R_VOLUTION PLAYER PRO 8K

R_volution PlayerPro 8K 

Discover the R_volution PlayerPro 8K, an elite media device supporting the advanced Dolby Vision and HDR10+ technologies. This player boasts a robust linear power supply anchored by a large toroidal transformer. At its core lies the powerful Amlogic S928X chipset, complemented by a precision TCXO clock. It comes with R_video, an agile and contemporary Media Center software, perfect for curating your video file library.

The R_volution PlayerPro 8K comes with a dual HDD enclosure capable of hosting up to 64TB of movies,TV shows and concert files. It offers HDMI 2.1 output, compatibility with the latest AV1 codec up to 8K resolution in HDR and delivers stunning picture and sound quality to meet the needs of the most demanding home theater enthusiasts.

Experience the original film's audiovisual quality — untouched and in its purest form

The R_volution PlayerPro 8K ensures unparalleled quality and exceptional performance, courtesy of its linear power supply and precision TCXO clock.

Our offerings are crafted to grant end-users effortless and user-friendly management of their complete film library in breathtaking 8K Ultra HD clarity. Enjoy your films in your personal theater with the finest video quality attainable and authentic, high-fidelity, lossless audio that replicates the original movie soundtracks. The R_volution PlayerPro 8K marries peak performance with a distinctively sophisticated design for the ultimate home entertainment experience.

The R_video user interface, equipped with market-leading AI, revolutionizes the organization of your movie collection. Coupled with the PC/Mac app, R_video enables you to tailor your library with bespoke categories and movie groups, listen to original soundtracks while exploring your collection, customize your homepage, and embellish it with exclusive banners such as Director’s Cut or Pure Audio Blu-ray. The app's user-friendly design allows you to upload personalized top banners, covers, backgrounds and soundtracks with ease.

Embracing a vast array of digital audio and video formats, the R_volution PlayerPro 8K is at the forefront of HDR innovation, supporting Dolby Vision and HDR10+, and is compatible with nearly all modern video file types, including MKV, M2TS, BD and UHD ISO files, complete with rapid navigation for BD/UHD menus. It boasts the AV-1 and HEVC video codecs, capable of displaying a billion colors, and HDMI 2.1 output for 8K 60p HDR. For audiophiles, it supports high-resolution formats like DSD, AIFF, FLAC, and ALAC, all housed within a robust chassis. The PlayerPro 8K also features Auro3D, Dolby Atmos, and DTS:X, ensuring an astonishing home theater audio experience.

Twin Hard Drive Bay

The R_volution PlayerPro 8K, featuring a dual 3.5" SATA rack, can handle an impressive 64TB of data on a single partition—roughly equivalent to 1,600 Blu-rays or 800 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays on just one hard drive. Say goodbye to storage woes with the PlayerPro 8K. R_video effortlessly orchestrates your entire collection across multiple drives (both internal and external drives connected in USB).

(Hard drive not included)

Hi-Quality Backlit RC

The R_volution PlayerPro 8K media player comes with a backlit IR/RF remote control (accessory included).

Both IR/RF

The R_volution PlayerPro 8K's remote control boasts compatibility with both IR/RF, enhancing user convenience. Furthermore, it offers IP control capabilities, allowing integration with third-party systems like Crestron, ProControl, RTI, among others.

Wide Range IR Sensor

The PlayerPro 8K is designed with a highly sensitive infrared sensor that captures signals over a broad angle and long range (60° / 26 ft). The remote control itself is outfitted with high-efficiency IR diodes. Moreover, the PlayerPro 8K includes an IR extender, enabling you to conveniently position the device behind closed doors or in a separate room while maintaining control from your TV's location. The IR extender features an adhesive backing for straightforward mounting on any flat surface.

Optimal Performance

The PlayerPro 8K is powered by the advanced Hi-End Amlogic S928X multimedia processor, complete with an integrated Dolby Vision VS10 engine. This powerhouse processor is comprised of four ARM A55 cores running at 2.0 GHz and a superior ARM A76 core at 1.9 GHz, alongside an extra core dedicated to system operations. This configuration yields a performance that is double that of the Realtek RTD1619DR chipset found in the PlayerOne. The R_video user interface benefits from hardware acceleration, enhancing its responsiveness and expediting video indexing. The graphics unit has been upgraded to the Mali G57, and when combined with the lightning-fast LPDDR4X memory and eMMC storage, it ensures a swift and smooth system performance. The PlayerPro 8K's Antutu benchmark score surpasses 300,000 points, marking a significant improvement over the previous generation of R_volution media players.

