Zappiti was a hardware manufacturer with an extensive range of 4K Media Players that were mostly pretty good at what they do. See our earlier review of the Zidoo UHD3000, where we referred to some issues we'd experienced with Zappiti's compatibility. We also had great difficulties obtaining support from the company at the time.

In a statement distributed to its customers, Zappiti said, “It's with the greatest sadness that I have to announce that Zappiti will be over soon.” It continued, “As you already know, we are fighting since January to keep our baby alive, but unfortunately, Justice has refused to hear us”.

It is speculated that there were disagreements within the company relating to ownership and that workers continued without pay to continue operating the service. Zappiti relied on a cloud solution to match content, which the statement says will be disconnected before the end of the year.

As for existing owners of Zappiti products, the company has said, “we are working on a solution to propose to all the Zappiti users. The plan is to install a new app so they can continue to enjoy their Zappiti products. There will be a small fee for that App.” It is also understood that customers cannot transfer their collection's metadata to the new App and must register a new account and rebuild their library. In the meantime, Zappiti will still work for local offline collections, but new content will no longer be identified. 

Zidoo remains one of the last standing dedicated hardware manufacturers catering exclusively to 4K local media playback and given the recent success of its sister brand, EverSolo, it is fair to assume the company is on solid foundations. Of course, alternative products like Apple TV and Nvidia Shield, for example, running software solutions like Emby, Plex, and others, still exist for managing locally stored content such as Blu-ray backups.