Sony UBP-X700 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu31

Hope this is a good player. I just bought it and it's my first 4K Blu-ray player.

I bought this player and shortly got rid of it. Worse player sony ever made and yes freezing issues Sony never fixed and won't. After all these years of making DVD players , blu-ray players, and now 4K players you would think this issue shouldn't happen. The stupid thing Sony did is Dolby Vision. If you don't know by now ,you have to go to settings and turn Dolby Vision on with your remote. and do the same to shut it off. Really, who at Sony thought this was a good idea? Now if you don't shut off Dolby Vision you can't view 3d discs. As far as I know this is the only player that does this. And there new 4K player the 800 for 2019 does the same thing. This is something that can be fixed , yet Sony decides not too. Along with there horrible 4K tvs for 2019 this is just another stupid thing Sony does for who knows why. Makes no sense at all. If I was you I would bring it back and change it out for another brand. Sony has once again dropped the ball on there 4K players.

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu31

It's an excellent player. I've had it for almost a week now and have no complaints.

Well you got lucky ,believe me there's a lot of bad players out there.

[Mockiteur]

Originally Posted by tvine2000

I bought this player and shortly got rid of it. Worse player sony ever made and yes freezing issues Sony never fixed and won't. After all these years of making DVD players , blu-ray players, and now 4K players you would think this issue shouldn't happen. The stupid thing Sony did is Dolby Vision. If you don't know by now ,you have to go to settings and turn Dolby Vision on with your remote. and do the same to shut it off. Really, who at Sony thought this was a good idea? Now if you don't shut off Dolby Vision you can't view 3d discs. As far as I know this is the only player that does this. And there new 4K player the 800 for 2019 does the same thing. This is something that can be fixed , yet Sony decides not too. Along with there horrible 4K tvs for 2019 this is just another stupid thing Sony does for who knows why. Makes no sense at all. If I was you I would bring it back and change it out for another brand. Sony has once again dropped the ball on there 4K players.

What are you using now?

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

The freezing issue is just a problem on this player, isn't it?

Just got this for free yesterday and it's lightyears faster and produces better results than my first generation Philips player.

And yet, the thing has locked up at least 4 times since it arrived yesterday. Mind you, it has also played two UHD disc straight through twice without a problem.

Is the freezing issue just something you have to deal with and not worry about?

(If I'm being honest, I just need this thing to play the Dark Knight Trilogy, Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and Kubrick UHD's without a problem for the foreseeable future.)

It is an issue with this player. The discs I played that froze in the Sony player didn't freeze in another brand player I own. Got rid of the Sony player.

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by Voltaire53

I have had a couple of 4K freezes (out of a lot of plays) but every time a thorough clean of the disc surface has fixed it... how it get marks when I'm so careful mst be down to my poor technique IMO but yes, my X700 can be a bit sensitive so I suggest making sure of a mark free disc before begining as it *always* picks a high tension moment to find the freeze point!

It amazes me how corporations have convinced consumers to buy the crap they make and consumers thinking it's there own fault if the player (in this case) doesn't work right. Do you people see what's happening here. Manufacturers figured out a long time ago if we make stuff that lasts we will have very few customers . I know people who still have CRT tube TVs that work just fine. And Plasmas tv that are still running.So understand they make products that will not last anymore. From 4K tvs to cars , trucks washing machines computers,everything is throw away products. They were changing over 2000 dollars for OLeds tvs that will last 5 years if your lucky. So understand and be wise when you buy anything. There in business to make money and big profits and if they can pass there products that really suck , they will.

[Jumpman]

Is there a 4K player out there that has Dolby Vision that doesn't cost an arm and a leg that reliable?

I like this player but you know, playing Dolby Vision on my Apple TV for the last year and some change has yielded no problems whatsoever. And if I can't find a player that is as reliable as my PS3 was back in the day, maybe it's time for me to get out of the disc game.

It wasn't that long ago that disc players use to just work....what's the deal?

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

No vibrations. I do have quick start on. It’s plugged into a power supply. Last film it froze on was the CAPTAIN MARVEL Blu. It unfroze itself, returned to where it left off and I finished it, no problem.

Look guys stop trying to justify this player , it has freezing issues . It's the player end of story. I find when owners of a product is shown proof something is wrong with there product they get defensive because they think someone is attacking there toys. There are numerous complaints on this sony player not just here but other forums. The real crime here is Sony. They did nothing to try to fix the issue and instead put out there x800 2019 player with Dolby Vision and guess what it has freezing issue to! Also the way they implante Dolby Vision is the same as the X-700 . go to settings and with your remote turn on Dolby vision and then after viewing go back in and shut it off. Most other players it's automatic thing. Sony you suck.

[Jumpman]

Originally Posted by tvine2000

Look guys stop trying to justify this player , it has freezing issues . It's the player end of story. I find when owners of a product is shown proof something is wrong with there product they get defensive because they think someone is attacking there toys. There are numerous complaints on this sony player not just here but other forums. The real crime here is Sony. They did nothing to try to fix the issue and instead put out there x800 2019 player with Dolby Vision and guess what it has freezing issue to! Also the way they implante Dolby Vision is the same as the X-700 . go to settings and with your remote turn on Dolby vision and then after viewing go back in and shut it off. Most other players it's automatic thing. Sony you suck.

