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Not wanting to spend money for no real gain, but I am wondering if the quality / features of blu-ray players have changed over the past 4-5 years? I got a sony unit about 6-7 years ago. it was a dog to work with and doesn't really work now. I replaced it with a Panasonic unit about 4-5 years ago to work with the family room tv and it works much better.

I got myself a 4k TV and find it hard to justify spending the $600+ on the only 4k uhd blu-ray player that is out right now. I am wondering if I really will ever get one as it's not that I go out and buy all that many Blu-rays and they don't rent anymore around me. the library does let you borrow them but I doubt they will ever get the 4K ones and they still buy DVD's.

Needless to say I am down a blu-ray as the sony doesn't work and 2 rooms with different tv's and just one unit. Someone is loosing out.

Would one of the 4k upscaling blu-ray do a better job than what the TV internally is doing? just wondering