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Все права защищены. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 129045 on app-310 at 2018-02-01 22:08:45.876715+00:00 running 7de331f country code: RU. 4K Ultra Blu-rays will land on store shelves by Christmas. If you’ve been hoping for a 4K Blu-ray upgrade to show off a swank new 4K television, Christmas 2015 should be the highlight of your year. According to Victor Matsuda, the Blu-ray Disc Association’s Global Promotions Committee Chair, 4K Blu-ray discs will be available for the holiday season, along with a bevy of new technologies and additional features. In addition to supporting 4K resolutions, the new discs include support for multiple types of high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, and a new “digital bridge” feature. The digital bridge feature is the physical media world’s method of offering the kind of digital convenience that streaming services sell standard. According to an interview with Matsuda, the digital bridge will offer two functions: copy and export. “Copy” permits a bit-for-bit copy to be stored on an authorized media drive, while “export” allows a file to be transferred to an authorized media device. It’s not clear which devices will be considered “authorized,” and whether or not the licensing terms will allow for transcoding into different formats for playback on specific devices. The fact that two different standards have been created for fundamentally similar practices suggests that “copy” may be for storing copies of a movie directly on an Ultra HD Blu-ray (that’s the official 4K name) while “export” could allow a film to be shifted to a tablet or smartphone. To buy or not to buy. The big question, of course, is whether or not Blu-ray UHD is going to find much of a market. When 720 and 1080p movies hit retail shelves nearly ten years ago, they were an immediate and obvious upgrade over DVDs, just as DVDs had been a huge upgrade over VHS. With 4K, the differences become more subtle, and the advantage depends more on the quality of the encode and the size of the TV you’ll be watching. If you have a 32-inch 1080p screen, you may not notice much improvement from 4K output. If you’re planning to install an 80-inch monstrosity, on the other hand, 4K will be a huge upgrade, even compared with upscaled 1080p. BD UHD will be popular with users who have limited bandwidth, low-speed connections, or who simply want to enjoy the absolute best-quality screen, but the standard may be slow to percolate, especially since video-on-demand services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have likely sopped up at least some of the potential customer base. Studios who rush to market with the same handful of remastered titles that they previously offered on 1080p may find viewers less interested this time around. Upgrading from an old VHS to a 1080p version of a movie was worth calling it a “remastered” edition, but the 1080p to 4K jump is going to be much smaller as far as the objective final quality of the film. How Blu-ray and Netflix compare depends a great deal on the film. It’s hard to get a handle on how much better current Blu-ray is than streaming services because the quality can vary sharply from movie to movie. In some head-to-head comparisons, Blu-ray wins by a mile, while in others, the gap is extremely hard to see. Finally, as far as we know, neither Sony nor Microsoft supports Blu-ray Ultra HD content in their respective game consoles. Both companies could hypothetically include support in future generations of the Xbox One or PlayStation 4, but not without replacing the conventional Blu-ray player with a more advanced model. It’s expected that new players will retain the option to play 1080p Blu-ray discs, just as modern Blu-ray players can still handle DVDs without a problem. There’s no plan for a 3D standard for media players this time around, because there’s no native 4K 3D content. The shift to 10-bit color, however, should pay dividends — provided that television manufacturers cooperate by shipping panels that can actually display movies in that mode. Post a Comment Comment. I think the interesting question would be the price for the 4k BR movies, I already find the BR movies expensive as it is, the new titles anyway. The right acronym is BD not BR anyway… BluRay expensive where and when ? The price difference between DVDs and Blu-Ray is almost none nowadays. Blu-Ray movies released in the last few years can be bought at very cheap prices too. And the price of new titles falls quickly. It is highly likely that studios will start adding Blu-Ray UHD 4K discs along with the standard Blu-Ray disc of the movie while removing the Blu-Ray 3D edition completely. The Blu-Ray UHD 4K doesn’t seem to have any specification for 4K 3D encoded movies which means that there will be no BD 3D releases anymore soon. If they jump to $30 good luck with that. In South America the price is ridiculous (Also an explanation for the HUGE market of pirated copies) a single blu ray movie can cost you around 40 or 50 dollars and now with the unstoppable increase in the value of the dollar the situation is worst. Remember it’s Chojin you’re trying to reason with, that’s why I keep it short with him. But the high prices in south america (brazil mainly) has nothing to do with the price to produce the disc. chojin is right. I was referring to the gap between DVDs and Blu rays here in South America the movies in DVD format are pretty affordable whilst blu ray movies are quite expensive :( You are an idiot if you think BD and DVD are nearly the same price. BD always $5-$10 more. Boxed sets, much more than that,. Instead of correcting other people, get you own facts straight douche bag !! Yeah I agree. Some are £20+ here in the UK, it seems a bit much considering that you’re only going to watch it and then put it on a shelf. Just checked Play.com, even some older titles are expensive. Mad Max 2 is £18, and that’s probably been on TV 100 times. I don’t mind spending £50 on a game, as I get hundreds of hours of usage out of it. But with a movie, I get 2 hours… and if it’s released later in a higher resolution I’d need to pay the full price again. I was lucky to find Mad Max 2 on BD for $5 in Best Buy, I just feel 4k BD are going up in price. If they do and the sales are poor, here we go again but, but its the pirates fault. This is why i torrent movies most of the time.. Go take a look on Amazon, 4K BluRays cost $10-$20, same price as other BluRays. Those are not 4K blu-rays. They are “mastered in 4K”. It was a gimmick. They were just 1080P movies