Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[Clark Burk]

Originally Posted by Des511

I have an 820 and an Oppo 203 and the optical drive in the panasonic is considerably louder
than the Oppo. I can quite clearly hear the drive when watching a UHD from about 3.5 metres away during quite parts of the movie. I’m in the UK and more owners have mentioned the noisy drives than have not with some owners sending theirs back for a refund.
Also the cooling fan is constantly on. You must be very lucky to have one with a quite optical drive.
It’s a shame that more effort was not put into the build quality so it would match the quality of its internal processing.

Are you referring to normal movie play or disc functions such as next chapter or fast forward and such?

[E6AtmosVuduDV]

UB820's sold in Belgium.
Why is that and not UB824's.

https://homecinemamagazine.net/panas...-players-sale/

[ronboster]

Originally Posted by E6AtmosVuduDV

UB820's sold in Belgium.
Why is that and not UB824's.

https://homecinemamagazine.net/panas...-players-sale/

They are suppose to be the same machine, but different model number...so if that's the case, why is it important?

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by E6AtmosVuduDV

UB820's sold in Belgium.
Why is that and not UB824's.

https://homecinemamagazine.net/panas...-players-sale/

Because that's how they are selling them.

Compare
https://www.panasonic.com/nl/consume...c-spelers.html

https://www.panasonic.com/be/nl/cons...ay-player.html

Well France uses UB820 and Germany uses UB824. Are you confused more?

Its not the AC power that whole EU region uses either C, E, F power adaptors (230V 50 hz). see https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Well just bought the 820 from Value Electronics. Hope everything works out.

[hgwy407]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Well just bought the 820 from Value Electronics. Hope everything works out.

Congrats to you. Guess I wasn't high enough on the waiting list this time out. Let us know what you think....

[Robert Zohn]

We're filling every order on our priority wait list and still have more to sell from the 1st allotment. Panasonic doubled our 1st allocation!

[hgwy407]

Thank you John! Beyond excited and looking forward to the email. Thanks again...

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Great! Glad to hear I won't be put on a waiting list when you start sending them out.

[moparbob]

Originally Posted by Robert Zohn

We're filling every order on our priority wait list and still have more to sell from the 1st allotment. Panasonic doubled our 1st allocation!

I am half tempted to return my Sony x700 which I just bought and buy this.

Do you know when your going to start shipping them and how long it would take to deliver to central PA?

[Robert Zohn]

The container with our UB820s arrived at the CA port and we're waiting for customs clearance and dock traffic to release the container.

My best guess is we'll receive our 1st allocation of UB820s by the end of next week.

[E6AtmosVuduDV]

Why HDR10+
is Important for UB820, UB9000.
Its a must have.

Note from minute 10:30...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTny...ature=youtu.be

[HDTV1080P]

HDR10+ becomes important for the Blu-ray format once studios start releasing movies in HDR10+.

[evan201]

Originally Posted by Robert Zohn

We're filling every order on our priority wait list and still have more to sell from the 1st allotment. Panasonic doubled our 1st allocation!

OHHHHH BOY! Am I in there? Tell those CA customs folks I can just go pick it up. No need to go to NY and back to LA. I'm in LA. haha.

Evan Shepard

[evan201]

HDTVtest 2018 Shootout results are in.

Panasonic FZ oled wins the race for best flagship tv out there.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarc.../#f1725c7717e3

[E6AtmosVuduDV]

HDR10+ becomes important for the Blu-ray format once studios start releasing movies in HDR10+.

How long have movie studios had HDR10+ heads up notice to Punch Out HDR10+ movies?

Plenty Time already right?

[Robert Zohn]

Warner Bros, pulled out of the HDR10+ consortium and dropped support for HDR10+, leaving Fox as the lone Hollywood studio supporting HDR10+.

[wesslan]

And fox going to disney soon so can't see they keep that HDR10+ support for long

[evan201]

Originally Posted by wesslan

And fox going to disney soon so can't see they keep that HDR10+ support for long

Good point. This friggin UB820 better have Dolby Vision.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by evan201

HDTVtest 2018 Shootout results are in.

Panasonic FZ oled wins the race for best flagship tv out there.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarc.../#f1725c7717e3

Props to Big John for raising a few issues with the methodology of the test itself. 3 out of 4 TVs are OLEDs as well as the reference monitors, so it's not a surprise that...OLED wins! (Though it could be one in a field of twenty and still win) With LG you've got the punchier HDR but the worst processing, with Sony you've got the best processing & motion handling but the dimmest HDR, with Panasonic you've got top-notch processing and Vincent's preferred static tone mapping solution...but no Dobly! I did like Vincent's review of the recent Panny OLEDs though, and being able to control the gamma at those extremely tricky near-black levels to suppress posterisation and blocking is something that greatly pleases a geek like me.