Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by jess1581

Panny doesn't force it on other HDR. It'll automatically play whatever the disc has for HDR. That's one of the reasons I dropped my x700 for an 820. I don't have to manually switch everytime I pop in a disc.

Only thing it does do that is only mildly annoying is that when a 4K has both DV and HDR10+, it'll choose HDR10+ over DV when both settings in the player are on. You'd figure that it knows that DV is the superior HDR, but I guess not. So you do have to turn HDR10+ off at times, but not often.

It’s not about which one is better. Panasonic is one of the HDR10+ consortium member. So it is logical for them to prioritize HDR10+ over DV.

[seulli]

Sorry to pop in with a random question-new to the forum and can’t start my own thread.

Does the external subtitle feature on the UB820 support non-Latin characters? I’ve been trying to get a Korean subtitle file working to no avail. It’s encoded in UTF-8 and I’m on the latest firmware.

[Hedrox]

Originally Posted by jess1581

Panny doesn't force it on other HDR. It'll automatically play whatever the disc has for HDR. That's one of the reasons I dropped my x700 for an 820. I don't have to manually switch everytime I pop in a disc.

Only thing it does do that is only mildly annoying is that when a 4K has both DV and HDR10+, it'll choose HDR10+ over DV when both settings in the player are on. You'd figure that it knows that DV is the superior HDR, but I guess not. So you do have to turn HDR10+ off at times, but not often.

Only when it's FEL, on MEL they function more or less the same, cause it's only tonemapping metadata.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by jess1581

Panny doesn't force it on other HDR. It'll automatically play whatever the disc has for HDR. That's one of the reasons I dropped my x700 for an 820. I don't have to manually switch everytime I pop in a disc.

Only thing it does do that is only mildly annoying is that when a 4K has both DV and HDR10+, it'll choose HDR10+ over DV when both settings in the player are on. You'd figure that it knows that DV is the superior HDR, but I guess not. So you do have to turn HDR10+ off at times, but not often.

It literally says in the manual that it'll prioritise 10+ over DV if both are present. Silly, but at least one or t' other can be turned off verr easily.

Panny does do that forced DV thing on everything else on the disc tho, so while it usually decodes the main feature properly it means that everything else on a DV disc is forced into DV which includes SDR and HDR10. Annoying. And some HDR10 discs have rogue DV coding on them somewhere which the Panny forces into DV.

Still, I'd rather that than having to keep turning Dobly on and off all the time as per Sony.

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Panny does do that forced DV thing on everything else on the disc tho, so while it usually decodes the main feature properly it means that everything else on a DV disc is forced into DV which includes SDR and HDR10.

Yep I have to turn off DV to watch Arrow extras or they are all in forced DV despite being SDR, so it's still not much different than what Sony does

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

It literally says in the manual that it'll prioritise 10+ over DV if both are present. Silly, but at least one or t' other can be turned off verr easily.

I uh... Never read the manual.

[Cortiz]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Yep I have to turn off DV to watch Arrow extras or they are all in forced DV despite being SDR, so it's still not much different than what Sony does

Almost 8 years later and the Oppo 203 still the only one reading dv off a disc correctly.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Cortiz

Almost 8 years later and the Oppo 203 still the only one reading dv off a disc correctly.

What does my nut in is how awkward they ALL make it, in one respect or another.

OPPO is the bestest overall, as it auto detects DV (can even choose between player and TV led, tho that control is actually broken lol) and doesn't force it where it shouldn't, but it's a pain in the ass to turn DV off then on again if I want to check an HDR10 base layer.

Panny auto detects DV and doesn't force it on discs that don't have it (mostly, aside from those with rogue coding as said), but the forcing of everything else on a DV disc *into* DV is super annoying. Still, it's easily turn-off-and-on-able, as is 10+.

Sony is just gimpy as hell, you either have DV on for EVERYTHING all the time or you turn it off completely.

[dnferrer]

Originally Posted by captainsolo

THANK YOU!!!
That seems to have done the trick. It took me a while to even find the white latch in that tiny little slot with a flashlight. That allowed me to get the disc tray open enough to pry it out. It seems like some discs get off-center somehow and that makes the whole tray lock off and stop working. I had to move the disc tray back and forth slightly to work out the Blu-ray disc.

That definitely solve the problem ?
I have the same problem and i removed the disc manually...but after some uses, the disk gets stuck inside again..and reads it as soon as the player its get powered on

[IlCorvo]

I have another question for our technology experts:

I have both the Panasonic DP-UB704 and the Panasonic DP-UB824 players in my living room. Of course, when I switch on one player, the other one also switches on. You can change this in the respective menu settings.

However, when I switch off the 824, for example, the 704 switches on briefly (the display then shows "Set Code 2") and then switches off again. Conversely, when I want to watch films on the 704, "Set Code 1" appears on the 824.

Does this brief flashing have any effect on the service life and function of the respective players?

[Geoff D]

No. It's just telling you that the remote codes are different. It's drawing no more or less power than just leaving it in quick start mode, which I presume is the situation.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by dnferrer

That definitely solve the problem ?
I have the same problem and i removed the disc manually...but after some uses, the disk gets stuck inside again..and reads it as soon as the player its get powered on

The fact every one who owns the player has used this feature indicates nothing solves the problem.

[Member-222782]

To get rid of the soap opera effect from my UB820, do I have to adjust the settings on my TV? I didn't see a "cinemotion" type of setting on my player. The effect is prevalent on Blu-rays. Everything looks slightly sped-up. Maybe it's a different setting entirely? I have an LG C1 OLED, BTW.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

To get rid of the soap opera effect from my UB820, do I have to adjust the settings on my TV? I didn't see a "cinemotion" type of setting on my player. The effect is prevalent on Blu-rays. Everything looks slightly sped-up. Maybe it's a different setting entirely? I have an LG C1 OLED, BTW.

Make sure Cinema Screen is in with your LG, as well as your True Motion is off and OLED Motion Pro is off.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by chip75

Make sure Cinema Screen is in with your LG, as well as your True Motion is off and OLED Motion Pro is off.

Turns out my TV was not set to Filmmaker mode as I originally had it. It was set to ABS or some other setting. Not sure how that happened but it's good now.

[captainsolo]

Originally Posted by dnferrer

That definitely solve the problem ?
I have the same problem and i removed the disc manually...but after some uses, the disk gets stuck inside again..and reads it as soon as the player its get powered on

I wound up having to do quite a bit more work. Once I got the disc out, the tray wouldn’t move at all. Finally, I followed the advice of a Reddit thread and disassembled the player to then open up the tray housing. You have to have the disc tray slid all the way out so you’re able to turn the little cogs with a belt on it. By doing this apparently it moves the wheel away from potential dead spots which caused the problem. You then have to reassemble everything and power on and it works perfectly fine. It’s absolutely bizarre. And seemingly if it hits another one of these dead spots at some point, I will have to repeat the process.

[Telemachus]

I miss top loaders, wish there was a way to mod these players to not even use the door.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

I miss top loaders, wish there was a way to mod these players to not even use the door.

I was tempted to do a mod since the tray is the ONLY problem I have with my UB9000.

However,... the way the drive works I decided to forget about modding it.

I already have other players so my UB9000 will most likely just sit on the shelf until I take it to recycling.

[Bernardo A.]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

I miss top loaders, wish there was a way to mod these players to not even use the door.

Is there a specific reason as to why they fell out of fashion?

[Telemachus]

Makes me think they could sell more parts or something, motors/belts/trays always break. I'm picturing a slim UHD unit top loader about the size of an apple tv would be so simple. There's some really cool old school Technics CD changer models that look like a turn table.