Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[chip75]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Anyone have any playback issues with their copy of Top Gun: Maverick? The site reviewer noted that it would not work on his 9000.

I think others have mentioned it.

[dyne]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Anyone have any playback issues with their copy of Top Gun: Maverick? The site reviewer noted that it would not work on his 9000.

I don't have a 9000 but it just played fine on my 820.

[sapiendut]

No problem playing on my two UB9000 and my UB820

[maperez1987]

Just picked up my first 4k player the dp-ub820 a couple of days ago and connected it to my first 4k tv. Is their an advantage of doing a firmware update on this player or should I just skip it?

[PissedOffPeoN]

Update it! it will fix alot of the problems some 4ks have with the player.

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by maperez1987

Just picked up my first 4k player the dp-ub820 a couple of days ago and connected it to my first 4k tv. Is their an advantage of doing a firmware update on this player or should I just skip it?

Never pass up the opportunity to do a firmware update. They are essential.

[sephirothkefka]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Anyone have any playback issues with their copy of Top Gun: Maverick? The site reviewer noted that it would not work on his 9000.

Could just be dirty discs. Mine seems to play well in my 9000. I have the vanilla steel myself. Could just be a dicky batch.

[Member-425016]

I just tried my Series X as a 4K player. Good gravy, what a colossal nightmare.

I don't even have the time to list all the things it does wrong.

If 2023 is indeed the last year the Panasonic UB9000, and 820 are available, I'm buying one more of each (hopefully before the scalper/frenzy buying starts). Turns out I don't wany any other 4K player. Ever.

[Carlos2992]

Well, my player won't let me access to the settings menu no matter what I do, when it enters, it automatically returns to the home menu in within one second. I updated firmware, factory reset, plug and unplugg, turned it off and on several times, nothing works. Does anyone have any similar problem ?

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by sephirothkefka

Could just be dirty discs. Mine seems to play well in my 9000. I have the vanilla steel myself. Could just be a dicky batch.

I believe it was a screener copy for the site reviewer. He mentioned that he was able to get it to work in his XBOX so it definitely wasn't dirty. Someone commented that it was user error.

[khollister]

Amazon has the UB9000 for $961 right now

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Carlos2992

Well, my player won't let me access to the settings menu no matter what I do, when it enters, it automatically returns to the home menu in within one second. I updated firmware, factory reset, plug and unplugg, turned it off and on several times, nothing works. Does anyone have any similar problem ?

It sounds faulty, but remove the batteries from the remote and try using your TV's remote to go through the options.

[Travis]

Originally Posted by Carlos2992

Well, my player won't let me access to the settings menu no matter what I do, when it enters, it automatically returns to the home menu in within one second. I updated firmware, factory reset, plug and unplugg, turned it off and on several times, nothing works. Does anyone have any similar problem ?

My remote wouldn’t work either. Works now.

Originally, I had set the remote control code to 2 because the Panasonic DVD player I have was in the same frequency. When I did a factory reset my remote wouldn’t work because code had been changed. I used a universal remote to set the player back to 2. Then no problem.

[Badas]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Anyone have any playback issues with their copy of Top Gun: Maverick? The site reviewer noted that it would not work on his 9000.

It played perfect on mine.

[MarkGubarenko]

Originally Posted by Filmfan73

If 2023 is indeed the last year the Panasonic UB9000, and 820 are available

Where's that information coming from?

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by MarkGubarenko

Where's that information coming from?

+1

Where is Robert Zohn when you need him.

[sapiendut]

People who actually know about this have NDA. They won’t disclose it.

[Loneliest rider]

Why does the HDMI-output column of playback info always display the audio stream as PCM 5.1 48kHz no matter what the original audio format is? Currently I'm outputting audio through HDMI video as stereo PCM since the audio will eventually go to an active speaker connected to the TV's eARC port. BD secondary audio is also disabled, and naturally all formats are set to be converted into PCM by the player. I think it's better to have this player do the conversion to not strain the TV's processors too much, am I right to assume this? In fact there's an audible difference between the TV's and this player's conversion, when the TV gets bitstream and puts out in PCM, the sound is noticeably duller.

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by Loneliest rider

Why does the HDMI-output column of playback info always display the audio stream as PCM 5.1 48kHz no matter what the original audio format is? Currently I'm outputting audio through HDMI video as stereo PCM since the audio will eventually go to an active speaker connected to the TV's eARC port. BD secondary audio is also disabled, and naturally all formats are set to be converted into PCM by the player. I think it's better to have this player do the conversion to not strain the TV's processors too much, am I right to assume this? In fact there's an audible difference between the TV's and this player's conversion, when the TV gets bitstream and puts out in PCM, the sound is noticeably duller.

The DAC in this player is most probably superior to whatever audio processor is in the TV.

[MarkGubarenko]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

People who actually know about this have NDA. They won’t disclose it.

that's more than enough answer for me. understood.