HDMI 2.1a Output

R_volution PlayerPro 8K offers HDMI 2.1a output for connecting to the latest UHD 8K TVs, projectors and A/V receivers. The HDMI 2.1a port features up to 48Gbps as well as other improvement such as:

Dynamic HDR (HDR dynamic metadata) – HDR data (depth, detail, brightness, contrast, and color gamuts) can now be optimized on a scene-by-scene or even a frame-by-frame basis.

Full 8K 60p HDR video support – UHD 8K resolution offers 4 times as many pixels than 4K and 8 times than Full HD 1080p. 8K format offers the most impressive viewing experience and delivers a smooth and sharp picture. The PlayerOne 8K supports both 8K 60p HDR video decoding from video files or streaming content with 8Kp60 HDR video output for the best possible visual experience. The PlayerOne 8K can also downscale 8K content to any other resolution for better experience on 1080p and 4K displays. It can also upscale any content to glorious 8K resolution.

SmartTube 8K HDR – Some 8K YouTube streams are encoded in AV1 codec with a much higher bitrate (around 2x) than when playing 4K streams (50 Mbps in AV1 quality corresponds to an even higher bitrate of VP9 or HEVC) . This significantly improves picture quality compared to older media players that can only play 4K VP9/HEVC, included for users using 1080p or 4K displays.

High Audio Bitrate – Support for high-bitrate home theater audio formats, object-based audio like DTS X, Dolby Atmos, and Auro3D, and uncompressed LPCM 2.0, 5.1 and 7.1 multichannel.

Full Audio Decoding – Support full audio decoding and conversion of DTS-HD, DTS X, TrueHD, and Dolby Atmos audio tracks to 2.0, 5.1 and 7.1 multi-channel LPCM.

Flicker-free framerate/resolution switching (FFRS) – R_volution PlayerPro 8K offers advanced flicker-free feature for automatic framerate and resolution switching, which performs video mode switching before the start of file playback (rather than after) removing the unpleasant flickering when launching a video playback, resulting a better home theater experience. 

Professional Coaxial Output

​The R_volution PlayerPro 8K is equipped with a professional true 75 Ohm coaxial digital audio connector for high-fidelity digital transmission, supported by an audiophile brand Pulse digital audio transmission transformer. Isolation transformers are essential to improve the balance of the transmitter and receiver circuits, and to reduce common mode noise and EMI.

TCXO Clock

Elevate your audio-visual experience with the R_volution PlayerPro 8K, which boasts a TCXO femtosecond clock with an accuracy of 0.1% for unparalleled digital audio quality and video precision. The TCXO technology ensures crystal-clear sound and flawless video playback, even in the most demanding scenes. Enjoy your media with the confidence that the TCXO-driven PlayerPro 8K will deliver consistent performance and exceptional quality every time.

A TCXO (Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator) clock in a multimedia player significantly enhances home cinema experiences by providing exceptional timing accuracy, ensuring audio and video remain perfectly synchronized. Compared to standard clocks, a TCXO reduces jitter and maintains consistent performance across varying temperatures, resulting in a superior audio-visual quality that's crucial for an immersive viewing experience, especially in high-end home theaters. Unlike oscillators used by other brands, the R_volution TCXO uses a 24MHz clock rate, a perfect multiple of 48kHz in audio and 24Hz in video. This allows for perfect synchronization for even better results in home theater use.

Linear Power Supply with a Robust Toroidal Transformer

The R_volution PlayerPro 8K media player features a high-performance power supply equipped with a Toshiba linear voltage regulator and powered by a massive 81W oxygen-free copper toroidal transformer, ensuring a noise-free signal for enhanced image quality, more accurate color grading, deeper blacks, and superior audio and visual precision. The PlayerPro 8K also uses a low dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulator from Lintec.

Real Cinema

Cinema films are traditionally shot at 24 frames per second (fps), yet most videos or Blu-ray files are encoded at 23.976fps. Modern multimedia players often output video signals at 24,000Hz, leading to stuttering issues, especially noticeable with projectors. R_volution Real Cinema technology preserves the file's original frame rate, be it 23.976fps or 24,000fps, up to the final display. This ensures cinematic smoothness and maintains the artistic integrity of the visual content. Additionally, the autoframerate feature enables the player to adapt its output frequency to match the file's frame rate, automatically selecting from 23.976Hz, 24Hz, 29.97Hz, 30Hz, 50Hz, or 59.94Hz (60Hz), thus accommodating various file types seamlessly.

