{"id":11923,"date":"2013-07-04T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11923"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T11:53:16","slug":"sonys-4k-ultra-hd-media-player-now-available-at-699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/sonys-4k-ultra-hd-media-player-now-available-at-699\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony’s 4K Ultra HD Media Player now available at $699"},"content":{"rendered":"

While 4K television technology promises dazzling visuals, providing four times the resolution of current 1080p HD, Sony’s first 4K Ultra HD Media Player is now available for pre-order at a whopping price of $699.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FMP-X1 4K Ultra HD Media Player<\/strong>, which was unveiled in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, will play ultra-high-resolution content on 4K TVs, which have four times the number of pixels as a regular HD TV. However, the player is compatible only with Sony 4K TVs.<\/p>\n

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The disc shaped 4K player has a dimension of 9.8 x 2.1 x 9.8 with 25cm in diameter and weighs 2.2 kg. The FMP-X1 has a hard drive capacity of 2 terabytes and the video is output in 2160p (3840 by 2160 pixels). For connectivity it uses Ethernet, separate HDMI outputs for audio and video, USB 3.0 and 2.0 for external HDD and a SD card slot. Sony is using 4K encoders from EyeIO<\/strong> but isn\u2019t divulging details of the compression rate for its 4K video. However, according to Sony, the 10 movies will take up about 400 gigabytes total on the FMP-X1, or an average of 40 GB per film.<\/p>\n

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It comes with pre-loaded 10 full-length movies<\/strong> out of the box – The Amazing Spider-Man, Bad Teacher, The Karate Kid, The Other Guys, Battle: Los Angeles, That’s My Boy, Salt, Total Recall 2012, Taxi Driver and The Bridge on the River Kwai. The company also said that Video Unlimited 4K — Sony’s dedicated 4K video distribution service — is on schedule for a fall launch. Feature films will be available for rent or purchase starting at $7.99 and $29.99, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Sony is pushing hard to move the industry to adopt 4K video in hopes of a new upgrade cycle, such as the one that occurred when people replaced bulky CRT TVs with today’s flat-panel TVs. \u00a0Sony 4K media player will be arriving in stores on July 15th, 2013<\/strong> and will be priced at $699.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While 4K television technology promises dazzling visuals, providing four times the resolution of current 1080p HD, Sony’s first 4K Ultra HD Media Player is now available for pre-order at a whopping price of $699.99. The FMP-X1 4K Ultra HD Media Player, which was unveiled in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, will play ultra-high-resolution content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-11923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}