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Xbox One S - Anyone getting on Launch Day (this TUE Aug 2)?

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For Kinect, ARS said that you'll have to submit a form that will be up on the Xbox website and a USB dongle will be mailed to you.

Ooops someone posted already...
 
Since I don't have an Atmos receiver, I picked one up...

I have 2014 Vizio 70" P Series (no HDR) and Denon AVR2100 (Polk RTi7's/Monitor 70's/ CSi 3 center and Polk 10" and 12" subs)...

The 4k picture is definitely sharper (popped in Expendables 3) but standard blu rays looks pretty damn good (popped in Transformers 3 AOE)...

Since my receiver is not HDCP 2.2, the blu ray app on the XBone won't output 2160p so it down rezzed to 1080p. I ended up hooking the Xbox to HDMI port 5 of the Vizio. Gonna be a small pain to have to switch inputs as everything else I have (PS3/PS4/360 Elite/DirectTV) were going through the Denon.

For the audio out settings, you can select either HDMI or optical. When selecting HDMI, you can select Stereo/Uncompressed 5.1/Uncompressed 7.1/Bitstream (from Avs forums, it is lossy output). When trying the Uncompressed options, I got an error (I guess the TV can't handle it) so I tried the Bitstream option. This forces you to pick either Dolby Digital or DTS. After selecting Dolby Digital, I stuck a DTS disk in and the receiver still read Dolby Digital.

In any event, I am still pretty happy with the picture and sound. I just got the Denon last year so it will be awhile before i upgrade to Atmos or HDR 🙁
 
Yeah the Xbox converts all audio to the format you select for bitstream. Tvs don't accept lossless audio input so they can't process the uncompressed PCM unless it is stereo PCM I think. In your situation the best you can do is exactly what you selected.

Also some people have noted that the Xbox dashboard is not native 4K so it is t as sharp as they expected. Some have mentioned that allowing their tv to do scaling to 4K was slightly sharper than having the console scale it for you. Might be worth trying it both ways. I believe the Vizio tvs have a tough time with scaling anyhow so maybe for you the console is a better option.
 
cmdrdredd said:
Yeah the Xbox converts all audio to the format you select for bitstream. Tvs don't accept lossless audio input so they can't process the uncompressed PCM unless it is stereo PCM I think. In your situation the best you can do is exactly what you selected.

Also some people have noted that the Xbox dashboard is not native 4K so it is t as sharp as they expected. Some have mentioned that allowing their tv to do scaling to 4K was slightly sharper than having the console scale it for you. Might be worth trying it both ways. I believe the Vizio tvs have a tough time with scaling anyhow so maybe for you the console is a better option.
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Guess I could have done an optical cable from the console to the Denon but that defeats the whole purpose of ARC...guess I really don't need ARC anyway since the only reason I had was to watch native 4k netflix on the Vizio (which I couldn't do from the PS3/PS4)...I can now do that from the Xbone....

I should go back and see the difference in watching the upscaled 4k material from netfix from the PS3/PS4 versus watching it on the Netflix app on the Vizio...
 
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Sulaco said:
No.
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MS wanted to force specifics that benefited them from the start (same thing anybody in position #1 would do) but when we cried foul they changed it (the all digital no hard media no trading stuff before any console was released). Then they forced Kinect on us all at release, people begged for a non kinect console and the answer was NO. Now they are tanking big time (not even half the sales of that other console, and being beat some months by the Wii-U when it released big name titles) and all willing to do almost anything to generate sales (great thing for us) they have basically screwed anybody who purchased at start, Kinect is all but dead, all you people who bought the full machine full price, ehhh screw you. Heck that is what this new machine is period.. why didn't they do 4K to start? Because they didn't care even if we did. Now they have too.. and its forced the competition to follow and upgrade a NEW console to 4K too.. Again not to bad for consumers with lots of spending money, but I dont want the APPLE ecosystem in my consoles. New one every 1-2 years making the old one obsolete. its bad for devs ( never get 100% out of hardware, learning new all the time) The 5+ year life span was fine, MS lost a round, suck it up like Nintendo and SONY did when they lost, finish what you started (the bone) and plan for the next one in 4-5 years..

