Price: $497.99 - $410.24
(as of Oct 22, 2024 05:27:13 UTC - Details)

The next level of home entertainment is yours with the premium Panasonic Ultra UD 4K Blu Ray Player (DP-UB820). Delivering stunning color and details, the Panasonic Blu Ray DVD Player applies exclusive HCX (Hollywood Cinema Experience) technology for 4K high-precision chroma processing to give natural textures and depth, maximizing color, clarity, and beauty. Panasonic's most advanced Ultra HD Blu-ray player supports 4K/HDR formats like next-generation HDR10+ dynamic metadata, HDR10, the standard HDR format for films and UHD Blu-ray discs, as well as Dolby Vision and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and, Panasonic's upscaling technologies produce 4K images with natural textures and incredible depth. Not only can you enjoy beautiful picture quality, but you can enjoy all your movies, shows and music with high-res audio studio master sound which reveals both rich and delicate tones with ultimate clarity. Includes 7.1ch analogue audio output and twin HDMI terminals which separate and transmit audio/visual signals for higher sound quality. Command a variety of operations without your remote with Alexa or Google Assistant plus access wider varieties of 4K content with 4K VOD streaming from Prime Video, Netflix and YouTube. With the Panasonic Bluray Player, you can relish the experience of your favorite movies and shows.   *If the Blu-ray/DVD doesn't play, please clean the disc as mentioned in the Owner's Manual and insert for playback. This player does not support to play all regions discs. Only USA region disc playback is supported; Blu-ray disc - Region "A" / DVD disc - Region "1". For additional Troubleshooting information, please refer to the Owner's Manual in product guides and documents section.
Premium 4K Ultra HD Blu Ray Player for a Spectacular Home Theater Experience: Enjoy your library of special-edition Blu Ray, rare DVDs, or streamed content in true cinematic style with immersive video and audio.Operating temperature range : plus5°C to plus35°C ( plus41°F to plus95°F)
Smart and Streaming Features: Works with Alexa and Google Assistant for voice command without your remote. Connect to wireless network to stream 4K VOD content through Netflix, YouTube or Prime Video
Stunning Color and Detail: Exclusive Panasonic Hollywood Cinema Experience (HCX) tech is applied to 4K high-precision chroma processing for natural textures and depth, maximizing color, clarity, and detail
Studio Master Sound with Enhanced Clarity: Designed for high-resolution audio as it was meant to be heard. Connect to your audio system via twin HDMI for Hi-Res studio master sound
Supports Multiple HDR Formats: Blu ray DVD player enables high dynamic range playback of three 4K/HDR formats-HDR10 plus, HDR10, and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), providing detailed 4K content
Reviewer: Norm G.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing 4K player
Review: My old LG 4K player started to act up by freezing twords the end of any movie and not wanting to switch layers, so I decided to do some research.This 4K player was always in top 3 if not the number 1 pick.It arrived a day sooner than promised and in great condition.The set up was easy and straightforward by following the onscreen prompts.The amazing picture quality was absolutely noticeable from the start!!The sound quality is rich with subtle details I previously didn't notice.The build of the unit is solid and sleek.I haven't used it for its highly praised upscaling yet, but I'm sure it won't disappoint!!It's more expensive than other players, but I feel from the picture quality I've witnessed thus far (Star Wars: A New Hope and Top gun Maverick) it's well worth the price!!I look forward to watching countless movies now, without wondering when it's going to freeze 3/4 of the way through the movie.The remote is nice and straightforward. The only slight downside to me is the lack of streaming apps available. No Disney+, but has Netflix and Prime video.The setting options are in depth, but I'm not going to play around with them. They are all there if that's what you're looking for.

Reviewer: José
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Top Player!!
Review: The Panasonic UB820 is a solid 4k UHD disc player, with fast loading times. Discs play from start to finish without any issues. Its appearance is somewhat simple but elegant and it doesn't weigh that much. The only thing I could blame it for is the slowness of its apps, although the playback of videos on YouTube, Amazon Prime and Netflix is ​​good, it sometimes gets a bit slow, so you have to be patient. The remote control seemed compact and comfortable, nothing to complain about.I have tried DVDs, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 4k, and they play smoothly. The image quality is outstanding, sharp and very configurable, you can see the benefits of the graphics processor it has.Without a doubt it is the best cost-benefit player today, unlike any video game console or players from other brands and models, for all lovers of the physical format.

