*** 4K Player Thread ***

Maybe they are making it all up and there's no real difference but, then again, everyone else could simply be assuming the performance is the same and not actually bothering to check.

Makes no difference to me really. I got the 900 for the better looks and better remote as it was only about another 30% extra. If the performance of the 700 and 900 had been conclusively proven to be identical, I'd still have bought the 900.
 
peahead said:
OLED :D;) oh i have a Denon AVR-X2300 coming tomorrow:D
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It'll be OLED, I'm still debating on AV amps, I nearly bought the Marantz SR6011 earlier and several times changed my mind at the last minute, that will be another instance of having to make a snap decision! As for the TV I'm very undecided, it's not an area I've looked into at all, I'm not going to buy until the new year as prices usually remain stable throughout November/December as people want the latest TV for Christmas, then in the new year the prices tend to fall.
 
varkanoid said:
Had mine a few months. Lovely bit of kit and had it download the DTS-X upgrade firmware the other month too. Works with my Samsung wonderfully.
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:cool: just set mine up tonight but its currently downloading the DTS-X firmware so cant fully test it properly until its done.. Works with my lg OLED fine so far no hdmi issues :)
 
Well I've had my player for a few days now and so far have watched The Martian, Deadpool, X-Men Apocalypse and Pacific Rim.

All I can say is "WOW!". It's the HDR and WCG that gets you and makes far more difference that the ultimate resolution. Indeed only a few titles thus far are genuinely 4K (such as Deadpool and X-Men Apocalypse) whilst most come from a 2K digital intermediate so don't offer much more resolution than a Bluray. The quality of the genuine 4K transfers is amazing though.
 
As an update, I've now got the Marantz SR6011 installed.

I ordered the Panasonic UB900 UB900 from the rainforest for delivery on Wednesday 30th, after waiting in all day I contacted them on Thursday 1st as it was still showing as out for delivery to be delivered on the 30th! They then confirmed it was probably lost in transit and instructed the courier if found to return it, and they refunded me.

I since ordered the Panny from them again to be delivered today (quite useful as it's since gone down in price by £5), so, lets see if they manage to deliver it this time...
 
I ordered an OPPO UDP-203 a couple of days ago, I've just got to wait a couple of weeks now for delivery. I decided to hold out for it rather than get the Panny because it supports SACD playback and it will be getting support for Dolby Vision which will be nice assuming any discs get released with DV.
 
Whilst support for as many standards as possible is always good, I'm starting to suspect that Dolby Vision is dead in the water.

Virtually all TVs and 4K Blurays released thus far use HDR10. I think DV is just too late and, regardless of any technical benefits over HDR10, will lose out simply by being too late to the party. It looks like the industry is standardising on HDR10.
 
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I ordered an OPPO UDP-203 a couple of days ago, I've just got to wait a couple of weeks now for delivery. I decided to hold out for it rather than get the Panny because it supports SACD playback and it will be getting support for Dolby Vision which will be nice assuming any discs get released with DV.
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Where did you order from?
 
Ok......got Suiside Squad . Loved it . Only seen the 4k version. But why in damnation is the extended version only on the blu ray disc ?
 
I bought an Xbox One S in Black Friday sales to use as a UHD Blu-ray player.

Firstly, I find the price of UHD movies massively off-putting as they are selling to the 'early adopter' crowd.

Case in point - Hunger Games 4 movies boxset

Blu-ray: £16.99
4K UHD Blu-ray: £69.99!

So far I only bought 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. I found the film grain in day-light scenes quite distracting though. It almost looks like the grain is sparkling, and is particularly apparent on Zhang Ziyi's clothing in the early scenes. HDR wasn't really utilised much either.

I probably shouldn't have started with a 16 year old movie, to be fair, but one review was very impressed with the image:

If Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's 1080p remaster was a work of art, its 2160/HDR-enhanced presentation is a masterpiece. It's amazing to see how much the UHD format can improve upon a texturally rich, photographed on film, and 4K-mastered source. Where the 1080p Blu-ray found an incredibly filmic quality, the UHD offers much the same but with a surge of detail that's several steps above in terms of clarity and intimacy. The film's richly defined clothes, complex facial features, wooden structural locations, and other elements are breathtakingly organic and vastly superior to the Blu-ray in every way. Grain structure is attractively balanced as well, accentuating the richness of texture that abounds both near and wide to the point that it's safe to say that few, if any, home video releases have found this much tactile clarity and textural wonder. Colors are fabulously balanced, too. The HDR enhancement doesn't push very hard. Leafy greens are a little showier, flesh tones a bit fuller. The differences between the two formats is more than negligible, but the HDR only goes as far as it must to compliment and tweak, not overwhelm or significantly alter. Black levels are pure. The print is meticulously clean and no source or encode artifacts are apparent. Along with, and maybe a hair above, Angels & Demons and Pineapple Express, this is hands-down the reference UHD disc currently on the market.
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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Crouching-Tiger-Hidden-Dragon-4K-Blu-ray/162080/
 
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