Panasonic launches new UHD/HDR BD player, DMP-UB200

[Geoff D]

elway, do me a favour. One of the reasons why I jumped ship from the Panny to, ah, another brand (the name of which I shan't utter here) was that the Panny's playback of 480i material (irrespective of output resolution) was completely ****ed. It's really weird and jagged, like it's missing alternate lines or something.

Could you please check the SD Evaluation test patterns, namely the CUE 24 and the Chroma Multiburst, on your 200?


I get this on my Panny UB900 with the SD CUE 24pf pattern, note that the diagonals are all jagged and nasty and the multiburst is all one colour

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This on my [redacted], much smoother diagonals with the correct upsampling in the bursts:

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I get this on my Panny with the SD Chroma Multiburst, the 240-line burst is one solid colour (showing the opposite of the multiburst in the CUE 24, all blue instead of all red)

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I get this on my [redacted], the multiburst shows both colours as it should

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