with better scans with more colour correction, that’s all. They were a rip off, especially since they didn’t seem to have extras. and were just made to make people triple dip. :/ Nah, they do look notably crisper. In an ideal world, providers would use any extra bandwith (either streamed or broadcasted) to up the bit rate of current HD standards, before jumping to this 4k nonsense. Eh.. The irony is that streaming HD, especially new release movies is more expensive than it was in the old brick and mortar days. What a waste of time and money! First, who buys discs anymore? Second, who needs 4K? If you’re watching on anything under 65″ from normal viewing distances, you’ll never notice a difference over 1080p… As someone with rather slow internet (1.5Mbps down tops) I’d be interested in discs, because it’s painfully slow to download even a 1080p movie. Secondly, I’ve seen a 30″ 1080p monitor next to a 30″ UHD one, and the difference is very clear, even with my sub-20/20 vision. It’s definitely an improvement, although as you decrease the screen size and/or increase pixel density, you do get diminishing returns (looking at you, 1440p smartphones). How close were you to the 30″ monitors? About 1 to 4 metres I think, I was trying to see what they were like at different distances. Yeah a lot of people keep repeating that if the screen is not enormous and you’re not right up against it you can’t tell, but that doesn’t seem to hold up. I’ve see monitors and screens of several sizes side by side and the UHD is noticeably better. There’s even youtube videos of people doing side by side comparisons of 24″ and 30″ monitors and you can tell the difference. I can’t argue with the math about viewing distance and pixels, but I can’t argue with the results either. I can definitely see the difference. Then again, maybe the 4k stuff is just “higher quality” and I can’t really see more pixels. If I ever get the chance I want to do a proper comparison, as when I looked at the monitors I was just looking at the videos already on the computers the monitors were attached to. I’d like to get some footage shot natively at UHD (I don’t think there’s a standard yet but 100-150Mbps should be a decent bitrate for it) and then downscale that to 1080p, at 40Mbps (which I think is the blu-ray standard, correct me if I’m wrong though), then play them both on monitors with their respective resolution and see what the difference is, maybe doing frame-by frame comparisons too. I’m sure you would see a difference in that case. I have a 4k bravia 55″ and the problem is that my only source for 4k video is netflix/amazon and that gets variably compressed based on my connection speed; sometimes it looks great, sometimes less so. Blu-rays always look great but I guess for me the real test would be a regular blu-ray vs a 4k blu-ray. I wouldn’t expect much difference there because the anti-aliasing algorithms are supposed to be pretty good now so upscaling can be a real benefit. Have You heard about YIFY x264 2 Mbps high quality rips? How about “ace torrent player”? Just download .torrent file and feed it to it. And it will start to play it 1 minute. Watch and download movie at the SAME time. I don’t care about 4K but I absolutely do buy discs still. If it is a movie that I only care to watch once then I will stream if I can. Otherwise I’ll get the Blu Ray from Netflix. If it is a movie that I will watch many times then I’m going to buy the disc because if I BUY a movie I actually want to OWN it. As far as noticing the difference between 4K and 1080p I agree but it’s really at any size, even over 65″ because viewing distance is going to be greater. You must have the same mindset as netflix when they decided to cancel their DVD delivery service. They got slammed for it and had to keep the service alive. Outside of the silicon valley bubble there are a lot of people that still use or prefer discs for various reasons. Renting new release movies is still ironically less expensive than streaming them online. Look at redbox. Those machines are always busy. Well TV sizes are getting bigger and people are generally buying bigger TVs now, so more people will appreciate 4K. Oh and most new TVs are 4K anyway, so people will have the technology to be able to use it. By the way people used to say the same about 720p vs 1080p and this is a bigger jump. Except for the big elephant in the room. That all the 4K TVs that have been sold up to now don’t conform to true 4K standards. Why? Simply because 4k has not even been standardized yet. Neat huh? 4k file sizes will be massive, unless you want to sacrifice quality. So the Blu-Rays will be for people who want the best. And as for not seeing a difference, I think you need to get your eyes tested. There’s 4x as many pixels, the difference is huge. “First, who buys discs anymore?” I do and everyone I know does. I still buy discs because I want to own a movie or show, not rent it. Who buys discs anymore? People who care about video quality. Just stop in a SEARS or similar store and watch a 4K TV (this was Samsung) that has built in 4K content. From 10 ft away on a 55″ set, I could easily see a difference between it and the 1080 set next to it. Under 50 inch actually I can see massive difference. Uhh, I do. I have over 200 blu-ray movies and tv shows in my collection. Some people still like to get the movies old school in the original case with a disc and artwork. As far as gaming 95% of all I own is digital on computer games. 4K upgrade? Maybe on newer releases only if the picture quality can justify the difference in price. I won’t be in a hurry to replace my current blu-ray collection. You wouldn’t need to replace your discs Imo. 4k TVs upscale blu ray beautifully and it looks stunning. Also it will be newer tv shows and movies which are shot in native 4k that will be worth buying I think. A waste of time for you, perhaps, but then you don’t speak for those of us who have a different perspective on the matter. Who buys discs anymore? Those of us who like to have a personal movie library and appreciate the superior image quality compared to highly compressed streaming video. That’s why some movies on BD are up around the 40 GB file size. If you can’t see the difference or don’t care, that’s your problem. Never notice a difference? That depends on what your definition is of “normal viewing distance”. I use a 46″ 1080p TV as my computer monitor, on which I also watch BD movies and play games. The screen is about 3 feet away from my eyes, and I can assure you that the difference in image quality and resolution between that and a high end UHD