UBP-X700 combined with FDR-AX53

[gogusta]

I have a Sony 4k Camcorder FDR-AX53 and I save my Movie files on my NAS home network. A few Days ago I purchased the Sony UBP-X700 Ultra HD Bluray (I already had the Sony BDP-S7200 with no 4K support). I also have a Sony KD-55AF8 TV to play Everything on. All the way Sony as you can see. I want to have one box to play all media (CD, DVD, Bluray, 4K Bluray) and a media player to play all my home videos and other Movies from my NAS, ripped DVD and blurays. BUT I discovered that the new Ultra HD Bluray could not play 4K Movies recorded with the Sony camcorder FDR-AX53! Why is that? I have Sony Products all over and I can not play files recorded by a Sony Product on Another Sony Product player? Can someone confirm that this is the case? Even the VLC-app on the AF8 TV can play these 4K home Movies, but not a new 4K player? If I get this confirmed by someone I will return the UBP-X700 and look for Another Product. If there are any.

[Pascale_F]

Hi gogusta,

I'll see what I can find out - someone else in the community might be able to help in the meantime.

Thanks,

Pascale

[gogusta]

Thank you very much Pascale, i appreciate it. I tested more today and I saved some 4K movie files on a USB stick and tried to play them direct on the UBP-X700, sidestepping the network, and it worked! All my test files with 4K XAVC-S 60 Mbps worked. I had produced the movies with Cyberlink Power Director 17 in different formats such as MP4, MKV and M2TS just for this test. I am glad to say that all files worked when read from the USB port. But when I played the same files through my networks NAS from the UBP-X700 media player it took a few minutes before anything happened. I got a blank screen and sometimes I could  get error on the files (data reading failed) and sometimes the movie started. I use cables in my network, no WiFi. I thought that maybe it is a problem in my network but the same files from the networks NAS starts immediately when I play them through the VLC app on the network connected TV (Sony AF8). So I think that the problem really lies in how the UBP-X700 interact with the files through the network. And I noticed that it's not only 4K files, even big movie files in HD 1080. Any info on this?

[Tenneen9000]

Hi gogusta,

playable file types over a DLNA network are limited unlike USB playback as noted on page 29 and 30 here. The same applies even to Sony's flagship player the UBP-X800M2.

All the best,

Tenneen9000

[gogusta]

Thanks for the answer. So the player can play almost all file types through USB but not some of them from the network connected NAS? That does not sound good, I wonder how they figured out that limitation since the decoders obviously are in the player. Now I don't know if I will keep the player or return it, I have a few days to decide. The purpose of buying it was to have a player to play 4K discs and 4K files from my network attached NAS, files recorded by my FDR-AX53 camcorder, 4K files recorded in 60 or 100 Mbps. Strange decission by Sony. The adverts says the player plays "almost" anything. I suppose the keyword here is "almost".

[Tenneen9000 · Accepted solution]

Hi gogusta,

It's the technology itself. These limitations also apply to other devices like TVs for example. Sadly, we have to accept it as it is. So, my advice: Enjoy your player and don't worry too much about the home network limitations.

Cheers,

Tenneen9000

[gogusta · Accepted solution]

I think I reluctantly will accept that the Sony players behave this way. They are certainly not perfect yet. I have read about other media players and it seems that there no "super box" that can do anything for everybody just yet.