imo moving down the price curve is as much or more important than seeing all the brands coming on board
Sony Unveils New OLED And LCD TV Ranges, Plus A New 4K Blu-ray Player - All With Dolby Vision
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Available in 75, 65, 55 and 49-inch screen sizes globally, but with an additional 85-inch model available in the US, the main point about the X900F models is that they bring the picture processing prowess of Sony’s X1 Extreme processing down to a lower level of Sony’s TV range. What’s more, adding the X1 Extreme chipset means that the X900Fs will become the most affordable TVs in Sony’s 2018 range to support Dolby Vision HDR.
Sony has also finally ‘joined up’ its Dolby Vision AV story by announcing the launch of a new UBP-X700 4K Blu-ray player that’s capable of playing Dolby Vision discs. The lack of Dolby Vision on Sony’s (otherwise excellent) 2017 X800 4K BD deck always seemed strange given the support of Dolby Vision on some of Sony’s TVs, so it was widely expected that Sony would put this oversight right with a new product at the CES.
Unfortunately for X800 owners, though, it still does not appear that the X800 will be getting a firmware update to add Dolby Vision support.
The X700 will carry apps, including the 4K versions of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube, and will support a number of high-quality video and audio file formats, including MP4, DSD, and FLAC. The X700 will be available any day now for around $250/£270/270 Euros.
It’s important to note at this point that while Sony has expanded its Dolby Vision range with the above products, none of them will also support the new HDR10+ dynamic metadata HDR system being championed by Samsung, Panasonic, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. So at the time of writing there is no TV that supports all of today’s High Dynamic Range formats.
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