screen is VERY discernible, not to mention the HDR aspect of the latest and future UHD displays. If you prefer to sit substantially further away from the screen and miss out on the fine detail of the image, then you might as well use an old SD TV, but don’t assume that everybody out there enjoys image mediocrity to the same extent that you, and those like you, do. you sir are wrong. its a noticeable difference. That side by side comparison between Netflix and Blu Ray must be zoomed in a lot because Netflix never looks that blurry for me. Agreed; that Netflix example picture is horrendous. I stream Netflix all the time and it usually looks great. For those claiming 4K is so much better: I’d truly wonder at the setup you were looking at: what was the 4K content? Because unless you are looking at the exact same video image between the HD screen and 4K, your comparison is moot. I walk into Costco each week to see them trumpeting 4K screens with a dazzling video of a tree in the wind, and I think “that’s nice, but show me a 4K video and an identical HD video side by side”. I haven’t seen any store display a head-to-head comparison between HD and 4K screens that are showing the exact same video stream (be it a movie or otherwise). And there’s probably good reason for that: I doubt the average person could even tell the difference between them a normal viewing distance, and then realize that there’s not much reason to buy a new 4K screen. There is a noticeable difference with 4K. With that said many people are perfectly fine with 1080 or below. Go to Fry’s if you’ve got one nearby. They play the same video across all their televisions. It would seem to me that there is no market for 4k blu-ray, as streaming is getting better each day. Internet connections are also improving this year. Time warner is about to jump my speed to 300mbps. Many people especially in rural areas don’t have access to that kind of speed. Lastly many people who like to rent new release movies find them cheaper through something like redbox versus streaming new release online. You would think renting from redbox would be more expensive but its not. For those who can afford it or have broadband than they may be willing to pay extra for the convenience to stream. Not only rural areas a lot of countries in our planet don’t have those speeds XD. I’m <1000' from fiber hub (urban), and can't get better than 18mbs, so … I still buy disks. Optical and even physical media is dead. They should rather try using a streaming platform and bringing down the price of MicroSD and SSD storage. They could already spent the space on BD50 better if they would not include unoriginal audio streams and pre-rendered subtitles. They are just wasting it. I have a 55″4k tv and I love it. and I can’t wait to see (finally) some 4K content! Off topic..I Hope your extremetech spaghetti code plug and go webmaster realizes that stupid drop down ad on the top of your site is broke and doesn’t always load correctly which cuts off a 3rd of the top page.. Yes! Finally, it’s about time. I think the upgrade to 4k is obvious and looks stunning. Although I have to agree, I don’t see why anyone would want a 32 inch 4k tv, you need to go big if you want the proper experience. HDR lighting sounds good, but what about HFR? And what about 3D? HDR (Hi Dynamic Range) is THE biggest difference that new 4K standards will bring to the table. Followed by the wider color gamut. Last on the list funny enough is frame rate and number of pixels. Don’t believe me? Do some real research. Hi, crack smoking person. Thanks for letting me know that HDR is great. I like HDR too, although I also appreciate that higher resolution and framerates can also make a movie look great. For example, imagine if you only saw the world in 10fps. How on Earth would you even be able to load up your crack pipe? It would be really awkward. And if you only saw the world in 10×10 pixel resolution, imagine how hard it would be navigating the streets to find your dealer. You might end up asking a police officer for drugs instead. I have 176 Blu-rays and love them! I very much look forward to 4K Blu-ray and will be buying many! Streaming is nice, but can’t come close to the quality of disc. Finally I can pirate 4k films….. haha. lol. Would be fun. But I will not download 100 GB to watch a movie. Hopefully, we’ll have compressed 4K video with HEVC. 8-10GB max. 8 to 10GB 4K H.265 compressed videos just look awful. Expect a lot of artifacts. 100GB is the bare minimum for proper 4K H.265 compressed movies. Oddly enough, if the proper codec settings are used, I could see a 4k video looking just fine at 8GB in even H.264, with the correct encoding scheme and the proper amount of time dedicated to rendering the output of course. A two hour 1080p movie cand be encoded into a 2GB H.264 video file and still look great using the proper settings in Handbrake. Since 4K is roughly 4x as big image wise as 1080p, it stands to reason that an 8GB 4k video could also look great provided the person encoding it did it properly. As far as H.265 is concerned, I can understand why it specifically might have looked bad. I personally find the compression quality of H.264 to be better than H.265 even at the same bit rates. H.265 looks too smudged out for my tastes. H.265 might blur a lot. It’s true. But x265 should be better than x264 for low bitrates (4K, 8GB). It’s for me. x265 makes an excelent job. It’s possible to get very high quality content for 4K (8gb) Want to see compression artifacts? Examine the grass closely during football games on live HD telecasts. Very poorly rendered for the most part. This is a torture test for compression algorithms. Some content is more easily compressible than others. In the end higher bandwidth really matters for quality, all thing equal. Which they aren’t. There are plenty of horrendous transfers to BR out there. One could compress a 100 kbit stream to “HD”. It would be a mess, but the consumers only care about resolution when they should be caring about the bit rate. Agreed. A lot of talking about resolution and almost none about bitrates and compression methods. I’m sure this has to do with marketing strategy and stuff but the gap is still there: Bluray 1080p Vs. Netflix/Youtube 1080p are definitely not the same. The worst thing the digital era has brought to the whole audiovisual experience is definitely those goddamn annoying artifacts! If they price the Discs well then adoption will be much faster. Why are we still using optical disks in 2015? There are thumb drives that are significantly smaller, hold twice the amount of