Panasonic DMP-UB900 Ultra HD Player

[Geoff D]

I use the Cinema scene select, with calibrated SDR 709 on Cinema 1 and the free-flying UHD settings on Cinema 2 so I can switch them as needed. It's also VERY handy that the player has three different modes for adjusting any of its own settings, I can keep the UHD tweakery separate from regular BD.

[Rocklandsboy]

This player is now listed on a couple of multi-region BD sites but there is no mod available for regular BD. A shame. And still no sale (I like the look of this player)

[Frank@Chicago]

So what's up with the USA release of this player?

I pasted 'Panasonic DMP-UB900' into Amazon and showed me the Samsung player.

Shouldn't the Panasonic at least be up for pre-order by now?

Ugh, I'd rather jump off a building than buy a Samsung.

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by Frank@Chicago

So what's up with the USA release of this player?

I pasted 'Panasonic DMP-UB900' into Amazon and showed me the Samsung player.

Shouldn't the Panasonic at least be up for pre-order by now?

Ugh, I'd rather jump off a building than buy a Samsung.

August for usa

[foxborough]

So i'm a newbie to this site. Get my DMP-UB900 player and 58" DX902 TV on Tuesday and can't wait to be able to play some of the 4K discs I got whilst in the US at Easter!

[infiniteCR]

Geoff good news you enjoying it so much! You make me want one even more now. Sadly not available here until August Panasonic says. So happy to hear that SDR does not include the sun disappearing on UHD like so many people predicted. It's the new improved to 10 bit color coding making everything better!

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Got mine earlier today, I've been fiddling and nurdling and tweaking all afternoon (after doing a couple of hours of gardening, that is) and I like it a lot. I was dismayed by how drab the output looked at first, I don't just mean the SDR conversion but in general, the luminance was much lower than it should've been and it was screwing up the gamma big time. Thankfully the 1.02 firmware fixed all that, and once I started to play then I started to get impressed.

Take X-Men DOFP, it's every bit the upscale and yet I couldn't help but be taken aback by the sharpness when Logan awakes in 1973, there's so much texture without it looking forced or over sharpened. Sure, the regular Blu-ray is EXCELLENT so there's not a huge amount in it (especially once upscaled by the player, it does a terrific job) but the UHD just seems sharper somehow.

I spun a few scenes of Fury Road and again I was impressed. The regular BD has a kind of 'bitty' texture to it (Warners strike again) but the UHD is smoother and yet more refined at the same time. And yes, I can see the sun in the oft-mentioned screen grab.

What about the 'notorious flare' in Mad Max: Fury Road?

[RockyIII]

What happens when you play HDR content on a non-HDR TV with the Panasonic UHD player as opposed to the Samsung UHD player, exactly?

[Geoff D]

The sun is most definitely there on the canyon scene with my SDR converted ouput, it's right at the start of chapter 9 or 10 I think. I mentioned it already but people with Mad Max should check the scene when Furiosa is wailing in the desert, the wide shot looks unbelievably stunning on the UHD.

And the thing to remember is that I'm not using the Panasonic to convert stuff to hit a simple crushed 100 nit output (which is what I think the Samsung's automatic conversion is doing), I've tweaked it to preserve as much of the dynamic range as possible for my particular TV. And because the TV can manage a decent amount of dynamic range (up to 400 nits brightness) about the only thing I'm missing out on is the searing 1000 nit brightness of specular highlights, although I'm still recording them as being 3 times brighter than SDR Blu-ray playback (which is logical since I'm using 100-nit peak settings for normal Blu-ray and 300-nit peak settings for UHD Blu).

I'm a believer.

[Pieter V]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keRU...tu.be&t=15m26s

According to AVForums there are audio dropouts reports with Dolby Atmos tracks.
But they have past the info to Panasonic on this issue. Hopefully this will be fixed.

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

The sun is most definitely there on the canyon scene with my SDR converted ouput, it's right at the start of chapter 9 or 10 I think. I mentioned it already but people with Mad Max should check the scene when Furiosa is wailing in the desert, the wide shot looks unbelievably stunning on the UHD.

And the thing to remember is that I'm not using the Panasonic to convert stuff to hit a simple crushed 100 nit output (which is what I think the Samsung's automatic conversion is doing), I've tweaked it to preserve as much of the dynamic range as possible for my particular TV. And because the TV can manage a decent amount of dynamic range (up to 400 nits brightness) about the only thing I'm missing out on is the searing 1000 nit brightness of specular highlights, although I'm still recording them as being 3 times brighter than SDR Blu-ray playback (which is logical since I'm using 100-nit peak settings for normal Blu-ray and 300-nit peak settings for UHD Blu).

I'm a believer.

Hello Geoff,

i have been following you here and there in avforums if i am not wrong,you are the same person.Already ordered mine from amazon.uk ,are you facing dropping sound issues in dolby atmos?Panasonic issued a new firmware update as of today version 1.03

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

Hello Geoff,

i have been following you here and there in avforums if i am not wrong,you are the same person.Already ordered mine from amazon.uk ,are you facing dropping sound issues in dolby atmos?Panasonic issued a new firmware update as of today version 1.03

Yes sir, I am he. I haven't had any Atmos issues yet because I haven't actually listened to any Atmos/7.1 audio yet, I've solely been focussing on sorting out the PQ side of things.

So even if the new 1.03 firmware fixes the issue then I won't have noticed anything different anyway!

[Crimsoncleaver]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

I've seen people talking about the flare scene in Mad Max. I don't know if I'd point fingers at the player yet. For one, are people calibrating their display to 2020? I realize the movie is a P3 master, but the P3 master is in a 2020 container with completely different saturation points, so you can't calibrate for P3 and call it good. I've seen a lot of displays that have their wider color mode setup for P3 and not 2020 coordinates, this would cause issues with color shift. Also, until you can be absolutely sure that your HDR mode is calibrated PROPERLY (which means almost no one), it is impossible to make objective comments about the presentation.

Good point, note however, myself and Geoff are using the HDR to SDR conversion, so no HDR, so maybe not the player, but the HDR data.

Geoff - I noted you had Deep Colour set to off, what is the Deep Colour referring to?

[Aston_Martin_DB5]

New firmware update for the panasonic, Just downloading it now

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Aston_Martin_DB5

New firmware update for the panasonic, Just downloading it now

Is that v1.03 or a new new one?

[Pieter V]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Is that v1.03 or a new new one?

I think v1.03.

http://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/...b900_euro.html

[Mezzanine]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Is that v1.03 or a new new one?

The latest firmware is 1.03.

[The Drugstore]

Is there any news of this player coming to the United States? As I want to get this player instead of the Samsung player that is currently available.

[ray0414]

Originally Posted by The Drugstore

Is there any news of this player coming to the United States? As I want to get this player instead of the Samsung player that is currently available.

August

[Nightopian]

I'll be getting this player more than likely. Avoiding the Samsung player at all costs due to bad past experiences with them. Never again. Panasonic and Sony have always been brilliant for me though so I want to stick with them.

For any Aussie readers who aren't going to import, it looks like it's being released here in September.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/04/pa...lu-ray-player/