Dolby Multistream Decoder MS12

Equipped with the Dolby Multistream Decoder MS12, the R_volution PlayerPro adeptly decodes premier audio formats such as Dolby Digital Plus™, Dolby Digital®, HE AAC, all AAC bitstreams, and Dolby AC-4. It offers comprehensive Dolby metadata support across Dolby AC-4, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital, and HE AAC v2 formats. The Dolby MS12 can produce standard Dolby Audio™ bitstreams or LPCM streams up to 7.1 channels from any audio input. For instance, an AAC 5.1 video file is seamlessly decoded into an LPCM 5.1 stream or a two-channel downmix, tailored to your R_volution media player's audio settings. This robust feature ensures compatibility and enjoyment of your AAC 5.1 encoded content on any AV receiver.

Integration

R_volution products have been specially designed to operate in high-end installations and integrations using multi-level security locking, IP and IR control codes for ProControl, RTI, Control4, Crestron, Savant, Philips Pronto, Elan, URC and Logitech Harmony, a Middle Atlantic rack mount kit for high-end custom integrations.

A universal media player

HDMI 2.1 : Displays up to 8K UHD resolution, 4x more pixels than 4K and 8x more pixels than 1080p Full HD. The 8K format provides the most impressive visual experience and delivers a smooth and sharp picture.

Linear Power Supply: The R_volution PlayerPro 8K media player is equipped with a linear power supply, powered by a robust toroidal transformer. This design ensures a pristine, noise-free signal, resulting in enhanced image quality with deeper blacks, as well as astonishing audio and visual precision.

TCXO Clock: The use of TCXO Clock elevates home theater experiences by ensuring ultra-precise timing and synchronization of audio and video, significantly reducing jitter and providing consistent quality in any temperature, for a truly immersive viewing experience.

Video processing : The VS10 video processing technologie offers an outstanding picture quality with improved dynamics, accurate colorimetry, increased contrast, solid deinterlacing and impressive upscaling (up to 8K resolution). Even on a Full HD 1080p TV or a front projector, you will be astounded by the picture of your display! 

Dolby Vision and HDR10+ : Display your HDR, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision video content on a compatible display Source-Based Tone Mapping (SBTM).

HDR Conversion : Convert your HDR video content into SDR to display it on your 1080p TV or projector managed by a brand new video processing for accurate color grading accuracy and luminance curve conversion.

10/12-Bit : Take advantage of powerful 10/12-bit YUV hardware decoding for professional-quality video display and benefit from increased nuance and reduced "posterization" ("banding") effect.

REC. 2020 : Enjoy a wider color space for more saturated and richer colors.

8K 50/60p : Display your 4K and 8K 50p/60p video content at 50 Hz or 60 Hz.

Real Cinema : Advanced auto framerate detection compatible with all video frequencies (23.976 / 24 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 Hz).

Direct Output : Display your videos in their original resolution and frequency without scaling processing.

Widevine L1 DRM : Watch premium online video services in HD and UHD. 

Warning! Netflix and Disney+ are not compatible. Amazon Prime Video is compatible up to 1080p resolution. YouTube is compatible up to 8K resolution. Caution! Streaming services may stop at any time depending on content providers' compatibility requirements.

3D Video Support : Enjoy all your 3D video files in SbS (Side-by-Side) and Top-Bottom (TV requires manual switching into 3D mode). 3D MVC Frame Packing not supported.

Network Player : Connect your PlayerOne 8K to your local network and enjoy your content from a PC/MAC or a NAS via SMB or NFS. Caution! NFS is not yet supported by R_video.

SMB Server : Access the contents located on the internal hard drives of the R_volution Player (or a connected hard drive) from a computer connected via local network.

MKV Player : Playback SD, HD and UHD video content in MKV and other modern video file containers and formats, including top quality AV1/VP9/HEVC/H.265 video codecs with very high bit-rates (up to 300 Mbp/s in H.265/ HEVC and up to 250 Mbps in H.264/AVC).

BD ISO / UHD ISO / BDMV : Display the Blu-ray and 4K UHD Blu-ray menus and access to the additional contents, director's cut or theatrical version, bonus and extras, bookmarks, etc. with seamless branching support. You can also bypass the Blu-ray menus (Lite). Support for DVD menus is planned for a future update.

