Ugh, I was about to pull the trigger and change my OG Xbox One for an Xbox One S for it's 4k Blu-ray playback but it sounds like they are having problems playing certain movies.

The Revenant, Star Trek Into Darkness, Lucy, Deadpool are among 4k discs that won't play.

https://forums.xbox.com/xbox_support/xbox_one_support/f/4269/p/2199719/5748173.aspx

That's too bad, because as I've learned right after the PS4 Pro presentation, 4k bluray is really important for gaming consoles. Because reasons...

Isnt the image quality not as good as some of the real 4k blu-ray players as well?

I guess its cheap... but if it doesnt play all discs, and it does it worse than products designed for it... oh well.

The PS2 didn't play all DVDs. Neither did the original Xbox. I expect the UHD playback will improve over time via software updates.

Don't veer the thread in this direction. 

Sounds like a glitch/bug. Hopefully they fix it.

As if you would care, you would never buy an Xbox. Just here pointing out its weaknesses as usual.

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I haven't heard that about the picture quality.  I'd be surprised if there was a real difference in native 4k video quality.  The S doesn't have bitstream audio, so there would be some limits to audio side.

I'm interested in the HDR features for games like GoW 4 as well, but with this issue of not playing some movies I will probably wait longer.

Early tech adapters usually get screwed. I'll probably never care for UHD Blu-ray but if I did I'd definitely be pissed if I bought some movies and they didn't play.

Probably just a bug,I'm sure they will fix it with an update.