Sony UBP-X800M2 4K UHD Blu-Ray Disc Player with 2 4K Ultra HD Movies

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thank you peaple for the good product

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Best value in a 4k DVD player at this time

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everything SONY standard. however, NO front panel display make user very trouble.

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How this disc/file player performs: Pluses: + 4k discs look nothing short of amazing (on LG OLED C8 tv). This player mated with a good OLED 4k tv is the first technology to produce a better picture than even the best plasmas. + 108OP discs look almost as good as 4K discs, but without the HDR. Prior to getting this Sony, I tried out a Panasonic DP-UB820, which according to the “professional” reviews did the best job of making 1080P discs look like 4k discs; it looked absolutely no better than my old Samsung Blu-ray player. + 720/480 discs look a lot better than on a 1080P tv, but it isn’t a miracle worker. + SACD and DVD-Audio discs sound fantastic through Yamaha Aventage/Klipsch Ref7s based 5.1 system. If OPPO was still around this player would cause a problem with their price structure. The only real limitation here is that the DAC chip is only 24/96, so all your higher res audio will be limited by this. + 24/96+ Hi-res .flac/audio files played from USB thumb drive perform well, but again they will be limited by the 24/96 DAC. + Very fast booting on everything Minuses (as of the latest firmware update): - 24/96 DAC chip. This is the only problem that cannot be taken care of with a firmware update. - You cannot configure the remote to work with your tv. - As already documented, Dolby Vision does not auto detect. Sony will have to fix this; too many people have complained. - There are a total of three streaming apps: Netflix, Amazon Prime and Youtube. There is no way to add additional apps, so this will not be replacing your Nvidia Shield anytime soon. Firmware updates will fix most of the limitations of this player. Why Sony has made a hi-res audio disc player that plays all the hi-resolution discs, but they have mated it to a fairly low res DAC chip is something that only the accountants can answer. The 24/96 DAC will cover SACDs (a Sony technology), but it comes up short for DVD-A and Blu-ray audio discs. A 24/192 DAC chip would have made this disc player a giant killer. The Panasonic DP-UB820 has a 32/192 DAC, but it doesnt play SACD or DVD-A. I’m not a big Sony fan, but this disc player is a reasonable value if you listen to SACD/DVD-A discs. The ability to play these discs is the main reason to get this disc player. If you don’t listen to these discs, save yourself a few bucks and get the UBP-X700; visually it does everything this one does. If you want to be smart about this purchase, wait until Black Friday when Sony/Amazon do very serious price drops on these players.

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I have a collection of BD players that are showing some age. I even have that HD “soup to nuts” one by Samsung that could play both Blu-Ray and DVD-HD (Toshiba’s failed HD format). I have 2 Oppo Blu-Ray players and one ten year old Sony ES unit that was a kind of joint audiophile SACD player as well as BD player. I say this because I have had in my past a kind of sickness of buying and trying different A/V components. I had to put the brakes on my continual purchasing of more “stuff” finally as I was actually purchasing A/V components and never even using some of them (not the BD players though as I still use most all of these). I think this fact, more or less, explains the sickness part (lol). Sometime back I put myself on a big gadget diet as a solution to my sickness. This resulted in what I came to believe was a big mistake. I didn’t buy one of the last of the two Oppos (UDP-203 & UDP-205) 4K BD universal disc players. In the last year this has caused me to frequently cruise for a used one at or near it’s original price. They don’t exist except at wildly ridiculously expensive ask prices to which I simply will not pay. I sensibly figured to just give up and see what the market would bring out in the future. I think, for me, the future has arrived. Enter my chance to review the updated Sony UDP-X800 M2. The M2 adds Dolby Vision to the original BPD-800 unit. I’m particularly happy because this universal type disc player plays everything you can throw at except the almost non-existent home made SACD-R discs which I only have a couple and can play on my older Oppo BD players if I get the notion. I do understand Sony’s desire not to propagate the SACD-R thing as it’s their proprietary baby which they seek to keep uniformly consistent on pressed discs only. As far as playing my old DVDS (I have over a 1000 ) I have no gripes whatsoever. On my LG locally dimmed 1080p unit the discs look about as good as ever - a quick comparison with the older Oppo support this. The BD discs I have reproduce spectacularly well as expected. The included 4K discs down scaled look even better actually - so I can only imagine how nice they’d be on a true 4K display which I’ve yet to buy but will eventually do so. The sound seems spot-on high-end on my large system which features ESS AMT 1D speakers that have exception mid and high resolution. The added bonuses are a few streaming apps built in with more promised in future updates as I understand. Though very limited now the ones I wanted are here and it simply gives the player a little more versatility as if you have a display which doesn’t have streaming apps (rare these days plus the built in display apps usually load somewhat faster I’d say)l These just add a bit of extra value and versatility to which it’s hard to complain. One thing I really dig is the BT audio output. I can put on any of my BT cans (I have 3 Sony BT headphones) and listen privately with what seems to be quite good fidelity considering we’re talking BT here. I think I’m no longer wishing I’d bought a UHD Oppo player and certainly have no desire to do so at the insanely inflated prices the used ones are asking. This player does everything I could ask for and good enough to say this is the last physical disc player I feel I’ll ever need. Sure you can buy cheaper units that play UHD BD discs as well, but you can not get another universal one at this price. And the excellent build quality with sleek modern industrial design seems like a bargain at this price indeed. I do not mind navigating the menus for turning off the Dolby Vision (it seems to be the auto choice) and adjusting the audio output parameters for proper digital decoding by my preamp. I see this as a fine value in a over-achieving universal disc player which really should be, quite possibly, the last one I’ll ever want or need. I’ve heard some niggles about a bit of slow loading on 4K discs but that is so insignificant to me I only mention it in passing. This extremely well built deck with sleek modern industrial design is close to everything I could wish for. I truly believe this will be the last physical disc player I’ll ever need and if like me you missed out on getting one that handles UHD I will unreservedly recommend snapping this model up. It’s a stone bargain in my humble opinion.

