Xbox One S 4K upscaling for DVDs and standard Blu-rays

"Ultra HD" Blu-Rays will play in 4K. Standard Blu-Rays will play in 1080p.

The Xbox One S will only output to the highest resolution offered by the Blu-Ray disc it plays.

I suppose this design choice was in mind because 4K/UHD-TVs already process and upscale a lower resolution image to "cleanly" use all of the 3840x2160 pixels, so it's not putting unnecessary load on the Xbox One S CPU.

Xbox One and Xbox One S are 1080P Gaming

Xbox One S will play 4K Blu Ray's

Xbox One X will play Game in 4K if they are Enhanced with 4K Support + 4k Blu Ray support

They Xbox One X will also Upscale on a 1080p screen so you will see some benefit of the Xbox One X

I know blu rays are playing at 24Hz because that's what Xbox One S is telling me in my advanced video settings: 4K, HDR, Allow 24 Hz. It does NOT let me select 60Hz, therefore it is not sending video signal to my TV at 60Hz. Are you saying it doesn't matter
if 24Hz is set, it still sends it at 60Hz? Please clarify.

If I play a standard blu ray DVD, it will be upscaled on my TV screen, because the standard DVD was not recorded at the resolution that my TV provides. But when I play a blu ray DVD recorded at 4K Ultra HD HDR, I don't want upscaling. I want the video signal
at the 4K resolution to be passed to my TV without any compensation or additional processing to upscale. I also want the signal to play at 60 frames per second (60Hz) rather than at 24Hz. When Xbox does not allow me to select 60Hz I have to believe that it
is NOT sending the 4K HDR signal at 60Hz. Could you please tell me how I can report this to the Xbox team? I also work at Microsoft at the Redmond campus, could you please tell me what the process is to report this issue? All I want is the ability to select
4K HDR at 60Hz in advanced video settings.

I really appreciate your help, I am trying to be patient but it's been a long time without any resolution on this.

I want to use the Xbox One S as my DVD player, to play 4K Ultra HD HDR blu ray DVDs. I can do that now, however, these DVDs are playing back at 24Hz instead of the 60Hz that my TV supports. I don't want the TV to do any upscaling, I want the Xbox One S DVD player
to play my DVDs at the highest quality. But because of a bug, Xbox One S does NOT allow me to play movies/dvds at 60Hz. How can I fix that given that all my TV settings are correct?

Hmm. How do you know the Blu-Rays are playing in only 24hZ vs 60? Just because the box is checked (which allows native 24hZ content to pass through) doesn't mean that that is what is being used.

As I mentioned yesterday, just because the Xbox One S can do the upscaling, optimal performance will be had by allowing your TV to do the heavy lifting if at all possible. Is there a reason this is not an option for your current setup?

I have not tried a standard blu ray on my xbox one s... I'll have to try it. I had that happen with a 4k blu ray, but it only happened on a certain hdmi input. Changed it to a different input and it output 2160p. I doubt that's the problem, but you could
always give it a shot. That's kinda garbage if they don't upscale.

Hi there,

let me try to answer your questions.

1 and 2. Yes it can play 4K Blu-ray discs and Yes when set to 4K output it will upscale the content. See this snippet from the support page: "When you set your console resolution to 4K UHD, everything on the console—Home, games, and apps—will display at
4K. 4K content is displayed in its native 4K resolution, and other content (like 1080p content) is upscaled to 4K."

This is the link to the support page with the information:
support.xbox.com/.../4k-on-xbox-one-s

I recently tried watched The Force Awakens on my xbox one s rather than my blu ray player, and i must say, i was absolutely impressed with the blu ray upscale. Although keep in mind that it was connected to an Hdmi port that supported UHD color on a 4k Samsung
Tv