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Amazon has Sony UBPX700/M Streaming 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player w/ HDMI Cable on sale for $148. Shipping is free.

Best Buy has Sony UBPX700/M Streaming 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player w/ HDMI Cable on sale for $149.99. Shipping is free. or select free curbside pickup if stock permits.
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Features:
  • 4K UHD Playback via HDMI
  • Near-4K Resolution Upscaling
  • HDR10-Compatible
  • Bring scenes to life with striking highlights, deeper darks and vibrant colors with Dolby Vision which is an HDR solution that creates an immersive, engaging cinematic experience in your home.
  • 3D Playback
  • Wi-Fi and Ethernet Network Connectivity
  • Mobile Device Mirroring via Miracast
  • Dedicated HDMI Audio Output
  • High-Resolution Audio Playback
  • Dolby Atmos, TrueHD & DTS:X Compatible
Includes:
  • Sony UBP-X700M HDR 4K UHD Network Blu-ray Disc Player
  • Remote Control
  • 2 x AAA Batteries
  • HDMI Cable
  • Limited 1-Year Warranty

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Model: Sony UBPX700/M 4K Ultra HD Streaming 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player

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The fact she falls asleep 14 minutes into the movie should tell you something,,,
I'm surprised that 4K Blu-ray players prices are not much lower. (It's not as if they have recording capabilities.)

The technology has been out for years and even though it provides better picture/sound quality over streaming, it's not very popular.... by now, it should be priced at 20% over 1080p Blu-ray players.
Not even remotely true. Put a deal alert on 4k Blu ray and watch for sales, you can get tons of good stuff for $10 or under

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TinCanFury
11-20-2021 at 11:09 AM.
11-20-2021 at 11:09 AM.
Quote from ludoo00 :
How long have you had it for? Some reviews state that the issues start after a year to two?

two months. that's weird it would take long to start? maybe it's a drive issue? is also heard that it was an issue but recent firmware updates fixed it.

the problem is the issue is anecdotal evidence so it's hard as consumers to nail down, and it's probably like 2% of units but those 2% are 100% vocal about it.

I really like it, I got it for the same price. That said, the Panasonic are probably a better deal, but I have an SACD and DVDA library that I want to be able to play and while this can play them the Panasonic models cannot.

edit: actually I have the 800M2, so not sure what the exact differences are.
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supermanrob
11-20-2021 at 11:21 AM.
11-20-2021 at 11:21 AM.
Quote from MadPup :
I'm no expert but I think Redbox's days are numbered. Covid has resulted in a lot of movies becoming available for streaming much sooner than they were a couple of years ago. There's now not much of interest available on Redbox kiosks and I don't see that improving. I also don't see the UHD disk market improving much either as there is no sign that their prices will drop to anything reasonable. Much as it pains me to say it, the future is streaming. UHD disks will become the movie equivalent to music's vinyl LPs - carrying a premium and arguably better quality reproduction but much less convenient.

I disagree regarding Redbox, I for one rent from them regularly.
As a matter of fact it helps me preview whether I would want to own it later.

People have been saying disc are on the way out for the longest but it's not happening anytime soon IMO.

Take for instance Black Widow, watched it when it came out at home.

Around here Redbox doesn't offer UHD so rented the BD version.
On line offered DV & Atmos, the BD disc had neither.
Watching the BD disc using a Panasonic player, IMO the BD disc was better on both the PQ & AQ.

We know the UHD disc won't go down in quality since it will have DV & object based soundtrack upgrades.

The positive about streaming IMO is I can wait for sale on it for around $10-12 range and I can easily sell the digital code for around $5.
$5-7 for best PQ & AQ quality seems pretty reasonable to me.

Now if putting a disc into a player is "much less convenient" vs top quality I would say is a personal decision.
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ScottJ9141
11-20-2021 at 11:46 AM.
11-20-2021 at 11:46 AM.
Quote from Bibhu3108 :
Anyone having it knows if the audio hdmi out are eARC capable? As it says it support Dolby atmos. Wondering if I can take that audio out to Sonos Arc or Bose 900 soundbar?
I have this 4k player and the Bose 900 sound bar. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the 4k player had eARC. I have had a lot of problems with this player working with the sound bar. On many discs, there will be sound for the previews and top menu, but when I play the movie, sound will not play through the Bose 900. I have to switch to my TV internal speaker to get sound for the movie.
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Bibhu3108
11-20-2021 at 12:02 PM.
11-20-2021 at 12:02 PM.
This or Apple TV 4K? If I would be using for streaming but also may need occasional blue ray player use
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Bibhu3108
11-20-2021 at 12:04 PM.
11-20-2021 at 12:04 PM.
Quote from ScottJ9141 :
I have this 4k player and the Bose 900 sound bar. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the 4k player had eARC. I have had a lot of problems with this player working with the sound bar. On many discs, there will be sound for the previews and top menu, but when I play the movie, sound will not play through the Bose 900. I have to switch to my TV internal speaker to get sound for the movie.

Thanks, from the blog mentioned by Madpup before seems it's not eARC . But if you tv has eARC or ArC out, and you r connecting ur blue ray with the tv and tv with 900, sound should come for all cases unless there is more surprise.
I m hearing abt a gadget called HDFurrt arcana which claimed to be solving such issue but it's pretty expensive and too me look like a trial n error gambling
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supermanrob
11-20-2021 at 12:25 PM.
11-20-2021 at 12:25 PM.
Quote from arny56 :
The red boxes by me have never offered 4K UHD titles and lately more and more movies are only being offered on DVD. I think they are trying to move people to their streaming model.

