Sony UBP-X700 Review - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player with Dolby Vision - Home Theater Series Continues!

ERRATA: As it turns out the player is not automatically switching out of Dolby Vision when a non Dolby Vision disc is inserted. This is not good but I believe it can be corrected in future firmware updates. This does not impact my favorable review of the product as it is reasonably priced for a Dolby Vision blu-ray playback device. Out of my collection only one film currently supports this HDR mode.

Turn off your video at about 6 1/2 minutes in the priority of this device is the 4K player!!! After you show the 4K Blu-ray player you should be showing Movies from Disc running on it. Then at the very end talk about the least important thing to the apps. Worst review of a product I have seen when you’re not even talking about the main function of it in the first half of your video.

This Player I think is just amazing , i have it hooked up to a Vizio 4k TV , and using a 4k HDMI cable as well , i have a blu ray 3D movie , one of those where you don't need a 3D tv to watch it on , the type that comes with the blue and red 3D glasses , and it works with the viewing of that movie almost what can i say out of this world , that combination work so well , that with all the 4K items that i mentioned , when i was watching that movie , for a brief moment , i could see a small speak of dirt on the camera lens , it was a brief moment i guess it got blown off while filming , i talk about that on my channel about that moment and that movie , but it is i think a very good 4K player , i have 2 of them on two different TVs , only one of the TVs is 4K , but this player will play good on a regular 1080 HD TV

Thinking about buying this. I wouldn't have any problems in fitting this to a Denon AVR then onto the LG 4K OLED C2 EVO 120hz. I've heard a lot of good reviews. I have many old CDs and DVDs. But want to replace my lost and old CDs to Blue Ray as much better sound and picture quality. Thanks for sharing. :-)

Hello was this movie blu-ray or DVD? Is it upscaled to 4K? how is the quality of a DVD movie on this player for a 4k TV?

Does this unit play multi-region DVDs ????

Hi Lon - is it region free?, I'm in NZ, and have alot of US DVD's

why are u buying that Sony junk!!! save your dam money on a sony ps5!! its better and it plays all that stuff

This player kept freezing so many discs I returned it

How is yours holding up? I just bought one and, as you said, it definitely feels cheaply made compared to my Oppo, but my Oppo doesn't do 4k.

Thanks for the enlightening video! Can you tell me if it recognizes dts and dolby audio through the hd or pen-drive (usb)

Does it come with HDMI cable?

I don't even have any 4K material, this player is the equal of my Oppo. More players should have the dual HDMI outputs, I think this beats using the pass-thru on receivers/processors.

Any information on region-free?

Will this player work well with my DLP 1080p projector?

I got one at Wal-Mart
The player was scratching my discs & freezing. It was terrible
Luckily i got my money back

Anyone know if its possible to change the size of subtitles while playing 4K discs? They are waaaaay too big and bright.

Can it will give ATMOS output while playing through HDD

This player is tiny like a toy..Not a bad picture quality but in my opinion the sound quality is not great..It’s very light and looks like a toy compared to my Sony 800 series.

This thing really is garbage. Audio tracks cut randomly, sometimes several times in a movie. Video frames sometimes skip as well. The DTS auto switch feature got really annoying fast after having to look at blue ray cases in a dark movie room to determine if it did or didn't have DTS. Annoyingly the power sometimes doesn't come on and you have to reach to the back and pull the cable out and re-insert just to get the device to power on. You really do get what you pay for. Go with a Panasonic like everyone recommends. Even the Sony rep told me he likes Panasonic better. Sony really got cheap when the put out on this player and it shows within a movie or two. Im taking it back to best buy this weekend and going with the $500 Panasonic player I knew I should have gotten in the first place.

Does it run IR? I have a home theater and so far, the machine does not respond through the IR set up like the rest of my equipment. I thought it had a sensor on the front left of the machine. Any info for us on using it in home theater and running IR or ...?

hey love your videos man. Just got my sony ubp x700 in the mail last week and tested out for a couple of days. One thing I noticed is that the picture on this blu-ray player looks darker when compared to my ps4 pro when playing standard blu-rays. Ive set the video settings to auto on the blu-ray player and tried tweaking the custom settings to match with the brightness of the ps4 pro. However, Im afraid i would'nt have the most accurate picture or even make the picture worse as Im not a professional in adjusting the contrast/brightness. fyi ive hooked up both of this devices to the same amp (through hdmi hdcp 2.2) that is connected to the tv. I would really appreciate if you could help me with this problem.

