JZ1276

Looking to purchase a 4K BR player . Budget is around $200. Not familiar with these machines at all. Please give me some recommendations, thanks.

JTH182

I picked up a Sony UBP-x700 for $130 this month. Are there better players out there? Probably, but I'm happy.

PerryD

I'm going for the X800. I need Super Audio and DVD Audio support.

JZ1276

The X700 is on sale on Amazon for $128 & supports Dolby Vision unlike the 800. It also supports SACD & DVD-A. Anything I should know before ordering?

PerryD

X800m2 supports Dolby Vision. I don't see that X700 supports DVD Audio in the description.

JZ1276

It looks like the X700 supports SACD but not DVD-A.
So the 800m2 is different from the 800?

JTH182

The 800m2 is the newer version. Dolby Vision support is one of the biggest additions.

JZ1276

The 700 supports Dolby Vision also

JoeySeven

I'm looking at the Sony Ubp-X800M2 $200 and the Panasonic - DP-UB420 just dropped another $40 to $150.
Haven't had much free time to research right now. But upscaling blu-rays too a nice picture is important.
The clowns at Best Buy are not much help. They say the Panasonic is the better player because it price is reduce more.

JTH182

That's why I bought it.

JZ1276

The Sony is a better buy. The Panny doesn't support SACD or Dolby Vision.

T-bone22

Just know that with the x700, you need to turn Dolby Vision on and off manually for DV content. Just setting it to ON will add Dolby Vision to ALL content, which as you can imagine, looks ridiculous. So, when watching a DV disc, you have to navigate the menus and switch DV on, then remember to go back to the menus when finished with the movie and turn DV back off. Not a huge deal, but a bit annoying.

Easy

I had an x800 purchased two years ago and it just crapped out. Bad laser, doesn't recognize disc. The player was always slow to respond to input and frankly I'm disappointed it lasted for only two years of light use.

JZ1276

Juts sold my Pioneer BDP-52FD on ebay & ordered the x700 from Amazon for $128 + tax.

JoeySeven

Thanks,I'm not very tech savvy.On the Sony UBP-X800M2 ,lots of owners do not like you have to manually switch the dv option.
But the upscaling of dvds and blu-rays gets lots of good feedback.

I would be disappointed too,that is not long enough. My PS3 still works fine,but our family room blu-ray player quit working.It was either a Sony or Samsung.

Enjoy. and maybe some feedback latter on. I might just go with the LG UBK90 from Costco the only player they sell right now and easy returns if I do not like. And buy a better player next year.

Update
Bought the LG UBK90 tonight at Costco was $10 off @$140,but today was the last day of sale.Going to have to do until next year as I'm getting a switch for the family,that should burn through some $100's fast.

JZ1276

I just got my first BR UHD disc today (Predator) & can't seem to get HDR working. I have the Sony connected to my Pioneer VSX 1122 receiver which is connected to a TCL TV. The HDR indicator isn't showing on the TV. When I press display on the UHD player it reads HDR-->SDR. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Update: I connected the UHD player directly to the TV & now HDR works so it looks like the receiver doesn't passthrough 4K/HDR which surprises me. Fortunately, the player has a separate HDMI port for audio so I'm going to have to use that port to connect to the receiver because the TV doesn't passthrough DTS-MA through ARC, just the DTS core track

Update: Now that the player is connected directly to the TV I'm getting a lot of screen flickering which according to Amazon reviews is a common issue with this machine.