On topic, I've had this player for over a year now and think it's a good economical alternative to the DV Panasonic players. The Dolby Vision setting is somewhat annoying but I've settled on simply leaving it enabled all the time and haven't noticed any detrimental color to speak of. The reports of skipping problems were mostly attributed to setting up the player in a hot or none ventilated environment, such as placing it on top of a receiver.

I kinda have to agree with you on disc offering but it hasn't been on blockbuster type movies though.

Another example on why the quality of the player is important.

I can tell you 1st hand this player vs a Panasonic player, Panasonic will upscale those DVD's and BD disc significantly better.

Another good example on how DV isn't as big advantage as portrayed, even you point out you don't see a big color difference.
The Panasonic 420 goes down to this same price and IMO is much better overall player.

I also had issues with this player, one big reason I looked elsewhere.

If you're putting anything on top of a receiver, have to question the intelligence!
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DonGfun
11-20-2021 at 01:26 PM.
11-20-2021 at 01:26 PM.
Quote from Bibhu3108 :
This or Apple TV 4K? If I would be using for streaming but also may need occasional blue ray player use

Apple  TV for streaming with Atmos
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11-20-2021 at 01:53 PM.
11-20-2021 at 01:53 PM.
Quote from mega :
"Proprietary" not "property". Courtesy of spelling police

It didn't bug me as I knew what he was trying to say. Good to know there are people like you out there making this world a better place.
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11-20-2021 at 03:39 PM.
11-20-2021 at 03:39 PM.
Quote from MadPup :
I really don't understand how people over the age of 4 can watch movies multiple times. Maybe I have super-human memory but once I've watched a movie, that's me done with it for at least 5 years.

Hmmm so let me get this straight you only watch a movie once every 5 years and you only rewatch after that because you completely forget it!? 🤔
If you don't forget, why do you watch it again?

I'm not sure what the relevance it is between the quality of disc vs streaming and how much you pay for each?
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chrisngem
11-20-2021 at 03:52 PM.
11-20-2021 at 03:52 PM.
Quote from rcaguy5 :
I bought this player for 150.00 back in late 2018. It has its annoying problem, for one it doesn't Auto switch to Dolby vision for discs with Dolby vision. And if you leave Dolby vision on, it ruins the color if you play non Dolby vision discs. Good player though, plays my movie copy's from a USB drive
I purchased this same player months ago for about the same price from Walmart via another SD listing. My experience is the same - solid player, and yes - I find myself having to manually turn off DV when playing discs that aren't encoded with it (like the few regular HD Blu-rays I have in the collection). It's a minor nuisance, but I'll definitely tolerate it, as the XSX doesn't handle DV. More on this below.

Quote from nathanddrews :
I would say it's gotten harder to rent them because more people have 4K players now Xbox One S/X, Xbox Series X, PS5 dwarf sales of dedicated 4K players.
I had thought my XSX would be the one-box solution; sadly, it isn't. No DV support, and I can't route a dts ARC signal back to my pre/pro (HDMI 1.4) as the XSX expects a some sort of flag signaling - no sound plays. The Blu-ray app on the XSX has also occasionally hard restarted the console for no apparent reason. Finally - the control (via controller) and interface is quite lacking.

This player solved that and more. As for the second audio out that this player has - it was perfect for me.

My XSX goes into my TV (LG OLED) HDMI 2.1 input. The TV's eARC/ARC port feeds a ThenAudio SHARC which converts the TVs eARC signal (the lossless formats) to ARC that my aging (but still goody) pre/pro can understand. Encountering the various issues with the XSX as a Blu-ray player I mentioned earlier - I purchased the player - 4K HDMI into another input of the TV, and the audio out heads straight for the pre/pro - which it recognizes immediately and decodes all the formats I need.

Now Blu-ray spinning is a nice, smooth affair: 4K picture with a nice sound field to match.
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11-20-2021 at 04:14 PM.
11-20-2021 at 04:14 PM.
Quote from Bibhu3108 :
This or Apple TV 4K? If I would be using for streaming but also may need occasional blue ray player use

Well depends how important that occasional Blu Ray disc play is to you because the Apple TV 4K does not play disc.

If you need both this will do that, as people have pointed out streaming is not a strong feature on players.

Just make sure it has or can add the platforms you use or interested in.
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11-20-2021 at 06:01 PM.
11-20-2021 at 06:01 PM.
Quote from Bibhu3108 :
This or Apple TV 4K? If I would be using for streaming but also may need occasional blue ray player use

Apple TV 4K or Roku Ultra if you need a Streamer that support atmos.

This is 4K upscaling Blu-ray player
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chrisngem
11-20-2021 at 06:04 PM.
11-20-2021 at 06:04 PM.
Yes - it does upscale HD Blu-rays (though I can still detect differences between a true 4K disc); and plays 4K Blu-rays just fine.
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polymorphicdeal
11-20-2021 at 07:19 PM.
11-20-2021 at 07:19 PM.
Quote from LEOMHK1.0 :
I did not mean they should lower the price because of the volume of sales but because it's no longer cutting edge tech.
( Same reasoning behind HDD being very affordable and 1 TB drives no longer costing $250)
If 4K players were under $100 more people would buy one.

"not sure how you can arbitrarily arrive at 20% more for the price."
I used to be in the electronic businesses and 20%~25% was the standard mark-up between new tech and previous gen but I am certain that you have your own opinion of what it should be,,,,
You misunderstood the point of sales volume. They don't sell enough to bring the cost of production down with increased volume. The chips that go in 4K players are more complex and therefore more expensive. Add in licensing fees for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
Realistically 30-50% more than Blu-Ray players.

People aren't buying movies on disc anymore with all the streaming services. The cost of the player is not the limiting factor.

Not really comparable to HDD drives that are manufactured in extremely high numbers.
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