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Does anyone know of a decent external 4K media player that allows you to play 2160p video files on a 4K TV or capable of upscaling 1080p files?

There are a few advertised as 4K media players but they seem to have pretty lukewarm reviews, and as far as I can see, there aren’t any clear frontrunners.

Edit: I’m aware of the Nvidia Shield but think it is mainly for streaming rather than playing files?

Thor : Love and Thunder : enjoyed it but it’s not without its issues. 7 middle aged Gods / 10

    Wally Kermode thought it was a pile of wank…. Sunday Times said it was the best Marvel film ever… some mixed reviews out there!

      Along_the_Wire Disks don’t get deleted / corrupted / crash / go bust. Love a bit of the old physical media.

        Lightyear - Weird one this from Pixar. It all feels a bit rushed in the most part, but more than that, our main protagonist is just a bit of a non entity. I appreciate that the original Woody and Buzz and a hard act to follow, but characters are where Pixar normally excel themselves. Bit of a missed opportunity this one.

        2.5 pieces of confetti out of 5.

        Mooncrash - Bang average B movie that is ever so slightly better than most bang average B movies. Essentially a remake of Armageddon. S to the werve.

        1 stolen plot device out of 5.

        Old School. Aged terribly, wasn’t even funny anymore, apart from Will Ferrel.

        Edge of Tomorrow. Tom Cruise is a complete psycho, but if he’s in a movie it’s usually at least entertaining. I love this and Oblivion (that movie gets a lot of help from the M83-soundtrack though), the two are IMO the best alien invasion movies of the past 10 years. Emily Blunt in the movie doesn’t hurt either.

          Homegrove and Oblivion

          I have watched both of those films a fair few times. More than I expected. Oblivion gets a watch partly for the ending SPOILER ALERT which is le grand fromage when he says Fuck you Sally! Serious cringe/wtf/so bad it’s good moment

            Maverick - first trip to the cinema for ages. Some fucking little shit kick my seat and rustling for the whole film really did his utter best to ruin the experience. I had the fear for the first 45 minutes - it was fucking excruciating to watch, but then it just got good and fun and I found myself genuinely just enjoying the film. Stupid as it was. 7.5/10. My missus cried three times.

            The Green Knight. It was like some art student was given millions to make a medieval movie. Dev Patel and scenery was amazing, the movie most certainly was not.

              Homegrove Have a look on youtube for a video on how it’s a deconstruction of the hero’s journey - it’s really illuminating as to what the director was going for and made me appreciate it more. I’ll see if I can dig it out.

                  Homegrove EOT is great. Oblivion is good but seems to chuck every single sci fi trope into one movie. The last 15 mins or so with the mothership in space (been a while since I watched it but that’s what I recall) - really could have done without that.

                      McEnroe…. Documentary about the tennis player…. Started off focussing on his perfectionism, on his winning being the only thing that mattered to him… but moved in a wtf am I doing with my life direction. Reminded me of Asif Kapadia’s documentaries, although here McConroe is alive (Kapadia’s subjects were all dead).. and like Kapadia’s Senna and formula 1 focus, I’m no great (formula 1) tennis fan… but it didn’t matter - this is just a great documentary that everyone should watch…8/10

                        Jules72 Big fan of him….I’ll take a look. I saw him play in the flesh when he was long retired and he still made some of the top 20 players look average.