West Side Story 4K UHD (2021)

[Paul.R.S]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Today, I tried the three copies I have that had the picture break up on my year-old Panasonic UB 820 on a friend's brand new UB 820.

The discs all played perfectly, without skips or the image breaking up.

Bizarrely, all three discs skipped on at least one of my other friend's Sony or Oppo players on Friday.

I'll try washing them with dish soap, as suggested, and see if that helps on my own player.

Okay this just got more bizarre. (But I think we need to distinguish between the nearly imperceptible hiccups which the player keeps on playing through that we experienced on the Sony and OPPO versus total lockups you experienced on your Panny 820.)

Something else is going on if the same physical (pristine-to-the-eye, new) disc is behaving differently on not just different players (each of which is on its respective latest fw), but between two different decks of the same make and model (on the same fw).

It seems to me that we have to now look at the players' temporary memory as an issue. Was temp memory only for BD-Live?

James, do you have Secondary Audio off and internet connectivity off? Did your friend who also has the 820 have the same settings in these regards?

On the Sony X800M2, there's a setting under "Resetting" called "Initialize Personal Information." But does that only contemplate wiping, say, your log in credentials for any player-based apps that you've used? It's a different wipe than "Restore to Factory Default Settings." And the former may not be the same as . . .

. . . what on the OPPO 203 is called "Persistent Storage," which one can erase under "Device Setup." Regarding the 820, I have the same questions in these regards as another member had in the last paragraph of his post here:

Also: What is the deal with the BD-Video Data Clear feature on this thing? You HAVE to use a USB drive to dump the data? On previous Oppos and even the Cambridge CXUHD, the Persistent Storage allowed you to dump the data internally by just clearing it out -- the Panasonic doesn't do this? How are you to know when the data has built up and needs to be removed...will the unit get slow in responding?