Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Fearless Hyena won't ever work, it's like some of the Second Sight discs, I keep trying to brute force that Second Sight Dawn special features disc from time to time and it just won't ever. Hopeuflly 88 Films is doing a 4k of that eventually, same with Armour of God/Condor, if the Project A set sells well I'm sure they will do more upgrades.

I figure it’ll come out in 4K eventually. I also keep hoping someone will find a silver bullet remote trick to get all of these to load on the 820

[Compson]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Try “Home” instead of “Stop” followed by the Down Arrow & then press “Top Menu” a few times.

Edit: “Stop” worked for me as well. I immediately hit the down arrow followed by a few quick presses of “Top Menu” & the player recognized the disc.

I’ve never hit the down arrow. Just STOP, followed by TOP MENU. But whatever works.

[Driver_]

This is interesting. I also have the Pani 9000 and it does not have a problem recognizing discs and playing them, however it has a problem switching to a different layer on some. At least I think it's a layer change. So far it's only been on discs that I got used. I inspect them with a flashlight and reading glasses before purchase so I know they are nearly perfect to perfect before I purchase. It's always the same discs and always at the same point. It doesn't matter if I take the disc out and clean it or not. So far it's only happening on regular blu-ray's.

Problems on SPECTRE, Thor, Captain America Winter Soldier, and Robots.


I even got curious once and purchased a replacement for one of the movies I had a problem with. I purchased a new sealed 4k combo pack (4K +Bluray) disc's and both played fine. I encountered no problems with the replacement.

[pjl69]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Good to know Shout discs can be hit or miss. I think they’re even locking some 4K discs now.

I understand those 4K discs which are region locked are manufacturing errors...

[pr0darek]

Originally Posted by waxHead

Would love to know if anyone gets these working with the 820.

It's not magic, if it doesn't work it doesn't work. You're unlucky and selected the wrong disks.

Originally Posted by waxHead

I also keep hoping someone will find a silver bullet remote trick to get all of these to load on the 820

Some people are always dreamers

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by pr0darek

It's not magic, if it doesn't work it doesn't work. You're unlucky and selected the wrong disks.

Some people are always dreamers

I buy Region B discs figuring some will not work without a region-free player. I paid my money, I took my chances.

I'm still allowed to hope that someone will discover a better/more consistent trick to getting these to work with an 820.

Jeez.

[ronand]

The "better/more consistent trick" is to get your player modified for region free playback. The panasonic 420/820/9000 players can be modded for free as long as the firmware is version 1.76 or lower.

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by ronand

The "better/more consistent trick" is to get your player modified for region free playback. The panasonic 420/820/9000 players can be modded for free as long as the firmware is version 1.76 or lower.

To be clear about this, I'm not exactly pining over the discs I can't play. These are a very small percentage of my overall collection.

One day I'll either mod my current player or get a new one. For now, I'll just hope that someone finds a different method to allow them to work.

[Disciple of Vedder]

I have 2 UB820s, one is 6 years old and the other is 2. I use the newer one only about once a week in the living room, and the tray started refusing to open earlier this year (after the warranty expired, of course). The funny thing is, once you open it up and remove the disc manually (the hacks others have mentioned for this issue don't seem to work), the tray starts working reliably again for a few discs. Unfortunately, it always goes back to being stuck sooner or later. So now I've left the top panel loose so I can easily retrieve the disc when needed. On the other hand, the UB820 in my theater room is 6 years old, I use it every day, and it's never once had this issue. Go figure!

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Fearless Hyena won't ever work, it's like some of the Second Sight discs, I keep trying to brute force that Second Sight Dawn special features disc from time to time and it just won't ever. Hopeuflly 88 Films is doing a 4k of that eventually, same with Armour of God/Condor, if the Project A set sells well I'm sure they will do more upgrades.

I have yet to try the Dawn special features disc from SS, but I was able to play The Mummy ‘59 release that came out recently from SS.

Kinda weird how it can be hit or miss.

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

I have yet to try the Dawn special features disc from SS, but I was able to play The Mummy ‘59 release that came out recently from SS.

Kinda weird how it can be hit or miss.

Out of curiosity, does the region bypass trick you described earlier work on discs where the "Stop" -> "Top Menu" (-> optional additional "Top Menu" press) trick doesn't work?

That's what I've always done and it works on a large percentage of the Region B discs I own.

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by waxHead

Out of curiosity, does the region bypass trick you described earlier work on discs where the "Stop" -> "Top Menu" (-> optional additional "Top Menu" press) trick doesn't work?

That's what I've always done and it works on a large percentage of the Region B discs I own.

Apparently the “down arrow” isn’t even necessary now? It’s all over the place but I guess do whatever works for you.

Ive only tried a few discs but they’ve all worked using a combination of:

Home/Down arrow/Top Menu
Stop/Down arrow/top menu

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Apparently the “down arrow” isn’t even necessary now? It’s all over the place but I guess do whatever works for you.

Ive only tried a few discs but they’ve all worked using a combination of:

Home/Down arrow/Top Menu
Stop/Down arrow/top menu

Here's a thread that's been around for a long time. It has a bunch of different ways for loading region-locked discs on Panasonic players:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=192315

[pr0darek]

Originally Posted by waxHead

Try this:

STOP
2
OK

if is not loaded repeat
2
OK

EDIT
I was wrong, 2 means title chapter so we can try 1 2 3 4 5 and one of those digits can load a title with the movie or bypass the region lock screen.

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by pr0darek

Try this:

STOP
2
OK

if is not loaded repeat
2
OK

2 means region B, 1 region A, 3 region C.

I will absolutely try that, thank you!

[Telemachus]

Check Fearless Hyena with that if it works I'm buying a copy tonight lmao

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by deatheats

I’m not sure if it’s been fixed as I haven’t updated my firmware, but Krampus was one of the shout titles with immediate and obvious DV flickering.

Yeah I have never seen this before until Tremors 2. It is pretty bad.

Does switching off DV solve it? Never occured to me at the time for some reason.

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by pr0darek

Try this:

[Show spoiler]
STOP
2
OK

if is not loaded repeat
2
OK

EDIT
I was wrong, 2 means title chapter so we can try 1 2 3 4 5 and one of those digits can load a title with the movie or bypass the region lock screen.

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Check Fearless Hyena with that if it works I'm buying a copy tonight lmao

Tried Fearless Hyena (88 Films), Suspiria 2018 (Koch) and Terrified (Pandastorm) using the original instructions, along with some suggestions from the other thread. Couldn’t get any of them to load. I’ll try the latest update from pr0darek in the next day or so.

Thanks again for the suggestions

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Does switching off DV solve it?

Yes always. Halloween 4 flickers for me in DV on 820, turn it off and fine in HDR10

[Keoma]

Originally Posted by Disciple of Vedder

I have 2 UB820s, one is 6 years old and the other is 2. I use the newer one only about once a week in the living room, and the tray started refusing to open earlier this year (after the warranty expired, of course). The funny thing is, once you open it up and remove the disc manually (the hacks others have mentioned for this issue don't seem to work), the tray starts working reliably again for a few discs. Unfortunately, it always goes back to being stuck sooner or later. So now I've left the top panel loose so I can easily retrieve the disc when needed. On the other hand, the UB820 in my theater room is 6 years old, I use it every day, and it's never once had this issue. Go figure!

Old stuff was simply made better. I firmly believe this. My Oppo players are still solid and whisper-quiet, whereas every other player I have tested, including a new $1600 Magnetar player, are finicky as hell and extremely noisy.