Best Buys – Audio & AV

ZAPPITI 4K PLAYER

Those 4K televisions are racing off the shelves — even though there’s not much 4K content around yet. Netflix streams some 4K if you have NBN-level internet, and there’s one (soon two) 4K Blu-ray players now available in Australia. But are physical discs the future? Many of us are already used to file-based playback and streaming, so a practical answer, then, may be 4K file-based playback from a 4K-capable media player. And in that market, Zappiti is a leader.

EQUIPMENT

The offering from Zappiti combines physical players and a software playback interface called Zappiti Media Center. The software is also available for OS X and Windows, and indeed you could use it to organise your movie files and TV episodes for playback on your computer without having a Zappiti player in your home.

But the players

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