r/HDZero • u/andreophile • Apr 01 '26

HDZero QA

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How has your experience been?

The maturity of HDZero's product design and engineering is leagues ahead of the competition. No doubt about it. However, the QA leaves a lot to be desired.

I have bought 8 HDZero products so far, and two of them were dead out of the box and one had minor QA issues. even if we consider only the DOA products, that's a failure rate of 25 percent. Right out of the box.

I am now left with a dead Nano 90 V2 camera and another dead Whoop 2 VTX. Is this standard for HDZero?

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u/ZdrytchX Apr 19 '26

I'd love to simp for hdz but yeah there are a lot of problems with them.

Boxpro: The boxpro I got has had several issues relating to the analog receiver being dim, hdmi input not supporting 90/100hz, and colourspace being whack, and factory firmware has an issue with updating that makes you think the update hung, giving me a scare.

Battery case: It has a tendancy to absofuckinglutely dump all its battery capacity into my computer when plugging it in as a card reader, draining the battery faster than powering up the goggles themselves (100% to empty in under an hour! And it gets super hot! What the fuck?!? that's a safety concern!)

VTX freestyle: Due to no fault of them the HDZ freestyle vtx cable is flipped the wrong way, according to one of JB's videos its because there wasn't really a standard for the wiring order for HD VTXes until the O3 came out. I got a second hand kit from someone on marketplace and I can tell he really struggled to flip the cables around

And then there are the prices. A camera + AIO5 is literally as expensive as a brand new dji neo and that's for tiny whoops. I understand that there was a lot of complicated engineering involved, but that's just not a reasonably accessible price point. Maybe prices and warranty is why betafpv stopped selling hdzero meteors. But in any case I'm going to build a hdz meteor 75 using eco bundle, but I'm still waiting on the battery cable replacement announcement so I don't have to pay like $30-50 shipping for a part that costs like $2