Xbox one S as a UHD 4K player?

http://www.trustedreviews.com/xbox-one-s-review-uhd-blu-ray-hdr-and-verdict-page-3

https://tvevaluate.com/panasonic-dmp-ub900-vs-samsung-ubd-k8500-vs-xbox-one-s/

Picture Quality:
Unlike the Panasonic DMP-UB900 and Samsung UBD-K8500, the Blu-ray player app on the Xbox One S doesn’t currently have the option to upscale regular Blu-ray and DVDs to 4K resolution (games can be upscaled to 4K, however) thus your TV will have to do the upscaling. Unless the quality of your TV or projector’s upscaling algorithms is on par with the excellent upscaling on the Panasonic DMP-UB900 (the Samsung UBD-K8500 upscaling is also quite good), DVDs and regular Blu-rays might not look at their best on the Xbox One S, or at least not on par with DMP-UB900 and UBD-K8500. The Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, however, are rendered identically on all three devices, notwithstanding different disk loading times, with the picture quality being largely dependent on the display you’re using. That being said, the Panasonic dedicated 4K High-Precision Chroma Processor that upsamples the half chroma resolution (4:2:0) to full chroma resolution (4:4:4) allows the DMP-UB900 to create the perception of more natural textures and depth. The chroma interpolation also permits for greater colored details than what’s actually stored on the Blu-ray disc but it’s not user adjustable, so you cannot turn it off. Whilst on the subject of non-defetable enhancements, the Samsung UBD-K8500 applies noise reduction filtering which can be disabled only for the luma channels but not for the chroma channels. This may create visible artifacts with some content.

The Samsung UBD-K8500 offers several options for HDMI color format: Auto, YCbCr 4:4:4, RGB Standard, RGB Enhanced. The Panasonic DMP-UB900 has all of the above mentioned choices under “Color Mode” with the addition of YCbCr 4:2:2. There is HDMI Deep Color menu item on the Samsung UBD-K8500 that can be set to either Auto or Off. When set to “Off” the Samsung UBD-K8500 outputs 10-bit color and 12-bit when on Auto with Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. While the Deep Color Output on the Panasonic DMP-UB900 can also be set to either Auto or Off, the player outputs 12-bit 4:4:4 (when on Auto; and the Color Mode is also on Auto) and 12-bit 4:2:2 (when Off) with Ultra HD Blu-ray discs meaning the 10-bit output is omitted. With normal Blu-ray disc, the output is 12-bit 4:4:4 with the Auto setting, and 8-bit 4:4:4 when set to Off.
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http://www.techhive.com/article/313...-player-with-weak-surround-sound-support.html

Microsoft’s game console was a tad slower to mount Ultra HD Blu-ray discs compared to the purpose-built players we’ve tested, but it played every commercial and test disc we tried without a hitch. Like the competition, the Xbox One S also does a good job of upscaling 720p and 1080p, but you’ll never mistake the results for 4K UHD. The competition is no better. Don’t believe anyone’s advertising hype on that score. We did prefer the colors in the Xbox One S’s video output over the two dedicated players. The Xbox One S’s colors looked warmer, for lack of a better word.
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So one review says the output of all the players is identical, then goes on to say how the Panasonic produces different looking output.

The other review contradicts the first in claiming the XBox can upscale and that the XBox produces 'warmer' colours.

:rolleyes:
 
Ive heard from calibrators ,that they regard the Xbox One S as at least on par with the panny and the Samsung ,certainly at the price point ,and the impending DTSX/ATMOS update ,its a bit of a bargain
 
Vertigo1;30494799 said:
So one review says the output of all the players is identical, then goes on to say how the Panasonic produces different looking output.

The other review contradicts the first in claiming the XBox can upscale and that the XBox produces 'warmer' colours.

:rolleyes:
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I'm pretty sure upscaling was sketchy back in September when that review was written - I know it was being added and removed in firmware around that time as I recall - just like bitstreaming wasn't available when whathifi wrote theirs. The difference is bitstream was always coming, but whathifi made no mention of that of course ...
 
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