Panasonic UB820/UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player

[sapiendut]

Have you tried factory reset, unplug power for several minutes, then plug power back in?

[chip75]

If you're still having issues after the reset, I'd suggest plugging your player into your display to remove the SONY from troubleshooting.

Not sure if this could be an issue, but check your player's HDMI settings, I think your AVR is HDMI 1.3? not sure if that could be an issue.

[Farerb]

I received a Panasonic DP-UB820EBK. It came with a UK plug, the question is if I can use a European plug instead? The cable is detached from the player and I have a European cable? On the device it says 220v - 240v, which is compatible with what we have (unlike the US)?

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by Farerb

I received a Panasonic DP-UB820EBK. It came with a UK plug, the question is if I can use a European plug instead? The cable is detached from the player and I have a European cable? On the device it says 220v - 240v, which is compatible with what we have (unlike the US)?

Yes you can use an European plug..

[Farerb]

Originally Posted by Scorxpion

Yes you can use an European plug..

Thank you

[Telemachus]

Has anyone ever tested many UK 88 Films/Eureka Blu rays with the remote region trick? I wanted to grab some like Magic Crystal and some Jackie Chan discs, don't wanna get burned if they don't actually work.

[Cerberus40000]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Has anyone ever tested many UK 88 Films/Eureka Blu rays with the remote region trick? I wanted to grab some like Magic Crystal and some Jackie Chan discs, don't wanna get burned if they don't actually work.

I have a lot of the 88 Films and Eureka Jackie Chan Blu-rays and my UB9000 is multi region

Switching it to A the 88 Films discs stayed locked when I tried the Top Menu trick, tried on 3 of them(Dragon Fist, Dragon's Forever, Dragon Lord)

88 Films seems to be in the same boat for the US as Shout Factory is for the UK, can't cheat it

Eureka on the other hand did work, City Hunter, Project A and Project A part 2 all jumped to the main menu after backing out of the region warning and doing the double click Top Menu trick

I may moan about Blu-ray not having automatic region changing like DVD but you don't get to do tests like this otherwise.

[Disciple of Vedder]

The tray on my UB820 has decided to stop working. I've unplugged the unit and reset, which did fix the issue for a few weeks, but now the tray has gone back to not responding, and resetting hasn't worked. However, it will still play the "Cheers" Season 1 disc it is now holding hostage. Has anyone else encountered this, and if so, do you have any advice? Thanks!

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by Cerberus40000

I have a lot of the 88 Films and Eureka Jackie Chan Blu-rays and my UB9000 is multi region

Switching it to A the 88 Films discs stayed locked when I tried the Top Menu trick, tried on 3 of them(Dragon Fist, Dragon's Forever, Dragon Lord)

88 Films seems to be in the same boat for the US as Shout Factory is for the UK, can't cheat it

Eureka on the other hand did work, City Hunter, Project A and Project A part 2 all jumped to the main menu after backing out of the region warning and doing the double click Top Menu trick

I may moan about Blu-ray not having automatic region changing like DVD but you don't get to do tests like this otherwise.

Ah thanks for that. Looks like rip to 88's Magic Crystal for me, will have to settle for the VinSyn disc. Might try City Hunter, already got the Project A 4k set ordered.

Originally Posted by Disciple of Vedder

do you have any advice? Thanks!

Hope you like watching Cheers.

(kidding)

There is a trick to unlock the door manually from the bottom with a switch, I haven't had to do it but maybe someone can chime in.

[bl4ck]

Originally Posted by bl4ck

This trick works even more effectively with firmware modification and also to direct entering to top menu of most discs.

Originally Posted by Hedrox

Eh... from my experience every region locked disc that didn't work with the top menu trick on the vanilla firmware still doesn't work with the custom one. Those being Sony, Paramount, Lionsgate and Neon/Decal titles.

Yes ofc why? because the modified fw disable PUO Prohibited User Operation.
For example, on stock firmware we will not be able to press the stop button on the region lock screen on Sony disc so we cannot use trick, with disabled PUO we can press stop... and than press TOP menu.

[Hedrox]

Originally Posted by bl4ck

Yes ofc why? because the modified fw disable PUO Prohibited User Operation.
For example, on stock firmware we will not be able to press the stop button on the region lock screen on Sony disc so we cannot use trick, with disabled PUO we can press stop... and than press TOP menu.

I gave those examples (Sony, Paramount, Lionsgate, Neon/Decal) as discs from studios that still can't be bypassed with the top menu trick. More specifically Talladega Nights, Braveheart, EEAO, The Green Knight and Titane.

Also, I tried the trick yesterday to bypass Paramount's long pre-menu information and this created an issue where the player wasn't showing the movie's timestamp bar anymore or letting me change HDR settings. Had to go back to the main menu and start the disc again and let it go through all the messages organically to get those back.

[roar]

I find the UB9000 so frustrating at times... tried to play the first 4K disc from the recent Criterion Apu Trilogy release and cannot get the disc to read. No fingerprints, no scratches, current firmware, disc plays perfect in my PS5, no issues.

