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It's a scaremongering title but I think the core of it is that the current generation games consoles (and the Xbox One) have 4k players and, while they can't deliver the full 4k experience it's good enough, especially if people don't have the TVs to take advantage of the fancy HDR formats. The mass adoption of these consoles will have wrecked the market for standalone players.
As they state 4k discs seem to be doing well (I didn't realise Top Gun: Maverick had such an impact) and I imagine there'll always be a few 4k players available for the aficionado.
I play my 4K discs on my Xbox Series X. I've been planning to get a dedicated player but I want a modded region free one, and those tend to be quite pricey. Sounds like I need to act sooner rather than later.
The added cost is off-putting.
One option - as 4k discs are almost all region-free, get a multiregional Blu-ray player and a standard 4k player. It could be much cheaper.
I know very little about blu ray, and definitely don't have the home cinema setup to make the most of them, but I'm interested nonetheless: what can the current consoles not do that a dedicated, fully-featured player can?
This is the first I'd heard about them being limited.
TechRadar look at both, I'll just extract the relevant bits but they go into a lot of detail.
Xbox Series X:
PS5:
tl;dr: they both don't support the premium HDR formats and getting the top quality sound out can be a bit of a hassle. The PS5 is the better 4k player compared to the Xbox Series X, which is a surprise as the Xbox One X has 4k support and you'd have thought that they'd have built on that to make it a competitor for dedicated players. It wouldn't surprise me if both went for that in the next generation, although it could kill the dedicated player market.