data, with twice the transfer speed. On top of that, you don’t have to worry about it being scratched. As it is, I wait 30 seconds for my blu ray player to spin up to speed, then I have to sit through 5 minutes of commercials just to get to the main menu. There would be a lot less piracy if the studios offered a compelling product. You think they’ll remove commercials on thumb drives? Think again. But I have thought of that as well. I think its because discs have this vintage feel that thumb drives don’t Somehow a collection of thumb drives doesn’t seem good looking. Just my thought. I could definitely get behind using thumb drives to distribute movies. I have the 64GB version of this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SOL9Z1M?tag=wwwkingston07-21 which I think would be perfect, as it’s be pretty hard to destroy by normal means, and is certainly more durable than a disc. I can only see two problems really: 1) It would be very easy to lose. 2) Flash memory is still pretty expensive even compared to blu-ray discs. 4K torrents will finally be avaliable! why haven’t we just jumped to Archival discs. I want a 1 TB disc please :D. HD-DVD still remains the superior format. Ha yeah it dead format 30 GB space compared to 50 GB of current blu Ray with means higher bit rate so blu Ray is the superior format. Buggy what? What would that mean? Nothing. What bugs? Please… HD-DVD was a shame. Bigger capacity is what blu ray has over HDDVD that why it had better vidoe sound quality caplitys after hddvd was abondeded by toshiba sony wnat make sure blu ray had highest possible bit rate for 1080p. Wow. Theoretically, 4k BD looks to be great. I’m afraid, however, the reality of implementation will be very disappointing. The two biggest improvements in 4k seem to be High Dynamic Range and increased Color Gamut (to 10 bit). I suspect manufacturers will only include panels capable of displaying these improvements in their top-line products, costing many thousands of dollars. The increase in resolution, while noticeable in a side-by-side, apples-to-apples comparison, will be a non-issue to home users with TVs at 80″ or less and normal viewing distances. Truth be told, I have yet to find a consumer-grade flat screen TV (not monitor) that looks BETTER than my 34″ widescreen Trinitron from the first half of last decade. My 50″ FHD plasma monitor is close and certainly has more screen real estate. My FHD 2k DLP, projecting a 108″ image (9 feet), has acceptably good image quality but is nowhere near the quality of the Trinitron. As with almost all digital music downloaded today, have we decided to forsake quality for quantity and ease-of-use? The simple fact that a far majority of consumers never have their TV(s) calibrated or attempt a basic calibration on their own, shows the true lack of interest we have in quality. Chances are, our current 1080p flat-screens are capable of looking DRAMATICALLY better than they currently do. Yet we leave all that potential untapped. You decide if this simply proves us to be the marketing-driven consumers we are accused of being. We’ll certainly soon learn if 4k is just an attempt of the industry to part us from our hard-earned cash. I could do without seeing Edward James Olmos’ pockmarked face in 4K, thanks. “When 720 and 1080p movies hit retail shelves nearly ten years ago, they were an immediate and obvious upgrade over DVDs, just as DVDs had been a huge upgrade over VHS. With 4K, the differences become more subtle, and the advantage depends more on the quality of the encode and the size of the TV you’ll be watching. If you have a 32-inch 1080p screen, you may not notice much improvement from 4K output.” Nearly 10 years ago, most people didn’t have HD TVs yet, they were still using big box CRT TVs. Once 720 and 1080p content started coming out, then people began upgrading to HD TVs. The same situation applies to 4k, I don’t see any differences at all. Once more 4k content comes out, people will be upgrading to 4k TVs. If you think the upgrade to 4k is just a subtle difference, then you have not yet witnessed watching 4k content in person. I have a 4k TV, and let me tell yah, the difference is HUGE. Awesome I’ll be picking up a 4K blu ray player this holiday season and I will connect the coxial cable into the back of my VCR so that I can copy the movies when I’m either borrowing a 4k Blu Ray movie from a friend or if I’m using Netflix’s 4K Blu Ray rental plan. So much negativity. Yes I want the best image I can get for my most favorite recordings. Cool… can’t wait to see the NFL in 4K. A lot of weird piracy comments here….probably half of them are hollywood shills. wondering if pirates are gonna be after 4K. Seriously Hollywood….you think that many people will pirate a 100GB movie. Also….piracy would decrease if you didn’t put unskippable adverts and notices and warnings on blu-rays. (Hey, keep the adverts, we’ll watch them at some point…. but making them unskippable is idiotic.) I don’t need an FBI notice every time I flippin’ play a movie. Sheesh. And anyway, piracy isn’t as much of a problem as you think. Most people that pirate are either: -Poor, so couldn’t buy the movie anyway. -Just checking a high risk (low-medium rated) movie out and will buy it if it’s good, delete it if it’s bad. (Survival of the fittest in terms of good vs bad movies.) Not everyone wants to risk $20 on a movie they may or may not regret buying. -People that are far away from any blu-ray stores or live in a country where they are double the price anywhere else in the world. And of course there are a proportionally small number who can afford blu-rays. but just download them instead. This demographic is probably misicule compared to everyone else. Treat the customer right (skippable adverts/notices (or better yet no notices), fair prices and no triple dipping crap. ) Then you will have a successful business for 4K in a much faster time than. you did with 1080P blu-rays. Customers are people too, Hollywood. ExtremeTech Newsletter. Subscribe Today to get the latest ExtremeTech news delivered right to your inbox. 