PanasonicDP-UB820EB 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player

While I was researching for the most capable (and affordable) Blu-Ray player that would enhance the performance of my LaserTV Projector and ALR screen, the Panasonic DP-UB20EB was the obvious choice. Its 4K high-precision Chroma Processor produces outstanding colours, bringing natural images to the screen. The images are vibrant with exceptional detail, creating a visually immersive experience! I was pleasantly surprised at the rich quality produced by the automatic upscaling of Blu-Ray (HD) content. Even some basic DVD discs resembled high-definition.The player made my projector’s Dolby Atmos sound richer and more captivating than ever before! I was particularly excited about the bass as it is now much clearer and well-defined. Furthermore, the ‘Dialog Enhancer’ feature makes it easier to hear speech without needing to raise the volume too high. Though the player’s Remote Control works well, I replaced it with the Panasonic DP-UB9000 Remote Control (bought separately) as I preferred its layout and it has a backlight for use in a dark room.Admittedly, the Panasonic DP-UB20EB is a considered purchase, if you are on a budget. But after assessing its overall amazing picture and sound quality, upscaling capabilities, HDR processing, and its smooth, uninterrupted playback, I can only conclude that this award-winning product delivers as promised. This beast offers sensational performance and I can confidently recommend it.

In the past I have always gone for middle of the range blu ray/ 4k players players thinking they were a good mix of picture quality and price. My aging Arcam CD player had just given up the ghost so after some research I wanted to see if I combine the two players. I prized my wallet open with a lot of sweating and hit the buy now button.From the outset I was not disappointed, unpacking it you could see and feel the quality, after an easy setup I placed a 4k lord of the rings in, the colours popped out of the screen hues were rendered perfectly, with even the fastest scenes tracking without issue and smoothly. When it came to dark scenes it pulled out so much information while still keeping the scenes inky black.Only one slight negative if you can call it that, is the menus are slightly slower than anticipated.Putting a CD in I was pleasantly surprised at the quality and depth of the sound stage. A worthy buy and I am happy I took the plunge. Needs decent equipment to bring out its fullest potential.

Had this for just under 12 months now. Bought this after quite a bit of research and it came with many recommendations particularly as comes with the same Hollywood Cinema Experience (HCX) picture processor as the top of the range DP-UB9000EB1 at about a third of the price, as well supporting HDR10+ and Dolby Vison.What I like:The picture play back is fantastic whether its a 4K, standard Blu-ray or even a DVD. Not had a disk that it doesn't like, which I've heard many 4K players have issues with.What I don't like:Well if you do any searching online one thing that gets on many people's nerves is the remote - the ridiculously placed Netflix button, I've lost count how many times I've accidently hit it and it's so slow coming back. The general User Interface is looking very dated, looks like it's off a 20 year old DVD player! For CD playback it will only show the track numbers, no accessing CDDB, my old 10 year old Blu-ray player even did this!Overall this is a great player and would highly recommend it, even with the remote Netflix button issue, would have given 5 stars if the remote was better laid out.

Believe me when I say this - the Panasonic DP-UB150 is THE very best affordable 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player on the market. This was the first player I bought for 4K viewing, and can confirm that is by far the best. Playback is both solid and reliable, so you can purchase with confidence. The player is nice and compact too. Remote is also of good size and quality, and always responsive.Playability is phenomenal. The picture & sound quality are second to none. Really quite impressive.I've tried and tested the model which come along after this one, and it wasn't a patch on the DP-UB150.Oh, and Panasonic 4K players beat Sony's efforts, hands down (my Sony 4K player barely lasted a month before it packed up working!).The Panasonic DP-UB150 is recommended 100% 👌Picture Quality ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️Sound ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️Overall rating ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

This 4K Player has great picture quality on both Blu- ray and DVD, 4K Blu-ray is great as well sound is also very good, now for the negative the interface for the [Limited] apps is very old looking Panasonic has not changed this in years if you have a smart 4K TV the apps will be up to date most times, The 820 has Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video [Not Sure about Iplayer] The Netflix & Prime Video apps are not up to date for example Netflix is you subscribe does HD on the app but not 4K HDR the player supports 4K for 4K Discs and HDR if your TV has HDR but not the app reason I know this is because we subscribe to Netflix 4K package at the moment it works fine through the Virgin Media TV360 box Netflix app with HDR, but not on the Panasonic 820 Netflix app some might say it's not a problem but HDR makes a lot of difference to the picture quality on 4K more depth so you would think Panasonic would have updated the apps?? Something tell's me Panasonic won't. So all in all the player is very good so I can recommend this player if you just use it as a player and not the apps.