LG announces its first 4K Blu-ray Player, supports both HDR10 and Dolby Vision

The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format is generating some buzz out of CES 2017 on, with each Panasonic and Sony revealing their new UHD players. Now, LG has additionally unveiled its 1st 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player with the announcement of the LG UP970.

While most 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray players solely support the HDR10 customary for vivacious and colour-rich high-dynamic-range visuals, the LG UP970 will support the technically superior Dolby Vision format.

Makes sense, as LG has been pushing the quality pretty onerous with its Dolby Vision-capable OLED TVs recently, like the superb LG Super UHD 65UH950T, in which we have a tendency to known as its Dolby Vision performance “mind-blowing”.

The UP970 can have 2 HDMI ports, as well as associate HDMI 2.0a port for Ultra HD video output associated an HDMI 1.4 for audio output. In terms of compatible sound formats, it will support Ray M. Dolby TrueHD, Ray M. Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio.

That said, the player won’t ship with Ray M. Dolby Vision capability from the get go – which will are available in the shape of a software package update scheduled  for later this year. Valuation and release date info has to be discovered, however we’ll allow you to recognize as presently as these details become out there.