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With the new Xbox One S, you can now play 4K Ultra Blu-ray disc. For those people who have created Blu-ray ISO image with ImageBurn for protecting Blu-ray disc from getting damaged or scratched, is it possible for the Xbox One S play the ISO files through either DLNA server on a NAS (preferred) or locally connected to a USB hard drive? An ISO image file is a snapshot of the data, system information file and layout of a disc. Information like number of audios / videos track, subtitle file, chapters' information and main screen. So ISO is an image file of the disc which contains both "data" and "formatting". To play ISO files on Xbox One S, you will be required to convert ISO files to Xbox One S media player supported file formats displayed as below: Video formats: 3GP video, 3GP2, AVI DivX, DV AVI, AVI uncompressed, asf, AVI Xvid, H.264 AVCHD, M-JPEG, .mkv, .mov, MPEG-PS, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-2 TS, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 SP, WMV, WMV HD. 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After the conversion is completed, you can stream video to Xbox One S via USB drive, DLNA Server or Plex Media Server. Money Saving Software Bundles. Original Price: $107. Original Price: $94. Copyright © 2018 Pavtube Studio. All Rights Reserved. View 4K Videos on Xbox One S through 4K TV. Now that we know the Xbox One S is on the way and will have 4K video capacity with HDR as well, a couple questions still remain. This new version of the Xbox One will also support 4K video and Ultra HD Blu-ray, with an updated Xbox One controller with a textured back, Bluetooth support, and extended range. The system also includes an IR blaster, which allows for TV control without a Kinect unit. Came upon issues playing a 4K Video file on Xbox One S through 4K TV? Trying to figure out a solution to make 4K movies playable on Xbox One S for 4K TV? Congratulations, you are in the right place. This post presents a workaround to let Xbox One S series read 4K Video files. Xbox One S couldn’t recognize 4K Video files for 4K TV. However, although Xbox One S supports 4K movie streaming, there’s video format/codec incompatibility problem. Currently, 4K content could presumably use either H.264 or H.265 for encoding, while Xbox One S probably won’t support H.265. Moreover, even if it supports H.264, the video format problem remains: today, most of 4K movies are recorded in MXF/RAW/XAVC, etc. format which the Xbox One S does not support. Here I’d like to show you the simplest and fastest way to play 4K Videos on Xbox One S for 4K TV. All you need is a good Xbox One S Video Converter to help you convert 4K Videos on Xbox One S without losing any quality. Part I: 4K on Xbox One S technical requirements. These are the specific requirements behind each 4K and HDR mode. Check these against your TV manual to see what your TV supports. Your TV must support the following requirements in order to upscale the system and non-native content to 4K: Resolution: 3840 x 2160p. Refresh rate: 60 Hz. Your TV must support the following requirements to switch to specific 4K or HDR modes on demand for movie and TV content: Resolution: 3840 x 2160p. Refresh rate: 24 Hz. Color depth: 30 bits per pixel (10-bit) Pixel encoding: 4:4:4. Resolution: 3840 x 2160p. Refresh rate: 50 Hz. Color depth: 30 bits per pixel (10-bit) Pixel encoding: 4:2:0. Resolution: 3840 x 2160p. Refresh rate: 60 Hz. Color depth: 30 bits per pixel (10-bit) Pixel encoding: 4:2:0. Your TV must support the HDR10 media profile: BT2020 color space or gamut High Dynamic Range (ST2084) Some TV manufacturers may call this something else. For example, “HDR Premium” or “Ultra HD Premium.” Your TV must support the following requirements to switch to 4K or HDR on demand for games: Resolution: 3840 x 2160p. Refresh rate: 60 Hz. Color depth: 30 bits per pixel (10-bit) Pixel encoding: 4:2:0. Your TV must support the HDR10 media profile: BT2020 color space or gamut High Dynamic Range (ST2084) Some TV manufacturers may call this something else. For example, “HDR Premium” or “Ultra HD Premium.” To determine what your TV is telling the console about its 4K capabilities, see Checking your TV’s 4K and HDR capabilities on Xbox One S. If your TV should support these requirements but something’s still not working, see Troubleshooting 4K and HDR on Xbox One S. Part 2: Best Solution – Convert 4K Videos to Xbox One S with 4K TV. To solve the Xbox One S 4K streaming problem and freely play 4K movie with Xbox One S for 4K TV, the best solution is to convert 4K video to Xbox One S/4K TV most friendly formats. And for this, a third-party 4K video converter app is needed. Fortunately, you can depend on Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate / Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac since Xbox One S 500G/1TB/2TB is included in its output. Why we called this program as the best 4K H.265 to Xbox One S/4K TV video converter? Because it can convert those Xbox unsupported video formats for playback smoothly with three clicks on the mouse. Besides 4K H.265 to Xbox One S, this powerful converter also supports converting MP4, AVI, DVD, Blu-ray, MXF, XAVC, etc to Xbox One S/4K TV supported formats quickly. To get the best video playback settings for Xbox One S for 4K TV, you can either use the program to direct output Xbox One S preset profile formats with all the optimized playback settings or output Xbox One playable formats listed above and then adjust the output profile settings such as video codec, resolution, frame rate, bit rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate or channels. How to Stream and Play Unsupported 4K Video on Xbox One S/4K TV? Step 1: Load 4K source files. Start the program on your computer, click “File” > “Load Video/Audio” or “Load from folder” button to import incompatible 4K video files into the program. Step 2: Set output file format. Click “Format” bar, from its drop-down options, select one of Xbox One S supported file formats such as “H.264 HD Video(*mp4)” frop “HD Video” main category. or you can choose output Xbox One S optimized profile settings by following “Zune/Xbox 360 Device” > “Xbox 360 HD Video(*.wmv)” which can also work on Xbox One S/4K TV playable formats. It provides kinds of optimal video presets for Android, iOS, Windows based portable devices like Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 Neo, PS4.5 Neo, PS4 Slim, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Wii, Wii U, iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Kindle Fire HD, etc. as well HD TVs (Samsung TV, LG TV…) and Game Consoles. Tips: You can get better output quality by flexibly tweaking the output video codec, resolution, frame rate, bit rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate or channels. Step 3: Start 4K video to Xbox One S conversion. Tap the “Convert” button in the right-bottom to begin the conversion from 4K video to Xbox One S media player app for 4K TV readable formats conversion process. After the conversion is completed, you can stream video to Xbox One S via USB drive, DLNA Server or Plex Media Server for 4K TV. