Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[stmhlm]

DP-UB9000/UB9004, DP-UB820/UB824, DP-UB420/UB424 Consumer Complaints
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=7970

Last Updated: 24/04/2022
Sadly, due to Panasonic's lack of response, this endeavour has been ended.
There will be no further participation in this document and/or matter from my end.
The document cannot be made available for anyone else to access, it has been deleted.

The Chief Engineer still has the document, it was sent to him by email and via Google Drive.
It was made available for Panasonic in several forms and copies, but zero interest has been shown.
My conclusion in clear, and the way Panasonic has responded to this just confirms that same conclusion.

Thanks for your contributions!

[Gold Ranger]

Can someone explain this?
I clicked the link, brought me to a duplicate post of this on another website, clicked the one in that one and brought me to another website again with the same post.

[Gold Ranger]

Is there any way to unlock this player besides the guy at region freedom? I never got a response and that was the whole point for me getting this player a year ago!

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

Is there any way to unlock this player besides the guy at region freedom? I never got a response and that was the whole point for me getting this player a year ago!

There were other sellers, but they seem to be the only one now.

[ronand]

If you are handy with a soldering iron the rattlebyte mod is available

[bokes]

Just picked up a new UB820.
Any basic settings I need to be aware of?
Also, I thought there was some sort tone mapping setting? I do not see it.

Using with 2022 LG Oled.

[darkonex]

Originally Posted by stmhlm

DP-UB9000/UB9004, DP-UB820/UB824, DP-UB420/UB424 Consumer Complaints
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=7970

Last Updated: 24/04/2022
Sadly, due to Panasonic's lack of response, this endeavour has been ended.
There will be no further participation in this document and/or matter from my end.
The document cannot be made available for anyone else to access, it has been deleted.

The Chief Engineer still has the document, it was sent to him by email and via Google Drive.
It was made available for Panasonic in several forms and copies, but zero interest has been shown.
My conclusion in clear, and the way Panasonic has responded to this just confirms that same conclusion.

Thanks for your contributions!

What are you on about?

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by darkonex

What are you on about?

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

Can someone explain this?
I clicked the link, brought me to a duplicate post of this on another website, clicked the one in that one and brought me to another website again with the same post.

That's what I asked last night...

[Marsstudd]

Does anyone know how to turn off the display completely while watching on the UB9000. I have the dim selected but I haven’t found anywhere to turn it completely off. Thanks so much.

[NKB2017]

Originally Posted by darkonex

What are you on about?

I think this refers to the forum member stmhlm who kindly compiled an exhaustive list of users issues, complaints, and quirks with the Panasonic players (mainly the 9000 and 820 I believe). It sounds like he was able to get the list (document) over to Panasonic (the chief engineer by the sounds of it), but sadly, Panasonic did nothing about the issues people were/are having. That is what I make of it anyway.

stmhlm thanked members for their input and contributions, but it seems nothing further will be done thanks to Panasonic's lack of interest.

[Gold Ranger]

I'm curious, is anyone making new 4k players?

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by marsstudd

does anyone know how to turn off the display completely while watching on the ub9000. I have the dim selected but i haven’t found anywhere to turn it completely off. Thanks so much.

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[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Marsstudd

Does anyone know how to turn off the display completely while watching on the UB9000. I have the dim selected but I haven’t found anywhere to turn it completely off. Thanks so much.

"The display can be dimmed or shut off from the remote or on-screen menu and strangely, there is no power LED or standby indicator. When the player is off, it’s completely dark."

* Ask David (sapiendut)

[Better in Blu]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

"The display can be dimmed or shut off from the remote or on-screen menu and strangely, there is no power LED or standby indicator. When the player is off, it’s completely dark."

* Ask David (sapiendut)

Why would anyone want to turn off the display completely when it's on?

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I'm curious, is anyone making new 4k players?

There is a Chinese firm making them, but they are not at the same level as an Oppo or higher end name brand 4k player that is already out, plus they cost more than they are worth.



I don't think you will be seeing any new name brand models. They will ride the current offerings out until they just stop making players altogether and force us into a life of scrounging for players through third party sellers or lower quality streaming.

[Marsstudd]

Originally Posted by Better in Blu

Why would anyone want to turn off the display completely when it's on?

We watched Unforgiven the other night and it was super distracting the amount of light it gave off in the darker scenes. As well as just getting taken out of the film because I see how much time is left to go if that makes sense.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by Marsstudd

We watched Unforgiven the other night and it was super distracting the amount of light it gave off in the darker scenes. As well as just getting taken out of the film because I see how much time is left to go if that makes sense.

Why not just put a piece of black electrical tape over it?

[mkozlows]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

I'm curious, is anyone making new 4k players?

Reavon.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

Why not just put a piece of black electrical tape over it?

That looks Mickey mouse. Best is to simply dim or turn the front panel display completely off.
The Pro players allow that, the super Pro players don't even have a front panel display (Sony X800/X800M2).

The players that don't allow that are not real audiophile and videophile players.
Lights are a distraction for serious music listening and serious movie watching.

[Tok]

Originally Posted by darkonex

What are you on about?

Panasonic corrected the major issue in the DV flickering issue but some users had other nitpicks wanting Panasonic to implement things to make it more like the discontinued Oppo players. Those players had some settings that made switching between different ARs easier. Not that these users were being unreasonable but Oppo is basically the only player manufacturer that has ever put some of these features in their units. If one really needs these features then buy a VP. To expect Panasonic make significant changes in their interface to emulate features in a line of players where the manufacturer didn’t see enough demand to stay in the market is kind of ridiculous. The way this post is written it makes it sound like the Panasonic line of UHD players were problem ridden. That’s far from the truth.