DVD ISO / DVD Folders : Direct video playback without menus (Lite).

Hidden Dual HDD Rack Option : Swiftly insert internal 3.5'' SATA hard drives up to 32TB in a single partition (totaling 64TB capacity). Format your drives directly from the media player (up to 16TB—NTFS, ExFAT, EXT 2/3/4). Larger HDDs need to be formatted using a computer.

USB Ports : Conveniently connect HDDs, USB flash drives, USB card readers and other USB storage devices.

USB 3.0 ports : Read or transfer your files in ultra high speed.

Low-noise USB Audio Output : Connect an external DAC via the low-noise USB audio output for superior sound quality.

Full Range of A/V Connectors : Digital audio and video HDMI 2.1 output, S/PDIF optical digital audio output, audio analog output (mini-jack 3.5).

Multichannel home cinema audio : Bitstream up to 11.1.8 channels, downmix stereo.

Hi-Res Music Playback : Playback Hi-Res Audio quality (up to 192kHz) music files in various formats (DSD, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, WavPack, APE, DTS, AC3, etc).

Playback Memory : Resume playback from the last position.

Backlit Remote Control : High quality backlit remote control with convenient direct access and shortcuts, wide range (60° / 26 ft) and recordable buttons to control another device.

LED Screen : LED display HH:MM:SS. Display the clock or the remaining time during playback. LED dimmer option planned for a future firmware update.

Computer Mouse : Connect a computer mouse in USB to control third-party applications.

Complete File Management System : Copy, cut, past, delete, rename.

Open GUI : Add apps and movies in Favorite section.

Technical Specifications

Chipset : Amlogic S928X-K/J.

CPU : Quad-core 2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 + a powerful 1.9 GHz ARM A76 core. Offers up to double the power of the RTD1619DR in the prior model.

GPU : ARM Mali-G57. Total Antutu score exceeds 300,000 points.

NPU : Dedicated hardware for AI acceleration.

OS : Dual-boot Linux and Android 11.

DSP : Supports 10-bit YUV and hardware acceleration for R_video UI.

Cache : 1MB L2+L3 cache

RAM : 8 GB, twice the amount in the previous model.

ROM : 64 GB NAN eMMC, offering double the storage of the prior generation.

Connectors : Premium gold-plated HDMI 2.1a for audio/video (supporting HDCP 2.2/2.3, CEC, Deep Color, 12-bit, xvYCC), one USB 2.0 on the front panel, three USB 3.0 ports (one with low-noise audio output), gold-plated RCA analog audio output, gold-plated coaxial S/PDIF digital audio output, optical S/PDIF audio output (TOSlink), Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000 Gb/s), Wi-Fi with dual gold-plated antennas, dedicated RF antenna, IR input for extenders, on/off button, power LED, and a multi-segment LED display.

Dual HDD Rack Enclosure : Swiftly insert and exchange two 3.5-inch internal SATA hard drives, up to 32TB each, for a total capacity of 64TB.

Media Sources : Access content from internal/external HDDs (USB), USB devices (flash drives, card readers), PCs and NAS within a local network (SMB 2), and other internet/local network sources. Supports external multi-bay USB storage enclosures.

Fast File Transfers : Achieve speeds up to 90 MB/s via SATA, USB 3.0, and Ethernet.

SMB Client/Server : Direct access from another R_volution Player / computer through your local network. Samba Client up to SMB 2. R_share technology.

Video Codecs : HEVC, H.265, x265 (up to Main10 Level 6.1 High 60p in 4K UHD), AV1 (up to 8K UHD 60p), AVC, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.264/x.264 (up to 60p in Full HD and 24p/20 Mbps in 4K UHD), FLV, XVID, DIVX (3/4/5/6), RealVideo8/9/10, VP9 Profile 2 (up to 4K 60p and HDR) ; ultra high bitrate support up to 300 Mbps.

Video File Formats : UHD ISO, BD ISO, BDMV, MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, MPEG, MPE, MPG, TS, TP, M2TS, VOB, ASF, AVI, VC-1, MOV, MP4, QT, WebM, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS, RMVB, RM, DAT, VOB, FLV, DAT, WMV, AVCHD, 3D SbS/T&B.

