*** 4K Player Thread ***

If you can afford the Oppo, you’d be mad not too.

If you’re put off by the price then don’t worry about Dolby Vision and get the Panasonic as the LG really was trash in comparison to the other two in terms of picture. And it was noisy in comparison
 
It's still a pretty huge premium for a 'nice to have' feature that will probably be common on far cheaper players (that aren't complete junk like the LG) in several months, when far more DV content should also be available.

I've purchased the Panasonic UB390 for £130. It's very good and I'll flog it next year for any decent DV player that is less than £300.
 
TJM said:
It's still a pretty huge premium for a 'nice to have' feature that will probably be common on far cheaper players (that aren't complete junk like the LG) in several months, when far more DV content should also be available.

I've purchased the Panasonic UB390 for £130. It's very good and I'll flog it next year for any decent DV player that is less than £300.
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As much as I'm all for cheaper tech. I can't see a £130 4k player being any good atm
 
TALON1973 said:
As much as I'm all for cheaper tech. I can't see a £130 4k player being any good atm
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The picture and audio output from any player that isn't doing something wrong will be identical (save for DV). The UB390, which is the well-reviewed UB400 but without Wi-Fi, isn't totally silent in operation but it is close enough that I wouldn't pay significantly extra (let alone £500) to eliminate the noise. DV does look good but it is similarly not worth x4 the cost to me at a point when there is almost no content.
 
TJM said:
The picture and audio output from any player that isn't doing something wrong will be identical
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we have discussed this before ?
the xbox one s blue-ray has non-defeatable noise reduction, so the picture is not the same,
Vincent's and other sites (french hifi revews I had ref'd) also find chroma upscale on ub900/700 4k is better than the oppo's

I'd go , middle ground, for the the ub700 £200-£250, same chassis/components as ub900 minus the dacs, ub400 does not have the same processor afaik
 
For most people the difference in picture quality would be very hard to tell between the 203 and something like the UB390. I think the X800 is probably the best bang for buck player at the moment when you take in to account it’s support for super audio discs which there are still a few fans off. Plus it’s nicely put together.
 
a month and one week until a whole army of new 4k bluray players are announced. Apart from the Oppo. its money for old rope in this market.
 
so what will the new features be - hdmi 2.1 ?

but more worrying new products often have inferior technical capabilities/robustness versus predecessors so maybe worthwhile getting that ub[47]00 (ymmmv) now.
eg panasonic tvs dx750>ex700, samsung ks7000>mu7000 (recently understood philips tv's now made in India)
Oppo products may, I agree, manintain their build quality, they probably cannot exploit economies of scale, like the majors.
 
jpaul said:
so what will the new features be - hdmi 2.1 ?

but more worrying new products often have inferior technical capabilities/robustness versus predecessors so maybe worthwhile getting that ub[47]00 (ymmmv) now.
eg panasonic tvs dx750>ex700, samsung ks7000>mu7000 (recently understood philips tv's now made in India)
Oppo products may, I agree, manintain their build quality, they probably cannot exploit economies of scale, like the majors.
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for me, just dolby vision. generally there is too much of a gap at the moment between oppo and the rest.

i just want a sony deck with comparable audio and video performance with dolby vision for £400 or less.
 
I will only be buying the odd 4k UHD from now on i have recently got a apple 4K TV box and there seem a greater selection of Dolby vision movies on there and for a lot less £££.
 
Just finished watching Spiderman 1 and 2 from the 4k boxset and they are so much better than Amazing Spiderman. Looking forward to Spiderman 3.1. It was worth getting after all.
Makes me think I should get the Batman Trilogy 4k now too.
 
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