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After the PS4 Blu-Ray.com Review... it is the Xbone time.

Conclusion

 The Xbox One's Blu-ray player certainly isn't one for the home theater enthusiast. Picture is solid and sound is excellent, but it lacks precise tuning adjustments. Such audiences will want a dedicated player in their rack. However, the Xbox One just may be the perfect family room Blu-ray playback device for both the casual viewer or family or even the enthusiast who wants a capable second player outside of the home theater. Voice commands are a dream and they work very well at a high percentage rate of accuracy. The failure to navigate disc menus with verbal commands or hand gestures is disappointing, and that the Kinect more often than not fails to recognize commands during loud playback can be an annoyance. These issues, however, are much less likely to plague the casual living room experience, which seems to be Microsoft's target, anyway. Considering the smooth experience, fast access, the absence of glaring glitches, the terrific and intuitive SmartGlass remote app, the awesome Kinect interface, and all the other things the system does well right out of the box, the Xbox One is the clear winner over the PS4 in terms of overall entertainment integration and, more specific to this site and its audience, Blu-ray playback. There's no doubt the PS4 will eventually play catchup and at least rival the Xbox One, but Microsoft has certainly taken the lead and embraced the Blu-ray experience, once its rival, with open arms and an advanced, enjoyable, and accurate interactivity that's nothing short of a terrific experience all round. Oh, and it also plays some great video games. The Xbox One comes very highly recommended.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=12665



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I purchased an xbox one on Saturday. Today I get error code 0x8027025a. Black Screen, also I have to restart the player several times for it to play a blu ray movie. Games are giving me the error code. So, I feel like Im 360ing again.



cajunboy1 said:
I purchased an xbox one on Saturday. Today I get error code 0x8027025a. Black Screen, also I have to restart the player several times for it to play a blu ray movie. Games are giving me the error code. So, I feel like Im 360ing again.

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ethomaz said:

and that the Kinect more often than not fails to recognize commands during loud playback can be an annoyance. 


This is an easy fix, simply turn your tv's volume up high while calibrating your Kinect's mic.



Nice. I only read the conclusion but it sounds like they liked it.



I LOVE paying for Xbox Live! I also love that my love for it pisses off so many people.

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ethomaz said:

After the PS4 Blu-Ray.com Review... it is the Xbone time.

Conclusion

 The Xbox One's Blu-ray player certainly isn't one for the home theater enthusiast. Picture is solid and sound is excellent, but it lacks precise tuning adjustments. Such audiences will want a dedicated player in their rack. However, the Xbox One just may be the perfect family room Blu-ray playback device for both the casual viewer or family or even the enthusiast who wants a capable second player outside of the home theater. Voice commands are a dream and they work very well at a high percentage rate of accuracy. The failure to navigate disc menus with verbal commands or hand gestures is disappointing, and that the Kinect more often than not fails to recognize commands during loud playback can be an annoyance. These issues, however, are much less likely to plague the casual living room experience, which seems to be Microsoft's target, anyway. Considering the smooth experience, fast access, the absence of glaring glitches, the terrific and intuitive SmartGlass remote app, the awesome Kinect interface, and all the other things the system does well right out of the box, the Xbox One is the clear winner over the PS4 in terms of overall entertainment integration and, more specific to this site and its audience, Blu-ray playback. There's no doubt the PS4 will eventually play catchup and at least rival the Xbox One, but Microsoft has certainly taken the lead and embraced the Blu-ray experience, once its rival, with open arms and an advanced, enjoyable, and accurate interactivity that's nothing short of a terrific experience all round. Oh, and it also plays some great video games. The Xbox One comes very highly recommended.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=12665

so for blu-ray:

PS3> xbox one > PS4



 

It plays BluRays well. No need to say anything else.



Can you snap blu-rays while they are playing? What happens to 24hz playback in snap mode?

The ps4 still keeps blu-ray walled off from the rest of the system, calling up the ps4 menu will ask you to cancel playback. It's better then ps3 though with only a 10sec wait to resume from where you left off.

I found it a little concerning that they were talking about crushed blacks for blu-ray playback. I would have expected a more in depth analysis from blu-ray.com then 2 sentences. Clear winner should be the one with the best picture/audio quality I would think.

Also weird that they praise the skip forward with voice for the previews, but fail to mention if there is a go directly to top menu option and skip them all in one go... Better then repeating "XBox, skip forward" 5 times in a row.

Anyway ps3 still comes out best with many features missing from the next-gen all in one multimedia boxes.



Yeah. Good Bluray player with great features. Smartglass intergration is really nice. Great picture.