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You must be logged in to post a comment. Special Gift We Offers. Apply Discount ONLY on This Site For Thx Visiting. Latest Articles. Editing iPhone footage in Windows Movie Maker July 21, 2017 Editing iPhone footage in Adobe Premiere July 18, 2017 Editing iPhone footage in Final Cut Pro July 14, 2017 Top 10 Best iPhone Video Converter for Mac/Windows July 11, 2017 StaxRip: Review and Rip Blu-ray in DTS-HD Guide July 7, 2017. Popular Topics. 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A new look, a tweaked design and a smattering of new features, including 4K video and HDR support – surely this has blockbuster written all over it? When Microsoft announced the Xbox One S would play Ultra HD Blu-rays, you could almost hear the applause. The decision looks even more significant now Sony has shunned the feature on its new PlayStation 4 Pro console. The Xbox One S, at the time of writing, is the cheapest 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player on the market by quite some distance. The 500GB version of the console costs around £250, with some retailers now offering bundles for even less. Contrast this with our current favourite dedicated UHD Blu-ray player, the Panasonic DMP-BD900, which will set you back closer to £600. Until more affordable 4K Blu-ray players arrive on the market, the Xbox One S currently sits in a market of, well, one. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this makes the One S a bit of a no-brainer. If only it was quite that simple. The Xbox One S is a complex beast. Let’s start with the 4K. Just to be clear, this isn’t a true 4K console. You can’t play native 4K games – a feature reserved for Microsoft’s more powerful (and presumably more expensive) console, codenamed Project Scorpio, due to launch at the end of 2017. What the Xbox One S does is upscale your current games collection to 4K resolution. This is neat, but remember your 4K TV is doing exactly the same thing for all your non-4K content too. In addition to 4K support, there’s HDR (High Dynamic Range) compatibility. Some upcoming Xbox One S games will have HDR material embedded, so you’ll be able to experience the enhanced images on a compatible TV. HDR goes hand-in-hand with 4K Blu-ray and also streamed 4K content from Netflix, which is supported out of the box. At the time of writing, the version of the Amazon Video app is still waiting an update for 4K HDR. One feature carried over from the original console is the rear-mounted HDMI input. It’s designed to allow you to hook up a set-top box and use the Xbox’s OneGuide to control your TV watching and allow you to interact online. But there’s one slight drawback with the way it’s been implemented in the One S. The console’s HDMI input doesn’t support 4K pass-through, so if you own a set-top-box capable of outputting 4K video, such as Sky Q’s Silver box, you can’t feed 4K content into the console and display it natively on your 4K TV. Microsoft’s official line – “we will continue to make the changes needed for the hardware to support pass-through” – makes it sound like it won’t happen any time soon either. The Ultra HD Blu-ray drive also comes with a slight caveat. Because of the way the console processes audio, all your movie soundtracks are decoded onboard the Xbox One S into PCM. This was also the case with the original console, but it means that you won’t be able to enjoy object-based surround-sound formats such as Dolby Atmos and DTS:X which need to be bitstreamed to a compatible amp. It probably won’t be a deal-breaker for the casual armchair fan, but home cinema enthusiasts who’ve decked out their room in extra Atmos speakers will be disappointed. More after the break. Since the original console launched, the user interface has undergone a couple of changes. Microsoft has attempted to clean it up by rearranging its menus and ‘tiles’. It looks a little smarter, but can still feel like trudging through a tar pit. Reaching some areas still requires too many button presses and the way some of the sub-menus are arranged feels like they were designed with little thought paid to how the user will actually interact with them. The integration of Cortana, Microsoft’s voice-controlled assistance, works with a mic-equipped headset or Kinect, but the latter no longer comes with the console. If you're upgrading from the old Xbox One and want to take Kinect with you, Xbox will throw in the necessary dongle for free until the end of the year. After that, you'll need to pay £30 for one. Build and design. The original Xbox One was widely criticised for its bulk, but the Xbox One S looks like it’s been placed on a crash diet. Now 40 per cent smaller than the original, it looks even slimmer thanks to an optical illusion caused by the small black painted section underneath. The external power brick from the original has been banished, and instead Microsoft has squeezed a new, smaller power supply into the One S, so it doesn’t eat into your shelf space. The console can also lie horizontally or vertically – a stand is supplied with the 2TB Launch Edition, and is an optional extra for the 1TB (£299) and 500GB (£249) versions. Besides a neater power arrangement, Microsoft has also attempted to tidy up the console’s appearance. Touch sensitive controls have been swapped for buttons. The awkward, side-mounted USB socket from the original has been swung round to the front of the console, alongside an IR blaster. It’s undoubtedly a smaller, tidier package, but it all feels quite budget. For all its faults, the original One gives a better impression of quality. The Xbox One’s wireless controller has also been tinkered with. It now has twice the range and can communicate with Windows 10 PCs over Bluetooth. It features a slimmer body and a textured plastic surface, designed to aid grip. It’s nice to use, but feels less substantial than the One’s controller. Microsoft still hasn’t fitted the controller with a rechargeable battery pack, so make sure you’ve got a supply of AA batteries on standby. Play The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Ultra HD Blu-ray and the Xbox One S produces a vibrant, punchy picture. The bright neon lights of Times Square pop from the curved screen of our Samsung UE55KS9000, and contrast impressively against the dark night sky. Colours have a real sense of solidity – Spidey’s red and blue onesy stands out from the shadows as he hurls himself down the streets of New York searching for bad guys. The Xbox One S also serves up a good dose of