Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by rickardl

Which pattern did you use to determine colour clipping?

I can't remember if it's on the Spears & Munsil UHD or on some new test patterns that Stacey Spears aksed me to try out, but the gist of it is that the various RGBYCM colours clip on or around 1200 nits, some go higher but only by a little. So while the ZD9 can do almost 2000 nits of peak brightness without clipping it can't do 2000 nits of colour without clipping. Many UHDs don't get near those levels, hence Kris Deering saying that the ZD9 effectively shows 1000-nit content in "1:1" fashion, but those mastered with the Light Cannon™ e.g. most Sony catalogue titles tend to look harsh as a result because they're pushing the brightness and colour into thousands of nits. (But even if I could view them with full brightness and colour it'd still be too overcooked for my liking, 35mm catalogue stuff simply was not meant to be viewed with so much light being blasted through it.)

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I can't remember if it's on the Spears & Munsil UHD or on some new test patterns that Stacey Spears aksed me to try out, but the gist of it is that the various RGBYCM colours clip on or around 1200 nits, some go higher but only by a little. So while the ZD9 can do almost 2000 nits of peak brightness without clipping it can't do 2000 nits of colour without clipping. Many UHDs don't get near those levels, hence Kris Deering saying that the ZD9 effectively shows 1000-nit content in "1:1" fashion, but those mastered with the Light Cannon™ e.g. most Sony catalogue titles tend to look harsh as a result because they're pushing the brightness and colour into thousands of nits. (But even if I could view them with full brightness and colour it'd still be too overcooked for my liking, 35mm catalogue stuff simply was not meant to be viewed with so much light being blasted through it.)

Yeah, an example of one would be the movie Hook. Goodness there is a lot of over bright scenes in that movie!!

[KorokoDelToro]

Excuse me for asking a question that may have already been addressed in this 331 page thread, but if I have an 820 with my LG C9, should I be setting the panel type to OLED or something else? I've noticed a lot of discussion here about that but have been unable to determine a clear conclusion, so any advice would be super!

[pbz06]

Originally Posted by KorokoDelToro

Excuse me for asking a question that may have already been addressed in this 331 page thread, but if I have an 820 with my LG C9, should I be setting the panel type to OLED or something else? I've noticed a lot of discussion here about that but have been unable to determine a clear conclusion, so any advice would be super!

There's no should. You'll need to experiment to see what you like best. It's recommended to set to OLED but that depends on your settings and preferences. Some users have gotten better results on their LG using a higher setting.

[TravisTylerBlack]

Originally Posted by PUsokrJosh305

Yeah, an example of one would be the movie Hook. Goodness there is a lot of over bright scenes in that movie!!

Yeah that's one disc I couldn't imagine viewing without the optimizer, lest I be blinded. The Raimi Spider-Man films are much the same.

[Mean Gene]

Late to the 820 game but has anyone gotten the region free "trick" to work on Ratatouille 3D? I was able to test it on Revenge and it worked fine but no luck on Ratatouille. TIA!

[chip75]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

For some reason this player wants to keep switching to the HDMI ARC channel on my soundbar.

I have the HDMI audio out connected directly to my soundbar (HDMI 1). Then a second HDMI cable to the TV input. Same setup as my old player. When I turned my old LG player on, the soundbar would automatically switch to HDMI 1. When I turn this player on, it keeps wanting to switch back to HDMI ARC. If I manually switch it to HDMI 1, it will switch itself back to ARC once the menu comes up, or once the movie starts.

Mine does the same with my AVR, you can get away with the transport functions, but some of menu options (before the movie starts) can knock it back into ARC. There's the option to switch of one of the CEC functions with my Denon, but it's just as annoying as having to press the BD input on my remote tow-three times whilst trying to get a disc to play.

I think you can alleviate most of it by connecting your player directly into your sound bar, but that isn't always ideal.

[SolidBlu]

what is the difference between N2QAYA000131 (UB900) and N2QAYA000172 (UB9000?) remote controls? Planning to get one for my UB820, thanks

[sapiendut]

It doesn’t have HDR Optimizer button.

[SolidBlu]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

It doesn’t have HDR Optimizer button.

Are they both plastic? N2QAYA000172 is more expensive in ebay compared to N2QAYA000131. thanks

[sapiendut]

Yes they are both plastic.

[SolidBlu]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Yes they are both plastic.

Thanks Will settle for N2QAYA000131 remote control then

[Member-425016]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

No but it may turn you into a Mij, and you never want to go Full Mij.

Well I do love old tech as well (CRT PVM 800 lines of horizontal resolution w/ S-Video)

But I don't do VHS anymore, and gave away my Laserdisc player, and all movies in 1998.
I'm always looking to the future though. Don't think home video will get another bump over 4K UHD. I think we finally reached our destination in perfection.

[tvine2000]

Little known fact . I own the panny UB 820 and a Hisense H9G. I discovered this TV will decode HDR10+ along with Dolby Vision if you have the player. So with physical media you will get HDR10+! I have settings for Dolby Vision so I don't really use HDR10+. It was a pleasant surprise since there is no where on the box that says that. It's the only TV I know of that does both.

[evoll]

Originally Posted by Mean Gene

Late to the 820 game but has anyone gotten the region free "trick" to work on Ratatouille 3D? I was able to test it on Revenge and it worked fine but no luck on Ratatouille. TIA!

No i have not got it to work for disney titles and just recently tried Ratatouille 3D. Had to watch this on my oppo with the region free mod.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by evoll

No i have not got it to work for disney titles and just recently tried Ratatouille 3D. Had to watch this on my oppo with the region free mod.

The top menu trick does not work with the vast majority of locked titles from major studios. It's indie stuff like Criterion and Arrow where it works more often than not, though not all indies use the same type of authoring so releases from Kino and Shout rarely work either.

[Auditor55]

Originally Posted by tvine2000

Little known fact . I own the panny UB 820 and a Hisense H9G. I discovered this TV will decode HDR10+ along with Dolby Vision if you have the player. So with physical media you will get HDR10+! I have settings for Dolby Vision so I don't really use HDR10+. It was a pleasant surprise since there is no where on the box that says that. It's the only TV I know of that does both.

The Vizio OLED does both Dolby Vision and HDR 10+ as well. Anyway, what does HDR 10+ look like?

[wakka]

The Panasonic GZ and HZ series OLEDs also do both.

The only disc I have that has HDR10+ as its only format of dynamic metadata is Parasite, though.

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by Auditor55

The Vizio OLED does both Dolby Vision and HDR 10+ as well. Anyway, what does HDR 10+ look like?

If you are watching the Second Sight edition of Dawn of the Dead, then pretty damn good!

[dcforsyth]

I must have got a dud. This player was awesome at first but then the problems started.

First off, I played the notable issues of the UHD's of Knives Out and then Midway, expecting problems with both discs. Knives Out played flawlessly, Midway did have the expected freezes/flaws? So reading this forum and lots of reviews I thought that sucks but if that's the only issues I can live with that.

Well like my first statement says, I either have a defective player or this thing is a piece of sheet (optimizer and all).

Played Honeymooners and the Flintstones, both have playing issues?

Is this an effed up player or do I have to except the player doesn't play everything like my Sony does?

Forgot to mention my $50 seiko player, plays these discs fine.