So does the UBP-X800 do enough to justify the wait, how does it compare to the competition and is Dolby Vision really that important? Let's find out. The company may already have pre-empted this fact because despite being a universal high-end digital media player that can handle any current disc format, it has a competitive price of £349.
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That doesn't of course mean that the X800 is a dead duck, Sony still make excellent players and the eventual success of Dolby Vision is far from guaranteed but with the Oppo UDP-203 and UDP-205 already updated with Dolby Vision and LG's UP970 getting an update very soo, it does put pressure on Sony's new UHD player. This good news was tempered by the realisation that the X800 wouldn't and couldn't support Dolby Vision, so was this an own-goal from Sony? It seemed fairly obvious at the time that Sony's decision to add Dolby Vision to certain TVs was taken very late in the day and the development of the X800 was too far along for such a significant change that would require a different chipset.
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At the same time as the UBP-X800 was announced, Sony also revealed that their TVs using the X1 Extreme processor would be getting an upgrade for Dolby Vision. Whilst there was celebration amongst enthusiasts at the thought of a Sony-made 4K player there was one slight fly in the ointment and it's a fly that Sony dropped in themselves. After what seemed like an eternity Sony teased a UHD Blu-ray player at IFA last year before officially announcing the UBP-X800 at CES in January. Things got worse for Sony when the PlayStation 4 Pro arrived without an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive but arch-rivals Microsoft slipped one into the Xbox One S. Samsung and Panasonic were first out of the gates with the UBD-K8500 and DMP-UB900 respectively and then towards the end of the year Panasonic released a second player in the form of the DMP-UB700 and Oppo joined the party, some would say slightly prematurely, with the UDP-203. As the creators of Blu-ray it must have come as a constant source of embarrassment for Sony that they didn't have a 4K Ultra HD BD player of their own last year.
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