* 4K Player Thread *

TALON1973 · 21 Apr 2016 at 19:15

Just taken possession of a panasonic UB900 4k player Had it on 20 mins ..... impressed so far. Just wondering if any lucky people have bought one ?

Paul11 · 21 Apr 2016 at 19:38

Didn't know these were out.. What sort of media is there?

glenimp617 · 21 Apr 2016 at 19:44

Paul11 said:
Didn't know these were out.. What sort of media is there?

quite a few 4k discs available in the UK now

I'm personally waiting for an arcam 4k player

TALON1973 · 21 Apr 2016 at 19:47

Well I've got 4 so far.

Mad max fury road
San Andreas
Expendables 3
X-men days of future past

And omg the star wars blu ray looks good on it

Journey · 21 Apr 2016 at 20:41

San Andreas... really is that worth actually paying money for?

Paul11 · 21 Apr 2016 at 20:46

yikes, just seen how much they cost ... ouch !!!

Jamauk · 21 Apr 2016 at 20:54

I'm waiting for the prices to sort themselves out, so I'll probably hold off until late this year/next year as I don't even have a 4k TV yet (I was waiting until a 4k format was decided on), and I'll also have to replace my AV amp as that isn't 4k compatible. With the TV I'm also waiting for the OLED prices to drop a bit - even then I can see myself spending £2-3k+ on this setup.

TALON1973 · 21 Apr 2016 at 21:21

Journey said:
San Andreas... really is that worth actually paying money for?

It comes free with the player. As does mad max

robfosters · 21 Apr 2016 at 21:46

San Andreas is better to watch with a blindfold on than a 4K telly. Scenes involving Alexandra Daddario excepted of course.

theone8181 · 22 Apr 2016 at 07:51

This is why im confused for a ps4k, £600 for a standalone, how can a console be so much cheaper if it does the same job. I would like to know why they are so expensive tho.

glenimp617 · 22 Apr 2016 at 08:40

theone8181 said:
This is why im confused for a ps4k, £600 for a standalone, how can a console be so much cheaper if it does the same job. I would like to know why they are so expensive tho.

PS4.5 4k bitstream - 101100110101010011101001
Panasonic dedicated 4k player - 101100110101010011101001

as you can clearly see, the panasonic has much better quality bits

Yaayuh! · 22 Apr 2016 at 08:45

TALON1973 said:
It comes free with the player. As does mad max

They should discounted the player tbh..

VincentHanna · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:06

No point at the moment, at least half the released discs so far were mastered from a 2k source (and sometimes filmed at 2k, in the case of Mad Max)

TALON1973 said:
And omg the star wars blu ray looks good on it ��

My £80 Sony Blu-ray player (BDP-6500) does 4k upscaling which is the exact same thing.

lude1962 · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:21

VincentHanna said:
No point at the moment, at least half the released discs so far were mastered from a 2k source (and sometimes filmed at 2k, in the case of Mad Max)

2.8k image capture system saved at 2k, whether they externally saved the 2.8k is another matter

I think hdr will make the biggest difference not whether original was 4k or 2k

My £80 Sony Blu-ray player (BDP-6500) does 4k upscaling which is the exact same thing.

but what upscales the best tv or br player, or is there no discernible difference

TheHitMan-1973 · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:29

I am waiting for Sony 4K players . I have at the moment the Sony BDP-S7200 at moment which is a stunning player

Vern1961 · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:34

Panny UB900 having issues with sound dropout when sending output to an AV amp, as being discussed (amongst other things) in the thread about the player at AV Forums. We experienced this with San Andreas it was constant and we had to downgrade to watching through the TV speakers. Seems likely there is going to be a huge bunfight to resolve whether it's a hardware fault (ergo unlikely to get fixed), firmware issue, coding issue on the Atmos discs (which are the ones having the problem) or a random handshake problem between the players and amps.

Cosimo · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:37

Just waiting to get my DMP-UB900. Already have seven 4K UHD HDR waiting, the Revenant on the way and two will come with the player.

Cosimo · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:42

Vern1961 said:
Panny UB900 having issues with sound dropout when sending output to an AV amp, as being discussed (amongst other things) in the thread about the player at AV Forums. We experienced this with San Andreas it was constant and we had to downgrade to watching through the TV speakers. Seems likely there is going to be a huge bunfight to resolve whether it's a hardware fault (ergo unlikely to get fixed), firmware issue, coding issue on the Atmos discs (which are the ones having the problem) or a random handshake problem between the players and amps.

Being discussed here:

https://www.avforums.com/threads/pa...ray-player-announced-at-ces16.2017506/page-89

https://www.avforums.com/threads/pa...ltra-hd-blu-ray-player-review.2023929/page-23

Editors have informed Panasonic and are waiting for a response.

VincentHanna · 22 Apr 2016 at 10:08

Related question - Do A/V Receivers with HDMI 2.0 pass-through need to support 'HDR' as well?

Vimes · 22 Apr 2016 at 10:09

The price of those things remind me of how much I payed for my DVD player when I first bought one from SuperFi, and then needed to pay an additional £50 for it to be chipped for region 1 playback as I used to import my DVD's. I imported them not just for the extra content but at the time they couldn't be sourced in the UK.

Scary watching how much they dropped in price over time, same will happen with these, unless something else succeeds them earlier.

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