Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsAt the $250 price this was on sale for, it cannot be beat
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2021
Excellent picture quality. flawless audio from any type of film soundtrack, it loads quickly. That Dolby Vision On/Off switch is a bit annoying since it's not automatic, but fwiw you can program a button sequence on a Harmony remote to do it pretty quick in one press.
So what makes this better than say, an LG UBK90 or even Sony's own X700? Well in addition to great build quality, as well as a handy HDMI 1.4 port alongside the 2.0 port for compatibility, the X800 and M2 play SACD and DVD Audio. This is a feature that basically doesn't exist anymore since the formats are basically dead and buried, only used for rare enthusiast releases or Dutton Vocalion. But as a freak for surround music I need these features and so buying an X800M2 was a foregone conclusion. It can even choose between outputting SACDs as native DSD or LPCM which is cool, since the PS3 only ever did them as LPCM.