I'm honestly not too bothered by the player only because I still have my first generation Philips player in the box and I got this Sony player for free. It's slow as molasses but it never skipped. It's only has HDR10 on board but most of my discs are HDR10 only anyway. I can always stream Dolby Vision on my Apple TV if I absolutely must.

[Remo]

Originally Posted by Mockiteur

reformatted and still nothing :S
special folders?

Video maybe? I dunno. Here is what I have.

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by cminer72

I've watched Captain Marvel without freezing. I'd start with turning off quick start. If you still have frequent problems, try plugging directly into the wall. Some people say this can affect it. I still believe some of the freezing I had with a previous player was due to HDMI compatibility problems between my Sony player and LG TV I had at the time. Now that I have a Sony TV, and a the Sony player, I rarely have freezing issues.

Question, why should you spend your hard earned money and have it jump thru hoops to get this player to work right. This is what i'm talking about . consumers have become more and more dumb over the years willing to except bad products because they think it's a good price to have Dolby Vision.And BTW what your seeing is fake Dolby Vision. True Dolby Vision requires a 12 bit panel according Dolby's own spec sheet to see 64 billion colors were not seeing with 10 bit panels. What your seeing is really HDR10+ a 10 bit technology.

[Mockiteur]

Originally Posted by Remo

Video maybe? I dunno. Here is what I have.

Thank you!
I'm gonna give this another try tomorrow

[cminer72]

Originally Posted by tvine2000

Question, why should you spend your hard earned money and have it jump thru hoops to get this player to work right. This is what i'm talking about . consumers have become more and more dumb over the years willing to except bad products because they think it's a good price to have Dolby Vision.And BTW what your seeing is fake Dolby Vision. True Dolby Vision requires a 12 bit panel according Dolby's own spec sheet to see 64 billion colors were not seeing with 10 bit panels. What your seeing is really HDR10+ a 10 bit technology.

It's not jumping through hoops since quick start is turned off out of the box. Anyone looking at your posts in this and all the other threads you lurk in can easily see that you are one of the biggest trolls in these forums. I haven't had problems with any Sony 4K players excessively freezing or being unreliable. They are highly rated and top sellers. And OLED rocks. Ignore the troll folks.

[Nosferatu31]

Originally Posted by tvine2000

Well you got lucky ,believe me there's a lot of bad players out there.

Guess i did. I've watched 20+ movies on it over the past few weeks and no freezing or any other issues. Very happy with it.

[wormraper]

honestly Tvine2000 has a point. We shouldn't be dealing with persistent issues like this while accepting it as the norm, and the 700 and 800 series DO have freezing problems. I've had two different X800s due to the freezing issue, and while I thought I had this latest one down to a minimum Alita: Battle Angle is making my x800 freeze like a mother multiple times. My buddy has the X700 and it's frozen at least 4-5 times this year alone. It's getting ridiculous and should NOT be happening on a regular basis, but if you peruse the sony support forums and other forums it's a VERY common complaint. Sony doesn't seem to want to do jack about it, and instead of redesigning their players to get rid of it, they just update their older x800 series with DV and still continue on with the cycle

[steve1971]

I have had my Sony x800 for about a year and a half now and I havent had one single issue with it. It has played Blu's, 4K Blu's, cd's, you name it and not ONE single freeze up or anything else. It streams flawlessly as well. It has been one of the best Blu ray/4K Blu ray players I have ever owned. That being said. Sony dropped the ball on the x700 and in my opinion it was a major step back from the x800 which is why I believe the re-released the x800 with Dolby Vision because the x700 was a flop! But some have called Sony Blu ray players junk. Junk? Just take a look at Samsungs Blu ray players. Now those were junk which I believe is why they pulled out of the Blu ray player market.

[TJtennispro]

Bought mine Friday and returned it Monday. Poor WiFi, poor interface and the Dolby Vision support is odd.

[sapiendut]

It’s the same implementation as all Sony UHD, unfortunately.

[jarrod_inf]

I understand others have had issues but mine has had only one freeze in 2001 UHD. My player gets used everyday. My TV is not DV capable so I’ll wait to get an upgraded player with my next TV purchase.

[Johnzilla2179]

Question: I know it's an extreme long shot, but is the UBP-X700 natively region free? The reason I ask is because I bought Anchor Bay's 2003 twofer of Alligator (1980) and Alligator II: The Mutation (1991), the latter one of the seemingly endless American films that can't seem to get a domestic release (even if it isn't a classic by any means). Anywho, I had planned on ordering some stuff to make my player region free, but just to amuse myself I put the first disc in to see what would happen. Much to my surprise, the disc loaded up just fine. I played the movie and skipped through the chapters and audio options just to make sure it wasn't some kind of weird bait and switch. I then did the same with the second disc. Everything I've ever read about this set has had the region coding as 2, so the disc SHOULDN'T have worked, right?

This is the DVD: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101309...r/rm1260483072

[sapiendut]

No BD player is shipped region free.

Some players can be region switchable (supposedly the Panasonic can do that but I never tried it) but the 4K discs are in nature have no region code.