Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Vindicator89

My AVR has Atmos. But I am still not quite sure where I should connect the player's HDMI 2 to for just audio. I have a HDMI port to connect directly to the TV, one for a blu-ray player, a media player and I believe a cable box.

This is where I get confused with where to put the secondary audio cable to. And I guess I should connect the Earc port directly to the AVR as well?

TV's eARC into AVR's eARC, plug the player's HDMI 2 into any of the AVR's input, but I'd use the Blu-ray one to match the button on the remote to make things easier.

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by biggquis

I started experiencing some problems with Audio when doing it that way. Audio was cutting in and out

You may need to adjust the audio output of the player to match your soundbar capabilities. What soundbar do you have by chance??

[biggquis]

Originally Posted by PUsokrJosh305

You may need to adjust the audio output of the player to match your soundbar capabilities. What soundbar do you have by chance??

It's a Vizio soundbar with surround speakers. 5.1.2

It is atmos and DTS:X capable. Strange enough, I get no problems whatsoever when I go straight to the soundbar.

One thing I'm noticing today, the limitation my be with my television set. BRand spanking new Samsung S95b. If the source is Atmos, everything is fine, but I have to switch to PCM if it isn't or else I have no center channel. Can't hear any dialogue. I may have simply had a loose HDMI chord with the cutting in and out sound. Working perfectly with everything plugged straight into the TV set and then audio being sent out. Just having that one problem without Atmos

[Le Duc du Cool]

Has anyone managed to get an answer from regionfreedom recently? I badly need 1.69A firmware for my UDP 9000, but I can't reach them.

[George.P]

Originally Posted by Le Duc du Cool

Has anyone managed to get an answer from regionfreedom recently? I badly need 1.69A firmware for my UDP 9000, but I can't reach them.

How much did you offer to contribute? They are a bit like the “soup nazi” - if you don’t do what they like, you are ignored.

[Tok]

Originally Posted by George.P

How much did you offer to contribute? They are a bit like the “soup nazi” - if you don’t do what they like, you are ignored.

Pretty sure it’s all automated. If you don’t fill out the form within spec it’s ignored by the system.

[Le Duc du Cool]

Originally Posted by George.P

How much did you offer to contribute? They are a bit like the “soup nazi” - if you don’t do what they like, you are ignored.

40€. I have already completed the form successfully when I wanted to buy the enhanced version 1.66 of the firmware. And I did exactly the same for this one. With the confirmation and everything but I didn't get the email asking me to send photos of the back of my player.

[ronand]

I tried with offers of €40 & €50 with no response other than the automated ones. I'm not particularly bothered with modding my 820 as I already have the rattlebyte mod fitted in my 450 but it would mean one less player on the rack. Mr regionfreedom does not seem to be desperate for $$$ by any stretch of the imagination.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by ronand

I tried with offers of €40 & €50 with no response other than the automated ones. I'm not particularly bothered with modding my 820 as I already have the rattlebyte mod fitted in my 450 but it would mean one less player on the rack. Mr regionfreedom does not seem to be desperate for $$$ by any stretch of the imagination.

I did $50 a coupe of years ago when I got my player.
Totally ignored.
It's bull.
Either shut down or at least respond, don't leave us hanging.

Someone needs to figure it out and bypass this guy and do it for free/really cheap

[cminer72]

Originally Posted by biggquis

Rookie question... would running the Panny straight to my soundbar and having that transfer the video to my TV degrade the visual quality at all? I'm having some issue with ARC audio cutting in and out when going through my TV for whatever reason. This way works flawlessly. Just making sure I'm not throttling anything

Some of these suggestions seem pointless and just waste HDMI ports. If your soundbar passes 60hz 4K, then that is all you need to know. It either works or doesn't. The signal wouldn't come through in a degraded state. I don't have spare HDMI ports to waste on separate video and audio out of the player. I have a Series X and PS5 to plug in. Most manufacturers recommend going through a soundbar first for best audio results (no lip sych issues, etc.) Now the main reason to send the player into the soundbar first is how DTS is handled. None of the big three brands allow DTS passthrough when plugging your player into the TV first. You will need to plug into the soundbar or receiver directly to get it to work properly. Otherwise, the DTS sound is downmixed to standard Dolby Digital. You would lose out on any DTS:X audio, which is still used often on discs. The other reason is, like you, I had drop out issues when plugging the player into the TV first. This all may not apply to a higher quality receiver, but for a soundbar, keep it simple.

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by biggquis

It's a Vizio soundbar with surround speakers. 5.1.2

It is atmos and DTS:X capable. Strange enough, I get no problems whatsoever when I go straight to the soundbar.

