This was at Costco Moorabbin Melbourne today, plenty of stock, cheapest on StaticIce is $499.00.
Samsung UBD-K8500 UHD Blu-Ray Player - $427.99 @ Costco (Membership Required)
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Pay $50 less and get a ps4, (ebgames possibly?)
Does it play 4k though?
Only via local file playback, not the disc drive.
As the XBox One S is missing some major features that the Samsung (and more expensive Panasonic) has the XBox One S is not worth the extra $130 for UHD Disc based playback in a Home Theater system.
@Spizz I have heard that but struggled to find detail online, care to elaborate?
What this player does (as does the Panasonic) that the XBox One S can't do is the following-
- No Bitsreaming = no Dolby TrueHD, no DTS-HD, no Dolby ATMOS, no DTS:X
- Only 1 HDMI Output which means for those without a HDMI 2.0a with HDCP2.2 compatible AV Receiver then you will only be able to go straight to your 4K TV
So both of those alone makes the XBox One S out of consideration for me. YMMV.
how many "UHD" Blu Rays actually exist?
Don't know, but I have 11 or so. If you have a 4K TV and you care about movies, it's a no brainer. Titles like The Revenant and Deadpool look (and sound) simply amazing.
The reason The Revenant and Deadpool look great is cos they're a rare title actually mastered in 4K. Most modern titles will just be upscaled from 2K.
Rule of thumb is anything old (10-15+ years) is worth buying as it would be a scan from the film negative.
Anything modern, there is a good chance it's just a 2K upscale as most modern titles are mastered in 2K. Rare titles such as those mentioned above, as well as Spiderman films, Sicario etc are true 4K.
realorfake4k.com is a good site to tell if it's worth buying. 'True 4K' and 'Nearly 4K' worth buying. 'Improved' you might as well just stick to blu-ray (unless it's a HDR title and you're into that).
JB Hifi has some 24 UHD movies in stock (supposedly) and I think only a couple (Deadpool,Chappie) were shot in 4k..so the rest are remastered to 4k(?)
Yes. It's a bit of a scam in my opinion. Once hardware falls in price, I'll upgrade to 4K, but will keep majority of my blu-ray collection, and only upgrade/buy things which are truly 4K.
best buy has about 50 titles or so
Watching Bluray movies that use CGI/green screen is already incredibly fake at 1080. Not sure I wanna put my eyes thru pain at 4K. There's still such a long way to go for movies before it really becomes 'life-like'
There's still such a long way to go for movies before it really becomes 'life-like'
4K cameras = instant life-like.
I'd buy one far sooner than buying a player (or any silly Hollywood movie).Neo probably means special effects are harder to blend in and to make look natural when it's a sharp, hi-res picture.
Neo probably means special effects are harder to blend in and to make look natural when it's a sharp, hi-res picture.
Yes, and I am saying there are alternatives to Hollywood crapola.
Sorry cheepwun, pizzaguy is on the point, but yep, I'm sure any movie without effects by computer would look sweet as, my fave genres just tend to feature space, aliens and 3 breasted girls :D
4K doesn't automatically make it 'fake', you need to turn your interpolation down/off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation#Soap_oper…
Kind of off-topic (kind-of, not enough to un-publish me though right?), but does anyone have a good enough internet connection in their area to get the 4K netflix selection running at 4K? I do not, but would love to watch Marco Polo or Crouching Tiger or something in 4K…
If i wanted to stream 4k netflix and if i had a 4k tv i'm able to upgrade my nbn plan to 100mbps anytime.
You assume you will get 100 Mbps on nbn…
Not once did i say i will get exactly that.
nbn is serperated not only by data amount but also by speeds .
Currently i'm on 12/1 there is also 25/5 50/20 and 100/40
for 100/40 probably get 90mbps
i get over 11mbps on 12/1
You don't even need to do that. I trialled netflix on my adsl2 connection and the 4k material was fine. Odd bit of buffering but rare.
Thanks Gary, I kind of wanted to hear from people stuck on ADSL like yourself over NBN. I get about 12Mbps on ADSL2 which would probably be okay if I had the option of buffering, but as a streaming service, Netflix NEVER buffers for me (and I assumed for everyone?) instead it adjusts resolution on the fly to match the bandwidth.
So instead of buffering I usually get knocked down to 720p. Cannot get past 1080p.
@carlscott1982: Wonder if there is any difference to its behaviour on different devices? I was using my Samsung TV wits Netflix app.
@scuderiarmani: Yep, agree it does it very well, but it also precludes us from letting it sit on pause for a while while we build up enough cached data to run 4K, Youtube style.
Running it on my LG TV Gary.
DVD players started at $2000, Blu Ray players started at $999 and now UHD Blu Ray has started at $499 we are headed in the right direction for early adopters…I think the cost also reflects the level of benefit over the previous technology with DVD being the biggest advancement!
Or pay an extra $130 and get an XBOX One S :P