New 4K blu ray players

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Originally Posted by Tok

Then track one of those players down. The only player that’s $1k is the 9000 and it’s lesser priced clone, the 820, is well under $1k. The $1k price tag was for the build quality… not for support of a legacy format.

That being said the Panasonic was a better UHD player than the Oppo due to its superior processing. Oppo was really only important for those that really wanted support for DVD-A and SACD and I guess low-rez DVD-Video.

My take is that Oppo owners were always looking to prove why the player they own is better. It usually boiled down to DVD-A and SACD playback. I guess you can add DVD-Video to the list as well. But it only really matters if you want those abilities… for those of us that don’t care about the failed audio formats or support for extremely low-rez video when 4K displays have basically replaced standard HD displays over 5 years ago now, the 9000 is the player to get if you want a high quality build player. If you really want DVD playback then look elsewhere or get a secondary player that handles DVD better.

Sorry but I don't agree with this statement. UHD and BD playback quality is essentially the same on both Panasonic and Oppo machines IMO. If anyting, the Panasonic over sharpens the image creating the illusion of a "better PQ" for a lot of users and that's okay for those of you who likes that kind of thing. For reference, I own both the Panny UB9000 and Oppo 203. The Panny optimizer is a good tool for those who have older displays that don't have good tone mapping capabilities. But display tone mapping has improved greatly in recent years so the optimizer is becoming more obsolete as technology advances. HDR and SDR conversion? Why are people still having this conversation? The vast majority of people already own an HDR capable display so it doesn't matter whether one player has better HDR to SDR conversion. This was an issue back in the early days of 4K not an issue today.

My Oppo 203 is still my main player. The overall perfomance and operation of this player has never been matched IMO.