Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[Purploros]

Originally Posted by CM1014

Got my 820 this morning after ordering on Best Buy’s website Thursday.

Where’d yours ship from? I ordered mine not this past Thursday, but the Thursday before, and received a scheduled delivery date of Tuesday, January 8.

[CM1014]

Originally Posted by Purploros

Where’d yours ship from? I ordered mine not this past Thursday, but the Thursday before, and received a scheduled delivery date of Tuesday, January 8.

Looks like mine came from Macon, GA and I’m in Orlando.

[Purploros]

Originally Posted by CM1014

Looks like mine came from Macon, GA and I’m in Orlando.

That explains it. Mine shipped from Lathrop, CA.

[Retroj23]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

Someone told me about this player that it can be made to be region free

With my previous Panasonic players all I did was press the top menu button on the remote when the "wrong region" warning screen displayed and it played all region B discs I would throw at them. So maybe this player has the same hack.

[King Crimson]

The top menu trick seems to work with almost all region b blu-rays beyond anime. Anime you will need firmware as the top menu doesn't work.

[Gold Ranger]

Yeah, there's a few Animé i am looking at and they are region locked

[grodd]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

BTW Vincent Teoh still rocks an OPPO in his TV review videos...

He's explained because of its repeat playback of certain sections unlike the Panasonic. It's something I wish the Panasonic would ad.

But I don't think there is anything different on the 900 vs the 820 with exception to the great HDR tone mapping and DV support. Which will likely help you with some movies.

Not sure of they fixed 480i. I'll have to check with my Simpsons DVD's.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by grodd

He's explained because of its repeat playback of certain sections unlike the Panasonic. It's something I wish the Panasonic would ad.

But I don't think there is anything different on the 900 vs the 820 with exception to the great HDR tone mapping and DV support. Which will likely help you with some movies.

Not sure of they fixed 480i. I'll have to check with my Simpsons DVD's.

I thought the 820 had Dolby Vision as well...

[CYMBOL]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I thought the 820 had Dolby Vision as well...

It does.

[grodd]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I thought the 820 had Dolby Vision as well...

The 900 didn't have the great tone mapping feature or DV.

[MEB]

The first batch of UB9000s are supposed to ship this week. I'm clear over on the west coast so some of you on the east coast and in the midwest will likely get yours sooner than me.

Unless Robert ships them in the order they were paid for. I was pretty quick to actually pay!

Mark

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by grodd

He's explained because of its repeat playback of certain sections unlike the Panasonic. It's something I wish the Panasonic would ad.

But I don't think there is anything different on the 900 vs the 820 with exception to the great HDR tone mapping and DV support. Which will likely help you with some movies.

Not sure of they fixed 480i. I'll have to check with my Simpsons DVD's.

Even so, if it were truly worth the 'enhancement' that the Pannys provide then he'd use one as his reference deck regardless, no?

I didn't mention DV above as I'm not buying the 820 for that. As for the tone mapping, it cracks me up that the assumption is that everybody's been rocking piss-poor mapping since day 1. That may have been true of OLED & projektor owners, as well as plenty of low to mid tier LCDs, but some of us have been more fortunate.

[Robert Zohn]

Guess ^ you'd have to ask Vincent. But as you know Vincent and all other professional reviewers agree that the best pq comes from Panasonic's two new BD players.

Please buy the referb UB820!

[exm]

Ok, I read through most of the 135+ pages, and I paid attention to Kris' post but I'm still utterly confused about projector setup.

Previously I owned an Oppo 203 but eBay served me well. I mostly use my player for HDMI movie playback, so I picked up a UB820.

With the Oppo I passed SDR BT.2020 and used one of the HDR presets on my Epson 6040UB projector. Not sure if I was ever satisfied with the results though. So now I have the UB820.

Correct me if I'm wrong for the only settings to change in the UB820:
- Set Color Mode to Ycbr 4:2:2
- Leave Deep Color Output to Auto (12bit Priority)
- Set HDR TV Type to Basic Luminance
I also have Resolution to Auto, 4k60p Off, 24p output Auto, DV Off, HDR10+ On

Question 1: Do I need to set HDR/Color Output to

SDR/BT.2020 (Auto)
Or
HDR/BT.2020 (Auto)

My projector seems to accept both, and I really don't think I see a difference. There's conflicting information on the pages (some prefer SRD, some HDR).

Question 2: Do I need to enable the HDR mode on my projector regardless of HDR/Color Output?

Question 3: Any other settings Epson owners recommend?

Thanks a lot!

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Robert Zohn

Guess ^ you'd have to ask Vincent. But as you know Vincent and all other professional reviewers agree that the best pq comes from Panasonic's two new BD players.

Please buy the referb UB820!

I did, I bought it when I made that first post about the refurb yesterday, I'm not persisting with my comments just to wind people up. At least when I own it I'll be perfectly entitled to deny it my unconditional worship.

[AKORIS]

question for owners of the 820 model--

do you simply keep the same settings for both 4K and 2k playback or do you switch back and forth between "set one" and "set 2" with separate settings?

In other words, can you make settings that you're happy with for all blu rays?

[ronboster]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

question for owners of the 820 model--

do you simply keep the same settings for both 4K and 2k playback or do you switch back and forth between "set one" and "set 2" with separate settings?

In other words, can you make settings that you're happy with for all blu rays?

Shouldn't the settings be based on each individual's monitor/projector? A generic response might be appropriate for the same make and model but even the lamp hours on projectors and individual preferences would come into consideration.

[Robert Zohn]

Yes, the HDR Optimizer is set to each user's TV or projector. After that is set you can leave the user settings alone for all content FHD and UHD.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by ronboster

Shouldn't the settings be based on each individual's monitor/projector? A generic response might be appropriate for the same make and model but even the lamp hours on projectors and individual preferences would come into consideration.

I realize different TV's have different results but I'm mainly asking if owners of this player toggle back and forth with different settings for 4k and 1080p discs.
Do most people have a setting that they're satisfied with for playing everything?

** there's a reason I'm asking about this specifically. This is my second go around with this player. After having the player for only 2 days I started messing around with the "set one" and "set 2" options. Almost immediately after that my HDR setting button started not working. It would bypass the HDR settings and go straight to settings such as luminance adjustment, sharpness, etc. It was as if the player was confused and thought that everything I was playing was 1080p and therefore not eligible for HDR 4 k settings.

It was probably just a coincidence but I'm afraid with messing with separate settings now because I don't want problems again.

I got the player again last night and am very happy with what I'm seeing and hearing so far!

[King Crimson]

I have 2 separate HDR10 optimizer profiles saved on my 820. 1080p content is adjusted in a separate menu from 4K HDR content.