*** 4K Player Thread ***

Absorbentsolid said:
A few reasons to be honest like sound setups is one, Dolby Atmos is coming to Xbox One S or is already out i aren't sure but some people need players that support that now.

Some Xbox One S have/had issues when playing discs. Personally i only a month or 2 ago payed £206 for a Samsung 4k blu ray player with 3 4k movies and i could have gone the Xbox One S route.

But decided not to as i wanted all three 4k blu rays and it would have cost me more.
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The serious people would be buying Oppos.
 
I have an xbox one s for my limited hdr movie watching, but will happily replace with a dedicated bluray player when one comes out that has dual output and hdmi 2.1.

Thing that annoys me about their audio implementation on the xbox is its all or nothing with regards to output.

What I mean is it doesn't seem to allow just bitstream out whatever audio you choose on bluray.

It'll only output one audio format until you change settings. Ridiculous in my opinion.

Unless I am missing something completely?
 
Participant said:
Why would anyone bother buying any of the current crop of dedicated 4k players, when an xbox one s can be had brand new for £200? Even if you don't play games, it's £100 cheaper, and if you or your family do then, well, it's a no brainer.
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my concern was build quality (Lite-on drive) and noise(is it just the fan or blu drive too?) so would want a 5year guarantee, plus, apparently std remote is not too good, so add £15
difficult to know how much it is subsidised by MS, but I do not need the gaming, so discarding gaming part, when will the £150 player arrive ?
like the proliferation of 4k tv's and demise of 1080p, will all the players follow suite and soon will only have 4K ones ?
I guess I am in the 2nd tier of followers, not on the bleeding edge

beachBOYken said:
How is the 4k upscaling on it for blurays.
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I thought it did not do upscaling (despite its processing power) so have to rely on tv.

eyetrip said:
I have an xbox one s for my limited hdr movie watching, but will happily replace with a dedicated bluray player when one comes out that has dual output and hdmi 2.1.
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When hdmi 2.1 with the frame specific hdr, will that not mean you need a new 4k tv too ?
I have not understood the dual output need, is interference between the sound and picture really so much ?
 
jpaul said:
When hdmi 2.1 with the frame specific hdr, will that not mean you need a new 4k tv too ?
I have not understood the dual output need, is interference between the sound and picture really so much ?
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Yes, I would need a new TV. But with an hdmi audio only out, I would not need to change my receiver as well - which I quite like.

My current 55xd8005 was always a temp purchase, until the hdr landscape became clearer, and the implementation of that was more standard.
 
The Xbox has Atmos support now, so for its price represents a pretty good player. I've only had chance to watch Goodfellas on it in 4K and it seemed to skip in one area which was a little annoying.
 
rare said:
The Xbox has Atmos support now, so for its price represents a pretty good player. I've only had chance to watch Goodfellas on it in 4K and it seemed to skip in one area which was a little annoying.
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so that could be considered as 100% failure rate :)


This thread came to mind when I was reading the back cover of a blu ray I just bought

" Restored in 4k from 8k scans of original 65mm elements with 96k resolutuon" - baring in mind this was standard br this is complete marketing mumbo jumbo - ie " remastered in 4k from original 65mm elements" would be much more understandable and say exactly the same thing without trying to oversell with numbers that will never be aparant on the format in question.

(just to verify - the BR in question is the 50th Anniversary edition of My Fair Lady)
 
FrankJH said:
" Restored in 4k from 8k scans of original 65mm elements with 96k resolutuon" - baring in mind this was standard br this is complete marketing mumbo jumbo - ie " remastered in 4k from original 65mm elements" would be much more understandable and say exactly the same thing without trying to oversell with numbers that will never be aparant on the format in question.
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I could not understand the 96K, so googled it, but I guess that was the sound (it is way out of the film resolution I posted earlier on this thread)
The other transfer characteristics are typical no ? oversampled at 8K, probably immersive (like they are ironically, doing Abyss ;)) so they could also show at Imax,
digital noise reduction and then down-sampled for BR, grain probably visible.
[In contrast no second chances/re-scans on PE2 'for a hapeth of tar' could have been 8K/50Hz ?]
 

A good review from a expert. And thanks to a member here he is coming out to sort out my TV :D
 
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I was disappointed, given the grin , I thought it was going tob be the infamous John Bonham or Keith Richards, that generation knew how to sort tv's
 
kidloco said:
Be interested to hear what you think after its calibrated. Really happy with picture of mine since he did it
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It will be about mid may when he comes. Never had a TV calibrated and in a review of my TV he said
the TV that I've got is outstanding out the box :) But yes I will post back
 
jpaul said:
I could not understand the 96K, so googled it, but I guess that was the sound (it is way out of the film resolution I posted earlier on this thread)
The other transfer characteristics are typical no ? oversampled at 8K, probably immersive (like they are ironically, doing Abyss ;)) so they could also show at Imax,
digital noise reduction and then down-sampled for BR, grain probably visible.
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Personally think its all complete gibberish given that its "only" a BR we are talking about, and the front label says "remastered in 4k" or whatever - just leave it at that.

Apart from it being misleading its completely un-necessary (and 96k resolultion bit from the description makes it sound like its in reference to 65mm and video resolution, but I would agree with you that its in ref to the audio....but never makes that clear)
 
V F said:
I'm surprised considering the prices and reputation of Oppo.
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Oppo may have a good reputation but I think they're a little overrated and there's far too much "fanboyism" surrounding them with many seemingly assuming they "must be the best".

As the video posted by deuse above illustrates, the Panny 900 is currently a better player and this ought to apply to the 700 too, assuming the same core internals.
 
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