I have the BDP-S3700 I wish the buttons were bigger on the remote because sometimes I press the pause button finding it to be stop, and the netflix button doesn't function on mine. It also doesn't have amazon which got terminated wish it had it.. I do like the upscaling so if someone didn't have a 4K television would it still upscale to full screen or near 4K . Nice video I wish I could be as relaxed as you on video thank you for your review.

I have a tech challenging question. Can i... Watch Videos (MP4, MKV, AVI etc) via USB and does it read the SRT files (Subtitles).
I download a lot of foreign movies and it somes with a subtitles file, i usually use VLC player on my laptop and it worked on my previous TV, Not on my new tv.. Im looking for a dvd player with usb that has this. i really need subtitles to read. Please if you own this dvd player, can you test this and let me know, even show me a snapshot or video would be appreciated and i can buy asap.
Regards

I back up all UHD disk in iso file in NAS. Can this player stream and play back iso format?

Just in case anyone is interested in getting Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray home rips to play over the network with HD audio (DTS Master and Dolby TrueHD/Atmos): the solution was to create m2ts files instead of mkv. First use makemkv to create a folder backup of the disc (rather than rip to mkv) then use the UHD Ripper tool in DVDFab to mux the folder to an m2ts file (making sure to use "passthrough" by ticking the "copy video" and "copy audio" boxes). The resulting file spins up very quickly and will pass DTS Master HD, Dolby TrueHD and Atmos to your receiver. There's also a free method (DVDFab is shareware) involving using eac3to to create a Dolby TrueHD + DD5.1 track which you mux with the video track using tsmuxer but I found it to be really hit and miss. Just a quick note, I found mkv files with DTS Master HD audio do actually work on this player but can take up to 60 seconds to load, this was connected via ethernet, I had less luck over wifi. UPDATE: sadly the 10/100 port on the X700 isn't fast enough to stream from PC or DLNA server. It does work on USB but must be a SATA SSD or HDD (as flash drives don't allow fast forward or rewind on m2ts files, only mkv).

To bad you didn't buy the Oppo. You could sell it now for 3X what you paid. I have the Sony. When I pause a movie and release it to play again, I sometime get a loud "POP" through my speakers. Hoping it doesn't ruin them. You get what you pay for.

do you still recommend this player and does it support atmos?

I think you should have played it on your tv this was not good review would be better on tv so could see the real quality

I do not see a Disney+ app in your review...
Is disney+ app supported?

Any owners confirm if they have finally released firmware to allow dolby vision to switch automatically each time and not have to manually slect? Also is dolby atmos only from drive or also from usb port?

Does it play Blu ray discs Region A, Region B, Region C and Dvd discs Region 1, Region 2, Region 5?

Nothing about the freezing problems a lot of people are having with this player?

Still No dolby atmos on Netflix?

I bought this player at Best Buy the day before Thanksgiving 2020. It's not a bad player...hold me over until I get an Xbox Series X.

I Can't put it in vertical like the ps4?

Anyone else having problems with 4K blu rays freezing? I’ve two brand 4k blu ray movies freezing using this player.

I would've preferred you did this review on the 0LED TV but other than that great job on covering everything but I never got to see it with HDR

Compatible sound bar for this player? Had to return my last one cus it wasn’t compatible

If I have a 4k blu ray player that does not support DV and my TV does support DV, will I still be able to receive HDR on a movie title that is mastered to DV?

Does this work with PCs? I'm planning to buy this.

It's not real dolby vision on your tv. Dolby vision was a standard using 12bit colour not the normal 10bit colour panels we have now. When they finally go 12bit screens then you will see Dolby vision come into its own

Great review!!! Awesome content.

like the review but I dislike the video because you hated on Attack of the clones 😗

Hi..can u please tell me what is the difference between this 4k sony and apple tv..which one is better?

Shame it looks cheap. I like my devices to be sturdy and attractive.

I always leave the dolby on because i find it does a really nice upgrade for the hdr only discs. But even id i would have to swtich, i paid 200$ canadian, which is ridiculously low for a dolby vision player. And the picture quality is really good. The system is a bit outdated but i dont give a shit, im not gonna pay 500$ for the same thing or so

The Xbox One S supports Dolby Vision...

Can someone explain to me why you would stream your movies after buying this? Wouldn’t you just use 4K blu ray discs? Since streaming isn’t as good I would assume you’d just buy discs for better quality and sound

No test tv display yes uhd and no uhd