Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[TotallyTuned]

Originally Posted by Braktastic

Is anybody's drive good!? Seriously wondering. lol

My newer Panasonic with only 6 hrs of playback time says the drive is good also. (As one would hope at 6 hrs lol)

[Geoff D]

It says 1700-odd hours on mine. Odd thing is, my 820 has been darned near bulletproof. I thought I'd play my UHD of American Pie which has some nasty scratches (and branching, which these discs from 88 Films don't always seem to work proper on Pannys anyway), and it worked absolutely perfickly.

That's now put the hex on it of coursh and now it'll blow up like it was a drummer in Spinal Tap.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

It says 1700-odd hours on mine. Odd thing is, my 820 has been darned near bulletproof. I thought I'd play my UHD of American Pie which has some nasty scratches (and branching, which these discs from 88 Films don't always seem to work proper on Pannys anyway), and it worked absolutely perfickly.

That's now put the hex on it of coursh and now it'll blow up like it was a drummer in Spinal Tap.

where do you find "hours used" on these players?

[Infallible Presence]

Well, folks it looks like I'll be getting my Sexbox

[Show spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ciVKIm7bcg

9000 late tomorrow. Unless otherwise. As I've been doing research here and there and I noticed "HDR Display Type." Now that's a semi noddle-scratcher. It seems the same as the modes on Oppo, which I eventually went with 4, because it didn't give the hard edge (best way to describe it) around bright objects. Now what I'm seeing on videos and site is:
- Super High Luminance LCD
- Middle or High Luminance LCD
- Basic Luminance LCD
Now ignoring OLED and the 2 Projector types for obvious reasons. Unless someone can say otherwise. What do you think my TV (P75QX-H1) would be right for? Given the brightness of my TV I'm thinking Super High. Of course I won't really know until I get it and fool around with it.

Here's a review of my TV with all the stats and whatnot.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vi...quantum-x-2020

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by Infallible Presence

Well, folks it looks like I'll be getting my Sexbox

[Show spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ciVKIm7bcg

9000 late tomorrow. Unless otherwise. As I've been doing research here and there and I noticed "HDR Display Type." Now that's a semi noddle-scratcher. It seems the same as the modes on Oppo, which I eventually went with 4, because it didn't give the hard edge (best way to describe it) around bright objects. Now what I'm seeing on videos and site is:
- Super High Luminance LCD
- Middle or High Luminance LCD
- Basic Luminance LCD
Now ignoring OLED and the 2 Projector types for obvious reasons. Unless someone can say otherwise. What do you think my TV (P75QX-H1) would be right for? Given the brightness of my TV I'm thinking Super High. Of course I won't really until I get it and fool around with it.

Here's a review of my TV with all the stats and whatnot.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vi...quantum-x-2020

Either Super High Luminance or don't even use the Optimizer function at all. Your TV's Peak Brightness seems to hit a little over 2,000 nits on a 10% window. But you need to play around with it to see what best works.

Like I have an OLED but I have the Optimizer on Super High Luminance due to using LG's Dynamic Tone Mapping and have settings adjusted in the HDR Options menu on my 820.

[Sango]

Definitely test the HDR setting which appears best for your setup.

I recently corrected my setup as I had overlooked my own setting back then. I had both HDR Optimizer on the player and HDR Tone Mapping on Gradient on my Sony A90K. Ended up turning the Optimizer off since the Tone Mapping on the Sony is better.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by Sango

Definitely test the HDR setting which appears best for your setup.

I recently corrected my setup as I had overlooked my own setting back then. I had both HDR Optimizer on the player and HDR Tone Mapping on Gradient on my Sony A90K. Ended up turning the Optimizer off since the Tone Mapping on the Sony is better.

I did the same thing on my A80J.

I have noticed that my UB9000 is starting to run very hot on certain discs - like extremely hot near the back right corner, where the fan is. The fan doesn't seem to kick on. I opened the player up and ran a disc for about 40 minutes and the fan never once kicked on, despite the player becoming noticeably warm. Anyone have issues with this?

[MassiveMovieBuff]

Dolby Vision and HDR just all of the sudden stopped working on either my panny9000 or my Sony Bravia A95L TV. UHDs are only registering as Dynamic Range Conversion Output. Had my player for about 15 months and my TV for about 12 months.

[Sango]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Dolby Vision and HDR just all of the sudden stopped working on either my panny9000 or my Sony Bravia A95L TV. UHDs are only registering as Dynamic Range Conversion Output. Had my player for about 15 months and my TV for about 12 months.

Try a different HDMI cable first to see if it fixes it. Also try factory resetting the UB9000 and set it up again.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Dolby Vision and HDR just all of the sudden stopped working on either my panny9000 or my Sony Bravia A95L TV. UHDs are only registering as Dynamic Range Conversion Output. Had my player for about 15 months and my TV for about 12 months.

