expiredsupermanrob posted Mar 23, 2025 11:50 AM
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expiredsupermanrob posted Mar 23, 2025 11:50 AM
Panasonic UB820 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player w/ HDR10+ & Dolby Vision
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But yes, always one that just sticks with it and proves more with every post that PQ/SQ isn't really important to them and that pirating is AOK.
It's not like there has been an update to HDR or Atmos in that time.
I have had this for almost two years(420 for almost the same) with zero quirks & issues.
People complain about the price of this as it is, a new one would likely cost more.
I for one wouldn't pay more just for a faster/nicer UI.
BTW, IMO, should be setting your 420 to output 1080p for standard 1080p blu-rays as well.
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- I also have a 30TB nas with 2000 or so movies about 500 of which are 5GB 4k yts rips. But I also like have some of my favs on physical 4k UHD to play on the projector. You can do both stream, local plex / kodi and physical it doesn't have to be one or the other.
- $300 is not a big price to pay after spending $5k or more on a entry level home theatre setup.
- I was watching a wolfman yts last week and the blacks were terrible in all the dark scenes and was worried about the projector, then I played a 4k UHD movie and realized the contrast and blacks is just a problem with the compressed rips.
- Even with a 30TB nas that would only store about 500 4K UDH movies or so in full 50 to 100 GB size. There is a huge difference with the 5GB 4k yts rips and the 60GB 4k UDH disc.
they'll own nothing and bend over for the privilege
YMMV, but you may want to try that?
You might as well continue using a BR player, it's basically what he is advocating to do! 🤔
Not all disc have dynamic HDR(DV/HDR10+).
If it doesn't you get static HDR(HDR10).
Any HDR has to be tone mapped for us to currently view it.
Tone mapping is built in to dynamic HDR metadata, you can't manipulate it.
There is no standard on how best to do this with static HDR.
The Optimizer is Panasonic's version.
It kinda works similar to the tone mapping in dynamic HDR.
Basically it upgrades the metadata to the best capabilities of your display frame by frame.
If this doesn't sound advantageous and prefer to rely on the display yes get the downscaled 450 or as mentioned earlier I've ran into the LG 4k player at thrift stores for cheap.
You might as well continue using a BR player, it's basically what he is advocating to do! 🤔
Not all disc have dynamic HDR(DV/HDR10+).
If it doesn't you get static HDR(HDR10).
Any HDR has to be tone mapped for us to currently view it.
Tone mapping is built in to dynamic HDR metadata, you can't manipulate it.
There is no standard on how best to do this with static HDR.
The Optimizer is Panasonic's version.
It kinda works similar to the tone mapping in dynamic HDR.
Basically it upgrades the metadata to the best capabilities of your display frame by frame.
If this doesn't sound advantageous and prefer to rely on the display yes get the downscaled 450 or as mentioned earlier I've ran into the LG 4k player at thrift stores for cheap.
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