Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[roar]

Ironically I ran into what I hope is my first 'bad' disc while putting my 9000 through its paces last night. I had created a bit of a backlog of movies to watch while I had given away my old 4K player and was waiting for the 9000 to come in and one of the first movies my eldest daughter and I had planned to watch was Hobbs and Shaw... but... the player wouldn't read it. I cleaned the disc and gave it several attempts and I just couldn't get it to work. We moved on to Spider-Man - Far From Home and no troubles there, it looked amazing. Going to try Hobbs and Shaw in my old LG at my folks place today and I'm kind of hoping it fails there too, then I'll take it back to the store this weekend.

[rickardl]

This is weird... earlier I reported that I had no issues with Black Hawk Down 4K Extended cut/Atmos except one audio wobble during end titles with my 820.
Now when I sampled it again, I had freezes and audio drop outs for a few secs!
And repeatable as well, always the same places.
After a hard reset ("08 FIN") and setup again, the freezes/audio drop outs are gone...
Fingers crossed that they stay gone.

[bedlamfeuder94]

Originally Posted by rickardl

This is weird... earlier I reported that I had no issues with Black Hawk Down 4K Extended cut/Atmos except one audio wobble during end titles with my 820.
Now when I sampled it again, I had freezes and audio drop outs for a few secs!
And repeatable as well, always the same places.
After a hard reset ("08 FIN") and setup again, the freezes/audio drop outs are gone...
Fingers crossed that they stay gone.

I'll be trying this with a couple discs that have happened to me too. Question though, did the hard reset reset your firmware to factory level? I was likely going to get the region free mod but don't want to waste $50 doing it if a hard reset makes discs work but gets rid of the firmware mod

[rickardl]

Originally Posted by bedlamfeuder94

I'll be trying this with a couple discs that have happened to me too. Question though, did the hard reset reset your firmware to factory level? I was likely going to get the region free mod but don't want to waste $50 doing it if a hard reset makes discs work but gets rid of the firmware mod

No, firmware 1.60 stayed the same.
It was an earlier when I bought it.

[bedlamfeuder94]

Originally Posted by rickardl

No, firmware 1.60 stayed the same.
It was 1.5x when I bought it.

fantastic!! You might have solved my problems, thanks so much!

[rickardl]

Originally Posted by bedlamfeuder94

fantastic!! You might have solved my problems, thanks so much!

Mine only worked with having the unit initially OFF instead of ON as described on some sites. The below is the procedure from the manual.

1. Turn the unit OFF.
2. Press and hold [OK], the [Yellow] button and the [Blue] button on the remote control at the *same time* for more than 5 seconds.
“00 RET” is displayed on the unit’s display.
3. Press [►] right repeatedly on the remote control until “08 FIN” is displayed on the unit’s display.
4. Press and hold [OK] for more than 5 seconds

[roar]

Originally Posted by roar

Ironically I ran into what I hope is my first 'bad' disc while putting my 9000 through its paces last night. I had created a bit of a backlog of movies to watch while I had given away my old 4K player and was waiting for the 9000 to come in and one of the first movies my eldest daughter and I had planned to watch was Hobbs and Shaw... but... the player wouldn't read it. I cleaned the disc and gave it several attempts and I just couldn't get it to work. We moved on to Spider-Man - Far From Home and no troubles there, it looked amazing. Going to try Hobbs and Shaw in my old LG at my folks place today and I'm kind of hoping it fails there too, then I'll take it back to the store this weekend.

Well this is disappointing, my old (cheap) LG played the movie fine... will take it home tonight and try again on my Panasonic (not cheap) and see how it goes.

Anyone else have any issues with the Hobbs and Shaw Canadian 4K release? Just got back with my second disc and after taking a minute or so saying Reading on the front display it just goes to No Read.

[bokes]

Picked up a 820 to use with LG G6.
I had several issues.
Would not see my files on hard drive via USB.
Froze on disc play back for several seconds before resuming.
I also had one minor hand shake issue with a 3D disc.
And the optimizer would not activate while playing Dolby Vision disc. (?)
I turned off DV and was able to activate optimizer, but it appeared to do nothing to image.
I could not see any change in quality whatsoever.

Positives- The image overall was a tad brighter and a slight bit punchier than my Oppo203.
Not by much.
I was able to play most of my region 2 Blu-ray’s by using the top menu trick.
My Oppo plays them all with mod.

That said, I see very little reason to replace my Oppo 203 at this time.

[Mierzwiak]

Originally Posted by bokes

Would not see my files on hard drive via USB.

Panasonic players are useless crap when it comes to playing files. That's all.

And the optimizer would not activate while playing Dolby Vision disc. (?)

It's impossible to use Optimizer in Dolby Vision mode, and even if it was, it would be useless due to nature of dynamic metadata.

I turned off DV and was able to activate optimizer, but it appeared to do nothing to image.
I could not see any change in quality whatsoever.

If you set your TV type to OLED in the player's settings, then you won't see any difference on a discs, or to be more specific, scenes that doesn't go beyond 1000 nits.

