What Bluray player to get?

[JTFVegas]

Yo Bro! watching Netflix, Orange is the new Black. what’s not to like, Bunch of women in prison what could go wrong right?

Yup in the shower n geetin it on sir.
Lol

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Also ADTG aka Andrew has the Sony UHB-700 he likes the unit also. And he is very hard to please!
He won’t Tolerate crappy gear.

Yeah, I have the Sony UHD-X700. It works great.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Yo Bro! watching Netflix, Orange is the new Black. what’s not to like, Bunch of women in prison what could go wrong right?

Gonna check that out bro.

 

[lovinthehd]

What is supposed to be the advantage of the 800 over the 700? Is it being region-free?

 

[afterlife2]

The Sony 700 is the way to go. Try ebay and get a refurb. When I go 4K it will be the one I'd get.
Open box here:

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[snakeeyes]

What is supposed to be the advantage of the 800 over the 700? Is it being region-free?

800 and 800m2 both play DVD-Audio discs. 700 can’t

800m2 and 700 both do Dolby Vision but 800 doesn’t.

 

[Verdinut]

What is supposed to be the advantage of the 800 over the 700? Is it being region-free?

Sony 800,800M2 and 700 models can be bought region free. You get get them from a few eBay sellers, but I doubt that SONY markets any through their usual distributors.

Someone interested in one should make sure that it features a region free hardware module, not a software that would be disabled with a future manufacturer firmware upgrade.

 

[lovinthehd]

Sony 800,800M2 and 700 models can be bought region free. You get get them from a few eBay sellers, but I doubt that SONY markets any through their usual distributors.

Someone interested in one should make sure that it features a region free hardware module, not a software that would be disabled with a future manufacturer firmware upgrade.

The region free 800 I saw was on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/SONY-X800-Region-100-240V-World-Wide/dp/B075VDQD4Q

 

[Verdinut]

The region free 800 I saw was on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/SONY-X800-Region-100-240V-World-Wide/dp/B075VDQD4Q

Yeah, Multi-System is actually one of the eBay members selling via Amazon.com

 

[Gmoney]

Are Region free players better?

 

[Verdinut]

Are Region free players better?

They're useful if you have DVDs or Blu-Ray discs sold in countries where DVD and BD zones are different from ours. They don't perform any better otherwise.

 

[Gmoney]

They're useful if you have DVDs or Blu-Ray discs sold in countries where DVD and BD zones are different from ours. They don't perform any better otherwise.

Thanks Verdinut

 

[lovinthehd]

Only been a few times I wish I had a region free player when disc shopping.

 

[snakeeyes]

Keep in mind that UHD discs don’t have regions. Only regular Blu-ray and DVD discs have regions. (In case not everyone knows that.).

 

[3db]

Ive watched many a BluRay and couple of 4K discs on X800 and it only froze up on me once. I guess I got lucky. The only thing that p?ssed me off with this player is when the app stopped working that looked up CD information and displayed it on the screen. Not a biggy but I got used to it and liked and now its gone. No wonder I like the blues so much

 

[snakeeyes]

Ive watched many a BluRay and couple of 4K discs on X800 and it only froze up on me once. I guess I got lucky. The only thing that p?ssed me off with this player is when the app stopped working that looked up CD information and displayed it on the screen. Not a biggy but I got used to it and liked and now its gone. No wonder I like the blues so much

Well SACD still shows song titles but CD doesn’t.

 

[3db]

Well SACD still shows song titles but CD doesn’t.

I take your word for it but since I dont own any.

 

[Gmoney]

I have Sony UHB-700 paid 149.00 at Walmart

Typo, I have Sony 4K UHD UBP-X700.

 

[lovinthehd]

I take your word for it but since I dont own any.

I'm now wondering if I've seen that on redbook layers of SACD or just the dsd tracks....think the redbook layer doesn't have that metadata....but will check on some new discs that just arrived

 

[JengaHit]

Thanks for the reply, love that you had the same situation. The x800 seems to run kinda slow and freezes a bit. Ever had that issue with the x700?

Have the x700. Occasionally it freezes up with Netflix, when scrolling through the NF catalog for a few minutes. I have to reboot it (unplug/replug unit). Other than that it boots up pretty quickly and runs smoothly once a program/movie starts streaming.