Dolby Vision : Full support for Dolby Vision Profiles P5, P7 MEL, P7 FEL, and P8 across UHD ISO, BDMV, MKV, MPEG-TS, TS, M2TS, MP4 formats.

AV1 video codec support : Get up to 50% video quality improvement compared to HEVC codec. AV1 requires up to 50% lesser bitrate for the same video quality.

Widevine L1 DRM : Watch premium online video services in 1080p and UHD. Security Level 1 (L1) is a complete processing performed in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). This level refers to the highest level of DRM (hardware DRM) and let R_volution Player to stream premium video services at resolutions up to UHD quality. Level 2 cannot stream videos higher than 480p.

Video Output Flexibility : Output video in any resolution and format from SD to 1080p, 4K Ultra HD (3840×2160) and 8K Ultra HD (7680×4320). Up to 8K 60p. Display your movies in true 24p (23,976 Hz output). Experimental support for 120 Hz output.

Audio Codecs : Comprehensive support for AC-3, E-AC3, AC-4, DTS, DTS-WAV, MPEG, MP3, ALAC, APE, CAF, M4A, AIFF, WAV, WavPack, VSELP, FLAC, AAC, HE-AAC, AMR-NB, OGG, RA_COOK, LPCM, PCM, ADPCM, FLA; including lossless and audiophile formats (up to 32-bit/384 kHz), DSD.

SACD (DSD) : High-quality playback of Super Audio CD (DSD) in popular formats (ISO, DFF, DSF), with support for stereo and multichannel, including DST compression. Multi-channel DSD can output via HDMI in native DSD bitstream or multi-channel PCM (up to 176.4 kHz). Stereo DSD can output via HDMI in native DSD bitstream or HDMI and S/PDIF in stereo PCM (up to 176.4 kHz).

Multichannel Home Theater Audio : Bitstream, downmix stereo and 5.1/7.1 (DTS, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HRA, DTS:X, DTS:X Pro, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D).

Playlist file formats : M3U, PLS, CUE.

Subtitle Formats : SRT (Subrip / external), SUB (MicroDVD) (external), text (MKV), SSA/ASS (MKV, external), VobSub (MP4, MKV, SUB/IDX external), SMI (Sami), IDX, PGS (UHD ISO, BD ISO, BDMV, M2TS, MKV), DVBSUB (DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C).

Subtitle Options : ​Option to download subtitles. Forced subtitles support for MKV, ISO and BDMV (simultaneous display of multiple subtitles not supported). Customization of sync, size, color and encoding. Changing the vertical position of subtitles, including on Blu-ray (PGS) subtitles. Multiple external subtitles supported. Customization of the default subtitles.

Photo File Formats : JPEG (hardware decoding), PNG, BMP and GIF. Slideshow, transition effects, picture rotation, zoom, browse playlist, repeat, shuffle.

HDD Partitions Formats : FAT16/FAT32, EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, NTFS, exFAT, HFS/HFS+ (read-only), BTRFS—all with read-write capability, except for HFS/HFS+.

Ethernet : 10/100/1000 Mb/s.

Wi-Fi : Dual Band 2.4+5 GHz IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), with two removable antennas.

Android 11 : Access additional apps via GooglePlay or APK files.

Note: Some apps may require a computer mouse or AirMouse (not included) for optimal use.

Network Playback : Special optimisation of the network, guaranteeing better performances of the local network playback no matter which type of media thanks to SMB protocol (HEVC UHD files included) via Gigabit Ethernet or Ethernet 10/100.

Universal RC : Easily integrates into smart home setups with IR and IP code compatibility.

Dimensions (W × H × D) : 16,92 × 4,33 × 13,5in (without carton) 43,0 × 11 × 34 cm (without carton) 21,26 × 9 × 15,7in (with carton) 54,0 × 23 × 40 cm (with carton)

Limited Warranty : 2 years

Certification : RoHS, CE, FCC

Country of Origin : Design: France Software: France Production: China

EAN : 3760115010161

TARIC Number : 8521900090

Operating Temperature : 10~30°C

Operating Humidity : 30%~70%

Consumption : Max consumption: 42W Typical: 39W (Without HDD) High power standby: 9W Low power standby: 0.02W

Internal Power Supply : AC 100-240V

Accessories

Backlite IR + Bluetooth Remote

8K HDMI Cable 1m

IR Extender

Wi-Fi Antennas x2

RF Antenna

Rack Mount Kit

Power Cables x4 (EU, US, UK, AU)