforward. It was adjusting all the settings to get it just right for me that was a bit of drag and took some time. But once it was all setup, everything has been great.

All this to say, if you've been on the fence about it, I can't recommend it enough. It is completely worth it!

Out of curiosity is your display properly calibrated for DV and HDR10? I would bet the differences your perceiving are more down to the defaults of DV looking better. In my experience DV and HDR look pretty much the same, the only big difference is better compression in discs with poorly encoded base layers. The improved tone-mapping is something you would only really notice if comparing 2 displays side-by-side, and even then it isn't anything dramatic.

[ThePipes]

Resurrecting this old thread just to say, I finally bought a Ugoos AMB6+ and installed CoreELEC. Works perfectly and I'm now watching my remux content in Dolby Vision, and I couldn't be happier.

Personally, I've been able to see a difference in many of my 4K movies. Dark City immediately jumped out to me with more vibrant colors. My partner happen to walk by as I was testing it, and unprompted and unprimed, she remarked, "This looks even better." And she doesn't even care about these sorts of things lol

Back To The Future also looked more vibrant. I always felt the HDR was too dark for me, but Dolby Vision improved it significantly for me.

Installing CoreELEC was fairly straightforward. It was adjusting all the settings to get it just right for me that was a bit of drag and took some time. But once it was all setup, everything has been great.

All this to say, if you've been on the fence about it, I can't recommend it enough. It is completely worth it!

Out of curiosity is your display properly calibrated for DV and HDR10? I would bet the differences your perceiving are more down to the defaults of DV looking better. In my experience DV and HDR look pretty much the same, the only big difference is better compression in discs with poorly encoded base layers. The improved tone-mapping is something you would only really notice if comparing 2 displays side-by-side, and even then it isn't anything dramatic.

I own a LG CX65 purchased 2020-2021. I haven't had any professional calibration. I have it set to Cinema mode and then made several other adjustments to the settings based on recommendations online plus my own preferences. I've been pretty happy with the picture quality. I watch most of my content through Jellyfin and recently was getting frustrated that I wasn't getting the full potential out of my movies and my TV, so I figured I give CoreELEC thru Ugoos a shot.

Like you said (and alleycat), many of the movies I can't say I see a significant difference. But specifically Dark City and Back To The Future have really jumped out to me. Back To The Future especially seemed too dark to me, but watching it in DV, I've noticed a vibrancy that was missing. Like the red guitar strap around Marty's shoulder in the auditorium early on in the movie or the Doc's yellow gloves, they have more punch to them.

But if there are other calibrations specific to DV, I haven't done it.

[DoomBot]

Anyone install this avdvplus Release 5 https://github.com/avdvplus/Builds/releases on the Ugoos AMB6+ and have any issues?

[lalajones]

Anyone install this avdvplus Release 5 https://github.com/avdvplus/Builds/releases on the Ugoos AMB6+ and have any issues?

Although I am very happy with my Ugoos AMB6+ with standard coreelec, I am also interested in avdvplus.

[alleycat]

I've just been reading up on avdvplus and whilst it sounds interesting, it seems a lot of people are having problems. Standard coreelec is working fine for me so I think I'll leave it alone for now, save myself the headache.

[lalajones]

I have 3 media players, The Shield Pro, Dune HD Pro One 8K Plus and the Ugoos AMB6+ with CoreElec. To my eyes the the Ugoos AMB6+ with CoreElec looks the best and closely matches the quality of Cambridge Audio CXUHD.

[alleycat]

I have 3 media players, The Shield Pro, Dune HD Pro One 8K Plus and the Ugoos AMB6+ with CoreElec. To my eyes the the Ugoos AMB6+ with CoreElec looks the best and closely matches the quality of Cambridge Audio CXUHD.

I had the shield pro as well, I felt it was quite an upgrade. I also suffered with micro stutter on the shield, I followed every guide/setting but I never got rid of it completely. Zero issues with stutter on the Ugoos though.

[DoomBot]

Same here, Shield Pro with micro stutters, glad it's not just me. I wanna get one of those Ugoos AMB6+ players for sure. Always loved CoreElec

[ThePipes]

Same here, Shield Pro with micro stutters, glad it's not just me. I wanna get one of those Ugoos AMB6+ players for sure. Always loved CoreElec

Hadn't heard of avdvplus, but I've been running Ugoos AMB6+ with CoreELEC for about 6 months now and I'm still very happy with it. You literally can't go wrong with it, in my opinion.

I know there isn't really anything being released yet (and maybe not for years), but I do wonder how Dolby Vision 2 is going to impact media players down the road and if Ugoos will become absolute. Not too worried about it at the moment.

[DoomBot]

Yeah too bad there's issues with avdvplus like alleycat said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP2KimdrvQc