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i got the “launch” edition with a couple of movies, which makes up for the cost difference between the X800 and the X800M2. Some cool features include Bluetooth support so that you can listen with headphones, and a dedicated audio-only HDMI-out in case you want to send your audio somewhere other than where your video will go. The bluetooth option is VERY cool if there’s a night owl in your family, as dedicated wireless TV headphones are expensive for what they are, while there is a Bluetooth for everyone. You can also play from a media server or use the usb input hidden behind a small panel in the front. It’s a big (17”) heavy player at just under 10 lbs, which is supposed to help quell microvibrations. Who knows, but it’s cool to not have a flimsy little video disc player. Sony seems to have improved it’s UI. It’s not yet up to Roku or Apple standards, but it fits in with my theater setup a lot better than my other Sony disc player did.

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This is a really nice 4K Blu-ray disc player. It plays almost every type of disc, video format, and audio format available. You can connect to a local media server you can play from a USB stick and you can connect to streaming services. It has one coax output and an HDMI output. So I upgraded to this 4K Blu-ray player from a DVD player... I cant say how it compares to other 4K devices or even Blu-ray devices in general. All I can do is compare it to my previous DVD player. My previous player was also Sony but not a smart player and it was only able to connect using either coax or RCA cables. It couldnt connect using HDMI at all. When I tested them both together using the same DVD, the Sony UBP-X800 is able to provide a better picture from DVDs than my old player. I love that I can finally play all the blu-ray discs that came in Blu-ray/DVD combo packs and that they look great. Obviously coming up from a DVD player connected by RCA cables everything looks a lot better no matter what for me. Sound is pretty good but I dont have any special sound system set up. Its just through the speakers on my older Sony Bravia TV. I know if I had a surround sound system of some type it would probably work really well with that, maybe sometime in the future. Im usually the last person to get on board with buying new players (hence why I still only had a very basic DVD player) so it feels kind of nice to be a little ahead of the game for once. Now I can play all of the latest formats well, except the newer 8K thats probably going to be growing... at least Im only 1 step behind the newest trend so I should be able to use this for quite a while before I need a new upgraded machine. I love that I can control both the player and the TV with both remotes (just like my last Sony player). I love that it has an HDMI connection now instead of my previous RCA connections. I lovee that I can now play all my previously unwatchable Blu-rays as well as my larger collection of older DVDs and the now 2 4k movies (the ones that come with this set). Im not particularly impressed with the players UI, its okay but not great. I find the fact that it only has two physical buttons, power and eject, to be an odd choice. My old player also had a play button. Anyone with kids probably has experienced the lost remote phenomenon, anytime my kids lost the remote we could still push the physical "play/stop" button. Thats not an option with this player so if they lose the remote (which Im sure they will) we wont be able to play discs or access other features. Im also not in love with the size. Its twice the size of my DVD player and about 1.5 times the height. Its profile on my entertainment stand is much larger. It has a nice clean look but it still visually takes up much more space. Im also a little disappointed by the included streaming apps. It only has Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube. No Hulu, no VUDU, nothing else. I have almost 1000 movies and dozens of TV series on VUDU so thats my preference for streaming content and since its not available on this device thats really disappointing. Thanks to movies anywhere I can still access most of those through Amazon but this unfortunately wont be my go to place for streaming content since I cant connect my Hulu account or VUDU or a number of other services that I use. Ill just keep using my Roku for streaming that but it only does 1080p so being able to potentially stream items that redeemed or were purchased in 4K resolution through the Blu-ray player would have been really awesome. As far as playing other more obscure types of discs I dont think this is needed by most people but its nice to know I probably could pop just about anything in and play it... unfortunately its still only able to play region 1 discs though. It seems to me that at this price range and considering all the types and formats it already lays that they should have just made this a universal player that could play all regions as well, that would have been more useful in my opinion. This is an expensive machine so if you dont need to play all of those extra disc types and formats (i.e. you only will be playing standard DVD/BD/4K movies) you would be better off buying one of Sonys other models and saving some money. If you need a player that will play all those extra types then this could be the best choice for you.

