Walmart has Sony UBP-X700 Streaming 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player on sale for $149. Shipping is free.
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Key Features:
Get more from your movies with 4K Ultra HD: Experience movies with four times the resolution of conventional Blu-ray (Full HD), with new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and 4K streaming services.
HDR10: An HDR 10 signal contains up to 100x the brightness of a standard (SDR) signal, massively increasing peak brightness while retaining deep and highly-detailed blacks, for an entirely new viewing experience.
DOLBY VISION: Bring scenes to life with striking highlights, deeper darks and vibrant colors. Dolby Vision is an HDR solution that creates an immersive, engaging cinematic experience in your home.
A richer picture on any screen: Watch 4K HDR films, even on non-HDR TVs, and enjoy additional shadow and highlight detail. Our HDR-SDR conversion intelligently scales HDRs ultra-wide brightness range into an SDR image, maintaining outstanding picture quality even with conventional SDR TVs.
The Way The Artists Truly Intended: Enjoy the subtlest nuances of studio-quality sound in higher than CD quality with High-Resolution Audio. Passion for music unites every component from signal to speaker so it feels like the artist is performing right in front of you.
Play anything: The UBP-X700's playing power goes far beyond 4K UHD Blu-ray discs. You can watch, listen to, and stream almost anything you like, including most high-definition video and audio formats, and content from a host of popular streaming services.6 The X700 also upscales content to the highest quality possible, so you?re always enjoying movies and shows in high resolution.
Ultimate disc drive: Play all your CD, DVD and Blu-ray collections conveniently with one universal player.
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Walmart has Sony UBP-X700 Streaming 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player on sale for $149. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member jmartin147 for finding this deal.
Key Features:
Get more from your movies with 4K Ultra HD: Experience movies with four times the resolution of conventional Blu-ray (Full HD), with new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and 4K streaming services.
HDR10: An HDR 10 signal contains up to 100x the brightness of a standard (SDR) signal, massively increasing peak brightness while retaining deep and highly-detailed blacks, for an entirely new viewing experience.
DOLBY VISION: Bring scenes to life with striking highlights, deeper darks and vibrant colors. Dolby Vision is an HDR solution that creates an immersive, engaging cinematic experience in your home.
A richer picture on any screen: Watch 4K HDR films, even on non-HDR TVs, and enjoy additional shadow and highlight detail. Our HDR-SDR conversion intelligently scales HDRs ultra-wide brightness range into an SDR image, maintaining outstanding picture quality even with conventional SDR TVs.
The Way The Artists Truly Intended: Enjoy the subtlest nuances of studio-quality sound in higher than CD quality with High-Resolution Audio. Passion for music unites every component from signal to speaker so it feels like the artist is performing right in front of you.
Play anything: The UBP-X700's playing power goes far beyond 4K UHD Blu-ray discs. You can watch, listen to, and stream almost anything you like, including most high-definition video and audio formats, and content from a host of popular streaming services.6 The X700 also upscales content to the highest quality possible, so you?re always enjoying movies and shows in high resolution.
Ultimate disc drive: Play all your CD, DVD and Blu-ray collections conveniently with one universal player.
Model: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™ Player With Dolby Atmos®, HDR, And Wi-Fi For Streaming Video UBP-X700
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YMMV, but we had an absolutely AWFUL experience with this player.
Constant freezing/skipping issues occurred on two different units.. even when using brand-new, perfectly-spotless 4K discs.
Never could just sit and enjoy a movie; always waiting for the skip or jump. Interface is like a Windows 95 program, and though we never used it for streaming, it seemed really overly simple and clunky.
Can't recommend enough that you look elsewhere for a budget player, or spend up for something a little more reliable.
Because they want to be sure to retain ownership of something they buy and to not have to pay for Internet to access it? Also, 4k from disk is often higher quality than from streaming. A 4k disk is often over 50GB of data compared to maybe 1/4 of that for streaming.
I would not leave Dolby Vision on all the time. It has a pretty dramatic effect on non-DV video. You may or may not like the results and the results vary greatly. Sometimes you may like the DV effect on non DV titles, but other times it is definitely worse.
I bought my X700 May 2018 for $200, so I'm surprised to see it come up as a deal now at $149.99. I'm still happy with mine but there must be newer 4K players by now at this price?
Been a few years since I played around much with DV, so my memory is a little fuzzy. Currently I always turn it off for non DV content. If I recall correctly the intensity of the video would be increased so that you'd get a DV like affect on the brightness, but you lose a lot of detail with some things blown out by the brightness / color saturation.
Again, some content may look better but you'd have to take the time to test it which is a hassle. I know I spent a lot of time back then testing Game of Thrones Season 1, which has unpopular DV output on the 4K disc. I think I liked the blu-ray with DV on better than the 4K disc with DV. It looked quite good, but then I compared it to the HDR10 version of the 4K and that look similar to the DV enabled blu-ray but a little better.
I think I recall re-watching Seinfeld around the same time and it looked bad with DV on. It seemed like the DV effect worked best with more modern science fiction / fantasy movies or shows with big budgets.
