My latest report on the X800M2:
- Choppy playback issues seem to be resolved after stabilising my network (replaced switches and reserved an access point, disabled modern standby). Also I need to make sure there's nothing else gobbling up IO on the hard drives from which im playing movies, obviously.
- I still have it lock up sometimes after pause, stop, resume kind of situations, which means I need to do a hard reboot of the player
- Even for non disc content, it appears you need to
manually change between dolby vision on and off for non-dolby vision content. my HDR content otherwise has raised black levels. I tried forcing color spaces, change my tv edid to LLDV or RGB (just to see if it somehow would treat HDR content better by miracle), but no.
- Connected to my VRRoom switch/splitter, I sometimes need to switch ports back and forth because of otherwise black screen. but this is probably the VRRoom firmware.
- As I find the remote (limited cec) and the navigation in general sub-par, I repurposed a DLNA music cast plugin for Plex, to cast videos to the X800M2 directly from the plex app on phone and tablet, basically fixing my biggest usability concern.
- Seeking via cast can drop dolby vision back to hdr, have to stop and start to get it back
Im a little sad about the manual DV switch, but I guess if it really bothers me I could buy a second unit and configure it with it off, then I just need to pick the right cast target based on HDR/DV
My M9203 arrived but has weird artefacts and color issues so probably has to go back.
I also noticed the DV in TS problem where you have to view another test file (thanks RESET9999) to fix it.
So in the end, it's tradeoffs everywhere
