First Look at Samsung's 4K Blu-ray Player

Which started things out, the player or the plate? The player, for this situation. Samsung uncovered a model 4K UHD Blu-Ray player here at IFA, and I investigated.

The UBD-K8500 is a major, stout dark set-best box with a cantilevered best edge. There are touch catches and a "Ultra HD Blu-Ray" logo along the top and a secured USB 3.0 port on the front face.

The K8500 was playing a custom made 4K plate with a H.265-packed video on it, on the grounds that, as Samsung clarified, there are no business 4K Blu-beam circles yet. I likewise got the chance to see the player's Smart TV capacities; it essentially transforms any TV into a Samsung Smart TV, with a similar arrangement of applications you find on the most recent top of the line Samsung TVs. That will likewise incorporate 4K gushing administrations, Samsung said. For additional, look at ExtremeTech's explainer on the player's 10-bit shading and high element go bolster.

Samsung 4K Blu-beam player

The K8500 demo was pretty secured, in expansive part since it was running that hand crafted plate. Samsung let me know that the player will work with media from a hard drive appended to the USB 3 port, and motion pictures replicated onto memory adheres and over to cell phones, insofar as it's permitted by the substance proprietors.

4K motion pictures are right now about a gig a moment, as per Samsung. (Oy.) Standard double layer Blu-beam plates are around 50GB, so that is just 50 minutes of 4K substance. So we'll require another Blu-beam plate spec to deal with the 4K content. Back at CES in January, the Blu-beam Disk Alliance declared an UHD Blu-beam spec including 66GB double layer and 100GB triple-layer plates, with whatever remains of the capacity hole being made up by changing to H.265 pressure, which is twice as proficient as the H.264 AVC utilized as a part of the current Blu-beam spec.

Fox will be the primary film studio to bolster the new circle design, Samsung said.

The UBD-K8500 will be out in mid 2016 and will cost under $500. Up until now, it's the initial 4K Blu-beam player with a dispatch date; Panasonic demoed one in January, however never connected a dispatch date to it.