Like the 360 before it, the Xbox One S will only really boot up with an active HDMI connection, which means turning it on and hoping it boots while watching a different HDMI source to save that boot-up time isn't possible. In both the Energy-Saving and Instant On modes, the system can take a little bit of time (10-30 seconds) to boot up. OTHER NOTES FOR 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY PLAYBACK That means, when watching a disc, and say getting a message or notification from Xbox Live, there is no "boop-boop." MS may see this as a drawback, but I completely consider this a desirable outcome.
As a reminder, when this is engaged and a disc is playing, the Xbox One S is unable to layer in its normal UI sounds. It's a simple checkbox, "Let my receiver decode audio." This setting let me playback both Atmos and DTS:X disc tracks without issue, and in effect, corrected one of the Xbox One S Blu-ray/Ultra HD Blu-ray player's major weaknesses.
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( Gears of War 4 has been promised as having Atmos support via patch.) I found the system-wide Atmos a little buggy, to be honest, especially as it routinely turns itself off (reverting to the PCM 7.1 setting) and as using Atmos disables the system's optical audio port, which I use for a set Elite 800X headphones (post Fall update the system will even make me disconnect the headphones' transmitter base USB connection in order to engage system-wide Atmos).įortunately, the system-wide Atmos doesn't really matter for Ultra HD Blu-ray and regular Blu-ray playback as the system has a separate setting in the Disc & Blu-ray section. (Though the video quality on these demos is world's better off a disc.) The Xbox One S even supports Atmos for gaming, but we are still waiting on content. The Dolby Access app even has several of Dolby's Atmos demo pieces.
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This includes some Netflix content (like the Deathnote movie) and Vudu (Dolby Digital Plus Atmos tracks, of which there are many).
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By downloading the free Dolby Access app, Atmos capable AVRs can playback Atmos content from around the Xbox One ecosystem. In fact, the Xbox One S (and the original Xbox One) support Atmos at a system level. The Xbox One S (and the original Xbox One) now, after years of doing without, support direct bitstreaming to an AVR, which is necessary for both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. (Watching The Revenant on Ultra HD Blu-ray on something like the QN65Q7F is an indulgent use of a home theater, and it's easy to get sucked in even during a demonstration.) Using two copies of The Revenant, I stepped through various scenes of sunlit cold, but couldn't find even a mirage of an issue. Naturally, I tried to find fault in the color reproduction or unwanted artifacts. I tried to find faults, anything like stuttering or crashing, and the closest I came was when hopping back and forth between a running disc in the Blu-ray app and the Xbox One S Settings menu, which I don't recommend doing. The Xbox One S was nearly perfect in so far as each disc played and displayed to the high standard that I have become accustomed to over the past 18 months. But even with a display that supported both Dolby Vision and HDR10, neither the Xbox One S nor the UBD-8500 support Dolby Vision, and thus, this was strictly an HDR10 run. (During this test period, Microsoft released their Fall 2017 update for the Xbox One S, which necessitated lots of retesting.) I even included one Dolby Vision Ultra HD Blu-ray, Spider-Man Homecoming. With recent favorites like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, John Wick: Chapter 2, and even the '2017 DTS Demo Disc (Volume 21),' I had plenty of Atmos and DTS:X tracks to test, as well as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio tracks. (I used both an LG 65UH7700 and a Samsung QN65Q7F for the display, and a Marantz SR6011 for the AVR.) I tested around twenty discs, mainly 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays with a few normal Blu-rays thrown in. To re-test the Xbox One S, I took my own year-old 500GB Storm Grey model and put it against my go-to player, the Samsung UBD-8500. There remains one caveat that I will come to shortly, but the last year has seen both significant changes to the Xbox One S as well as certain consistencies (gasp!) that lead me to this new, revised opinion of the Xbox One S' media prowess. Happily, now over a year since I first reviewed a 2TB Xbox One S, I can say that, yes, the Xbox One S is every bit the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Microsoft promised it would be.
One friend, in particular, an early Dolby Atmos adopter, has been hoping to pick up an Xbox One S to go with his OLED display. And let's not forget Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Vudu.Įver since we learned the Xbox One S included an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive, people asked me if the Xbox One S was a good 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player.
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