What's flawed about it, apart from the price of course. Aside from that it's an excellent player. Don't forget it's not aimed at normal consumers, it's intended for the custom install market, who I'm sure will love it.Why would such a flawed product get such a high score?
What's flawed about it, apart from the price of course. Aside from that it's an excellent player. Don't forget it's not aimed at normal consumers, it's intended for the custom install market, who I'm sure will love it.
Well the lack of Dolby Vision support just puts it in line with every other player apart from the two Oppos and the LG. I totally agree though, for the average consumer you'd have to be nuts to buy the X1000ES over the UDP-203.Fair enough, maybe that RS-232 port is worth the high price in certain markets. To me, it looks ridiculously overpriced compared to the competition and no chance of Dolby Vision in the future mean it's an also ran.
What's flawed about it, apart from the price of course. Aside from that it's an excellent player. Don't forget it's not aimed at normal consumers, it's intended for the custom install market, who I'm sure will love it.
In fairness to Sony, the X1000ES is just a custom install version of the X800, so it's got the same chipset and that means no Dolby Vision support. I would expect Sony to announce a genuinely new player at CES that does support Dolby Vision.Something wrong at the Sony camp. Missing Dolby Vision first time round ok, with the second coming no excuse. How can they still promote DV with their OLED/LCD and yet you still have to invest with a another manufacturer to playback DV discs.
Reminds me of a quote for George Bush " fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
I hope you are correct Steve, their current DV strategy on products cannot help sales.In fairness to Sony, the X1000ES is just a custom install version of the X800, so it's got the same chipset and that means no Dolby Vision support. I would expect Sony to announce a genuinely new player at CES that does support Dolby Vision.
Not if the hardware is from Samsung and Panasonic who are backing HDR10+ instead.With all this fuss about DV, it leads me to ask...how ubiquitous will DV become...will it be standard on pretty much all hardware from next year?
Support both?Not if the hardware is from Samsung and Panasonic who are backing HDR10+ instead.
Seems they have no plans to do so.Support both?
I thought that Sony has lost their marbles until I read this comment. I could not understand why they did not include DV in such expensive machine. I agree that no ordinary consumer would buy this when the Oppo is considerably cheaper.In fairness to Sony, the X1000ES is just a custom install version of the X800, so it's got the same chipset and that means no Dolby Vision support. I would expect Sony to announce a genuinely new player at CES that does support Dolby Vision.
I actually alternate between UBP-X1000ES, UBP-X1000, X1000ES and X1000, sorry if it causes confusion but it's deliberate so that search engines pick up every possible permutation.@Steve Withers
Excellent reviews as always. However, there is a suggestion the alternative use of X1000 and X1000ES can be confusing sometimes. Specially at the end of the second paragraph, last two sentences. I thought for a moment that you were referring to two different players.