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I had exited the physical disc life for a while, having traded in a lot of my physical discs for digital conversions that existed some years ago. Recently my TV failed and I ended up with a 4K unit, while even my home theater received is not 4K, Ive been able to make my way into 4K content by splitting audio and video outputs, with video direct to the TV and audio to the receiver. This player helped me live that dream again with with dual HDMI outputs-- one for audio only and the other for video-- for use with my Sony XBR65X850F 65-Inch 4K UHD Smart LED TV. It does a great job upscaling-- I threw in some old Six Feet Under DVDs, one of my favorite old shows and it looks really really good upscaled! There is really only one reason I rated this 4 stars instead of 5, and a software update could fix it: The User Interface is super super barebones. Software update screen looks like a Receiver from the early 2000s. It needs updated, but it does offer seamless uninterrupted 4K goodness. The player can do a whole lot more than Im doing with it, but what it does do for me Im very very pleased. Ill be honest, I was shocked at how well made it is when I first opened the box. Its been a long time since I opened a product with a smile on my face.

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This is my first 4K player. Ive preferred Blu-ray as opposed to DVD (some companies Ive noticed have released their films on DVD and not Blu-ray Ive noticed lately, a disturbing trend). But now the industry is focusing on 4K Blu-ray so hopefully well see more 4K movies released and with it, a drop in price. Right now, 4K is expensive and not entirely in my budget, but we know that theyll come down in price with time. This player is excellent and the picture crisp and as clear as one could hope. I wont be replacing my old DVDs or Blu-rays with 4K, the cost is prohibitive. That said, I might buy a few films on 4K. But films made before 1990, I doubt Ill buy on 4K. I have Captain America Civil War and Im very impressed with the picture quality. The only hiccup in the system Ive noticed is that for some reason it wont connect directly to the internet. Im figuring on chalking it up to user error rather than the product. Still, if you want to upgrade your Blu-ray or DVD player to 4K, this is an excellent player to have.

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The Sony UBP-X800M2 replaced a Sony BDP-6700 in my setup. 6700 is a tiny thing, less than half the size of the X800 and much lighter. Unlike the 6700, which upconverts to 4K, the X800 is a native 4K BluRay player and the picture quality from UltraHD BluRays was fantastic, even on my non-4K Panasonic 65VT50 plasma TV. I could really see a difference compared to "regular" BluRay discs. (The X800 supports HDR from Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG - my TV doesnt support these so I could not test them.) The X800 also has 3D (which I tested), and a setting I had never seen before for 3D display size. In addition to playing most types of 5-inch disc, including DVD-Audio (but not HD-DVD), it will play from a USB drive or a network share. It easily found my Synology NAS and played videos from it either from Synologys own server or from Plex. Network-wise, the X800 supports 2.4 and 5GHz WiFi as well as Ethernet. A minor annoyance also found on the 6700 is that if you try to access WiFi soon after power on, it will complain that there is no network. Sometimes it took two or even three tries before it admitted there was a connection. The X800 also supports playing from streaming services - as long as its Netflix, Amazon Prime or YouTube. The 6700 supported well over a hundred different services, so it was a bit strange to see the X800 limited to just these three. For me this was not a problem, as Amazon Prime is the only one I use, but if youre a Hulu or Crackle (for example) user youll need to find another solution (Roku, etc.) On the audio front, the X800 supports Dolby Atmos and DTX:X, and I could definitely hear the difference when played through a receiver that supports these (I ended up replacing my ancient Pioneer Elite receiver with a Sony STR-DN1080, which I love.) I chose to enable the power-saving option that has the player completely shut down when not in use, though this lengthens the startup time (and may contribute to my WiFi complaint above.) If you have a setup that uses CEC or HDMI control to turn the player on and off, youll want to leave this option at the default, which consumes some more power at idle.

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