Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[distortme]

Any 1080p screen users have any configuration tips to share? Going through the Star Wars 4Ks and dark scenes do feel a bit dim and some scenes perhaps a bit heavy on the red in colour. Will have a play around but any tips from experience are greatly appreciated! I have a Samsung screen if that helps.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Originally Posted by chip75

https://rattlebyte.com/Shop.php?lang...l&model_id=145

Click on Solderless Fitting Instructions.

Hopefully they can get something similar for the 4K players.

If that was an option I believe it would have been available by now.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Anyone who has the UB-820 confirm if this machine has a last disk spot memory function?

[kristoffer]

Pretty crazy that the machine Panasonic still sells hasn't been updated to play Knives Out in DV and others!
You would think that these bugs would be ironed out by now!

[bhampton]

Can the next Panasonic UHD BD player have a 2.40:1 AR setting? ..

Like the Oppo 203....

2.40:1 movies still exist and that type of feature isn't hard to implement. (Though there's a very good chance most people will set it incorrectly.)

[Fred Bang]

Originally Posted by Yasujiro Ozu

Anyone who has the UB-820 confirm if this machine has a last disk spot memory function?

It does allow you to resume where you played the last disc, but it doesn't work on all titles (as with all players).

Note that I'm not sure that it remembers for more than one disk though. I was swapping discs at one point and wouldnt allow to resume on a previous movie. Not sure what the limit is.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Yasujiro Ozu

If that was an option I believe it would have been available by now.

Yes, I hadn't noticed, on the instructions for the soldering there isn't an on-board connector on the 4K players' motherboard.

So it's a soldering job, although the solder points look quite large to some players I've seen. Below is my Sony's:

[Bammer26]

What resolution should I set this player for dvd and blu ray playback? For 4K I should keep it at auto?

[Fred Bang]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Have you seen the whole movie already? Spoiler if so:

[Show spoiler] it's when Chris Evans gets rumbled and he attacks Ana de Armas with the knife, at the 2h01m24s mark it freezes for several seconds on the 820 in DV.

Bummer. It does freeze during that scene.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Fred Bang

Bummer. It does freeze during that scene.

It plays fine for me but I don't have a DV capable display yet.


=Brian

[sapiendut]

It’s a manufacturing defect, you WILL get those movies stuck at the same spot when using DV.

[kristoffer]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

It’s a manufacturing defect, you WILL get those movies stuck at the same spot when using DV.

But aren't they playing on the Oppo?

[Geoff D]

They play just fine on the OPPO in DV.

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

But aren't they playing on the Oppo?

If so (apparently it is so) then it is mastering incompatibility that needs to be addressed by Panasonic.

@Robert Zohn, any news from Panasonic Japan on the new firmware update? My Japan contact have been silent in the past couple of months.

[Oscarilbo]

One more question. Does the HDR optimizer button needs to be turned on every time turn on the player or watch a new HDR content?

[sapiendut]

no

[Oscarilbo]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

no

Thank you and got it. So doing it once is enough

[Oscarilbo]

Btw, Could anyone confirm if the ability to adjust subtitles settings (such as brightness) is also present in the ub420, as with its big brothers?

[sapiendut]

Yes. I use this feature all the time.

[Oscarilbo]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Yes. I use this feature all the time.

Oh that’s good news. I use my projector with the Smart Eco feature which modulates lamp according to the brightness/white output of the scene in order to save lamp life and show better contrast. Big and white subtitles tend to defy this function. This will help a lot.