Sony fmp-x1 media player

The 4K Media Player will be available this summer. Beginning April 17, Sony will kick off a year-long partnership with The Tribeca Film Festival to promote 4K video production and distribution among amateur and professional film makers. During the festival in New York, Sony will showcase 4K technologies for use from lens to living room.

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Show full PR text. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. With those caveats, here's what you get with the FMP-X1. Seeing this classic re-mastered in 4K is worth the price of admission. Sony is also implementing the Video Unlimited 4K Ultra HD service, which should be available "later this summer with many more feature films, TV episodes and a variety of short-form video - all with 4K native picture quality and wider color gamut.

Strangelove should prove a great showcase for the TV's dynamic range. Now for some technical housekeeping details. First, this is not a streaming service like Netflix. The movies physically reside on the FMP-X1's hard drive. If you want to watch a movie that is not already on the hard drive, you need to download it. Download times can vary, but the Sony rep suggests four times download to playback. Therefore a two hour movie would take eight hours to download. Or in other words, plan ahead and download when you are sleeping.

If the two terabyte hard drive begins to overflow with 4K goodies, you can offload movies to an external hard drive. Or you can simply delete movies that you have purchased and re-download them from your library on the Sony cloud when you have freed up space on your FMP-X1.

Therefore this 4K media player must be within wired reach of your network's router, bridge or switch.