Boggles my mind that Xbox X and PS5 can't do Dolby vision. It would literally be a firmware update and license agreement away for Sony & Microsoft.
For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
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Boggles my mind that Xbox X and PS5 can't do Dolby vision. It would literally be a firmware update and license agreement away for Sony & Microsoft.
For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
Not to be "that guy" but just to clear up something: Xbox One X supports Dolby Vision in the major streaming apps, but the BluRay Player app does not.
Boggles my mind that Xbox X and PS5 can't do Dolby vision. It would literally be a firmware update and license agreement away for Sony & Microsoft.
For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
I'm guessing it is probably a licensing cost issue. It doesn't make sense for them to add $30 or whatever (I hear that Dolby licensing is expensive) to every console sold if only a small minority actually use the feature.
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Because they want to be sure to retain ownership of something they buy and to not have to pay for Internet to access it? Also, 4k from disk is often higher quality than from streaming. A 4k disk is often over 50GB of data compared to maybe 1/4 of that for streaming.
Is there a benefit I'm unaware of by using this over say a new Xbox?
I have been using my Xbox one as a 4k player and the experience is just okay. For one as people have been saying there's no Dolby vision support which for me I suppose I can live without it (not at all saying I can notice a difference). what is difficult for me to live with is this audio lag which I read is a common issue related to the Xbox and 4k disc playback. it can be worked out through some settings on the Xbox but it's a pain for me.
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I've had two of these, both have been buggy. Often won't recognize when there's a disc in it, and can get stuck in a powered-down state (have to unplug and plug it back in again). I think it's a good deal for the price, but makes me wish for a higher end, more solid product.
Boggles my mind that Xbox X and PS5 can't do Dolby vision. It would literally be a firmware update and license agreement away for Sony & Microsoft.
For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
+1 "That guy", in that they support DV over streaming...but not on disc.
That said, both call themselves "4k BD players" w/out any caveats so not supporting DV on disc is pretty disingenuous. Charge me the license fee or whatever, just make sure your device does what it says on the effin' box =\
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Personally, I don't think so. But to some extent, it depends on the individual. Both PS5 and XBox Series X do not support Dolby Vision or HDR10+ for 4K-Blu-ray playback. If (a) you have a large collection of 4K Blu-ray's, (b) not having access to those HDR formats is a problem for you, AND (c) you can afford it; then you might consider buying a standalone player. But for most people it's not worth it. If you own a new gen console anyway, then just make the best of that.
Both XBox Series X and PS5 support the latest audio codecs. However only XBox Series X supports Dolby vision for streaming apps. Like I said, neither supports it for Blu-ray playback. Purists believe that PS5 otherwise makes for a better 4K blu-ray player, but personally I think that's a wash. Enthusiasts often show comparative screenshots. The difference is usually minor to non-existent and not worth any real consideration.
Xbox, even the old One S has DV albeit a stripped down version. I found that my older Xbox One S although a good player was a bit loud when spinning the disc.
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Constant freezing/skipping issues occurred on two different units.. even when using brand-new, perfectly-spotless 4K discs.
Never could just sit and enjoy a movie; always waiting for the skip or jump. Interface is like a Windows 95 program, and though we never used it for streaming, it seemed really overly simple and clunky.
Can't recommend enough that you look elsewhere for a budget player, or spend up for something a little more reliable.
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I bought my X700 May 2018 for $200, so I'm surprised to see it come up as a deal now at $149.99. I'm still happy with mine but there must be newer 4K players by now at this price?
Been a few years since I played around much with DV, so my memory is a little fuzzy. Currently I always turn it off for non DV content. If I recall correctly the intensity of the video would be increased so that you'd get a DV like affect on the brightness, but you lose a lot of detail with some things blown out by the brightness / color saturation.
Again, some content may look better but you'd have to take the time to test it which is a hassle. I know I spent a lot of time back then testing Game of Thrones Season 1, which has unpopular DV output on the 4K disc. I think I liked the blu-ray with DV on better than the 4K disc with DV. It looked quite good, but then I compared it to the HDR10 version of the 4K and that look similar to the DV enabled blu-ray but a little better.
I think I recall re-watching Seinfeld around the same time and it looked bad with DV on. It seemed like the DV effect worked best with more modern science fiction / fantasy movies or shows with big budgets.
For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
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For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
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For somebody who has a Sony 4K TV with DV, you would want the best possible way to play your 4K movies. Sadly the PS5 won't do in this case.
Go with Sony X700 or Panasonic UB220/420
That said, both call themselves "4k BD players" w/out any caveats so not supporting DV on disc is pretty disingenuous. Charge me the license fee or whatever, just make sure your device does what it says on the effin' box =\
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Both XBox Series X and PS5 support the latest audio codecs. However only XBox Series X supports Dolby vision for streaming apps. Like I said, neither supports it for Blu-ray playback. Purists believe that PS5 otherwise makes for a better 4K blu-ray player, but personally I think that's a wash. Enthusiasts often show comparative screenshots. The difference is usually minor to non-existent and not worth any real consideration.
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