[hgwy407]

On the 820 when looking at MKV files on a USB drive, the first visible file will start with ._ followed by the file name. These files are not playable. They are also not visible when looking at the contents of the drive on my Mac, even when using the reveal hidden files feature. The actual, and playable files, will be listed next. Is there any way to hide the ._ files? When you have a drive with several MKV's the ._ files can be an annoyance. Thanks a million.

[icefaii]

I bought x800m2 but it cannot change subtitle brightness during 4k blu ray disc playback. Could anyone confirm if ub820 can change subtitle brightness during 4k hdr disc playback?

thanks

[DJR662]

Originally Posted by icefaii

I bought x800m2 but it cannot change subtitle brightness during 4k blu ray disc playback. Could anyone confirm if ub820 can change subtitle brightness during 4k hdr disc playback?

thanks

Subtitle brightness as well as subtitle position can be changed during UHD disc playback.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by icefaii

I bought x800m2 but it cannot change subtitle brightness during 4k blu ray disc playback. Could anyone confirm if ub820 can change subtitle brightness during 4k hdr disc playback?

thanks

Yes and with Blu-ray also. It is such a fantastic feature.

And thanks for the info on the Sony. I was wondering that and had posted on the thread on avsforum asking this, and no one had the decency to bother responding.

[DJJez]

Originally Posted by bokes

Anyone have an issue with the USB port.
I tried a HD with AVCHD, MKV, Mpeg2 files and the 820 is not seeing any of the files. (?)
It claims there are no files in the folder.

the panasonic can not play lossless audio or HDR types from external sources so dont waste your time trying mkv's or remuxes. weird it cant play mpeg2 files though lol

[icefaii]

Originally Posted by DJR662

Subtitle brightness as well as subtitle position can be changed during UHD disc playback.

thanks for the reply. I guess i will have to buy ub820 then

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Yes and with Blu-ray also. It is such a fantastic feature.

And thanks for the info on the Sony. I was wondering that and had posted on the thread on avsforum asking this, and no one had the decency to bother responding.

yea sony has the option to make the subtitle opacity dimmer in settings but those changes ddont affect disc playback for some reason. i could not use subtitle for uhd disc because a lot of them are too bright. some studio adjusts those brightness, like the alita disc but most dont (like those marvel ones.. ), so i would have to get ub820 specifically just for this feature , even though its at double the price of x800m2

[JohnAV]

Robert you might want to follow the AVS JVC RS9000/NX9 thread a bit starting with this post.

https://www.avsforum.com/forum/24-di...l#post58889118

It concerns some titles Like BBC 4K Planet Earth for example where the 420/820/9000 doesn't see the metadata using the HDR optimizer and so in usage the player doesn't flag content as HDR only SDR with his projector.

Curious 10000 nits on my spears and munsil disc I keep getting no nits from JVC. Ive tried the 420 and the 9000 still no luck.

I try Alita Battle Angle and the JVC shows 10000 nits. Reminds me of planet earth and the Panasonic most times it doesnt pick up the HDR.

Edit: I’m hooking my 4k Sony player to see if it works with that.

I find my Sony 4k Blu-ray has no issues with any of the 4k movies where the metadata or HDR is concerned. The Panasonic with planet earth has issues, Spears and munsil 10000 nit the metadata is not registered on the JVC ( I’ve tried 3 Panasonic 9000 820 420 all the same ) while the Sony no issues.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Robert you might want to follow the AVS JVC RS9000/NX9 thread a bit starting with this post.

https://www.avsforum.com/forum/24-di...l#post58889118

It concerns some titles Like BBC 4K Planet Earth for example where the 420/820/9000 doesn't see the metadata using the HDR optimizer and so in usage the player doesn't flag content as HDR only SDR with his projector.

Looking at the Midsommar UHD thread, it is also affecting that title I think, although in that case on an LG TV.
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...0&postcount=81

[mcf]

Originally Posted by bokes

Anyone have an issue with the USB port.
I tried a HD with AVCHD, MKV, Mpeg2 files and the 820 is not seeing any of the files. (?)
It claims there are no files in the folder.

I am also having this same problem with my 1TB hard disk

Yet, I have zero problems with my 160GB hard disk, despite both being formatted to NTFS with the same PC

I just filed this away as a mystery, and just decided to use the 160GB drive with the 820.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Robert you might want to follow the AVS JVC RS9000/NX9 thread a bit starting with this post.

https://www.avsforum.com/forum/24-di...l#post58889118

It concerns some titles Like BBC 4K Planet Earth for example where the 420/820/9000 doesn't see the metadata using the HDR optimizer and so in usage the player doesn't flag content as HDR only SDR with his projector.

PS - someone on AVS posted a workaround - pause, and turn the optimizer off then on again

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by mcf

I am also having this same problem with my 1TB hard disk

Yet, I have zero problems with my 160GB hard disk, despite both being formatted to NTFS with the same PC

I just filed this away as a mystery, and just decided to use the 160GB drive with the 820.

Silly question but which USB port are you using? The one on the back has more power than the one on the front. The 820 won't even recognise my 1TB portable drive if it's plugged into the front USB.