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The Sony X1100ES is not just into physical media. Note in this regard that currently no projectors support either Dolby Vision or HDR10+.
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If your TV is only capable of playing the industry standard HDR10 format, you can just leave the Dolby Vision feature off and forget about it. This lack of automatic Dolby Vision detection is a bit of a problem when it’s by no means always clear whether a stream or 4K Blu-ray actually carries a Dolby Vision master.īear in mind, of course, that these various premium HDR shenanigans only apply if your TV supports one or other of the HDR10+ and Dolby Vision formats (or, ideally, both). Which means your TV will treat it as a Dolby Vision, even if it’s a resolutely standard dynamic range DVD disc! I’ll come back to this in the performance section. It’s up to you to know when a disc carries DV and switch the feature on - and it’s up to you to know when a disc doesn’t support DV and switch the feature off.Įven more weirdly, if you don’t turn Dolby Vision off for a non-Dolby Vision disc, the player will output the video with a Dolby Vision flag. For unlike rival Dolby Vision-capable 4K Blu-ray decks, the Sony X1100ES won’t automatically detect if a disc carries DV and adjust its output accordingly. Or rather, the X1100ES will default to the Dolby Vision format if you’ve remembered to turn Dolby Vision on in its set up menus. Unless the disc is one of the mere handful of 4K Blu-rays and HDR streams out there that’s been mastered to support both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, in which case the deck will default to Dolby Vision. And with more and more HDR10+ content starting to appear and rival Panasonic, Pioneer and (now discontinued) Oppo decks supporting both Dolby Vision and HDR10+, the X1100ES’s lack of HDR10+ coverage feels like a significant shortcoming.Īfter all, if you watch a stream or disc on the X1100ES that was mastered in HDR10+, you will only get its ‘core’ HDR10 stream, minus HDR10+’s performance-boosting scene by scene data. HDR10+, like Dolby Vision, also introduces extra scene by scene picture information to help TVs do a better job of their HDR playback. It can also play 4K Blu-rays encoded in both the standard HDR10 and premium Dolby Vision formats, as you would expect of a high-end player these days, however the X1100ES does not support the HDR10+ video format. Unlike Panasonic’s rival UB9000, the X1100ES plays DVD-Audio and SACD discs as well as the more predictable 4K Blu-rays, HD Blu-rays, DVDs and CDs. Also important, though, is its expansive disc support. The Sony X1100ES’s custom-install connections are arguably its most distinctive high-end features. And if the X1100ES enters your home as part of a custom installation system, I guess you’ll be using it via some fancy universal controller from the likes of Crestron. This is a disappointingly bog-standard and plasticky partner for such an expensive player.
The weak link in the X1100ES’s design is its remote control. The need for onboard multi-channel decoding is becoming pretty limited these days, though.
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The latter includes compatibility with Bluetooth headphones and supports the LDAC standard, which carries as much as three times as much data as standard Bluetooth connections.Īudiophiles may want to note that unlike rival premium decks at similar prices, the X1100ES doesn’t carry surround sound line outs. There are two other ‘invisible’ connections, too: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. These include a two-way RS232C port, an Infra-Red input, and CAT 5 support for IP control/troubleshooting via the ihiji4 network management system.
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Where the X1100ES deviates from the 4K Blu-ray player connectivity norms, though, is with its custom install connections.
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