Panasonic DMP-UB900 Ultra HD Player

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by ray0414

Sorry for forgetting the link, im mobile at the moment.

But the price has been announced for the Panasonic uhd player and it's roughly 25-40%cheaper than predicted.

One of those European sites has the launch price at 600 instead of the leaked 1000 and is launching mid april

we know

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Officially £599 plus mad max and San Andreas in the UK is much better than I expected after the early £700+ figure. Should drop to £500 or less before the end of the year or better still be bundled with DX900.

Oh and a backlit remote is a nice touch.

[Mavrick]

Yeah, it was announced a couple days ago at the Euro Convention, it's £599 in the UK and the player comes with 2 UHD discs, San Andreas and Mad Max, I believe they said it comes with an HDMI cable too, and the remote is backlit, which isn't too shabby if you ask me.

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/ub900-201602294254.htm

They also unveiled their full range of 2016 UHDTVs some interesting designs in there like the DX802...

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Yeah, it was announced a couple days ago at the Euro Convention, it's £599 in the UK and the player comes with 2 UHD discs, San Andreas and Mad Max, I believe they said it comes with an HDMI cable too, and the remote is backlit, which isn't too shabby if you ask me.

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/ub900-201602294254.htm

They also unveiled their full range of 2016 UHDTVs some interesting designs in there like the DX802...

I had one of those on my desk next to my Newton's cradle when I was an 80s businessman

[Geoff D]

@ Mav: Dude, just having a remote which doesn't look it came free in a cereal box would be a nice touch!

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

@ Mav: Dude, just having a remote which doesn't look it came free in a cereal box would be a nice touch!

You get good stuff in cereal now, that's an insult

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

@ Mav: Dude, just having a remote which doesn't look it came free in a cereal box would be a nice touch!

The sammy mote looks like it would bend in your hand if you pressed a button too hard

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

we know

Sounds like a good deal.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

They also unveiled their full range of 2016 UHDTVs some interesting designs in there like the DX802...

I don't see why they don't offer different options for the stand, they could easily make one which offers shelves for a player or room for a centre speaker.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by ray0414

Sounds like a good deal.

It does indeed, I'm gonna find that puppy hard to resist!

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by chip75

I don't see why they don't offer different options for the stand, they could easily make one which offers shelves for a player or room for a centre speaker.

People who buy that thing will use some sound bar nonsence

[ray0414]

I just noticed that the 599 price was added into the thread title. Sneaky people you are. I usually just skim that stuff or ignore it when I'm foruming from the cell phone.

[wt66]

I just bought the Samsung k8500. I have a non HDR 4K projector. Apparently the Samsung only passes 8 bit in a non HDR 4K signal. Will the Panasonic allow wide colour gamut with sdr 4K signals?

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by bailey1987

How does it handle Dolby ATMOS and DTS X? I have just bought some speakers I intend to use as ATMOS channels as such I want the player to be able to pass the DTSX/ATMOS to the receiver for it to decode, ideally the sound will be a minimum of 5.1.4 or greater with no loss of quality.

I would rather buy this player instead of the Samsung player mainly because of the problems I have heard the Samsung player has, also the included titles suit me far better than The Martian.

Do we really know if the Panasonic will include those two films in the U.S.?

As for your other question, ALL Blu-ray players (sans the fat PS3) will pass DTS: X and Dolby Atmos (the latter at up to 24.1.10) audio as long as two requirements are met in the player:

1) Audio Bitstreaming is ON.

2) Secondary Audio is OFF.

[Opips3]

Look Panasonic's Remote include DMP-UB900

[Geoff D]

Looks just like the remote from the BDT700, i.e. a big bastard. Excellent.

[Opips3]

thanks Geoff

[Cliff]

Has there been any indication of when this player might see US sales?

[elwaylite]

Nope.

[bootman]

Panny players always had good video processing.
IMO the most important feature in a player.

You want the best possible pic?
Can't go wrong with a panny player.

[elwaylite]

Originally Posted by bootman

Panny players always had good video processing.
IMO the most important feature in a player.

You want the best possible pic?
Can't go wrong with a panny player.

They did until 2013 or 2014 IIRC, when they dumped the Uniphier for a MediaTek chip and then they started failing simple video tests like fine chroma resolution. Cost cutting I guess, but the BDT500 and BDT700 were great units and still had a Uniphier, too bad the 700 never made it in the US.

BDT500 was the last model the US got with the Uniphier, I owned it, and it was a good one.