Check the HDMI settings on the TV too

[Infallible Presence]

The Panni Sexbox 9000 is in the home. I repeat, the Panni Sexbox 9000 is in the home.

[jchano123]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

I got mine from Amazon because I dropped it to $325 during a sale with credit, zero issues after I got it, they did not double box it for some reason, which I was nervous about at first but no damage and player has been near bulletproof. Crutchfield is also a great option I got my Sony from them very cheap.



I think I'm in the beginning stages of noticing this, certain discs I have played before without issue are giving me problems, I throw them in the Sony and flawless, but it's less than 5 titles so far. I'll enjoy this player as long as I can, I have used it nearly everyday since I bought it.

Thank you for the response. I got mine at Abt, and it was nice because they price match Amazons. However, its been less than a month with this player and im already having the common blocky/artifacting/freezing issue. So far has happened with Saving Private Ryan 4K and Three Colors Blue Criterion 4K.
not sure what to do now - are there any fixes anyone knows ? should i exchange it for another UB820? Should I try a different player altogether? Need some help from the experts here, wanted to give this to myself as a gift and this is so disappointing.

[Infallible Presence]

Okay, things are so far looking great. Picture and audio seem better than the Oppo. But than again, how many years has it been since Oppo had a firmware update? Pressing a lot of buttons to see what works and any other things. First lessen: don't press "High Clarity." It just turns the screen black and you have to stop the movie in order to get it showing. Liking the subtitles luminance control. Granted it's 50/50 for the many titles, but because of my TV's high contrast/brightness blooming does occur sometimes. Here's the player's seat of honor where the Oppo once sat.

[Show spoiler]

Semi-watching "Ready Player One" as the first movie. Which seem appropriate and could arguably be my most watched 4K title. At least give or take.

[Sango]

Originally Posted by Infallible Presence

...First lessen: don't press "High Clarity." It just turns the screen black and you have to stop the movie in order to get it showing...

The "High Clarity" actually cycles though the modes as you press it each time so you do not need to stop the video.

It should be like this.

High Clarity Sound: On (Video On)
High Clarity Sound: On (Video Off)
High Clarity Sound: Off

[Infallible Presence]

Is it normal for the 9000 to slightly warm, despite being for several hours? My only other guess is I need to figure out how shut off the wi-fi and only turn that on when there's a update.

[BXR 1138]

Can't say I have a lot of confidence in the drive check feature via the service menu. Last week I tried it out on my 820 and got the drive "OK" message. That was with a whopping 41 hours spin time (38 BD, 3 DVD) since I've been watching 4K BDs on another player in another room. Today, I started up the 820 and it got stuck on "Welcome!" on the front display for a minute or so (which has happened before) but I let it do its thing and it powered on. Since last week I added a whole 2 hours of BD "Laser Used Time." Did the check and now my drive has been deemed "NG."

I could just be in denial that my sparsely used unit's drive somehow suddenly failed, but I'm thinking the mediocrity of the engineering Panasonic put into these machines extends far beyond just the build quality. If your machine plays almost everything you throw at it except discs known one way or the other to be faulty, I wouldn't worry about what the drive check says.

edit: just finished watching the recently released and revised Superman 1978 4K disc fresh in from mainland Europe, and my "NG" drive played it flawlessly.

[Sango]

Originally Posted by BXR 1138

Can't say I have a lot of confidence in the drive check feature via the service menu. Last week I tried it out on my 820 and got the drive "OK" message. That was with a whopping 41 hours spin time (38 BD, 3 DVD) since I've been watching 4K BDs on another player in another room. Today, I started up the 820 and it got stuck on "Welcome!" on the front display for a minute or so (which has happened before) but I let it do it's thing and it powered on. Since last week I added a whole 2 hours of BD "Laser Used Time." Did the check and now my drive has been deemed "NG."

Perform the [0][1] option to see what the last error code is. The details of the error codes were not posted but could be look it up if you provide to be able provide it.

[BXR 1138]

Originally Posted by Sango

Perform the [0][1] option to see what the last error code is. The details of the error codes were not posted but could be look it up if you provide to be able provide it.

Thanks for the tip, I get F00 which apparently means no error info or no error stored. I haven't done a factory reset.

[Sango]

Originally Posted by BXR 1138

Thanks for the tip, I get F00 which apparently means no error info or no error stored. I haven't done a factory reset.

Got it. If it was showing like "F58" or "HARD ERR" it would could be something.

I did not do that to my own 820 when I saw the pixelization since I had a short time with it watching Titanic. Double verified watching the same scene on my 9000 played without issues.

[Sango]

Here is the updated home screen once the RegionFreedom is installed successfully on the player.