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Sony's first 4K Blu-ray player is a flawed marvel

2017-05-18
the Sony ubp x800 may not be the first 4k blu-ray player on the market it's speedy and offers great image quality and there's pretty much all the streaming services you could want while the Sony competes with other $300 players out there it's the styling and build quality that sets this model apart from the others the sony is solid metal one little grumble is that there's no LED display and no play button which you would normally expect on a premium device the interface is simpler than the cross media bar evolved and it has the ability to arrange shortcuts the way you want but pretty much the only service that isn't available is HBO it's fantastic for streaming apps at under four seconds to start Netflix it's the quickest of any blu-ray player we've ever test and almost indistinguishable from a Roku box image quality is absolutely up there with the best and especially for standard blu-rays 1080p movies look as good as you could possibly make them surpassing even our high-end Oppo reference meanwhile 4k video with HDR looks as good as with any of the other players we've seen while audio quality isn't as remarkable and its digital output only this can be solved by using auto instead of PCM via the player menu until companies start talking about 8k content the 300 bucks or Sony offers pretty much everything you need in a blu-ray player right
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