detail. The textures of his suit are easy to see while the patterns are sharply drawn. As he performs in-air acrobatics, motion is handled well, with only minimal trace of judder around edges. Even as Spidey’s suit ruffles in the breeze caused by his base-jumping, the picture stays relatively solid. Switch to the Panasonic DMP-UB900 and on first glance the same image looks a little subdued. But you soon notice the UB900 majors much more on subtlety. Colours are expertly judged, even to the extent where the One S appears overcooked. The way the Panasonic handles HDR content allows brighter, punchier moments to have more of a lasting impact on the viewer. The player appears to squeeze every last ounce of detail out of the sheen of Spidey’s suit as it captures the sunlight. As the sun tries to force its way through the clouds, the Panasonic has a better grip on where the picture should be at its most punchy and how it should handle the varying degrees of brightness. In our experience, bitstreaming audio from your source to your home cinema amp, allowing the latter to unpack all the audio data, yields the best results. Unfortunately, you don’t get this option with the Xbox One S – soundtracks are automatically decoded onboard the console and fired out as PCM. The result is audio that’s just about acceptable for a budget Blu-ray player. Listening through our reference Yamaha RX-A3060, the Xbox sounds brighter and leaner than the Panasonic DMP-UB900, and struggles to convey the same sense of drama and excitement. The Xbox uncovers a decent amount of detail, but the dedicated player digs up an extra layer or two. Watch Edge of Tomorrow on Blu-ray, and as the soldiers are getting ready to drop onto the planet, the air is thick with tension. The rumble of the transporter engines, the strained dialogue, even Tom Cruise’s frantic attempts to arm his exo-suit, are communicated effortlessly by the Panasonic. By contrast, the Xbox struggles to deliver the same sense of drama, and there’s a hesitancy and meekness to the sound. As he falls and flails through the air the relative quiet is interrupted by the occasional blast of gunfire. You just about get a sense of a shift in the dynamics through the Xbox, whereas through the Panasonic it’s explicit and unquestionable. So how does the Xbox One S stack up as a sequel? Well, it feels a little like we’ve been here before. The cast might have improved but there are still a few gaping holes in the script. The Xbox One S plays the role of games console perfectly well, but doesn’t really show the 4K format in its best light. The price may prove tempting for some, especially if you’re coming to the console from new. But in our opinion there are too many character flaws for it to be considered a box-office smash. Установка и настройка приложения для проигрывания дисков Blu-ray и DVD на консоли Xbox One. Общие сведения. Чтобы смотреть фильмы в формате Blu-ray или DVD на консоли Xbox One, сначала необходимо установить приложение Blu-ray. Чтобы установить это приложение, выберите один из следующих пунктов. Установка с главной страницы Xbox. Нажмите кнопку Xbox , чтобы открыть гид, выберите Главная затем прокрутите вправо и выберите Магазин Выберите Поиск . Введите Blu-ray в панели поиска, нажмите кнопку Меню на геймпаде и выберите пункт Проигрыватель дисков Blu-ray , когда он появится. Выберите Бесплатно или Установить , чтобы загрузить и установить приложение "Проигрыватель дисков Blu-ray". Установить приложение, вставив диск. Вставьте диск Blu-ray или DVD в консоль Xbox One. Выберите проигрыватель дисков Blu-ray, когда он появится на экране. На странице подробных сведений о проигрывателе дисков Blu-ray выберите Бесплатно или Установить . Воспроизведение должно начаться автоматически. После установки приложения вы сможете смотреть фильмы в форматах Blu-ray и DVD, вставив диск с фильмом в консоль Xbox One и выбрав Проигрыватель Blu-ray на главной странице или отыскав его в разделе "Мои игры и приложения". Поддерживаемые регионы и форматы фильмов на Blu-ray and DVD-дисках в Xbox One. С помощью приложения «Проигрыватель Blu-ray» на консоли Xbox One можно смотреть фильмы, доступные в вашем регионе, в форматах Blu-ray и DVD. Примечание. После того, как диск будет вставлен в первый раз, вам будет предложено установить приложение проигрывателя. Подробнее см. в разделе Установка и настройка проигрывателя Blu-ray- и DVD-дисков. Поддерживаемые регионы и форматы дисков. В соответствии с международными стандартами каждая консоль Xbox One производится для Blu-ray- и DVD-дисков, предназначенных для конкретного региона. Консоль Xbox One способна воспроизводить только те Blu-ray- и DVD-диски, которые приобретены в том же регионе, что и сама консоль. В следующих таблицах приведены страны для каждого региона. Некоторые DVD-диски и диски Blu-ray не кодируются для регионов или закодированы для воспроизведения во всех регионах. Диски Blu-ray и DVD без кодирования для регионов будут воспроизводиться на любой консоли Xbox One. Примечание. Диски с играми для консоли Xbox One не кодируются с привязкой к регионам. Поддерживаемые регионы. Диски Blu-ray. Найдите код региона на коробке (A, B или C) и сверьте его с регионом консоли. Охватывает большинство стран и регионов Северной, Центральной и Южной Америки, а также Тайвань, Японию, САР Гонконг, Макао и Корею. Охватывает большинство стран Европы, Африки и Южной Азии, а также Австралию и Новую Зеландию. Охватывает остальные страны Центральной и Южной Азии, а также Китай и Россию. Стандартные диски DVD. найдите код региона на коробке (число от 1 до 8) и сверьте его с регионом консоли. США, Канада, Бермуды, территории США. Европа (кроме России, Украины и Белоруссии), Ближний Восток, Египет, Япония, ЮАР, Свазиленд, Лесото, Гренландия. Юго-Восточная Азия, Южная Корея, Тайвань, Гонконг, Макао. Мексика, Центральная и Южная Америка, Австралия, Новая Зеландия, Океания. Индия, Афганистан, Украина, Белоруссия, Россия, Центральная и Южная Азия, Северная Корея. Китайская Народная Республика, САР Гонконг. Специализированный международный транспорт (например, самолеты и круизные суда) Поддерживаемые форматы. Воспроизведение подготовленных Blu-ray-дисков. Проигрыватель Blu-ray для консоли Xbox One поддерживает подготовленные диски Blu-ray. Диски 3D Blu-ray. Xbox One поддерживает диски 3D Blu-ray при проигрывании на 3D-телевизорах. Stream and Play Blu-ray/DVD ISO Files on Xbox One via Plex, DLNA or USB Device. Jun 29, 2016 02:11 am / Posted by Diana Joan. To protect their precious Blu-ray or DVD discs get damaged due to repeated playback or physical broken, people will often copy or backup their