MS said we are #1 the people will buy what we say they will buy, and released the Bone, they found out different and will do anything to catch up, again not all bad, but it it makes a 2 year old console worthless to the people who stood by you, i cant se any good in that.

disclaimer- own both , bone and ps4 and neither is worth he money at this time, there simply are not enough must have games at this point for either. How can they even think of a NEW console when thre was no reason to buy the old one?
 
Anyone been able to order the Kinect adapter yet? I'm at work now, so I tried the link on my phone and got the Ooops Page has been moved or not found error message.
 
clok1966 said:
MS wanted to force specifics that benefited them from the start (same thing anybody in position #1 would do) but when we cried foul they changed it (the all digital no hard media no trading stuff before any console was released). Then they forced Kinect on us all at release, people begged for a non kinect console and the answer was NO. Now they are tanking big time (not even half the sales of that other console, and being beat some months by the Wii-U when it released big name titles) and all willing to do almost anything to generate sales (great thing for us) they have basically screwed anybody who purchased at start, Kinect is all but dead, all you people who bought the full machine full price, ehhh screw you. Heck that is what this new machine is period.. why didn't they do 4K to start? Because they didn't care even if we did. Now they have too.. and its forced the competition to follow and upgrade a NEW console to 4K too.. Again not to bad for consumers with lots of spending money, but I dont want the APPLE ecosystem in my consoles. New one every 1-2 years making the old one obsolete. its bad for devs ( never get 100% out of hardware, learning new all the time) The 5+ year life span was fine, MS lost a round, suck it up like Nintendo and SONY did when they lost, finish what you started (the bone) and plan for the next one in 4-5 years..

MS said we are #1 the people will buy what we say they will buy, and released the Bone, they found out different and will do anything to catch up, again not all bad, but it it makes a 2 year old console worthless to the people who stood by you, i cant se any good in that.

disclaimer- own both , bone and ps4 and neither is worth he money at this time, there simply are not enough must have games at this point for either. How can they even think of a NEW console when thre was no reason to buy the old one?
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4K was practically nonexistant when the PS4 and Xbox One released, there was zero reason for them to put in the effort for a 4K capable output. I'm pretty sure even the HDMI standard capable of 4K wasn't spec'ed and finalized at the time so they really couldn't guarantee compatibility.

2017 is 4 years (you do realize it is 2016 and these consoles came out in 2013, right?), and that's when the next Xbox really is. I can't even fathom why you're acting like they didn't release "slim" versions of previous consoles, and that is all that the One S is.

They aren't obsolete after 2 years, and they wouldn't be if they move to that model. You compare it to Apple yet act like apps and games are obsolete every 2 years, its just a factually wrong argument. If you want to hold off and upgrade every 4-5 years, you will be able to, and you'll see similar improvements that you used to when doing that. There's nothing at all stopping you from doing that. Lots of people hold off on upgrading their phone/tablet for years. In fact that's led to the stagnation in the PC space as people just don't have a reason to upgrade their computer as often any more.
 
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I'm thinking about picking up a $300 one when they come out basically for 4K netflix (finally!) and the Ultra-bluray. Maybe pick up Madden since it seems destined to never return to PC land....
 
Drako said:
Oppo has said they will release a UHD player by the end of this year. It is interesting to me that it's taking them so long to release one.
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Last I heard it won't be until 2017. If it was going to be this year we would have seen the design and some basic features by now. I think Value Electronics asked Oppo directly and was told not until early next year.
 
Don't have a 4k TV yet but that's next on my shopping list as my current TV seems to have a flaky hdmi port so I need to reconnect and disconnect the cables whenever I'm on the ps4 or the Xbox one.

I just spent quite a bit upgrading my PC so I'll do most of my gaming on there for now.
 
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