One thing I'm noticing today, the limitation my be with my television set. BRand spanking new Samsung S95b. If the source is Atmos, everything is fine, but I have to switch to PCM if it isn't or else I have no center channel. Can't hear any dialogue. I may have simply had a loose HDMI chord with the cutting in and out sound. Working perfectly with everything plugged straight into the TV set and then audio being sent out. Just having that one problem without Atmos

It sounds like your TV cannot decode DTS but it can decode PCM and Dolby Digital/ Dolby Audio.

If you are still worried that your soundbar isn't giving you the best picture possible, plug the player directly into the TV with the Video/Audio HDMI Port and then plug an HDMI Cable into the Audio HDMI Port and plug that into the soundbar. Make sure the audio in the player for the 2nd HDMI port is Audio Only and not Automatic and also make sure both DTS and Dolby is on Bitstream and the Secondary Audio is off. That should do it.

If not, just plug the player directly into the soundbar and then the other cable to the TV.

[samuelkhan999]

Originally Posted by Muyfa666

Got a update emailed for my region modded 820 from TPS today.

1. Deactivation of DVD UOP
2. Deactivation of Blu-ray PUO
3. Deactivation of automatic power-off
4. Support for external subtitles via USB
5. Support for High (500 nits) Luminance Projector (UB820, already a feature in UB9000)
6. Selected region shown on player's front display

Seem to be all good stuff. :-)

Really happy with this player.

A question. What if someone use the modded firmware to flash their region locked UB820? Does it get bricked?

[chip75]

Originally Posted by samuelkhan999

A question. What if someone use the modded firmware to flash their region locked UB820? Does it get bricked?

It probably wouldn't install as it's tied to the unique player. With the Rattlebyte mod the extra bits are on the mod as far as I know.

[biggquis]

I appreciate all of the responses here I think what I'll do is have a separate hdmi for audio only from my player. That way I can make full use of whatever is on disk. I can settle for using PCM on my AppleTV for content that isn't Dolby

[IlCorvo]

Originally Posted by Le Duc du Cool

40€. I have already completed the form successfully when I wanted to buy the enhanced version 1.66 of the firmware. And I did exactly the same for this one. With the confirmation and everything but I didn't get the email asking me to send photos of the back of my player.

Did you check your spamfolder, as well?

[Le Duc du Cool]

Originally Posted by IlCorvo

Did you check your spamfolder, as well?

Yes everyday :-)

[samuelkhan999]

Originally Posted by ronand

I tried with offers of €40 & €50 with no response other than the automated ones. I'm not particularly bothered with modding my 820 as I already have the rattlebyte mod fitted in my 450 but it would mean one less player on the rack. Mr regionfreedom does not seem to be desperate for $$$ by any stretch of the imagination.

Get in touch with rattlebyte. They should be able to send you the modded firmware.

[ronand]

Originally Posted by samuelkhan999

Get in touch with rattlebyte. They should be able to send you the modded firmware.

The firmware on its own is of no use. But I did decide to get the mod from rattlebyte for my 820 as the drive in my 450 has got very noisy lately and is very annoying. At least rattlebyte are easy to order from but I would have preferred a firmware only mod (if it actually exists) as my eyesight is not what it used to be.

[Sman]

I just got a Vizio Elevate soundbar for my LG G1 OLED and while Dolby Atmos content is playing perfectly on it from my UB820 through the G1's eARC port, I'm having trouble with other audio sources on the player. It'll play background noise and music, but the dialogue is completely mute. This does oddly get fixed when I turn on the LG's Sound Mode Share, but I'm not entirely sure if it messes the audio up in other ways. Is there any setting I could have wrong on my UB820? I have everything set to Bitstream and the Secondary Audio is off. I also have Bitstream running from the G1 with Pass Through and eARC enabled.

[George.P]

Originally Posted by ronand

I tried with offers of €40 & €50 with no response other than the automated ones. I'm not particularly bothered with modding my 820 as I already have the rattlebyte mod fitted in my 450 but it would mean one less player on the rack. Mr regionfreedom does not seem to be desperate for $$$ by any stretch of the imagination.

Originally Posted by ronand

The firmware on its own is of no use. But I did decide to get the mod from rattlebyte for my 820 as the drive in my 450 has got very noisy lately and is very annoying. At least rattlebyte are easy to order from but I would have preferred a firmware only mod (if it actually exists) as my eyesight is not what it used to be.

Do you know if you can move the rattlebyte mod from one player to another, assuming they use the same firmware? For example, if you had a modded 820 on the fritz and bought a new one, can you migrate the mod?