I've had numerous discs give me a hard time and I have to clean the discs to a mirror finish as it doesn't seem to like even the slightest of finger prints but this one just won't play for me.

I'm venting more than anything here as I don't think there is really anything to be done about it.

[pjl69]

I have a Sony's X800M2 player moded region free and planning to buy Panasonic UB9000 for 4K UHD use. Is it any good compared to X800M2? I have a couple of triple layer discs giving me a trouble while watching with X800M2, particularly The Godfather disc in the limited edition collector's set. It refused to load the menus and play when I chose Finnish from the top menu, but worked if I chose English. Then it froze and pixelated during a layer change in the middle of the movie. I've read that these Sony players can be tricky with three layer discs. Is this Panasonic model any better in this regard? I read that Panasonic's PQ isn't very good with DVD's, but I would use it only for 4K UHD and leave region coded blu-ray's and dvd's to my region free Sony. Thanks for any advice and info.

[bhampton]

I ordered the disc drive belt for my UB9000 two weeks ago and it was backordered but it shipped today.

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by roar

I find the UB9000 so frustrating at times... tried to play the first 4K disc from the recent Criterion Apu Trilogy release and cannot get the disc to read. No fingerprints, no scratches, current firmware, disc plays perfect in my PS5, no issues.

Criterion press in Mexico, their pressing sucks hard in that factory. I have had mirror perfect looking discs not play, try a replacement and it does. The Panny will not play an imperfect disc as well as most other players, that's why if it runs on the Panny it will run on anything most likely.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by roar

I find the UB9000 so frustrating at times... tried to play the first 4K disc from the recent Criterion Apu Trilogy release and cannot get the disc to read. No fingerprints, no scratches, current firmware, disc plays perfect in my PS5, no issues.

I've had numerous discs give me a hard time and I have to clean the discs to a mirror finish as it doesn't seem to like even the slightest of finger prints but this one just won't play for me.

I'm venting more than anything here as I don't think there is really anything to be done about it.

Welcome to the club. Mine rarely plays a Criterion Blu-ray, or even most BDs in general. Will play 4K and DVD just fine though. Can't figure it out. Fortunately I have several other players hooked up which I use for Blu-ray, but still it's annoying AF.

[b_scott]

I just realized I haven't touched my 820 in like 6 months. I've been ripping all my UHD's to MKV and playing in Plex. It's just so much easier. I might end up selling mine.

[sapiendut]

Originally Posted by bruceames

Welcome to the club. Mine rarely plays a Criterion Blu-ray, or even most BDs in general. Will play 4K and DVD just fine though. Can't figure it out. Fortunately I have several other players hooked up which I use for Blu-ray, but still it's annoying AF.

Why didn’t you send the unit in to be serviced or exchanged?

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by b_scott

I just realized I haven't touched my 820 in like 6 months. I've been ripping all my UHD's to MKV and playing in Plex. It's just so much easier. I might end up selling mine.

I would ALWAYS have a back up means of watching movies if one thing or another fails. You may regret selling the player.

Also, I don't use Plex since it has a problem with Dolby Vision playback (an error with the color space being reproduced) and I need proper DV reproduction.

I have a 4k HDR projector, but with particular HDFury devices, you can still get Dolby Vision through an RGB "tunneling" trick and a false EDID sent to a Dolby Vision capable device. The display thinks it is receiving a perfectly viable 12 bit HDR (in other words, HDR12 rather than HDR10) signal and the DV playback device does all the dynamic HDR metadata tone mapping internally for the display as it thinks it is talking to a Low Latency DV display.

Streamed, disc, or MKV Dolby Vision visibly looks a lot better than HDR10 material. For the price of an HDFury, I now have a Dolby Vision projector.

I'm currently using a base Zidoo Pro with external hard drive storage for my MKV backups. There is also no need to transcode with the Zidoo or Dune boxes.

[b_scott]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

I would ALWAYS have a back up means of watching movies if one thing or another fails. You may regret selling the player.

Also, I don't use Plex since it has a problem with Dolby Vision playback (an error with the color space being reproduced) and I need proper DV reproduction.

I have a 4k HDR projector, but with particular HDFury devices, you can still get Dolby Vision through an RGB "tunneling" trick and a false EDID sent to a Dolby Vision capable device. The display thinks it is receiving a perfectly viable 12 bit HDR (in other words, HDR12 rather than HDR10) signal and the DV playback device does all the dynamic HDR metadata tone mapping internally for the display as it thinks it is talking to a Low Latency DV display.

Streamed, disc, or MKV Dolby Vision visibly looks a lot better than HDR10 material. For the price of an HDFury, I now have a Dolby Vision projector.

I'm currently using a base Zidoo Pro with external hard drive storage for my MKV backups. There is also no need to transcode with the Zidoo or Dune boxes.

I have a Zidoo Z9X pro as well. My projector is limited to 10.2Gbps input so there's no way I could get close to DV levels. I have an HD Fury linker connected to my projector to pass 4K60 4:2:0. I don't know about any bug in Plex but I never watch films on my OLED anyway usually so it doesn't really matter. My 820 is only hooked to my projector.