Reviewer: Matty Thompson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It is terrific at playing back 4K. It is terrible at everything else.
Review: You have to know going in, this is the single best player you can get under $1000 dollars for playing 4K content. It does that one thing well.Supports both Dolby Vision and HDR10, deep color (4:4:4) and Atmos audio. It has decent upscaling and is regarded as one of the best color scaling players ever made.Everything else about the player is actually pretty bad. It is physically large with a flip-down cover just to put in a disk. Also behind the cover there is a tiny and hilariously-retro line segment display which can’t even display “Panasonic” without scrolling. There are only two buttons (power and eject) which beyond all logic or reason are placed on the TOP of the case. Don’t plan on stacking this thing.Even with several firmware updates the UI is circa 2004 (think PlayStation-2). Each and every setting has a detailed description yet still manages to be confusing. Many features enable or disable other features making it a chancy proposition to change anything once you have it “just right”. Many high-quality settings are disabled by default. Auto-detect is hit-or-miss. It frequently selects low-quality audio mixes so you have to check disc settings every single time.The remote control is a disorganized mess which the obligatory garbage stream app buttons. You will not be able to navigate this thing in the dark.

Reviewer: theprofessor
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you want a machine to play only Blu-ray discs there might be better choices out there
Review: This Panasonic largely does what it is supposed to, with just a few shocking unforced errors. The worst of these is Panasonic’s failure to program into the machine the good old-fashioned “resume play” operation for blu-ray disc playback. Yes, apparently it was (thought?) that resume play for ultra-HD discs would be adequate. As a viewer with a library of blu-ray discs who bought this machine to be future-proof, I must disagree. There are some who say that this fault is easily remedied by inserting a USB thumb drive, but these opinions are erroneous. I quote page 19 of the online Owner’s Manual: “On BD-Video discs including BD-J, the resume play function does not work.” I had read that some blu-ray discs have this feature programmed into the disc itself. This does in fact turn out to be the case, but very few discs have this feature (see end of review if interested). This is a stunning deficiency. Watching a movie and taking a break for lunch or dinner? Interrupted by a phone call? You may have to restart the disc from scratch. Next deficiency—no direct access to points on the blu-ray disc. Left off at 42 minutes? When you restart do the old chapter-skip until you are close, then fast forward to line up. Next, no owner’s manual included. Others have noted this as well. It’s not that simple a machine, or a cheap one. I have downloaded the manual, referred to it often, and printed some pages myself. The “Basic Owner’s Manual” provided is a joke, truly worthless. I could describe it here in a few short sentences, but it’s not worth the time for you or me.Let’s take a look at the remote control. Surprisingly, there is a huge “Netflix” button immediately above, aligned with, and larger than the frequently-used “up” cursor just above the “OK” (Enter) button. This has been called out by others, and I agree that even a careful user will of necessity hit this button on occasion. This results in delay and interruption while the Netflix app starts to load and the Netflix logo appears on the user’s screen. Secondly, while there is a “Closed Caption setup” button, this is unrelated to the subtitles for the hard of hearing. Some might be unsympathetic, but speaking as an aging “Boomer,” I assert that subtitles will only continue to increase in importance. The menu for that in the player is onerous, and the best solution is to use the pop-up menu that is usually on the disc itself—also not great while the opening dialogue is flying by.All such criticisms aside, the machine loads quickly, runs smoothly and silently, and produces the expected excellent blu-ray picture. Therefore despite all this the UB820 still gets 4 stars. Panasonic, I hope, hope you are listening. “Unforced errors.”As an epilogue for aspiring techies, a prominent You-tube post appears to demonstrate that simple insertion of a USB thumb drive into the USB port on the back of the machine endows this machine with memory needed to make the “resume play” feature operable. This is demonstrated using a disc from 20th Century Fox Studios, “The Revenant.” I was able to reproduce this result using “Walk the Line”, from the same studio, with or without a thumb drive inserted into the machine. “Sherlock” (produced by BBC, a Region A disc), and “Iron Man 2” (produced by Paramount), went to a complete restart with or without thumb drive. Simply pressing “Stop” once resulted immediately in going to --:-- on the “Status” bar. With “Walk the Line,” on the other hand, I could even power off the machine and on restart by pressing “Play,” (which will power up the machine) we went right back to where we left off. It’s the disc, not the thumb drive. I also checked for firmware updates; my machine had arrived with the latest firmware version.