*** 4K Player Thread ***

Only UHD movies are region free.

Region coding is part of the original Blu-ray disc association rules and manufacturers have to adhere to that. Studios don't have to implement it on the discs though.
 
VincentHanna said:
Only UHD movies are region free.

Region coding is part of the original Blu-ray disc association rules and manufacturers have to adhere to that. Studios don't have to implement it on the discs though.
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He's on about DVDs, which were pretty much universally region coded. It's become redundant nowadays with hardly any Blurays having coding and the UHD standard not even supporting it.
 
Anyone come across an XBox S playing a 4k disc perfectly, shut down 1/2 way through (or after finishing) and putting the disk in a 2nd time and the picture always flickering as if the HDMI cant cope?

Tried it with three discs now and its happened with all three (one of them is Ultra HD Premium , the other two dont appear to be - not sure if this means anything or not).
 
Looking for a 4k blu ray player to purchase

After looking at the market for 4k blu ray players does it now make more sense to get a Xbox One S only as a blu ray player seen as the others on the market are more expensive?

Doesn't it just make more sense to get a Xbox One S? It has a 4k blu ray player as it's so much cheaper considering i've seen the Xbox One S drop to £199?

The only 4K Blu ray players i've seen are £299 and above.

Or am i mistaken?

Hoping someone can provide some help.

Thanks in advance!
 
Cosimo said:
Has it arrived, quick review?
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Yeah it arrived on the 15th, it's a very solid piece of kit with a metal chassis with a nice and quite smooth operating draw, I have found the player to be virtually silent during use although some other owners have reported that they can hear the drive spinning on their units but that is not an issue with mine. I have been impressed with the playback up to now having had no issues with the UHD discs I have watched so far with The Revenant being the most impressive disc I have watched with no problems with banding etc, I don't have an AVR that supports hdmi 2.0a or hdcp 2.2 so I have to run a cable directly to my display and another to my AVR just for sound but it works just fine.

They say that all players should be the same if they are just reading the data on the disc and sending it to the tv over hdmi so pictures should look identical when played on the same display but the Oppo does give you the option to chose the colour bit that it outputs and I have mine set to 10 bit 4:4:4 so the player is converting uhd blu-ray from 10 bit 4:2:0 to 10 bit 4:4:4 before sending it to the display (I have a 10 bit panel) instead of the display doing it itself, I'm not sure how much difference this makes but I am just assuming that the Oppo will do a better job than my tv. The player also has the option to strip the HDR metadata from uhd discs on a HDR display but I can't see any reason to do that myself if your display supports HDR only to see what the difference is with HDR on and off. I have played a couple of Sacd's without issue, I haven't tried any of the file playback features because I have no need for it but it is supposed to play most formats without issue.

Overall I very pleased with it, I have read that some owners are having some issues with compatibility etc but the player has just been released and Oppo have a good reputation when it comes to supporting there hardware with new firmware updates so I would imagine that in a few months all the issues with be sorted.
 
VincentHanna said:
The movies are produced at 4:2:0 so sending a 4:4:4 signal is entirely pointless.
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It's not pointless entirely because it taking the data that’s already there and “upsampling” the missing colour values by averaging between the adjoining values to get 4:4:4 from 4:2:0.
 
My Xbox One S plays 4k blue rays just as well as my Sony dedicated player.
It's a no brainer if you are on a budget.I will now be selling my UHPH1
 
Fyi the main limitation of the One S as a UHD player that it doesn't (yet) bit stream HD audio, so if you have an AV setup it'll only pass a PCM signal to your amp. It won't support Atmos or DTS-X.

Apart from that it's a no-brainer for UHS movies imo!
 
I have a UB900 going to a Sony XD93, just wondering what settings people use on the 4k player(s)?

4k/24p seems to be displaying the best HDR picture (there doesn't appear to be any dynamic conversion but could be wrong), but I thought for HDR it should be set to 4k (50p/60p) 4:4:4.

The TV HDMI is set to receive 4k pictures and does so.
 
budge1972 said:
My Xbox One S plays 4k blue rays just as well as my Sony dedicated player.
It's a no brainer if you are on a budget.I will now be selling my UHPH1
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The Sony UHPH1 is not a 4k player it only upscales bluray/dvd to 4k so your comparison is flawed. It cant play 4k/UHD blurays. Sony dont have a cheap consumer 4k player out yet.

peahead said:
Just a heads up there are a few 4k blu rays on the jungle for £13.50 like oblivion/Everest and Lucy ect. ;)
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Oblivion has sold out :(
 
peahead said:
Just a heads up there are a few 4k blu rays on the jungle for £13.50 like oblivion/Everest and Lucy ect. ;)
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Ta for the heads up but have Oblivion (paid £25 for it and still debating whether the normal Bluray looks better!!), Everest doesn't interest me enough to buy and Lucy, despite being reference quality, is one of the worst films ever made.
 
faxfan said:
I have a UB900 going to a Sony XD93, just wondering what settings people use on the 4k player(s)?

4k/24p seems to be displaying the best HDR picture (there doesn't appear to be any dynamic conversion but could be wrong), but I thought for HDR it should be set to 4k (50p/60p) 4:4:4.

The TV HDMI is set to receive 4k pictures and does so.
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Have the same combo. All movies will be 24p so forget abouit the 50p/60p setting as it doesn't really matter.
 
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