Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[McGarnigal]

Originally Posted by spider-neil

How does that relate to the display being turned off?

maybe it needs the extra power or processing?

[RustinCohle]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

When Hi Clarity Sound is on, the front display will be turned off.

Will that affect my audio though? I currently have my player hooked up via HDMI to a 5.1 system.

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by PoorSignal

I have bought both and the creaky plastic of the UB820 is what drove me to spend an extra $500 for the upgrade. I don't regret it. Sitting down and watching the movie virtually no difference. I also use the balanced stereo out to listen to CDs sometimes. It has a dedicated DAC section with a fairly new AKM DAC chipset that I don't think the UB820 has.

Creaky plastic? Are you talking about the front that opens up or the whole build of the machine? I've never had an issue with the plastic. I mean the machine just sits there on a TV stand shelf.

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

Will that affect my audio though? I currently have my player hooked up via HDMI to a 5.1 system.

Supposed to give you better audio but I can’t tell the difference.

[pbz06]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

Will that affect my audio though? I currently have my player hooked up via HDMI to a 5.1 system.

No, it only affects the analog outputs and DAC

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by PUsokrJosh305

Creaky plastic? Are you talking about the front that opens up or the whole build of the machine? I've never had an issue with the plastic. I mean the machine just sits there on a TV stand shelf.

Are you saying I'm not supposed to pick up my player every time I insert a disc?

[PoorSignal]

Originally Posted by PUsokrJosh305

Creaky plastic? Are you talking about the front that opens up or the whole build of the machine? I've never had an issue with the plastic. I mean the machine just sits there on a TV stand shelf.

Everytime I press the power or eject button on the machine itself, it makes a creaking noise.

[PoorSignal]

Originally Posted by cupboy

This DAC very noticeably outperforms the DAC in the Oppo 205. I have both machines and use the balanced outputs on both.

That's interesting, I found it sounded a bit tinny and light on bass.

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by cupboy

This DAC very noticeably outperforms the DAC in the Oppo 205. I have both machines and use the balanced outputs on both.

That’s the same as my finding.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

That’s the same as my finding.

When did you own a 205? I thought your short background with Oppo 203 was a long time ago then you when whole hog Panasonic.

[sapiendut]

Ooops. Sorry. I meant 203.

[dsamilton]

Just ordered the UB900 remote. Where can I find the codes to program it to the 820 player? Thanks

[sapiendut]

No need any code. Just use it.

[Rizor]

With the sale prices, I've seen a lot of buzz about these players. Made an impulse buy and purchased the UB820. $350 is still rather pricey for a player to me, but I'm already seeing some improvements over my Sony UBP-X700. Notably, the HDR optimizer offers a solution to the really dark/dim picture I've seen on a handful of HDR titles (notably the German 4K release of Suspiria 2018 and The Empire Strikes Back) displayed on the LG C9.

[dcforsyth]

I am so tempted, I actually ordered twice only to cancel. I understand this is a better player than the Sony ubp-x800m2 in most opinions, but what keeps me from pulling the trigger is the common problem that this player freezes on certain disc (Lionsgate specifically). Is this a universal issue. My current Sony ubp-x800m2 has no problems playing these discs.

[newtbludger]

Originally Posted by dcforsyth

I am so tempted, I actually ordered twice only to cancel. I understand this is a better player than the Sony ubp-x800m2 in most opinions, but what keeps me from pulling the trigger is the common problem that this player freezes on certain disc (Lionsgate specifically). Is this a universal issue. My current Sony ubp-x800m2 has no problems playing these discs.

the only affected discs are Knives Out, Midway, and Ghost in the Shell. however this only happens when dolby vision is on, so just turn off DV when playing these discs. much better than manually enabling and disabling DV for every disc on the sony

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by PoorSignal

Everytime I press the power or eject button on the machine itself, it makes a creaking noise.

That's very odd. My 820 doesn't do that. Sure it makes the disc tray opening noise, but that's it. To me, I would be more worried about noise when the a disc is playing. The player itself is rather quiet and I like that a lot!!

[Armakuni]

I have two questions that are really important to me, so I would appreciate if you could answer them. Bought a UB820 recently for the dimmable subtitles, and here goes:

1. I have a Q85 75" Samsung that is supposed to have strong HDR capabilites, should I use the HDR optimizer on the 820 (and what settings)? A follow up question is what kind of nit type the Samsung falls under when choosing the screen setting on the UB820?

2. I have a JBL 5.1 soundbar (with detachable sourround speakers), on my Pioneer BD player DTS-HD mono 1.0 soundtracks are played back fine when leaving the sourround speakers attached to the soundbar (which means that all elements play the 1.0 signal?). With the Panasonic player, 1.0 soundtracks are terribly distorted and I have to detach the sourround speakers for the distortion to go away. I don't really hear any sound coming from the surround speakers so I guess that the playback still is 1.0, but it bugs me that I don't get to use all the speaker elements for the sound outpout (as I would have if the surround speakers were attached to the soundbar).

Thanks in advance!

[nephipower]

Originally Posted by Robert Zohn

From what I'm told no new Panasonic BD models are planned for the near future. I am working on a few firmware updates again and hope to see them by Q1 2021.

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Fixing the stuttering DV playback on Midway and Knives Out and the flickering on the DV of Ghost in the Shell (1995) are absolute priorities for me rather than tarting about with any new features. That they are all Lionsgate UHDs should shirley make it easier to get to the root of the problem, even if you have to contact Lionsgate themselves to find out what authoring tools they're using so you can investigate it from there.

This has been dragging on for far too long, I understand there's a global crisis and whatever but I'm verr disappoint in Panasonic for not doing anything about it, and it's making using DV with the Pannys a bit of a crapshoot. That's not what we'd expect from a premium product, and that they're not planning on making any new players (whereupon the 'fix' is usually embedded into them) makes it doubly important that they sort the problems with their extant ones.

I agree 100% agree that these issues with the Lion Gate discs need to be fixed.

@Robert are any of the firmware updates trying to fix these disc issues?

[nachoju95]

Originally Posted by FrightNight

This doesn't work with factory firmware. Getting the options requires "Enhanced Firmware" from regionfreedom.com

Hi.
Is there anyone who has the DP-UB820K version, and has installed the Enhanced Firmware" from regionfreedom.com ? Does the external subtitles function work well?

Thanks!!