Pretty soon, universal DVD players and Home Theater Systems came to market from various brands, followed later by universal Blu-ray Disc players. There is of course an elegant solution to such issues: Hardware supporting both formats. For years, there has been what many perceive as a format battle, and this may have hampered mass market success of both. Sony starts supporting DVD-Audio for the first timeĪround the same time that SACD was launched – at the turn of the century – competing format DVD-Audio came to market. A thorough analysis of this debacle you can find here. Eventually however, Sony has taken the quite unbelievable decision not to equip PS4 Pro, as the product is actually called, with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.

Naturally, this raised expectations for Sony's reported PlayStation 4 UHD/HDR update, codename PS4 Neo. In the area of games consoles meanwhile, Microsoft has launched the Xbox One S, which adds an HDR video option for gaming, and supports UHD+HDR video from streaming platforms as well as Ultra HD Blu-ray. It will also have 7.1-channel analog outputs. This player, with a custom-developed MediaTek processor, will be the first UHD BD player to support Dolby Vision HDR in addition to the mandatory HDR10. The Oppo unit will be available sooner: 'late 2016', according to the company. It may not look like the ES Series of old but it does come with 3-year warranty. In fact, the player will only be available through Sony-certified retailers and custom installers. A lot more has been added than merely the triple-layer format with 66 and 100GB capacities: It also features Quad DSD processing, RS-232C, IP control, an IEC power cord and more to appral to the tier 1 CE segment. The Sony UBP-X1000ES, previewed a week earlier at IFA, looks just like the UHP-H1, but looks can be deceiving. Presumably even Video CD, although that probably willl not look nice on an Ultra HD TV. Both players can handle the complete range of disc formats including Ultra HD Blu-ray, BD 3D, regular BD, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, SACD and CDDA. Sony unveiled its UBP-X1000ES while Oppo Digital did the same with its UDP-203. Although the Panasonic DMP-UB900 has some good audio features including DSD playback and analog multichannel outputs, none of these players supported SACD or DVD-Audio.Īt CEDIA, this has changed. The first Ultra HD Blu-ray players by Samsung, Panasonic and Philips focused on video playback. With this, the definition of 'universal' has changed. Since then however, an important change has taken place: A new optical disc format has been launched – Ultra HD Blu-ray. Besides Blu-ray Disc, DVD-Video, SACD and CDDA, like so many Sony players before it, this also supported DVD-Audio – the first Sony model to do so. Èarlier this year, at CES, Sony announced its first truly universal disc player – the UHP-H1. Sony and Oppo launch new generation of universal disc players

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