Xbox Series X Blu-Ray Black Colour Issue Fixed In January Update

Blu-rays will look better than ever before

by Daniel Hollis Mon 25th Jan 2021

Late last year after the release of the Xbox Series X, it became apparent there was an issue surrounding Blu-ray movies and how they seemed to not be portraying the colour black correctly. A recent system update is said to have rectified these issues.

In a video from HDTVTest hosted by Vincent Teoh, he noted that the latest dashboard update had solved the problem. In a quick breakdown, Teoh demonstrated just how pure blacks now look during media content on the Xbox Series X, using Mad Max: Fury Road as a striking example for the picture quality should look like.

Microsoft managed a quick turnaround on resolving this Blu-ray issue, so now your films should look better than ever before. Teoh also acknowledged how the update has ensured YouTube now plays content with HDR, enabling a more dense image with effective shadow and lighting effects.

Have you noticed a change in quality on Blu-rays since the January update? Let us know below.

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Nightcrawler71
Mon 25th Jan 2021

I’ve never watched a UHD 4K movie, but am keen to try one out (through my Series X of course) Any suggestions? Are there any great films that are 4K reference material?

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Darthroseman
Mon 25th Jan 2021

@Nightcrawler71 For me, it's about personal tastes, but if you want something that's more of a show-stopper, Coco from Disney-Pixar is very colorful with a lot of contrast. I've found a lot of animated movies in general look very good. And there's your classic action movies, Terminator 2 looks great, Fifth Element is a lot of fun. Recently watched Hook and it's cool seeing all the detail in the costumes and such. Overall, I suggest getting something you already know you enjoy and if you have money to get something new, take a stab at something.
Physical media still dominates when it comes to quality, as streaming needs to compress things to not have to buffer all the time and whatnot.

The same can be said for digital music but that's an entirely different rant I can go on.

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Nightcrawler71
Mon 25th Jan 2021

@Darthroseman I do love a Pixar movie so may try some of them out. Cheers 👍

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rjc-32
Tue 26th Jan 2021

They also need to fix a critical bug that occurs when attempting to watch 1080/50hz Bly ray discs, an example are BBC documentaries such as frozen planet and blue planet. The disc will boot initially and a short while later the app will crash the console, causing it to shut down completely (including the beep sounds while shutting down). This fault only seems to happen with these blu rays and happens on every attempt. Standard movies/24hz discs seem to work.