On most TV's not all ports support HDMI 2.0- those that are are usually labeled as hz. Most receivers don't support HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 yet. Also, if you use a AV receiver, you need to use the Media Player HDMI Port 2 just for audio to connect to the AV receiver. One of the trickier things is that you must connect your Sony 4K Media Player HDMI Port 1 to a TV HDMI port that supports HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. Setting up the 4K media player was straightforward but you need to make sure your media player is connected to the Internet. It only had a few scruff marks on the outside and turned on from the factory original settings without a hitch. This plus the low user reviews should have been a red flag but like I said, I was desperate to play 4K content.Īfter placing the order on eBay, I was pleasantly surprised to see the 4K media player show up within a couple days. In India, Sony did have a similar media player called the PDP-FMPA60 but this was only used to demo Sony 4K TV's in stores rather than be sold into retail.īeing desperate for 4K content but not wanting to spend over $600 for the Sony 4K Ultra HD Media Player, I found a lot of manufacturer refurbished FMP-X10 units being sold for under $200 at eBay. For quite some time in 2015, it has been the only 4K player that people could buy first with the FMP-X1 and then later with the FMP-X10.

The Sony Ultra HD Media Player was the first 4K Media Player that customers in the US could buy to play 4K content without using online streaming. Unlike Internet streaming where video has to be compressed, HDMI is designed to pump protected uncompressed video to you TV so assuming your source movie content is good, it should look awesome on your TV as well. Assuming you have the bandwidth and patience to download large 4K movies into the Media Player, this approach promises to give you the best picture quality and avoiding some of lack of soft features and artificial artifacts that you can get from online streaming.

Rather, the Sony Media Player lets you purchase and download 4K movies from Sony and then play that 4K content from the Media Player hard drive onto a 4K TV using HDMI 2.0. Sony Ultra HD Media Player- Planting the 4K FlagĪ lot of people ask, what does the Sony Ultra HD Media Player do? It doesn't have a disk to insert Blu-ray into nor does it stream 4K content.

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