Xbox One or Panasonic?

[michaelmoravian]

I have a Panasonic bdt130 blu ray player, but now also have an Xbox One. Now that the Xbox One has had a number of software updates so that it does 3D and deep colour, is it going to give a picture and sound to match the Panasonic? It would be good to use just one box but I have space for both. Thanks for any advice.

 

[bigboss]

Why don't you compare yourself and see? In my experience, there's no difference in blu-ray picture quality between players at different price points. What's the rest of your system like? AV receiver? Speakers?

 

[fr0g]

BB is correct. If you are watching Blue Ray, via HDMI, there is zero difference. The player either sends the correct data and the film plays, or it doesn't and it will be blatently obvious. The digital data from the blue ray is being processed by the AV receiver or the TV.

All players look and sound...identical. Differences are in features, build quality, player noise (i.e. fans) and speed.

 

[michaelmoravian]

Thanks. I'll give the Xbox a go. I have a basic Yamaha 5.1 surround amp and speakers which the Xbox will connect to with HDMI. The only thing about the Xbox One is that it doesn't bitstream HD audio and so I have to set it to do the decoding itself and output PCM.

 

[bigboss]

Best is to compare yourself with Panasonic. I doubt you'll notice any difference in sound.

 

[matthook]

I have an xbox one and a samsung c5500 blu-ray player. Unfortunately the Xbox One doesn't do Bitstream correctly as mentioned but PCM isn't capable of working with a Dolby atmos receiver on the xbox. It is a known issue, lots of xbox one owners have complained to Microsoft about this including myself. Hopefully Microsoft will fix soon.

 

[michaelmoravian]

As my receiver is 5.1 it works okay but I would rather the receiver did the processing. The biggest pain for me is having to go into the settings to change the output from 5.1 to 2.0 for stereo videos so that the receiver knows to apply ProLogic.