Blu-ray or DVD disc to ISO image file. For Xbox One users, you may come the idea to stream or play BD/DVD ISO image file on Xbox One via a Plex Media Server, DLNA or USB storage device . Have no idea how to achieve that, the following article will offer a full workaround to get the job easily completed. Can Xbox One support ISO playback? Unlike Xbox 360, the Xbox One use its own Xbox Media Player app for playing local video and music files from external USB drive or streamed from local network. Therefore, the file formats you are going to stream or play on Xbox One should be included in Xbox Media Player app supported formats list as below: Music, Video, and Container Formats : 3GP audio, 3GP video, 3GP2, AAC, ADTS, .asf, AVI DivX, DV AVI, AVI uncompressed, AVI Xvid, H.264 AVCHD, M-JPEG, .mkv, .mov, MP3, MPEG-PS, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-2 TS, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 SP, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless, WMA Pro, WMA Voice, WMV, WMV HD. Picture Formats: Animated GIF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF. From above lists, we can see that ISO is not the supported file formats by Xbox One , therfore, you will need to perform a format conversion before start the video streaming process. Transcode BD/DVD ISO to Xbox One. Wish to stream and play all your personal media to Xbox One? Just download our all-in-one media conversion tool - Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows / Mac , which can comprehensively ripping copy and region code Blu-ray/DVD for Xbox One , but also other unsupported digital file formats such as FLV, MP4 , VOB, MTS, M2TS, MXF, XAVC/XAVC S, H.265, etc. Step 1: Load Blu-ray/DVD ISO image file. Run the program on your computer. Click "File" > "Load IFO/ISO" to import Blu-ray or DVD disc ISO image file into the program. Step 2: Specify output file format. Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down option list, select one of Xbox one supported format listed above such as MPEG-2 from "Common Video" > "MPEG-2 Video(*.mpeg)" as the output file format. You can also choose other formats according to your own needs. Or you can directly output Xbox One preset profile formats by following "Zune/Xbox 360 Device" > "Xbox 360 HD Video(*.wmv)". Step 3: Begin the conversion. Go back to the main interface, click right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the conversion from AVI to Xbox 360 supported file formats conversion process. When the conversion is completed, click "Open Output Folder" to pop out the folder with converted files, then you can easily transfer and play converted files on Xbox One via an external USB drive or stream the files from computer to Xbox One via Plex Media Server or DLNA. Join our 2016 summer vacation promotion to enjoy up to 50% off discount coupon code for Blu-ray/DVD/video conversion tool. Money Saving Software Bundles. Original Price: $107. Original Price: $94. Copyright © 2018 Pavtube Studio. All Rights Reserved. CyberLink Joins Working Group Developing UHD-BD for PC. Because computers love 4K too. Although the next generation of Blu-ray disc, now officially called Ultra HD Blu-ray, has taken way longer to become a consumer reality than it really should have done (certainly the makers of 4K UHD TVs would have liked to see it at least a year ago), it does now seem to be gathering a real head of steam. As I reported previously, Panasonic recently announced the launch of the world’s first working Ultra HD Blu-ray player; the DMR-UBZ1 went on sale in Japan on November 13. Samsung showed a UHD-BD player at the IFA technology show in Berlin in September, promising a spring 2016 launch. And now we have PC multimedia software giant CyberLink announcing that it’s joined the Ultra HD Blu-ray Development Group (UHDG) with a clear focus on making sure that PCs don’t miss out on the next generation disc party. Focused on Making UHD-BD a Success. The UHDG is a global focus group established by professional Blu-ray Disc authoring system developer Scenarist, and consists of professional authoring facilities, technology companies and service providers all working on developing the Ultra HD Blu-ray format. The UHDG’s ‘mission’ is to ‘ensure the successful launch of UHD-BD through a collaboration that allows members to gain expertise in the new format, create test titles and provide feedback during the development phase”. In announcing its joining of the UHDG, CyberLink also revealed that its role in the workings of the UHDG will be to provide its members with PC-based player software both for testing 4K H.265 and High Dynamic Range (HDR - explained here) video titles and developing Ultra HD Blu-ray’s intriguing-sounding Digital Bridge functionality. (The idea behind the Digital Bridge feature is that it should allow people who buy UHD Blu-ray discs to share their content across all - or at least most - of their in-home and mobile viewing devices.) Full UHD-BD/PC Compatibility. Clearly the idea behind CyberLink’s activities in the UHDG is to make sure that Ultra HD Blu-ray titles will be compatible across PC-based playback environments as well as consumer electronics devices from the moment the first of these titles start to appear. Which is a big deal, actually, as it shows that even in the world of computers there’s still an apparently substantial interest in supporting another disc format, despite the huge surge in video streaming we’ve seen in recent years. In fact, the mention of high dynamic range in CyberLink’s UHDG announcement shows an admirable commitment to making sure that the PC world doesn’t just support Ultra HD Blu-ray titles, but is able to unlock the next-gen disc format’s full picture quality potential. The Quality Attraction. This commitment is echoed by CyberLink Chairman and CEO Dr. Jau Huang: “The PC is the main entertainment platform for millions of movie watchers worldwide,” he says, “so it makes sense for us to support Ultra HD Blu-ray, which will offer viewers the opportunity to enjoy their entertainment in greater colors, better resolution, and across a wider range of devices.” “Engaging with Scenarist and the members of the UHDG,” Huang adds, “is the perfect way to ensure a high degree of compatibility from the launch of the format, and we look forward to working closely to develop a rich UHD-BD ecosystem.” The muscle now going into making the UHD-BD format part of the PC universe is surely another indicator, too, of how the computing world is now targetting 4K UHD resolution rather than HD as the new benchmark for both video and gaming scenarios.