Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by Travis

Not having luck with 4K. Final scene of Crouching Tiger on Sony X700 had audio drop and froze on Zhang Ziyi before asking if Chow Yun Fat had died. Took the disc out, looked, nothing, then played again, same. On 820, when fast forwarding no pic there, just black screen.Tried again in Sony and played fine.

Took out Shrek…disc; covered in oil. Cleaned it. Played fine so far, will finish it today. Discs are breaking my heart.

Believe me be patient u can't believe what I faced since discs freezing or skipping what's important is always check your disk's and clean them if necessary. Panasonic still the way to go then sony. IT happens with me. The new criteria I am counting on it is to clean my disk's even if it's brand new before watching problem solved unless your optical drive lens is dirty. JUST keep your players away from dust mine are covered till the next use.

[Travis]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

Believe me be patient u can't believe what I faced since discs freezing or skipping what's important is always check your disk's and clean them if necessary. Panasonic still the way to go then sony. IT happens with me. The new criteria I am counting on it is to clean my disk's even if it's brand new before watching problem solved unless your optical drive lens is dirty. JUST keep your players away from dust mine are covered till the next use.

Going to send the 820 in to get serviced. May be able to clean it. Will expect new discs a little closer before throwing them in.

[Show spoiler]

[chip75]

Originally Posted by MrGarmonbozia

If not, any suggestions? Is this doable or do I need entirely new speakers?

Like our other members have posted the Panasonic has analogue audio outputs, you can't connect passive speakers to them. You might be able to use active speakers, but I wouldn't go beyond stereo with such a setup.

If your current setup has an HDMI input you could run the 820's audio output to that in theory, but you might have to disable the HDMI CEC options or disconnect the HDMI from current player.

But like others have said, think about a new AVR or sound bar.

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

A home theater in a box system should still have an amp ...

In this case, the amp and the player was obviously the same device, and the user in question thought that this was more or less the norm.

[Mpmarks1975]

Anyone notice new Dolby Vision issues on recent Kino titles, firmware updated to the last release from August. Seems to be similar to the older strobing issues.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by Mpmarks1975

Anyone notice new Dolby Vision issues on recent Kino titles, firmware updated to the last release from August. Seems to be similar to the older strobing issues.

The strobing is caused by the Dolby Vision HDR metadata being off and out of sync with the video track by about a frame one way or the other.



It's sloppy mastering and a lack of QC.

[Travis]

Got this today from Amazon UK


Hope it plays better than the steelbook from Zavvi UK.

Edit: played fine on Sony….but after I put the disc in, machine did nothing. Had to unplug it. Remembered old Sony was same at times. Still better than pixelation during film.

Will try Panasonic after crawling behind the rack.

[blueman_Richie]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

Sapiendut has a great little setup video.
Panasonic 4K Bluray Players UB420 UB820 UB9000 Settings That Many People Missed - YouTube

I'm getting my 820 later today and will be using the above video etc for setup guidance.

Can anyone answer these questions?
1) My tv doesn't do Dolby Vision (it's an LG75UM7000PLA) so should I turn the Dolby Vision OFF on the 820 and leave it off? I realise it won't activate if it can't display it anyway but should it be left OFF?

2) For the HDR Optimiser how do I know what setting to use? I assume being just an LCD that my screen is probably quite crap luminance! I assume I should just use "middle or high luminance LCD" as the on screen note says?
(pic grabbed from the above video)

[ronand]

Originally Posted by blueman_Richie

I'm getting my 820 later today and will be using the above video etc for setup guidance.

Can anyone answer these questions?
1) My tv doesn't do Dolby Vision (it's an LG75UM7000PLA) so should I turn the Dolby Vision OFF on the 820 and leave it off? I realise it won't activate if it can't display it anyway but should it be left OFF?

2) For the HDR Optimiser how do I know what setting to use? I assume being just an LCD that my screen is probably quite crap luminance! I assume I should just use "middle or high luminance LCD" as the on screen note says?
(pic grabbed from the above video)

1) Just turn off DV and HDR+ and forget about them.

2) I have a similar generation LCD 50UM7450PLA although it has a VA panel (I think yours is IPS). I find that setting it to Basic Luminace LCD works best and I also leave tone mapping enabled on the TV. They are not particularly bright displays but at the time it was the only one with a VA panel I could find without breaking the bank - I can't use IPS panels as I get severe eyestrain from them.

Don't be afraid to play around with settings to see what works best for you - there is no one size fits all. Cinema Home on LG LCDs seems to work pretty well as a good starting point for HDR with the curtains closed - just turn off any noise reduction and trumotion settings.

[blueman_Richie]

Fantastic! Thanks, ronand!

[thebarnman]

Originally Posted by Travis

Will try Panasonic after crawling behind the rack.

Did it work?

[Telemachus]

I keep knocking on wood but this player hasn't had a single glitch yet. Played recent stuff like eXistenZ, Point Break, Young Guns, Dragon Ball Super Hero, Street Fighter II, some Criterion stuff, some Kino stuff, no issues yet. Damn I don't miss that Sony!

[timfitz99]

I wonder if I got a bad player... I'm planning to get a replacement. Still have about a 75% good 25% bad experience with disc reads (new discs). Some DolbyVision discs not loading if DolbyVision is on... standard Blurays glitching all over the place (new, clean Blurays).

In all cases those discs play perfectly on my Sony X800M2.

Either my player is bad or Panasonic needs to do better error handling. Will give the replacement a try, if that fails I'm back to Sony.

It's too bad because the HDR performance of the 820 really is fantastic.

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by timfitz99

I wonder if I got a bad player... I'm planning to get a replacement. Still have about a 75% good 25% bad experience with disc reads (new discs). Some DolbyVision discs not loading if DolbyVision is on... standard Blurays glitching all over the place (new, clean Blurays).

In all cases those discs play perfectly on my Sony X800M2.

Either my player is bad or Panasonic needs to do better error handling. Will give the replacement a try, if that fails I'm back to Sony.

It's too bad because the HDR performance of the 820 really is fantastic.

I am sure you have a bad player just exchange it. it shouldn't behave like that.

[Telemachus]

Does anyone know if the region free trick works with 88 Films discs like Double Team, Knock Off or Street Fighter?

[MechaGodzilla]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

I am sure you have a bad player just exchange it. it shouldn't behave like that.

Yep, definitely a faulty unit. My UB820 has played every UHD, BD and DVD I've thrown at it without a hitch.

[ronand]

The free regionfree mod for the 420/820/9000 is now available for 1.69, 1.70 & 1.76 firmware on the av forums site. I gave it a brief test on my 820 and it seems to work fine.

[Naiera]

If it still requires Linux and sick programming skills, that won't make much difference for most of us

[ronand]

Originally Posted by Naiera

If it still requires Linux and sick programming skills, that won't make much difference for most of us

It requires linux (a virtual machine image is provided to run from within windows) and the ability to follow a few steps in a text document. Maybe it is beyond you but it will doubtless help others as it is free and easier to fit than the rattlebyte mod. Don't let your inability put everyone else off.

[Naiera]

I don’t know why you had to go down the road of insults