Hey, I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and this is the Sony UBP-X800M2. This is a 4K
Ultra-HD Blu-ray player. It also has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Now if you're like most of us, you do
a lot of movie watching while streaming. I know I do, and I took this player home with me
over the weekend and was actually able to do a nice comparison. I picked a movie off of Disney+,
it was Captain Marvel, and I have the Captain Marvel 4K disc, and I put that in the player.
I did a nice side-by-side comparison, sort of went back and forth to see the differences between
streaming and playing a disc. Now I should be up front and tell you that I don't have enough
bandwidth at my house to actually stream in 4K. We recommend that you have about 25 megabits per
second or higher to stream in 4K; I'm capped out at around 20. So I was streaming the 1080p version on
my Disney+ app and comparing it to this, so it should have looked better...and it definitely did.
The images were clearer, I felt that the colors on the app version of the movie looked sort of over-
accentuated, enhanced, like they were trying too hard, whereas the colors from the disc looked
natural. Skin tones looked correct. That's thanks to HDR, High Dynamic Range. This does have HDR10
and Dolby Vision, and of course my TV can do that, so colors and contrast ratio really made a big
difference. Another area where the disc shined over streaming was with motion. I noticed in streaming
that there would sometimes be some jitter, like say if a camera was panning from left to right,
whereas on the disc everything looked super smooth. And last but not least, sound was better. There's
there's a lot of compression going on when you're streaming a surround sound soundtrack for a movie,
and there's a lot less compression going on when you're playing a disc, a 4K Ultra-HD disc.
The surround was better, better surround effects, dialogue was clearer, it was just noticeably more
more open and clear. That's kind of what you would expect,
and it's why you would buy a Blu-ray player. And this is not just an inexpensive,
cheap Blu-ray player. This is getting into the good stuff. You'll notice that when you open the box
it's heavier than most Blu-ray players. That's because of the anti-vibration
chassis that it's built on. You're going to be impressed when you take this out of the box.
The 'X800M2 will also play just about any disc you can put in it, so go ahead and put Blu-rays in it,
4K, regular ones, DVDs, CDs, if you have some old DVD Audios or Super Audio CDs, it will play those as
well, as all the recordable and rewriteable discs you have from back when you were doing that.
Put a disc in and it will probably play it. It also streams, streams Netflix, Amazon and YouTube up
to 4K. In addition to playing discs and streaming, you can also load up a USB memory stick and stick
it into the USB input to stream...music especially is where it shines, including high-res music files,
lossless files, FLACs, DSDs, so this is a great way to get music into your stereo system. Now
let's talk about how you're going to connect it. It it actually has some features that most
inexpensive Blu-ray players do not. It's got two HDMI outputs and a coaxial digital output.
This Sony Blu-ray player also has Bluetooth, but let me clarify it is not a Bluetooth receiver.
You can't take music from your phone and stream it to the Blu-ray player; it does not do that.
It has a Bluetooth transmitter built in, which means the audio from whatever you're playing on
this Blu-ray player can be sent out to a Bluetooth speaker, a Bluetooth sound bar, Bluetooth set of
headphones. We hooked them up to a pair of Sony wireless Bluetooth headphones, and they sounded
great, partly because with a Sony set of wireless headphones and this Sony Blu-ray player, you can
take advantage of LDAC, which is a better-quality Bluetooth. There's actually more bandwidth used, so
you get more sound quality. Ut sounds significantly better. There's a couple different ways to control
the '800M2. Of course you can use the included remote control. There's a USB jack on here, though,
and it is compatible with a USB keyboard, so if you wanted to use that to type in your searches
for Netflix and streaming, things like that, that keyboard would certainly come in handy. So this
is the Sony UBP-X800M2. It's a 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray player. It is really well built, it looks good, and
it sounds good, way better than streaming. If you have any questions about this Blu-ray player or
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