Sony UBP-X700 will be $129.99 on Black Friday at Target. Good Value?

[Jar Jar Stinks]

I see this player is close to 2 years old. Currently, the price ping-pongs between $150 to $170. Is this a value or is this player outdated?

[jwort93]

Player is not outdated, and works fine. The only real complaint most people have with it, is like all other Sony 4K blu-ray players, you have to manually enable Dolby Vision, and once enabled it converts all content to Dolby Vision. There is no auto dolby vision mode like the Panasonic, Oppo, and LG blu-ray players have.

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by jwort93

Player is not outdated, and works fine. The only real complaint most people have with it, is like all other Sony 4K blu-ray players, you have to manually enable Dolby Vision, and once enabled it converts all content to Dolby Vision. There is no auto dolby vision mode like the Panasonic, Oppo, and LG blu-ray players have.

Which works great IMO. Leaving DV on for everything makes your non-DV 4K content look better.

[avs commenter]

It's fine for the price. Not a great streamer though.

[jwort93]

Originally Posted by avs commenter

It's fine for the price. Not a great streamer though.

True, but no blu-ray players are. They all have downsides compared to dedicated streamers.

[blu_brian]

How does the Sony compare to the Xbox S? The Xbox S is going to be $200 with a $40 gift card.

[tcripe]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Which works great IMO. Leaving DV on for everything makes your non-DV 4K content look better.

That’s highly debatable

[avs commenter]

I think that’s called a preference

[GenPion]

Originally Posted by tcripe

That’s highly debatable

Correct. It should be left off on non-DV titles.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by Jar Jar Stinks

I see this player is close to 2 years old. Currently, the price ping-pongs between $150 to $170. Is this a value or is this player outdated?

For a low cost petite UHD player that would work out just fine for people that want a UHD BD player but don't need the best. Should sell lots as its very reasonable.

[DarkEco910]

Best Buy also has this listed for the same price.

[MerrickG]

I have it an have been very disappointed with it.

I love that it has Dolby Vision, discs occasionally freeze up and I often have to do a hard reset.

I suppose you get what you pay for.

I'd love to get a Panasonic, but I am not paying $500 for a 4K player. I may consider the top end LG.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Correct. It should be left off on non-DV titles.

I've seen it on and off for regular HDR and can't see a difference and definitely can't make the argument that it's worse, so I just leave it on.

I have no idea why Sony has to make it forced on in the menu and can't just disable on a title per title basis.

[kuzronk]

Some titles look better color wise even though I lack a 4K TV.

[rroeder]

Blurays look out of whack but I agree most HDR10 content looks fine in forced DV. I must of gotten lucky cause mine has been perfect no freezing everything has played right(knock knock) for a year now.

One thing I don't understand about the forced DV is that if you turn it on the TV goes into DV mode but the player recognizes the difference and only shows "Dolby Vision" if it's encoded in DV, otherwise it shows "HDR" the same as HDR10 content. So even tho the TV is in DV mode the player is sending the right signal??

[evercuriousgeek]

The X700 is a terrible player - at least in my experience. Got it to replace my Samsung UHD BD (which I loved but didn't have DV). Owned the X700 for a day and quickly got rid of it after a runaround with both Sony and Vizio support.

I got the freezing issue, the manual DV on/off is really bad UI, it's clunky and basic compared to Samsung, and the upscaling is way worse than other players.

With my Vizio V-series TV, I also got a really weird issue with Dolby Vision titles stuttering from cut to cut. Like as soon as the picture cuts from one shot to another, the new shot sort of half freezes for a split second, and with movies with a lot of fast cutting it made them unwatchable. (Connected directly to the TV, and through a DV-compatible receiver)

[avs commenter]

I don't use my player a ton, but the issues have been minimal

[tcripe]

Originally Posted by MerrickG

I have it an have been very disappointed with it.

I love that it has Dolby Vision, discs occasionally freeze up and I often have to do a hard reset.

I suppose you get what you pay for.

I'd love to get a Panasonic, but I am not paying $500 for a 4K player. I may consider the top end LG.

I have the LG UBK90, and have had only 1 freeze and I've watched many upon many of disks on it. Also, it manually switches DV on/off for you depending on the disks encoding.

[Bodyslide]

It is on sale tonight at Best Buy:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-st...?skuId=6188345

[Leonidas King]

Originally Posted by tcripe

That’s highly debatable

Originally Posted by GenPion

Correct. It should be left off on non-DV titles.

Not really. It really does provide better black levels when leaving DV on for everything.

And yeah like someone mentioned, it's all about preference