First UltraHD Up For Pre-Order – Three New Titles

In addition to the Samsung player, Best Buy and Amazon in the US now have the first UltraHD Blu-ray discs up for pre-oder.

With this, comes the tentative announcement of three more titles :

The thing that is really compelling here is that a lot of the announced movies from the studios were missed opportunities for Atmos on Blu-ray, so there’s a big hope that we can finally have immersive audio on the titles (note that Fox confirmed they will not include the track on Blu-ray, what a bad move).

Of the currently known movie that will be released in UHD here are the ones that I hope will finally get the Atmos treatment at home :

As you can see, this is a LOT of potential for Dolby Atmos at home with a lot of great titles. I specially look forward for the Maze Runner titles as they already have impressive soundtracks in 7.1.

 

 

First UltraHD Blu-ray player from Samsung coming in February

There is finally a tentative timeline for the release of the first UltraHD Blu-ray player from Samsung, the UBD-K8500. Samsung reported in their conference a release date of Mid-February 2016 with a pre-order pricing of 399$ and a MSRP of 499$.

ultraplayer2The other good news is that the player will feature dual HDMI outputs so you can use your non HDCP 2.2 compliant AV receiver to playback sound in high resolution formats.

Please note that the manual for the player is already online here.

Warner announces their first UltraHD Blu-rays

Warner Brothers just confirmed they will support UltraHD Blu-ray from launch with over 35 titles over the course of 2016.

The four launch titles announced are :

  • Mad Max : Fury Road
  • San Andreas
  • The Lego Movie
  • Pan

Two other titles were confirmed over the course of the year :

  • Pacific Rim
  • Man of Steel

Please note that Warner confirmed that select titles will have Dolby Atmos soundtracks, no mention of DTS:X yet.

No official dates yet for any of the release, but it’s pretty sure that everything should be announced in a press conference during CES this week.