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Any processor can DO h.265, but they cannot do it FAST enough to decode highly compressed video with fast motion and high complexity content without significant image quality degradation.

Tegra 4 is obsolete. Even the Tegra K1 apparently doesn't have enough power, even though it is 4 times more powerful than the older, lowly Tegra 4. That's why the WCCF Tech articles states:

"Scoring a rock solid 60fps in an off screen 1080p Benchmark it fares significantly better than the Tegra 4. The predecessor to this chip can only manage a measly 16fps (at only 1080p!) so you can see for yourself how great a difference this is."

Read more: http://wccftech.com/tegra-k1-superchip-benchmarks-revealed-4-times-faster-tegra-4/#ixzz2z0JmFTXS

The Tegra K1 is only able to do realistic 60 fps at 1080p resolution, and the old Tegra 4 is only about 1/4th as powerful as the new K1.

Probably better to wait for a more powerful chip that has the horsepower to to the job on fast motion and high image complexity video with 60 fps at much better than just a 1080p level image quality that the new K1 does.

As long as NTEK is sending the mythical NP-1 unicorns back to the "factory" for software upgrades and new motion sensing hardware for the controller, may as well have the "factory" use a much more capable, newer GPU than the old, weak Tegra 4. Or maybe NTEK should just rebrand the ZXV10 B803 if that really has the ability to do a good job decoding HEVC at better than 1080p quality levels and better than 30 fps. And doesn't require progressive downloading but can stream a continual long video of fast motion and high image complexity. The Broadcom chip may or may not be powerful enough, although one manufacturer claims it is:

"The ZXV10 B803 is designed based on the Broadcom BCM 7252 chip, and supports the 4Kx2KP60 decoding capability, which can decode Ultra HD video with the maximum resolution of 3840×2160. In comparison to traditional HD Internet STBs, the 4K UHD STB can display more vivid and precise images to significantly enhance the user experience.

4K video technology (also named as 2160p) is a new type of resolution standard. Its UHDTV specification can deliver a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels, and the maximum Full Aperture 4K specification reaches 4096×3112. In comparison to the current mainstream 1080p resolution of 1920×1080, 4K can provide over four times the image definition quality. In the future, 4K HD TV sets will be very popular, and the 4K HD and HEVC decoding technologies will help raise the HD market tide. However, in the current market, 4K chips are mainly 4KP30 – only a few chips can support 4KP60. The ZTE ZXV10 B803 STB uses a 4KP60 chip, making it one of the first HD STBs to support 4KP60.

Fang Hui, Deputy President of ZTE, said: “As a global leader in the IPTV market, ZTE offers a complete series of Internet STB products across the range of available resolutions, and is focusing strongly on the development of high-end STB products. This 4KP60 HD STB product will help build our presence in the high end market.”

The ZTE ZXV10 B803 also supports the H.265 format. H.265 is the next generation super HD code transmission specification, which delivers encoded video using half the bandwidth of the previous generation (H.264), with the same quality. The H.265 standard will gradually replace H.264 to become the mainstream standard of the next generation of video transmission.

The ZTE ZXV10 B803 also has a powerful CPU with a processing capability of 10k DMIPS (Dhrystone million instructions per second), enabling faster processing and a better user experience in comparison to current mainstream HD Internet STBs."

Read more at http://benchmarkreviews.com/13009/zte-zxv10-b803-4k-p60-ultra-hd-set-top-box-launched/#h48CwhXTZMCq5tAU.99

"ZTE has launched of its 4K p60 Ultra HD set top box (STB), the ZXV10 B803, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 in Barcelona.

The ZXV10 B803 is designed based on the Broadcom BCM 7252 chip, and supports the 4Kx2KP60 decoding capability, which can decode Ultra HD video with the maximum resolution of 3840x2160. In comparison to traditional HD Internet STBs, the 4K UHD STB can display more vivid and precise images to significantly enhance the user experience.

The ZTE ZXV10 B803 also supports the H.265 format. H.265 is the next generation super HD code transmission specification, which deliversencoded video using half the bandwidth of the previous generation (H.264), with the same quality. The H.265 standard will gradually replace H.264 to become the mainstream standard of the next generation of video transmission."

http://www.voicendata.com/voice-data/news/209836/mwc-zte-launches-4k-p60-ultra-hd-stb#sthash.HcvQdZTZ.FtezOjwf.dpuf

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