Next-Gen Comparison Highlights Blu-Ray Issues On Xbox Series X

That’s the difference due to Sony having lots of Blu-ray player and tv manufacturing experience.
That’s also why on even the new series x on my tv sometimes HDR does not sync correctly on and my PS5 has no issues.
I read it is the specific HDMI output chip Xbox use, which is more pc based than tv based like the PS5 HDMI output chip.
How a company like Microsoft don’t do their homework properly and get these thing right is beyond me.
I sometimes believe Microsoft as a company is to big for gaming and getting things perfect like the HDMI chip, massive departments not communicating correctly or focusing well.
Maybe it’s their business structure.

Before I say this remember I have owned every single Xbox console since day of release.
At the moment I’m not in a good place with Xbox.
Take media remotes for Xbox a third party one only pdf, does not connect to tv for volume directly and goes through the console which creates lag and not perfect button wise. Third party controller chargers that are ok but not great.
Sony PS5 own official media remote that programmes direct to tv for volume control no lag and perfect. Own official charging dock that works to perfection. Future controller with touch pad, sound from controller, haptic feed back and pressure triggers and when programmed well like in Astro bots really puts a gaming smile on peoples faces.
Come on Microsoft get to grips with all this stuff.
Finished now, rant over.

Meh, nothing a patch can't fix.

@SalmonTag
I think you will find it’s not that easy.
I watched the video from HDTV TEST and like many have said before it’s the HDMI output chip they use which is more PC centred than home tv centred.

Dissapointing I guess, but then again I only by certain dvds and more for collecting and I just buy the bog standard version.. Not blu ray

@Dezzy70
If a game framerate can be patch, so can that Blu-Ray App. But I don't care. I have cable. I didn't buy a Xbox Series X to play movies.

@SalmonTag A lot of people use their game systems as a Blu-ray/UHD movie player.

Outside of last gen not displaying colors completely accurately when watching a movie, the fact that there's frame rate glitches is a bit surprising. Some things not working 100% properly is par for the course for an Xbox, but that and at least a couple of games suffering from serious issues is a bit surprising from them. Playing games relatively glitch free has never been much of an issue, but Control Ultimate Edition is borderline unplayable for some people on Series X.

But back on topic, it's not a huge deal for me as I don't use my game systems as my primary Blu-ray player anymore. A lot of people do like I said, but you can get a standalone player for cheap, so this shouldn't make anyone jump from Xbox to PlayStation. It's just a bit disappointing that something so basic doesn't work quite like it should.

@KilloWertz
Exactly my point, Microsoft with Xbox overall lately seem to just miss things and little imperfections creep in that should not really be there. As for patching this, you can’t patch some of these things if the HDMI chip output does not allow it. The same thing happened with some new av receivers that people use to pass through using hdmi and they still trying to get a patch to work and have now put it down to the chip inside. Which usually means they can’t patch it.
That’s my current rant with Microsoft at the minute they are being slack and need to pick their game up a bit.
I sometimes think they released the series x to stay relevant in gaming as gap stop why they undertake the master plan, cloud gaming only streaming on TVs and devices, so they don’t have to make hardware at all.
Like they sell Microsoft office 365 for example.

@Dezzy70 This is all the more puzzling if you take into account that on the previous generation, Microsoft actually had the upper hand in the Blu-ray player department, so why they screwed this one up is beyond me.

@ThanosReXXX
Because they are not on the ball at all.
I believe they are not organised well and things get left behind or lost in transition as they are such a massive company.
I think their management and structure allows for slips and mishaps. I mean if you can mess up the biggest game release on release date and show massive incompetence like that your business is capable of messing up anything.
I would literally sack most of them and possibly even leave the game console industry.
Since the Xbox 360 days they have tumbled, made a little come back but not a patch on Sony and Nintendo and they won’t this new generation.

@KilloWertz Not really "in their defense", but there's always been little things. I'll take back what I said about Control since that's technically on Remedy. It just seems to be different little things each generation, but you also can't argue that they are doing a lot of things right too. Their backwards compatibility is far and away better than Sony's, and storage management is far and away better so far too. To be able to just plug and play any external hard drive and store any Xbox games including Series X games is something that shouldn't be discounted, while Sony continues to just sit there and do absolutely nothing.

I'll give Sony the benefit of the doubt on the internal drive expansion with COVID likely making it harder to test a large selection of drives that they need to in order to make sure they are compatible, but there's no excuse why we can't store PS5 games on external drives by now. Honestly, there's no excuse why it wasn't a feature from the start, but it still shouldn't be an issue regardless because it's just for storing them and not playing them.

It's a bit extreme that maybe Microsoft should just leave the industry. They are making solid strides with their 1st party output for the first time in ages. In a year or two, it could be a very interesting time to be an Xbox gamer. I haven't felt that way since the 1st half of the 360 generation, but they have plenty of very interesting titles in the pipeline.

Wait a minute. I thought no one buys game consoles for watching media? Oh is it not 2013 anymore?

Seriously though, the Xbox blu-ray app is trash. It always has been.

@Dezzy70 Worse part is this happened last gen as well. I only had an Xbox One for a short time, but when I played Blu Ray movies it would have framerate skips every once in a while. I Googled it at the time and found it was pretty prevelant issue, but only fixable if you sent it back for repair. Never did, as I had a PS4 as well and just used that for movies. This happened with the OG X1 with Kinect, though. Don't know if they fixed it in later revisions.

@SalmonTag Nope, not always. Read my above reply. The Blu Ray frame-skipping issue also happened to my X1, and the only way to fix it was to send it to MS for repair. It's free, but it sucks because you cannot play any games or movies for however long it takes to fix it and be sent back to you. MS should have better quality control.

@DreamerAbe86
As I mentioned before, I don't care. The Blu-Ray is not that serious. I'm not going to sell my Xbox Series X and purchase a Playstation 5, so ....

@Dezzy70 Yeah, kinda agree, but it's still weird. Initially, Phil was saying and doing (the essential part) all the right things, but of late, they're dropping balls left and right. It is annoying when they've made such great progress up to that point.

Oh, well. Here's hoping something good will ultimately come of it.

@ThanosReXXX
Phil is just a good PR guy the friendly face.
But one day in the future gamepass will be available on all platforms no matter what the make of console or device and Microsoft will not create a physical console anymore.
Similar to Microsoft office etc.

@Dezzy70 Perhaps. I don't see that happening just yet. Besides Game Pass, there's still too much focus on the hardware side of things, and they also just recently confirmed getting the whole backwards compatible program up and running again, so I wouldn't even be surprised if we'll still see another console appear, after the Series S/X have run their course.

EDIT:

And Phil is not just a good PR guy or a friendly face. WAY more importantly, he's genuine, something VERY rare in almost any kind of business, because sales & marketing speak is more often than not laced with ambiguity and reading between the lines.

And I should know: I've been in IT-related sales & marketing for well over 16 years now. It's relatively easy for me to separate the bullsh***ers from the real people.

@ThanosReXXX
I think is a great PR guy, I’m not totally sure about him. Will give him the benefit of doubt for now, but Microsoft is one mighty company and must pay him very well.
If Phil pulls off some amazing series x AAA massive big hitting games a good few of them and not AA gamepass fodder then I will believe.

@Dezzy70 Trust me, he's for real. If he were Japanese, he'd be Miyamoto's long lost brother. Not a single ambiguous word to be found in any of his speeches or interviews. It's just that even a captain of a ship can't control everything, so here and there, mistakes were made, but in general, I think they're still on course towards whatever end goal they're trying to reach.

And with Microsoft's deep, deep pockets, they'll reach it regardless of whatever may come.