Flick through our Sony reviews on whathifi.com and you’ll see a whole page of five-star reviews for its 2018 products, including the HT-ST5000 Dolby Atmos soundbar and UBP-X700 4K Blu-ray player.
Both products have been key for Sony in keeping on the cutting-edge cusp on the fast-growing home entertainment industry, and both consequently won 2018 What Hi-Fi? Awards - so we’re pleased that the company has used CES to announce their forthcoming siblings.
Also £350, the X800M2 4K Blu-ray player can handle playback of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs with HDR10 and/or Dolby Vision HDR formats. Hybrid Log Gamma HDR content is also supported, as are SACD and DVD-A discs and DSD11.2MHz music files.
It doesn’t sound like HDR10+ is on the X800M2’s compatibility menu, however, so the player won’t be able to play (the allegedly imminent) HDR10+ Ultra HD discs.
A 4K upscaling feature works to enhance the picture of non-4K content such as standard Blu-rays, and built into its smart platform are 4K-supporting streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube.
Whether or not this will replace Sony’s 2018 UBP-X700 is yet unclear.
The HT-X8500 (£350) and X800M2 (£350) will be available in March and May respectively, and we for one can’t wait to tuck into them.
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