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Bring the theater home: Get the best seat in the house while enjoying your favorite content from the comfort of your family room
Smart Functionality: With fast, stable built-in Wi-Fi, you can wirelessly access your favorite streaming apps and services including Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime & various others
See the unrivaled visual clarity of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray supporting both HDR10 and Dolby Vision formats!
Play almost any disc and listen to music in multiple file formats
Stunning picture with 4K up scaling up to 60p. Power Consumption: 15 Watt in Operation 0.35 Watt in Standby
Hear the way the artists truly intended with Hi Res Audio
Dual HDMI outputs for A/V separation and clearer sound
In the box: Instruction Manual (Full manual / Web manual), EULA (Flyer) (English, French), Remote Control (RMT VB201U), Batteries (Type AAA x 2), Customer Registration Card, Warranty Card (1 year)
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After giving up on Sony, I went with the "fan favorite" Panasonic UB820. I haven't had any issues with it, and it just generally looks better with both 4K discs and upscaling standard blu-rays. Also something to keep in mind with the UB820 is that it's one of the Panasonic players that lets you bypass some region locks on Region B/C discs.
These players are just very hit or miss, some are good, others aren't.
If you buy, play some 4k discs during your return window and make sure ya got a good one
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On that note, I tried to connect the HDMI out 1 from the Blu-Ray player straight into the TV, then the HDMI 2 into my receiver. I get the picture but no sound. I set the Blu-Ray player Audio to HDMI 2 but still did not work.
It seems like the receiver will not switch to the audio in, from the player. I'm really stump with this and do not know a solution. Any help is much appreciated!!
BTW, TV is a LG C1 and receiver is a Yamaha TSR-700.
If everyone waited, prices would be much cheaper.
For now, 4K Blurays only make sense if one already wants or has a PS5 or compatible XB imo.
Early adoption followed by a steady stream of purchasers is what allows prices to eventually fall while ensuring it makes financial sense to continue to manufacture the players and discs. And prices have already fallen dramatically. Prices haven't fallen as far and as quickly as they did for Blu-ray and DVD because there's a smaller pool of people still buying physical discs.
Everybody sitting on the sidelines waiting for prices to fall to fire sale prices, like you suggest, is what eventually results in a format's demise. If I can afford it, I'd rather pay a little more and enjoy something today or in the short term than wait for who knows how long for things to get even cheaper, and potentially indirectly contribute to the end of physical media altogether.
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The duel hdmi out is for older receivers that can't pass thru 4k. One cable to tv for 4k video and the other cable to the receiver for audio. This is how I have mine setup. No need at all for a cable between tv and receiver.
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The menu is slow. The sleep timeout is annoying. Didn't even know about the DV setting until now so that sucks. I also used it to display art. I put some HQ images on a USB drive and plugged it in the front and ran it as a slideshow. Worked surprisingly well.
If you're looking for that long term device and money is not an issue, I would probably go with a Panasonic. Sony seemed to have lost their touch on these players. I would be curious to see if Sony's higher end units are better.
Still have mine but don't use it much cuz its kindy sluggish...guess there isn't much options out there for 4k still?
I've read some reviews, but not a direct comparison that shows how much better the ub820 is.
I'd hate to pick up a cheap 4K UHD player and not be much better off than my current Blu-ray player. on the other hand, if I can't tell the difference for $300 more, that could buy a lot of 4K discs.
I've read some reviews, but not a direct comparison that shows how much better the ub820 is.
I'd hate to pick up a cheap 4K UHD player and not be much better off than my current Blu-ray player. on the other hand, if I can't tell the difference for $300 more, that could buy a lot of 4K discs.
1st off a cheap 4k UHD player is much better than a Blu-ray player.
Having compared(currently own both) 820 vs 420, performance wise they are the same minus DV of course.
820 does have analog outs and a few more settings 99.99% of us won't need/use.
I also compared them to Sony 700/800, LG, Xbox.
Overall Panasonic was best with all 3 disc content.
With DV Panasonic was still better but wasn't a big difference.
The quality of your display makes a bigger difference.
DV vs HDR is a lot more complicated because the quality of the transfer of the movie & display and the tone mapping HDR plays a significant role here.
Overall Panasonic was still better here and some cases it was obvious.
Upscaling BR/DVD Panasonic overall easily the best.
Now if you can live with manual on/off DV and gamble you don't get/have the known issues with Sony.
Sony is worth the savings difference imo.
The other savings option is give up DV and get all the other benefits of the 820.
My two cents from personal comparison.
Now if you can live with manual on/off DV and gamble you don't get/have the known issues with Sony.
Sony is worth the savings difference imo.
The other savings option is give up DV and get all the other benefits of the 820.
My two cents from personal comparison.
Too many other factors in my system to want to diag issues from the Sony, even if they are rare.
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