I got this Saturday for use with my projector as it does YouTube and I have to say it was well worthy of its 5 star review by WHF. What a cracking player - YouTube looks amazing! Still to do 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, CD and Audio CD though.
smbmetal
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It's a decent player. I have issues with it sometimes stalling/freezing on 4K discs. Especially those over 2 hours. Discs are clean etc. From reading some of the forums it seems a common problem. Other than that, it's decent for the money. I like that it has twin HDMI's as well.
I didn’t realise that was a common problem! I have just watched a Blu-ray and a 4K disc and they were fine but didn’t watch them to the end. I will keep watch on the problem though thanks. I have had issues with 4K discs freezing on a Oppo 203 and a Pioneer UDP-LX800 too. The Oppo issues seemed to be related to finger prints on 4K discs, mind you when I bought my second Oppo 203 I had no problems. The Pioneer -up-lx800 seem to be a fault with their players as I have used them before and had the same issues, then you have to power off and unplug the mains to get it to work again. Cheers.
smbmetal
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I've had no issues with Blu-Rays, in fact it plays one I have that is scratched to death haha.
I've noticed a 4K disc gets quite warm due to the speed it has to spin. It's not on every film, just seems very random. I've not had to power it off, sometimes I just have to restart the film and it's fine.
It is sensitive to marks and finger prints though on 4K discs I've found.
I live it with the freezing issues as it's a decent player and only happens occasionally, although the HDR/Dolby Vision implementation is a bit strange I think.
I've noticed a 4K disc gets quite warm due to the speed it has to spin. It's not on every film, just seems very random. I've not had to power it off, sometimes I just have to restart the film and it's fine.
It is sensitive to marks and finger prints though on 4K discs I've found.
I live it with the freezing issues as it's a decent player and only happens occasionally, although the HDR/Dolby Vision implementation is a bit strange I think.
smbmetal
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That’s my only criticism of it. Although I’ve read it’s not the only 4K player to suffer these types of issues unfortunately. I’ve not had it freeze with YouTube. Just 4K discs.
I did notice yesterday and the day before that but I thought it was the HDMI cable! It does it all the time on YouTube now especially with music videos, I have had to turn it off that’s going back then as faulty. Cheers for the heads up.
Has anyone got any idea of a good 4K Blu-ray player that does YouTube well? Buzz has also suggested a games console does YouTube I could potentially wait for one of the new ones or get the one with a 4K Blu-ray player but still it limiting my options which I don’t like. So I need a 4K Blu-ray player with 2 HDMI which is rock solid on YouTube and Blu-ray if there is such a thing! Thanks
bigboss
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Don't you have any other means to stream YouTube from your phone straight to projector?
bigboss
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Oh yeah I think Buzz suggested that too but I forgot about that. What about a iPad?
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