Building a HTPC for 4k Playback

EllisDJ

EllisDJ

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Hello Guys

I have not been on here for ages - fell out of love with PC gaming years ago so I am out of the loop with the latest and greatest.

However no issue building and working on PC's - I was waiting for Oppo to release a 4K UHD Blu ray player so I could buy an upgraded one from Audiocom.

Then I looked at my blu ray collection which is starting to get difficult to store and organise so I thought why not build a dedicated HTPC for movies same as I have one dedicated for music.

However I dont know how much spec it will need to comfortably play UHD discs in the future.
I Ideally I would want min power so I can cool passively so its not a case of over specking to be 100%%

Anyone any experience or suggestions?

Thanks
 
no one knows what uhd buray drives are available for pc's yet, firmwares for newish br's maybe released to give uhd compatabilty.
GPU wise HEVC/ h265 hw decoding will be required plus hdmi2/ hdcp2.2 output
 
How far are you going to be sat from the screen? Surely 4K is over kill still unless you're sat at your PC? Or have I got that wrong? Just interested as I'm in the process of putting together a cinema room.
 
lude1962 said:
no one knows what uhd buray drives are available for pc's yet, firmwares for newish br's maybe released to give uhd compatabilty.
GPU wise HEVC/ h265 hw decoding will be required plus hdmi2/ hdcp2.2 output
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You need to buy a UHD player to play UHD disks. UHD uses a different laser to read disks, so a firmware update isn't going to happen on any disk spinner (xbox/ps4 included).
 
FurryLemon said:
You need to buy a UHD player to play UHD disks. UHD uses a different laser to read disks, so a firmware update isn't going to happen on any disk spinner (xbox/ps4 included).
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not 100% convinced by the requirement for a different laser as they still have to be able to read normal BR's.

Obviously its against the manufacturers own interests to upgrade existing players, so even if firmware upgrades where technically all that was required its highly unlikely consumers would see them either way.
 
FrankJH said:
not 100% convinced by the requirement for a different laser as they still have to be able to read normal BR's.

Obviously its against the manufacturers own interests to upgrade existing players, so even if firmware upgrades where technically all that was required its highly unlikely consumers would see them either way.
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Bluray players can read DVD's....
 
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